This early Metallica song has Mustaine and Burton written all over it. Awesome instrumental. Ride the Lightning is my favourite Metallica album overall. I love how Kirk doubled the leads on most of his songs back then. For this one I used several different live performance videos to help figure out who plays what. Kirk plays some parts differently and I tried to highlight that with the Charvel. For the solo, Kirk plays the arpeggios in an uncommon way but I duplicated that as best I could. For the descending scalar run, it’s a little unclear what happens position wise because the live performances are a bit spotty for this part, either the camera wasn’t on Kirk or he just goes off on the wah. So I tried to play this part as logically as I could. Kirk gets a lot of flak but he was on fire on this album. James slightly switches up how the clean outro is played. It’s almost exactly like the first time but there is a different note being played. Hope you enjoy digging into this one!
Merci beaucoup pour vos efforts, votre talent, votre passion qui est partagé avec la communauté de musiciens. Peut-on voir un jour une chaine RU-vid Mr. Tabs pour guitare bass avec cette même qualité ? Merci infiniment.
Oh yeah. If you strum those ascending arpeggiated chords, they're the into to Hangar 18, which I'm sure you know... but it's very interesting how you have two absolute classics with the same shord structure and they sound so different.
Mr tabs! A couple years ago I saw your videos and thought it was so cool. I wanted to play just like your videos. So I dedicated a lot of time and I’ve come very far thanks to your inspiration and help! Never stop making these 🤘
You inspire me too to progress in guitar. I was only doing the accoustic one, until I saw your videos that make me more curious, and that's how I'm now able to play tornado of souls, and ride the lightning(with the solos)🤘
One of my favorite Metallica tunes, I never had the patience to sit down and try to learn this since the opening riff always gave me such a tough time for some reason. This has inspired me to pick up the guitar and practice this until I finally nail this song.
Funny, started learning this song (again) today for some random reason. Took a break and opened YT and this popped up in my feed hahah. Instant sub, great job!
@@slightlyaboveaveragebutaverage I agree but Orion, to me seems has much more range. Thus song is great don't get me wrong, but to my ears just seems to repeat too much. Took some really good riffs and put on repeat. Just when you think Orion is over it goes into another musical masterpiece
I learned this song (wrong in a few parts apparently) back in 1989 when I was about a year into playing guitar. Couldn’t play the solo at the time but learned it later. Brings back a lot of memories. I’ll play it later tonight. This time I’ll learn it correctly. 😂
Do you use Marshall amps? If yes, which one do you use. You nailed the tone on this video man. Also, could you do more Iron Maiden and more Judas Priest? Hallowed Be Thy Name and Livin After Midnight would be nice. Thank you
For all tones and effects I use software called Amplitube Max. This software contains many virtual amps and pedals. The plug-ins are available to all my Patreon subscribers so you that if you have Amplitube Max yourself, you can get exactly the same tone as me at home. I also offer screenshots of the virtual amps and pedals so that if you don’t have Amplitube you can attempt to replicate the tone using whatever equipment you have available. For more, see www.patreon.com/MrTabs
Not quite perfect, but by far the closest ive seen on the internet. As per what Pat says in the pinned messae, Kirk does indeed play the sliding arpeggios upwards on frets 15,14,15 of the D,G and B string respectively. On the scalar run he plays it on frets 9-12 on the B and hi E, and Im pretty sure he swicthes positions one time on the g string and does the bulk of it on the D until he gets to frets 7-4. I could be wrong on the specifics, but i do know for certain that he runs down on some combination of the G and D string. This is the only place online that gets the tapping at the end of the solo even close to correct. I do it differently than tabbed but the mix is muddy as hell and kirk doesn't play it live like he does on the record so it's literally impossible to say unless kirk himself would intervene. That said, the tab is very close to what I have heard and very different from anything else I've seen online. Other spots that are correct or very close to it that I haven't seen in other spots online are the main distorted non-arpeggio riff that kirk plays over james' palm muted distorted version of the intro arpegio. My ear catches an A on the D string on the first note followed by 3 palm muted open A's. Almost everywhere else online has these as some wierd power chord which they're unequivocally not. The transition riff played in bar 116 is really close as well. I personally don't hear the octave on the d string, but almost everywhere else online has this as a power chord which is incorrect. It's a 4th diad in the base for certain and Pat got that right. All in all, there are parts in this tab that I heard differently, but this is an EXCELLENT tab and is as close to perfect as I've seen online. Great job.
The EET TABS guitar is back for an absolute epic! Cool Charvel but Fender missed the boat on that one, they should have blacked the entire thing out (matching headstock and an ebony fretboard). Anyone ever see Metallica play this one live (I mean in person)? I've yet to see that myself, which has always surprised me, it's an amazing piece.
That’s actually my purple Charvel! Patrick worked his magic and blacked it out haha. Such an awesome tune, hey? A little repetitive but with riffs this sweet, why not repeat them?
Can you please (not immediately) do the: That i never had Ozzy Osbourne live budokan 2002 song? Cause you are so correct with the tabs and everything 👌
@@jasonsheppard7428 man, I'd love to get to play one, one day. Would like to get ahold of the reissue if Gibson would ever release more than one a month lol
Great job. Underrated solo in all of rock and metal. @swanthewhitepig did an amazing one-take cover of this song on an SG of all things. I think you & him have the best coverage of this song.
Wow just noticed that. All the videos I’ve seen he uses the pick, but I just pulled up the S&M video and you’re right! As for the Album.. you might be right there as well but I THINK I’m hearing the attack of a pick but I could be wrong. Hard to tell with the chorus and reverb. Thanks for pointing that out!
@@jasonsheppard7428 I'm 100% sure he used fingers on the record as well, because you can hear it on the demo of the song (called "When the hell freezes over") and on couple of bootleged gigs (namely Palo Alto gig from 1983 with first live performance of the song, available on Kill Em All deluxe boxset ) ☺
