Metal Musicians Playing Their Favorite Non-Metal Songs

[@richardb2652]

Of course the Dream Theater keyboard player prepared for Juilliard at 8 years old.

[@baalrog887]

And was turning classical compositions into jazz improvisation 😂

[@jamie30jamer]

The rest of the band went to Berklee School of Music in Boston

[@musicman8493]

​@@jamie30jamerThey were slummin' it at Berkley.

[@emartinezr]

​@@jamie30jamerpeasants

[@denizenofclownworld4853]

Yet still can't write a memorable tune.

[@HeavyRaiden]

Damn, the keyboardist from Dream Theater is insanely good!

[@thefog7067]

He's mind bogglingly good

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

ikr if the rest of the band quit he could just play keys and it would still sound full lol

[@jakebob5101]

The Wizard.

[@johnjohn37371]

I feel like for all the brilliance exposed here, he's the most insane...

[@blazeesq2000]

Kinda of like Rick Wakeman 2.0, LOL

[@GuitarEXman]

that little bluesy jam from Bumblefoot and Billy was awesome

[@austinlawler3739]

Right? It turned into a mini jam session just out of the blue, very cool.

[@hoilst265]

I love Billy Sheehan cracking jokes about his age. There was some interview where they jokingly asked "Billy, is it true you're so old you invented the wheel?" and he goes "Yeah, but I had to invent fire first so I could see what I was doing."

[@TaylorMadeKuntry]

Man awesome and a metal neck that made slide guitar sound great

[@eyefry]

I just love how strong the blues influence is for everyone. It always goes back to that good old roots music.

[@Allison_Chaynes]

Can we just appreciate how bad ass Jordan is for a minute. Dude is sick.

[@426wookie]

I wasn't sure of his name because this is my second time ever hearing Dream Theater but i knew exactly who you were talking about

[@kenna802]

Hope he gets better soon

[@gabriel_adahm]

and the hair, he is bald by choice. bad ass

[@t3nder-4pe]

Pianote.

[@topa1798]

i appreciate Jordan forever ..1 min not enough

[@MrDannyclark88]

Jordan Rudess playing that modified Twinkle Twinkle Little Star made me an instant fan of his lol. That was fuckin sick.

[@lancekidwell5729]

Look up the interview with Jordan they pulled from, you will enjoy it.

[@adambinnie1332]

Devin doing Johnny cash Folsom prison blues sounds amazing.

[@hellfirepictures]

Pretty much anything Dev does sounds amazing. A true 'artist'.

[@Diamonddogusa]

What really comes across to me is how much these guys just love music. All music.

[@DrMurdercock]

Most metal musicians, if you actually talk to them, well, we are walking music encyclopedias who just love good music of all kinds, just we put our metal first. But we almost ALL started with Smoke on The Water or Iron Man like riffs lol

[@jimsonjohnson3761]

Most metal is kinda shit because people just make shit music. It's very important to learn basics and appreciate nuance.

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Jordan visually becoming a wizard these days and I’m here for it!

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

If he ever does a blues project with Leland Sklar, they could call themselves The Two Wizards.

[@jasonaldenhaley1]

Maybe I'm alone but I'm real sure Jordan Rudess' version of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' just FUCKIN SMOKES the O.G. version.

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

he ripped on it lol

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

i saw a serious music lesson on here about the importance of nursery rhymes and why they have been around for so long, i watched it and agreed lol maybe it was adam neely the bassist, a highly trained player.

[@jasonaldenhaley1]

Saw AC/DC on the Back in Black tour (1st concert...Johnson's 1st go-round stateside in....4th grade! So...11yrs old). Ears rang for a week. F-N RAD!!

[@alexs3973]

The part he starts playing at 2:02 comes from Mozart's Variations on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman". That melody has been around for a while and served as inspiration for a whole lot of things :D

[@andrewpappas9311]

It went from jazz to Mozart

[@hellfirepictures]

Aww, twinkle twinkle.... Fecking awesome what classically trained musicians can do with the simplest tunes. But lovin this walk down memory lane with a bunch of these tracks we rarely here anymore unless we go looking for them. And the MTv theme tune lol - how I miss my MTv!

[@jasonswitzer1748]

Holy crap the keyboard guy from Dream Theater is amazing!

[@kvk1]

jordan's rendition of ttls is unironically beautiful

[@juliantorres8818]

Johnny Cash on distortion sounds amazing 🤘

[@stewpitteejit]

Listen to Social Distortion's version of Ring of Fire

[@juliantorres8818]

@@stewpitteejit I have. Love it

[@bennyvanderven]

my number favo. riff of all time. the one riff that makes me wanna pick up the guitar is Queen's "tie your mother down" .. such an awesome bad ass riff.

[@ABoyd1852]

When I was 5yrs old, my uncle introduced me to Kiss in 1976. When I heard the Detroit Rock City riff come roaring out of his camaro speakers, I was hooked. He followed that up with Heartbreaker, by Zep. All hope was lost...I knew my musical path had been laid before me.

[@1968spikey]

Kiss are very much underrated in their influence. Ace was a natural prodigy in his prime.

[@nicholascaven]

Brother, the 'camaro speakers' bit just spoke to my soul - I was born 1991 and am so sad that I missed that entire muscle car and hard rock era

[@scootermcgee8064]

Funniest part of the video is John 5’s cat not giving a crap about what’s going on. She wanted to sit on his lap and was going to do it no matter what.

[@newwavepop]

i was a little irritated, she wanted to cuddle with her person but that guy clapping and being all loud was making her nervous.

[@hellfirepictures]

@@newwavepop I was just irritated that they didn't put her on the floor where she belongs.

[@cnilecnile6748]

I think the cat was irritated that he wasn't playing it on the Hello Kitty guitar-the video is on KZbin here somewhere.

[@him050]

Until it jumped off 😅

[@xxPenjoxx]

It's great seeing how many were inspired by Creedence Clearwater Revival. I had never heard any CCR until later in my life. After that, I just bought all of their albums. It was a lightbulb moment.

[@Scoots_McGee]

CCR is great, Born on they Bayou is a fun one to play

[@snickpickle]

How sweet a sound is that fretless/fretted double-neck guitar? Gorgeous!

[@lowenbad]

I’m kinda two different guitarists. I’m a metal guitarist, and I am a funk/ soul guitarist and the styles I play don’t really overlap. My main guitars are a Ibanez in dropped B tuning and a telecaster in standard tuning. I play them completely differently. Different chords, different scales, different voicings. Even the strap length is different. It’s almost like the two guitars I play are completely different instruments.

[@20thCenturyPox]

cool story bro

[@lowenbad]

@@20thCenturyPox glad you liked it! 😃

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

Funk soul brother check it out now seek and destroy.

[@winstonsmiths2449]

8:55, I was just listening to "The Sky is Crying" George Thorogood version, but love Elmore James!

[@ImThe5thKing]

The song that got me to play guitar was Back in Black, and my first riff I ever learned was Iron Man. My parents bought me a cheap 20 dollar classical nylon guitar when I was 6 because I would air guitar in the backseat and sing along to ACDC when my dad played the cassette of the Back in Black album on in our old Ford pickup. Once I was able to play most of ACDC's popular riffs, my dad bought me a Squier Stratocaster starter set with a little Fender amp for Christmas and I've been playing for almost 20 years now. I love that my dad got me into playing an instrument as a kid. So many friends and people I know are intimidated to pick up an instrument and just go "I wish I picked up an instrument when I was younger"

[@joshuaswanson1977]

Jared played my absolute favorite Skynyrd song, Gimme Three Steps. The Ballad of Curtis Lowe is a close second.

[@LittleJohnaton]

Fuck yea!!

[@jimcastile1905]

I got my first strums with my Grandpa while he played banjo. Western swing music like Yellow Rose of Texas, Bye Bye Blues etc... The first song I ever figured out by ear all on my own was Pink Floyd's "Is There Anybody Out There" when I was about 13. Ish. Surf was up there for me too at the beginning and it was cool to see Scott (my absolute #1 favorite thrash guitarist) mention it!

[@jamesdelaney3797]

2:30: Brother you are on a whole other level

[@rusbell2981]

Holy shit, I didn't expect to hear Wes Montgomery in this. Huge fan.

[@islandofmisfityoutubers6734]

Twinkle twinkle little star

[@evanward4303]

3 Blind Mice is my jam!

[@islandofmisfityoutubers6734]

@@evanward4303 absolutely

[@JamesG-k5f]

Anyone that learns don't fear the reaper as their first song is a beast. Skipped beginner straight past intermediate to advanced.

[@unknownkingdom]

Nah that song is beginner

[@SongWhisperer]

Johnny Cash might have played country music but he was as metal as they come.

[@asbjrnfossmo1589]

He was indeed. I stress that I don't know for fact, but I do like to imagine that covering "Hurt" was all his own idea, because he was into good music regardless of genre.

[@YavorM-Yash]

​@@asbjrnfossmo1589as far as I know it was his producers idea. At first he rejected it. It was later on Johnny Cash got into the song and decided to cover it.

[@johnjohn37371]

The first song I learned correctly, and correctly is a big part of this, is Old Man by Neil Young. It took me forever to figure out how so many notes were emanating from an apparent down stroke. I finally ended up going up to a guy in a guitar store (I think I was 10) and asking if he could help me. So shout out to Scott from Dayton Ohio for the patience to spend a couple hours with a kid...and he eventually referred me to my first real teacher and the rest just kind of happened...

[@joshuagibson2520]

I lived around Dayton for decades. Do you rem Scotts last name?

[@joshuagibson2520]

Or what music store?

[@johnjohn37371]

@@joshuagibson2520 It was a small mom and pop outside of Columbus...I'm pretty sure he was there for college. I was young, but I remember him talking to my dad who was from Dayton, too. I remember them talking about Kil-Kare dragstrip, for some reason...

[@joshuagibson2520]

@@johnjohn37371 I ran at kilkare late 90s. Good times. It's still open. I hope it never shuts down.

[@johnjohn37371]

@@joshuagibson2520 I am absolutely shocked it's still open...that is awesome. It has a small oval, too, right?

[@porkypile]

First riff I learned: Problem Child by AC/DC. Took me like another year to realize why it sounded off and that they don't play regular chords, but usually (not always, and depending on if it's Ang or Mal) exclude the B and E string to give the chords less of a poppy, chimey sound.

[@jameshaskell1073]

There was a point where I definitely needed more cowbell.

[@jacqueline1598]

Right there with you. 😉

[@ancienbelge]

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is known as "Ah vous dirai-je maman" (Oh mommy would I tell you) in Europe --- Mozart wrote a famous set of variations on it when he was young

[@NORMIES_GET_OUT]

The first riff I every really put effort into learning, and also made me genuinely excited about playing guitar when I finally nailed it, was the intro to Money for Nothing.

[@Vantage3001]

Is this the right upload? This is the first songs they learnt not favourite non metal

[@Drewthemagnificent]

Who cares

[@joefox9765]

​@@Drewthemagnificentwe do. Title was misleading

[@jenks4879]

I guess everyone is too zooted to notice.

[@MrVinB]

Whoa, Day Tripper with distortion sounds awesome

[@winstonsmiths2449]

1:10, never heard of the gentleman Mr. Rudess, but watching him poking at the piano keys with one finger, then watching and hearing him play classical, then improvise? I am a big fan and will have to do some research and listening to his music.

[@mikelundquist4596]

Well, dang... now I gotta have a fretless guitar.

[@winstonsmiths2449]

Brilliant video, fun, memory invoking, made me smile the whole way through.

[@michaelhall5429]

Bach with blues runs as sick as hell. What a player.

[@proletariatbourgeoisie9929]

King Buzzo over here recording his video with a Flip video camera from 2005 lmao

[@corpsie666]

He's awesome like that ❤

[@StrangeletCR]

I'm a simple person. I see Devy, I click.

[@Liz-cmc313]

Exactly!

[@callummcdougall7995]

All of them are fantastic musicians, lovely to see what their inspiration was. But i cant help but think that Brian Baker unlocked the Gold camo for his 61 SG 🤣

[@pcl8993]

Beatles singly the band that had the most influence on most of these guys

[@8odycount]

Holy crap that fretless guitar sounds awesome!!

[@xhannesx8881]

Love johnny cash who's with meee

[@dimlightbulb10]

I love Cash, but the instruments usually take a backseat to his voice and delivery.

[@lionheart1234]

Cash is king, atleast with country.

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

i love slayer and JC too, i like all sorts, like a lot of people, bach, skrillex, public enemy, thin lizzy, stevie wonder, living colour srv all the blues guys, elton john, thrash metal, funk.. too may to mention, i don't think in genres or just good or it isn't, people only see me play lead guitar in a blues band though (and think that is what i am) decades ago i was in a thrash metal band, i played most styles in 10's of other bands too, it's all music, a good player practices everything then says 'what doe's this style and band require' its all music man.

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

@@dimlightbulb10 all music should take a back seat to the vocals imho but yeah, he has a vibe eh.

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

@@dimlightbulb10 i guess you mean its basic, it is and was in those days, his bass player was truck driver i think, they said it as if to say he had just picked up bass, it was all in it's embrionic stages back then, but older music always has swagger that is missing these days, perfection and competition and even fixed tempos and rigid timing is the enemy of creativity..

[@adrianm7960]

For me it was when I saw Jimmy Page playing "I Can't Quit You Baby" at The Royal Albert Hall, in 1970. That was soooo intense. As a kid I couldn't resist. I needed to do that!

[@Bedevere]

I was 10 or so when I heard John Lee Hooker playing Boogie Chillun, it was just him and the piece of wood he was tapping with his foot. I had no idea what he was doing but I knew I had to find out and learn how to do that. 45 years later I still play that as a warm up. Also that variation on the Mozart theme was incredible.

[@Jen-X333]

Love this video!

[@righty-o3585]

First song I learned on guitar was........ Blister in the Sun, by the Violent Femmes 🤘

[@michaelwillis2198]

Jordan is an awesome guy.

[@effbee56]

Carlos Santana was covering this - Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac were the originators.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

8:00 Exodus and Suicidal poster behind, was that at Ruthie's? I think I was there.

[@LillyMelody01]

The first thing I learned was the walking bass key of A all 47 notes at the progression, I like hearing what other players learned it's fun to hear them

[@ronanfitzpatrick2253]

Rocking all over the world by Staus Quo made me want to learn guitar around 1993. But I had already started learning drums at age 4 and could never figure out guitar with no guidance, so I abandoned all hope. Fast forward to 2006 bought a bass at 17 so I could learn Rio by Duran Duran. Then in the pandemic bought a guitar and started on Cupid's Dead by Extreme. Funny trio of songs, but great to see so some Prince influences there.

[@jefflewis9395]

Billy Sheehan talking about lost women by the yardbirds is awesome!

[@Knoxneb01]

Glad to see Jared Dines on the video! One of my favourite KZbin guitarists, and probably my introduction to djent-y stuff

[@Thatguy55595]

Trapt owns him 🤓

[@Gibsondude]

Agreed!

[@OfficialBloodrunner]

Hearing that The Monkees played loud and sounded heavy... pretty kool thing to think about. -Neal

[@stevesheroan4131]

I was kinda surprised that the Man-O-War fella had maybe my favorite tone on this video (outside of Bumblefoot’s fretless, but that’s a different beast). His sound was heavy but not as whizzy as some of the other ones.

[@chrissibersky4617]

Some of them learned really advanced stuff as their first song.

[@janubis5630]

Notice how many that said The Beatles

[@Knome-Ansland]

Rudess is a beast!❤

[@stepitupandgo67]

srsly

[@dgingher1013]

I remember seeing billy Sheehan play with talis in Tonawanda New York

[@999Arvis]

I remember as a kid i always wanted to play the Smoke On The Water. But when i finally got the gear i never played that. First thing was Offspring's Original Prankster and Bloodhound Gang's Chasey Lean. I always tried to learn what sounded the most fun to play. I still regret stopping to learn

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

open d and g strings then fret them at 3, 5, 6th frets, that's all the diads (two note chords) ued, and how its played, i only learnt it that way after decades, its inverted power chords ie the d and the higher g note is the g chord etc

[@futuramabender2078]

@2:59 Aint that piece also called Air on a G String or am I thinkin of somethin else?

[@matthewsolina4920]

I like how Dave Davidson is the only one to change his guitar sound to play the part he’s talking about.

[@RTSRAZORBACK]

I'm so glad someone else picked up on this too, triggered me a lil bit that these guys are playing jazz/blues/pop with heavy distortion and making it sound awful 😂

[@LosBombero]

Learned how to play guitar chords from 'Best of Bread.' Still have the book on the shelf next to Physical Graffiti and Joe Pass. (My one single regret in life........NOT playing MORE guitar. Should have played, studied, made more mistakes, asked more questions, made more noise, etc)

[@andreask3218]

Ross The Boss accidentally mixed up the Beatles and the Stones (right after playing a few notes of "Paint It Black') .

[@gordonbrinkmann]

I don't think he mixed them up, there are cuts all over the video... he says "that's the best one" and plays "Satisfaction", switches to "Paint it, black" and says "that one, paint it black", then comes definitely a cut and he says "all those, all those really, Beatles stuff was amazing" which is clearly meant in regard to "Twist and shout" by the Beatles which he plays next.

[@petsematarykeeper]

one of my first riffs learning was Down on the Corner by CCR

[@jimmio3727]

Cat Scratch Fever played the wrong way at 9 years old, then all of Green Day's discography for me lol

[@NickyKnickerson]

Crazy how often Day Tripper came up.

[@nicolasmunoz881]

I'm a Beatles guy but it's nice to see some love on Wes Montgomery and Elmore James

[@MelissaThompson432]

The Monkees had some of the best songwriters of the day, including Michael Nesmith. "Different Drum," and "Some of Shelley's Blues (the Girl Who Loves You)" were two of the best songs of the 60s. "Last Train to Clarksville" was written by Boyce-Hart.

[@edmundhudson]

Not to mention "I'm a Believer", Neil Diamond.

[@stevecrescini2081]

And Pleasant Valley Sunday by Carole King

[@kjn5991]

17:40 Beatles stuff? Those were Satifaction and Paint It Black from Rolling Stones :D

[@AjatiMimi]

He played Twist and Shout by The Beatles...

[@paulchandler9241]

I don't like any of these metal bands, so these riffs are the only enjoyable thing I've ever heard from every single musician here. A real window into their genuine love for music. Thank you! p.s. I should definitely listen to more Dream Theater, I'm sure they have at least three songs I'd really dig.

[@Coffeeology]

I'm old, 50, and hearing Jordan Rudess's improvisation of Twinke Twinkle reminded me of Mister Rogers.

[@brankostanojevic7421]

Dream theatars' pianist Is so dedicated ! Respect.

[@him050]

I can’t believe the first thing someone else learned was Sweet Dreams! Whenever I tell people it’s the first thing I ever learned, they always look at me like 🤨 why?

[@Revivethefallen]

That was awesome 🤘

[@andrewpappas9311]

I started playing guitar when I was about 10 years old, and because I was also really into video games the first two things I learned on guitar were the themes from Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda. As for the first actual guitar riff I think it was either Day Tripper because I was heavily into The Beatles (they were the first band that I really got into around the time I started playing guitar and George Harrison was (and still is) my first major guitar influence), (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones or House of the Rising Sun by The Animals

[@dtutssel]

Cool story bro

[@ysfaziz909]

the rendition from jordan, turns a masterpiece to disney old movie!!! XD

[@olds97lss]

These are the kinds of videos that keep me up until 4am... just one more...

[@trendydelquendy]

I was showed a riff to tune a guitar - found out it was the bassline off of The Chain, Fleetwood Mac

[@bknicley]

I’m definitely not the only one but the first guitar riff I remember learning was can’t get no satisfaction by the stones

[@andriealinsangao613]

You ain't alone!

[@jimvick420]

That was total fun watching this video.

[@carlos_herrera]

Is that a Travis Bean 500 at 18:54

[@WarrenMartin-u6n]

house of the rising sun when i was 10 or 11 i borrowed a guitar from a friend for a day after he showed me the chords. i drove my parents and grandparents up the wall, but it was worth it. i later became a bass player thanks to green eyed lady which got me really hooked on bass at 13, later i was in a band and would play smoke on the water, but didn't have a keyboard player, so i added in some fuzz to my bass to fill in the midrange sound.

[@Weremoogle]

That was cool. Thanks.

[@Scoots_McGee]

Smoke on the Water, and peices of Victim of Changes on my first day of learning. Solidified my love for Judas Priest. I was a metal elitist for forever and now im super into funk/jazz and country

[@Jydmd]

Great to see Brian Baker here! The first riff I ever learned was American Jesus

[@BusyAir]

2:40 A Les Paul truss cover on a SG is quite sacrilege.

[@bobhope4949]

Lol mine was crazy train, friend had just gotten a silver tone and it came with a free learning dvd and I borrowed it…… don’t know if I ever gave it back

[@CallMeCrazyCallMePoor]

Last Train to Clarksville sounds ridiculously good in that key.

[@efraincitomendoza5687]

The cat on 14:46 was the best rock listener on stage!!!!!!!

[@gearhead2017]

I remember hearing van halen back in the very early 80s,was at a childhood friend's house and he just got their debute and he said check these guys out and runnin w the devil came on,I was impressed but when eruption came on I was floored,I was like wtf is he doin to make the guitar do that? Years later I found out it was tapping the strings,when I got a cheap strat harmony I rewired the bridge and the middle pickup,it sounded amazing! It was then I knew what I wanted to do,rock hard! Thank you eddie for your inspiration,RIP eddie,you are missed..

[@igooog]

Ross got the highest confidence in his polish, gloss black body with a damn mirror-chrome pickguard Truly balls of steel on that man

[@fernandes5986]

Great video. Do more.

[@Proganaut1989]

First non rock i played was Duran Duran...lots of cool chords there from Andy Taylor.

[@devinthierault]

Very sad about him.

[@Proganaut1989]

@devintariel3769 Yes it is.

[@samgamgee42]

How awesome John 5 has a hairless cat on his lap lovin the jam...

[@gktde9874]

I liked Mosh-Tripper with The Djentles.

[@fuelhemi426]

I love how Buzz Osborne camera is in 360p.