THE JAMES HETFIELD CHALLENGE ~ Master Of Puppets!!! 

Hope you guys enjoyed the video! Just wanna address a few comments I have been getting \m/ Sorry about my guitar strum explanation, I was over exaggerating the movement to help my viewers understand. Obviously it didn't help so my apologies haha! Guitar hero ≠ Real Guitar. Was just describing how you use more energy doing this fun challenge, nothin more. Also ya that is a real guitar in the background.

I guess I was doing the Hetfield challenge when I played as a kid lmao

you have to palm mute too

That first solo IS James Hetfield actually

"this is so unnatural..." *Tries up and down strumming* "This doesn't feel right..."

Wow but on real guitar next?

Now do down strums only and every time he says master, it gets faster!

Now play any Primus song on bass but only upstrums

Buy the pewdiepie chair and you’ll be able to down strum during the solo

2:20 me in bed

Guitar hero: BOOO Real guitar: AW YEAH

I just realized UKOG backwards is GOKU..seems legit

"The way pretty much everyone plays guitar hero challenge" Fixed

It’s all in the wrist action, George. xD

Very impressive,but can you play One With Only down Pickings?

He’s laughing in your FACE! HAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!

Can you do a regular guitar cover?

The first solo actually is James Hetfield. The second solo is Kirk Hammet

A massive well done🙌🏻couldn’t of done that!!😍

I always down strum most of the notes I can on Expert if they’re not too fast to down strum on.

I got the chills the first time I heard master of puppets. To this day it is my favorite instrumental.

I played the complete guitar hero 3 game doing James hetfield strum... didn't know strumming down was bad

After reading the comments, it's pretty safe to assume this is the way most people play Guitar Hero (myself included). Only down-strumming gives you much more control , rythm and timming. It's easier when the song isnt obviously impossible without alt-ing. Alt strumming gets slippery very fast if you're not trained to it, and you can easily overstrum, because the song feels slower to play on alt-strumming vs down strumming. So yeah, most guitar hero players that didnt like, get to the top-end of the "git gud" spectrum have that arm stamina to do this easily lmao

I always just down strum normally, this would be natural for me. I would kill this challenge

I actually play like this. I do alt as well, but usually only on chugging sections. I also have huge hands, so I play red-orange but with my index finger stretched over to the green. I can rock between the two frets quite easily, and I can play GRY chords with 2 fingers, which is useful on songs that have frequent chord changes.

To do the actual james hetfield challenge you have to do the rhythm chart only downstrums while singing it.

Did you just say it's more tiring playing this on guitar hero than playing it as well as James on a real guitar? Are you high?

I try to do this whenever I play this song on real guitar, but I always get tired by the 2nd chorus and end up alt picking the harmony and James’ solo

It was hard not thinking back to the version when they say master it gets faster, expecting the tempo to quicken and the vocals to get higher

He makes it look a little easy and extreme at the same time... He truly is a god at this

surely im not the only one that beats my plastic guitar with him.

im so used to doing this challenge every time i play that i still do it today

I can do both on an actual guitar. I'm a Metallica superfan lol... Been playing their stuff for 30 years.

ive been james hetfielding my whole life

One word "Yeah."-James Hetfield

i played this way all my life and didn't know people call this a "challenge". I simply cant coordinate down and up strumming with notes

Ahem... Downstroke the hammer ons too and that's how I play 😂

For a while I could only down strum, but then I smartened up and learned to alt strum

When I first started playing Hero of the Guitar on a PC (without a controller, of course), all I could do was use the arrows for struming. And of course, I did not use both, but only one because I have a bad keyboard. So I understand your pain.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!

This is the only way I played guitar hero as a kid because trying to upstroke messed up my timing. Only got up to hard difficulty though, lefty wasn't coordinated enough to keep up.

That’s how I played guitar hero all of the time, no idea why I did that

yeet

Watching this made me realise that I never Alt-strum and how hard it is to get out of the mind set of never Alt strumming... fuck

s p o o p y

I have always played like that. I have tried other ways but I'm just not used to them so I still play like that even though after awhile it does start burning

That guitar hero guitar is modeled after the Gibson ESP

Saw them in gothenburg last year! it was epic to say the least

When I was around 11, I had guitar hero world tour on my Wii and had no idea you could strum up Haha I played that shit every day for about a year only strumming down lol

Funny enough that's genuinely how I used to play guitar hero/rock band, even for the gallop picking, the technique I used was anchoring the pinky finger, then quite literally rapidly pivoting/rotating my wrist so that it was like my thumb was straight up whacking the bar, it made it so I could down pick stupidly fast tbh. However I can't go remotely that fast on real guitar, and that's considering I can downpick master of puppets on the real thing.

Going to Manchester as well can't wait! 🙌🏻👍🏻

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This is literally how I play normally, course there's parts easier to alt but I prefer down strum

ive never upstrummed in my life but have FC'd slow ride so clearly im good at it

I broke my strum bar trying to play Expert Disposable Heroes

Genuinely on edge watching this!!! Smashed it dude!

Tbh this is the only way i ever play guitar hero, its just kind of how i learned to play it

How I started played Guitar Hero just down strumming 😂😂😂

your explenation was rly good when i play guitar its only wrist movements when i learned the song i only used downstruming so i got used to it

Ive only ever played with down strums since I was a kid cuz alternate strumming was hard😂

To be honest, I started out playing like this. And still do when it's not crazy fast stuff. It is tireing if you're not used to it! cx

SG is an underrated guitar for rake strumming just to let yall know

0:10 a wild Tom Araya appeared!!!

I only play guitar hero like this lol actual guitar as well AND THEY ARE 1000% WORTH IT YOU WILL LOVE THEM

I find it wild people actually play without alt strumming lmao

Saw them in the U.S in January, so worth the money

i play like this every day except only up strum because my guitar overstrums on downstrum i cant wait to get a new geetar

No fucking way, dude would it be creepy if i said hi to u at the concert lol

Well that's how I play normally to a certain extent because I can't keep rhythm with alt strumming

The concert is going to be badads. I went to one and it was glorious

Feels so weird seeing you struggle with this due to the fact that this is how I actually play the game the majority of the time

learning this song (real guitar) took me months just to get the downpicking up to speed

After seeing your Faster of Puppets vid I can't hear this song the same 🤣

Well fun fact, the first solo, the slow one is actually James..... BUT! he does not down pick it all.... soooo I think you're good

Im playing only down strums cause i dont know how to alt strum to save my life. I've nearly downstrummed Black Metal from Venom!

I like how he uses music theory on guitar hero

When I play guitar Hero I only down strum... didn’t know it was a hard technique... I actually find it easier

An eaiser way of down strumming is to hold the bottom of the guitar, then only mover your thumb.

2:58 the interlude solo is james’ though

I may not be on expert but i do this everytime i play a gh game, i never up strum, except for occasionally on notes with no gap between them, not even a challenge, its just how i play

This is literally the way I played guitar hero

legends say james can do the whole song without alternate picking

I first started playing gh like this and continued playing like this for years. Then I discovered how bad it was in recent years.

5:12 is perfect timing

I naturally play like this. I can't do in another way

Hey im seeing them in twickenham a few days after the manchester show, give an update or record your experience plz

Now do an alt strumming challenge. Must always alt strum, meaning you can not down strum 2 times in a row, or up strum 2 times in a row, otherwise you have failed. Could be confusing on the brain lol

Bro it sounds like hitmarkers

I usually only downstrum, I suck at alt strumming EDIT: but I also have my whole hand above the strum bar and strum down with 3 of my fingers, not as much hand movement that way

maybe using a pick could help with the fast down strumming

The problem you have with down strumming this is that you actually play guitar. I started playing GH and RB long before I started learning real guitar and I literally played everything on expert only using down strums. After 3 years of learning guitar, I can't even play GH anymore. My brain just won't let my fingers work that way.

Real guitarists use me as a grievance thread for the beginning of the video

Took me 2months but this is the first riff I learnt

I play like this alot I'm not FC but even cliffs of Dover in play like this

Next, Buckethead - Big Sur Moon with only upstrums.

.......i wasnt aware i wasnt supposed to downstrum this whole song...... I can pretty much only do it for the triplets and stuff or else i get off beat.

This song isn’t even that hard to down strum on a guitar. But this shit gave me carpel tunnel just by watching it.

Do the ttfaf Herman Li challenge. U have to play like Herman with above neck fretting

A $100 to see metallica live? I looked up front row seats in milwaukee about a $1000 a person😲

Ok, now "the number of the beast" from Iron maiden