As painful as this was it was good to experience the "early days" once again. ;) Check out all my lesson vids at: www.the-art-of-... Patreon: / theartofguitar Thanks!!!
Haha. Same here but 51. I still play that song often but never properly learned the solo so I'm sure his 13yo jam is better than what I still try to pull off.
Agreed. But the issue is then you finally find a group or someone to play with and then your styles are totally different! They want you to play parts that are mind-numbingly boring, or a song that you have studied 10 years ago which you've learnt to hate... Its actually way more fun to play alone...
Metallica made me wanna learn guitar too! And the intro solo from Fade To Black was the one solo I wanted to learn so bad. The starting was frustrating for sure coz i had just started out and it actually took me a few months to learn the techniques. It'd all about practice and patience tho. This video made me smile! :')
Oh my gosh what a bad mixing engineerrrrrrrr -.-''''''' They probably just set up the input gain so it doesn't clip and went with it and it's just like that on the tape, inseparable
Dude, this video motivated me to dig out some old tapes i had recorded from my teens ( im 54 now) . It was entertaining and brought back some good memories when i started out playing. I almost forgot how bad i was but was motivating to see how far ive come .. Thanks!
Can we talk about the fact that his tone is so good that even when he tries to play bad it actually still sounds kinda decent ? (Not in the recording, in the present)
This is great. I still have cassettes of me playing Ride The Lightning/Justice songs on drums when I was like 12 that I recorded with a hand held tape recorder. It's really bad.
The solo in this song isn’t that hard. The trickiest part is probably the mini sweep lick he does right in the beginning. Just learn it slowly and you should have no problem with it
I'm a rhythm player but this is actually one of the very few solos I wanted to learn (nothing else matters, square hammer and this). Now guess what, I don't have a problem with fast rhythm stuff or syncopation or rhythm in general, it's actually really good. But I can't. Play. Lead. For. Shit. It took me forever to learn the nothing else matters solo, square hammer was kinda okay but at some point I just gave up on fade to black. As of right now I'm in my 4th year of playing and I still sound similar to your tape, playing that solo. It drives me nuts because it's such a cool solo, my favorite actually. Anyway, have a good one Mike! (and everyone else who made it this far ;))
@@jordanhumpal6005 i can play the intro solo just fine, actually (well, depends on the day, i guess xD) but the outro is beyond my understanding... anyway, good luck learning it!
Nothing better at the time than the rush of getting a lend of a CD, then listening to it whilst watching it getting recorded onto a tape. Knowing that your initial love of the first listen to the music is only going to get better and better as the tape catches the tunes for you. Over 90% of my music as a teenager was on copied cassettes. It was amazing having a different album on each side! Your Metallica tape at the beginning reminded me of that. Loved this video. Fantastic idea to relisten to you jamming with friends and share the memories. I cant solo to save my life- so to me, your early attempts at Fade to Black sounds decent for your age and time on guitar. Id love to see more videos like this. Awesome!
i love the beginning to fade to black and the little solo in the beginning. i did an ad-lib mashup of some of sabbath's snowblind which then faded (heh) into fade to black. I was thinking about alternate picking and tremolo picking. i never learned those techniques from anyone. i figured out those moves to be able to play certain things. I did have to learn how to sweep pick and do pinch harmonics from someone else tho. i had no effing clue. and i still need to practice those more, or the dreaded 2nd fret dime squealies. also, another guitar player told me to practice pinch harmonics unplugged, to nail the trick without help from amp gain.
I can relate so much! We might be around the same age (mid 30s). When I first picked up the guitar I just wanted to play metallica all DAY, I used to go to a friends house who had an RP7 (old multiFX pedal), we'd just take turns playing licks = he'd show me stuff, I'd show him stuff. IT was like 95 or something. Good times
Great analysis of your own playing in the past. 👍🏼 I love the part with economy picking, sounds so good when You play it now. I had some solo parts in other songs where I even as adult and better player couldn't manage to play fluid in original tempo. Will recheck the economy picking... 🤟🏼
Let me get this straight. As a 13 year old you were able to attempt a solo that a lot of guitarist strive for. And you’re embarrassed by it? Wtf man! I wish I could play that solo like you did! I may as well give up 😔
At 13 (and through my teenage years) I jammed with my brother. We learned by playing Metallica songs too. Our family had moved to the country after having lived in the city before then so we had nothing really to do, so we just played guitar all the time. Eventually I got a drum set and I'd split my time between guitar and drums. It was awesome. Also, you're not bad for not even having been playing for a year at that point! It's probably better than I could do now, but then again I've never concentrated on soloing.
Thats amazing playing for Only one year and being thirteen. I'm fifty and have been playing 3 months , and i'm still working on the first part of the first solo. I got a lot of work to do before. I even think of tackling the second solo. You did a great job thank you preferring your journey
Like this vid cas it’s cool to see him go over his problems as a kid playing guitar lol and it sort of teaches you on what to look at while you play. Record while you practice!!
I'm a 16 year old guitar player and been playing for a year. I have the same bend problem. Its great to see how much you've improved. You're amazing man. Great to watch.
It's great to have those recordings to critique yourself, but don't forget the feeling you had when you were playing that: you were rock gods, and nothing else matters!
Dude, playing that solo not only at 13, but only after 1 year is epic. What a confidence booster that must have been knowing you would only get better from there. That was indeed mini Kirk showing up to ⚡ROCK⚡
The recording was really good, especially for only a year of playing. Did you learn by ear or did you have books that had the tabs in them? To me, it sounds pretty true to the record.
I was lucky ky back in 86 when I started I learned the solo to crazy train like the first weak I had a guitar so I had a good starting place for soloing. but when I started taking lessons in 89 I really got things under control and learned theory and proper technic
It's good to see where you started from. It gives me hope in my own playing, only 6 months with a guitar so far. But thank god for these RU-vid lessons and modern technology. I wouldn't learn a thing if it wasn't for you.
I just saw a regular single cassette cheap portable type recorder at Walmart... you can capture ur old tapes off the headphone port to ur computer front mic input!
Wow! Loved it man, you are like at lvl 100 now looking back to your lvl 15 self!!! 😂 Hey, can you do a quick tutorial on the circular picking, would help a lot! All love \m/
This is the first song i ever learned on guitar. One day i said im going to learn the outro solo. And i played that for years non stop. Hence my yt name.
So cool. I actually had a reel to reel tape recorder that my dad got at a flea market. It would hold 8 hours of music and very high quality. My first car had an 8 track player that would just eat tape all the sudden. I spent many hours rewinding tape back into the case. When cassettes came out it was like a HUGE improvement. Ah...those were the days...
Pretty sure I first picked up the guitar around 13 years ago and I'm still working on the main riffs of Metallica songs. I barely touched any of the solos haha
This brings back memories because I must have a dozen cassette tapes where my friend and I would record ourselves all the time. We played a variety of popular songs back then by different bands and it was definitely the easier Metallica stuff we played. I remember how bad I was at guitar back then and cringed a bit listening to myself. My friend was always excellent at rhythm.
Bro, at 13 I didn't even have the finger strength to hold down an electric guitar string. Now at 37 I still can only make a few chords and wham around on the low E string with heavy distortion. But I still enjoy playing lol. You're a guitar master!
That part you said is a mystery at 7:24 is basically like a 5 stroke roll rudiment on drums- it's an 8th followed by 4 16ths repeated 4 times, accenting the 8ths and muting the 16ths. I always played the top half of a Bm chord at 7th fret for that, it came out with the closest sound to me. Also hilarious listening to what sounds like a perfect mirror image to me of trying to play this solo as a teenager, I would play this with the bassist in my band- thought I was nailing every note, and am really glad there's no recordings anywhere to demonstrate how horribly wrong I was.
Nice video of memory lane. I had this thing going on around 1996 where me and boys were playing metellica with Fender Stratocaster :D Master of Puppets, Fade to black.. etc. Later on song from Children of Bodom like Towards dead end. How they sounded back then omg :D
I’m literally in the same spot as you right now lol. I’m 13, been playing for about 11 months, and I’m trying to learn this solo. (I can’t play the descending parts for the life of me lmao)
This motivates me to keep playing. 1 year:"How will i ever learn to play this perfectly? Its impossible." 10+ "Knows how to do the whole solo no mistakes with style added"
Dang that was rough but I'm glad to have heard it and to have watched your video. I don't think I'm good...being that I don't learn songs...I just learn a lick or 2 and move to another song and mainly I just jam. But I spend a lot of time learning techniques and playing them better. I just learned how to harmonic tap about a week ago. I can only do it over certain frets of course...but it's clear...it just doesn't sound Kool lol. But it's harder than any other tapping than I know of. So that I'm proud of. And thanks for all of your videos! Favorite guitar teacher!!!
As someone who has being playing guitar on and off for 30 years this is very impressive for a 13 year old kid. Don’t really know what this guy expected from himself back then.
That was pretty good, all things considered. At least you had a knack for phrasing. I really struggled with that because I thought too much about playing the right notes instead of the timing.
Lmao when he said...the lead singer for the band Sanctus" I was legit thinking it was some thrash band that I heard of but wasnt familiar with...I guess it sorta reminded me of the Bay Area band Sadus or something.
