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

8 ай бұрын

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

8 ай бұрын

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

@oldestries

7 ай бұрын

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

@SvenSvensvensonsson

7 ай бұрын

#MeToo

@tylernewton7217

7 ай бұрын

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.

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

@INFERIORMARCH

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

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

@jakeguercia7755

7 ай бұрын

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

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

5 ай бұрын

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. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKhtu7Bqp9Hbm7Q.html

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

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

7 ай бұрын

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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!!!!

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

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#.

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!

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

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

I love your details! Great job!

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.

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.

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

Love your guitar man!!

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!

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

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

Love your tone, man. It's killer! 🤘

That rhythm tone is brilliant! 🤘👌

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...✌️

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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🤘

Great video

Killer tone. Any videos on your rig?

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...🤘🎸🎸

This helped to make enter Sandman a lot easier than other way I used to play it

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.

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

Cheers Mike.

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

Nice tone man.

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

8 ай бұрын

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

@81giorikas

7 ай бұрын

@@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

7 ай бұрын

This is the best view I've seen of James doing the intro. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nn2hlcygg6vJktY.html

very cool man.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Love your new radioactive Kulick shirt! 😊

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.

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

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!

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

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

First I bet it's gonna be a great video like all your others I'm a big fan of your content Keep it up

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.

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.

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.

great man :)

#7 always screwed me up. Thanks

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. 👍🤟😎

The octave part was a surprise for me!

Absolutely NAILED that Black Album tone

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.

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.

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

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

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, I thought everybody knew these details

@Clafrance1971

7 ай бұрын

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.

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.

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

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! 😀

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.

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!

Hey The-art-of-guitar! I have a question about downpicking if you see this, when I play any Hetfield style rhythm Aka downpicking for 7 minutes, is it basically really light touch? Like letting your wrist try to take the brunt of the work and keep it very light touch so you don’t kill your stamina? That’s how I’ve been doing it.

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

7 ай бұрын

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

@Turley30

7 ай бұрын

@@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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Hey man... 9:44 onwards... You're playing the ending riffs with the F power chord like they do at the start of the song... but if you check closely on the studio album and play along... I believe you will find that they play the ending riffs with emphasis on the E power chord instead of the F. I know all the tab says it's F but go over it again carefully and play along and compare... it's definitely E.

Even the easy or simple songs still can have a lot of nuance.

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

@TheArtofGuitar

7 ай бұрын

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

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

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

What kind of pickups do you use in your explorer?

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.

cool shirt Mike.

Could you do a guitar collection tour

In the Enter Sandman demo, they do the reverse build up and then go into the clean guitar section to end the song. (If i remember correctly)

You’re awesome

hi, mike... can you spill your guitar effects you used on this video?..

5:06 the "eggs of life" part 😂

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.

Hey Mike, unrelated to this Video: has anyone ever noticed the weird thing Kirk is doing with his thumb in the „Solo“-section of For whom the bell tolls? It kinda looks like he is playing the 12th fret note on the D string with his thumb. Or he is muting the bass strings, but not consistently. It’s weird, can you figure out what’s going on? I always struggled with that part and want to know how to play it effectively. Even Kirk struggles with it from time to time

Can you please show me how to play the enemy by ugly kid joe please I can't find any tab and also grieve a lifetime by kingdom of sorrow