Guitar World brings you a series of guitar lessons with Lamb of God's Mark Morton called "Dominion." For more guitar lessons, gear reviews, and more check out guitar world.com
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@vikingmike81398 жыл бұрын
Mark Morton's techniques are the seminal building blocks of heavy guitar riffs that are quintessential to becoming a well rounded guitar player. He is a master well before his time all the while reaching new depths of the art of guitar playing. His Southern roots are are forged and unmistakably recognizable in his phrasing and grind-core groove. Mark speaketh unto us. Artist!
@ianspeckmaier95656 жыл бұрын
Excellent comment man
@XtremeKillah1015 жыл бұрын
Well said dude!
@Countdownsmiles7 жыл бұрын
I swear he seems like the most genuine guy ever
@alexn31396 жыл бұрын
I was actually lucky enough to meet him after they played in Louisville Kentucky a few years back. I was about 16 or 17 and snuck back stage and there he was. I asked him for a picture but he said he couldn’t because he didn’t wanna be seen but he told me he appreciated me being there and gave me one of his guitar picks that’s had his name on it!!
@pstx28167 ай бұрын
@alexn3139 that's badass. That was a kind gesture. Him telling you he appreciated you as a fan personally Imo is better than a pic where would of take 10 secs which probably wouldn't have been as personal.
@jasongoldfinger90419 жыл бұрын
Never ever judge a book by its cover.. Lamb of God with Randy Blythe, Willie Adler, and Mark Morton have the evil sounding kind of music that freaks parents out, but they are all educated very intelligent and well rounded people.. \…/\m/
@sadberto74308 жыл бұрын
yeah you're right
@asr11438 жыл бұрын
+jason goldfinger thats not only with lamb of god, theres other band also very educated you should have a look on gojira.
@s.n.81287 жыл бұрын
If your mom gets scared by lamb of god, show her some gorgoroth
@hafizjumat6 жыл бұрын
jason goldfinger yes they are!!
@Knosferatu8 жыл бұрын
2:57 he definitely brings the riffs
@PanamaSabroso9 жыл бұрын
Dude is a fucking ripper on the guitar. anybody on this level should understand why he does this as an exercise without the easier fretting. Good shit! Mark, VA love
@cantexplain1310 жыл бұрын
Slowed down it sounds like a Tool riff
@LynxNinjaTrials10 жыл бұрын
confirmed^^
@justinbowen2003able7 жыл бұрын
he probably just took a very easy riff, got blasted one night and played it at a super high rate of speed usually how it goes
@EdoLS_6 жыл бұрын
Tool riffs are harmonically very simple. Tune your guitar in Drop D, use the last 3 strings on the frets 0, 3, 5, 10 and 12 (sometimes 2 and 7, also), and some D minor pentatonic licks. Play around with it, add some syncopation, odd bar meters, some palm muting and you'll have a Tool riff. Many of their songs are based on that: Vicarious, Lost keys-Rosetta Stoned, The Pot, Parabola, Lateralus, etc. In this case, in my opinion, it sounds a lot like many of the riffs in Rosetta Stoned. All those musical elements are commonly found in funk and classic rock, only they're used in a different way. So it's very likely to "sound like Tool", but it's just that Tool overused it.
@bloc0114 жыл бұрын
Love this guy, he is very well spoken.
@VEHICROS8 жыл бұрын
Heyhey, I didnt have a clue what I was doing When I bought my very first guitar, and for the first 10 years or so, ALL I DID was upstrokes, my mother was always telling people there was something wrong with my hands, that I was not normal. Eventually I switched to the conventional down strokes, but still feel I get more control and power with up strokes.
@RoC190912 жыл бұрын
I only got into Lamb of God about 6 months ago, but DAMN!!! I am really digging their music. Mark and Willie are MONSTERS on guitar!!
@sketchwish598212 жыл бұрын
wow... yea, his tone is beautiful as always. And Mark is a lovely human being, responding to us in twitter. amazing down to earth dude
@Stryker12513 жыл бұрын
@bladerunner900 the point of the excersise is to make ur upstroke just as strong as ur downstroke, so you'll be comfortable with both
@SpinnGuitar10 жыл бұрын
Its not jesus kids its a Viking!
@BrandonOfBodom14 жыл бұрын
haha i love how he gets distracted by his pick for a brief moment, Mark Morton is the best, love that guy
@Craydon14 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mark.
@HOUNDDAWG14 жыл бұрын
Very good demo, Mark, and YES it is decidedly more chunky when you play the riff on two strings instead of playing it like a normal scale. This is a fine example of "technique=distinctive style or sound". Any normally executed riff or scale (strictly reversed picking while staying in the same position) would sound identical no matter who plays it. When you play it on two strings we know when we hear it that it's "Power Crunch Mark melting our brains again!".
@themodernguitarist13 жыл бұрын
Am I the only that noticed he looks like and sounds like a long-haired Zack Galifanakis?
@MrStephAwesome12 жыл бұрын
@GlockenspielSAS I'm glad we are of one mind on the matter!
@Splittail0114 жыл бұрын
thats a pretty good simple exercise, when you get down to the exercise element
@atrumluminarium13 жыл бұрын
wow i really like his jackson!!! i mean when you think of a jackson you imagine a pointy headstock, shark inlays and a sort of pointy shape (talking about the rhoads, king V, and kelly)... this one is nothing the same
@jortiz7743714 жыл бұрын
i would kill for that MARK V!!, great tone
@ibanezplayer1314 жыл бұрын
Great guitarist...love lamb of god. Definetly knows his shit because starting from the first record up to Wrath, his sound and playing have improved a lot.
@Omen_Seven14 жыл бұрын
@Emceetem That doesn't mean that you're a noob if you play it. Mark's obviously not a noob by any means but he still uses it.
@creation2313 жыл бұрын
@zoraliciousful It doesn't. Just sounds loose and sloppy, no matter what gauge strings and amp settings you want to use. That's why LoG stay in drop d, to retain the punch and tightness. :)
@SufferDYT14 жыл бұрын
which is why you get ernie ball heavy bottoms that have thinner g, b, and e strings
@Byrondt10 жыл бұрын
Done on 220 bpm!!!:-D amazing riff!! Realy liked it!!! \m/
@TheGinge229612 жыл бұрын
@metalguitarZomg2 Most of COB's stuff is in drop C. Sixpounder is in drop C and pretty much all of 'Are You Dead Yet' (Bar 1 or 2 songs) is in drop C
@MireWolf2914 жыл бұрын
That's the point I think. By improving on your basics you make your overall playing better.
@Daedalus414 жыл бұрын
one of those switches controls how hot the sun is
@SlackWi13 жыл бұрын
@argyris006 just start at the note that the string iseg. e string, and count your way up, eventually you will learn where each note is.
@HenneB14 жыл бұрын
this is one good sound mr morton!
@jesqor114 жыл бұрын
Mark Morton rules
@CTBmarc12 жыл бұрын
cob definitely plays in D standard and drop C, other than Something Wild, which is C# standard. no drop D involved.
@skatefallen1514 жыл бұрын
anyone who wants alternate picking practice, I HIGHLY recommend the fast riff from Lamb Of God's song Hourglass, sometimes referred to as the "vomit riff".
@Byrondt10 жыл бұрын
Realy nice riff!!
@TwelveinchChewbacca14 жыл бұрын
Mesa Mark V and a slant 4x12 cabinet. Mesa are great sounding but I've heard of problems with consistency and quality. My friend has a Mesa Triple Rectifier that is always in the shop. Tried to sell it to me. Ha. No. And then my shop had a Mark V that was back in for repairs less than a week after the guy bought it.
@PuNkIsNoTdEaD0112 жыл бұрын
dunlop tortex picks . that helps. he uses the dunlop tortex 1.14 purple ones
@AIZEN140113 жыл бұрын
@163burkey it is walk with me in hell from the album sacrament
@jdbodom14 жыл бұрын
lamb of god, pioneering metal at the moment, youd expect him to know his shit, and he does.
@randommoosebrains14 жыл бұрын
nice that mm sig guitar and Boogie amp make a good combination
@MarcelAlexandru13 жыл бұрын
this helps you stroke better
@hawks18flyinfree13 жыл бұрын
@creation23 If you do it right it sounds good,I mean everything in tune action set up right and everything it can sound good.
@akdomun14 жыл бұрын
@NICK000DICK Both mark and will do not use any pedals, except for a wah and/or a dunlop phase 90 pedal for solos, otherwise all the tone and distortions come from their mark boogie amps, they both like a pure organic distortion midrangy sound, which is very original to their style and the less effects you have between your guitar and your amp, the purer the sound ;)
@VorTexXHUN14 жыл бұрын
One can write a riff that sounds good and can be used to get better at certain techniques. However, it takes more than a guitarist who plays in a thrashcore band and learned guitar from scratch.
@lewy_g_official12 жыл бұрын
Have Mark and Willie been on an episode of bet ya cant play this yet?
@metalguitarZomg212 жыл бұрын
@lefthandedmetal27 no worries, take it easy bro, i would suggest looking up children of bodom, wintersun, ensiferum, kalmah, witchery etc, yet more bands that are heavier than LOG
@taylor410ce14 жыл бұрын
nice guitar.
@TheDrumminMan0814 жыл бұрын
@Xkima77 no probs. that song has a great solo by the way.
@skinnyjeans98714 жыл бұрын
one of the only bands who sound heavy in drop d
@MISERSTYLE13 жыл бұрын
I meant what small part of a song did he just play in the end ?
@Xkima7714 жыл бұрын
Thanks man!!
@skinnyjeans98714 жыл бұрын
i play in Eb, and A#
@sketchwish598212 жыл бұрын
haha! yea.. i always think of Dunn when I look at or talk about Mark Morton..
@GlockenspielSAS13 жыл бұрын
Man... I´m playing guitar for 7 years, and I never was comfortable on down picking... Now after 7 years I realized that I´m not holding the pick right xD
@GlockenspielSAS12 жыл бұрын
@mrbuddha2026 Yeah, for sure, but I realized I´m more comfortable when picking like Mark does
@mc2alfawolf13 жыл бұрын
does anyone know from what song the riff is that he plays at 2:55??? its so awesom i gotta learn to play it on hte guitar
@MrStephAwesome12 жыл бұрын
@GlockenspielSAS I know it's 3 months late sir, but I would like to point out to you that there are many ways of holding a pick, and not one of them is perfect or more correct than the others! What's important is that you hold it how it's most comfortable for you, as long as it's not too weird and hindering :P. For instance, I hold a pick like Steve Morse does, and you can't say he's an inferior guitarist ;)
@airmatasesalan14 жыл бұрын
what is the best strings to play heavy music??i mean from the thickness aspect...
@MetalBassist100014 жыл бұрын
@Xxdonuts16xX first time I heard lamb of god I thought they were in a much lower tuning. which is surprising for me because I usually play in d standard or drop c or even a
@metalguitarZomg213 жыл бұрын
@lefthandedmetal27 lol i meant follow the reaper not kissing the shadows, however kissing the shadows is on follow the reaper :P
@toyota2590414 жыл бұрын
damn his amp sounds bad ass!
@budgood09914 жыл бұрын
@VorTexXHUN What are you talking about? It takes more to do what? Mark has extremely advanced guitar skills.
@blisteringfilth12 жыл бұрын
depends on the amp
@MetalBassist100014 жыл бұрын
@Xxdonuts16xX yes exactly aha But I have a five string bass so I can just drop the low b which gives me that sludgy tone
@angelo8882310 жыл бұрын
thanks
@JohnthePiratexXx14 жыл бұрын
His tone is the shittttttttt
@lambofgodfan11713 жыл бұрын
WHY MUST YOU MAKE IT LOOK SO EASY?!?!
@sillymonkey82913 жыл бұрын
@atrumluminarium I'm thinking about buying one myself.
@Breisler13 жыл бұрын
Betcha this would sound more epic in Drop A.
@NielsBeier13 жыл бұрын
@Pamahana97 It's the MARK V
@99ClickNote14 жыл бұрын
Does he always use mesa boogies or just now?
@mc2alfawolf13 жыл бұрын
@Stonebreaker6088 thx u just saved my live
@SebastianTinajero13 жыл бұрын
love lamb of god
@MISERSTYLE13 жыл бұрын
At 2:57 what song is that. It's driving me crazy
@DropdaLTDtoB12 жыл бұрын
Hey guys it's Jesus from Lamb of God and i am here to show you some badass riffage.
@surajvishwakarma884411 жыл бұрын
i dont hve electric guitar but than olso watch such videos...
@XDArK2442X13 жыл бұрын
@neilemo1234 the first one should be pretty easy to eyeball (it's all on one string) and the second thing he did was part of Walk With Me In Hell
@CANADAmAn8514 жыл бұрын
Nice. What kind of head and cab is he using?
@VorTexXHUN14 жыл бұрын
@G27dude The only thing I want to add to this comment is that I don't need to play in a soccer team to tell that one of the players suck at ball control or tackling. Nuff Said.
@MistahhB14 жыл бұрын
Mark V!
@BLUEWIZARD4014 жыл бұрын
@metalhead142 thanx man
@FunkmasterLuke200011 жыл бұрын
would you have to play this exercise to a metronome
@TheMorbidAsshole13 жыл бұрын
college drop out metal jesus playing a raw steak ham guitar is all i need to see to have a good day
@NewWarOrder9 жыл бұрын
I wish I could find the guitar world magazine this is in. Anyone know?
@Omen_Seven14 жыл бұрын
@vChipGivesThemSight Well, Mark Morton does play in a band called Lamb of God, sooooo...lol
@asxjune126011 жыл бұрын
i wanta tabs
@ibanezplayer1314 жыл бұрын
@lambo525 it's off sacrament and it's the first track...walk with me in hell
@NICK000DICK14 жыл бұрын
Guys!!! Please tell me. What pedal does he use!!! Or what pedal does Will use?!
@GlockenspielSAS12 жыл бұрын
Haha, yeah man :D You´re right on both things, I´m growing my beard and my down-picking is good now, should post a video, just waiting to get a new camera :D
@glassmoon9113 жыл бұрын
@skullxer mesa power my friend
@GuitarsOfArp13 жыл бұрын
BEARD IS POWER
@metalhead14214 жыл бұрын
@BLUEWIZARD40 np
@afie8313 жыл бұрын
@razor10haris LOL!! no...actually, he just bought few of those same short pants.. haha
@Abrahamhamham13 жыл бұрын
@razor10haris Yep ! Well, he`s in Lamb of god, he doesn`t care :))
@bladerunner90013 жыл бұрын
does any one understand what he is saying? coz, i dont get it. what should i be learning from this clip??
@Xkima7714 жыл бұрын
guys, what riff does he play at 2:58?
@GoJays0911 жыл бұрын
The beginning sounds like "Again We Rise"
@Equestional14 жыл бұрын
me want the Mark V mesa
@blackuncharted13 жыл бұрын
LoG's the heaviest sounding band that plays in Drop D.