GOJIRA Flying Whales vs Music Theory

In this video we'll watch Gojira's Flying Whales live at the Poland Rock Festival. Gojira is a technical death metal band from France. The year is 2018 and along the way I'll point out some of the music theory used in the track. Things like intervals, Chords, scales and key signatures. So grab your axe and follow along muhahaha.
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[@ShredmasterScott]

What song should I analyze next? 🔴 GOJIRA Flying Whales vs Music Theory Tab: www.patreon.com/posts/48540424

[@aleksilamsijarvi2658]

Downfall by Children of bodom

[@AssfaceOmega]

Judas Priest - Painkiller

[@xname662]

maybe its too much but i think something from Buckethead,or joe satriani!👍🏻

[@karolybendeguzbok4119]

@@aleksilamsijarvi2658 I second this

[@MadSeason42]

Alexander Marcus hawaii toast

[@maxlippert4162]

No one Shred: I wanna watch the music

[@m0nkeyman911]

Shred made a deal with Satan so now he can see sound waves

[@madzia7671]

I'm headbanging somewhere in the audience; it was epic expirience 🔥

[@ShredmasterScott]

bad ass!

[@kannste_abhaken]

Was that you with the long hair and the band shirt?

[@bjorntobealive6903]

I'm jealous!

[@ogulcanyolcu8714]

@@kannste_abhaken I saw him too

[@jeremytassin7978]

These guys make me proud to be French. I wish we had more bands like them.

[@ShredmasterScott]

yeah, let's get some more french metal happening

[@Mrmayhembsc]

Novelists FR are a great french metal band :)

[@kannste_abhaken]

there are luckily dozens of them out there - Alcest, Ameseurs, Celeste, Dirge, Funeralium (saw them live - great show, maybe a little slow ;-)), Remembrance, Year of No Light and that're just some Death-Doom / Post Metal examples

[@HeadacheMachine]

DAGOBA!

[@earthquakemachine]

Bro you have Deathspell Omega. You can't wish anything.

[@saidoterodiseno]

8:17 they do that very often, pick scraping not along the strings from the pickups to the nut as usual but across all the strings from the bottom to the top, achieving some *_E V I L_* sounds

[@ShredmasterScott]

super cool sound

[@saidoterodiseno]

@@ShredmasterScott BTW for the pop request, Dua Lipa's 'Future Nostalgia' has some interesting stuff to analyze

[@wuphat]

Gojira has yet to make a bad album. I'd be hard pressed to even name a bad song of theirs.

[@ShredmasterScott]

they need to teach more french bands to be metal

[@ligma6496]

Maybe The Chant? Not sure tho

[@The7empest]

@@ligma6496 The Chant is such a beautiful song how is it bad ? Lmao

[@ligma6496]

@@The7empestI mean, The Chant is their "Unforgiven" (maybe?). yes, it's a really beautiful song, i like it a lot. But definitely isn't their best composition. For Example Born in Winter ,World to come or Global warming are better compositions in this kind of style.

[@The7empest]

@@ligma6496 I love Global Warming a lot, but come on you can’t tell me it’s better composition than The Chant, it’s quite literally 2 riffs repeated over a 7 minute song, it took me all of 5 minutes to learn it on guitar, whereas The Chant took me a few hours to learn. The same could also be said about Born In Winter, literally 2 riffs that repeat the whole song, it’s really pretty simple composition to be completely honest. The Chant has actual lead licks and solos that differ from just playing the same riffs again and again.

[@agostinoerosfalbo8489]

How about some opeth for the next one? I'd love to see "when" being analyzed by THE shred master himself... MUHUHUHAHAHAHAHA 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼

[@laoude7890]

deliverance or dirge for november will also be amazing to analyse.

[@Blaze-ing]

Yes anything from My arms your hearse album

[@M139NG]

"Pure demonic sludge" That's the best description of that part of the song. Cheers! plinky plonky

[@nicolasmorgan7068]

Nevermore - The river dragon has come, or anything by Animals as Leaders

[@wolfganghumboldt4830]

You're like metal rick beato. That's a good thing.

[@godlessgoddess8652]

Shred does the gig a favor by not moshing at shows and crushing the skulls of weaker souls.

[@aidenupshaw1483]

Can we get a primus song? Possibly southbound pachyderm or some of their more metal influenced stuff.

[@HashimAlmadani84]

The evolution of a metalhead begins with moshing and pushing people to be in the frontline then things change to standing at shows and pushing people to be the nearest as possible to the sound guy and his mixer :D

[@ShredmasterScott]

muhahah

[@kannste_abhaken]

don't forget pushing a feller over to the bar sometime

[@sid0155]

Literally discovered this song yesterday

[@ShredmasterScott]

awesome muhahaha

[@MrMctuck]

They headlined the UK festival Bloodstock in 2018, as soon as Gojira played this song the crowd in typical English fashion deployed inflatable toy whales. With the added rain it was an incredible sight

[@dan8402]

Gojira hits you like a flying whale!!! LOL

[@ShredmasterScott]

well said

[@dan8402]

@@ShredmasterScott You should check out Silvera, which has a great brake down. Most excellent! 🤟🤟🤟🤟☠☠☠☠

[@akashahuja2346]

@@ShredmasterScott well SHRED muuhhhahaha

[@maxmustardman298]

do one about Jinjer, everyone freaks about the singer but the music behind it is just as cool

[@ShredmasterScott]

cool band

[@akrmfk]

5:10, great ear shred, that tremolo pick makes that relatively simple riff interesting, apart from the groove imho.

[@ShredmasterScott]

yeah it's cool guitar orchestration

[@Amarus]

Great video, your reaction to the breakdown at 07:51 mirrors mine every time I listen to the song hahaha Also, I'd hugely suggest you check out and analyze "As Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope" by Ne Obliviscaris (there's an "official" live version in Denver too), it's an amazing song

[@unknownk8087]

yooo, dope bro i love this concert and this song. thank you so much!!

[@hbsupermage]

I have my serious doubts you never heard this before

[@ShredmasterScott]

I have heard it before

[@TaylorRodCarter]

This song gave me chills i loved it heard it today it’s incredible

[@geraldrauch1701]

how about "pull me under" from dream theater??? loving these videos, shred...many thanx!!!

[@ShredmasterScott]

that'd be cool

[@bjhopkins5663]

Never gonna give you up

[@kaustubhbajpai12]

Never Gonna Let You Down

[@budaroddy]

Never gonna tell you a lie and hurt you

[@ShredmasterScott]

muhahah

[@budaroddy]

@@ShredmasterScott 😂😂😂😂

[@marc3dartist601]

Still waiting for my saviour, storms tear me limb from limb; my fingers feel like seaweed... I'm so far out I'm too far in. I am a lonely man...my solitude is true my eyes have borne stark witness and now my knights are numbered too...

[@xname662]

I finally have another guitar to shred,you inspired me man!🤘🏻

[@Big_Footless]

Favorite band, saw them live the other night and met them before the show. Super cool guys, very humble. You're the man, Shred🤘

[@klinexxx1871]

Greetings from Poland, Stay shreding!

[@aztecGin]

Great video! Gojira is my absolute favorite band. It's good to see others recognizing Gojira and the music theory behind them. I also a Do - Re - Mi guy when I was a child I sang in a professional children choir and we had to transform every melody into do-re-mi ... I'm still able to translate every melody into do-re-mi on the fly. :-)

[@AssfaceOmega]

Could you do one for Painkiller? One of my favorite songs.

[@puffballbk2186]

The death or judas priest one? Lol

[@budaroddy]

@@puffballbk2186 hahaha i believe he talking about the original one

[@Jimb1264]

Pfp checks out

[@ShredmasterScott]

good idea

[@brenomordida]

My favorite Death song, Judas Priest should do a cover of it

[@guichaky3918]

reminded me of dethklok with the ocean theme, On the moshing issue: I like watching moshing, depens on the band also, i think trash is more appropiate for moshing, i wouldnt mosh in a dream theater concert for instance haha, and I've been in a couple but now im more careful since i've received my fair share of hits haha (In Chile people actually engage in serious fights on the mosh sometimes, specially if you are close to the stage fighting for a spot). And i would like to see a Kmac analysis haha not but seriously he kicks ass , for instance imposter or wolf in sheeps clothing

[@ShredmasterScott]

Fair enough

[@kannste_abhaken]

On my turf, here in good ol' Germany, there're some rules given - for one: be nice and take care of the fallen for they are too weak to carry the weight of them heavy stuff, and second: qeue up for the chopping-hatchet-polonaise-action at a breakdown if you can. Intensify with props if needed (can be a toy T-Rex or on a more serious plane - a leek). If there's no polonaise, you're ought to start one - it's the law. Only once I was put in my place - at a black metal gig, where some uncultured pig couldn't handle my 'hairy load'.

[@Bradlyeon]

GO INTO THE OCEAN

[@trevorwalden6097]

@@ShredmasterScott well said, Shred

[@filipcierpisz]

I was there! Great show, great wall od death

[@cotopaximusic]

I mean this in the best way possible, but your face when the breakdown hit made me laugh. I had that exact same feeling the first time I heard it too. Really dig this series man right on!

[@LuizHenrique-vc6vm]

Jim Root reacting to Gojira is all that I need to be happy

[@rr18630]

Looks like shred cant help but become a Gojira fan

[@FearsomeWarrior]

I love going around in the mosh pit. It’s great running into people and getting pushed, right up until you get pushed into someone who isn’t looking and get hurt. Great memories seeing Fear Factory with two of my best friends and we all stayed in the pit the whole concert. Amazing.

[@imamulniloy1841]

please shred master...do this next: Necrophagist - Extreme Unction (Live) [HQ]

[@ShredmasterScott]

on my list

[@kannste_abhaken]

Or Only Ash Remains from their Epitaph album - with a nice ode to classic music at it's end

[@jackflynn-oakley1937]

There’s also pro-shot footage of them playing Stillborn One and Ignominious & Pale, insane songs

[@obi-wannabekennotbi2418]

wow, Necro made it onto the list!

[@masonrasmussen7546]

Subscribed! Love the content🤘🏻

[@aidandavis6530]

Technical death metal is metal that has a big focus on complex instrumentation and playing

[@rodrigopater]

Gojira sounds like Morbid Angel, without evil tendencies

[@Uncle_john_skydives]

Hey shred! I want you to know that I finally got it!! I’ve been playing for ten years and I started getting it a week ago, but now I got it. I thank you for this good sir!

[@Uncle_john_skydives]

You are a genius, I too am a genius. I hope your day is bright

[@spongebob6664]

Shred, i can watch this for hours Dawggg

[@ogulcanyolcu8714]

The way they failed the wall of death. Lol, they didn't even wait

[@miguelschannel4316]

Your the man Shred! Love you bro

[@starkillsam]

How bout' analyzing the bruitiful masterpiece of Serenity Painted Death by Opeth. Not sure if there is a good live recording though.

[@NeighbourThrashman]

Best chord progression ever: Demonic Sludge

[@kubaj8397]

3-2-1-0

[@derrickbonsell]

I moshed at a Machine Head show in Norfolk, VA years ago and some drunk Marine was fucking up everyone's shit.

[@arielricardo894]

Coexistence by beyond creation

[@zdf14]

Something by Pallbearer would be a lot of fun to analyze

[@Degradation11]

MORE GOJIRA PLEASE

[@waedi73]

The hardest concert was Rage against the machine. The mass moved me around, no more ground under the feet, I was moshing and jumping a hell lot. 30 years later, i love to sit comfortable enjoying small demonic jazz-concerts, no more ear damage to me, I love it when everyone else suffering from pain and damage hihi ! Next song to analize : The final war by Axegrinder

[@RCstrats]

I told you,, Xanadu or the whole 1st side of Hemispheres,, by RUSH!! Go for it,, tough guy

[@budaroddy]

*whoa* that was a cool one! I suggest ... Death's Spirit Crusher 💀

[@ShredmasterScott]

good call

[@kannste_abhaken]

Chuck died in 2001, would be a hell of a gig, if someone picked the topic "Death" up this year. I suggested to do a little "In Memory of ... Death"-motto party at my local alternative club, but there won't be an opportunity since they're close to shutdown due to insufficient funds. Dang it!

[@budaroddy]

@@kannste_abhaken oh damn sad to hear that friend, hard times for everyone with this "situation"

[@theabsenceofi31]

Can you analyse the Evangelist or Apparition by spawn of possession? Really technical, progressive and sophisticated stuff

[@santiagoosorio4516]

art of dying by gojira

[@Actaruz]

Awesome analysis! Some Dream Theater would be nice next!

[@ethanstork666]

Moshings the fucking best. Do more gojira🤘🏻

[@brotherdoom2406]

They make great music, I just never really got into them like I did with other bands. Edit: I like moshing, but not all the time, depends on the band really. Final edit: check out GWAR’s cover of “Get out of My Dreams, Get into my Car” by Billy Ocean

[@disposableteen8460]

As always, nice video. You're giving me motivation to learn music theory. Please Shred, analyse Ling Tosite Sigure next!!! I'd recommend you the song "a 7days wonder"

[@kevinqwen221]

Octavarium 🤘

[@MercutioUK2006]

Good ears dude, impressive analysis. Any chance of some Chris Poland?

[@themetalchef9851]

I have had some good times moshing but I have to agree I am one of the guys who gravitated to the front to watch the musicians. Usually in awe.

[@riffsareus5431]

Pantera-Domination live in Moscow 91’

[@renato360a]

would you care for some post-metal like Isis (In Fiction, So Did We) or Pelican (The Creeper, Dead Between The Walls), or even Cult of Luna (Synchronicity)?

[@adrianamorphous]

Blue light coming in in the key of B

[@richardkerns9581]

In this river - BLS

[@Bradlyeon]

Ne Obliviscaris - and plague flowers the kaleidoscope

[@perma9993]

Theres also a 9/8 6/8 and 5/4 before the clean section

[@snackdaddystudios]

The Black Dahlia Murder - "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse"

[@russianbear6384]

I'm ready Joe, give it to me lol

[@zamfirarobert4518]

Who is JOE?😳😳😳

[@krzysiekgoralsky2207]

I was there. Almost died. Worth it.

[@ptakleo]

7:53 in x0.5 speed for extra pleasure

[@samuelferrell9257]

Hey Shred, have you checked out Sacrifice's album "Apocalypse Inside"? Checkout the 1st two tracks. Very cool death metal, similar to Death but I think these two tracks perfectly personifies the death metal sound. It's a little older and so maybe not a good one for analysis now but definitely give it a listen.

[@TheFbiFilesRepeat]

Opeth - The Moor

[@DonnieFreymoyer]

Shred do you think the beginning sounds like the cure if only tonight we could sleep?

[@8tubeyou2]

Thanks some megatons for this review. Plz inform my instinctive musical earheart to a cognitive musical intellect. Review us some The Green Manalishi, Boston Tea Party 1970, Fleetwood and the early Peter Greenbaum. Lil outta leftish field here but i know you can do it righteously. (If not already eared, plz play for yourself the Fleetwood Mac studio version before unveiling the live Tea Party review. #airborne blues

[@ampliquency1921]

Harlequin Forest by Opeth!

[@wesleyg6278]

I'd recommend analyzing Ghost of Perdition by Opeth. It has many moving parts and sections, along with very interesting riffs throughout.

[@royalmarine1011]

and joe says they mostly just play same 2 notes over and over. Since then they have grown bounds as artists.

[@imkrn]

Can you do necrophobic by slayer?

[@Anti-You420]

I'd get familiar with gojira

[@stephenwinchester6668]

look at that crowd! Ugh I miss live music

[@Afurthyclays]

I didn't know James de Franco sang in a band! 😳

[@1683clifton]

tonic pitch is motorhead all day!

[@nickward2128]

“Chromatic Aberration” by “Native Construct”

[@robertpien8708]

Great channel I learn a lot ty you should analyze any of the songs by Animals of leader very interesting time Signatures and cord progressions

[@IoannisFidelis]

Moshing's great only when you're drunk outta yer mind and in your early 20's

[@HeadacheMachine]

GOJIRA is THE heavy metal band that pulverize ALL heavy metal band. Period.

[@matydavus1078]

Revolution by Lazarus A.D.

[@milanmilacic9311]

Oh oh do 'and we are one' by Steve Vai

[@jimozol]

I WAS THERE !

[@austinburdick5861]

I’d love to see you do one for tool. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I think it’d be interesting

[@darkman237]

What happened to the slayer vid- it's gone!

[@ShredmasterScott]

copyright blocked....write slayer a letter

[@darkman237]

@@ShredmasterScott Thanks for letting me know. Hopefully, they will say yes.

[@jail2634]

I friggin love moshing

[@zephyrus8162]

morbid angel vs music theory?

[@joshhinz7566]

I’d love to see an analysis of Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode. I don’t know if it’s really “pop” but it would be cool nonetheless.

[@mariobisignani4477]

Please do some analysis of Deathspell Omega.

[@wickedsky7093]

Maneskin, is a italian pop rock band VERY GOOD and underated, "vent'anni" and "torna a casa" are 2 great power ballads

[@methheadmonkey4059]

Could you do this kind of video on spastic ink?

[@justinnelson9905]

Do the dance of eternity by dream theater

[@DRAGONBLOODX]

what happened to your slayer video yesterday?