Metallica & Lang Lang: One (Grammy Rehearsals - 2014) 

18:33 James that was awesome hahaha

18:38 This shows that James Hetfield is a pure metal guy.

7:00 - "Mom told I can become anything, so I've become a metronome"

Wow at all these ignorant comments about Lang Lang. For the people who don't know him, he's a virtuoso classical pianist. He's a great pianist who is very expressive. He has the ability to bring classical music to mass media. His "banging" is incredible.

im a die hard metalhead, but seeing two worlds of music colliding is a truly inspireing sight to behold

LOVED the collaboration. Metal and classical music are a match made in heaven.

I don't why what people have against Rob... He's a great BASS player.

05:44 for the exact ALMOST full main solo tab.

He's a phenomenal pianist. Some piano parts during the performance worked very well, other fell completely flat or out of place. The rehearsal part where you pretyt much only hear Lang Lang sound great though, that probably says something as well. But I'm a little saddened by some reactions, so narrowminded (even beforehand), at least these guys are down to do shit like this.

19:37 the whole part is just amazing

14:15 omfg, he just told Lars how to play his own song! and included a ride with it! I bet Lars wanted to clobber him in his head hahaha xD

I'm a huge Metallica fan it is great to them collaborating with other artist, rob is the best addition to the band yet. He just fits in perfectly.

That was incredible, the pianist is brilliant, and what a blend of classical and metal. Sorry it took me so long to find it. Thank you for posting this, I ♡⋆♡LOVE♡⋆♡ it! 🤘

i love covers, it's so nice to hear a fresh twist on a song that's been played for 30 yrs

Perfect, Metallic and Lang Lang perfect!!Amazing!! I love LL !!

I think Lang Lang sounds great in this, he really understands how to combine the piano with the guitar and metal rhythms - this is why he is soloing all the way through, by the way, if he didn't the pad accompaniment would get way too busy and become a mess of distorted sound - this is what separates Lang Lang from most other well-known musicians in both the classical and mainstream genres; he understands fully the theory and inner-workings of music and can work that into any genre fusion creatively. Most well-known musicians are masters of their instrument or style but have no idea of the theory and cannot fuse it or change it to make something creatively innovative or unique. Classical works particularly well with metal because they both have very complex textures with polyrhythms and polyphonic melodies. If you take a look at the actual classical and 20th century eras of music (not just instrumental music, the genuine classical and 20th century artists such as Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, dvojak etc) you can see many similarities in melody, rhythm and choral parts. Lang Lang can also use his sound in many different ways for different tones without changing the instrument at all, similar to the guitars.

I like this version better than the actual Grammys performance.

Lars is starting to look like Trevor...

Mindblowing that there's SO SO much to rehearsal, even for Metallica alone, specially around 14:30 where they discuss the key they're playing at.

is the metronome guy the therapist in some kind of monster movie?

I really liked the performance, and Metallica sounds awesome as always.

This is brilliant! Just pure musical genius! I am literally overwhelmed by positive emotion!

18:35 Classic James Hetfield Moment. lol

This was a great addition to the recent Grammys! Will ALWAYS love these boys!!! Hi there Lars! Got my jacket back. . . Thanks. :)

This piano version of ONE really takes the song to another "dimension", so bittersweet in the begining, and powerful at the end

I love how everybody's doing something or looking somewhere, basically fucking around. All the while James is just standing there, fanboying and being utterly fascinated by the skill of Lang... This just makes me love him so much more! Respecting another musician, while being one of the most famous musicians in the world, is a great characteristic!

Instead of featuring Lang Lang, Metallica should have had Apolocolyptica star in their Grammy performance like they did at the 30th Anniversary show at Filmore.

The piano sounds WAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY MUCHH BETTER HEERE!

1:55 "he just hang on the piano" lol

Everyone should enjoy it for what it is. A one time Grammy Performance never to be repeated again!

I think it's great that I get to make my first album while you're making your next. Thanks for the inspiration Metallica!

this vid was 100 times better than the grammys, nice to see people acting normal and playing like no cameras or audience

I really liked this collaboration, i think metallica has always been about making something new or different and they went for it and it was very good, it's just people don't appreciate how the piano arrangement is worked, it does not have to necessarily be a exact copy of the guitars, actually those are the best. It would be really cool if they put out something with a good mixing though.

So cool such a great colaberation

Damn! I'm the only person who think that the "HQ Studio" is the most badass studio in the world?!! I love you so much Metallica!

Awesome work from amazing musicians!

Never thought Langlang could outplay metallica with just a piano. What he did just now is the piano version of Heavy Metal!

They should've done it piano and vocals only

one on a piano is bloody awesome guys could listen to this all day, plus its my fav song

Love it. Rarely do I love the remix but this one is too addictive. Its cool to see Kirk so laid-back and James being so calm and cool. PS: 12:19 there's the Vietnamese guy saying "Tuyệt vời".

Like the piano very much.Close ur eyes.Hear,feel,sense through vibrations to stabilize and find balance in the spectrum.

With only piano, i mean without drums it sounds so much better. Lang lang did a great job here, see at 10:07, i really like those notes. Now i know how it would be if we have a piano record of "One". Of course by Lang Lang.

I love how James brought along two guitars for one song. You know, just in case he gets bored with one of them..

I really liked all of Lang Lang's piano on this song. I hope I can find it soon.

This is so great

back to this is awesome!!

I think the piano parts fits much better in the slower parts of songs.. The slow piano part in one was actually brilliant

I'm going to preface my comment by saying: as classical piano musician who has performed music at the University level, who has think outside the box originality, and loves just about every genre of music as long as there is talent present, I'm going to put it like this: Out of Grammy compilation's that performed that night, Metallica & Lang Lang broke the mold and put an epic performance together melded with fresh, new, raw musical ideas fused together like soft (piano) and hard (forte) steel to forge a new, state of the art, cutting edge style of music. My only lament is that they will probably never play together again to shred and produce this yin & yang chiaroscuro sound.

I love it Metallica and Lang Lang

Very very cool METALLICA RULES!

Fuck, this guy is talented. I tottaly love his piano parts

The tapping on the piano is so triggering

Anything ever happens to any of these guys.. call me done. Metallica is life! 🖤

Loved it! Agreed with James, "When can I get the ring tone"?

Hii i am only 13 years old and i don't get it that i love all (!!!) of your songs and i don't belive that all just started that i was a litell child and my father heard the unforgiving one and a lot of others in the disk that he buy and i just don't stop to sang those songs, Thank you for making my childhood so special :)

a collab of Heavy Metal and Classical Style... hey, I'll take it!

I love this :)

Really hard to marry the piano with electric guitars! Check out this fine insight into Metallica's - One with Lang Lang on piano.

I love the way Lars looks proud at James when he starts singing and then looks and the other guy like. -You hear that? That's my boy!

Masterpiece

Amazing hand slapping by the guy no one will ever know

19:04.."Aquí vamos...Maestro" (show the magic)

i like the human metronome 8:00

So beautiful...❤😍❤

That guy hitting the piano reminds me of phill from the some kind of monster documentary.

mr. Lang Lang feeling happy and proud of playing and rehearsals with 'when Metallica rules the world'

Perfect.

you can clearly see that james doesn't like the idea.

7:30 love that piano

I really liked that "acoustic version" towards the middle. I feel Lang Lang got buried at the Grammy's except when he had a solo.

17:23 :D :D my phone rington... :D

7:09 lars trolling xD

i don't have against to lang2. but I so love this when only Metallica did the production! but anyway its music experiment... Metallica Rocks!!!

speechless...

I think Lang Lang could play a 4/4 beat without Ezrin hitting on his piano for 8 minutes^^ :)

You are the single note guy)))))

Small minded people are exactly that. If you don't like fine, but to say they suck or are shit is just ignorant. Metallica work their asses off harder than any other band, they at least test themselves.

19:14 Johnny Galecki (Leonard) from The Big Band Theory sitting behing Lang Lang.

Still sound awesome with piano only.

Everyone is so serious and Kirk is just having fun

lol... here that mashup makes sense, but on grammys something went realy wrong... Lang Lang didn't hear Metallica??

Hardest working band IMO, you can't succeed unless you try, they succeeded in my book. Sounded fantastic.

Like it or not, they like it, they set out to do what they wanted to do so many years ago. Still doing it in 2014.

Different. I´ts hard to get used to it, but anyway, I Kind of love it....... Lang Lang awesome!!!

14:11 dont tell lars to do on ONE----!!!?

its a little like when i Tv show start to repeat is self, they often put in some new characters, so they can run it a few months more, i grow up with metallica, "you know you start to be old when things you love, start to die," a advice guys, do what you do best, and dont try so hard,

This sounds much better than the actual performance.

If he's slaps that bechstein once more I'll -.-

4:10 Kirk's phone he lost, im guessing

In my opinion this experiment didn't work. Lang Lang is obviously a brilliant classical piano player and Metallica are a legendary metal band,but when I heard them play together at The Grammys. They were so out of key with one another, that from time to time, it didn't even sound like they were playing the same song!!!

Exelente !!!!

i think k. is pretty in shape in this rehearsal ...what happens on stage?!?! GO KIRK!! we love you!!

Lang Lang is a great pianist.

Rare video Lang Lang on C Bechstein~!!

Fuck man, they look so old, i just cant believe how the time pases on, it seems like yesterday when the played at seattle in 1989..

THis is fucking epic

the piano in the middle of the vid, where you can really only hear the piano and james singing. It sounded really nice. A piano cover of the song would sounds amazing but i dont think it really works well with the guitars

NOOOOOOOO WHY YOU CUT THAT FINAL REHEARSAL!? :(

awesome piano playing. they should have this guy play throughout their next album

Soy fan de Metallica desde los primeros tiempos y aunque me encantan me da pena ver que en vez de sacar cosas nuevas, sigan siempre tocando los mismo y haciendo versiones de sus propios temas. Por cierto la cara de James al principiio de los ensayos lo dice todo