For sure! That hammer on pull off at the end of the phrase is tricky to play but something James is so skilled at playing beautifully.

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

for sure, I feel like that hammer on part is really only difficult in context of the actual song, it really feels like it doesn't quite fit when you're trying to learn it, kind of a mind fuck much like many of James' work haha

@bluebay0

10 ай бұрын

@@StateOfMercury That too. It's why I don't play it myself often.

@cristianlopez_8486

9 ай бұрын

It can be, but it's a little detail that I heard alot of people who covered this song over look (original recording it's hard to hear, much easier in the isolated guitar track). Glad that in recent years, people are playing it properly.

I knew it was gonna be this. Also my favourite harmony. Sounds like some regal early-modern nonchalant villain sh*t.

It's part of one of Metallica's heaviest songs but it always sounds a little like Greek music to me!

In 1983, James probably took acid and said "oh shit I have an idea" and this came out. Beautiful.

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

LOL I was kinda thinking something similar, this whole song is full of things that are mind blowing. I was thinking about how crazy the jump from kill em all to ride the lightning is. Intense af

@CaptainRudy4021

4 ай бұрын

​@@StateOfMercury two words: cliff Burton

It's also the first harmony James ever wrote, and in my opinion, one of Metallica's best ever parts of a song ever

@StateOfMercury

9 ай бұрын

Agreed

@coltallica48

Күн бұрын

Not the first. There were one or two on Kill Em All

@eduardoamaral8410

23 сағат бұрын

The first in Ride the Lightning album, but not necessarily the first he came up with

Please make more movie trailer covers. I still can’t get over how great your Nothing Else Matters cover was ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

actually, good idea

@TributesnTomFoolerys

10 ай бұрын

I don’t want to come off as rude with request, but 1. One 2. The Unforgiven 3. Enter Sandman 4. The God That Failed 5. For Whom The Bells Toll

@TributesnTomFoolerys

10 ай бұрын

You make awesome content! ❤❤❤❤❤

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

lmaoo good suggestions too

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

im hearing an idea in my brain for one already....your modern weird version of like the verses and then a long detuned string section like pitch rising until its like DARKNESS IMPRISONING ME

Have you changed direction of the channel since the advancement in AI videos? I don't see you making "What if ____ was on ____?" videos anymore, if you've stopped then I just wanted to say thankyou so much for years of entertainment and HUMAN creativity, long before the machines took over you were the man who went out and did it!

@LuisCarruthers

10 ай бұрын

AI is ruining everything.

W. this harmony will always challange me nice work

Appreciate the different picking styles 💪!

Bro down stroked the whole thing through.

Sick!!!

💪🏽😎 nailed it

AweSoMë

This immediately came to mind, when I read the title.

It always amazed me that this came out a year after Kill

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

fricken same

It's such a lit fucking harmony, tough song

"Hardest", but it was also one of the first harmonies I learned when I started guitar. That and the My Friend of Misery harmony

What about a playlist of What If St.Anger was fixed with drums and guitar solos ?

How bout One's tho? I'd say that one can be easier to miss some notes on the way with all the legato, I feel more in control playin FFWF's tbh

Can you do atlas rise on ajfa? All it needs is good drumming, and an interesting solo and it's done Thanks in advance

Please. Please for the love of god help me w/ the harmony rhythm rudiment! It seems like it shifts from the rudiment played under kirk’s solo. Mike from Art of Guitar broke down that first rhythm part really well and that fits like a glove but I’m still convinced that James switches it up for what’s played under the harmony section. Please help. I’m actually driving myself nuts - for the life of me I can’t seem to get a grasp on it

Could you do Astronomy in AJFA style? Or breadfan in master the black album?

what about no remorse? 🤔

I wonder 🤔 what's Metallica's easiest harmony.

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

fuck now I gotta think about it

@rembo96

10 ай бұрын

My Friend of Misery

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

Nothing else matters

How do you hold your pick? I remember my guitar teaching telling me to not hold it like that lol

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

LOL yeah I hold it kinda fucked, 2 reasons I'm self taught which already wasn't great but then a pair of scissors went through my thumb and I cant feel the top half of it so its really only comfortable a very specific way

@lostheboss7938

10 ай бұрын

@@StateOfMercury fuck yeah man rock on ! you are killin it!!

@rembo96

10 ай бұрын

@@StateOfMercury Holy shit

Upp The Irons Και Καλή Αντάμωση

Well Now.... About That....

People talk about the change in style from Justice to Black, but that’s nothing compared to KEA to RTL.

@Lexsoufz

10 ай бұрын

When KEA was released, those songs were already two years old. They grew as musicians quite a bit in those two years as James said Source: interview with James :)

Woocker socket?

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

what's that

@LiamThomason-ij8ti

10 ай бұрын

@@StateOfMercury a person

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

Oh weird

What Ya Gonna Do????

Who wrote that one?

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

surprisingly I have no idea, it feels like a hetfield thing but back then anything was possible even lars was coughing up riffs

I'd argue that the One harmony is harder

Is it weird that I downpick this entire harmony?

One is harder

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

Nah

So hard you didn't even play it right.

@StateOfMercury

10 ай бұрын

false

@Fireglo

10 ай бұрын

@@StateOfMercury if you actually listen to the record it doesn't sound the same.