i love the triple harmony at the start. it sounds like something cliff would write but it was actually written by james

@Touge_SR

4 жыл бұрын

kirk the chugmaster jolly best part of the song

@antoniocenteno1483

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, Cliff will always be important to Metallica not for what he wrotte but what the thaught them to play

@charliekirby_

3 жыл бұрын

Buuuttttt cliff taught James what harmonies are so still wouldn’t have happened without burton

@antoniocenteno1483

3 жыл бұрын

@@charliekirby_ Well, Lloyd Grant thaught them how to solo in Hit the lights, so this won't happend qithout Lloyd

@yetispaghetti8235

3 жыл бұрын

@@charliekirby_ where are you getting this from?

Crazy fact Metallica's producer at the time Flemming R. said James overdubbed the main riff 6 times, craziest shit he's ever heard or seen. That's pretty ridiculous, how tight it sounds for being layered 6 times.....a beast at best!

@ilkeguneysahin4589

7 жыл бұрын

he did that for the whole album amazingly

@novander

7 жыл бұрын

i thought that was only for AJFA tho

@LightningJackFlash

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but take under consideration the fact that only one line is max loud. The remaining two are layered on it, but with minor volume. It's not that they are all equally loud :)

@megajusso

7 жыл бұрын

Novander AFJA was 15 times I believe

@norbitcleaverhook5040

7 жыл бұрын

Chris Rodriguez pretty standard practice I thought, nowadays especially

How the actual fuck does he sing and play this? Jesus I wish I was James...

@LukeCannotSkate

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan 2c plus Practice is the key. As always.

@DanielFantini

8 жыл бұрын

***** Yeah I know. Its just crazy that James picked up the guitar at such a young age and started singing and playing without any lessons or anything. He was just born for it.

@LukeCannotSkate

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan 2c plus That's true, a natural talent. I can get the playing down but singing to it is on another level. Gotta have some balls to do it too

@TheSaintberzerker

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan 2c plus You need to take into account that he wrote these songs also. So, his internal rhythm or whatever is timed to what he writes. Try it yourself. Write your own riff, and the way you sing over it while playing will be natural. Not taking anything away from him, but I realized this once I got older.

@DanielFantini

8 жыл бұрын

TheSaintberzerker I thought about the same thing the other day. Metallica song are best sung by the man himself. There is no one that can do it perfect like him.

that riff that starts at 2:59 is probably my favorite ever

@paulpv7

6 жыл бұрын

James

@pedropassos6627

6 жыл бұрын

It was Kirk, he plays it live and the writing style it's kinda kirk's style

@christianwhitmore4753

6 жыл бұрын

James Brabham kirk

@klmrk9961

4 жыл бұрын

@@christianwhitmore4753 James recorded everything except solos up until Load, so it's definetly James playing.

@Leo-hs4xx

4 жыл бұрын

Klmrk Nope that part is Kirk.

Wish I had these isolated tracks when I was younger. I've been playing so many Metallica riffs wrong for 15 years and now the habits are gonna be hard to break.

@tcb9775

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@jasonking2144

5 жыл бұрын

yea, same for me on drums. but I'm great full to be able to hear everything from drums, bass, guitars individually. gives me such a huge depth of understanding of how everything is constructed. also love the writing in progress tracks from m.o.p.

@rickkelley4618

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Kanis I’ve been at this for 25 years. And was playing parts of this wrong. Even after listening to the tracks lol Just in the last year did I finally get the gallop right in all places. But new muscle memory is possible. I broke my old habits in a couple weeks and now I can play through. It’s pretty exciting. If I can do it at 41, you can do it!

@LightningJackFlash

4 жыл бұрын

Same here... :) "One" was my number one unknown, with numerous trials to break it down, until the separate tracks became available here on YT... :)

@mattgiguere5638

3 жыл бұрын

Amen! Me 2.isolated tracks back then was the balance between left and right speakers....Van Halen albums 🙏🏼 RIP Edward 🤟

3:40-3:45 one of my favorite runs of Kirk's soloing in his career

3:50 is some of the heaviest crap I've ever heard

@manipreferchicken4083

4 жыл бұрын

That’s so true, same chills every time, especially with the drums just going to town. Insane!

@Bullshit_Media

Жыл бұрын

@@manipreferchicken4083 Lars might not be the most technically skilled, but James and Lars together can't be far off a perfect combo!

@jantzenallen3077

Жыл бұрын

@@Bullshit_Media Lars in the 80s tho was a different breed absolute monster

@Bullshit_Media

Жыл бұрын

@@jantzenallen3077 I ment in technical fidelity and traditional dynamics, but his creativity more than made up for that! And, yes, in the 80's, his speed was very impressive. As an (amateur) drummer myself, I proudly call him my main inspiration!

3:00 is proof that everyone plays that riff wrong.

@alexandrustoian3787

7 жыл бұрын

How's right and how's wrong?

@victordiesel

7 жыл бұрын

Who's everyone?

@BaxzXD

7 жыл бұрын

there are two different guitars playing something different. so no, no one plays it wrong

@uome20bukz

7 жыл бұрын

DoomGhoul yes, they do. Everyone thinks it's 3 3 5 7 all on the A string, when it's actually 0 0 on the E and 5 7 on the A. So, people play it wrong. I'm not saying it doesn't work the way they play it, but everyone hears it wrong due to the backing rhythm track. I used to think that's how it was played too until I heard this. But that isn't how James played it in the studio, and hearing the riff by itself right here is proof.

@BaxzXD

7 жыл бұрын

uome20bukz ahh okay I thought you meant something else

In 86 I bought this album at 10 years old..this is the first song I ever heard and it was like lighting hit me. It was by far the coolest thing I ever heard. This is the reason i picked a guitar and hetfield is god. To this day metallica is still my favorite band and battery is my favorite song. Master of puppets is the greatest metal album of all time IMO

@yearginclarke

7 жыл бұрын

I bought this back in the 90's on tape cause the cover looked cool to the 11 year old version of myself. Popped it in the boombox and the moment the electric guitars kicked in the song just blew me the fuck away, I had never heard ANYTHING as intense as that before. Still my favorite after all these years.

@skullkrusher4418

5 жыл бұрын

Exact same thing happened to me. MOP was the first metal album I bought, and it is still my favourite album to this day. And battery is my favourite song ever and it has my favourite guitar tone ever. I listen to these iso tracks almost every day lol.

If anybody is trying to learn the Battery riff, I suggest slowing this video down to half speed and taking it from there.

This is amazing. I know the song well - and have so since early 1986 - but this showcases James' exceptional talent at the ripe age of 22 or 23. I didn't realize the extent of how much he drives the rhythm on this song.

@ryanhayes5475

9 жыл бұрын

Absolutely- it's one thing to be able to play fast/keep a steady pace with a song of fast tempo... "driving" the song, being the backbone of that rhythm section, executing fluidly and making every single phrase sound so convincing in the context of the song (like Hetfield does here) is the mark of someone with exceptional musical skills

@yearginclarke

7 жыл бұрын

He described James' style here perfectly.

@skullkrusher4418

5 жыл бұрын

Well, lars wasn't much of a metronome, so it seems like James took up the task! James is the driving force in Metallica songs. He's by far the most talented musician in the band.

@bandolierboy1908

4 жыл бұрын

Shallex which takes talent to do

@LightningJackFlash

2 жыл бұрын

@@skullkrusher4418 I think this whole record is done with metronome. In fact you can hear it at the beginning of The Thing That Should Not Be.

32 years later, and it is still the single greatest guitar sound in the history of heavy metal. In the history of the world if you ask me. I don't think anything will ever make me feel the way this guitar tone makes me feel.

@kylebell6955

4 жыл бұрын

SKULL KRUSHER So perfect

@aaebsssb9914

3 жыл бұрын

Listen to shortest straw isolated guitar

@vanjadjuric4996

3 жыл бұрын

I cant really choose between master and justice guitar tone but if we go for overall mix master wins

@skullkrusher4418

3 жыл бұрын

@@vanjadjuric4996 completely agree. The justice tone is incredible as well but the album mix kinda sucks.

@KnozLo

3 жыл бұрын

@@skullkrusher4418 I agree. But as far as riff goes I'm tied with either disposable heroes and Blackened. Those riffs are so fucking nasty.

Dear any guitar players under 30. This is called E standard. You don’t need to de tune your guitar to sound “Heavy.” This song destroys. Period.

@Marc-nc3vj

4 жыл бұрын

Your right man, I have a friend that tunes this 7th string to E, it's the same octave as a bass, its as slinky as spaghetti.

@metaldog4642

4 жыл бұрын

STRIK NYNE Yep there's some weird shit out there. Check out Knocked Loose. Their vocalist is insane!

@Marc-nc3vj

4 жыл бұрын

@@metaldog4642 Don't worry guys, I'm a guitar player and I make good songs. It's nothing like you ever heard before.

@Marc-nc3vj

4 жыл бұрын

@STRIK NYNE Ya, I know what your saying. It seems like most people nowadays are shitting whatever. But when you find the bands that create gold it's awesome.

@metaldog4642

4 жыл бұрын

Marc 18 that's what it's all about. The riff, bro. 🤘🏻

Who is here after seing ben eller video about the secrets of this song ?

@Hoscitt

3 жыл бұрын

@Joe Marek 3-2 rather than 2-1?!

@DoktorDamage

3 жыл бұрын

I am lol

@manipreferchicken4083

3 жыл бұрын

Joe Marek listen to the vocal track, it's on there.

@manipreferchicken4083

3 жыл бұрын

Joe Marek the rhythm under kirks solo is included as part of the vocal track, check it out it's on youtube.

There's something so beautiful about that harmony at beginning. It's so climatic. Idk it's just gorgeous.

James is 22-23 at this time, reflecting back I now realize even more how impressive Metallica was. Legendary!

The chords of this song are really easy. The hard part is the consistency of the picking which IMHO is way more important than being fast with your left hand (or right hand if you're a lefty)

@jakeherington7237

5 жыл бұрын

Juan José Fonseca Godoy that’s usually the case with thrash and death metal

Even after listening to countless other metal bands, both classic and modern, the riff at 3:00 is still one of the best I've heard.

When I first heard the main rhythm riff of this song my mind was utterly blown. Hetfield really is in a league of his own.

I physically cannot wrap my mind around this

James was just on another planet than everyone else back then. James is still James now, but back then he was just an alien. Nobody was that tight.

The tone from battery is the best from the whole album!

Mesa boogie + Marshall= Perfect metal guitar tone

The main distorted riff is one of the most bad ass things ever played on a guitar

One of the best riffs of all time.

Both the clean and distorted riff sold me on Metallica. It's when I decided I had to have all of their music (1986 I believe) which at that time everything up to Garage Days. When and Justice came out I was ALL in. Blackened and Dyer's Eve blew my mind. Practiced that thrashy palm-muted picking technique for years. Still can't fly like James comfortably 😂😭 He is by far the best rhythm guitar player in metal.

For y’all who don’t know,the harmonize guitars were an after thought,In the demos they played one lead at a time going up the notes at a time,shit sounded cool but sounds even better when you combine all the leads into one hat mixing tone

Holy shit uncle Ben's right

3:50 - 4:00 lml

James has exceptional creativity and he is the best at getting his ideas from his head into reality. I think he’s so great because he never settles. What he imagines Has” to come out That” way! What it’s supposed to sound like is the way “ it’s gonna be”. Ha. “ the thing that Should Be!” He never compromises to write his ideas

3:41 Kirk`s solo melody is great!

James is a national treasure..serious..a god amongst men

@Hoscitt

Жыл бұрын

A global treasure! 🤘👍

From 1:06 to 2:08 (aprox.) is like PURE GLORY.

3:27 After the bend, Kirk is shredding the guitar.

It's interesting hearing the isolated tracks of the guitar solos cause you can really hear the clips. Like... you can hear in the full mix that it's not all one take, but it really stands out in the iso.

Hetfield's rhythms are so clean and articulate. Not only that, but they're multi-tracked and free of any digital quantization.

... 2:59

Ima have to yank my man rifle more to get my hand as fast as james

Yes, I'm here because of Ben Eller and I'm going to check if they really play a D instead of an Eb.

@gollophbombardo643

3 жыл бұрын

They do

@emilioperez8739

3 жыл бұрын

Same. But remember Kirk did a Master of Puppets riffs video around St. Anger time. During his “Dead Battery” you can see he still does the diads , instead of the kind Ben said what James really plays. I don’t know man. Even Metallica plays shit differently live

@mihneazoican2479

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was one of the first videos I watched when I started guitar lol. I think they always meant to play Eb cause it seems kinda random. A cleanly played Dmaj sounds off, you can hear the chords are kinda sloppy on the recording. I'm just gonna keep playing Eb

All I want for Christmas is this guitar tone.

this helped me get that master of puppets tone on guitar!

3:51 sweet.

Wow BRUTAL!

I've never loved youtube so much. I dont play guitar but i love nerdin out to this shit

James has unbelievably great meter ! And sings ! A great talent ! Proof .... we are not all created equal .....

Killer solo 🤘🏼

Absolute perfection

It's interesting how the tone on Battery sounds slightly different to that on the titular track. Less glassy mids and more thumpy low end.

One thing is certain in this age of Identity theft: Rick Harrision has "Blackened Guitar Only" to relax with and he has Life Lock to call if there is too much latency on his Linux when he pushes the button. "Uh I just push the button", says RIck "and my guys from lifelock do the rest".

You can hear where the solo is cut: 3:37, 3:41, 3:45, 3:48 ;p

@cdgeeezy

3 жыл бұрын

Even back then Kirk couldn’t rip it in one take? It’s hard to believe he couldn’t

@LightningJackFlash

2 жыл бұрын

@@cdgeeezy It doesn't have to be him not making it in one take, he can obviously pull it off as a whole, he composed it. But to have a fantastic take, a great sounding one on the record, makes you want to look for the best sounding parts from different takes and then you cut out the worse sounding and put the better one instead. It's good for the record, because then the solo or whatever it is (a drum part too, a bass part crucial for the sound in particular moment etc.) sounds fabulous instead of like a home practice... ;) I think there's nothing wrong about it. But also - his solos on that record, as I noticed, often have different guitar sound in different parts of the solo. I mean for instance Master Of Puppets solo has like three different guitar sounds in different parts of the solo - some are more and some are less gainy or more or less mid-frequencies, and it's not a different Hammet's take as a guitarist, but rather producer's intention for the guitar sound was different in particular part of the solo, so he had to record it in parts. I mean Rasmussen set his guitar tone on amp etc. or wanted to have more mids here, more gain there, for it to sit better in the mix.

Fast af xD love it

Solo is sick

Battery!!! Weid great change after entro to finish with #G7>B# x2 sounds sick!!

The main riff sounds so groovy at 0.75x

@herpderpinson6117

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds kinda like Gojira at 0.75 lol

this shit tighter than their pants bro

Good Lord just an absolute fucking monster player.

oh man . . .whats not to like ??

@punishmentforall

8 жыл бұрын

+Dick fidler - Finally a video where that statement is true ... currently there are zero dislikes. :)

@bryantham11

8 жыл бұрын

+punishmentforall Finally!!

@bandolierboy1908

7 жыл бұрын

the end

@AJEDDY97

5 жыл бұрын

It ends.

2:58

Grr, grr, grr, grr, grr, grr, grr, grr... the end:)

Did James do that guitar solo thing at the beginning or was that Kirk's guitar?

@bandolierboy1908

6 жыл бұрын

if it’s the acoustic part, it was either James or cliff. And as for the distortion harmony part, it was probably just James

1:05

Kirk’s solo❤

Just came to confirm what uncle ben said 0:

Are those leads in the beginning double tracked? Like, did Kirk record all the 3 harmonies twice?

Maybe it's written already somewhere, but where on earth are these isolated tracks coming from? Normally, you would have an original 2" 24 mulitrack tape, which then gets mixed and mastered onto 2 track master tape (form which you'd produce the masters for the pressings). Now obviously the 2 track master won't give access to isolated guitar tracks, so you would need to go all the way back to the 24 track tape. That, however, would mean you would need to get access to the original unmastered mulitrack tape, get it into a playing condition (which can include all kind of steps such as baking the tape to harden its base); aftwards you would need to redo the mixing (which means you would need to have access to kind of similar outboard gear and know the required setting to get the sound) and the mastering. Or is there a simpler way that I am overlooking?

@KonStafylides

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah its way simpler than that. Its just the guitar track from Guitar Hero. Thats why songs like Leper Messiah dont have isolated tracks on yt, they arent in Guitar Hero

@cheeseisjar3058

3 жыл бұрын

@siaba daba guitar hero Metallica

@thiswillprobhrt

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the multitrack was archived to digital at some point before this as a matter of preservation. Then for GH they pulled from that source, mixing as needed to the four channels they seem to use. Guitar, bass, drums, vocals.

Is this man a cyborg, or what...? :o

if i didn't see other people playing the guitar, i wouldn't think it's possible

If you listen the main riff on 2x you'll hear fight fire with fire groove

How did you get these tracks?

Sounding strange I know, but never heard that crunshy guitar doubling the accoustic chords in the very beginning, dope

i read an interview that the guitar players from avenged sevenfold were in absolute awe of james supreme talent

James Fucking monster of guitar.

Is there muted notes on a solo?

@TheGrimReaper54321

8 жыл бұрын

+Toro 270500 some

2:02 the essence of Metallica.

This is what adderall feels like

Im always told they're using the bridge pickup but it really sound like both!

LEPER MESSIAH & DAMAGE INC?

@luukeksifrozenhillbillyeur3407

9 жыл бұрын

Most of these, if not all, are ripped from that Guitar Hero: Metallica game. Leper Messiah & Damage Inc aren't in it, apparently. Which is a shame, would've loved to used their drum tracks to make covers.

@turolretar

6 жыл бұрын

You can check out Damage Inc. guitar track on my channel!

@mariovomhof2775

3 жыл бұрын

@@turolretar joooo thank you

2:08

could you do a "guitars" only version?

@insteument-allover3572

3 жыл бұрын

please

Do I hear a slight chorus effect on the tone?

@talaynt2656

5 жыл бұрын

It's probably just the quality of the audio.

@xounlistedxox

3 жыл бұрын

That's from several guitar tracks being recorded. Amazing how tight James plays

Fuck ya! Its BATTERY!!!BATTERY!!🤘👍

You can clearly hear de cuts during the guitar solo.

This shit was made in 86...

3:04 same riff ass spitout the bone

@xenounde0

5 жыл бұрын

No is nah

@joeymiller3907

5 жыл бұрын

I see what you're saying there. Almost the same notes

@cheeseisjar3058

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s the same tail good catch

beautiful from 03:00

Montain guitars!!!

All the experts in comments lol

Okay peoole . Blow my mind , is James down pickin all this ??

@eliottV17

Жыл бұрын

no he’s not a monster 😅

Is it James who plays the pre-solo thing here. I know that Kirk does it live,but sounds like Het.

@Hoscitt

7 жыл бұрын

Docteur666 I reckon it would be yeah

@NihilisticSnake

6 жыл бұрын

The chords or the bridge?

@cmdmetalwizard4452

6 жыл бұрын

On their first 4 albums, James played ALL the guitar parts except the solos.

@schizophrenicgaming5007

6 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it the first five albums where James did all the rhythm parts?

@xxFABRI56xx

6 жыл бұрын

not AAALL. because riffs like interlude of creeping death or a riff from trapped under ice, Kirk wrote them. and probably he also wrote some riffs in MOP. i'm not saying what that riff has been wrote by Hammett but saying that James not played ALL the riffs at all...

0:41

Damn, without bass this album reminds me of AJFA

If you're a part of a certain community you will drums here: 4:01 If you can hear only silence, there is so much to discover! Join us Amigo! Tell me what you can hear...?

1:11

3:20 & 3:21

Was this just OP doing a play through or is this the actual guitar track isolated?

@Erador

2 жыл бұрын

These are real isolated guitars.

I keep telling young guitarists how important it is to learn up and down picks, but they always think they can play everything down picking only. Not this one lads...

@Wind-nj5xz

2 жыл бұрын

There was a time where i used to always alternate pick almost everything even if downpicking or some other way sounded better, just so i could get more used to it, then just for the sake of curiosity i played Drive Fast Take Chances by Acid King but downpicked and realized how much better it sounded, and that's all it took for me to start defaulting to mostly downstrokes again without even noticing it

any else air double bass the drums in that pause near the end? lmao

oh

Does anybody else hear that at 4:00?

@Yinte_Klop_Blunt666

5 жыл бұрын

Noise gate?

@thiswillprobhrt

3 жыл бұрын

Punch-in probably

2:08 don’t mind me jus trying to learn by ear : )

@vibrantdragon3123

3 жыл бұрын

e minor pentatonic