9 Levels of System of a Down Riffs - Easy to Hard
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2021
- 9 Levels of System of a Down riffs - easy to hard!
Time for some more levels of and this time it's some iconic riffs from Daron Malakian of SoaD.
What are your favourites and what do you find the hardest?
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Daron is my reminder that you don’t have to be complicated to sound good
Totally
Except cigaro
Daron is the reason I grabbed the electric
And Opeth are a reminder that you have to be complicated to sound good. Finding balance between both is not easy.
Richard kruspe & Paul landers from rammstein for me
Daron is that one guy who doesn't care if he sounds good he just loves to play
But he still sounds good every time
The scary part about daron is if he took more care of his tone with the riffs that man plays he would be in the numetal hall of fame where he belongs. Daron is so simple yet nuanced that I feel like his rhythm playing probably inspired a lot of the genre today. Without the weird factor system brought to the scene a lot the bands doing that today wouldn’t be here. Daron is a riff maestro
Aerials was one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar, to this day I still play it often. His riffs are absolutely memorable.
One of the first songs I learnt as well, SOAD was a great place to start learning guitar.
Right from the start I knew that was gonna be level 9. Well done 😆
Welcome 🤘
Way to ruin the suprise buddy guy
@@vincentforest4522 ah sh*t. Got too excited.
I was expecting the solo to lonely day lol
i like how we measure dificulty with number of darons
Daron is such an amazing riff writer
😅
The fact that Marmalade was only level 3 really took the wind out of my sails
100%
Yea i remember playing alot of system of a down stuff learning guitar. Marmelade is harder than Toxicity and Kill Rock n Roll
@@Laugkdefinitely not harder then toxicity and not hard in general
@@M-15-72-4 To me it is. :)
Bro really looks like all soad member combine together
My man. Your timing is impeccable. I've recently moved on to learning how to smash some SOAD.
SoaD is always fun to play!
I already knew "Vicinity Of Obscenity" will be the hardest, lol.
Man, you always make everything look so smooth and effortless.
Yeah bro I’m 44 he tricked me into thinking gojira riffs are easy
I'm so grad that you put marmelade on this list!
I really like quite a few of the tracks not on the main albums, metro is also great.
@@ShadowMantraSteve yes metro is one of my favourite SOAD songs
@@dominikweber4305 Metro and Marmalade are one of my all time favorites...
i was also really happy seeing it on here, songs that aren't in albums or that are colabs are so good it's sad they don't get the attention they deserve
vicinity of obscenity is so much more difficult than i thought it would be.
Yeaaa, it's hard to synchronise with other instruments, especially when playing it live (i did play that song and it was not that great haha). No wonder why Daron doesn't sing it live
This was awesome, Daron is one of my favourite guitarists and all the riffs he plays are just so damn good. I also won’t lie when I say that I was also singing along with some of these riffs, but all in all great vid dude
Thank you, glad you liked it!
The SG really is the signature sound for Daron. His rig is so simple that with a basic set up, its all in the tuning and guitar. Once you crank up a SG you’re like “holy shyt thats the sound” 😂
Don't forget the holy Iceman
@@doomerius1300 The Iceman had its moment for sure on the first albums, for his “nu-metal” riffs. But I think his writing style
completely changed on Mesmerize with the SG/ Acoustic combo in studio. It just brought out an entirely new style for them. Even on Scars On Broadway, Daron and John really are SOAD.
Please do more DOWN videos... they are back live and NOLA turned 25 this year. Keep rockin and be safe.
I remember some years back i said lets learn byob today sounds simple enough.... after 5 minutes i let down the guitar and i didnt even look at it for a whole week.
I have literally never seen anyone play Mr Jack like that.
I was thinking the same thing
That dean guitar is a beauty and puts out a really decent sound. Great job 🔥
Glad you like it!
Ставлю этому видео 10 Даронов Малакянов из 10!
Спасибо!
That dean cadillac is GORGEOUS
Thank you 🤘
Love your Cadillac btw
Great video! Love these "Level of" videos! Awesome playing! Always make me want to pick up my guitar haha. Keep it up mate!
Chic 'N' Stu and Psycho - the hardest soad riffs IMHO
Psycho really?
@@pixelsandpistons1313 right
Which riff of psycho?
Lvl 8 wrote by Serjio, talented - 10/10
Lvl 9 wrote by Daronimo - not so popular, but very talented too, 12/10
Great Tone! Awesome riffs
Thank you 🤘
BANANA BANANA BANANA BANANA TERRACOTTA BANANA TERRACOTTA TERRACOTTA PIE
Excellent drums, just what I’m always looking for when I search for guitar riffs.
I’d have to agree with all of these. The last one I still can’t play. It’s like a tongue twister for your hands😂
Wow so good! You're beast. ❤
Deer dance is hard to.
But the song is great 🤩
I enjoyed this video a LOT 😍 Nice on
Nice guitar, bro. I've got the same Dean in black. Great playing too!
Thanks, black caddies look really nice 👍
This was incredible
Great video
Love the tone. Soad fucking slaps
This band has this quality of making someone want to play their songs. Whatever the instrument.
Riffs for days!
Damn my 3 favorites on top. Nice
A riff that’s actually easy but sounds hard is Sad Statue, learned it back in high school 🤘🏽
De hecho, yo siento más complicado marmalade que toxcity. 🤔
I feel more complicated play "marmalade" than "toxicity". 🤔
Tiene sentido
Buen punto
I also used to think it was super hard back when I was learning it. What made it easier for me was making a standard strumming pattern for the whole song: down, up, down, up. Even the solo can be played like that. Just the pre-chorus is different with eventual palm muttings, I do all downstrokes there.
Once you get the rhythm right, you will love this song even more. It's probably my all time favorite to play, along with innervision, pluck and psycho
Is amazing tje sound of the Droop C#
Daron is the reason I grabbed the electric 🤘
how do you get this amazing tone man
All free plugins and apart from an SSL channel strip from waves. The guitar plugins i typically use are the TSE 808 into the Le456 and a mix of marshal and god's cab impulses. There is then some eq/compression/mixing as well.
beautiful)
In short, there's no soad song you shouldn't be able to play within a year or so or first picking up an electric
Happy strumming.
Nice)Probably these are not all difficulty levels of SOAD. There are more difficult ones like lonely day for instance.
I think the hardest 3 are Vicinity of Obscenity, Cigaro and Attack
I forgot Bounce (the palm muting riff is really fast with downpicking)
byob and vicinity of obscenity were the first songs i mastered when i picked up my first electric when i was 16 lol
So cool !
Do you know the band orbit culture? I really want you to listen to the songs "saw", "north star of nija", "open eye". And if you like it please make a cover 🙃
I've listened to them a few times, need to really dig into their music a bit more!
Honestly does Daron ever write a bad riff
So easy to medium basically
Mostly agree but Daron has above zero skill lol… also he left out the hardest riffs - Soil, Question, and arguably songs like Forest too with the time changes in the bridge.
Should’ve had the song Question!
These riffs give me Kerry King and slayer vibes I love it
Quite possibly! I just enjoy down picking a lot
Crisp snare
i don't want those daron face for whatsapp stickers... I NEED THEM
btw did you forget about their first album? excellent video bro
Ddevil is from their first album my friend. Marmalade is a Demo track from 1994 I think. They also covered Snowblind (black sabbath) and did a great cover of the song "Metro" which was for the Dracula movie around the same time I think 🙂
DDevil, Sugar and I think Marmalade are all from their debut
Ooh but what about Needles??
my personal one is still revenga with the 2 sets of triplets at 140 bpm. my picking hand literally started to seize up at the beginning
Cigaro has to be one if their hardest to pull off clean. Also forest I find rhythmically challenging towards the end. Soil main riff is kind of gibberish, so is the fast part at the end of Mr Jack.
Definitely a few songs you get lulled into a false sense of 'this is easy!' then Daron rips out a weird riff to throw you off!
love this as a blood fan of this band for so long! i've learned ALMOST all the songs except haven't really given 36 any tries at all ! but out of all of them due to the constant shift in the riff, i actually had the most difficullity with SOIL! Great video , subscribed
Thank you and welcome!
terracotta pie
BANANABANANABANANATERRACOTTABANANATERRACOTTATERRACOTTAPIE
what pedal did you use?
more soad please :D
how did you get that guitar tone?
I mainly use the LePou Le456 and the Ignite Amps Emissary plugins a lot with GodsCab impulses. Then some eq and some other mixing plugins.
Questions! lvl10
Maybe level 5
i thought the hardest one would be that slides in cigaro
Also a tough one to get accurate, for sure
Did not expect marmalade there cus im pretty bad and still know the song lol. Toxicity too but its easier for me so i kinda expected it.
Hey toxicity isnt that hard ive done it easily before, also good work dude!! 🔥🔥
Scars of Broadway yoo!
Someone tell me what album "Marmalade" is from I cannot remember
Bonus track from the Japanese edition of the first album, but also shows up on a couple of the single releases.
@@ShadowMantraSteve ah alr thanks
My level is 5/9 Malakians
Hey steve what guitar is that
It's a Dean Cadillac Select from around 2009
@@ShadowMantraSteve pretty slick steve I’m working on pentatonic scales steve you love made the guitar industry some money with eyebrow raise and smooth playing
There is no drop C rifs?)
What kind of guitar is that?
It's a Dean Cadillac Select
Lonely day (soloing) jaj
Are you Steven Perronne?
Лучшая игра B.Y.O.B. которую я видел
I can play byob but not cigaro but I can play radio/video but not toxicity but I can play sugar but not chic-n-stu but I can rock ieaiaio and shred california dreaming by Hollywood undead.....
Does this mean I have 8 Daron heads and 6.9 heads of Charles P. Scene???
A month later and I can play cigaro, toxicity, question, violent pornography, and shred tf out of revenga.
Edit, also working on vicinity of obscenity cause I remembered I can't play it good 😂😂😂
Awesome work 🤘
@@ShadowMantraSteve thx bro, an update to that as well, I can play all of mezmerize except lost in hollywood and soldier side intro. Half of toxicity, some hypnotize and I'm nailing down some hollywold undead songs as well 😁😁😁
Also keep up the great vids!
Is there a perfect way of holding your baby?
That is a very odd way to play Mr. Jack.
either chop suey riff is too easy for you or you still can’t play it.
because it is the hardest and heaviest riff of soad🔥🔥
Chop suey is literally built like half of their riffs - semitones and 1/16s. Even those licks in Cigaro take more skill than Chop suey.
Funny enough BYOB was the first one I learned
No soil?
Could of had another sub
I play mr. Jack different, after 3 I I go down to 8 7 8 7 0
kill rock 'n roll bem mais fácil que marmalade, a ultima só fica legal com palhetada pra baixo, cansa muito kkkkkk
SOAD don’t have difficult riffs lol)) so it’s from easy to easy))
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Hey guys look my top Rammstein riffs please🙏
b.y.o.b осилил , а вот cigaro не смог
I think some of those Steal This Album! songs are right up there as his hardest. Streamline is pretty awkward.
That guitar body is not ok under any circumstances
This should be dropped down another half step to full step, they detune to drop C-B
I don’t believe SOAD has ever tuned to Drop B. Drop C has been their main tuning with Drop C# being prominent in their latter two albums.
@@RangoTangento exactly.
listen nothing against you but i hate your guitar it’s so cursed to me
byob is easy af
All of them are ez
Half of them played wrong))