Nile Guitar Lesson

[@Metalmanic6896]

"If it sounds like Slayer, it must be cool" Words to live by, my friends.

[@eyesrightout]

Got to be.

[@andresperiodista]

6:17 important part

[@raakareiska9804]

But then Slayer stopped sounding like Slayer and it became shit

[@imthemetalguy1]

I love Karl. I met him at Namm twice. Got to talk to his wife and how he keeps telling people he doesn't have a degree in egyptian history and folklore. Really down to earth

[@billymonroe1884]

I used to play in a band with Dallas from 1990 to 1993 when he was 16. We lived in North Carolina. I knew from the time I met him he was going somewhere. He's the most talented musician I've ever known personally. A really great guy and still a true friend.

[@petepetrich7828]

Billy monroe Y’all lived right down the road from me. I’m from Chatham county and also lived in Sanford. I always remember Fayetteville because I got lost every time. Still do! Dallas is a huge inspiration to me and is indeed an amazing person. A true ambassador of metal!

[@HabAnagarek]

Fayetteville inspired his new band lol

[@lordfatcock]

@@HabAnagarek yep. Good ol narcotics. Everybody loves them some pain pills and meth

[@Zullia]

"The point... is much more... pointy..." Spoken by a true Death Metal god.

[@myquest666420]

Wonder what he’d have to say about his pointy guitar

[@bluntforcetrauma2141]

You two were such a force to be reckoned with. I was saddened to hear that Dallas and Karl split. And im not at all taking anything away from Vile Nilotic Rites or Narcotic Wasteland, as those are great to listen to as well. I just miss your harmonies on the axe and miss Dallas' vocal addition to Nile.

[@Quarkwano]

Karl Sanders officially uses the Jedi Power: force push At 7:38 here.

[@NecroComet]

You're God, i will never look at Sanders, as a normal human now xD

[@judasiscariot383]

He has a black belt...

[@Quarkwano]

But the force is a little stronger i guess

[@MrJeezus]

Egyptian-centric South Carolina death metal good ol' boy Jedi.

[@SharkDawg32]

Hahaha!

[@avsky837]

this video is so unintentionally hilarious

[@brunosouza2303]

I love when this happen

[@metalmopar7]

I thought i was the only one! Dude this video is gold!

[@WEAREALLJUSTMEAT]

I'm pretty sure Karl is on the spectrum he's just so fuckin awkward in every video

[@joesandoval3741]

“With more balls!”

[@big_hat_logan]

@@WEAREALLJUSTMEAT He also has the classic encyclopedic knowledge of an obscure subject that he’s absolutely, completely obsessed with. Definitely a “special interest” like ppl on the spectrum who get so much enjoyment out of obsessing over an obscure subject. I’ve talked to him a few times at old shows in Atlanta. Nicest guy ever but can tell he doesn’t like the attention

[@Bortsch_]

0:18 DTW: So what's up, this is Dallas from Nile. Karl: ... DTW: *Looks at Karl* Karl: ... DTW: ... Karl: (huh?) Karl: ...and this is Karl.

[@lukeforrest9878]

Nile are killer, went to my first museum the other day and checked out the ancient egypt section, the whole time i was thinking the exhibit needed a bit of Nile in the background..

[@jawz3102]

A little Amongst the catacombs for you sir?

[@humphreyaugustus2932]

Nile should make a Papyrus Scroll tab book!

[@juvedoo99]

That would be fucking awesome.

[@cthulhu6697]

That would be appropriate.

[@SacredSerpent]

Awesome idea

[@ericc6718]

lol

[@kimasailo6629]

😂😂😂

[@Leukoblast2396]

Yep. The point is much more... pointy.

[@SeedOilFitnessOfficial]

Best part

[@hazardeur]

A fender practice amp....for nile....you gotta be kidding me guitar world. respect to the nile guys for doing it anyway and not walking straight out of the room

[@petepetrich7828]

That’s how I look at it. Staying true and getting that shit done no matter what.

[@hexxsmith]

i love how these guys harmonize

[@viki2133]

4:24 "Hm, that ain't so hard" 4:32 "HOLY FUCK"

[@borna1231]

"... the point is also much more... pointy" Thank you, oh great sage, for showering your disciples with such luminous knowledge! It´s great to see that these guys are down to earth and, well, normal, when they had every opportunity to turn into arrogant pricks.

[@dan-3268]

-"son, can you play some guitar for the guests?" - "sure dad". 3:36

[@GeorgWilde]

yeah, these combos have really terrible distortion.

[@herculesbrofister265]

Static x used mg's professionally. Col. Sanders just doesn't know how to dial it in.

[@Mr.JaysBigAdventure]

Hercules Brofister Guitar World Techs probably set it up. Sanders just plugged in most likely.

[@SApcGUY]

Nile is easily one of the best, if not, the best death metal band out there. Certainly not as generic as most these days.

[@gabeszh.2496]

From that harmony at 7:30 I always get goosebumps even after million listening :)

[@ArcticChonk]

Cardioid microphones needs to be pointed TOWARDS the sound source...ffs...omg...srsly....lel.

[@Marol2137]

I guess they just didn't have stands for them

[@lancepage1914]

I guess they just didn't give a shit. They're fucking death metal band.

[@ArcticChonk]

@@lancepage1914 You are correct sir.

[@joehowell979]

The way these guys harmonize some of there stuff and the riffs they come up with are so cool

[@addisonlewis723]

The amps tones are horrible.

[@XHellPriest]

I think they use those amps for this video only

[@JulianoCyborgDaemon]

Agreed!

[@manicmurph]

Yeah I agree, there's like no clarity at all. sounds like way to much reverb or something.

[@addisonlewis723]

downfan1 I love your Superjoint Ritual profile picture. One of my favourite bands.

[@manicmurph]

Addison Lewis Thanks! Yeah there my favorite too! I'm not to happy with there new song though. I don't think it sounds like the other Superjoint stuff.

[@zacintoshplus]

hanging an sm57 over a practice amp is how Nile actually records their albums.

[@thetyrant1]

Except it sounds nothing like this; even their first two albums (which were of decently low fidelity) sounded a lot better than this. This just sounds like fucking mud.

[@rickhartman6277]

Dude! The sm57 is a nice little tool. Great for recording or live stuff too. Used it at practice alot. Can't say enough good stuff about this mic.

[@Haxprocess]

@@rickhartman6277 the sm57 is what kills a lot of people's tones. Think about it. Yes the mic gets the job done, but everyone uses it. So your tone is going to sound somewhat similar to everyone else's. Experimenting with different mics/ mic combos really takes your tone to the next level.

[@JordonBeal]

@@Haxprocess Lol utter nonsense.

[@GarotMichaelConklin]

that was hands down the best Death metal tutorial I have ever seen... covered everything, very intelligently from top to bottom... kind of blown away. Thank you.

[@loopedchopped]

Karl voice is so high when he’s talking, yet he can sing lower than I can...

[@L0cK0n7412637]

"The point is much more... pointy!" Hahahaha love it. You guys rock

[@blackmetalgolfer6007]

Say what you want to say about these guys but at 3:55 when Karl comes in with the octave harmony it just takes you straight to Cairo haha

[@metalboto]

i can feel the love ,coming of of these guys......the love to play metal!!!

[@DorinBusu]

True that!

[@DrakosLord]

So Amon Amarth, Children of Bodom, As I Lay Dying and even fucking BvB got a decent, even good tone... but you give these guys a Frontman and a fucking MG. There is no respect in this world. PS: Yes, I know it is a 2010 video. The ones I mentioned were around the same time. A fucking Marshall MG, for fuck's sake.

[@thelordofdarkcheese]

+DrakosLord not to mention just hung a 57 over it

[@DrakosLord]

Joel Turley Exactly! If the mic wasn't enough, they really kill it by hanging it.

[@Realitydenizen]

+DrakosLord I thought the tone was surprisingly good considering.

[@swedisheinherjer]

+DrakosLord Even though they got shitty amps from GW, they still sound better than my own amp... :pI think if you can handle a guitar in the skill as Nile do, you can shred the shit out of anyone other guitarist who uses the same type of rig as you ;)

[@imnotverysmart2862]

bvbs riffs still suck

[@judasiscariot383]

6:40 Karl demonstrates sorcery he learned from Osiris.

[@jjs8426]

I mean it's meh

[@benmiddleton9984]

Love Nile. Annihilation of the wicked is my favorite album

[@saskwotch19764]

I love what these guys wrote together. Both incredible musicians.

[@jaybrown8592]

Karl is so wasted. But he still kills. I love Nile 🔼

[@KnightOfTheGoods]

7:31 is such a good musical technique

[@Hammersmashed68]

Dallas: "what notes should we play in these songs?" Karl: "yes"

[@Kwert]

Not the biggest fan of Nile but how can you expect them to actually sound decent here with the amps they were given?

[@ZaktanVR]

Kwert It’s not the amps, it’s the mics.

[@jsullivan2112]

5:30 those harmonies just sound so goddamn vicious.

[@PatrickHalferty]

These dudes are hilarious while explaining things

[@ThorRising]

The amazing thing about Nile is how well the music conveys emotion. In their songs you can hear the despair of the slaves and the anger of the gods. That is what I love to hear in my music.

[@ericc6718]

2 guitar gods. wrote some of the most amazing riffs i've ever heard

[@cannibalcorpse6664]

Watch this every few months, love this miss you dallas

[@conflicttv1153]

Shit amps, amazing guitar players. Guitar World are making them sound terrible.

[@Outward777]

it's guitar world what do you expect...those are probably the only amps they have for musicians to play on

[@conflicttv1153]

Justin McNeil Lol.

[@NightPaddle]

Sounds like trve Norvegian Black Metal :D

[@Penguin772]

I see a Marshall MG - probably the worst amp in existence.

[@NightPaddle]

A MG and a Fender Frontman. The only kind of music recordable on these is black metal. (Burzum used a MG for filosophem).

[@baggymangler]

This is off topic but anyway. I've recently got obsessed with Nile n then Sir Dallas leaves right a way. He was the main lyricist n riff creator on the "newer stuff". I'm a big fan of history. Can someone recomend some documentarys of egyptology in the spirit of Nile?

[@Ozzie9877]

What's with all the negative comments, this is fucking awesome!

[@jobzagudn]

As much as my music taste has developed and grown as I've become a man ive never ever gotten sick of listening to Nile

[@Outward777]

the point makes it more pointy

[@bretward6187]

I know this was recorded an ancient time ago.....but wow thanks for posting !!

[@Brendanlikesthis]

I'm not really into these guys yet; my tastes haven't extended this heavy yet, but I love the way the guy on the left explains the workings behind the noise. For example: during his solo he explains how the one note "takes on different meanings" depending on what chord it's played against. Like, this should be a simple concept for a lot of musicians, but I hear plenty of bands who discard all these simple concepts which, I think, is bad musicianship. I respect these guys.

[@nicholase985]

Their albums come with liner notes, going along with the lyrics can be a history listen. Eventually it grows on you, one of the heaviest bands I've ever heard. User Maat Re

[@saltpeter7429]

@@nicholase985 I just started listening to them. Ordered a couple of discs on sale on the Relapse Records site. Look forward to getting them, I'm old school, like to own the physical CD or album.

[@tobiasjones1721]

It's cool that they keep playing their harmonies in unison without counting off.

[@adgennings]

All bullshit aside they are great guitarists in my personal opinion.

[@SiGhast]

7:42 Couldn't in a million years have explained that, but I noticed it, thought it was awesome, and spent a minute rewinding to hear it again and again, so it sure did the trick.

[@1997Piro]

''If it sounds like Slayer it must be cool lml''

[@BenHBX]

playing one note along with another to give it a different sound is called counter-point, and Nile are one of the few bands I know of that make significant use of it. (btw, it's not just a jazz thing, Bach is known as the king of counter-point)

[@6672rock]

They use drop A tuning on a standard scale-length guitar? Seems like it would be easier to use a baritone guitar for that tuning since getting proper intonation would be easier. You'd have to do too many adjustments on a standard guitar to handle a tuning that low. I'll give them credit where credit is due, because you need some serious picking-hand stamina to play their riffs!

[@LightningJackFlash]

Is standard scale length a 25,5'' ? I think these guitars are even less, the Gibson scale 24,75 " ;) Yeah, also I never looked at their stuff from the "musical" perspective, other than the egyptian runs and chord progressions, but this is nice, they showed some interesting things.

[@miaouew]

Such an insightful deduction.

[@jeffarab4947]

I play drop A and standard neck scale no issues just need the energy to play this style on my Jackson

[@bluntforcetrauma2141]

I love the fact that Karl shows his pride of what he rights, as he should because it kicks so much teeth down our throats

[@bluntforcetrauma2141]

*writes

[@9klasK]

"its fun to do, it sounds evil. its very slayer-like. if it sounds like slayer it must be cool" - karl sanders epic

[@Opethianaut]

SAw them in January. These guys are IMMENSE live! Can't wait to see them again and the new album is INSANE!

[@salottin]

And no... The lesson does NOT continue

[@KnjazNazrath]

Does that count as false advertising, then?

[@salottin]

YES! It USED to continue

[@Retog]

These professional guitar lessons are not guitar lessons. They are demonstrations.

[@RealPartZ]

"If it's sounds like Slayer, it must be cool" Hell yeah, that's right!

[@vlogi1132]

one of the best duos in the HISTORY of ''heavy'' music

[@Jack0D87]

quote of the day: "the point is much more pointy!" NILE FUCKING RULES

[@bakedbean1232]

Nice tone bro. Good to see Guitar World went all out with the amp choices :P

[@ijOkErStAr]

if it sounds like slayer, it must be cool! \m/

[@chongli8409]

yeah I've been listening to Nile lately and the one thing I was constantly having in mind is that this shit sounds a lot like Slayer, like, Slayer's younger even angrier brother

[@vicehenriquez]

WHAT A NERD AOJJAOAJOJA

[@AngelHernandez-lb9cm]

Nile one of my favorite bands. Thankyou nile one day i will learn to play like y'all

[@Ukidukins]

I want to play dnd with these dudes

[@cheyenneball2988]

These guys are talented, and everyone says Death Metal is just a bunch of noise and screaming, there is a lot more to it than that, these guys have been playing for years to get where there at now.

[@Malice197]

If you ever see an eighth grader with this precision and speed, get his autograph and save it for when he becomes a legend.

[@petesorensenguitar]

"What's up....this is Dallas from Nile." Karl: ... OH YEAH IT'S KARL.

[@golz9785]

I remember when Karl played a yellow Strat with a Floyd Rose

[@PJyrstinkangas]

Wait, did the staff actually record the amps by micing the floor in front of them? With the hanging SM57s?

[@smjjohnson]

THESE GUYS ARE RIFF MASTERS, AND THEY'RE COOL TOO..

[@martyfischetti]

i play guitar cello bass upright bass piano drums and sing im 100% happy with the musician i am and how though ive only been playing guitar for 5 years that im better than most who have played their whole life. you dont even have a video up! id love to see your guitar abilities, please. and northern arizona... im going to either berkley or 5 towns :) so thank you sir, for arguing with a 17 year old and having no balls to back up your musicianship, and i dont need to better myself im just fine :]

[@DreamPurpleFloyd]

7:29 That's some truly evil shit right here

[@nathanielboren6246]

thanks for this I've been trying to figure out what kinda strings I should use

[@lakshanelikewela350]

awww karl sounds cute when he talks normally

[@Dread_Naught_But_The_Dark]

(part 1) It all depends on what MODEL of guitar amp you buy, not just the BRAND. As well as the style of your playing. Most people prefer mesa boogie triple rectifiers, but I find them to be somewhat muddy, so faster, technical stuff won't always translate well on one. Engl makes all-round good amps, with plenty of tone options, but frankly cost way too much. A good peavey 5150/6505 is well within budget however. But otherwise I would recommend a Line 6 DT50, a very surprising amp I might say.

[@sleepingturtle8888]

Thank god Karl is endorsing ENGL Amps!

[@PoetryEmotion94]

it takes some time to get use to them. also try different gauges not just the wants they use. i've tried every one of the Tortex Sharps from white to yellow. the yellow ones are my favorites. .73mm

A hanging a SM57 ? WTF Guitar World.

[@Razwithz]

@Lopproj it's a dunlop sharp, and the purple one is a dunlop big stubby

[@Thatmetaldude590]

"There are some bendy things going on" Hahahaha, these guys are so cool

[@CalebSmith576]

"Yo wassup, it's Dallas from Nile," *looking at guitar zoning out* ".........This is Karl!"

[@MrBRUCELEE98]

This is the reason I am a dabbler and not a badass....I dabble, but these dudes are on another fuckin' level and it shows in the ears of the listener....people really don't see how intricate and amazing metal music is!!! \m/ \m/

[@cgoodiefunk]

I loved when he said “makes the point….more pointy”

[@TheSaintberzerker]

These guys aren't bad at all...it's the setup in this vid. WTH was Guitar World thinking? I mean, look at the mics! Ha!

[@KalosPVP]

A guitar magazine that has these dudes use amps I wouldn't want to own at age 14.

[@MrThrashmetal13]

guys, Nile are simply bad-fucking-ass.great talent from great playing to Dallas and Karl, guitar world just fucked them over

[@Samealtorn]

Barely know that much about nile, haven't much of their material but after watching this I have to say these guys are pretty awesome, both from a playing stand point and they seem like regular guys. Also pretty sure I have that amp

[@RolodexEnigma]

"Here's the verse riff regular speed...." *CT4YNTN58TCN8TN5HT3 VY T53NTVGTHCGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

[@EternalSand]

Hey Guitar World, what happened to the Hittite Dung Incantation lesson? I remember it being on KZbin before and I can't find it now, and the video isn't on the Guitar World website

[@havokslayz]

5:04 hold on let me think about that 4 a second (exactly 1 second later) ok im in the right position LMAO

[@skibidijustinhorvaltoilet]

Well yeah, he thought about it for a second

[@joshuaramirez]

So Dallas, basically an acoustic set of strings??? 🤔😮

[@lolian91]

Exactly, mate. I have seen them live - it was fucking amazing. One of the best bands I've seen live next to necrophagist and some others. :)

[@traceybrown356]

These guys are musical soulmates and need to get it back together yo. Real rock and roll shit right here folks.

[@mikedegroff7766]

so... just trem pick the shit out of everything?

[@donniey.8891]

I like it. Down to Earth guys and very good at explaining the riffs.

[@Deuterium52]

these guys seem very friendly lol

[@echogenetic2263]

I've met Karl, nicest guy in the world

[@hazardeur]

@@echogenetic2263 met him too, awesome dude.

[@maxeypad]

"The point is much more.....pointy" words of wisdom Karl..words of wisdom!

[@Jorgetime]

"feels and plays like drop d with [quietlly] more bawls."

[@OAK_MTN]

that tone is gorgeous ! wow !