I like how the comments are not the typical Megadeth vs Metallica bullshit, or the typical "Mustaine wrote Metallica's catalog" argument At this point pretty much all fans of both bands know the history that inevitably binds both forever, whatever happened between them was ultimately for the benefit of metal fans because we got two amazing bands that undoubtedly have immense amount of talent, and maybe we nitpick sometimes and point out their flaws, but no doubt all of them have put their names in music history for a damn good reason
An exceptional comment my friend. I'm really glad you point that out. We have two great bands with remarkable history and music. They had their ups and downs, bright moments and dark moments but definitely they had their names in music history as you've said.
I like how you can tell the Mustaine riffs are his because they definitely sound like something that would be on a Megadeth record, the guy definitely has his own distinct character/style. Kirk's old riffs have an "epic", dark, thrashy quality to them, for lack of better terms. Cliff's riffs made use of a lot of classical elements and harmonies, which isn't surprising considering his musical history/training.
When mustaine plays the Metallica riffs he supposedly wrote he plays them so differently that it's generous he even gets credit.. especially for ride the lightning.
@@sdkee LOL Kirk has written some great riffs, including the killer bridge riff of Damage, Inc and the main riff of Dyers Eve. Your ignorance overfloweth.
This video made me realize that Fade to Black is literally just Kirk’s masterpiece. His solos in that song were already some of my favorites in their entire discography, but the fact that he wrote a lot of the riffs too is just ridiculous
@@LeavingCaladan yeah, Joe Satriani helped him write the solos for Fade to Black. Maybe others on that album as well, but Kirk stated it a long time ago for the fade to black solos.
His riff for Trapped Under Ice was also used in an Exodus song. They didn't end up releasing the song until years later. It's called Impaler, you should check it out.
If these are Kirks riffs he referenced, he wrote some of most interesting parts in iconic songs. He seems to have a knack for sometimes the hardest thing to do... Write a good bridge that almost kicks the rest of the songs arse.
and my friend of misery is him too, which somehow didn't make this cut... but is to me the best song on the black album by a decent bit. love Rob and miss that dude at all times.
@@wwjlotdd That's cause Jason made the bass part for my friend of misery, not the guitar part. I do find it surprising that Where The Wild Things Are wasn't on this since that was Jason
@@antonflystrup932 -Main riff of 72 Seasons -Main riff of Chasing Light -Something within Crown of Barbed Wire -Main Riff of Darkness (That's 4 out of 12 tracks on their newest album he co-wrote) -And Kirk's Solo EP works are great as well
Though I personally prefer Mustaine’s style over Kirk’s, you can’t deny there is something very rhythmic and stylish about Kirk’s style. It truly adds magic to the Metallica sound we all love!
This is why it always puzzles me that Kirk is somehow always left out when people talk about Metallica and their riffs. The guy has written some of the best riffs the band's ever produced. Trujillo & Newsted's contributions (the few that there are) are also VERY strong. Very strong indeed!
most of these are correct although lars and james wrote the intro to ride the lightning, dave did right a majority of the song. cliff also wrote the harmonies at the end of fade. love the playing tho sounds great!
Actually, i saw in an interview where Lars actually said it was Cliff that came up with the intro to Ride the Lightning and that he came up with the drum part to accompany the riff but yes, the song, like much of their early material (first album and some 2nd album), was written by Dave.
@@Alfr7 Four horsemen, jump in the fire, Phantom lord, metal militia, ride the lightning and call od ktulu are songs where Dave participated in writing
@@RudyTheRockKing They used other riffs he had too in other songs. One being 'Leper Messiah' but the ones you mentioned he did more than just participated in. He wrote most of the ideas of those songs of which without him, wouldn't exist. i'm glad he even declined rights to release the 'No Life 'til Leather' recording Metallica wanted to do. Because of his declining they couldn't release it on their Blackened label. Money can't buy everything. And no amount would persuade Dave to give Lars credit for material he didn't write.
Great track too, one of if not their best songs, the break into that riff is just epic before harmonising guitars together, then an epic epic solo.. so so good.
I’m always amazed by Kirks ability to write some of the catchiest riffs that are some of my favorites, and I could tell which riffs Dave had written just by the way they were played, very “Megadethy” 😂
I love how Kirk's love of classic horror movies almost comes out in his music, especially his solo in the thing that should not be, call of ktulu and the outro for whom the bell tolls. It's so eerie and horror inspired. The bridge on creeping death is so evil too
This video does an amazing job at showing the different writing styles of each person. it's insane once you catch onto how Cliff wrote music vs kirk vs Dave etc. it's good shit.
4:58 I think the first bend in the main line should be a whole step. Great video, I appreciate how much effort was put to produce this work. Keep going. From other sources I have heard that the riff in Wolf and man is also by Kirk Hammett.
Thank you very much. Kirk is credited for Of wolf and man, but I didn't include every riff in this video that is not by James. His riffs are also in Hero of the day, and justice for all, welcome home, the house jack built etc. There is probably a bunch more riffs by others aswell.
Feels good to learn that kirk has a real part in writing some of the best riffs. But it feels sad to think just how big of a creative force cliff was and how much he had inside him to give to the world of music.
Jump in the Fire definitely sounded like DM. But, thank God for Kirk. People hate on him so much but he brought Metallica a unique original sound. Moments of beauty that somehow weaved in and out of darkness perfectly. They would have been an average metal group with Dave.
Dude, hats of for the ambience. The lighting, the post effects on the video, and that mirror shot man. It's so justice era (maybe if you had the olimpic white explorer it would be even more accurate, but hey I went for the black one aswell 😉)
Excellent production on this video The lighting looks incredible, all the little visual effects look lovely too without being distracting, even the text looks surprisingly good. The guitars sound great too, you've done a great job recreating the sounds of each album
@Artie_Fufkin_ it’s a thrash album. Ride the lighting and puppets take the production to a different level sure, but kill ‘em all is a pure thrash album and nothing tops it IMO.
What people don't realize is that Cliff Burton wrote a lot of those Music Theory kind of Riffs on Guitar then translated them to Bass . That's why his Bass blended so well with these Riffs especially on Master Of Puppets Album . Dave - Riffs in Mechanix / Four Horsemen / Jump In the Fire / Phantom Lord / Metal Militia / Call Of Ktulu / Ride The Lightning Kirk - Creeping Death Die By My hand Riff Trapped Under Ice Intro Chorus Riff Master Of Puppets - Come Crawling Faster , Obey Your Master Riff Enter Sandman Intro Chorus Riff Most of the Fade To Black Riffs . To Live is to Die Intro / Outro Jason - Blackened Intro Riff My Friend Of MIsery Intro Bass Riff Cliff - Most of the Orion and Master Of Puppets Riffs on the entire Album Fight Fire With Fire Intro Classical Suite
Cliff was genius. He brought harmonies to the band. The harmonized part in Orion was written on bass if I'm correct and was later translated to guitar. Also Cliff had small acoustic guitar that he was carrying around and was using to write harmonies.
I hear you're a damn good player, but you seem to have missed that four horsemen is played with a swing feel. Also the bassline in orion is Cliff's but the lead part is probably James. Other than that the riffs are spot on
Freaking awesome video man! Metallica, Megadeth, James, Dave, Kirk are all inspirations to my playing. It was really interesting to hear everyones musical contribution. All very unique to them. Awsome research and awsome playing. Love that epi explorer too btw. I was almost an explorer guy, but when my first real guitar decision came down to an explorer and an ML, I went with the ML. Lol
I am almost 49 years old and I've been playing guitar since the early 80s when I was about 12 or 13 so you do the math and Metallica was always something on my radar I waited in line for Master of Puppets to be released. James Hetfield shaped my rhythm playing when it comes to metal if I am playing metal in any particular band cuz I play different music off and on
wow, it is so cool to see someone speaking from that time. James Hetfield shaped me as well, and I'm 21. I think that show how timeless (if thats the right word) they are to affect different generations of musicians
Excellent about Kirk and Mustaine. There is also great work by Lars in the vast majority of the Riffs, not strictly compositional, but to lead the orchestra in the right direction.
According to Dave mustaine in an interview that year, as opposite to the mediatic thing they were hanging out a lot behind the scenes, he was there when Lars found the chromatic riff of MOP on an acoustic guitar .
You can tell a Kirk riff from a James or Dave riff. Dave has a lot of jumping around single notes or heavy riffs. Kirks is more stay around the same notes type of riff. Like the damage inc riff compared to jump in the fire
It's all great stuff and it's fitting that they made it. Millions of us can play this stuff easily, but coming up with it, writing it--that's the hard part. I spent far too much of my youth playing scales to a metronome when I should have been trying to write cool stuff.
Sick guitar! I found the demo tapes for Load and ReLoad on youtube and James definitely came up with King Nothing on Bass first, which is pretty cool to listen to.
Nice video, buddy! But Kirk's got some credits on Re-Load, in songs like Fuel, The Unforgiven II, Slither, Carpe Diem Baby, Bad Seed and Fixxxer, and it's worth mentioning the beautiful acoustic guitar intro in Where The Wild Things Are by Newsted.
I wonder who that Dave Mustaine fella is. He has made some incredible riffs for Metallica! I bet if he made his own band he would make it, and with those riffs i bet he would make masterpiece after masterpiece after masterpiece and nobody would ever hate his band cause of how amazing his talent is.
Interesting trivia about Jump In The Fire: The riff is actually played on the second fret and not the third. When they recorded the song they thought it sounded too slow so they sped it up a bit. If you play along with the song in standard tuning the note is actually somewhere between an F# and G.
Don't get confused ya'll..James wrote most of the songs and riffs..this dude picked up some sections that were not written by James..for.example,James wrote master of puppets..but the chorus riffs were Kirk's👍..not.the whole song👍..likewise with other songs too..Great job,anyway..this dude nailed it🔥
This is why it always puzzles me that Kirk is somehow always left out when people talk about Metallica and their riffs. The guy has written some of the best riffs the band's ever produced. Trujillo & Newsted's contributions (the few that there are) are also VERY strong. Very strong indeed!
@Krystal Alpha McCloud well Robert only wrote intro for ManUNkind on Hardwired. There is definetely more of riffs that were not written by James (at least 10 - 15)
@@richardrobinson1879 You're welcome. And thank you for such a nice comments. I also love all their albums. Every album is special in one way or another.
I like how the comments are not the typical Megadeth vs Metallica bullshit, or the typical "Mustaine wrote Metallica's catalog" argument
At this point pretty much all fans of both bands know the history that inevitably binds both forever, whatever happened between them was ultimately for the benefit of metal fans because we got two amazing bands that undoubtedly have immense amount of talent, and maybe we nitpick sometimes and point out their flaws, but no doubt all of them have put their names in music history for a damn good reason
An exceptional comment my friend. I'm really glad you point that out. We have two great bands with remarkable history and music. They had their ups and downs, bright moments and dark moments but definitely they had their names in music history as you've said.
I was a late adopter of Metallica and found Kill em all to be their weakest album.
@@Dragonslairminis what do you think when you hear Motorhead or Diamond Head do Metallica?
@@nickmansfield1 not a fan of Motorhead, Diamond Head's cover of no remorse was good though.
Amen!
I like how you can tell the Mustaine riffs are his because they definitely sound like something that would be on a Megadeth record, the guy definitely has his own distinct character/style.
Kirk's old riffs have an "epic", dark, thrashy quality to them, for lack of better terms.
Cliff's riffs made use of a lot of classical elements and harmonies, which isn't surprising considering his musical history/training.
I do agree with you
Kirk has no riffs. Everything is Dave, Cliff and James.
When mustaine plays the Metallica riffs he supposedly wrote he plays them so differently that it's generous he even gets credit.. especially for ride the lightning.
@@sdkee
LOL Kirk has written some great riffs, including the killer bridge riff of Damage, Inc and the main riff of Dyers Eve. Your ignorance overfloweth.
@@sdkee you didn’t watch this video at all then did you?
This video made me realize that Fade to Black is literally just Kirk’s masterpiece. His solos in that song were already some of my favorites in their entire discography, but the fact that he wrote a lot of the riffs too is just ridiculous
He wrote a lots of riffs, lots amazing riffs
Joe Satriani worked a lot with him on fade to black.
@@Dragonslairminis say what?
@@LeavingCaladan yeah, Joe Satriani helped him write the solos for Fade to Black. Maybe others on that album as well, but Kirk stated it a long time ago for the fade to black solos.
@@Dragonslairminis wow, that’s such an awesome piece of metal history. it’s weird to me too cuz i assumed joe was a later generation for some reason.
Kirk wrote some of the mist recognizable riffs. The “die” riff in creeping death was also used in an earlier song of his former band exodus
Correct
Yes in the song Die By His Hand
His riff for Trapped Under Ice was also used in an Exodus song. They didn't end up releasing the song until years later. It's called Impaler, you should check it out.
@@pthibault630 thanks i will
If these are Kirks riffs he referenced, he wrote some of most interesting parts in iconic songs. He seems to have a knack for sometimes the hardest thing to do... Write a good bridge that almost kicks the rest of the songs arse.
I never knew that the 7/4 Blackened riff was Jason....the badassity of that riff alone saddens me that he wasn't able to have more of his riffs used.
Yeah, that is one of Metallica best riffs
and my friend of misery is him too, which somehow didn't make this cut... but is to me the best song on the black album by a decent bit. love Rob and miss that dude at all times.
That song really set the tone for the rest of that album.
@@wwjlotdd That's cause Jason made the bass part for my friend of misery, not the guitar part. I do find it surprising that Where The Wild Things Are wasn't on this since that was Jason
This video should give fans a new appreciation of Kirk Hammett. His riff contributions were immense.
That is true
Lead in ride the lightning ( the track) is Fire!.. the outro lead in jump in the fire smoken!
Why? The first 3 albums was all Dave’s music he still gets royalties on them
@@JasonPicard-w4o stupid
Dude seriously! 👏🏼
love the lightning, the camera angles, the execution. nice video!
Thanks
Why is no one talking about how well this video is made? Such good tone and scenery. Even the lighting is amazing
Thank you very much my friend \m/
desperately needs bass tho
Shows how important Kirk is to Metallica. People always talk like it's all James but this video shows they're an amazingly talented band.
They all are amazing.
*Was important. Now he litteraly does nothing
@@antonflystrup932 ass
so does everyone else XD @@antonflystrup932
@@antonflystrup932
-Main riff of 72 Seasons
-Main riff of Chasing Light
-Something within Crown of Barbed Wire
-Main Riff of Darkness
(That's 4 out of 12 tracks on their newest album he co-wrote)
-And Kirk's Solo EP works are great as well
That Damage Inc riff is so damn good, especially in the context of the song. Fits right in
It is
Though I personally prefer Mustaine’s style over Kirk’s, you can’t deny there is something very rhythmic and stylish about Kirk’s style. It truly adds magic to the Metallica sound we all love!
What I love about Kirk is he brings mystery dark eerie style of riffs and James completes it to make Metallica
Every member has its own style and brings something different, something special
I never would prefer Dave style … the Kirk style is most clingy
@@AnibalAvelar I’m a Kirk man all the way! 👍
The fact that jason wrote blackened and you can’t even hear him playing it
It is one of their best riffs
If not their best
@@blatchy1218 It is one of my favourite to play
😂
The lesson to be be learned: It’s not just the Lars and James show. Kirk brings a lot to the table.
Everybody did. Cliff, Rob, Jason
The Kirk Damage Inc. riff is so incredible. Could easily have been the basis for an entire song vs an interlude, often not even played live
Yeah, that riff is killer
A very Slayer-esque riff. Think I saw a video where KK wished he'd written that one.
I reckon Blackened may be my favourite ever Metallica riff. Newsted didn’t get much opportunity to write for them but that was certainly a great one!
Definitely one of their best and one of my favourite to play
The fact that it opens that album is a big statement
Incredible riffage, your tone and timing is great!
Thanks, that means a lot
Holy shit at 8:21 didn’t know Kirk wrote that riff. That’s one of their best riffs imo
I agree, and a bit tricky one to play
sounds like james
@@rippaz31 that’s what I always assumed too
That's an old riff Hammett wrote with his band, Exodus.
This is why it always puzzles me that Kirk is somehow always left out when people talk about Metallica and their riffs. The guy has written some of the best riffs the band's ever produced. Trujillo & Newsted's contributions (the few that there are) are also VERY strong. Very strong indeed!
most of these are correct although lars and james wrote the intro to ride the lightning, dave did right a majority of the song. cliff also wrote the harmonies at the end of fade. love the playing tho sounds great!
Thank you
Actually, i saw in an interview where Lars actually said it was Cliff that came up with the intro to Ride the Lightning and that he came up with the drum part to accompany the riff but yes, the song, like much of their early material (first album and some 2nd album), was written by Dave.
@@Alfr7 Four horsemen, jump in the fire, Phantom lord, metal militia, ride the lightning and call od ktulu are songs where Dave participated in writing
@@RudyTheRockKing They used other riffs he had too in other songs. One being 'Leper Messiah' but the ones you mentioned he did more than just participated in. He wrote most of the ideas of those songs of which without him, wouldn't exist. i'm glad he even declined rights to release the 'No Life 'til Leather' recording Metallica wanted to do. Because of his declining they couldn't release it on their Blackened label.
Money can't buy everything. And no amount would persuade Dave to give Lars credit for material he didn't write.
Lars came up with the melody for the ride the lightning intro and cliff harmonized it.
That's how i know it
That damage inc riff is just gnarly, always really admired it
Yeah, it is one of his best riffs definitely
It's simply wicked - one of the best thrash riffs of all time.
Great track too, one of if not their best songs, the break into that riff is just epic before harmonising guitars together, then an epic epic solo.. so so good.
Lord Hammett has written some of the best Metallica riffs. Give this man more credit.
He deserves more credit
Wahmmett*
😂
@@ARandomInternetUser08still works
I’m always amazed by Kirks ability to write some of the catchiest riffs that are some of my favorites, and I could tell which riffs Dave had written just by the way they were played, very “Megadethy” 😂
Megadethy sounds like a tribute band that plays everything with more of a punk sound lol, I’d get their albums.
The ascending run in Call of the Ktulu is Hangar 18 chords exactly
I love how Kirk's love of classic horror movies almost comes out in his music, especially his solo in the thing that should not be, call of ktulu and the outro for whom the bell tolls. It's so eerie and horror inspired.
The bridge on creeping death is so evil too
I attributed so much to James, but Kirk wrote a lot of my favorite riffs. I didn’t realize he wrote Wasting Hate my favorite off Load. Thanks.
Kirk wrote some of their best riffs
This video does an amazing job at showing the different writing styles of each person. it's insane once you catch onto how Cliff wrote music vs kirk vs Dave etc. it's good shit.
4:58 I think the first bend in the main line should be a whole step. Great video, I appreciate how much effort was put to produce this work. Keep going. From other sources I have heard that the riff in Wolf and man is also by Kirk Hammett.
Thank you very much. Kirk is credited for Of wolf and man, but I didn't include every riff in this video that is not by James. His riffs are also in Hero of the day, and justice for all, welcome home, the house jack built etc. There is probably a bunch more riffs by others aswell.
Feels good to learn that kirk has a real part in writing some of the best riffs.
But it feels sad to think just how big of a creative force cliff was and how much he had inside him to give to the world of music.
Jump in the Fire definitely sounded like DM. But, thank God for Kirk. People hate on him so much but he brought Metallica a unique original sound. Moments of beauty that somehow weaved in and out of darkness perfectly. They would have been an average metal group with Dave.
I didn’t know Rob contributed to Death Magnetic that much. Some killer riffs
He did, and I hope he will contribute on next record
He's credited on all songs lol we just don't know what he did for the other ones
Man Mustaine and hetfield are the best riff writers in all of metal
They are
@@RudyTheRockKing Kirk too imo. His Damage INC riff is brutal.
@@k1775 yeah
Don't forget Dimebag 🤘🤘
Tony Iommi is up there too
Absolute shreddage as always my brother!
I always do my best
@@RudyTheRockKing just keep at it, hopefully you'll break the 1M channel views soon
@@gutwrench4387 Me too. Thanks for cheering me up
So Kirk wrote all the cool riffs from Load and Reload lol
Yeah, he wrote some of the coolest riffs for sure
There cool riffs on load and unload?
@@liamliam5341 Yes dude. They are called Bleeding Me, Fixxxer, King Nothing, The Memory Remains etc...
@@Owen_plays_music1049 to each their own, but I did not think any of them were good or anything I heard on those albums.
@@liamliam5341 then you def went into that album with a closed mind. Metallica is more than just thrash
this is the most badass guitar video in youtube! You were an inspiration to me to star record some guitar videos of me playing! THANK YOU!!
Thank you so much, this means a lot to me. Hope to see some of your videos soon \m/
Dude, hats of for the ambience. The lighting, the post effects on the video, and that mirror shot man.
It's so justice era (maybe if you had the olimpic white explorer it would be even more accurate, but hey I went for the black one aswell 😉)
Thank you \m/
Excellent production on this video
The lighting looks incredible, all the little visual effects look lovely too without being distracting, even the text looks surprisingly good.
The guitars sound great too, you've done a great job recreating the sounds of each album
Thank you very much my friend, this means a world to me.
Subbing purely on how helpful and awesome this video is. This is the stuff that makes UA-cam great
Thank you my friend, really appreciate it
Nicely done Rudy!
Thank you
How have I not seen many people talk about how damn good the tones are?
Thanks \m/
Dave is an amazing artist man crazy that he was self taught
Now obviously he didn’t write alll the songs presented here but most of which i like he did contribute to
Kill ‘em All is the best Metallica album.
@Artie_Fufkin_I’m glad someone finally said it
@Artie_Fufkin_ it’s a thrash album. Ride the lighting and puppets take the production to a different level sure, but kill ‘em all is a pure thrash album and nothing tops it IMO.
Hero of the day is another kirk hammet riff
Yeah
Not one of his best. That's one of my least favorite Metallica songs.
What people don't realize is that Cliff Burton wrote a lot of those Music Theory kind of Riffs on Guitar then translated them to Bass . That's why his Bass blended so well with these Riffs especially on Master Of Puppets Album .
Dave - Riffs in Mechanix / Four Horsemen / Jump In the Fire / Phantom Lord / Metal Militia / Call Of Ktulu / Ride The Lightning
Kirk - Creeping Death Die By My hand Riff
Trapped Under Ice Intro Chorus Riff Master Of Puppets - Come Crawling Faster , Obey Your Master Riff
Enter Sandman Intro Chorus Riff
Most of the Fade To Black Riffs .
To Live is to Die Intro / Outro
Jason - Blackened Intro Riff My Friend Of MIsery Intro Bass Riff
Cliff - Most of the Orion and Master Of Puppets Riffs on the entire Album
Fight Fire With Fire Intro Classical Suite
Cliff was genius. He brought harmonies to the band. The harmonized part in Orion was written on bass if I'm correct and was later translated to guitar. Also Cliff had small acoustic guitar that he was carrying around and was using to write harmonies.
come crawling faster... not controlling faster
Cliff wrote most of MoP? Bruh
@@outis439-A Cliff Could Play Guitar as well as Bass. Yeah , he did write a lot of the riffs with James for the Master Of Puppets Album .
Fade to Black ending riff is by Cliff Burton. I love kirk's riffs ❤
It is, my bad. Kirk is amazing
I hear you're a damn good player, but you seem to have missed that four horsemen is played with a swing feel. Also the bassline in orion is Cliff's but the lead part is probably James. Other than that the riffs are spot on
Thank you very much
Everything about this video is spectacular ❤
I really appreciate that killer riff of My Apocalypse which is Hammett work.
The video editing style is wicked badass I’m subscribing
Thanks \m/
Freaking awesome video man! Metallica, Megadeth, James, Dave, Kirk are all inspirations to my playing. It was really interesting to hear everyones musical contribution. All very unique to them. Awsome research and awsome playing. Love that epi explorer too btw. I was almost an explorer guy, but when my first real guitar decision came down to an explorer and an ML, I went with the ML. Lol
Thank you very much, I'm glad you like it. Those guys are my inspiration too. ML is amazing too
Also Cliff was a fucking genius
I am almost 49 years old and I've been playing guitar since the early 80s when I was about 12 or 13 so you do the math and Metallica was always something on my radar I waited in line for Master of Puppets to be released. James Hetfield shaped my rhythm playing when it comes to metal if I am playing metal in any particular band cuz I play different music off and on
wow, it is so cool to see someone speaking from that time. James Hetfield shaped me as well, and I'm 21. I think that show how timeless (if thats the right word) they are to affect different generations of musicians
Your age is not mathing 🤔
Nice vid dude
Thanks dude \m/
Man you've got a great guitar tone. It's got a real old-school Thrash sound. As an old metalhead I approve
Thank you very much. It means a lot.
Bro Amazing skills and I like the aesthetics of your video quality... Superb !
Thank you very much \m/
The fact that he looks like the final boss in a guitar related game makes this 100 times better
Killer vid and thats a real sweet Epi, this video made me want one bad!
Thanks
My Apocalypse's riff is very underrated
It is. Very good song actually
Awesome video
Thanks
Kirk better store his next riffs in a cloud, dont wanna hear any lost phone excuse anymore :D
Haha i hope so
Good thing you remembered the notes in between.
Excellent about Kirk and Mustaine. There is also great work by Lars in the vast majority of the Riffs, not strictly compositional, but to lead the orchestra in the right direction.
Yeah, Enter Sandman is a good example of that. That riff may stem from Kirk's playing but Lars elevated it for sure
According to Dave mustaine in an interview that year, as opposite to the mediatic thing they were hanging out a lot behind the scenes, he was there when Lars found the chromatic riff of MOP on an acoustic guitar .
Jump in the Fire is all MUSTAINE !!! I love those riffs!
Excellent tone my friend
Thank you
Very well-put video, kudos.
The concept, execution and the video (!)
Thank you
Kirky when the notes in between aren’t fucking with him:
One of the best things I've ever seen in youtube
Thank you very much, that means a lot \m/
I was wondering if you were going to get Lars with Ride The Lightning. Kirk composes killer riffs! Nice job, Rudy the RockKing! 🤘🏼
Thank you
You can tell a Kirk riff from a James or Dave riff. Dave has a lot of jumping around single notes or heavy riffs. Kirks is more stay around the same notes type of riff. Like the damage inc riff compared to jump in the fire
It's all great stuff and it's fitting that they made it. Millions of us can play this stuff easily, but coming up with it, writing it--that's the hard part. I spent far too much of my youth playing scales to a metronome when I should have been trying to write cool stuff.
beautiful tones dude!!!
Thank you
You forgot the verse riff in The Unforgiven. That was Kirk, too. 😭
Yeah, i know...not every 'not by James' riff is in video, there more for sure
You forgot the intro Where The Wild Things Are which Jason Newsted wrote, otherwise, amazing video!
Sick guitar!
I found the demo tapes for Load and ReLoad on youtube and James definitely came up with King Nothing on Bass first, which is pretty cool to listen to.
Kirk’s riffs are creative and thrashy.. give Metallica the spice they need in some songs forsure. Underrated player
I notice Kirk writes alot of the breakdown riffs
Nice video, buddy! But Kirk's got some credits on Re-Load, in songs like Fuel, The Unforgiven II, Slither, Carpe Diem Baby, Bad Seed and Fixxxer, and it's worth mentioning the beautiful acoustic guitar intro in Where The Wild Things Are by Newsted.
I always loved Kirk style, his riffs and solos have a lot of personality.
True
Awsome video production!
Thanks
I just love to hear all the great riffs, its so great!
Omfg I didn’t know that best Metallica riffs were written by Kirk 😢
Svaka cast majstore!!
Hvala puno
Great job! 🤘😈🤘
Thanks \m/
I wonder who that Dave Mustaine fella is. He has made some incredible riffs for Metallica! I bet if he made his own band he would make it, and with those riffs i bet he would make masterpiece after masterpiece after masterpiece and nobody would ever hate his band cause of how amazing his talent is.
Well done recreating the tones!
Thanks
That Ride The Lightning part with the original Mustaine 'spider riff' is 🔥🤘
Crazy how melancholic Cliff's riffs were
Interesting trivia about Jump In The Fire: The riff is actually played on the second fret and not the third. When they recorded the song they thought it sounded too slow so they sped it up a bit. If you play along with the song in standard tuning the note is actually somewhere between an F# and G.
3:22 that was written by cliff
I know, my bad :(
nice explorer i have the same exact one but my fretboard isnt ebony its like some orange wood its so fucking ugly
Mine fretboard is rosewood, not ebony
New epiphones comes with that ugly fretboard
Its glad to find out that everybody in the band had a contribution in song writing,it prove that James n Lars aren't selfish
True
Great scene idea bro
Thanks
Well done with all the playing and producing a great video. 👍🏼
Thank you
that's awesome!
Thanks
There are so much talents in thoses riffs and you MegaSilverBlood you also have talent, thx for sharing. \,,/
Holy crap. Many of those rockin riff's that i've always liked, was written by Hammett. Such a surprise really! Go Kirk 🤟
I didn't even know that Hammett wrote riffs. He came up with some of their best :O
He did
he’s a guitarist big guy of course he writes riffs
@@casey_kitt Yeah because every guitarist in every band is a song-writer too. Oh wait.
Why do people being Stranger Things into every conversation about Metallica
Because that's how some people discovered them, like myself. Now I'm a pretty big fan of their catalog.
@@sibulanga72 what a lame way to discover metallica
your clean tone sounds very close to the ride the lighting clean tone
Thank you, I tried my best to achieve those tones
Don't get confused ya'll..James wrote most of the songs and riffs..this dude picked up some sections that were not written by James..for.example,James wrote master of puppets..but the chorus riffs were Kirk's👍..not.the whole song👍..likewise with other songs too..Great job,anyway..this dude nailed it🔥
Thank you my friend, glad you point that out.
This is why it always puzzles me that Kirk is somehow always left out when people talk about Metallica and their riffs. The guy has written some of the best riffs the band's ever produced. Trujillo & Newsted's contributions (the few that there are) are also VERY strong. Very strong indeed!
Kirks riffs are always special. I hope to hear more of his riffs on their next album
Kirk is one of the best guitarists that will ever live
Yeah Kirk arguably wrote most of their top 10 riffs
@@RudyTheRockKing You and me both!
@Krystal Alpha McCloud well Robert only wrote intro for ManUNkind on Hardwired. There is definetely more of riffs that were not written by James (at least 10 - 15)
That's soo cool, really enjoyed hearing all those bite size riffs, educational too!
Thanks man!
Thank you, for such a nice comment. It means a lot
@@RudyTheRockKing I'm glad. So many haters for Metallica..I just love this and all their albums. So thank you for what you've done 🙌
@@richardrobinson1879 You're welcome. And thank you for such a nice comments. I also love all their albums. Every album is special in one way or another.