The Conjuring Guitar Lesson

The beginning high notes of this song are played with a guitar pick ... one guitar plays the chords in the background... the other picks the notes. Mustaine plays this live all by himself using harmonic by tapping over the chords he strums... but you need a 24 fret guitar to do this. I don't have one. This song is a lot of fun to play especially the verse part. I also see Mustaine play this slightly different than i do during that part, but he sings over it so.... the less he moves his hand the better off he is. Which is why he plays it differently... same notes.... just different frets/strings.

[@patriziamoscardi1646]

good mourning/black friday !

[@francescor.2310]

please can you do devil's Island or bad omen?anyway thanks for all this accurate lessons bro!

[@eastpross]

why dont you say the chord names? instead of just the positions? good video though.

[@andydavis6632]

Is that American or Mexican

[@DLTA64]

You do NOT need a 24 fret guitar. You can still tap the harmonics, you just don't have the frets to indicate where exactly to tap, so you have to figure that out.

[@metalbryan101]

+Athalos Yeah... i dont feel like figuring it out. but i have a 24 fret guitar now

[@theextinctsurgeon310]

@@metalbryan101 3:30. I listened to the track and it sounds like dave is hitting 2 fret/6th string to open E as you said. However I cant get a similar sound as you when you say 2 fret power chord on after the speed/alternate picking. It sounds like you should be hitting the 5th fret of the 6th string

[@haydenschmid760]

When my comes to learning Megadeth songs, I always come to your channel. Your lessons are fantastic and accurate!

[@crazycat1o18]

haha i love how the major chord is an "ugly" chord😂

[@yessir6427]

without the fifth it is ugly

[@fredmartell666]

any chance you can do a lesson on how to play the Conjuring's amazing solos

[@Buraz93]

He's rhythm guy who occasionally does small easier solos.. but yeah, 99% rhythm

[@Roger8176]

Thanks Man. Good Lesson. Damn you analyzed the hell out of that song. Subtle things like the moving the palm muting towards the neck during the first verse only, but not the second. I doubt Dave could teach this song that well. Also, nice tone man...that sounds awesome. Thanks Again and Take Care.

[@andydavis6632]

Love the sound of the pic ups

[@ryj44]

I’m here. And moving forward after I figured that intro out 😂Thank you dude! This helps a lot except now they play it in D standard and I have to keep switching guitars. Lol 🤘🏻

[@KoryGraphic]

GOD this riff is insane!

[@FcbRecker]

wich? xd

[@mike285]

Which one dude, there's like 5 different riffs in this song

[@Metallicainjection]

Awesome lesson .. thanx ..

[@AtacamaHumanoid]

halfway between a D# and an E? How weird. I wonder if that is really how they tune or if they just pitch shifted it for the record.

[@MegaThrasher95]

A lot of bands used to tune that way. Megadeth did it for their first two records. Def Leppard did that. So did Pantera. Machine Head does something similar.

[@TheMegadeth350]

AC/DC even used this tunning

[@AtacamaHumanoid]

@@TheMegadeth350 but is it actually tuned or pitch-shifted in the studio? What are they tuned to live? I know Flemming Rasmussen pitch-shifted Metallica's Ride The Lightning and Master of Puppets albums to something bizarre that they didn't tune to live.

[@TheMegadeth350]

Johnny Namechanger opinions are divided. Some people says that the pitch is shifted due to cheap recording stuff but I don’t think so. In my opinion they tuned the guitars a little bit lower. Of course they never used this tuning live.

[@AtacamaHumanoid]

@@TheMegadeth350 Tuning to a quarter tone just seems like a lot of work and doesn't make a lot of sense for the singer if the band isn't doing it live, too. I'm pretty sure all these examples were done in the studio just because these tricks are easy to do and producers might do it just to correct something that's bugging them about the mix.

[@steverkic8837]

You dont need frets to tap the 24th position

[@deckerh.7620]

Amazing lesson! I always thought this song was complex but it’s pretty simple in terms of the riffs

[@mcplankie2998]

Why does Dave tap the harmonics live if it was recorded hitting the strings?

[@metalbryan101]

You can do it both ways. I figure he’s played the song hundreds of times and when you do that, you tend to change things up. I know that’s what I do.

[@ryanhemond4314]

I think you did an incredible job on this lesson my bruddah. Fired me up, put some work in & when the riffs clicked & I crushed it, great feeling. My favorite Megadeth song...thank you MB, debt of gratitude.

[@logancalvaresi3447]

Thank you so much man this is a great lesson

[@andydavis6632]

Breaking this down to me shows how freaking badass Dave really is

[@calliloden2619]

is there anything you can't play - awesome

[@metalbryan101]

Lol - yes

[@johanpeters7191]

Dude thanks for the great lesson. You always have it perfectly.

[@SardonicCrows]

Thanks a ton for this super useful video! I need to learn the song for a cover and the way you break everything down is such a great help for getting it into my head

[@metalbryan101]

That’s awesome. Glad it helped. Good luck with the cover!!

[@fredmartell9600]

any chance you can do a lesson on how to play the Conjuring's amazing first solo?

[@Replika2000]

Great lesson! Would you do 502 as well :-)?

[@Smoogems_]

Nice and concise lesson Thankyou sir

[@partriotsfight5039]

Those fingers on the fret hand scraping the strings are killing me. Should have mixed up the speaker or something

[@conjering]

Bad Ass, I've been trying to figure out this song for ever.

[@sixstringslayaguitarman419]

Such a great lesson on this killer song. I love how you break down the songs into easy small riff lessons. Makes it so much easier to learn to play these songs the right way. Looking forward to your next lesson!

[@dereksmallsuk]

EXCELLENT

[@Ironsights51]

Thanks for the awesome video man!

[@_display_11]

450

[@jonnydavies6968]

The riff at 21.39: I've seen Dave play the riff totally differently. Instead of those E/Bflat power chords, he's was upstroking quickly on the open top E and B strings, then putting his ring finger across the 3rd fret of the B, G and D strings to get the B flat, then going straight to the bottom E power chord. Until i saw him do that, I used to play it pretty much like you. :)

[@metalbryan101]

Jonny Davies yeah that works too. Do what Dave does. Not me

[@jonnydavies6968]

Lol. Then I go on to a live performance after writing this and he plays it just like you here, lol.

[@AlabamaJackable]

I don't know why you just say the chord rather than saying power chord 2nd fret to the power chord on the 3rd fret and so on, We would still understand what you mean. Great lesson thought, tried working this song out many times, It's to fast for my ears to register.

[@AZ-kr6ff]

Why do you need a 24 fret guitar to get those harmoics? The harmonics are there even if the frets are not, right?

[@metalbryan101]

I’m wrong. You don’t. Old video🫤

[@badboyzz7844]

OBEY

[@remnant24]

You're playing the tritone shifts wrong. Dave uses his spider chord thing, and without the octave.

[@ThrashRebel]

You play the hammer-on (in the verse riff) differently each time in your tutorial. You play the first hammer-on ascending, then you play it descending. Good job, though, & thanks for the tutorial. I have a tab book with selected songs from "Peace Sells..." & "So Far So Good...," but "the Conjuring" isn't in the book, nor is "My Last Words," which you also did a tutorial for.

[@mike285]

I am convinced this is thedooo, the veins on his arms and the bed frame is in the exact same position as the thodooo's in his videos

[@simonelli88]

Fantastic, what amp settings are you using please?

[@johnpise1723]

What type of pickups are in that strat?

[@metalbryan101]

Seymour Duncan

[@justcamel6462]

Could you make timecodes for each part/riff?

[@taggartknutson1640]

could learn holy wars, take no prisoners, and five magics no problem but this song is really a challenge for me for some reason. great video by the way.

[@motofriend1744]

Спасибо приятель. Thanks dude .

[@melisandrelefay7835]

Thanks man, i really appreciate you playing this song

[@RichGuitarWissen]

👍 thats very good dude Thank you!

[@Eatfard_5150]

The harmonics i believe are just an octave, tapped, so even if you didn’t have a 24 fret guitar (which i know you do now), you could just tap the octave of the chords, like how they picked it instead of tap harmonics on the record, just tap where he picks the notes and your good to go

[@metalbryan101]

You are 100% correct. Thanks for the correction!

[@steverambo1822]

20:44

[@gabrielquiroz6335]

3:55

[@davemustaine7504]

dope. thanks heaps

[@dyerseve45]

Your lessons are great . Another epic lesson for an epic song. Thanks

[@Mike-by4nn]

whats the tuning!?

[@alvarogrillet1540]

regular tuning but at 430Hz

[@CECMUNJOHN]

Thanks!!

[@justcamel6462]

20:41

[@ryangreene50]

7:04 I have to think so hard about this while playing this. It's fine if you play it once, but when you play it 5 times in a row fast...

[@metalbryan101]

Ryan Greene I hear you. Just keep practicing... it will become something you don’t think about. Muscle memory will kick in

[@ryangreene50]

metalbrayn101 just started playing 2 months ago. May not be the best idea, but this song is so damn good

[@metalbryan101]

Ryan Greene I agree. Start with any song off kill em all. They’re easier than Megadeth and you will build an amazing foundation of skills for your hands

[@ryangreene50]

Potato Man at this point I can play the blackened riff fairly consistently but i can’t barely play any megadeth songs

[@alejandrobrunalucero1735]

I love this Megadeth masterpiece song. I feel a lot emotions. Megadeth should aleatorio plays this song. Thank you very much for learn to play it.

[@tog2842]

Really great explanation of a magnificent song, thanks man

[@exiled935]

great job man one of my favorite megadeth song so underrated !!

[@jerradcampbell74]

This was an excellent lesson. It would have sounded much better with humbucker pickups. Kudos for getting that great of sound from a Stratocaster. :)

[@philipreedwallace]

Dude . Thank you. Not near as hard as I thought it would be. I just need to practice it. I love the breakdown in the middle. Dam it rocks. Dave is a bad ass on guitar.

[@oskarsalvador7414]

You should “just stop”; explain better the first tell or stop telling others not to continue watching your video.

[@metalbryan101]

Why?