Metallica - Battery (Rhythm Guitars Only)

[@jmr5707]

3:20 Under the lead guitar. The one that makes Battery everybody's favorite song. Breathtaking.

[@USMCTexan]

His precision is unreal, to play that damn fast, perfect palm muting...he is like the Billy Gibbons of the metal world, his guitar is a machine gun.

[@rafaelzorzal569]

Yeah, and sing on top of it lol

[@CaptainRudy4021]

Fun fact: James recorded six tracks and layered them on top of each other

[@jimmiebeesapimp]

Real fact kirk played all guitar parts Hatfield is a fake sorry but true

[@JohanPredator]

And imagine him playing this and singing at the same time. Five brains.

[@theofiloshatzigiannis5308]

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[@mummriken99]

The riff under the solo is omega brutal!

[@chk_g]

I searched for "Battery James Guitar Only" exactly to hear only that riff.

[@mummriken99]

@@chk_g yeah 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@Daily_Bassist]

0:41 Absolutely nasty, dissonant chords right there. They really give the intro its backbone on top of the awesome lead harmonies.

[@kylewilmoth5769]

Im convinced only Hetfield could come up with this. If you locked every guitar player in a room for a millennia they don’t find this

[@bassistguy]

2:59 to 3:20 I don't think I ever realized there was that much going on with the rhythm guitar in the bridge under the lead guitars. Of course now I hear it when I played the full song after this.

[@ricethrupower]

My favourite part of the whole song

[@kartikchandrasekhar2762]

''KIRK HAMMETT: James would show Cliff and me the riffs, and we'd build the songs from there. Some I'd already be familiar with. The main riff in ''Battery'', for instance: the first time I heard James play that was in England, on his acoustic guitar. We were watching THE YOUNG ONES on the BBC, and all of a sudden he started messing around with this sort of galloping rhythm. I said, ''Wow, that's cool''. And so when it came time to start learning stuff, I'd often hear a riff and say, ''Oh, okay. I know that one.""

[@jimscouten6092]

This is why James Hetfield was on top of the music industry at an early age and is still the best metal band of all time! Precision Rhythm guitar work! He just keeps getting better! Can't wait to hear what they put together through the pandemic downtime. Been relearning Metallica's songs for the last year and a half and nothing but Metallica. I own a deli in Vermont. Between slicing and dicing, learning Metallica songs again, I am blowing out my right arm between that and down picking!! James and the boys have earned every penny!!

[@nikeforo2612]

OMG never realized how tasty are the riffs buried under Kirk’s solos.

[@CaptainRudy4021]

You should hear what it sounds like in a mix. It's not perfect but it gives you a good idea kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJPbqmSeaJJ9lZo

[@rafaelzorzal569]

Check lepper messiah, its amazing and isolated sounds so much heavier

[@CaptainRudy4021]

@@rafaelzorzal569 I isolated lepper messiah a while back and it's as good as advertised

[@DanielFantini]

In my opinion, the best James riff of all time is the riff under the frayed ends of sanity solo

[@CaptainRudy4021]

@@DanielFantini that's definitely one of the most tricky to play but it sounds awesome

[@quesefoda1992]

3:20

[@burcolclone8322]

the riffs hidden in the solos are always amazing

[@ataydaloglu]

james hetfield is a riff god

[@mahserin4atls75]

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[@mahmutesatarslan6550]

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[@LjxsuW]

And you have a rust in peace pfp 😂

[@Salisboury]

@@LjxsuWright but gotta give credit where credit is due.

[@JupiterKnight]

@@LjxsuWshush

[@jameshetfield3105]

So close to reaching my goal of playing this fully with no mistakes, thanks for posting Edit: I can now play this at 115% speed with no mistakes whatsoever.

[@Bags1205]

How?! 😦

[@jameshetfield3105]

@@Bags1205 Just practice, it came naturally after a week or so of practice once every one to two days slowly speeding it up. I was already able to lay down eight tracks of the rhythm guitars and have them be really tight so it wasn't that difficult

[@a.t.3192]

3:00 and 3:20 are such fucking amazing riffs. Shame you can't really hear them too well over the lead on the song.

[@torringames]

Most metallica songs dont make me say ouch my wrist after practice like this one does lol

[@murf1mikejr]

*disposable heroes wants to know your location*

[@kartikchandrasekhar2762]

"On rhythm guitar, the proficiency and precision of James Hetfield left the producer [Flemming Rasmussen] spellbound. Each of the songs on Master Of Puppets features at least six identical guitar parts, overlaid so as to thicken the album’s sound. Each of these was recorded afresh, rather than overdubbing one part numerous times, as is the norm."

[@chrisfaulkner3831]

It would be interesting to hear the album with only 1 original Rhythm guitar and the other overlaid rhythm’s removed. I wonder how much it would change the sound.

[@1DShoe]

This is beyond impressive. It’s also one of the best demonstrations of the importance of a GOOD (in this case phenomenal) rhythm guitarist.

[@Querlos]

What the heck was that 3:08. holy crap

[@CaptainRudy4021]

Pure magic

[@Querlos]

@@CaptainRudy4021 amen

[@666godofmetal]

I am obsessed with listening to these isolated tracks. Thanks for posting!

[@envano1824]

El más sólido y consistente muting riff

[@kragonlinx]

this rift always made me feel as if i was riding through the night like a hooded vigilante on horseback, my steed galloping through the darkness with long powerful strides.

[@kerashlallchander]

Dudes are here studying James Rhythm Accuracy. Shout out

[@justinashworth5996]

During the solo it sounds like a whole new song

[@CaptainRudy4021]

It actually reminds me of the intro to all nightmare long

[@justinashworth5996]

@@CaptainRudy4021 damm it actually does

[@cliffthelightning]

I fucking love that riff behind the main solo so much, it makes me want to drive an 18 wheeler into an explosion

[@michaelmarcuola1684]

J'ai pu entendre des nuances dans les riffs que le mix final a noyé dans la masse ! 🤟😎

[@paddyoflaherty2519]

Machine like precision ! Hetfield at his peak.

[@DoktorDamage]

Insane tight playing !!!! :O

[@erikmandmaa5797]

The hard part about the rhythm part (other than the speed and maintaining dexterity) is alternate picking to get that galloping sound from muted e string and then down stroked power chords

[@grandlethal1813]

0:41-1:06 FUCK YEAH 🤘🤘🤘

[@wyzlight2028]

Its a shame the riff under the lead bridge isn't louder on the album, its unlike anything I have ever heard.

[@thomassaunderson2746]

How did you create the rhythm track?

[@AlejandroRasmussen7]

Fucking syncopation is whats hardest about this riff

[@ryangreene50]

Whered you get this? Do all GH tracks have rhythm only?

[@CaptainRudy4021]

Nope. The rhythm sections behind the solos in most metallica songs are buried in the vocal tracks. This is an edit I made using the existing guitar and vocal tracks.

[@JamesSmith-eu3mq]

Kirk was cut off form the photo ??!!

[@CaptainRudy4021]

I did that on purpose. I made a video similar to this that has all the instruments minus Kirk's solos. I figured it was fitting. I just reused it for this.

[@kelleymcbride4633]

🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘

[@ricethrupower]

The riff during the bridge is the only riff that matters

[@nunoharris]

Hi . What amp and cab is James using ? Thanks

[@PippPriss]

Not sure, but I believe the amp is a Mesa Boogie Mark 2 IIC+. What's important is the parametric EQ they used in the console to shape the sound. There is a pedal which is kind of designed around that, the PMEQ Puppet Master Semi-Parametric EQ Aphex EQF-2. I think, cabinets would be 1960 Marshall cabinets, but no idea if they were loaded with Greenbacks or T-75. Most likely not Vintage 30s, as they were released 1986 and MoP was recorded in 1985, and released in 1986.

[@bengates1301]

Hmm, something appears to be wrong. The video will not play :(

[@CaptainRudy4021]

Try restarting the app. If that doesn't work, restart whatever device or computer you're using.

[@nizami8500]

😰

[@BLKR_JACK]

I'm kinda over guitar solos in songs s t least the long ones.

[@adamkwiecien5489]

Now you know why Dave Mustaine said that James is the best rhythm guitarist in the world... Nobody else could play like that. And James did it all alone at the age of 22! :O

[@CaptainRudy4021]

@@adamkwiecien5489 he did Disposable Heroes at 21

[@adamkwiecien5489]

@@CaptainRudy4021 On album version he was 22.

[@CaptainRudy4021]

@@adamkwiecien5489 depends on exactly when he recorded it cuz they started recording master of Puppets a few weeks before his 22nd birthday

[@adamkwiecien5489]

@@CaptainRudy4021 No, he was born in August and they started recording session in September already. So, he was definetely 22.

[@CaptainRudy4021]

@@adamkwiecien5489 for some reasone I always thought his birthday was in September. Like, I always thought to myself how much it sucks that cliff died only a few days after his birthday.

[@kartikchandrasekhar7393]

''KIRK HAMMETT: James would show Cliff and me the riffs, and we'd build the songs from there. Some I'd already be familiar with. The main riff in ''Battery'', for instance: the first time I heard James play that was in England, on his acoustic guitar. We were watching THE YOUNG ONES on the BBC, and all of a sudden he started messing around with this sort of galloping rhythm. I said, ''Wow, that's cool''. And so when it came time to start learning stuff, I'd often hear a riff and say, ''Oh, okay. I know that one.""

[@ina_exe]

3:08

[@thallen8640]

The gallops🤘

[@ina_exe]

@@thallen8640 i made a timestamp cuz i was learning the part by ear ahah but YESSS its soo good