Death "Left to Die" Full Guitar Cover

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Same as last video. Instead of recording just one guitar track over the CD version, I used Demucs to strip out the guitars and re-recorded all the tracks, then played over that during the video. Original vocals, bass, and drums, but the guitars are me.
Download my tab. Most tabs I find online aren't very accurate so I learned and tabbed this by ear:
Guitar Pro: drive.google.c...
Ultimate Guitar: UG rejected it. The existing tab they have is decent but there are still some inaccuracies. You can download mine in the link above anyway.
PDF: drive.google.c...
All my Death tabs so far (both PDF and GP5 files available to download): drive.google.c...
Gear used:
Guitar: Solar V1.6FRC
Amp simulator: Bias FX
DAW: Ableton Live
Interface: Focusrite Scarlett Solo
MIDI Footswitch: Behringer FCB1010 via M-Audio Uno
Video Editor: OpenShot Video Editor (freeware)
Camera: Canon Powershot G7X MkII
A bit about my tone:
I'm using 2 instances of Bias FX (1, not Bias FX 2), panned slightly left and right in Ableton Live. Both instances have separate presets. I've uploaded these presets to the Bias FX Tonecloud (in both Bias FX 1 and 2). The presets are called "DeathLeftSide" and "DeathRightSide". The tone I'm using was built in Bias FX 1. I have migrated it directly to Bias FX 2, but it sounds different and I haven't tweaked it.
Apart from Bias plugins, I'm also using an EQ and a Gate in Ableton before Bias, and more EQ after Bias. Long story short: I scooped out a TON of mids and took a good chunk of the boominess out of the low end.

[@jacobballance117]

one of my favorite Chuck solos. I remember the first time I heard it, it sent chills down my spine.

[@kaydenbarazza3317]

Leprosy is a masterpiece. D E A T H is ! F O R E V E R !

[@m.c.ruckus2032]

ooooh... so suspenseful. ...so mysterious. ...so original. ...so creative. ...Just brimming with intrigue, curiosity, anticipation & excitement! Is THAT the reaction you were shooting for? Sorry, but your comment wasn't ANY of that! Nice Try Though :-) :-) :-) ...AHHH HAhahahaaaah!

[@Symbolic33]

The guitar tone is orgasmic, you did a great cover dude!

[@alexAlgodas1992]

That initial scream always gives me goosebumps

[@DeathCovers]

The one later in the song too. Some of his best screams. I'd say the only one that beats it would be Within The Mind, around 1:06

[@spencerphelps7550]

I've seen more than enough covers of Death on the internet and I can say that these covers take the cake for sure. I can hear every single note you pick, even more, clear than the damn album. Absolutely fantastic man I'm in awe!!!! Awesome playing!

[@DeathCovers]

What a wonderful comment. Thanks mate! Truly appreciate remarks like this!

[@killswitch2538]

That Chuck solo never gets old… such a masterpiece. Great work man!

[@robertschererx]

Nailed it one more time mate! Especially the pinch harmonics were on point and the solos of course too. A pleasure to watch 👍🏼

[@zee7923]

2:57 when that temp picks up🤌🤌 and when it slows down again at 3:16 heavy as fuck🤘. Fire tone and fire video

[@siegbertschnosel7369]

Great stuff as allways. This is so clean. You rock man, true inspiration to pick up my guitar and practice.

[@DeathCovers]

Keeping the inspiration going can be tough alright. Thanks for the kind words mate!

[@vincentzombi3916]

That tone!! Awesome playing 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@wayneleone]

Superb cover. This song has one of the best drum tracks ever. Great fun to play this song live. Good stuff!

[@unclefester3451]

Nailed it brother! Awesome cover🤘🏼

[@Masterofpuppets31]

One of the best covers of this Chuck Schuldiner masterpiece that I've heard, Chuck would appreciate I think good luck to you buddy, Chuck legend🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸❤️❤️❤️

[@Chris50lR]

Excellent cover

[@kovadamyoutube1900]

Perfect

[@PrehistoricMagazine]

This guitar work sounds better than the recording. How did you pull this off. Incredible stuff. I look very similar to Chuck and hope to play him in a live action film of death one day. Mike Esola

[@wanik4]

I watch a lot of covers, but you nailed this one. Nice

[@wanik4]

I was watching an old live show of this song and noticed Chuck doesn't play that chorus riff starting at the 7th fret, but on the 3rd string, if that makes sense. Just thought I'd share. 1:14

[@cizmar1972]

Excellent cover and beautiful Solar!

[@BegetterVIIEVEN]

Dude, your covers go hard! \m/

[@Aleksandar0806]

You nailed it again! I really like your covers! Leprosy, Spiritual Healing and Human are allways albums that get me back to the 90s when I started listening metal. Keep them coming man 🤘😎

[@DeathCovers]

Thanks mate! You'll be happy to know the next one is from Human ;)

[@Aleksandar0806]

@@DeathCovers fckn yeah!! 😁👍

[@milhouse777]

You nailed, dude! 🔥

[@yalkincanyaliniz]

Fantastic bro!

[@romanparfenov9441]

This camera shacking at 2:47 was so accurate

[@pronoyneogi1753]

Your vid made it really easy to learn this thanks!

[@elia8544]

Great cover and tab!!!

[@kl1mKozachek]

Awesome work man 🚀

[@joedeathcarnage2396]

Great job! I enjoyed the solos as well!

[@АлександрПопов-и8з2м]

🔥🔥🔥

[@alessandroperuzzi3164]

Solo stupendo di Chuck, pezzo devastante👍🤟

[@haydenschmid760]

You’ve been putting out covers and tabs left and right. I know almost every Death song, but I always check your tabs to see if I’m playing everything correct. How long does it usually take you to tab out these songs?

[@DeathCovers]

14 down, only 51 left to go! Glad you're getting use out of the tabs! I still check other people's too just to see if they've tabbed something better. I'd say each tab probably takes me about an hour or two. I'll probably have known how to play the song for years already but I listen through everything again carefully to see if I notice any inaccuracies. Tabbing the riffs is usually quick and painless but the solos are the most time-consuming. My tabs rarely reflect the fast "shreddy" parts with total accuracy because even if I could tab it out that closely, barely anyone but the man himself would be able to play it. So I'll usually put in a rough sketch that follows the same scales and leave it up to the player to fit it into their own style (like I do).

[@danielblake1537]

I've tried to get the tabs but it never works...I would absolutely love to have even just some of the tabs to their songs....Like for example on Left to die I literally just realized I had been playing the guitar chorus wrong all this time and finally figured it out myself and now it sounds 10 times better than the original way I was playing it lol I tend to make things more difficult than they could be or actually are played

[@danielblake1537]

Ohh I see I just wasn't signed into my Google account now its available for me to see the PDF for the tabs this just made my day man thanks for all the extra hardwork that's really cool of you to let others see the tabs you worked on putting all together!! Especially knowing the way even "authentic" tab books that are horribly transcribed and are not accurate by ne means and to find even anything on Death is hard enough

[@danielblake1537]

That ending riff of the chorus that you play starting @ 1:13 I think you play it all on the Low E string but I find it easier to just play it like D string: 2nd fret A string: 1st fret Low E string: 3rd fret And then... A string: 2nd fret E string:1st fret to open E......I just think it feels easier to play it all down low on the fretboard close together....I'm not sure which way Chuck plays it live

[@haydenschmid760]

@@danielblake1537 I just looked up Left to die live and I saw that he plays it the way you and I play it. Nothing wrong with playing it all on the E string though.

[@jigokufaust983]

Parabéns pelo seu trabalho cara, esse cover ficou muito foda 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@Yulian_Sebastian_Bach]

Cool!Nice!Heavy!👍👍👍🤘🤘🤘

[@joaopedroschramm1948]

Wow

[@TomMozar]

Perfect!!! \m/

[@danielblake1537]

I dont know why, but for the life of me I can't get that intro descending riff down smoothly I'm not even sure I know all the exact frets to play correctly ....I keep trying but it's the ending in that beginning riff right before the final 2 power chords I have trouble getting down smoothly

[@DeathCovers]

It's poxy! I'm not even happy with how I did it in this video. For me it's the trills. Best advice I can give you is to slow it down and get the technique, then build it up slowly until you're at the original tempo.

[@danielblake1537]

@@DeathCovers yea I think that's part of my issue too is the trills and playing them as smoothly and fast as the song....your vid of that part sounds fine to me but I guess we're always our worst critics lol

[@КомаровРоман-т3ф]

👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

[@ResubidorSerial]

2:06 that riff can't be more death metal

[@DeathCovers]

Heaviest riff on the album IMO!

[@elia8544]

@@DeathCovers it’s this riff vs the chorus on pull the plug tbh 🤘

[@DeathCovers]

@@elia8544 another strong contender!

[@swaggyreyes5116]

Hey man this is a killer cover! How do you play the part at :46 is it harmonics?

[@DeathCovers]

Yeah man, pinch and pull-offs!

[@widepootis]

How do you work through fast parts as in the solo?

[@DeathCovers]

To learn it I'll usually load the song into Ableton, grab the guitar and stick on headphones. The slower and more melodic parts are usually pretty easy to get right but the fast parts are pretty rough. I'll try to pick out the scale pattern and then just "shred" through it. Sometimes I can immediately pick up the general scale pattern being used in a particular part, other times I'll have to slow it down in Ableton and figure it out with the guitar through trial and error. Once I have the pattern down I just pick fast and move the fingers kind of randomly within that pattern. It usually sounds close enough to the original for me. It's not identical but I think it'd be impossible to try to mimic Chuck's style perfectly. It was pure chaos.

[@widepootis]

@@DeathCovers Lmao that's exactly what I thought when looking at most of death solos tab, thanks a lot and your cover was superb though!

[@DeathCovers]

@@widepootis thanks mate. Appreciate the kind words!

[@mateomurphy6024]

that tone is godly

[@YetiKnight]

scream bloody gore please

[@DeathCovers]

It's about 10 songs away in the list!

[@Ubarberet]

A riff so heavy it made an earthquake 2:41

[@DeathCovers]

hahaha yes! Totally unintentional effect of foot tapping but it worked out perfectly for the video.

[@bartekb5780]

Best solo ever…p.s. Opinion out of not a Death fan

[@DeathCovers]

I didn’t even think those people existed 🤨 Thanks mate 🙏

[@manuelmesa5627]

i cant view the file for some reason

[@DeathCovers]

"No preview availabe"? That's the .gp5 file. You need to download it and open it in Guitar Pro. If you don't have that, you can use the PDF version.

[@manuelmesa5627]

@@DeathCovers ohh okay thanks!!

[@IscariotHeartwork]

that is the fakest sounding guitar tone i've ever heard