Mastodon Aqua Dementia guitar cover - Leviathan full album - Dimarzio Titan
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2015
- twitter/instagram @BenEllerGuitars
Next in my quest of Mastodon Leviathan full album guitar covers, Aqua Dementia!!! Easily one of my favorite Mastodon songs of all time. I love the nasty, thrashy verses, the crazy hybrid picked intro, the doom ending, and of course Scott Kelly (of Neurosis) dominating some vocals. So sick.
Playing my heavily-modded and swirled Ibanez RG470 with the wonderful Dimarzio Titan in the bridge. I guess a lot of people are perceiving this pickup as being a primarily "djent" kind of thing, but its capable of SO much more! Really one of the best pickups i've ever used.
Amp is my Kemper Profiler, using an Amp Factory Marshall JCM800 Drive profile that i modded to sound basically exactly like the album tone.
Strings are Ernie Ball M Steels, 10-52, and they've been on the guitar for about 8-9 months now... and they STILL sound new! Incredible strings.
Thanks for watching! Hearts Alive, coming soon!!!
Strange how Uncle Ben just stopped here and never did Hearts Alive
the grooves that mastodon creates are off the scale, those guys are pioneers
Green Soviet the best.
Still waiting for Hearts Alive... :c
INDEED!!!!
HEARTS ALIVE !!!!PLEASE :0)
Your the master...we're not worthy! Love the facial expressions. RIGHT into it...awesome. mom said your face is gunna stay like that you know....lol.
R HEIDEMAN hahaha thanks buddy
We need so badly a lesson about that riff. Flawless cover as always uncle.
Marco Duò thanks Marco!!!
This Mortal Soil was always one of my favorites by them
Mastodon may be one of the most innovative metal bands of our generation. Every song has a different feel. Remission is the most raw stuff I've ever heard.
I could never play a Mastodon song from start to finish no matter how hard I try. Love Ben's covers, gets them spot on 🖤
Dude, yes! Great playing! This song is one of the heaviest and your tone and gear sounds great here. And all these videos of yours are great lesson videos for people that usually learn by ear, like me! Now to riff! :)
One of my favorite songs by them!
the leads in this are absouletely insane nice one
awesome as always!
***** thanks Tim!
Ben, You have out done yourself again, I just ordered a TITAN for my Hamer Standard!! We really appreciate your selfless dedication to the community, ALL HAIL UNCLE BEN \m/,
Flawless, as usual. :0 And this song is abso-fucking-lutely sick!
You always look happy as all fuck when you're playing and I dig it
just that grin alone worths a star :)
thank soooo much ! you're my favorite youtube guitar player
Good stuff. I was jamming that on the commute this morning.
turtlemouth such a sick tune
Such an awesome song... hope you plan on giving Blood Mountain the same treatment some time!
lozsmb18 hmmmmmmm
@@BenEller Dooooooo it.
You're now my goto for this song - since a studio recording no longer exists on youtube:(
My fav song of Mastodon and I still can't understand any word
¡Genial camarada!
What an amazing song!! Top 5 best Mastodon track no lies. You make it look easy Ben Eller!
Mastodon full album covers???
Subscribed!
well, that was fucking awesome. great playing, amazing tone, and one of my favourite songs. the ending is just awesome. how do you get the 52 tuned to A to behave? i always end up with a much fatter string to get a usable tension but i don't get much bite out of it for higher gain stuff.
ben ellar such a legend not a youtube guitar douche. truly a cool guy and amazing guitar player.but cool dude truly comes first.legend.
Cool!
Den Tkachivsky thanks Den!
Jeezus, dude. You are really good at playing different styles. I'm trying to learn all of Leviathan too. Got several songs figured out (played much more sloppy than you though) but I CANNOT hybrid pick for shit. So that automatically keeps me from being able to play certain parts...like this songs intro, the awesome country lick in Megalodon, etc. Also my arpeggios are crappy. Mastodon songs are loaded with arpeggios. Maybe I should just stick to playing easy-ass Tool songs and my own mediocre originals! Lol
You dont really have to hybrid pick the intro, I alternate pick it and it sounds fine.
Hell yeah!!
When will you cover hearts alive???
Nice!
bquion cheers :)
Awesome cover bro! Im just getting into hybrid picking, so whats your secret on keeping the open strings muted when bouncing back and firth like that?
Easily one of the best guitar covers on youtube !
Sweet hybrid picking in the intro. Great song to learn. Gonna work on it today. My hybrid picking could use some practice. That was the tits Ben
Aaron Trudeau it's a beast! thanks man!
Have you ever listened to Destrage. Italian band. Fun, heavy,very technical shit. One of my top 5 bands
Hey uncle Ben, do you find m steels or any of these new age strings to be harsh on nickel frets? Or are you rockin some SS frets? Killer videos man thanks for the education
Hearts alive?
I wish I could train with this guitar ;) the one of the master :D
tonaruto taku we can all train and become Shredi Knights!!!
how long did it take you to learn that intro by ear? So many open strings ringing gets kinda messy.
E ruiz hahaha a loooooong time!
COOL
Holy shit.
dat hybrid picking
Still.......AWESOME stuff bud!!
Still.......WAITING on the behemoth that is.... Hearts Alive!! 😜😜🤘🤘 💦🐋🐋
Neat
Would love it if you did a lesson on this song, especially for the intro since it's a complete ball ache to learn :D
Joe Drummond maybe there's a Wankshop in the future for this one!
jelly rn
God damn it, I need to know what chords those are in the outro
I remember When Lamb of god made a song called redneck and it was about Mastodon and that's how I found these guys ever since Blood Mountain and Leviathan are some of my all time favorite Metal albums ever
@Uhhh pretty sure it is but I could be wrong
Great playing and a great song! But those strings have been on over 8 months? o_o wait, what? I don't even...
metelidrummer i'm telling you, the M Steels are amazing!
How do you tune all of your Floyd guitars to do Mastodon covers? Block the bridge and I see you removed the locking nut to downtune?
Yes! But damn. A tuning is soooo brutal
\m/ awesome Ben!
Cripes, what strings do you have to run to tune that damn low? I just put a set of D'Addario NYXL 11-56 on, and they're a bit loose at C-standard. But A!?
Also, even if Hinds hates metal, Mastodon friggin OWNS.
I hope you're sitting down... 10-52.
GASP. OK i'll have to try tuning to that LOL.
James Burwell it's all in the touch, man!
Ben Eller Yeah I have a lot to learn (only playing a year)
Ben Eller Gotta love Ibanez and Floyd Roses. I have my S470 in drop B with M-Steel 10's. No problems.
IMO finesse works better than a heavy hand on these style of guitars.
My Gibson, totally(not really) different.
Are you using hybrid picking in the intro? Amazing!
Joan Brunet Verdaguer yup, there's a lesson for it on my channel!
I really don't know how you can play in A with a 52 low E ! Does your guitar have a longer scale lenght ? On mine it's barely playable with a 54.... :) Thanks again for your intro lesson, this is gold.
its all in the touch!!! Mastodon used to use a 52 on their Les Pauls live for ALL their tunings. All the old Meshuggah and Fear Factory 7 string stuff was like a 52 in B, Bb, or A tunings. Crazy huh?
Thanks for taking time to answer, yes I heard Bill in a video saying he put 10-52 sets on all his guitars. More recently he said he used a 54 in C and a 56 in A. In my case the string hardly stays in tune and I generate buzz by strumming too hard with the right hand even when I try not to !
The chords in that last section sound great and absolutely brilliant (because they are) BUT I've watched them play this song a lot here on UA-cam and at one point Bill is doing a kind of suspended chord stretch that you don't do here. It's been a while since you posted this so I wondered if you had any ideas on that?
Loving your work.
What kind of guitar is the white one next to your head?
Metal guy49 Aristides 060! Amazing guitar!
Dide I need a tab for the intro
How is it possible to tune the low E all the way down to A with only a 52? Seems like it'd be floppy and throw off the intonation.
“It’s all in the reflexes” - Jack Burton
a lesson for that intro would be dope
Thomas Wight i'm thinking i will!
thank the little baby jesus for ya, Ben
that intro is a bitch for me...if you miss one note in there you're FUCKED...great job
Epic! Could you do a weekend wankshop on that intro?
Spaghetti i'm thinking i can!
i need a lead guitar player if you ain't doing nothing...