Herman Li is England's gift to the world :) Who won that guitar battle? Anybody who hears it :)

@jayw6203

3 жыл бұрын

Gotcha watch Herman Li's Twitch channel is fire!

@thanossnap4170

3 жыл бұрын

@@jayw6203 His reaction to, and collab with The Doo, was awesome! Love Herman.

@DeadmanRides

3 жыл бұрын

@@thanossnap4170 Honestly it was so sick

@GolderlightGaming

2 жыл бұрын

he was born in Hong Kong moved to France then to England and joined a band called DragonForce

@ifeeldeadinsideD2

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget iron maiden black sabbath bmth

It’s funny you said “he’s killing everyone in Guitar Hero”… this band took off when this was featured on Guitar Hero 3… it’s become a classic because of that

@markochoa6184

3 жыл бұрын

Best forearm work out is playing this song on guitar hero

@stevend474

3 жыл бұрын

Hate to burst your bubble but this song was top of the chart and a classic a decade before guitar hero ever came out.

@SpeedWarrior93

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevend474 TTFAF released in December 2005...GH3 came out in October 2007. Almost 2 years

@donjohnson19

3 жыл бұрын

Hate to be that guy dragonforce was popular way before guitar hero this song was a classic long befor that game

@codysmith66

3 жыл бұрын

Hate to burst your bubble guys but Herman Li said live on stream that GH put them back on the map again.

Herman Li is a demon on the strings. Amazing player.

Herman has his KZread channel and he talks about the young guitar player who passed away that he was in awe of I forgot his name certainly the comment community will help

@DanBeaird

3 жыл бұрын

If your talking about Jason Becker he is still alive as far as I know. He was definitely one of the best all timers, has ALS and can no longer talk, play or even breath on his own. Herman Lee does Twitch streams to raise money for Jason's medical bills. They are currently auctioning some of Jason's guitars and taking donations to help.

@DanBeaird

3 жыл бұрын

There is some old footage on KZread of Jason playing with a yoyo while doing a solo on the guitar, he was pretty amazing before ALS got him. Also check the film, Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet it's his story from youth to his battle with ALS.

Having seen Dragonforce live in concert about 5 times, I can tell u that video games, guitars & beer are the fuel for the band 😂The guitarists are Herman Li & Sam Totman... they are the main members.

Fun Fact: The pacman noise was made by dragging a stick across the strings of the guitar. I forget what it was made of so it could very well be a straw or something but yeah, they do bonkers stuff with guitars

@mosclone2121

3 жыл бұрын

You can do the sound with just a pick too, the only requirement is to mute the strings right above the pickups.

@sebastiengoossens5650

3 жыл бұрын

Usually people do it with their tremolo bar, since the sound is that way because of being metal on metal!

@raymoosegaming7860

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah tremolo bar dragged across the strings is what Herman Li said he used

@lucaspinto6167

3 жыл бұрын

Herman did it with his tongue 😛

@ondrejlukas326

2 жыл бұрын

u take the whammy bar and rqke with muted strings

Dragonforce has been around for decades. I imagine they are not well known to a lot of folks because of their fantasy metal style. Personally I use them as a workout mix a lot since they pump it up so much.

Here is the thing : when it comes to guitar, there is no such thing as the best. Among the most impressive guitarist out there; they all bing their unique sound or techniques, best becomes subjective .

@gabrielp9646

3 жыл бұрын

True, in that sense musicians are like athletes. There is no "best football player of all time", there´s a bunch of candidates.

@Caglecardscollectibles21

3 жыл бұрын

Great way to look at it, it’s impossible to decide who’s truly “best”

@davidfuhr5455

3 жыл бұрын

i have to divide them up into subgroups just to choose. you have the shredders like Slash, Eddie Van Halen, etc. then the technicians like John Petrucci, Herman Li, etc. then "feels" guitarists that you can truly feel the emotions. such as Carlos Santana, Joe Satriani, SRV, etc. and even divided up I can never get past a top 5 for me

@randomwiseguyonyoutube7406

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielp9646 I agree with u but football is a bad sport to compare it with

@REAPERx600

3 жыл бұрын

and is not only subjective but when they do the top 10/20 is only ther comercial bands, theres hundreds of guitar players that are fenomenal and they are not even in a band sometimes...

Love how dude had to immediately grab his emotional support air guitar for this one

That Pac-Man video game sound is made by muting the strings at the start of the fretboard and strumming down with a pick, and yes Herman Li absolutely plays it every time they play the song live. Great reaction much love from Canada 🇨🇦

@TheBlackQueen

3 жыл бұрын

It was actually done with the floyd rose tremolo bar. He unscrewed it from the guitar and ran it across the strings muted. It makes the notes more defined and clean than a pick would. I would assume that he does it with a pick live because it would be impossible to unscrew it during the solo.

@damianl680

2 жыл бұрын

You don’t even know what you’re talking about man

@martinperron9164

2 жыл бұрын

@@damianl680 well why don’t you check the man himself explain it then kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5Vos8ajfcmrcZs.html

@TheBlackQueen

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinperron9164 Yeah but you said it was a pick, not the tremolo bar.

I love Dragonforce because they take me back to the big hair band days my favorite genre

@heatherlowe7330

2 жыл бұрын

I love how upbeat their tempo is. It is hard to sit still when they play 😁

7:20 Actually Herman Li holds down all the strings on the fret board and picks with the whammy bar in order to make the Pac-Man sound effect.

That lifting-trick was him using the 'whammy bar'. It's s special thing some electric guitars have that changes the tension on the strings, changing the entire sound the guitar makes on the fly. A skilled electric guitarist can make his instrument sound like four or five different instruments. Herman Li got the strings going to make the notes, then changed the notes without touching the strings by playing with the Whammy. Dude is definitely a master at his craft.

@ShaggyRogers1

Жыл бұрын

Being able to use the whammy bar appropriately takes skill. Combining that whammy bar movement while using it to physically lift the guitar up is an entirely different level of muscle memory.

Do dragonforce - Heroes of our time. an all time favorite

@SuperPlacido1

3 жыл бұрын

*an all.

@lesliestenning4570

3 жыл бұрын

I definitely agree I was about to say the same thing

@nyarlathotep616

3 жыл бұрын

Can he handle it?

@mitchhaelann9215

3 жыл бұрын

Cry Thunder.

Watch : Junna drum cover Through The Fire and Flames

@WolfAZA

3 жыл бұрын

2nd this !

@markwilken2492

3 жыл бұрын

YES!!!

@Upinsmoke1976

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah

"How in the hell did he do that?".... Herman Li gave the answer. The key is to have a fan blowing your hair.

There's a KZread video of Li showing how he does that pacman noise and others

Thanks Van, without you I still would not know what I did not know❗ ✌

@LFRFAMILY

3 жыл бұрын

LOL You’re welcome? 🖤🖤

Please do Unleash the Archers - Awakening! For the vocals, drums, and guitar!!

@Mckalmelid

3 жыл бұрын

I 2nd that motion!

I tried this on Guitar Hero(the first time I ever heard the song) needless to say I NEVER could beat it, lol..Awesome! Keep On Rockin`

@LFRFAMILY

3 жыл бұрын

If you did beat it, you’re a BAD mamma jamma!!! 🤣🖤

@dirtyjesus9293

2 жыл бұрын

It is too this day the only song I have not completed on expert. I'd had the rest of the expert songs done before I got it done on hard

The guy drinking the beer bc of his swag

😂 I totally recommended this... Nah you won't be disappointed... You're welcome for the suggestion 😂 first verse in and the air guitar is out, and yes that head was banging a lil bit

Ah, Power Metal... the most skill demanding metal genre when it comes to instruments. And the most epic one IMO. Do any other song by them. There are so many good ones I will not even try to recommend any particular one. Also, I kinda wish u reacted to the original version not the official one. It’s 2 minutes longer.

@jaymeister4850

3 жыл бұрын

*Progressive Metal has entered the chat*

@hazelangus

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's got to be the speed/power combo that's hardest - when it's that fast, if they're not absolutely 100% tight it just sounds like sonic mud. No room for normal human error.

@rocketsurgeon11

2 жыл бұрын

Death Metal, Black Metal, Prog Metal...all are on par with or are more demanding than Power Metal.

It was written by Sam Totman, the guitarist on the right during the solos (the other one being Herman Li).

Welcome to the power metal world 🤘

@ruanpedro9444

3 жыл бұрын

🐉⚔🗡🛡

Herman Li always wins.

They BOTH won. Actually, we ALL win the prize of hearing it

Great reaction. You have fun and it shows. Love it!

Your reactions are just killin me! Love it. 🙏☘️

oh they've been around for quite a while. this song was featured on the original guitar hero game way back in the day. that video game sound did in fact come from the guitar. you make that sound by running up and down the frets really fast without strumming or plucking a string.

Herman Li is an insane guitarist.

@doomguyfaz3recon797

3 жыл бұрын

But buckethead is better

@susansmith8514

3 жыл бұрын

This is true.

@stompthatazz3967

3 жыл бұрын

@@doomguyfaz3recon797 Buckethead is good probably better than Herman Lee but he's much overrated

@doomguyfaz3recon797

3 жыл бұрын

@@stompthatazz3967 he is not, have you heard his stuff? And he comes up with so many songs and is even more talented, buckethead is better

@doomguyfaz3recon797

3 жыл бұрын

@@stompthatazz3967 did Herman Li come up with all of the dragonforce songs?

The "video game" sound was the guitar. It makes that sound when you rake the pick on the strings behind the bridge or in front of the nut.

Their drummer is fit AF! Just imagine how exhausted he is after playing this! XD

"Reasons to Live" was the first DragonForce song I heard and I been hooked since. 💖

The whammy bar. Such an amazing part to the electric guitar 🎸🙂

In college I used to go to Wal-Mart at night and play this on Guitar Hero at night because I couldn't afford a game system. I never was good at it, but it was fun and killed time.

When he lifts the guitar at the begining, he uses the strum handle (pretty sure it's not called that), and it's basically the vebrato on an electric guitar. It's basically the same as those little half wheels on piano keyboards you can move up and down. It's purpose is so that you can get some widdley-wee by only holding one note.

Herman Li and Sam Totman (guy drinking the beer) are the guitarists. This song was written by Sam and the lead singer ZP. Who won? We did.

You absolutely have to check out The Dooo. Hes an incredible guitar player and pretty funny. Hes also rocked on stream with Herman Li, the lead guitarist of Dragonforce

giving a like before it starts because i know this will be a good one. Someone about to be jealous of the guitar battle. Also there is a little teenage asian girl that does this drum cover named Junna you would be amazed.

Did you check out the guitarist taking a drink during the battle? He was totally chill. 🤘🏻🙏☘️

its funny, you're one of the few people to recognize they were going for a video game noise at 6:53 Herman Li the guy with the white shirt and longest hair said it's an imitation of Pac-Man. Also it comes from the guitar lol

I saw this live many years ago. Amazing

Dragonforce also has a twitch channel there last album was made on twitch, also hermen lee regularly has fund raisers for janson becker(arguably one of the best guitarist of all time) who is suffering pretty bad health problems by inviting other legendary guitarist on stream to do live music and guitar battles.

Valley of the Damned is another amazing song by them.

Watch Junna on drums covering this song. YOU WILL BE AMAZED!!!!!!!!!

Love this song. Banger.

They are all extremely talented. Bada$$.

In Herman's own words : I knew who to call when I don't want to play this song anymore. (referring to Tina S cover from 2015) Since you are „exploring“ you might want to check it out. P. S. Same song, but drums cover by Junna. You have drummer you say...

There is a 7 minutes version of this and they play that on their concerts. Imagine that. Standing, being entertaining, jumping, looking cool, and doing vocals, and ofcourse playing this caos for 7 minutes. Also they usually play this song at the end of the concert. A whole ass concert of speed metal. Yup, these guys aren't from this universe.

Yeah, he is lifting his guitar by the whammy bar. Whammy bar on his guitar is specially reinforced to be able to pull off that trick.

You will not be disappointed bro!

one of the funniest comments ever on this video : this should be a commercial for shampoo 🤣🤣

@cygnus-x

3 жыл бұрын

Saw it lmao!

Vadim Pruzhanov was the keyboard player at the time this video was made. He’s unbelievable and worth checking out online. He’s basically retired now, sadly. BTW that video game sound is done by running the pick across the strings on the guitar’s headstock and using a wah-wah pedal to enhance it.

I saw these guys 16 years ago in Singapore and met the two guitarists, both great guys and amazing players they sound just like this live. Herman Def Def that battle lol and I think Herman and Sam Trotman (the other guitarist) write most of the stuff. You gotta check out "heros of our time" and "fury of the storm" next

Right at the beginning of the guitar solo/battle the whammy bar goes flying off the guitar

To explain "how he do that?" when it comes to the noises at 1:52 and 4:40 Both Herman Li and Sam Totman have guitars equipped with something called a "Floyd Rose bridge." Without getting too tecnical, this bridge can pivot forward and backwards through use of an arm (you can see the thin piece of metal in Herman's hand during the 1:52 trick, you can also see Sam's pointing backwards at 1:49) and change the pitch of the notes being played. In fact, your "Air Guitar" has the same type of bridge system, it's the large black shape with a bent line coming off it furthist away from where you put your left hand (the neck). Heck, your air guitar seems to be designed to look like an Ibanez brand, the same brand Herman's using in the video.

Every body listening is the real winners. Amazing band

Does anyone else hear the melody from “When the Thunder Rolls” in this song? I don’t think it’s my imagination? Of course this song came out first, I believe. Just curious

@TheLastGarou

3 жыл бұрын

... well I do now. 😆

Best Pantene commercial 😂😂🤘

YOU won the battle! I've never, in my life, seen anyone use an 'air guitar' as a weapon before!!!! You took the cake on this one, lol!!!

🤣🤣🤣 you got a blow up guitar lol. Awesome reaction!

I looked forward to hearing this again. It is so intense that is blows my actual mind, and knowing that they play an entire show like this, you have to know how physically demanding that would be. There is just no way they would be able to do any substances and hit that hard. I would have messed up within the first 6 notes. Of course I do not know how to play any instrument, so I am always impressed with anyone that knows their craft. Glad you got to hear this!

Most people know DragonForce because this song was in Gutar Hero. They really weren't well know before that. Side note you'd probably enjoy Anthrax and Public Enemy's Bring The Noise.

Love this song. Guitar Hero introduced this beauty to me, and even in that game this is a hell of a song to play...both in difficulty and length.

The singer is on a whole other dimension wow

Herman’s a guitar legend but Sam is GOATed for this too. He only had a few years of prior experience before this and still shredded during the solo ((the video version snips out about 2-3 minutes of pure guitar so I’d recommend listening to the album version (: Also, Soldiers Of The Wasteland by them is an absolute banger as well Much love Van & the rest of the LFR Fam

REVOLUTION DEATHSQUAD!!! That song shredds

Here are Earth, Wind & Fire’s 10 biggest Billboard Hot 100 hits: Rank, Title, Hot 100 Peak Position, Peak Date 1, “Let’s Groove,” No. 3, Dec. 19, 1981 2, “Shining Star,” No. 1, May 24, 1975 3, “After the Love Has Gone,” No. 3, Sept. 15, 1979 4, “Sing a Song,” No. 5, Feb. 7, 1976 5, “Boogie Wonderland” (with The Emotions), No. 6, July 14, 1979 6, “September,” No. 8, Feb. 10, 1979 7, “That’s the Way of the World,” No. 12, Sept. 20, 1975 8, “Getaway,” No. 12, Oct. 9, 1976 9, “Got To Get You Into My Life,” No. 9, Sept. 16, 1978 10, “Serpentine Fire,” No. 13, Feb. 11, 1978

Wow! Superb!

Once you're a hip hop head and metal head and realize the talent that it takes to make great music in both worlds the more you realize that mainstream radio and the music industry has an agenda behind it and that that music is DOGSHIT! Metal and REAL hip hop take massive skill, creativity and musicianship and it is all from the heart not some ghostwriters or cookie cutter formula. One in the same, different ends of the spectrum. Also, that pacman sound did come from the guitar!!! He scraped the strings lightly with his guitar pick.

Love the "air guitar" 🤣🤣🤣

That video game sound, came from the guitar 🎸👍

I've never been a fan of them. But nobody can doubt their talent. They are seriously badass musicians.

Saw them in concert once. One of the best parts was when the keyboard player busted out a keytar and did a music 'battle' with one of the guitar players to give the rest of the band a break.

Hes lifting the whammy bar. This was the end credit song they let you fail on guitar hero but they let you try anyway and play theough it lol

Dragonforce is dope

Oh don't mind me just my annual "I wonder if dragonforce has new reactors" Spree

you actually did the video version, which cuts out like 4 minutes lol the whole thing is 7 mins plus

look up Herman li guitar tricks! Hair gets caught in strings all the time too lol

I never knew Weird Al could sing like that.

Don't forget the craziness of the drummer

Some great guitarist to check out and enjoy: Buckethead, Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Jason Richardson, Sarah Longfield, Tosin Abasi, Yvette Young, Yngwie Malmsteen, and the list can be endless.

he lifted it by the whammy bar.... see: "Steve Vai - For the Love of God" probly not the first, but the first I saw, and worth it all.

Hermann li (the lead guitarist) is an absolute genius... Check out Land of the evening star

Welcome to Speed Metal! Some put this as Power Metal, too. This is a great song, but overplayed. They have so many good songs, too: "Black Fire", "Prepare for War", "Fields of Despair", "Heart of the Dragon", "Starfire", "Fury of the Storm", "Soldiers of the Wasteland", "My Spirit Will Go On", "Once in a Lifetime", "Heart of the Storm", etc. As for the guy holding the guitar up, while making that sound, it was a whammy bar. XD

@mohammedsaudh8906

2 жыл бұрын

Where dragons rule??? Why doesn't anybody mention this song while talking about dragon force?

Lifts the guitar with the Tremolo bar.

Guitar Hero introduced me to this song and band years ago. I'm sorry Charlie Daniels, the devil may have went down to Georgia, but DragonForce brought hell to my fingers..and I was pleased.

Daaamnn, should've done the full version. They chopped a lot of parts off in the music video. Dope reaction regardless.

"No headbanging for me today" Proceeds to headbang

Herman li is defo up there with the big boys 🔥🔥

Lead guitarist is Herman Lee. Very fast.

Bro these guys have been out for well over a decade. The guy singing left the band though but back In like 2006 this was the hardest song to play in guitar hero 3 and at the end of the day they both won and the fan won. That was some badass shit. Nothing like badass music making you love music again

Bro... the guitarist was usin the whammy bar to hold the guitar... something u don't have on ur blow up guitar

@wiseguy8100

3 жыл бұрын

Was just about to say the same thing.

@ANunes06

3 жыл бұрын

I'm reminded of the Guitar Mag interview with the guitarist from Psyopus. "Well... so I was sending demos of me playing all around and eventually I got a call back and the lady on the phone said that the boss wanted to see a video because he thought the audio was sped up. So I sent them a video and she called back to say "He was very impressed, but sadly we can't sponsor you if you're going to shake our guitars over your head while holding them by the whammy bar." So that relationship didn't really pan out, but I do get discounts from them now."

Hell yeah, you should react to Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria next

@TheLastGarou

3 жыл бұрын

Seconded! Coheed and Cambria is awesome! Fair warning, though, the videos are WEIRD.

You should checkout the cover of this song by the drummer “Junna”.....she crushed it!🤙🤟

We lit

So was the solos up to par🤣🤣🤣👍👍😎😎👊👊🤘🤘🤘

I know this is a bit off but there’s a funk band I’ve been into called vulfpeck and as a bassist their lines are pretty nice

Heroes of our time by dragonforce bro!