James Hetfield Rhythm Guitar: Best of Hetfield - Live & in the Studio
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2021
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This video showcases some of James Hetfield's best rhythm guitar performances, both live on stage and in the studio. The compilation features a variety of songs from METALLICA's catalog, highlighting Hetfield's signature style and technique.
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"THE HETFIELD METHOD: Do you do any specific exercises before a show to help you loosen up? James Hetfield: “- Not me! I’m fine. Kirk has some things with his elbow and wrist and sometimes his fingers, and Rob with his forearm. He’s got a few issues, but for me the only problems I have are calluses building up on the finger bone under the skin that come just from playing too much. But as far as muscles go, thank God, I’m doing fine.”
How does James Hetfield stop his arm locking up with tension during extension bouts of live riffing?
“-When you see a sprinter running he looks really bunched and tight and focused, but you see slow motion footage of him and his jaw is swinging and he looks really loose! He’s swinging as fast as he can, but he has that looseness to him.
-That’s what guitar playing is like. You can’t be super tight without that looseness or you just tense up and you’re working against yourself.
"-You gotta be loose with it. It just takes practice. What I’ll do is just go as fast as I can for as long as I can, and when you feel that burn just chill out for a bit or take a stretch and then go for it again. Pretty soon you’ll find you can go longer at it each time.”
Do you have any advice for playing complex syncopated riffs while singing melodies that are very different?
“-It’s hard. At first I couldn’t do it at all, but now it’s second nature. Take My Apocalypse off Death Magnetic, for example. The rhythm of the guitar is doing the complete opposite of the vocal.
Singing along with That Was Just Your Life is tough too, as there’s a part where the vocals go, ‘I close my eyes and find it all fit into place’, where I’m playing a counter rhythm on the guitar, which gives me real trouble.
"-You know what? It just takes practice! What I do is slow the riff right down and just figure out where my hand should go during a certain word. It takes a lot of time, but you will eventually get it.”
You have an unusual way of holding your pick using your thumb, index and middle fingers, as opposed to just your thumb and index finger…
“-Yeah, I’ve always done that. That’s the way I hold a pencil. School teachers would whack me on the hand and say, ‘That’s not right!’ but it just made sense to me. I tried it the other way to see how it would feel, but there’s something about having that extra finger that stabilises the top of the pick. Otherwise it moves too much.”
www.musicradar.com/news/james-hetfield-metallica-classic-interview
It’s so nice to see that syncopated question and answer - especially about This Was Just Your Life. To my mind, it’s the most difficult sing/play on all the albums and no one seems to ever talk about it. I’ve tried here and there to be able to do it and it’s very, very difficult. Doable for someone who only has to play music for a living, very hard for someone who only plays as a hobby. It’s an absolute beast of a section!!!
I could watch Hetfield play rhythm for hours on end.
And he would do it without sweating
James wrist should be in a museum.
But he needs it
Why do people leave off the apostrophe and "s" when concerning personal possession? It would be "James's wrist". Yes, it does matter.
@@nckhed James'
if you're correcting someone you should make sure you're right
Vinnie Paul: “As far as rhythm guitar goes, Dime just loved James Hetfield. He said he had the fastest right hand in music.”
One of those guys you never get tired of watching. He's just so goddamn good.
13:33 he helps kirk stay on time
2:11 fastest downpicking ever! Thats Hetfield right there!
It’s the MOP main riff. It always looks faster than it actually is imo.
He’s still fast and most of all tight as fuck tho
if anyone knows what show this was, please give a comment
@@rubenscampos5132 Hamilton, Ontario, April 8th 1989. You won’t find the full concert footage anywhere on UA-cam. That clip is actually taken from the “Justice on Wheels” documentary, starting about 3:27 in. There is this video, but it just seems to be left over b-roll footage that never made it into the documentary. Still, it’s got some pretty neat pro shots, and it’s all soundboard audio as far as I can tell: ua-cam.com/video/EkJ61Y1pFrQ/v-deo.html
@@Reckoning2943 it's just that they played it faster live.
@@Pirustae I know, if you pull it off faster your hand will look incredibly quick too.
14:47 literally Mechanix at that point.
He might probably be my all-time favourite musician...he can simply do it all.
My wrist broke just from watching this.
The most important player of the most important metal band in the world. Equal: the most important metal player of the world.
With tony lommi
Who here loves watching him play guitar?
4:44 love James's meaty riffage.
I just have to say...
Even that James plays ruthless rhythm guitar...
Jason does the same with bass. :D
he’s fucking crazy with that thing man
11:05
Good god they played FFWF fast 😂😂
Camera framerate can't keep up with Hetfield 😅
The main riff of That Was Just Your Life is one of my absolute favorite riffs. 7:19
Super underrated
I wish more people realized the beauty of downpicking. It just sounds so much more aggressive than alternate picking when it can be applied. A prime example would be when Dream Theater covered Master of Puppets. I was like "what the hell? they're playing it wrong! These guys are all like super musician virtuoso's -why are they playing it wrong? It sounds weak!" My former guitarist who used to be able to downpick ridiculously fast thinks it's because they simply didn't do downpicking exercises. He eventually stopped doing them himself and can't downpick like that anymore even though he is better at guitar now than he was then. It guess it just takes commitment. I happen to think the commitment is worth it -because it sounds f'king awesome! I don't understand how some people think you can't tell a difference.
with some people, their arms just simply can’t hold up to the challenge of that extreme downpicking. how hetfield does it almost effortlessly is because (as said in the interview at the top of the comments) he’s playing it loose but super fast. it’s a weird trick that he’s managed to master which is how he’s able to so effortlessly downpick and shred.
Imagine being a family member or friend of James and having him play for you. So cool!
Playing battery, and then master of puppets back to back… Lars was a beast
I just fucking love how he looks in the Thumbnail
The Judas Kiss rocks so hard
Best. Ever. Period.
"Do you warm up before you go onstage? James Hetfield: "With the guitar I can pretty much go out there cold. I don't really have any solo or harmony stuff to do early on in the set, so by the time we're doing that I'm pretty warmed up. I might do some down-picking just to loosen up the muscles in my right arm, but I don't sit down and do a routine.
"I do some vocal warm-up work, and I've found that's helped immensely. I've never been afraid of it, but now that we are doing two and three-quarter hours a night, three nights in a row, I need to do something to preserve my voice.
"Your voice is like any muscle, you need to stretch it before you go work it out, and that's something I've only just discovered."
How hard is it to blend the roles of rhythm guitarist and singer, when your rhythm work is quite a handful on its own?
"Not that hard, actually. I had piano training when I was younger, and a piano is a 'two sides of the brain' thing, as is singing while playing rhythm. Obviously some of our songs are easier than others, so I work harder on the more difficult ones.
"It's all a case of concentrating more on one role than the other in the appropriate places. But it's more or less second nature now."
Down-picking is an integral part of your technique. How did you develop the strength and speed that this approach requires?
"It was always a kind of contest - who could down-pick the fastest - and mostly it was a battle between me and Lars, actually. It's a hard thing to do well, because your timing has got to be dead on.
"If you're playing eighth or sixteenth notes then you've got to get cooking. A lot of practice is called for to build up your strength. A lot of wanking too!"
www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/metallica-week-james-hetfield-on-down-picking-and-playing-live-173141
James hetfield best thanks 😘😘😘
Hetfield at his finest.
Nice clips! Another clip that I would include here is from Mexico City ‘93. The version of Eye of the Beholder they play during the Justice Medley is nearly STUDIO TEMPO (I counted myself) and James does all of it with downstrokes (Kirk as well). People generally regard this as the era Metallica started to slow down, but James reminds us he’s still got it.
The rhythm king
Free guitar lessons from James.
It's simple. Het is the best forever🤘🤘🤘🖤
Papahet..... Damn he is the chugMASTER
The mothafuckin TABLE 🤘🤘🤘
The best!!!
Hetfield - Rhythm death machine
Great video, hope to see PART 2 of this!
🎶my friend of guitar riffs🎶 😆
He plays drums on guitar
Jason is a beast!
master guitarist. period.
I don't even like Damage Inc, but that riff is killer
Its just the Hand of God.
Kirk Hammett: "We were drinking at the Carlson house one night, and Lars turned on the tape deck: "Listen to this, man. Fostex Multitrack Mesa/Boogies with James playing the heaviest riff ever!". It was the main riff to "Master of Puppets," which had been quadrupled on all four tracks and sounded super heavy. And I knew it immediately as this joke riff that James would always play on the D string. He just dropped it down to the low E string and it was suddenly this whole other thing."
Hetfield is god 🤘
8:54 onwards is actually insane. Always been my favorite part of Sanitarium
That "fuck yeah" @10:33. 🥰 💋
Even Diamond Darrell said James was the king of down picking. He said he could play all of James' stuff but had to alternate pick.
he even laughs in rhythm
It’s worth mentioning that Kirk has always kept up with James.
5:19 faster... faster
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My arm just fell off trying to play disposable heroes
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1:10
the speed they play master at is creasy. 5.30
12:50 The Four Horsemen. For all James' credit, I have always wondered how he does that downpicking triplet with such speed and precision. Both Kirk and Mustaine have always played this riff with an alternate picking, as I think most people who tried to play this riff did.
And just look at how he counts for Kirk during the break. It's like "I'm the rhythm here!"
he does not do downpicking triplet.
@@aldinapo6472 Well, I always thought so. It starts with a downstroke and ends with a downstroke. That is, he either plays a triplet at that speed, or cheats and plays 3 eighth notes or 5 sixteenth notes.
@@user-qg9ug7fk2b up down up, thats a triplet, there is no way he can play a triplet with only downstrokes.
Its not all downpicking. But I do agree that it looks very different when he plays a lot of riffs and I can understand why people think it is downpicking only. It looks different to me when he plays Damage inc and Battery to. Not downpicking, but I have seen people who think it is. (Even with songs like Fight fire with fire, definitly not downpicking)
I have "studied" him many years but havnt really figured out exactly what he is doing. Execpt a really aggeesive style, he has said that he wanted to be a dummer. And he is almost like a drummer but with a guitar in his hands sometimes 😎
But I have noticed that his triplets is extremly fast sometimes though, maybe it is so fast so people dont even notice it sometimes 😘 I dont know, but thats my best theory why people see downpicking everywhere.
@@JohnnyRockG He did not just want, he is a drummer indeed, and pretty good. Damage, inc is downpicking, if you mean break riff. Seek and destroy, blackened, creeping death are fully downpicked. Sanitarium should be, too, but here we see alternate, he's exhausted sometimes. I've heard that intro to disposable heroes is alternate, though it's slow. Anyway, it's ok to play that alternate, but that's a challenge, we all don't want to fall behind😬
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Whats with that phaser effect
stereo desync I think.
Where is that justice era footage from?
Some is from this show, 1989. I think its one of the greatest videos from this tour.... Pro shoot with great quality. Don't like how the guitar sound there though, but I got used to it later 😎 ua-cam.com/video/GrRro4qc-h8/v-deo.html
But its several uploads from this show on UA-cam, cant remember wich one that has the best quality. Here is another one: ua-cam.com/video/o2EmWosdtuE/v-deo.html
Uploaded 2021: ”Blackened" [Mountain View '89] | Remastered 4K 60FPS”: ua-cam.com/video/wo02nxH992U/v-deo.html
2:13 bruh
Name of songs on 0:17 and 10:52,please?
I forgot the second one but the first one is Judas Kiss
first one is judas kiss and second one is now that we're dead
"Judas kiss" and the second one is from "Now that we're dead". But I think both riffs sounds heavier/better when he plays it live in the studio 😏 (I missed the last answer)
The Judas Kiss and now that we're dead
Song at 2:53?
Its a riff in the song "Atlas, Rise". It starts after around 3 minutes and he plays it when Kirk does his solo.
@@JohnnyRockG thanks johnny
0:43 song??
nvm damage inc , i just forgot the name
1:15 (background) Hallowed be thy Name.
In case you were wondering.
song at 6:30 ?
That was just your life
We need one of these videos for Jon Schaffer.
0:55 which show was it?
Mountain View, CA in 1989. Its on UA-cam with smooth 60p smacked onto it. Too bad the whole show has that wierd Flanger-sound going on
@@YourEx.. Thanks!
2nd
You were actually first
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