Metalocalypse Creator Brendon Small Plays His Favorite Riffs 

haha great spot!

I expected that would be the case because Skwizgar is always doing real etudes like that one.

The MAN, the MYTH, the L E G E N D

I knew it! I knew that sounded familiar 😂

LOL thanks for pointing that out, thats so awesome

Same

so...........howdya earn a living?

I just do a bunch of dumb chugs, or what I think are chugs.

Lmfao FACTZ...been doing it for years

Same! 😂

Pickles Intro is a banger.

Aeee Fuckkn Men!!! 🤘

I like go forth and die

Yeah that one's great

Careful bro, that album is Intended For Fish Only.

My introduction to the delicious deadpan of H Jon Benjamin.

Thank fuck. I was just about to comment most people remember him from Metalocalypse (which is great), but I have great memories of him from Home Movies. As Mike said, it was also my introduction to H. Jon Benjamin. On a side note, I'd like to mention I think both Home Movies and Mission Hill are overlooked so much, but they're classics in my book.

Coach mcguirk

@@chairmankaga101 Did you know he also voices Jason in Home Movies? I just found out recently.

Agree. One of my favorite shows

@Jaxon Suede Man, I loved Home Movies back in the day!

So cool! I had a brief encounter with Brendon at a SD ComicCon back in the early 2000s, and he shook my hand and exchanged a few earnest words with me. It was one of my few celebrity interactions, and by far the most pleasant and enjoyable :-)

Man, I miss the days of physical human interaction without having to think twice about it. Hugs, handshakes, pats on the back will never be the same. Thanks for sharing, dude! 💀🖤🤖

@@crmsn_ why? Do you hate having an immune system that works? Go outside for fucks sake

yer speshul derrrrrrrrrr

My favorite!

That's the song I use for my alarm.

GRAMPAS GUITARS

Rise... Rise.... RICEE...

@@yash1140 Hi Barbara, good to see your butt.. I mean, I mean, you back dammit

In my Pants maybe

exactly what i thought when he said that

Why can't everything be easy

@@KVD22 I guess then it wouldn't be worth doing.

@@KVD22 because it's hard.

You doing better now? 😢

Mike judge can play. He wrote and recorded the Beavis and Butthead theme, 'frog baseball'.

Mike judge IS a bass player 👀👀 they should jam

@Lujack Shaw "We're either ahead of our time, or far far past it"

Even looks a lot like him.

Lol they do remind me of each other

i know a thousand riffs but cant play a single full song 🤣

I'm the opposite. I played so many full songs its ridiculous. Not gonna lie, once I was done I didn't want to listen to the song again for a really long time.

@@thedude8526 thats part of whay makes me not want to learn some songs... especially my favourite songs

I'm learning now. Just taking riffs from here there and everywhere to practice

Just saying that. I can play many whole songs, but just like good parts.

Just after Hot for teacher, about 2:59, he does a small section of 'Always with me, Always with you' by Joe Satriani.

What was that quick bit at 3:09? Play With Me, right? First thing that popped into my head was the Beethoven mall scene from Bill and Ted.

@@MechaWrecka have a listen to 'Losfer words (big 'orra)' by Iron Maiden. Just after the first solo, at about 2mins35sec, there's a bit that sounds like that. However, it's a fairly generic riff so it could be from anywhere

Lol im 22 and know all these

@@Jammy_Jim Sounds more like Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson to me

That sounds legendary. Dethklok and mastodon .

The armory in SF?

@@bluunttrauma3762 No, probably the one in Minnesota.

Saw Mastodon and Gojira together, which was epic, but damn, Mastodon and Dethklok? Bucket list stuff!

hearing crack the skye in its entirety would be dope as f all by itself

Holy shit you’re right...

@Ethernaut very touching. Keep on writing poems 😂😂🤟

TABS PLZ

@@philiom7724 go to 4:42 & set video to 0.25 speed then you can copy 👍

dear god i had to rewind that bit at .25 speed and heard him speak. all of the nightmares..

What movie??

@@ashutoshJMJK The Metalocalypse Movie!

@@ashutoshJMJK Adult Swim signed 3 movies for The Venture Bros., ATHF, and Metalocalypse! Super stoked for all 3!

YEEEEEES!!!! Didn’t know about the movie! Can’t wait.

He mentions in the video part of why it sounds weird: Dethklok stuff is always tuned to C, and he's playing it in E Standard in this video. Everything is two whole steps higher than it should be.

That Sweet Child riff is literally what got me started too...jeeze like 16 years ago now. Crazy.

I thought I was weird bcuz I only like learning certain parts of songs to get the techniques then jam out on my own with backing drums

Wouldn't all of you too just laid in bed, bored or sleepy, with the guitar on your hands just doodling around randomly?

So nobody thinks that he looks like Peyton Manning in the thumbnail?

​@@tzvonarlittle bit.

Bro fr

Absolutely 💯 I still never play full songs and I've been playing for 13 years

Man, couldn’t agree more…..I only play my favorite parts out of a song.

ikr learning how to play iron man was super difficult when you didn't even had calluses on your hands

ikr learning how to play iron man was super difficult when you didn't even had calluses on your hands

Plus he does the voices for Nathan, Pickles, and Skwizgar! Talented fella for sure.

@@pitchfolkmedia916 you'd be surprised how much of the main cast is just him: nathan, pickles, skwisgaar, charles, dick knubbler.. and several other characters i'm sure. he is insanely talented in so many fields.

It's funny in its own right, and it's ten times funnier than that because it's basically a show making total fun of how utterly ridiculous metal can be... yet metal fans love it. It's hard as shit to parody something without pissing off the people you're parodying. So Small is clearly a genius. Either that, or metal fans are so dumb they just don't realize he's making fun of them.

@@dogslobbergardens6606 a lot of metal fans know the shit we listen to is at least a little ridiculous. We like it that way.

@@ProfessorShnacktime I understand completely. But a lot don't, too.

Yup. I learned wake up dead to a point and never finished but man it was so fun to play, especially when Dave does the spider chord

It's the small bits that inspire us. You may like the whole song, but just like with porn, there will be favourite parts in it that make us excited.

It's cool his favorite parts of his own songs are very Van Halen inspired

re visiting this video I knew he was going to play sweet child as soon as I saw his hand placement lol my very first riff and now I cant stand to hear it anymore

Adrian Smith for me, but yeah man Maiden is the best.

@@jonkerrmusic Adrian is the man. His playing was sorely missed while he wasn't in Maiden. When he came back I was a very happy man.

no Blaze no I.M.

no Blaze no I.M.

Also tone master I would say

you survived 3 shows? damn.

Get back in goal, Melissa!!

Freaky! Outie!

The PecBlaster 5000!!!

Tip of the fedora for your avatar

Have you never seen the show home movies?

@@wishmeluck95 Nahh, but I do love Metalocalypse and Brendon. I’ll have to check it out!

It’s all I hear when I hear him talk. Just older Brendan.

You Kyrgyz? I love Kyrgyzstan

Thank you!! I just commented "DUDE! ITS DUANE FROM SCÄBB!" and looks like thor von Clemsing! (Another home movies joke- DVD secret) I was soooooo disappointed that no ones said Home Movies. I like it better than Metalacalypse. They're both amazeballs but yea... HM all the way! So rad you said it!

"grampa's guitars"

The guy who made Necrophagist quit after 1 album and works as a car salesman, it happens. Being a "rockstar" is only real in Tribute documentaries.

Same. But with nuno b also

Huh???

Cringe

Ryan Reynolds the actor? What has he ever done to be an inspiration for you? Just asking.

@@Cthulhu_Awaken Obviously, you forgot about him being one of the guys in the monster hit TV series, "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place". Oh, and "Deadpool". Perhaps you've heard of it... 😉

Why wouldn't he still be playing?

You know they're making a movie, right?

Is that really happening? I thought it got turned into the special hour long last musical episode.

@@SketchEtcher Adult Swim just announced they're doing Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Venture Bros and Metalocalypse movies.

@@joshuamendoza4745 perfect

that epiphone's got my eye xD nice piece

@@ExodusAttacKGR I'm gonna get it eventually. The best part for me is the trem is top mounted so it can't sink down it can (I guess that would be the right way to describe it)

@@jasondickerson2463 Just got mine!

Same I love explorers and I love silver burst. The Ghost Horse is awesome.

@Garion Smyser The new EPI ghost horse is a cheap price and available everywhere. The Gibson silver burst Thunderhorse is hard to find cheap and is discontinued

You'll notice Small is playing the Epiphone version here. It's a great design; the guitar a lot of us were asking Gibson for for about 40 damn years. Of course, in true Gibson genius fashion, they decided to spray it silver burst (cool idea) but used a paint that comes out looking babyshit green (not so cool). I suppose the Gibson excuse is, "Well ummm that's a VINTAGE type silver" lol.

There's a band called Voivod.

@@_Stroda And they're awesome! Jason's former band. They've got a great sound, too.

Deserved as well

same! that melodic riffage is burnt into my head!... live there... die there... 🤟😈

Cocaine helps

cause good technique is all about efficiency, the type of pick you is a massive part in it too thicker and sharper picks are gonna be louder. that's what I use my Dunlop sharp 1.5mm. usually for shredding cause I like a lot of pick attack, but over the years as I've got better at picking to where I can do Paul Gilbert and Jeff Loomis licks, I had to become efficient so smaller lighter movements. otherwise the James hetfield white fang is the all around best lick. I don't even have calouses anymore cause I don't push the strings any harder than need be. but I play at least an hour a day on a 7 string with 13-80 set of strings in f. which is similar tension to a standard 6 but way bigger strings. it's for that same reason I don't like super low action.

Practice doing a palm muted tremolo as light as possible. It gets easier

That's natural for most people. It takes a lot of practice before you can relax. Learning Ska really helped loosen up my strumming arm and everything kind of followed after that.

Force yourself to play right up over the neck sometimes when you practice. You'll HAVE to pick lighter or you'll be buzzing out the strings all the time, and you'll learn to not rely on just resting your arm on the guitar's body and digging in with your wrist.

He did home movies?

@@SLVGGER-ym9bw The cartoon series home movies yes

I watched home movies growing up. Great show.

Yeah the main character is named after him. One of my favorite shows

He was behind Home Movies?? That’s amazing. I loved that show growing up lol

Same here. I still think it was the cleverest and funniest show ever written, animated or live. I wish they'd bring it back.

Adult swim announced planned movie releases for metalocalypse, venture bros, and aqua teen. So long as they don't get another crazy wild hair up their butts, we should actually get some closure here lol

@@ShawnGamesDrunk holy shit that’s great news! You just made my day

@@willlewis153 my pleasure sir. :)

Your wish has been granted, sir... the Great Reuniting has come!

Don't kill children, don't run 'em over!

Nice Home Movies reference!

Okay, uh, so... so tell me, at what point did you get the urge to stick marbles, uh, in to your nose?

*whispers* Moooom!

@@UnvisibleINK when spikey told me not too

They did, limited run of 400.

that's really wholesome

There's one huge bonus feature though. You know how when you're in a bar or restaurant and a cell phone rings and 20 people start hurriedly digging theirs out to see if it's ringing? I don't have that problem. I've yet to hear another phone with the theme song to Metalocalypse as it's ring tone. I'm sure there are others, though i imagine fewer and fewer every day. But I've never heard another one. Sometimes, when the whole world is circling the drain, it's the littlest of little things we can take a modicum of pleasure in. And sometimes, it's enough.

Bro I'm the same. I think there's 1 song I ever learned the whole thing for and that's a parkway drive song. Other then that I love learning the badass riffs in songs.

@@Reapersden666 same here. My one song is Snowblind by Sabbath.

Yup. Guilty of that too. Right now I'm learning floods from pantera mostly because I learned the outro solo and it was badass. But usually I just learn riffs and then later the song.

@@jbellflower83 same bro. I just love learning specific riffs and playing them. Plus I have bad memory to the point it's very hard to memorize songs in full

I thought i was the only one who didn't learn whole songs. lol

Main thing that is shouldn't be a shit like Mortal Kombat 2021 or Alien: Testament

Can write AND crack some good jokes can improvise some good moments. Dude’s just all around talented