While She Sleeps' Sean Long Plays His Favorite Riffs

[@alxpap00]

Story time: at one of their gigs I found an all access pass on the floor, so after being drunk enough I thought it would be a good idea to go backstage and ask them for a group photo. So I did, I explained that I found this pass and all I want is a photo and I'll leave. They were obviously a bit weirded out but laughed it off, said they would probably do the same, and Sean was actually the person that called Loz over for the photo AND gave me one of his signature picks. Super cool guys

[@samanthamagowan3195]

m0shpit That’s sounds awesome

[@JacobShepherd]

Did this happen to be in Europe in 2018?

[@alxpap00]

@@JacobShepherd It was at their gig at The Roundhouse, March 1st last year!

[@c4gob00m]

I went to an In Hearts Wake gig a few years ago, and Loz and and I think Mat were manning their own merch stand at the end of the show, and I had a chat to Loz and got a photo with him. They’re very nice guys.

[@necromancer2527]

Him and Matt are one of the best metalcore duos

[@ivannamba1]

Agree!

[@3101max]

adam and josh from architects>

[@iron_tyson]

Rick and Ryan from Polaris for me.

[@cambrowndrums]

I KNO DE WEY he said ONE OF not the best like no one fucking cares that you know who josh and Adam from architects are

[@axelanders9053]

Or not loool

[@andresyoung5519]

The best guitar leads at the moment. Such a great guitar player.

[@spoonerluv]

Yeah, I definitely think of this guy over John Petrucci when I think of modern lead players.

[@dimou_]

Joel Moore hell no, tom Searle is the one you're looking for, this guy plays the same things all the time on every song with a different morphology.

[@spoonerluv]

@@dimou_ Did Tom play any leads? Seems like a rhythm guy to me.

[@MrAnalyptic]

@@dimou_ to be fair they are both my favourite, while she sleeps latest album his guitar riffs are unbelievable

[@guitarkid0725]

*Brandon Ellis has entered the chat*

[@thytonebone2596]

Sean is one of my biggest influences when it comes to riffing, dude is an insane musician but I feel like he’s so underrated

[@c4gob00m]

I’ve been a fan of WSS since about 2013, and it’s only until recently I have realised how good of guitarists Sean and Mat are. They’re awesome writers and definitely deserve more recognition.

[@xavkoston16]

I'm a drummer nad Sean is the only guy who gives me enough interest to watch guitar videos hahaha

[@olekacf4029]

This is one of the best "Favorite riff" episodes i've ever seen, even better coming from a guy whose band I absolutely love

[@FormaAlert]

7:00 the riff that finally got me out of my guitar slump after a year of playing the same thing over and over again. This dude is entirely why I got so much better over a few days than I had over an entire year of playing guitar.

[@xJM1993]

I'm actually at that same damn point... Been stalled for like a year playing the same stuff, the last months i have just been doing random riffs of power chords because i didn't knew what else to do 😂🤦‍♂️ I'll give this riff a try this weekend and see if i can learn it 100%, hoppefully it will help me move forward like it did to you!

[@DorinBusu]

Finally someone who actually plays instead of talking

[@rolypoly92]

Big fan of this guy, very humble dude and I love the way he explains himself and makes sense 'the guitar bass and drums are just...like...shagging each other' hahaha he talks like a music fan not a pretentious music student and it's very refreshing!

[@nielvanderwesthuizen2768]

Love it when As I Lay Dying gets the recognition they deserve!

[@Daniel-SpiritedAway]

Niel van der Westhuizen I saw them live im Hamburg with Fit For A King and Chelsea Grin and it was fkn awesome

[@marksandberg9063]

Do you know Bleed from within?

[@magnuslikestanks6044]

@@marksandberg9063 Now that's a band that is hella underrated. Their new stuff is insane.

[@Runedragonx]

@@marksandberg9063 Just found a phone wallpaper with their logo on it earlier tonight, about to go an give them a listen now lol

[@Runedragonx]

@@marksandberg9063 Holy shit these dudes hit hard! Fuck! That's another new band on the list lol

[@dandrehawkins8323]

3:04 These Fevered Times from Darkest Hour! I love that song and I love playing it on guitar!

[@lucacox3589]

Dandre Hawkins sounds like guillotine- etf

[@dandrehawkins8323]

Luca Cox Haha. Well, it’s not. He’s actually playing it a tad bit slower than normal. Check the song out!

[@joemams1833]

Kris Norris and Mike the dude are awesome song writers

[@carlodagnolo]

Sean is honestly the reason I picked up a guitar about 4/5 months ago. Long way to go but so much fun!

[@nicksqueo1303]

keep it up man! you’ll never regret picking up a guitar, it’s changed my life, it becomes a drug haha

[@jeroen0011]

I think Alexi Laiho was the reason i started playing like 12 years ago, but i definetely did not start with playing metal songs let alone technical stuff like children of bodom guitar. It's a good thing it's a long road, more fun on the way and actually the road never really ends because there's always something new on guitar to learn or master!

[@carlodagnolo]

@@jeroen0011 I haven't touched any WSS or other metal song either haha, gotta get used to the simple stuff first

[@carlodagnolo]

@@nicksqueo1303 Can imagine! I think I'll stick with it

[@vivaldi1ett]

Carlo D'Agnolo Good luck on your journey get a band together and making great music🤘🤪💞✝️🙏🏻💕

[@ivannamba1]

Probably, Sean is the best guitarist in the core genre at the moment! Love WSS 👏🔥

[@davidgilroy8500]

Are you mad? Lmao

[@ivannamba1]

@@davidgilroy8500 For my opinion

[@johnbs199]

@@ivannamba1 you're correct man. While she sleeps has some of my favorite guitar work

[@sleeps573]

100%

[@sleeps573]

David Gilroy are you deff?

[@camielvankooten7204]

best guitarist in metalcore right here

[@woutervangestel8126]

Sean definitely loves his slides

[@jamesharrison3637]

He’s right. Darkest Hour deserve so much more recognition.

[@Rishi-nv7bp]

The camera shifting focus @1:20 is damn cool

[@dynamicphotography_]

That dude is a riffing beast.

[@DaMazzaf97]

Such an underrated artist. Honestly is so good and still just a cool guy as well and you can see how passionate he is about his craft. WSS is easily one of the best metal bands around

[@reinerwongler7263]

I like his energy level. He seems really passionate about music

[@mike_tkgchs]

finally somebody who gives darkest hour some recognition! criminally underrated riff-meisters and "bass and the guitars and kick drums are basically... SHAGGING EACH OTHER". top

[@MetalliBucket]

Such a nice guy. Met him at a show about a month ago. Great live too!

[@diegomaradonna9725]

Darkest Hour is one of my favourit Bands of all Time and it now makes Sense why i Love the Sound of white she sleeps so much

[@FearghalDuggan]

i had the pleasure of interviewing sean, along with sleeps' second guitarist mat welsh, nearly eight years ago just before the release of their first album! such a great dude, it's been awesome seeing the band rise up, stay consistent and now get so much recognition for their talents.

[@benbutterworth1]

SUCH a great guitar player, AND good to see a fellow northerner ;D

[@dbo4506]

Darkest hour riffs are so mental!!! That whole “undoing ruin” album are some of the best riffs every written. Phenomenal. Doesn’t surprise me that Sean “the riff master” was into darkest hour.

[@Imaginaryanalysis9]

Sean Long makes me love music even more, this video is an underrated gem

[@ethan-lq1xg]

it's good that the word Shag won't get you demonetised

[@D0wNF4LLofficial]

Sean Long is a great guitarist and he's right in what he says, a good soloist doesnt make a good guitarist, his riffs have emotion and are one with the song and make the songs what they are. Keep on rocking Sean you're a Legend. p.s That "Hurricane" Music Video Shoot up at the Sleeps Brothers Warehouse in Sheffield for the release of "You Are We" was incredible. Please keep writting these inspirational and uplifting riffs. Thank you 👏🤘

[@IainFrame]

Yeah, Sean is absolutely right to be proud of that riff in the Guilty party. It's phenomenal. Great lead work in Haunt Me too.

[@AyaKaleFams]

Sean's riff it's just amazing.. The creativity is high level, and WSS song never wrong for their breakdown. Well done!!

[@blameitonfrank]

i could watch sean play anything on guitar for hours

[@isidorpal698]

same

[@thatcurlyhairmate6779]

The words i would say to Sean if i meet him, such an inspiration for myy life, as a person, and as musician, he´s really my hero, hope i can climb one day to where he is and inspire so many other people as he did with me.

[@Shutaraaa]

i love this guitarist

[@KreshDraven6]

One of the best riff makers of the industry nowadays , absolutely beast ! Great episode

[@sleeps573]

Guilty Party one of the best Riffs. Sean’s riff game is so strong. Wish I had his creativeness to make what he does. FAKERS PLAGUE still has the best riffs throughout the whole song IMO

[@SixStringOverdose]

if anyone ever asks what pick chirp is, show them 08:37 :)

[@teriyakigod2527]

Thank you for showing me this band Loudwire, im binging his bands music right now

[@DrastixMachina]

Met this guy and Loz at a WSS show last year with architects and Thy art. Him and Loz are such amazing dudes. The line was short so we had the chance to talk a bit more

[@johnnytrapphone6569]

One of the best bands I've ever seen live💯

[@guitartoneSA]

Great musician, great songwriter...

[@sonkeh7362]

This energy... just wow

[@vivaldi1ett]

I would love to be his neighbor he’s got fantastic taste in music and plays all the best bits, God love him 💞✝️🤪🤘👍💜💕🤪

[@Sailor1010]

Saw Darkest Hour with Everytime I Die and Norma Jeannin Australia years ago. Such a good show and he’s not wrong saying DH is super underrated.

[@jameswheeler7153]

Darkest hours undoing ruin album has some of the most epic riffs ever. That album will forever be one of if not my favorite metal album ever.

[@3beedable]

6:55 channeling the Stevie T within

[@mystakxngaming5240]

I an definetly see how darkest hour influeced the way that sean plays and writes. and thank god!!

[@jeroen0011]

7:20 best Riff in the video, great played!

[@bencegyorog2897]

While She Sleeps - The Guilty Party

[@remmile]

dude the intro riff from seven hills . it has those chills that remind you when you finished a school year or went to South America in vacation

[@zachm5286]

Sean is such a thoughtful dude lol btw the breakdown/riff in empire of silence is exactly what i was thinking when he said his breakdowns style wasnt typical. I love hearing that shreddy melody riff expecting some chuggy breakdown i get adreniline rush everytime i play it or show yall off lol.

[@jackbrierley4704]

I love sean, he's a phenomenal player man and so immersive

[@seifdog6244]

So sick you guys had him on. He has been a huge inspiration to me for years and is easily one of the best players out there. Glad I got to meet him on their states tour last month!

[@theyesman]

It’s good of him to keep on asking us if we know what he means. Very considerate.

[@mrfinnjohnston]

This is insane. So good, so underrated. Keep up the good work Sean...

[@kaylajaynefriedland3012]

Incredible band. One of my favorites

[@Negat1veSpace]

This was refreshing

[@whatsup513]

Every time Sean says "DJNAAMIN" I fall in love

[@thequinnchavez]

Finally some Darkest Hour props in the scene. Undoing Ruin and Deliver Us are iconic to me.

[@JackboyOC]

Extremely articulate dude

[@Angelboy_04]

Sean is an Amazing guitarist, mad respect.🤘🏼

[@cosimoruggiero4950]

i love him

[@l3rendd]

absolute machine of a player

[@georgemarshall1073]

Met them when they opened up for Asking Alexandria and bullet for my valentine a couple years ago great band and energy and they were super chill and signed my cd and poster

[@yabo2424]

Wow this dude is killer. Love his riffs super melódico. Exciting to watch ..

[@davidfischer1971]

unbelieveably good looking guitar

[@elunico13lu]

This guy knows his stuff

[@wofmanpt18]

His style is so awesome... Even to this day, civil isolation just blows my mind.

[@pierreblanc-garin1058]

5:39 but now it is online thanks to the incredible work of the guy of The Vault that searched for 9 months the early work of WSS from 2006 !

[@Marps2016]

Sleeps are underrated

[@fristiejuice6013]

this man's an artist

[@Francisco_mcwhiney]

I love leads over shreds one of my favorite metalcore songs is wild eyes by parkway drive

[@AntonioParleTrop]

Civil Isolation has some amazing riffs aswell. It may be my favorite WSS song, riff wise.

[@akuma862005]

Damn this is so funny to see my exact route to playing and the exact same bands! Nice.

[@NeedToLeaveToLive]

Sean is ICONIC

[@tompiche2369]

I don’t know who this guy is but I rather enjoyed that!

[@tacob69]

I love that he's playing a LTD instead of a ESP.It goes to prove ESP's LTD brand are the best import guitars out there.

[@itsthesubiedaat9091]

3 years later and this comment hit hard haha $2500+ LTD models on the market. Wild what the market has become

[@jimwoday1776]

WSS are mega live for anyone wondering

[@diegarci98]

Best leads at the moment by far. Genius

[@graphicalbeej]

Sean is the modern day riff goat

[@heyflo1]

The Guilty Party guitars are so fucking good, no wonder why he is proud of the main riff in this song :D

[@dannillo._]

Sean is the best

[@karenlong8279]

My dude xxx love him x

[@karenlong8279]

Like .like .like .yeah xxx

[@rippitydippity]

As I lay dying are great

[@Cymoar]

Duuuude the riff from guilty party is like my favorite from their new recorddddd

[@toadetteremotewithwiimotio3330]

Everytime i wanna say their name i said it like: While She shleepsh

[@bds_mguydasic9293]

They should beore famous

[@AkikoAkaki]

While She Sleeps！The god forever！

[@dannillo._]

Man, i love While she sleeps

[@rhyswatson1]

Undoing Ruin is such an underrated album

[@southparkcraig]

I feel so emberassed asking this considering I know like every As I Lay Dying riff going but what is that AILD riff he was playing it's right on the tip of my tongue but I cant remember what it's called please help! Lol... and for some reason I'm loving that really muddy tone Sean has, dude friggin rips

[@bertdebackercovers]

Do You know it already? Im also looking?

[@xRamZx]

0:32

[@sea_buhdaa5894]

Bruh

[@diogofreitas161]

AMAZING

[@craigheartsill6552]

That’s exactly what I do listen to the music not the words

[@thepositivepush5333]

Awesome dude!!

[@bertdebackercovers]

Whats that As I Lay Dying song?

[@searchlight6059]

An ocean between us

[@bertdebackercovers]

Thanks buddy

[@asiertxu97]

Happy to see Richard has moved on from Pied Piper and become a pretty good guitar player.

[@sagemckearney1193]

How did he get a yellow EMG pickup? Awesome player

[@robluker1599]

Hes guitar blinkin mad this fella!!!

[@CarterPSN]

Fucking love Sean's playing.

[@synhet84]

6:55 "bloolloolooblop"

[@gorehammer42o]

Bro that's so cool. My first riff/song I learned was Dammit too. That's so fucking awesome. Edit: Darkest Hour was when Victory Records Reigned Supreme brother! I just fell in love with While She Sleeps more than I already was lol

[@falconemoto6943]

These dudes are so fucking good. Just found out about them today