What I Learned From Metallica

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@BenEller Ай бұрын

Thanks for learning what makes Metallica’s riffs GREAT! Watch the extended ad-free cut plus get the TABs here: www.patreon.com/posts/116571589?

@jeffallen3382 Ай бұрын

Aren't these A, B, C riffs just "call and response" riffs that you see a lot in Blues guitar?

@robduke1971 Ай бұрын

Dude, you definitely had that classic thrash sound dialed in. I feel like it's very garage, hollow, resonating off of beat up aluminum trash cans. Nice job.

@MarvelNotMusic Ай бұрын

This is a great idea for a series, Ben. Kind of like Rick Beato's "What Makes This Song Great" but more of a "What Makes This Band's Guitar Parts Great" vibe.

@BenEller Ай бұрын

Glad you dig it!

@marcinczarnecki687 Ай бұрын

Should be called : "What makes your aunt sick" or something

@sheriewart8100 Ай бұрын

My stepmom can’t stop talkin about your down stroke speed and power!

@lyricbread Ай бұрын

😂

@GonnaGetYouBoi Ай бұрын

@@lyricbread uncle ben s'bout to get lucky

@Ryan_Messenger Ай бұрын

Speed and power is the name of the game

@bonejohnson6248 Ай бұрын

The sheer possibilities of punchlines for this statement are beyond my comprehension

@ClifftopTragedy Ай бұрын

She appreciates an active pickup

@lyricbread Ай бұрын

Random Fact: The song “Dancing Queen” uses the ABBA formula.

@standard_tuning Ай бұрын

😂

@BenEller Ай бұрын

Lol

@thrash8315 Ай бұрын

The Ikari Warriors code.

@heavymetalmusictheory Ай бұрын

Congratulations on your soon to be 500k subs! You deserve it.

@BenEller Ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@Besseloff Ай бұрын

He deserves more. Not only musically fascinating and helpful, but also charismatic and funny.

@Jalex_Owns Ай бұрын

What, no "With THIS C-section, a RIFF was born" joke?

@BenEller Ай бұрын

Lolllll

@shakebabyhitler Ай бұрын

I see what you did there.

@henmat3000 Ай бұрын

11:13 This part of Eye of the Beholder features two distinct guitar parts played differently. It’s a two-part harmony guitar arrangement.The main part is played using E, G, and F#, while the higher part follows a completely different pattern. You can clearly hear it in the live performance of the Justice Medley.

@jasonstallworth 20 күн бұрын

Man, that A-B in Creeping Death has always been one of my favorites! Such a great video, dude! They're a big reason I picked up guitar way back in 1989

@TheFatBrownKid Ай бұрын

That Struggle Within riff is the is the best riff on the black album

@lyricbread Ай бұрын

That’s definitely a good one!

@CD-gk9ix Ай бұрын

The song has always felt off to me. I can’t explain it, maybe it’s the vocals trying to keep up with the riff?

@300WINMAG360 Ай бұрын

You are playing my favorite guitar of all time. I have the blue one you are playing and the Burgundy one also.

@AN0NYM00S Ай бұрын

Got the blue one too, such a nice guitar to play on

@stepitupandgo67 Ай бұрын

Ben has probably taught me more about guitar than anybody. Ty, man!

@garethsmith300 Ай бұрын

Whenever I think of the ABAC (and all the different variations of that structure) I’ve always applied it to a song as a whole I.e. a way to arrange entire parts (chorus, verse, bridge, etc.). I always considered all the riffs you used in this video as 1 single riff/idea on the whole. Your way of breaking what I considered a single riff down into separate parts is a cool way to think about it that I’ll definitely give a lot more focus to in the future. Thanks for the perspective uncle Ben!!

@lifeblood06 Ай бұрын

This was awesome!!! I've never thought about this

@rickkelley4618 Ай бұрын

Then, to top it off - on songs like Beholder, Sandman, Puppets - they repeat the A-B-C (mostly), but up a whole step to add intensity and tension, before finally resolving to the root once again. It’s brilliant simplicity. Thanks, stepdad!! Been watching you for a LONG time my friend. Love, your Metallidad.

@Onamorata Ай бұрын

Favorite Metallica riff…. Gotta say either Battery or blackened Saw them this summer two nights at Gillette here in Mass, and man it was amazing. I had put off seeing them, but now being 30, I needed to see them before it was too late. Lol

@graysonhester2955 Ай бұрын

That's my exact mentality in buying floor tickets for their show in Atlanta this July!

@MrBiteme39 Ай бұрын

I thought the same thing, but it's been too late since death magnetic came out when I was 17. Am I lost now entirely?

@gunnarstar Ай бұрын

Again; I love how you make sense of everything! 👍🤘

@satchrules101 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this amazing lesson , on structure, and arrangements for song writing! Please more like this !

@BenEller Ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

@user-ir2bj3re1z Ай бұрын

Love that guitar tone man. Very Capt Crunchy 😁🔥👍

@Zakk_Ross Ай бұрын

remember Uncle Ben, you and your brain are appreciated. I'm thankful for your creations and the knowledge you share. You rock:)

@BenEller Ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

@charlesg.1207 Ай бұрын

Very helpful lesson. Prefer these type of concepts over learning licks or riffs. So helpful and inspiring.

@HannahCope88 Ай бұрын

Love this, really helpful to have a breakdown of these various structures with actual examples of the songs/ riffs they're used in. I have read about these structures before and worked on them in a couple lessons, but never tried to employ them in writing anything as yet. Will be sure to tag ya when I come up with something. Hope ya hit that 500k Sub count soon my friend! 🙂🤘🏻🔥

@CentralOHSirens Ай бұрын

2:36 The Pulsepoint notification sound scared tf out of me 😂

@hasanmir Ай бұрын

Dude! Your down picking is ON POINT!

@BenEller Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@williambrown1451 Ай бұрын

nice video - riff and song architecture is so damn interesting, going through bands like sabbath, metallica, slayer, and a thousand others and dissecting a riff or song structure is always fun as hell

@amesmilesoff4768 Ай бұрын

Cheers Ben, love the Fishmans 👍

@chrisvanallsburg Ай бұрын

Uncle Ben, this is one of the best lessons I've gotten from anyone in a long time. Thank you! Really helps me with my riff writing. "Putting it all together." Uncle B is the best! Now about fixing my step-dad speed....

@TheMirrorify Ай бұрын

Great lesson and beautiful guitar.

@BenEller Ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@OgamiItto70 Ай бұрын

This is a good one. Songwriting strategies are underrepresented in guitar instruction. That's good lookin' out, Stepson!

@frayedsanity Ай бұрын

Thanks Uncle Ben! 😊 love metallica riffs!

@privmtb118 Ай бұрын

Brilliant! Never thought of the structure of Metallica songs this way....

@Krullmatic Ай бұрын

Yay! It's my dang good old buddy Uncle Ben! Golly gee, that's swell!

@wce74wce15 Ай бұрын

so well explained. legend

@deltalegendsguitaramplific5450 Ай бұрын

Thanks Uncle Ben !

@PapaSancho666 Ай бұрын

Another great video that provides insight into song structures, writing ideas etc. Thanks Uncle Ben!

@BenEller Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@iRaikaa Ай бұрын

Perfect tone and playing👌

@CodyBarnette-GNARK Ай бұрын

Yes I love this! This is what I’m constantly explaining to my chat when I’m writing during live streams!

@zubin9533 Ай бұрын

very informative yet entertaining at the same time! subscribed. hope to see more videos like this some time soon.

@christran2484 Ай бұрын

Uncle Ben is my favorite metal uncle 🤘

@CompleteProducer84 Ай бұрын

The crazy thing is that James was in his early 20's when he wrote his best riffs. I had barely learned to wipe my ass at 20

@Xplora213 Ай бұрын

Writing riffs is not writing songs. It’s why they needed Fleming and Lars AND CLIFF to guide James AND Kirk. It’s really easy to write riffs, it’s very hard to turn them into music.

@redbloodedamerican2346 Ай бұрын

@Xplora213 And much of its was also Dave Mustaines music which was stolen.

@IndieGameDeveloper Ай бұрын

@@redbloodedamerican2346 I think Metallica's best riffs came after Mustaine. MoP is peak Metallica for me.

@redbloodedamerican2346 Ай бұрын

@@IndieGameDeveloper I'll agree.

@Xplora213 Ай бұрын

@ not much of it at all. Try to remember that Dave didn’t produce the most iconic material they wrote. Not at all. If Dave was that good, he would have done far better later in his career. He wasn’t, and he didn’t. Look at Newsted for an Excellent example of former members achieving very little.

@tdub1 Ай бұрын

Sounds so good!

@adambelanger3976 Ай бұрын

There's also AACA pattern in Jump in the Fire.

@sirtogii5216 Ай бұрын

Funny, was watching a riff writing masterclass last night going over various alphabet combos and now I get a perfect walk through of some of my favourite riffages from Metallica. Cheers uncle Ben, heading over to Patreon ASAP

@BenEller Ай бұрын

That's awesome! See you there!

@ChristopherHemsworthCreative Ай бұрын

Awesome breakdown. I learned to play guitar on all of those riffs at age 13 and know them inside and out but this was still super fun and entertaining to watch because of YOU, Ben! I remember I saved up all my paper route money and went to our local music store and got these two epic books that were the COMPLETE works of Metallica (at the time) covering every single album from Kill "em All up to the Black album. I have always been a riff guy and so you can imagine I was in heaven! (while my parents were subsequently in hell while I practiced, haha)

@artbazan7428 Ай бұрын

Still following uncle ben! Miss dead and lovley but keep the metal going!! 😎🤘

@adammichael3934 Ай бұрын

The tone on this vid is sick

@bill74ish Ай бұрын

You explain this well.

@KeirCampbell-wj5om Ай бұрын

You’re my favorite uncle

@vicpnut1 Ай бұрын

Only one i have left ,its weird when your uncle is younger than you though 🤷🏼‍♂️😜✌️👍🏼🤟🏼

@dennis4113 Ай бұрын

4:13 you should use a string noise dampener Ben, the behind-the-nut ringing is killing the toan!!1!

@BenEller Ай бұрын

Yeeeah it’s got a little ring-a-ding, don’t it???

@dennis4113 Ай бұрын

jokes aside, great video. Metallica’s got some cool shit. 👍

@HabAnagarek Ай бұрын

Good lord, music doesn’t have to always be perfect

@KrwiomoczBogurodzicy Ай бұрын

Amateur hour 🙄

@mrpzak Ай бұрын

I have the RG5120M, pretty much that guitar with the floating bridge. It’s so good. And those pickups are the best.

@ThugLifeMarcus Ай бұрын

Good examples. Also love when them Metallican boys bring back riffs with a new variation, like adding the chugs on the last appearance of the Fade to Black bridge or the second chorus in Outlaw Torn.

@matheussantos9367 Ай бұрын

This blue Ibanez Prestige is 🤌 *chefs kiss* just gorgeous

@jswstella Ай бұрын

Eye of the beholder is tabbed like that, i believe, and i've always played it that way. it sounds right

@aas55 Ай бұрын

I have that guitar Uncle Ben! She’s my number 1.

@ronniecoffey9945 Ай бұрын

Uncle Ben your step dad thrash skills freakin Shine, plz you sound great

@albertschaf6985 29 күн бұрын

Shortest Straw makes a cameo at the end!! 🤘🤘

@worgothcgd Ай бұрын

I love the breakdown 🎉

@sandrarossi-l3h Ай бұрын

I like this guy Ben.

@erichartwell6792 Ай бұрын

I got the same pickups and they are amazing mine is gun metal black thow

@mochunk Ай бұрын

Ya know. I've always written riffs in either AAAB or ABAC format. I never realized I got that from Metallica. They were the first records I sat down to learn on bass with the tab books all those years ago. Yes I still have the Justice "bass tab" book that is now derided all these years later.

@chrisbassartist4344 Ай бұрын

Those tab books are so inaccurate especially the Cliff era ones cherry lanes owes me so much money

@wretchedbugler6575 6 күн бұрын

The What I Learned format is goated

@Zakk_Ross Ай бұрын

C sections are gnarly! left my mom with a big scar. Also the trooper is an AAAB variation! same sequence moved through the scale 3 times then ending. Just pointing it for those who may not know of the diatonic sequence idea!

@reaverofsouls Ай бұрын

I still love playing Harvester and Frayed Ends. Learned those... 25 years ago? Idk. Those riffs still hold up all these years later.

@randallhaney7909 Ай бұрын

Wow Uncle Benny Bob. Awesome lesson, Cool and enlightening, The alphabet has never ben so fun. Thanks Boss. You're the Bomb.

@Pedrotheart Ай бұрын

great tone🤘

@robertspreitzer8126 Ай бұрын

What not to suck. Love your channel.

@Okay-George Ай бұрын

i thank god for ibanez everyday! such great guitars!

@rossburton1 Ай бұрын

Recently got a schecter evil twin with fishmans, LOVE THEM!!!!!🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥

@TDAshton Ай бұрын

Very cool video. I wish riffs post St Anger would get the appreciation they deserve. Those first 5 albums are classic for a reason but Death Magnetic, Hardwired and 72 have some great riffs as well. Just was thinking about That was Just Your Life and Moth into Flame, both verse riffs are AAAB.

@pixel_seph Ай бұрын

Getting in the comments to say the other Metallica staple is repeating the tail as a way to transition sections (intro to verse, chorus to solo, etc). Love this kind of writing analysis video, Uncle Ben! Keep up the shred!!

@SerpentStar_ Ай бұрын

If had to pick ONE Metallica song as all time favorite, got to go with Blackend 🤘

@binkywarren21 Ай бұрын

Blackend? Is that like a black backend?

@ChrisKAloha Ай бұрын

They call the end of the riff the tail

@chrisbassartist4344 Ай бұрын

No Lars calls it that because he’s dumb lol

@Targon999 Ай бұрын

What I noticed over the years is that James seems to like a certain riff a lot: he plays 0, 2, 2 (so basically an E power cord) and then plays the 3rd fret on the A and D string. He does that (at least) on Creeping Death, One, Atlas Rise and Through the never. Very effective. And can we please appreciate how our beloved uncle just played metallicas most awesome riffs like it was nothing?

@Xplora213 Ай бұрын

James likes the minor 2nd interval. You can apply it to the root, or the fifth, of any chord but E5 is as low as you can go. So he’s going to do F or C. James only has a couple chords he likes. Gmaj7 is another. Find your own chords, and squeeze them. ❤

@RobGamesNZ Ай бұрын

Cool vid bud, on a side note, there is a ring everytime you stop chugging, like at 4:18, is this from the fx settings or something physical in the guitar? I have an ESP that does it to me a lot, I just found the frequency and EQ'd it out but never got to the bottom of the cause.

@trygvebrnstad9529 Ай бұрын

I always played that part of Eye of the Beholder as F# and B the entire C section, that's what it sounds like to my ears at least.

@2Burgers_1Pizza Ай бұрын

It's the pick hand that gives me trouble. Metallica's so easy on the tabs. Guess I'll try those ab stimulators on my arm.⚡

@lyricbread Ай бұрын

7:58 No “Sad But Tuned?” 😆

@chrisrosencrans Ай бұрын

I loved hearing that Shortest Straw riff. Metallica is the band that got me into music. Funny enough I don't play metal lol. Thanks for for video

@burnsZY85 Ай бұрын

Lars is known to arrange riffs, the main riff of enter sandman being a prime example, kirk had orginally had it being ABAB but lars suggested it to what we know now as AAAB.

@tommyslatts3202 Ай бұрын

Thing I love about your videos are they are all celebratory. It’s like this joyous haven I can come to away from the elitism this genre often dishes up, where you’re just positive and balanced and most of the people in the comments sections are too.

@BenEller Ай бұрын

Lovely to hear that, thank you!

@simonwilson1020 Ай бұрын

This concept is really similar to lyric writing - using the rhyme scheme to match up lines. But one key thing that a lot of beginner lyric writers neglect is that you need to change up your rhyme scheme between sections - verses ABAB and choruses AAAB for example. You could also apply this to riffs, keep the AAAA riffs in the intro but make the verses an ABAC riff.

@thathandleistakentrythisone Ай бұрын

Could you please do Matt Pike / High on Fire? 🙏🤘🐐

@DRock8040 Ай бұрын

Great vid!

@youWoNtLikeMe04 Ай бұрын

First 5 or 6 riffs I ever learned were Metallica. And that also explains why my own stuff is a-a-b structured.

@Citizen_J Ай бұрын

Cant forget the ample use of "yeah".

@benwilliams5236 Ай бұрын

It's a bit like essay writing: A. Tell them what you're going to tell them. B. Tell them. C. Tell them what you've told them. or A. Introduction. B. Body. C. Conclusion.

@_____8106 Ай бұрын

Can you do a video like this on marty freidman we want to know how he writes melodic solos every time

@thehunter7422 Ай бұрын

It's crazy how young they were back then when they wrote so many masterpieces like it was nothing lol in their 20s and they wrote albums like Master of Puppets , Kill em All, Ride the Lightning , ...And Justice for All etc, insane . They pretty much made me start guitar bout year and a half ago and my god I can't believe how simple some of their riffs were, lol , yet, SO DAMN EFFECTIVE . AND..satisfying ASF . Metallica are masters of Metal for a reason. Can't imagine what metal music would be without them 🤘🔥awesome vid as usual Uncle Ben, so close to 500k as well. Congrats 🤘🙏❤️

@MrNinjastab Ай бұрын

2:34 sounds ok but not the sound I like. I usually go for a sound that has less treble side. I would bring out the lows and mids more and turn the highs a bit more for the deeper chunkier sound. That is my taste. Interesting sound though.