I haven't watched many bands live, but I watched Russian Circles once and their performance was the best I've ever seen. The part I'm playing here it's nuts live. Be sure to check out some live footage. The song is called Harper Lewis
I mean when you have a tab it’s not as hard to find the finger positions but I agree that this is much better than some “playthroughs” artists put out where you can pretty much only see the headstock
you should look up the video POV it's time to practice guitar by Tim Henson, similar angle and very cool ua-cam.com/video/B1tyXuY6Pho/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Russian Circles is easily the tightest band I’ve ever seen live and they’re even heavier live than on their albums. They deserve so much more recognition.
@@spaghettisauce445 I know ur trolling but find me one loyalty free music rock clip that has chords like that or tone like that or drum playing that good I'm not saying this is like next level stuff but no way some random loyalty free music has a riff half this good I'm not saying it's the best riff ever but you're full of shit man
My buddy had an extra ticket to a SOAD concert, and invited me. Russian Circles was the opening band, and was the best group I heard all night. Been a fan since. Hope they get the recognition they deserve
@@nikolagugoski for sure, I really enjoyed it. I’ve never gotten into tapping but if I decide to I think I’ll try that. I really like the left had chord with it, really makes the riff, to me anyway.
@@theredrooster7143 lot of cool tapping stuff going on in prog metal nowadays - some good songs to check out are Tempting Time, The Woven Web, Buttersnips, Zyglrox, and Sequoia Throne
@@ShapeshiftedCow cool. To be honest I’m glad it wasn’t more polyphia stuff, not a fan. I really like the periphery songs a lot. I like animals as leaders. Last one wasn’t a big fan of but I like what you sent. Thank you. I’ll listen to periphery more.
Love the inverted tab format and the low gain tone for tapping. Sounds like it could be an extra song on Buckethead's pikes 51 album. Keep the awesome work
So its actually named after a type of exercise in Hockey. Wouldn't have guessed. This music is cool the song sorta has an old school doom vibe to it in a strange way. Very cool
was lucky enough to have my band open for them in toronto at lee's palace all the way back in 2009...was a sick show, great guys as well. Definitely an underrated band that deserves more recognition.
It’s a shame instrumental music isn’t more popular or profitable unless at a virtuosic level. Russian Circles is awesome! I found them around 06-07 when instrumental music became my main preference
brother, I stopped playing yakuza 6 for today, come to youtube and watch a video that should be completely unrelated to yakuza, then I see this comment. This damn franchise is chasing me lmao. (you're right btw)
I've been a fan of Russian Cicles since their Station album and that album, imo, has to be my top 2 for track-flow ever. They are such a gem and it's a shame they haven't been recognized for their first 3 albums. Such phenomenal guitar, drum and fat bass work.
I saw them a very long time ago in Albuquerque when they opened for someone (I don't remember time frames but 10+ years or the bands) and they got through 1 song and started the second when they got absolutely annihilated from the crowds with boos and bottles/cans lol. never heard about them again until now.
I saw them open for Mastodon in 2017 and was blown away, been a fan ever since. The overly drunk Mastodon fan in front of me that passed out on the rail and got kicked out didn't seem to care very much though smh.
Russian Circles is my favorite band. Very reserved guitarist but fully steers the sound of the whole band. The bassist has some surprising moments such as on the songs Geneva and 309. The drummer is tied with Stewart Copeland as my favorite drummer. He does stuff that no drummer would do yet not only is he able to pull it off but make it sound natural. I still don't know how he's able to drum some parts in Campaign (literally doing a rim & stick solo while simultaneously playing a not so easy ostinato in between it).
You ever hear of Stigmata or The Korea I love those bands especially stigmata they have tons of great music Танцуй, Время, В ОТРАЖЕНИИ ГЛАЗ, Сентябрь Горит etc
You're so right! They should definitely be better known, especially for their enormous songwriting talent and their tightness as a live band. Love these guys ❤
Every fall and winter, there are 3 bands whose albums I keep in rotation. Russian circles (Memorial), Agalloch (ashes against the grain, black lake nidstang, and the mantle), and type o negative (October rust). There are others (wolves in the throne room, Drudkh, Opeth, and more) but those three bands specifically just feel like winter and fall to me due to nostalgia and tone and they nail the vibes perfectly. Russian circles is amazing.
I got into them in 2007 and saw them in a chicago club when station just came out. They played to maybe twenty people and were amazing. After their set i was able to walk up and shake their hands as they were packing up. If truly a band deserves more recognition, its Russian Circles, but its nice to see them have a successful, long-lasting career.
Saw these guys open for Coheed and Cambria a couple times, they're incredible live. They seem like they open for huge bands all the time nowadays but they seem to stay pretty under the radar.
I LOVE RUSSIAN CIRCLES! They opened for the System of a Down and korn concert I went to in 2021! Left the concert with half their discography in my music playlist lolll
❤ Have seen them live every year since their first album, Enter (check out Death Rides a Horse!). Had drinks with them many times before they were big. Epic talent and really down to earth guys, too!
Great camera setup for showing fingering... Not that it's really needed here, but I could see this angle + a simultaneous/split view of the more "traditional" view being a superior way to share cover lesson videos
Russian Circles is my go-to background music for fantasy games like Chivalry 2 and BG3. Funny enough I hadn’t ever tried playing any of it but this may have changed my mind! Need to see them live, but until then their Audiotree sessions are always on repeat.
I have been playing guitar my whole life and maybe I just don’t have whatever it takes to make sounds like that happen. I have never been able to tap and make it sound good. I just can’t think that fast. This sounds great!
A friend of mine had tickets to see Russian Circles. For some reason he had a spare one and asked if I wanted to go. Hadn't really heard much of them at that point but thought what the hell, might as well go out for the evening. Holy shit, they blew me away. Been a big fan ever since.
Man I saw them live and was super bummed because they were touring With KoRn and SOAD at the time but their kit got snatched from their trailer so they only played like 2 or 3 tracks then left.
Yes. They absolutely should be. As much as I love their albums, their music is so much better live. Glad you caught them, and I hope more people give them a listen.
I came to this video thinking Russian Cirlces was going to be a way of playing harmonics in repeating series or something … like an acapella round but with harmonics … that’d be cool too… esp in a metal song with a gothic influence … maybe an organ part, and a gamba part - but anyway thx for introducing a new band - pretty sick
i thought russian circles was something like the fifiths cycle in a strange harmonic field or concept ends up its just a BANGER that ill probably be listening on repeat for at least a month now
Jup, I was part of the club that was fooled by thinking "russian circles" are some sort russian origin music theory techniques, like a scale or something...
I regret not being able to go see Russian Circles live in my country last year. I would've had to travel to a different state to see them and I didn't have enough money for the travel expenses + ticket
Russian circles is greatly under appreciated. Their live performances are some of the loudest, most energetic shows I've seen. So glad to see this, instant sub.
Cool, this band has done records with Kurt Ballou. How did they arrive at that tuning though? It's like, "Well, DADGAD is cool of all the drones and parallel octaves you can do, but fuck it, let's tune the 1st and 6th strings down a semitone so that the closest strings are now augmented fifths."
I think one of the reasons that they're not more popular is that their songs tend to lack a melodic center, and music is, at its core, about melody. The songs too often end up sounding like the bed track to a really cool song that just never got finished.
Except i wish i could find a bit more music like that, I can enjoy it without needing someone to flex their technical skill all over it, just take me on a ride.
I haven't watched many bands live, but I watched Russian Circles once and their performance was the best I've ever seen. The part I'm playing here it's nuts live. Be sure to check out some live footage. The song is called Harper Lewis
Awesome live band....the drummer is a beast
@@jccross76Dave Turncrantz is the man! Also, a really nice guy.
Saw them 10+ years ago in a small bar venue, they completely blew my mind
You should see Meshuggah.
I saw them once and they didn't play Harper Lewis I was bummed. Still kicked ass though.
Not gonna lie, I thought “Russian Circles” was a guitar technique, not a band. lol
Same.
Lmao same, i thought it was some kind of secret knowledge, i feel stupid now lol
i was looking for circles halfway through the video
Same.
Same
The camera angle is pretty cool, showing how it would almost look to play it
Wish more guitar videos were like this. Been thinking that for years.
I mean when you have a tab it’s not as hard to find the finger positions
but I agree that this is much better than some “playthroughs” artists put out where you can pretty much only see the headstock
you should look up the video POV it's time to practice guitar by Tim Henson, similar angle and very cool
ua-cam.com/video/B1tyXuY6Pho/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
For a guitarist it makes sense to us to see the guitar this way
very overdue. I’ve made some videos like this on another chanel in the past
Russian Circles is easily the tightest band I’ve ever seen live and they’re even heavier live than on their albums. They deserve so much more recognition.
There's just something about the bass that just rips your head off live with Russian Circles.
Hmm, russian.. cringe
@@capybleppa47 It's just a name you dingus.
what's cringe about it? @@capybleppa47
@@capybleppa47 btw the band itself is not russian
Song is called Harper Lewis
God bless ya
It rips!
Thanks mate
@Chaosmos_1349 the song name is in description 🙂
Based comment of the year
That riff is sick, I swear I have met such good music with your videos.
it sounds like trash toyalty free music dawg
@@spaghettisauce445 thats his opinion and thats your opinion :)
@@drd3ath953 yeah no duh
@@spaghettisauce445thats cause it’s a demonstration
@@spaghettisauce445 I know ur trolling but find me one loyalty free music rock clip that has chords like that or tone like that or drum playing that good
I'm not saying this is like next level stuff but no way some random loyalty free music has a riff half this good
I'm not saying it's the best riff ever but you're full of shit man
My buddy had an extra ticket to a SOAD concert, and invited me. Russian Circles was the opening band, and was the best group I heard all night. Been a fan since. Hope they get the recognition they deserve
Hell yeah, I opener for them in like 2009. Not only awesome, but nice guys to boot
Actual good tapping, I like that. Thanks.
Glad you liked it! I think it's a great riff 🙂
@@nikolagugoski for sure, I really enjoyed it. I’ve never gotten into tapping but if I decide to I think I’ll try that. I really like the left had chord with it, really makes the riff, to me anyway.
@@theredrooster7143 lot of cool tapping stuff going on in prog metal nowadays - some good songs to check out are Tempting Time, The Woven Web, Buttersnips, Zyglrox, and Sequoia Throne
@@ShapeshiftedCow cool. To be honest I’m glad it wasn’t more polyphia stuff, not a fan. I really like the periphery songs a lot. I like animals as leaders. Last one wasn’t a big fan of but I like what you sent. Thank you. I’ll listen to periphery more.
Love the inverted tab format and the low gain tone for tapping. Sounds like it could be an extra song on Buckethead's pikes 51 album. Keep the awesome work
was just about to comment how this gives me proper Buckethead vibes. I'd kill for some Nikola Buckethead videos🤣
This DOES sound like something bucket head would do
The tabs aren't inverted?
So its actually named after a type of exercise in Hockey. Wouldn't have guessed. This music is cool the song sorta has an old school doom vibe to it in a strange way. Very cool
was lucky enough to have my band open for them in toronto at lee's palace all the way back in 2009...was a sick show, great guys as well. Definitely an underrated band that deserves more recognition.
Wow that's awesome!
@@nikolagugoski it really was, one of the highlights of my otherwise mundane and low-key music career.
I've been a Russian Circles fan for well over a decade and I can safely say every single person I have ever showed them to, has become an instant fan.
Their drummer is what makes that band I say. Same with SLIFT. All those "riff" bands are mostly great because of their drummers. I'm a bassist BTW.
It’s a shame instrumental music isn’t more popular or profitable unless at a virtuosic level. Russian Circles is awesome! I found them around 06-07 when instrumental music became my main preference
Such great band, love them! Bring more Russian Circles content pls
This riff sounds like something that would be in a Like A Dragon (Yakuza) boss theme, seriously badass!! Great stuff :3
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@@AuranTMIt's everywhere... like Majima.
@@AuranTM Yakuza everywhere system
I've been a fan of Russian Cicles since their Station album and that album, imo, has to be my top 2 for track-flow ever. They are such a gem and it's a shame they haven't been recognized for their first 3 albums. Such phenomenal guitar, drum and fat bass work.
I saw them a very long time ago in Albuquerque when they opened for someone (I don't remember time frames but 10+ years or the bands) and they got through 1 song and started the second when they got absolutely annihilated from the crowds with boos and bottles/cans lol. never heard about them again until now.
i thought "russian circles" was a music theory term lmao
bruh same , i thought it was somehow related to srv's circular licks xD
Absolutely they should be more popular. 100%
I saw them open for Mastodon in 2017 and was blown away, been a fan ever since. The overly drunk Mastodon fan in front of me that passed out on the rail and got kicked out didn't seem to care very much though smh.
Russian Circles is my favorite band. Very reserved guitarist but fully steers the sound of the whole band. The bassist has some surprising moments such as on the songs Geneva and 309. The drummer is tied with Stewart Copeland as my favorite drummer. He does stuff that no drummer would do yet not only is he able to pull it off but make it sound natural. I still don't know how he's able to drum some parts in Campaign (literally doing a rim & stick solo while simultaneously playing a not so easy ostinato in between it).
The first 2-3 albums were out of this world. 🤘
Always loved this section. Death Rides a Horse and Ethel also have gorgeous tapping
Saw them live 10+ years ago when they were hardly popular enough to fill a venue with 200 people. They already killed it back then, solid performance.
You ever hear of Stigmata or The Korea I love those bands
especially stigmata they have tons of great music
Танцуй, Время, В ОТРАЖЕНИИ ГЛАЗ, Сентябрь Горит etc
You're so right! They should definitely be better known, especially for their enormous songwriting talent and their tightness as a live band.
Love these guys ❤
The very first part sounded like Domination by Pantera
Enter is a criminally underrated album! Love these guys! thanks for sharing!
Every fall and winter, there are 3 bands whose albums I keep in rotation. Russian circles (Memorial), Agalloch (ashes against the grain, black lake nidstang, and the mantle), and type o negative (October rust). There are others (wolves in the throne room, Drudkh, Opeth, and more) but those three bands specifically just feel like winter and fall to me due to nostalgia and tone and they nail the vibes perfectly. Russian circles is amazing.
Bro is locked in
i saw them live once as well, and was pretty impressed. My favorite piece of merch also comes from them
Our guitarist has about 6 of their shirts! Haha!
These guys have been my favorite band since I stumbled across their MySpace back in 2006!
Been bumping these guys since I was in highschool, still my favorite band of all time. Instrumental metal for life
How old is this band?
@@NikitaBayanist Started in 2004
@@hhaste ого, а я такую группу и не знал, спасибо
Russian Circles, Pelican, and Baroness were my rotation in HS
I got into them in 2007 and saw them in a chicago club when station just came out. They played to maybe twenty people and were amazing. After their set i was able to walk up and shake their hands as they were packing up. If truly a band deserves more recognition, its Russian Circles, but its nice to see them have a successful, long-lasting career.
Saw these guys open for Coheed and Cambria a couple times, they're incredible live. They seem like they open for huge bands all the time nowadays but they seem to stay pretty under the radar.
I LOVE RUSSIAN CIRCLES! They opened for the System of a Down and korn concert I went to in 2021! Left the concert with half their discography in my music playlist lolll
❤ Have seen them live every year since their first album, Enter (check out Death Rides a Horse!). Had drinks with them many times before they were big. Epic talent and really down to earth guys, too!
Wow that's so awesome
Great camera setup for showing fingering... Not that it's really needed here, but I could see this angle + a simultaneous/split view of the more "traditional" view being a superior way to share cover lesson videos
LOVE this song and have never seen good tab. Thank you.
Russian Circles is my go-to background music for fantasy games like Chivalry 2 and BG3. Funny enough I hadn’t ever tried playing any of it but this may have changed my mind! Need to see them live, but until then their Audiotree sessions are always on repeat.
Saw them open for korn and SOAD in phx, sick ass show
Saw them live opening for Mastodon. Holy fuck their sound is wild
Saw them live in Boulder years ago; incredible performance. And the theater was packed too so they aren't totally unknown.
I have been playing guitar my whole life and maybe I just don’t have whatever it takes to make sounds like that happen. I have never been able to tap and make it sound good. I just can’t think that fast. This sounds great!
Theyre the first band I found years ago when looking up "dark" math rock. Campaign is fucking amazing
You have got to be kidding dude I was just listening to that album yesterday haha
Damn right they should. Blood Year was amazing.
Amazing band. My favorite instrumental with Pelican and If these trees could talk.
I haven't seen anyone talk about them! Crazy underrated band.
A friend of mine had tickets to see Russian Circles. For some reason he had a spare one and asked if I wanted to go. Hadn't really heard much of them at that point but thought what the hell, might as well go out for the evening. Holy shit, they blew me away. Been a big fan ever since.
I saw their first and second shows. They blew my mind. This must have been nearly 20 years ago. They were incredible from the start.
I've discovered Russian Circles like 2 months ago, my first album was "Gnosis". Amazing album btw!
Man I saw them live and was super bummed because they were touring With KoRn and SOAD at the time but their kit got snatched from their trailer so they only played like 2 or 3 tracks then left.
Yes. They absolutely should be. As much as I love their albums, their music is so much better live. Glad you caught them, and I hope more people give them a listen.
They opened up in 2021 for the SOAD x KORN concert I went to. Left home with half their music added to my library lol
I came to this video thinking Russian Cirlces was going to be a way of playing harmonics in repeating series or something … like an acapella round but with harmonics … that’d be cool too… esp in a metal song with a gothic influence … maybe an organ part, and a gamba part - but anyway thx for introducing a new band - pretty sick
They rock, just saw them a few weeks ago.
Dang bringing these guys back from my high school days
Omg can't believe somebody brought it up. Found them around two years ago thanks to one of my best friends at the time
Absolutely my favorite band and song 😭😭😭 moves me to tears every time i hear that riff
Agree! Saw them live recently - very engaging music for songs that have very little solos and are instrumental
Holy shit that riff looks so fucking cool to play
I always forget about these dudes, missed a chance to see them live a few years ago with Windhand.
i thought russian circles was something like the fifiths cycle in a strange harmonic field or concept
ends up its just a BANGER that ill probably be listening on repeat for at least a month now
They are amazing. I listen to them from their first album
I've been looking for this band for so long. I used to listen to them and then forgot about them. All i could remember was how good they were lol.
Got to see them open up for Mastodon a few years back. They were awesome live
Jup, I was part of the club that was fooled by thinking "russian circles" are some sort russian origin music theory techniques, like a scale or something...
Saw em live twice. Once as an opener and once as a headliner. They were killer
and without your sleeve rolled up too. amazing
I’m in love with them since 2011, they’re so great. Happy to see that video
One of my favorite bands. That riff from Harper Lewis just sticks with you
Every time I think about the song Death Rides A Horse, I get hyped. What an absolute banger. Tight as all hell live
Well done, awesome guitar!
Sick riff!
That was creative as hell. Props to you man! 👏
Wow, that was a really interesting concept. Never thought like that. Learned something today. Must learn more.
I listened to this moment and this song many times.
I saw them open for Mastodon quite a while back, so killer
Sounds very Cyberpunk to me. Pretty slick. 🤘
love this band dude
I regret not being able to go see Russian Circles live in my country last year. I would've had to travel to a different state to see them and I didn't have enough money for the travel expenses + ticket
Totally forgot about these guys till now. Thanks for reminding me!
Thank you for watching!
Agreed. Russian Circles is amazing. I have watched a few live performances on youtube. I want to see them live.
Oh shit I forgot I listened to this band and was blown away. Thanks for the reminder to listen to them again!!!
Russian circles is greatly under appreciated. Their live performances are some of the loudest, most energetic shows I've seen. So glad to see this, instant sub.
Ok. You got me. Gonna give them a listen and practice this lick. Recomended gave me a true blessing today
Thank you for introducing me to this band.
That tapping style’s very cool!
Don't wanna draw any unwanted comparisons, but it sounds similar to some of Buckethead's more carefully melodically crafted riffs. I like it a lot.
Saw Russian Circles open for Korn and System of a Down in January 2022,they only played for 20 minutes but it was still impressive
Интересный строй, да и композиция огонь! Спасибо, Никола, что работаешь с таким материалом!
The breakdown from Carpe was my ringtone for years
This is cool. Thanks for sharing and tabbing.
Cool, this band has done records with Kurt Ballou. How did they arrive at that tuning though? It's like, "Well, DADGAD is cool of all the drones and parallel octaves you can do, but fuck it, let's tune the 1st and 6th strings down a semitone so that the closest strings are now augmented fifths."
I saw them a few years back. They were an opener for 2 other bands I went to see and they stole the whole show. Absolutely sick wall of sound
Couldn't agree more! Russian Circles are amazing. Harper Lewis is one of my favorite instrumental tracks ever.
I think one of the reasons that they're not more popular is that their songs tend to lack a melodic center, and music is, at its core, about melody. The songs too often end up sounding like the bed track to a really cool song that just never got finished.
I think that is kind of the point of their music and the genre in general. A lot of post rock bands end up sounding like that.
Except i wish i could find a bit more music like that, I can enjoy it without needing someone to flex their technical skill all over it, just take me on a ride.
@@xyaeiounn check out Pelican. Midnight and Mescaline.
Amazing technique.🎉