10 Hidden ENTER SANDMAN Details (that I SHOULD have known!)

-10 Hidden ENTER SANDMAN Details (that I SHOULD have known!)
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[@ThePwig]

I’m really glad you noticed the walk up part. It’s always been my favorite part of the song. I always knew it was there. You see James play it on the “Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica” during the recording half of the movie. As an extreme Metallica nerd, I knew about all of these. And basically every single tiny detail in every song. I used to record cover versions of their songs with a four track and only have guitars since I was just recording in my bedroom. I was meticulous with everything.

[@milesteg8183]

Year and half in the Life of, especially the in studio half, was in my VCR constantly. Metallica has always been so good their fans by letting us in on everything. Stay good friend. 🤘🏻

[@AndDeathForAll82]

A Metallica nerd on my level! Always great to see!

[@oldestries]

Imagine i was doing all above with a walkman & an acoustic back in 98. Cant afford an electric guitar at that time.

[@SvenSvensvensonsson]

#MeToo

[@tylernewton7217]

I know the exact part you're talking about. I love that scene. James just played it so fluidly. Loved that "yellowing" ESP MX he used for that recording too. Also I noticed he used gaffer tape across the strings above the nut. I suppose that mutes any miniscule "chiming" rings that might possibly be audible in the mix. Amazing attention to detail.

[@deadstar44]

What I love in Enter Sandman is the little guitar muted fill variation at the end of each tail in the chorus.

[@jakeguercia7755]

Right ?!?! It’s seriously so so fun to play and sounds so badass

[@thefellduck]

"I've been playing Enter Sandman for over 30 years now" was just hurtful :D

[@INFERIORMARCH]

😂😂😂😂

[@JPBrooksLive]

I've been teaching for years and I always show the kids the "normal" (wrong) way and the "Hetfield" way lol. I definitely never noticed the higher octave in the prayer section. But the build up and build down was always notable just from having to tab them out so much.

[@XXXX-yc6wv]

There's an argument it isn't the "Hetfield way" but is actually the "Mustaine way", which he calls the "spider chord", as seen in songs like Wake Up Dead and specifically says he used it in Metallica songs too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKWcioFnrNOoobM

[@mini_moose_x]

These are new to me, I never noticed those small details. I like the song breakdown type vids, they're really helpful. 😊

[@77zrod46]

How's this? I suck at guitar. Started on a J.C. Penny nylon acoustic in 86. Moved to a brick and morter electric drum set in 88. Got my RG270 in 97. Also, a VOX base amp to play with. Now, at 43, I have a cheap Warlock from trading in the RG, an RGA, the 6" Marshall after the base amp, and a new to me JC40. Headphones come today and just need to get a switching pedal. I haven't played in 10yrs., and I'm still the same. Plus a wife and 3 kids. I love it! Can't wait to get better!!!!

[@andrr2004]

learning guitar in the late 10s helped me to notice all these details without any problem. i can't imagine how tough was learning back in the 90s

[@kicksex]

It wasn’t. Tab books were close enough. He’s just getting into some intricacies that were easy to miss

[@HannahCope88]

Love the new Take Lessons With Me slide at the very beginning and end there. Congrats on 823k Subscribers! Love these details! That's one thing out of many that I love about music is that every time I listen I might notice something new or take more notice of something I'd already heard. This will always be one of my favourite Metallica songs.

[@CornSw]

This is so invaluable. Fun thing is I discovered the detail number 3 only yesterday, and I actually got to know the intro-position by watching one of your videos. Thanks man! Love these detail-videos! :D

[@mattsellman4009]

The nostalgia is immense watching this one. Basically my high school band foundation with me on lead. You've justified a number of my leaps from the Black snake tab at the time with the palmmuting and showed me my "one eye open" bridge was as bad as id feared. You rock!

[@StevenPDunne]

Years ago, and I don’t know how or why I started doing this, but I added a pinch harmonic to the A note in the main riff and it sounded so cool, I always end up playing it that way.

[@netsurfer62]

Coming back to your question: #8 - "the pushing" I always felt there is somehing odd here timing wise.. now I have the explanation why that was. Thank you! Other than that, with the great techical tools available nowadays I could figure out the rest before I saw this video.

[@philfrank5601]

I appreciate your attention to detail! It matters for those who really would like to know how the artist actually plays it.

[@szithaanu9934]

Interesting that some little details remain hidden for so long. I knew a few already as I figured them out myself, particularly the intro riff. I learned it by playing the open G and knew right away it wasn't sounding right. It's great to see the other little bits that may seem insignificant but really glue the song together, like that chromatic step. I can't believe I've never noticed that before. Great idea for a video.

[@AlphaNumeric123]

Loveee these. I think Hendrix would be a great subject, because there’s so much hidden intricacy to uncover

[@andrewowler1522]

Man, with Metallica there is always a bit. I am 52 and like you grew up with tab books. I have found so many bits like this every time i go back to trying to play their songs. I am only a bedroom strummer and love to enjoy my playing . I know sometimes i just let details go and just play, but over the years I have got better at it. That is why they are Metallica and I am a storeman. HA HA. Still, I love rocking out.

[@jasyynnoe8392]

The main riff tag has 4 different variations, you're missing the regular chorus version. You described and played the final chorus version (un-muting and sliding up to G, though it should be a legato slide then a strum), but in the first 2 choruses, it remains muted with no slide (but does hit 2 Gs). In the verse version, the un-muted part should be a legato slide from G to F#.

[@anthonytilizien511]

Impressed by Gibson. That selector switch is so smooth... My Epiphone's one always sounds like it need WD-40...

[@matcoffidis1135]

I watched Rick Beato's What...song Great on the song. The harmony vox on thevsong are so cool. A lot of nuance to the song that I really didnt recognize. Thanks...✌️

[@MashaT22]

Love when you discover more stuff. How did you come to find ten new details in one shot after so long?! I knew some of those details from Yousician’s Metallica course, which was very well done in collaboration with the band, but I’m at level 8 to 9-ish and never saw the highest levels. Maybe more of what you showed us that I never saw is revealed in those highest levels. Maybe there’s even more. I know you’re very skeptical of Yousician and other such apps (the Gibson app is even better btw), but did you not look at the Metallica lessons when the course was released last year? Maybe you can revisit just to find some more of those missing details for the songs they have posted.🤘🏻🎸

[@TheArtofGuitar]

Going over the isolated tracks for my new Song Recipe series on my website. Was quite surprised.

[@81giorikas]

@@TheArtofGuitar Have you seen James doing the enter sandman intro live on the open strings instead of the fifth fret etc...even my son noticed it.

[@TheArtofGuitar]

This is the best view I've seen of James doing the intro. kzbin.info/www/bejne/onrQZJ2diK2WmNU

[@thehunter7422]

So fascinating finding these little details even after decade's later lol . Amazing to see how many details can go unnoticed so easily

[@SimonKranzDrums]

Thanks for pointing out those details! When I'm working on that song with my drum students I like to play guitar with them - and now I can do that even more right!

[@tommynoble3428]

I knew four of these - but the other six were complete eye openers. Thanks for this!

[@sigtyr8887]

The main riff I have done the right way without thinking about it. The chorus I'm pretty sure I have done the right way, I always thought my tab book lacked something in the chorus. Most of the other things was new to me. I have always played the same main riff tail, like you before. So thanks for the discovery.

[@eightbars1]

I gotta tell you a story about those tab books. Back when "Stairway..." was a new song, and I wanted to learn it so much, it became the first song I learned while sleeping. Not with it playing while I slept. but with it coming to me while I slept. I sat upright in bed, grabbed my guitar (it was always within reach) and could play it! I showed it to my friends but they thought I must be wrong because they couldn't grasp the opening chords with their uncoordinated fingers. Then, the first edition of "Led Zeppelin Complete" came out and it had some other way of playing it. My friends were teasing me how wrong I was, but I played it the books way and my way and they had to admit my way sounded right. Then the second edition of that tab book came out and this time it had my version in it, note for note. I was not only vindicated, but a little puzzled still by how it came to me. Waking up at 3am and suddenly knowing how to play what was then a difficult song still blew me away. But the differences between the first and second edition of that book were many, and not just on "Stairway...". I started to look at those books the same way I look at maps. A road map will show you which street to take, but not which lane to drive in. You gotta use your own ear as much as the books, which at times can be nothing more than suggestions. You must take it with a grain of salt and consider the book as a suggested road. You pick your lane.

[@Maggai]

I guess I'm a super Metallica guitar nerd, because I knew all these. I'd always nitpick every single detail, and watch all the videos over and over, especially A year and a half part 1. 🤘🤘

[@ChrisRash]

Yeah, I thought everybody knew these details

[@Clafrance1971]

I listened to a demo version of the son, minus vocals, over and over again in the 90s to pick up nearly all of the tricks. N3ver really knew the way the notes were played though.

[@Turley30]

If you watch Hetfield live sometimes now he actually slides into the G on the tail. Thanks for sharing the little nuances that actually does improve the sound

[@Dr-Curious]

Na. Playing with confidence and individualism improves a sound, not slavishly copying.

[@Turley30]

@@Dr-Curious tell that to the people that used to play blackened on the 5th string on the 2nd fret like the tab book transcribes!

[@jerikhendrickson]

Absolutely NAILED that Black Album tone

[@juliakowalczuk3082]

Really cool video! I'm playing this song with my band and I noticed some of those details when learning by ear, but I did not hear the chromatic walk up and never sat down to figure out variable tails. Now I will give it a shot!

[@robertb2245]

Hey dude I learned alot on guitar by watching James play the parts on year and a half documentary..its fun and its great...still learning...🤘🎸🎸

[@stefanloof1643]

Awesome, Mike! Well done! 🤘Cheers from Sweden! 🇸🇪

[@8tonystark8]

As a radiologist, hobby guitar player and MetallicA 'super' fan - this shirt is everything!

[@JLFerguson]

I guest played James’s part for a local band and when I nailed the “detail #9” part the lead guitarist gave me the hell yeah look and nod, he was really surprised I picked up on that

[@riangarianga]

The correct fingering for the clean intro riff I actually got it from you, but the rest of the details I had them right since I tabbed most of the song for my students a few years back, obviously with the luxury of having the isolated guitar track. There's no way I could have made this work in the late '90s, when I relied on the sampler from my Zoom 2100, getting the input from a noisy tape... Even that was already a luxury when compared to older people than me, who had to slow down a record, and figure everything out being one octave lower.

[@bradwhite4827]

Dude that was awesome! Learn something new every day lol!

[@dcwebzine]

That rhythm tone is brilliant! 🤘👌

[@PeterJohnson76]

Good video, I knew most of these details. I am surprised you mentioned you did not release the outro was like the reverse of the intro build up. In various bands I've been in it never sounded as good as the into build in, and it's got me thinking if some of the other guitarist's in the band were aware of this.

[@Sergio2006A]

Love your tone, man. It's killer! 🤘

[@ksysinf]

I think I already knew most of this but you still managed to bring something new to me, thanks

[@v0ver]

I love your details! Great job!

[@leite02]

Great vid! I knew the first and the last ones!

[@cjs5740]

6, 7, 9 were definitely new. Great vid!

[@jeffreymckeown]

Nice detail recovered. May I have a request? I really like it if you try to make a video about Guns N' Roses, especially the song called "Coma". At first, I was thinking that the chords are repeating often. But the more I listened to that song, the more confused I became because I realized there were many changes of chords progression. In the end, thanks a lot for your videos, it really helps people.

[@ShaunRF]

"I've been playing Enter Sandman for over 30 years now" *Matt Damon aging meme*

[@joelbelec9032]

Always wondered what was different in the end until you explained the reverse of the beginning. Also, can you show us what Kirk does during the chorus of sad but true? I can’t find it ANYWHERE!

[@iwannaseenow1]

I knew Detail 3, except I never played the E chord twice like you do here, lol. Detail 7, i don't hit the G twice, i slide down to the F# there. Detail 9, never knew. Great vid once again!

[@Orciwan548]

Makes me appreciate guitar 365 I knew most of these and that’s where I learned the song years ago.

[@JeremyAndersonBoise]

I like the channel, slightly surprised to say I knew all those details the year the damn record came out. OG Metallica nerd for life, I guess. We were forbidden from playing Enter Sandman at the Boise High School talent show because the Principal, a local historic figure named Blossom Turk, said it had, I shit you not, “Satanic overtones.” It was in the news and stuff. The Satanic Panic was still strong in 1991.

[@merdmann]

Happy to save detail 5 I was always played it that way because I thought it was what I was hearing, but then I would compare it to the intro and it would make me second guess what I was hearing

[@danieljester7752]

i learned it playing a tape and earing it out...got it all down pretty well.....30 years ago ...i learned buying that old led zeppelin complete book when i first started that the tabs sucked...and i have a savant ear so i learned everything that way...i had an advantage from playing sax in concert forum very young...it kind of forces you to really listen for intruments in the band and really single out sounds

[@deerfeeder2076]

You show the art of Metallica on this, great job. There were some things I didn't know as you have shown here. I wonder if you also have covered a much missed part - that is the 'A' to 'E' bass and maybe backing guitar notes in the beginning of the song during the build up. I love this keep it up.

[@joseruvalcaba1927]

Ths is really new to me! I play the intro the way the book says! But sounds great like U play it now!

[@jaytyler5741]

You got almost all of that right. On the exit light part every second time there's a d-flat / c sharp snuck in there if you listen really close.

[@martyhafermann938]

Thanks Mike! I'll try to tighten up my playing on that one

[@daniels7624]

Now that you said it, i'm actually quite surprised i seem to have picked up on these things right away - cause i've always played them like this. Never had any tabbooks btw. Not bad. Greetz from Germany! 😀

[@marcreichman]

The push you mention in the chorus F# chords is very similar to what happens in the bridge of blackened underneath the vocals.

[@toddapplegate3988]

I bet james and kirk dont remember all the little variations that they have added and subtracted over the years. Songs should be a living thing

[@MGBP616]

FINALLY.... in the year 2023....the tabs are complete!!! Funny how the complexity grows with accuracy, as expected, but not expected to the point of all these intricacies. Not a whole lot of intricacies in new "modern" recordings, this is refreshing.

[@bjrnsjohnsen1278]

Love your new radioactive Kulick shirt! 😊

[@amizakk]

Regarding #5 and why did they play it like that, I’ve always viewed it as James giving that tail riff a variation to keep it interesting since the riffs are rather simple all around. Great attention to detail. But like some of the other stuff in here, James and Kirk haven’t even played it that way live for decades now.

[@BradyA1124]

Man Mike . what do you think of the Yamaha Revstars? They're so cool! These things should be everywhere

[@santinhoww]

Lots of good details! Your guitar sound is thick too, what did you use as amp/pedals?

[@TheArtofGuitar]

Engl Retro Tube 100 (dist) and Roland Jazz Chorus (clean).

[@Cherry_Sunburst]

EXCELLENT...Which amp did you use for this?

[@TheMasonator777]

Can I ask what gear and settings are you using for the video? Really nice tone. Just the gear is fine if getting into the settings is too much.

[@TheFreeBass]

I started playing in the mid-80s (as you mention, long before internet & isolated tracks). What I learned from the variety of sources I started with (mags & books) was the importance of ear training. It seems to me that (almost) everyone on the net these days learn a song from this tab or that, then if/ when something doesn't sound "right" they go find a live vid of the song & use that to "refine" their performance. But back in the day even with a tab/ transcription if something sounded off we would listen to the part over & over & actually LISTEN to the part rather than blindly trust a transcription of questionable quality. And in all honesty listening over & over was how most ppl learned most of their covers rather than being limited to what they could find a transcript for. Yeah, we still got a lot wrong, but as we got better at playing/ learning (training our ear) so did our accuracy. To relate this to the current band in question (& the Bad Tabs series here), I distinctly remember trying to learn Orion from The Book & finding all of Cliff's solos & leads had been transposed to guitar. Now I don't know if it was ignorance on the author's part or "guitar ego" needing to be the soloist, but my ear told me that that was Cliff even before I saw The Book & was in fact a main reason I wanted to learn the song to begin with. How many bass players ever learned this song from The Book & told their band "Yeah, I can play that", then just stood there looking dumb when their moment to shine came up? Does anyone (particularly beginners/ novices) still learn songs purely by ear these days?

[@BrainWasherAttendent]

I honestly surprised these weren’t heard. It’s interesting how everyone hears things differently.

[@James-bj2km]

Thanks to you for you're explenetion. I"m a hugh fan, who try to play that track on mx explorer. And bought also These Tabs. Now after years I realized. that I was falsch. Thank you very much for you're explenation.

[@ralphralpherson9441]

I grew up trying to emulate James so a lot of this came naturally to me... but... some of the stuff on Justice that I THOUGHT I heard and now know better really surprised me when I first learned of my mistakes. By the time LOAD came out, I was already over Metallica (having traded in my metal T shirts for flannel). But don't worry, I recovered and came back to metal.

[@bjthenvincible]

Love you bro you have helped me so much through my journey on guitar and you could you maybe make a video on how to make sick riffs like swords of sadness that riff rips bro🤘

[@mboemker]

4:52 I feel like playing the last 3 unmuted helps fill the space while he's not singing, almost like a call and response

[@michaelmarcuola1684]

Great video! To be honest, I knew about the weird fingering on the intro. I saw James played it this way on A Year and A Half in the life of Metallica video in 1992, 93. It was never released in DVD pr Blue Ray and it's a shame! I'm aware of these little details because I heard them through time. Nevertheless, it's always good to notice, point and talk about it. 👍🤟😎

[@telefoon1978]

Love your guitar man!!

[@somarriba333]

I've always played the intro with the 2nd and 4th fingers. The book says "Let Ring" on that part so the only way to let it ring is using all 4 figures.

[@brianlorah1378]

I think every one of these was in the Mammoth Metal Guitar Tab Anthology's tab. As were all of your Master of Puppets details in an earlier video. Easily one of the most accurate and detailed tab books I've ever bought. If you ever do a highly accurate tab book video to contrast your bad tab book videos, that should be included.

[@razvananghel384]

Really cool video! I knew a few of those details, but as you said, they are hard to notice. Can you do a video about the live version of the intro? Because they play E chords just before the F chord section, but I find it weird to switch to F after an E. Maybe I am missing something.

[@renemies78]

I"ve been playing the song wrong since it came out. Haha! Great video.

[@RandomeGuy872]

Isn't the g note in the clean intro supposed to be an open string?

[@pikkadollen]

A great example of how bands tends to change how they play their songs was when KISS did their first reunion (1996) Ace and Peter was like living time capsules and had to correct Gene and Paul since Gene and Paul had been playing and changing their playing for twenty:ish years.

[@hatimusic5716]

number 8 and 9 i didnt know, a personally i couldnt believe it either, i had to go back and listen to the song again

[@lewismaclean8849]

Incredible video. Can you please do a video of the techniques of Trivium’s Matt Heafy and Corey Beaulieu. They were my Metallica, the band that got me into metal music.

[@burieddreamer]

I've noticed the fade out on my first few hearings, when I didn't play anything at all. I'm surprised an experienced guitarrist would miss that.

[@chrisswan1170]

I started playing the intro always hitting the G on the D string. After listening closely, it sounded like they were just playing the open G string. Which makes sense because it's much easier to hit the descending low E notes while the G is able to ring unencumbered.

[@jatodd3746]

The best thing about "Enter Sandman" is the remake by The Warning. It is now their song.

[@MetaITurtle]

I usually noticed these things when watching James play them live, his riffs are simple and complicated at the same time

[@ambush3626]

what amp are you using in this video, tone is killer

[@therealjohngalaxy]

5:06 the "eggs of life" part 😂

[@mistarmer]

#7 always screwed me up. Thanks

[@metalslinger]

Some are, some not. The open E palm mute on the main riff is something I learned early on. I also learned something, that some people don't do the slide to the 7th fret on the main riff.

[@johnnyriffs]

I knew about every detail by now so I guess that makes me a James nerd 😘 But I totaly understand why some of these details is ”new” to people, I missed exactly the same kind of stuff for many years. It wasnt until I relearned the first 5 albums 20+ years later that I noticed some of the muting details. And you can find similar details in many other songs… I think that is a part of the reason of why I never get tired of James playing, because you can find ”new” details in his playing many years later… And sometimes you dont even notice some of it until decades later. At least if you are a ”boomer” and didnt have any of the isolated tracks 😉 (And we had the ”tabs that should not be”)

[@Taylor___]

Nice tone man.

[@Condemned782]

“I’ve been playing enter sandman for over 30 years now” dude have you played guitar since you were like, 5? 😭

[@JesseJuup]

You should listen to the originals Stone (thrash-band from Finland) riff and compare what Metallica left out.

[@Churro_Flaminguez]

7:14 That could be a guitar overdub in Nashville tuning. The effect is similar to a 12-string.

[@RobbieFitzgerald]

I think for the prechorus where you have the push, I do it but hit that F5 twice. Im pretty sure theyve done it live that way.

[@bluntmanbutt]

Killer tone. Any videos on your rig?

[@bluesrockroll]

09:55 the fade out is still wrong I think. Instead of the octave E on the A string on the 8th stroke, it is on the 3rd. So, not exactly like the intro.

[@chrissutton2586]

You’re awesome

[@wildchild01]

The octave part was a surprise for me!

[@zackmano]

Love the 1992 video!! 🤣🤘🏼🙌🏼 That literally was me also lol in those days. When Cobain died, we played an acoustic tribute to Nirvana at the school talent show. Some highlights: One of the songs we played for the tryouts was Rape Me. Yes I sang that in front of my teachers, and no they wouldn't let us play it at the show 🤣🤦‍♂️ Also, we covered On A Plain and I played it in STANDARD TUNING. Why? You guessed it: THE SHITTY NEVERMIND TAB BOOK! 🤣 God's honest truth man. Those were the days! 🙌🏼💙🤘🏼

[@louisarcand7158]

I also noticed that in the build down section, the last part sounds a little different as they punch the octave note on the second beat instead of the “&4” of the beginning to make that octave at the same place as the sections that precedes it.