How Gojira REALLY Plays "Amazonia" | Full Breakdown with Ben Eller

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Hey guys! Last week, Gojira dropped another new song off their upcoming Fortitude album on us, and you know your Uncle Ben Eller was gonna show you how to play that BOING BOING magic they showed us in Amazonia!!! So in this video, we're gonna explore it riff by tasty riff so you can play along with those French Bois and their New Noise.
What kind of stuff does Gojira do? Why, a lot of their standbys, like simple one string riffs, gallops, harmonics, digitech whammy pedal madness, and more! Grab a guitar, tune it down a whole step (DGCFAD), and follow along!
Gear:
Dunable Cyclops
Bare Knuckle Riff Raff pickups
Airis Parallel Overdrive
REVV Generator 120 MK3
Jim Dunlop picks and strings
What Gojira song do you want to learn next? Let me know in the comments!

[@BenEller]

Thanks for learning how to play Amazonia by Gojira!!! What other song by those French bois do you want to learn next?

[@Cash_Bright39]

Mouth of Kala maybe? 🤷‍♂️

[@azazyl]

I was pretty sure that the instrument they’re using is a mouth harp.

[@nobadyoursel4386]

No thank you Uncle Ben!. How about where dragons dwell?

[@gerardomorales4278]

Esoteric surgery or wisdom comes maybe?

[@AssaltoEBateria]

My dude, there are two instruments there in the beggining: a berimbau and a berimbau-de-boca. Hope I helped you, from BRAZIL; BLOODY AMAZONIA Edit: links so you guys may check it out Berimbau: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2GlfYiIpbKLq9U Berimbau-de-boca: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXrHlXumhsyJq5I I belive there is some inspiration from Sepultura and Joe's time with Cavalera Conspiracy, but who knows...

[@gerupyon]

"Apply pressure just the way your mother likes it" Always gets me. Every single time.

[@BenEller]

Her, too.

[@agustincasciero]

@@BenEller son of a

[@richmit7154]

@@BenEller now... thats a smart one

[@reganludwig2292]

the boing boing riff is the best

[@DanKleeman]

Now as soon as Gojira releases a song, I am counting down to the Ben Eller Official Breakdown ™️

[@willhersey3884]

Here after fortitude dropped going "where cover?"

[@goldotom]

The "apply some preasure just the way your mother likes it" put my mouse directly on the thumb up button

[@BenEller]

Your mom double clicks the mouse

[@perpetualbystander4516]

@@BenEller You must have a very special relationship to your mother. 😵

[@goldotom]

@@BenEller I double click my mom myself Ben

[@minisurfbanana]

Lol

[@Discitus]

I love Gojira's weird noises. I don't even play guitar but I like seeing how they make them.

[@TheDogggrecords]

"Them French boys make the boing boing noise..." I'm dying laughing over here, couldn't have been put better! 😂

[@martiboucat]

The boing boing is a Berimbau, a brasilian instrument. Sepultura and Soulfly used it a lot in songs like Ratamahatta and Umbabaraums. That Gojira song sounded “so Cavalera” to me when i listened it for the first time it made me smile. Also with the berimbau there’s a mouth harp. Great lesson, as always. Best from Barcelona.

[@thecameronator]

Gojira used those sounds all the way back on The Link.

[@RequiemAeternum]

Yeh, they definitely were aiming to mimic a berimbau there. Everyone got flashbacks to Sepultura's Roots as soon as Amazonia started playing :-)

[@Robher85]

@@thecameronator Yea, Sepultura is one of Joes favorite bands.

[@Spiderblade666]

Wrong they used a jew harp (Guimbard) proof is in a little video where they thank’s Apple Music.

[@martiboucat]

Francois Royer a “jew harp” or a “jaw harp”? 🤔

[@peeledapples4176]

B O I N G B O I N G

[@MrHeshersNeighborhood]

That Godzilla groove is so in the pocket, I listened to that song on repeat more times than I care to admit.

[@hw_yozoraVODS]

I think is either a jaw harp, mixed with berimbau (Brazilian instrument).

[@Duncan_Idaho_Potato]

I think it's actually a berimbau de boca, which is just the Brazilian name for the jaw harp. The original berimbau is very different in size, appearance and sound from the berimbau de boca.

[@bkpickell]

I always called it the tooth breaker. I had one as a kid and it caused several trips to the dentist.

[@nathenate7974]

Came for the lesson, stayed for the BOING BOING.

[@daviddarko2665]

April baby!!!! New Album!!! Those Gojira boys, making noise, with wonderful toys! 🤘God I love this band!!!🤘

[@BenEller]

They’re so dang good

[@silvera979]

@@BenEller hey, uncle don't you think that Joe Duplantier's vocals are buried in the mix on new singles?

[@papaisduniyakapapa]

@@silvera979 I'm no uncle Ben, but I agree, production on these new tracks sucks specially the vocals.

[@jbasti227]

Thank you, the bestiest uncle in the universe

[@CosmicWarpRider]

Ben these breakdowns absolutely rule! Keep it up, recently subscribed and keep coming back anytime you post a new video. I also feel how this showcases how you don't have to be the most technical player to play some sick metal riffs \m/

[@BenEller]

They’re the masters of writing riffs that most of us would call “too simple” and trash! They rule!

[@martinpaddle]

@@BenEller yup. Before my French neighbor introduced me to them back in 2006 I was about to give up on metal. They sounded heavy afk without all the antics of other metal band...

[@hw_yozoraVODS]

I literally searched this earlier. So i'm happy to find it.

[@thebatman1482]

Your tone is better than ever in this video... Really nice

[@minseo1220]

Just discovered your channel today and I gotta say I love it. You've got some great content going on!

[@BenEller]

Thanks a lot!!! Enjoy!

[@panterarocks9326]

Been waiting for this since the song came out haha. Gonna need this for the whole album

[@UncleRJ]

I had been waiting for this since the song came out. Gimme dat boing boing noise. Btw, that instrument at the intro or outro _could be_ a jaw harp. I am not 100% but it does sound a lot like it.

[@TheCulturedCapy]

that's what i thought at first too, but apparently it's a berimbau.

[@brendanscott8989]

coolest application of a mouth harp since give it away by the chilli peppers

[@hw_yozoraVODS]

Check The Hu. Something like Sad but True.

[@miledium]

Pretty sure that the instrument we hear doing the boing boing riff is a local instrument called berimbau. It's a pretty common instrument in Brazil, most commonly featured in capoeira.

[@TheAlexCruz]

Had to return to this post as those Gojira boys played last night in my hometown of Madison, WI. Aside from being blown away at how amazingly tight they are live, the light show was seizure inducing but OH so perfect for everything that they played. If you've never seen them live, I highly recommend it. Now to tune down my guitar and work on those gallups 🐎

[@distantstorm3808]

Simple yet intense song. I can't wait for the new album.

[@dunkelheit8594]

Best guitar teacher here in yt. Stepdad never disappoints

[@danieldavidson5447]

that boing boing noise is why Amazonia is one of my favourite gojira songs

[@educostanzo]

Everyone gangsta making fun of the boing boing riff, but when it drops, no one resists to headbang!

[@thalamusDecimation]

Just when you thought they had moved past their pitch shifter addiction... Nice video Uncle Ben, as always.

[@asherplatts6253]

The instrument is called a Berimbau. It's a single string, like fishing line, or a long guitar string, stretched on a bow with a resonator gourd at one end, and the string is struck with a stick. It's used in Capoeria training, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berimbau

[@EvlixManiac]

you don't know how much i was waiting for this ♥ much love from Egypt

[@facupelletier2178]

really love how calm and chill you explain the whole song...thats what i call effort my man...

[@turbkey1380]

Thanks Uncle Ben

[@devanreiss8627]

the tone you are getting out of that revv is monstrous

[@alexandrehopeson3048]

I waited for this!! Thank you Uncle Ben!

[@mathiasjulkunen9149]

I also heard that third interval in the chorus!

[@BenEller]

Yes!!!

[@Ejeej]

@@BenEller I hear it as well! So maybe you are not that crazy..

[@williamwhitaker1101]

Bro chill it’s only been out for a couple days holy fuck! 😂 I’m definitely gonna learn this man thanks

[@MetallicAAlabamA]

That bend on the boing boing boing thingy is what Iommi did on Iron Man to make that whuaaaawwww sound. And those power chords in the chorus is freaking amaz- zazing!

[@link333xc]

Uncle Boing Eller

[@nikitapodobed2789]

Nailed it! I love the neck-bending part especially. Forgot the native instruments boing boing though)

[@loganmommsen8834]

The instrument the intro kinda sounds like a jaw harp, I also think it was what was used in the intro to forest cemetery by tempel.

[@0ptriX]

0:30 7:03 - As you speculate later in the video, this first chord is indeed a major dyad instead of a straight power chord, though these only happen on the second 'chorus variation' (i.e. after "greatest miracle"). 0:27 5:32 5:52 - There's a slide between the G5 & A5 power chord ---3-3/5--- rather than ---3-5-- 0:33 5:39 7:05 - Same as previous but A5 slide to B5 -5-5/7

[@666johnblack]

You answer my pray Uncle Ben! I had few parts to polish and you mah day!

[@Jorgetime]

Man the step dad speed joke never gets old, I don't know why

[@loganmommsen8834]

Amazonia is so much better than the song in the ad before this.

[@morasoftwood8224]

I’m so stoked to see you talk about gojira again.

[@Jopeymessmusic]

There's just something absolutely hilarious about captions being on your goji berry videos. This particular track has big mastadon energy imo.

[@yessir6427]

You aren't insane, that megadeth power chord is definitely there!

[@MrGoGGomir]

The instrument in the intro really sounds like slovak "drumbla"/jaw harp. Thank you for great explanation!

[@nobadyoursel4386]

Yassss fuckin love Uncle Ben. In a total normal way of course.

[@ShaneChandler87]

Dude sick Frasier Crane reference. Scrambled eggs all over my face!

[@CalvinYiChen]

needed this! Thanks uncle Ben!!!

[@fromulus]

I don't know what instrument that is, but I'm pretty sure one was used on Sepultura's Roots album. This song has so many sepultura vibes to it, I love it.

[@MyComradeConnor]

I definitely heard the 3rd interval. Boing on.

[@Pilot7826]

My favorite guitar teacher, and total nice guy. Although, I prefer he stays away from my mom. 😏

[@farris8503]

Uncle Ben my favorite uncle.

[@DstandsforDoomed]

Been waiting for this!

[@dankboye1909]

finally, i was wondering when you were gonna do a video on amazonia

[@TiANr0ckst4r]

When he said: "just like ur mother likes it" I knew I had to sub 🤣

[@matidelpueblo]

The ancle ben and the french boyysssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sheharyarkhan2384]

What took you so long uncle Ben 😪 I've been waiting since, like forever

[@BenEller]

Hahaha right?

[@twanja08]

Vid loaded with the puns!! 😂😂😂😂 BOING BOING. Hetfield approved down strokes. 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@SultanMukut]

thanks Uncle Ben !

[@megawati.megatron]

Yeah

[@danieldavidson5447]

You make it look so easy this is awesome! I recently started playing guitar and this is the one song I am most excited to learn

[@d3tach3d]

that guitar tone is delicious

[@williamrees93]

Thanks Ben Definitely need more Gojira in my head

[@lewispotter7186]

Yes ben, yes

[@metalmikerich7937]

Boing boing riff dude lmao! It’s a jaw harp at the beginning btw. I honestly didn’t like this song at first but it’s kinda growing on me now

[@mitchmalik8963]

This is just amazing in every way 🙌

[@ZakkVee]

u nailed Uncle Ben ... bravo 🤘🏼

[@nunocrames4787]

In Brazil it’s called “berimbau de boca”... aka jaw/mouth harp.

[@Furious_Pudding]

The boing boing instrument in the intro is a jaw harp :)

[@jmendy731]

A breakdown of "Our Time Is Now" would be awesome

[@midomidomid]

Hey! I have that folk instrument that makes the BOING BOING noise in the beginning LOL Gojira also used it on the outro of remembrance, I was so shocked when I first heard it. I've never met a single person that knows what the instrument is.

[@mickyrivera13]

B O I N G

[@DJDethstar]

Probably a bit behind the times now, but I think that intro instrument is a vargan. Cheers bud, great vid 👍

[@rharder]

Killer tone 👏🏻

[@BenEller]

Thanks man!

[@nolanbeasinger8555]

Oh my lordy almighty that tone.......

[@jerry123456789101112]

Uncle Ben!!!

[@BenEller]

Hi!

[@jerry123456789101112]

@@BenEller uncle ben. I’m trying insanely hard to cover gojira songs now that I have a jackson js series and a crappy non tubed amp lol 😂

[@jerry123456789101112]

@@BenEller “music is win” has great pinch harmonic tutorials I’ve been learning

[@jerry123456789101112]

@@BenEller and of course I’m in a DCGFAD tuning

[@Starcoma]

Looks like I didn’t do too badly with my tab video. Considering it was the first one on KZbin🤘

[@k5elevencinc0]

This is fucking great. 🔥

[@manuelgarciamiranda5178]

7:52 i also hear the same and i like it more than the power chord

[@jaysonfoy4486]

Boing boing boing, love it

[@moyogichris1731]

Good travail...

[@Classic_DionysuS]

There's so much boing boing in this song. Reminds me of Disturbed when they would throw in so much boing boing behind the guitar

[@Arazmithin]

I waited a day so I could pretend this was my birthday present. Thanks Uncle Ben!

[@Arazmithin]

@Andy Don Hey thanks! Happened to be watching again to perfect the boing boing. Lol

[@andrewcole3762]

The intro instrument is called the berimbau: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berimbau One string percussive instrument of African origin, now in a lot of Brazilian stuff. Also traditionally used to set the rhythm in capoeira practice if you're into martial arts.

[@carlossousa-gomes6040]

I searched "how to boing boing" and this showed up. Not disappointed.

[@PJ-pl123]

I thought i was watching this coz of Gojira but no... it was because of your mother joke. Epic!

[@chhau123]

Those dirty jokes are ON POINT as usual 🙃

[@ImPoopnRightNow]

*UNCLE BEN!*

[@BenEller]

HI

[@the_og_shockwv3182]

Late to the party hear... Can I play that neck bend with whammy? Loved the lesson - subscribed

[@bestofmusicchannel]

When you think guitars breakdown is the most difficult part and then you think of drums and you go "wtf" !

[@MostlyElectrolytes]

Came for the boing boing sound, stayed for a list of subjects to ask my mother.

[@r3ngokuking]

Instrument in the very begging sounds to me like a jaw harp. Nice breakdown Ben

[@fede6126]

Lately I'm listening this analysis first and then the actual yojira songs 😂

[@luispaiva4094]

Hi Ben. The intro has a "Berimbau de boca". Its played whit the mouth.

[@user-ip7ox7ho8z]

It make sense that they use a neck bend and not a whammy bar because I remember that joe talked about his sig guitar model having a strong neck that allows him to use neck bends

[@fpcawolff]

Corey Taylor has a strong neck

[@martinpaddle]

Sepultura use one of these boing boing instruments, a Berimbau, in their song Attitude... check out their 2 Meter Sessions video. But here there might be something else going on, like a jaw harp

[@tsalagi78]

Cool! Mom says hi!