Megadeth - Symphony Of Destruction Solo Cover Brandon Ellis

This weekend I'm doing a clinic at a School of Rock location in Southlake, TX where I'll also be playing a couple of covers with their house band. Symphony of Destruction is one of them so here I am practicing the solo after learning it and filming a lesson on it for my Patreon!
My video lesson will be up this Sunday on my Patreon the day after the clinic along with my tab of the solo.
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[@dougleydorite]

That was just too clean man. Nailed the phrasing…

[@TobyKBTY]

Still the best vibrato in the game. Every upload is a treat.

[@jsl21]

Would love to see your take on Lucretia :)

[@joho0]

Simply amazing. This ranks right up there with your Tornado of Souls cover.

[@jwspitz35]

welp you already had the cleanest Tornado of Souls solo cover on here and now you've added Symphony of Destruction too you absolute mad lad

[@Jaime13R]

Marty is proud of you Brandon

[@mattwhitfield9850]

Great job Brandon!! I like this idea... it's great to see accomplished guitar players cover well known solos!! Thanks again and keep up the badass shredding!!! \m/

[@Matthew750-4]

Always love the covers with no backing track... and stright audio from their camera mic ❤

[@Dnll88]

Amazing as always. 🔥

[@trevorhelmsley388]

Looks like we got Kikos future replacement if that ever happens.

[@darrenculp]

You're one of my favorite guitarists and this is one of my all-time favorite guitar solos! You totally nailed it! 🤘

[@james-gb3jk]

Brilliant !! Thanks for sharing !

[@satorizero5448]

You're my favorite lead guitarist man! We need more of you!

[@yevgesha9885]

Toooo clean, Brandon! Sonds very good. Your vibrato one of the best! Tnx for short video

[@williamboisvert6600]

I just bought your signature guitar and it sounds and plays great! I think it's gonna become my main from now on. Cheers!!

[@BrandonEllisGtr]

Congrats, enjoy!

[@MSpotatoes]

Very smooth! awesome technique

[@jairocerritos3213]

This is as clean as it gets! Best cover on youtube!

[@sen3sx922]

THE TIMING AND THE TONE!!!! NAILED

[@themightymcb7310]

Insanely clean

[@nomad5375]

Spot on bro. I just discovered you a couple weeks ago. You are an amazing musician sir!

[@imneverwrongsometimestruthlies]

Wow ..🤘👍🤘👍 I'm coming back to this video from time to time from now on

[@henrikdahlin7316]

Great good guitarist. One of my favorite solos

[@osanan]

Killer cover and tone! 🤘🏽😎

[@irmasil3]

Such a kick ass solo!

[@user-qj4vg9gq5m]

This is so cool

[@AWM8]

Your solo makes me salivate as much as your guitar brother. That's saying something. Greetings!

[@michalwlosik3544]

Spot on!

[@g_valentino.]

nice cover 🤘

[@hardwors11]

Sounds very good...

[@utterlyexiged]

Cracking vibrato there man

[@MetalGuitar06]

Back again to be jaw dropped. The cadence is crazy.

[@shredwig]

You ate that, straight up

[@StephenRyanGB]

Nice. Was learning that one the other day. It's got some interesting lines just like all of Marty's solos 🤘

[@kozmonaut8870]

Hell yeah dude 🤘

[@pb.wavelengths]

awesome

[@jones9495]

cleaan, tried learning this but could never nail it haha

[@powermedal3578]

You deserve to be in Megadeth. That was fucking brilliant 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@SlothKing92]

That was fuckin awesome!!

[@AlexDemaree777ShreddDredd]

Sick AF bro

[@DushyantsCHANNEL]

🙏🏻 we're not worthy 🙏🏻

[@maxstatic]

The thing that nearly EVERYONE screws up on this is Marty’s slack timing where he’s purposely just hardly perceivably late on the beat but then plays certain notes bang on. Even though there is no click or drums here I can tell you are doing the same slacking on the runs and then slamming the emphasis notes. Only cover I’ve seen do that, bravo man. Cheers.

[@conkyjoe8932]

Oh snap! I'm just in Lake Worth, probably only about 15mins or so from Southlake! I've never heard of that music store, but I hope I'll be able to make it over there to see you this weekend!

[@rvmusictv0122]

Perfect❤🙏

[@imacashew.]

I’m currently working on this. 👌🏻

[@DEADITEDAN]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@kaiwei5072]

Can you do painkiller by Judas Priest?

[@atonenjr]

Yes.

[@chrisjferro7808]

I liked this

[@joewhitehead3755]

That was killer

[@waedi73]

Yeah !

[@one4thought776]

Nuff said man rock it out

[@EL_DUDERIN0]

Clean!!

[@AlfredHugecokk]

99,99% of perfection

[@MetalGuitar06]

Replicated perfectly, as always. Jesus lord that’s good.

[@lukerangdan8557]

Why i can't play like clean as Brandon. Just great Bran🤘🤘

[@Laguna69]

Yay!

[@Friendly-Trex]

clean

[@jrock8233]

DUUUDDE!! 🤘🤘😤

[@guitarstalkandtech9085]

Wow sounds just like the album

[@MelficeSephiroth]

HELL YEAH!

[@ericsoto2127]

Great😮

[@Balmung5150]

So f'n accurate...

[@michaelmartins177]

100% accurate.

[@antology7]

Wow man. Outstanding! I've looked up a lot of Megadeth solo covers and this and Tornado are easily the best. Any chance of busting out some Pantera solos?

[@Grinddownunder]

Thanks for the goosebumps!.. I seen Megadeth for the first time here in Australia when they dropped by during the Rust in Peace tour . I was 14 and won the ticket from a radio show.. was incredible.. Hail Friedman ! :)

[@ADR.Hi-Gain]

F'in Sick!!!

[@plaguerunner3392]

Yuuuuuuuhhhh!!!!!

[@tavismacdonald7759]

Brandon... your technique truly is incredible. This..... tornado of souls... eruption. Its so perfect. So lets throw you a real challenge cause i dont know anyone who might be able to do it as clean as kiko but youve got the best shot. Lets hear conquer or die. Megadeth- kiko. Its definitely gonna be tough bro but ive got confidence in you. All you other fuckers better like this so he actually wants to do it.

[@brandonharris9160]

Trevor would be proud, he was a huge Droogie

[@GabrielTruck]

Do we deserve a 2.0 version of tornado of souls, or not?!

[@atonenjr]

Would love to hear these with a backing track.

[@TheTimcarry5]

You know he's playing it smooth as f$@k when I can convince myself "it's not that hard"

[@McWillis]

Sorry man.... I am going to 'DEMAND' more Megadeth from you. Holy shit, I knew you we're already amazing. But now I want more. P.s Dave is the best imo.

[@sebastianspydersilvaofficial]

It should be illegal in all 50 states of America to be this damn good wtf!

[@ZombieCurl]

Aguante megadeth 🇦🇷

[@thegeetarmann]

🤘😎🤘

[@xlevrat]

Perfect 100 000

[@kevinkeith3530]

Upload a bum note please or is that impossible for you? You are the best, can't wait to hear some new BDM, so excited that you and Ryan are playing together with Brian on vox!!! 🤟🤟

[@guitarciaaleon5900]

🥇💎💀🎸💯

[@karlkazama7793]

Jackson Kelly Brandon - Marty

[@AUBCodeII]

Oh shit bro

[@MachineHeadDissent]

🤙😎🤘

[@mylogify]

I am so confused with the notes, many people play different notes, I wish Marty himself showed this, but that doesn't mean this is a bad video, nice playing!

[@xliljuice2002]

this cover is like a mix of marty freedman and dimebag darrel

[@metalliholic]

Get this man in megadeth

[@DEADITEDAN]

No way! TBDM is waaaayyyyy better!

[@metalliholic]

@@DEADITEDAN Porque no Los dos?

[@DEADITEDAN]

@@metalliholic Why not both huh? Ok, sure.

[@DEADITEDAN]

@@metalliholic I just like Brandon's style more. He has a bit of Malmsteen in him. 🤷‍♂️

[@ophhate]

More megadeth.

[@hellc590]

Marty messed it up a bit at Buddakan.. but we forgive him :)

[@StopPanakinAnakin]

Brandon, whats that thingy at your guitar input?!

[@BrandonEllisGtr]

That is a Redeemer studio buffer, plugged into the guitar through a daddario offset coupler. It takes a 9v power supply that I loom in with the cable. Basically it buffer the signal from your pickup and negates the length of cable that comes after it from sucking tone. gives your DIs a very direct crisp sound. Really I use it for capturing the cleanest DIs when I'm recording studio tracks so if I reamp later there isn't double cable length in the chain sucking tone, but it's plugged into my rig all the time.

[@StopPanakinAnakin]

@@BrandonEllisGtr Thats sick. My BOSS wireless has a "Cable tone" switch on it, ive never experimented with it, but I will now. Do you run that live too?

[@BrandonEllisGtr]

@Tanner Cruse right so a wireless pack kind of already does what this does, by eliminating most of the cable out of the equation. The cable tone simulates what extra cable length would do to the tone which is the opposite of what I'm trying to do, I keep that on 0.

[@StopPanakinAnakin]

@@BrandonEllisGtr This is awesome, thank you. Ill be doing the same, Thanks Brandon

[@ihatedill2447]

❤❤❤🤘🏼🤘🏼🤌🏻🇹🇷

[@fillipecosta5013]

Model of this guitar pls!

[@jumper2223]

Assassin

[@murrymurf]

Angry Again? Dyers Eve? 😀

[@terryspaulding2000]

Better than Kiko and as good as Marty! Damn

[@ayybudayy]

You make it look easy and this solo is not.

[@vongeffr5835]

That was really cool, how about playing Crazy Train solo?

[@atonenjr]

Yes.

[@chriskoutsoumpas6772]

So you are replacing Kiko 😛

[@the_releaser]

What the hell was that? You were feeling it...but I don't know what you were feeling cos it wasn't symphony of destruction.