This is so sad man... my childhoods soundtrack were the albums blooddrunk, follow then reaper and are you dead yet. Legendary guitarist (from a humble drummer)
You can spend years learning a CoB solo. Alexi was literally a once in a generation shredder. It's so rare to get metal that just has fun and has some of the most creative riff writing. We will never see anything else like it again, Alexi will be truly missed. I remember being a teenager and me and all my guitar friends just wanted to be Alexi. We still do.
While I love Alexi as much as the next, years learning a solo is only if you literally start learning the solo when you start learning guitar. I've prob learned like 50 of his songs. After a while they get much much much easier as you get used to his techniques. Hell most COB songs I can learn in a day or two now. It's just learning the starting points for the lead runs and letting your fingers do the work after practicing them. Very great comment, but your opening statement is a bit much. I love this dude and his impact on my guitar playing, really helped me learn the whammy bar especially more than any other guitarist.
@@davidchristensen2572 Well that I guess is more to ME at least showing that since I can play it, I feel like, I dunno, I guess everyone can? After a while playing guitar well doesn't "feel" as special because since you're just a normal dude the feeling you get is more along the lines of "if I could pull it off than anyone can". That's why some of the most crazy complex guitarists are so humble. To them, they don't think they are super special in anyway, quite the opposite, so that is the reason for this comment. I guarantee though that if you REALLY put the effort into the instrument you claim to love so much, within a year, with proper persistence, this type of playing would feel more natural than anything. I apologize I wasn't trying to humble brag, more the actually opposite, basically saying "it's obtainable if you want it, and gets easier from there" From a dude that can play almost anything and not saying that like it's a bragging moment but from one learner to the next, don't look at things in terms of "skill level" look at it more as "time level" What level of time are you willing to put into that song/solo/etc if it is proportionate to the love you have for that specific peace of music, you will learn it and fast. Hell, most of the song's from symphony x I learn are so complicated by the time I get it to the point I feel "OK' with it, I have played the song so much it's not nearly as fun as it should be. Just because it became a job/challenge/persistence than fun/hobby/whenever. The first Necrophagist song I learned took me 6 months. The 2nd took 2 weeks. To give you and idea of how persistence with each individual guitarist will make each subsequent song easier. The first bodom songs took weeks/months to get down properly. Now they take a day or two. You get used to their techniques. This is the beauty of learning other peoples stuff. Just grows your technique bag, which that and theory is all really guitar is, how big both of those bags are.
@@breatheinacasket you actually helped me alot with my thinking over learning songs. i've been noodling for little less than year, learning the fretboard and getting comfortable with it, finding some riffs and melodies from top of my head. now i think im good enough to really start to learn songs, but it has been very intimidating to try to learn whole song, cant even decide where to start, what song to pick.. learning is skill also, i have to learn how to learn to play songs, and sticking to one guitarist for beginning seems to be a viable method. my current method, take shitload of speed and play 30 hours straight in one sitting is fun and i have learned quite lot doing so for a year, but now i need to start really practicing with good regime. maybe i can play something next august. random shitpost, not my fault its the drugs 😄
I remember having a really hard time learning CoB solos back in the days, all solos felt so mysteious... 1. They were hard to play in general 2. I could never seem to figure out which pickup he was using 3. I could also never seem to hear when he switched pickup 4. I could never get the same tone as him when he was sweep picking You won't believe how surprised I was when I realised he did'nt even have a neck pickup... I remember hearing him say in a rig-roundown-interview that he like to keep it simple, that's why he only had one pickup... i'll tell you though, there is nothing simple at all about playing all those solos without a neck pickup. Being able to play all those sweeps as clean as he did on a high distorted bridge pickup is'nt easy, it takes a lot of precision and talent... Rip one of my childhood heroes 😢😭❤
I remember watching that video while I practiced Bed of Razors. Blew my mind when I found out that a lot of 80s bands and solos from the radio bands are his favorites. Really helped my "solo" mindset when I heard that :) Amazing story
guy was on a different level, imagine playing this stuff while drinking heavy most of the time. had to be built different for sure. i couldn't play this sober after months of practice.
I'm about cry again 😢 when I was 14 he was someone in my life I thought was all ways going to be there with his music but I was unfortunately i wrong RIP alexi laiho you inspired my guitar playing and I'm shore many others as well. you will all ways be in my heart and in my guitar solos :,(
You are the reason why I've always wanted to have a Jackson V guitar, which I finally bought in 2007. Your image is what I have always imitated. It's just too sad that we can't escape death's grasp even when it takes the most wonderful, talented, driven and inspirational people of our lives. You'll live forever in our hearts, play persistently in our minds, and resonate endlessly in our ears. Rest in peace, Alex "Wildchild" Laiho. 🖤
My favourite guitarist right now are dave mustaine,dimebag darrell and alexi laiho.Three of them can sing while playing guitar and at the same time they can do incredible solos too.That’s one heck of a talent!
Rest in Peace Wildchild! You were the reason I picked up an electric guitar. You were an inspiration for thousands of young guitarists. May your legacy live forever
Still trying to breath after having the wind knocked the fuck out of my lungs by his untimely passing! This world definitely lost the best of the best! Once again😥 W\ildchil/,D,,,,,. RIP
Man this saddens me so damn much, his riffs were foundations of wanting to learn to play guitar. Thank you sir, you'll always be remembered in my heart 😭😭
I am still in shock. So young. To watch him play is mesmerizing. So fucking kickass. I have alot of videos i took when we saw COB and i even have one of his picks.
Haven’t been able to stop thinking about his death. The dude was my absolute hero growing up. Such a unique style nobody could replicate. Such incredible song writing. To top it off the dude was so fucking cool. Absolute genuine rockstar. RIP to one of the best guitarists of all time.
Touched like an Angel of Death was their first song I ever heard from them sometime back 2002/3 and I bought my first guitar, a Jackson simply because of Alexi's sound. This one hurts. I was hoping for the chance to see them live again.
dude awesome that you played kissing the shadows last. the whole follow the reaper album is a fucking masterpiece. especially the blues the lexi was so good as playing. classical genius with extensive knowlegde of metal
The sound this guy put out was massive. The guitar tones are unmatched and the attention to sound quality is world class. Only other dude I can think of who can riff and sing like that is Dave Mustaine. Alexi is on par with the very best.
It's not that Alexi could shred. It didn't matter that most were not fans after the first 2 albums. It was that around the time of HCDR you would hear the riffs and solos and say..."oh, that's Alexi" He started moving away from harmonic minor and incorporating so much more. To create a style? Good luck. He did. He did it with songwriting, riffs AND solos. Not that everything he wrote was a masterpiece....it was his though and you could hear it.
R.I.P. Alexi. One of the best musicians of our generation.
I'm in SHOCK :(
He was only 41 yrs . Such a damn shame R.I.P. Alexi
shit way to start the year, gana miss him
This is so sad man... my childhoods soundtrack were the albums blooddrunk, follow then reaper and are you dead yet. Legendary guitarist (from a humble drummer)
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
You can spend years learning a CoB solo. Alexi was literally a once in a generation shredder. It's so rare to get metal that just has fun and has some of the most creative riff writing. We will never see anything else like it again, Alexi will be truly missed. I remember being a teenager and me and all my guitar friends just wanted to be Alexi. We still do.
While I love Alexi as much as the next, years learning a solo is only if you literally start learning the solo when you start learning guitar. I've prob learned like 50 of his songs. After a while they get much much much easier as you get used to his techniques. Hell most COB songs I can learn in a day or two now. It's just learning the starting points for the lead runs and letting your fingers do the work after practicing them.
Very great comment, but your opening statement is a bit much. I love this dude and his impact on my guitar playing, really helped me learn the whammy bar especially more than any other guitarist.
@@breatheinacasket Weird time to flex, my man. I still can't play most of their stuff, not everyone is as amazing as you are. Very classy.
@@davidchristensen2572 Well that I guess is more to ME at least showing that since I can play it, I feel like, I dunno, I guess everyone can? After a while playing guitar well doesn't "feel" as special because since you're just a normal dude the feeling you get is more along the lines of "if I could pull it off than anyone can". That's why some of the most crazy complex guitarists are so humble. To them, they don't think they are super special in anyway, quite the opposite, so that is the reason for this comment.
I guarantee though that if you REALLY put the effort into the instrument you claim to love so much, within a year, with proper persistence, this type of playing would feel more natural than anything.
I apologize I wasn't trying to humble brag, more the actually opposite, basically saying "it's obtainable if you want it, and gets easier from there"
From a dude that can play almost anything and not saying that like it's a bragging moment but from one learner to the next, don't look at things in terms of "skill level" look at it more as "time level" What level of time are you willing to put into that song/solo/etc if it is proportionate to the love you have for that specific peace of music, you will learn it and fast. Hell, most of the song's from symphony x I learn are so complicated by the time I get it to the point I feel "OK' with it, I have played the song so much it's not nearly as fun as it should be. Just because it became a job/challenge/persistence than fun/hobby/whenever.
The first Necrophagist song I learned took me 6 months. The 2nd took 2 weeks. To give you and idea of how persistence with each individual guitarist will make each subsequent song easier. The first bodom songs took weeks/months to get down properly. Now they take a day or two. You get used to their techniques. This is the beauty of learning other peoples stuff. Just grows your technique bag, which that and theory is all really guitar is, how big both of those bags are.
@@breatheinacasket you actually helped me alot with my thinking over learning songs. i've been noodling for little less than year, learning the fretboard and getting comfortable with it, finding some riffs and melodies from top of my head. now i think im good enough to really start to learn songs, but it has been very intimidating to try to learn whole song, cant even decide where to start, what song to pick.. learning is skill also, i have to learn how to learn to play songs, and sticking to one guitarist for beginning seems to be a viable method. my current method, take shitload of speed and play 30 hours straight in one sitting is fun and i have learned quite lot doing so for a year, but now i need to start really practicing with good regime. maybe i can play something next august. random shitpost, not my fault its the drugs 😄
@@diah7130 Preach, dude.
ALEXI LAIHO = MOZART OF OUR TIME and one of the best guitarist and virtuoso music composer in all times in history!!!!! Never forget!!!!!!!
RIP WILDCHILD...one of the best melodeath pioneers
Kissing the Shadows is a f**king masterpiece. RIP Alexi
I remember having a really hard time learning CoB solos back in the days, all solos felt so mysteious...
1. They were hard to play in general
2. I could never seem to figure out which pickup he was using
3. I could also never seem to hear when he switched pickup
4. I could never get the same tone as him when he was sweep picking
You won't believe how surprised I was when I realised he did'nt even have a neck pickup... I remember hearing him say in a rig-roundown-interview that he like to keep it simple, that's why he only had one pickup... i'll tell you though, there is nothing simple at all about playing all those solos without a neck pickup. Being able to play all those sweeps as clean as he did on a high distorted bridge pickup is'nt easy, it takes a lot of precision and talent...
Rip one of my childhood heroes 😢😭❤
@not sure damn, you know your shit 😉👌
I remember watching that video while I practiced Bed of Razors. Blew my mind when I found out that a lot of 80s bands and solos from the radio bands are his favorites. Really helped my "solo" mindset when I heard that :) Amazing story
Typically speaking Alexi only used the bridge pickup hints why all of his signatures had a single passive emg pickup in the bridge
The reason for the pickup thing is because he used a bridge pickup with a push pull boost in it.
guy was on a different level, imagine playing this stuff while drinking heavy most of the time. had to be built different for sure. i couldn't play this sober after months of practice.
This guy was so ahead for his time, shame he's gone at that young age.
We won't ever forget you, bro. Rest easy.
This man's playing is amazing and will be missed, eddie van Halen, randy Rhodes, Alexi laiho R.I.P
True that!
His style always reminded me of Randy. He’ll be dearly missed. R.I..P Alexi
@@jaymer2928 yeah, and I forgot(somehow smh)about dimebag Darrell and chuck schuldiner...these people's playing change my world 😎🤘🔥❤ R.I.P
@@joshuaschmidinger3993 At least he met his idol of all time, the great late Randy Rhoads.
R.I.P bro, we love you.
IMHO one of the modt creative and technically advanced guitar players of all times
Rest in peace Alexi
R.I.P. Alexi Laiho. My childhood hero and the reason why many people like me did not give up learning guitar.
I'm about cry again 😢 when I was 14 he was someone in my life I thought was all ways going to be there with his music but I was unfortunately i wrong RIP alexi laiho you inspired my guitar playing and I'm shore many others as well. you will all ways be in my heart and in my guitar solos :,(
Miss you already king. One of the greatest of all time.. so underrated.
You are the reason why I've always wanted to have a Jackson V guitar, which I finally bought in 2007. Your image is what I have always imitated. It's just too sad that we can't escape death's grasp even when it takes the most wonderful, talented, driven and inspirational people of our lives. You'll live forever in our hearts, play persistently in our minds, and resonate endlessly in our ears. Rest in peace, Alex "Wildchild" Laiho. 🖤
well said man beautiful words
Rest in peace Alexi what a musician.
3:00 sooo dope
RIP Alexi my idol. You were an inspiration to millions and you'll be in our hearts forever 🤧
COB was my first extreme metal group I got into, and I still love them, RIP Alexi, you'll be missed
My too! I was shocked, when suddenly bought their casset, but I liked it.
Steel love them, and other death and black, because of them.
Long live Alexi Laiho 🤘🤘🤘we will miss you my dear friend.
Rest in peace. You broke my heart, you bastard. I am at a loss of words what you meant to me.
My favourite guitarist right now are dave mustaine,dimebag darrell and alexi laiho.Three of them can sing while playing guitar and at the same time they can do incredible solos too.That’s one heck of a talent!
We truely do not know what we have until its gone. My heart will have a crack in it forever over the loss of my guitar hero.
Wrath within was always one that I loved so much. I loved all his solos RIP
Rest in Peace Wildchild! You were the reason I picked up an electric guitar. You were an inspiration for thousands of young guitarists. May your legacy live forever
You'll be missed😭 Alexi.
Still trying to breath after having the wind knocked the fuck out of my lungs by his untimely passing!
This world definitely lost the best of the best!
Once again😥
W\ildchil/,D,,,,,. RIP
One of the top and fav guitarist of all time. You will be missed 🤘🏽🖤🤘🏽 RIP🙏🏽
RIP Alexi, grateful for the times I did see you live. May you live on through your music in metal heads and hearts everywhere
RIP my fave rock guitarist
Man this saddens me so damn much, his riffs were foundations of wanting to learn to play guitar. Thank you sir, you'll always be remembered in my heart 😭😭
RIP alexi
you are one of the best guitar/vocal in the world
In One time , was first time to see him playing with the guitar I knew he's the best one on earth🤘 rest in peace brother🌷 we gonna miss you so much
RIP LEGEND !
You'll be missed, Hope you are at peace now and shredding in heaven
I am still in shock. So young. To watch him play is mesmerizing. So fucking kickass. I have alot of videos i took when we saw COB and i even have one of his picks.
His solos give me good chills
From the very little ive seen of this guy His solos seem very well structured
Heaven have a great group now. I'm cry, guys...
Fly high ALEXI. You Are missed.
PERKELE
Looking back at laiho i had my nails painted black back then in 2012..the youtube dp also exists since then... Never ever changed...
Always in my heart !!! Thanks Alexi, ...see you on the other side!
RIP ALEXI, havent listened to COB for a long time, FUUUUK THIS DECADE
Lo vi en Cleveland ohio una única vez , solo después de su muerte pude dimensionar a la leyenda que tuve el placer de ver en vivo R.I.P alexi
Alexi contributed as much to extreme metal as Eddie did to modern music as a whole. Alexi had a great and unique style. I miss him a lot.
Haven’t been able to stop thinking about his death. The dude was my absolute hero growing up. Such a unique style nobody could replicate. Such incredible song writing. To top it off the dude was so fucking cool. Absolute genuine rockstar.
RIP to one of the best guitarists of all time.
RIP Alexi, such an amazing player gone way too soon
Uploaded 7 months ago.. little did they know he was actually gonna pass away after 7 months. Rest in peace AL. legends never die
Commented 7 months ago.
Idk man, just felt like I had to complete the "777". 😄
Already a fckn start of this year 🥺 this year gonna be 2020 + 1 ( another one ) , RIP Alexi 😭
Thank you so much, so amazing 🙌❤️
RIP - so many good solos. Follow the Reaper is my fav, then kissing the shadows. CoB was my second gig in London back in the early 2000s
R.I.P. 😓 one oft the best 😭🖤
@Eric Leslie 32 yeah i guess you're right 😔😓
RIP to this man 🤘🤘❤️❤️
Rest in peace wild child you will be missed.
Happy birthday!!!
5:29 whaaaaat!!!!
Am I the only one hearing master of puppets here
THE FUCKKKK
Um puta guitarrista, compositor e vocalista. Eterno ídolo.
A TRUE FUCKING ROCKER GONE WAY TOO SOON! RIP MR. LAIHO. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Well, you should just put every solo he ever played in the video. R.I.P. to one of the greatest shredders of all time.
I remember seeing them and the guitar vs keyboard duels we're legendary
Wish I had those fingers haha
Hear hear!🤟❤
Rest in Power!
A large piece of my childhood disappears . RIP Alexi ! Guitar hero!!
R.I.P. Alexi. U we're an insanely gifted guitarist 🤘
Alexhi, l.. Gitaris n vocals the best one 1in the world, arpeggios solo metal..
Touched like an Angel of Death was their first song I ever heard from them sometime back 2002/3 and I bought my first guitar, a Jackson simply because of Alexi's sound. This one hurts. I was hoping for the chance to see them live again.
guy was such a beast on guitar, metal lost a legend today.
🤘🏻🤘🏻Rest In Power🤘🏻🤘🏻
🎸🎸We'll never forget you.🎸🎸
RIP 😔💯 the best of our era
dude awesome that you played kissing the shadows last. the whole follow the reaper album is a fucking masterpiece. especially the blues the lexi was so good as playing. classical genius with extensive knowlegde of metal
RIP Alexi. Saw the post by Dimmu Borgir, and I was crushed; still am...
This is a really good video that displays his guitar skills.I get it now.
DESCANSA EN PAZ ALEXI.
EL MEJOR GUITARRISTA ,MI IDOLO POR SIEMPRE.
🤘🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘🤘
RIP my friend
R.I.P
RIP Alexi
I miss you Man 💔😩
Long live the King~
In our ❤️ s
RIP
Wild Child
un geant de la guitare !!
He followed the reaper to the Bodom Lake 🤘💀
Rest in peace, my hero...
ＲＩＰ Alexi laiho
Ｉ love you
RIP homie.
Damn
God....Damn.....
Rest easy brother...
R.I.P Alexi
R.I.P MASTER LAHIO,,,,,,,,,,,,
Requiescat in pace
Rest in peace Alexi, gone too soon..
R.I.P 😔
Rest in piece. Hopefully you dont rust like the machine you are
RIP
why haven't I heard of this guy? In all of my years listening to metal this guy is a Shred master amongst others
Bodom beach terror has gotta be my favourite solo from him
R.I.P Alexi .
The sound this guy put out was massive. The guitar tones are unmatched and the attention to sound quality is world class. Only other dude I can think of who can riff and sing like that is Dave Mustaine. Alexi is on par with the very best.
Mustaine actually admired Laiho. Now that's an achievement.
bad-fuckin-ass!!
Rip Alexi
This guy could play. RIP
Follow the reaper is a good solo
What is that gig at 0:37 ?
Alexi's Saw like riffs, may the douchebags saying he's mediocre give another listen and be cut in half 👿
It's not that Alexi could shred. It didn't matter that most were not fans after the first 2 albums.
It was that around the time of HCDR you would hear the riffs and solos and say..."oh, that's Alexi"
He started moving away from harmonic minor and incorporating so much more.
To create a style? Good luck.
He did.
He did it with songwriting, riffs AND solos.
Not that everything he wrote was a masterpiece....it was his though and you could hear it.