Young vs Old James Hetfield Riff Precision (Still Got It?)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2021
- James Hetfield was a beast in his prime (late 80s). His riff precision was unhuman. But does he still hold the plank set by his younger self? Let's compare them! Used isolated Metallica guitar tracks available on UA-cam.
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Too heavy, too good
@@TheDarkEternalKnight07 so what?
Jason mentioned how once Hetfield was "in the zone", it was all over; the accuracy of his playing was near perfect and something beautiful would come out of his guitar.
Source?
@@lollol1856 i saw it in some interview too but i dont even know wich one and were it is haha
@@lollol1856 I think he said that on the black album podcast
I think it was the guitar center interview
Yes it was between beer 4 and beer 5.
This is incredible but lest we forget Cliff and Rob consistently synchronized with this madman using only their fingers
Cliff wasn't really sincronized though... And that's fine, What came out of It os legendary. Now Imma show my self out before Cliff lovers come with the "let's see you play with fingers then" argument wich makes you 100% Invincible when mad at anyone that points Cliff playing even though it's a praise.
Then again, 4 fingers on 4 strings vs 1 pick on 6 strings.🤷♂️🤣
Sorry, correction, Cliff used predominantly fingers, with few exceptions on RTL. Newstead used mostly picks, and Rob plays more like Cliff did with fingers.
@@antoniocenteno1483 I think it'd be hard for any bassist to mirror James' playing without compromising the mix. I think all Metallica bassists did an awesome job in that respect
i just love your covers dude keep em coming
It’s not so much the speed, it’s the accuracy that amazes me the most about this guy.
yeah
And how clean he is too.
He's still pretty fast though
He has both typically. Speed, accuracy, and cleanliness
He's not even looking at the fretboard half the time too. Such precision and it's so mechanical how he plays
No matter how old Jeimz is, he is a machine that maybe gets slower, but still he's The Master of Puppets.
Well said
Jaymz*
Definitely not slower. Hardwired has some of the band’s hardest songs lmao
@@randy0210 Yeah it surely does, but if you compare their shows in 80's and shows now, they were more kinda aggresive you know.
@@sargischshmarityan9657 definitely
Seen him a couple years ago in concert, he's still got chops
Saw them in Cleveland in 2018.
Seen them live last saturday in kentucky
He always had the chops
I’d say a better comparison to see if he “still has it” would be to take a clip of him playing a particular riff live in concert from back in the 80s and then show a clip of him playing the same riff live from recent shows.
Yes.
And I would definitely say he still has it still even as he ages more and more.
I think his talking about tracking riffs, with multiple guitar layers
@@oldmatevb Sure, but in the more recent recordings there could be transient grid mapping being done so the comparison isn't very helpful.
That’s what I thought this video was going to be.
tjis is what I thought would this movie like 🙂
Still got it?
Note: 0:41 it’s The End of the Line, of course
yes
where is the symphony of puppets
Was just about to rage about this in the comments xD
Thought something was off
How do you measure the precision? On the new stuffs Kirk plays the riffs too.
And to beat all he is singing at the same time, James is a machine
man...Death Magnetic is pure riff heaven
death magnetic is a very very great album, idk why many people consider it not so good. Its ever better than hardwired for me.
@@wildae. I dislike Hardwired, but I agree that Magnetic is very very underrated
@@wildae. People mostly dislike it because the mixing is beyond awful, but thankfully there are many people on UA-cam who fixed the sound which hinders the end product by alot
@@armandklink4843 hmm.. talking about bass?
Yeah I never realized how great those riffs are until now that I hear them isolated. Maybe cause of the production, maybe cause I'm deaf
Hetfield is an unstoppable force and should be on page one of the rhythm guitarist history book!
Damn right James still has it. Been a lead guitarist for years and decided to play rhythm instead. Been concentrating on just Metallica for over a year now. I first learned Judas Kiss, then blackened and nearly blew my picking hand shoulder out! My rhythm playing is so much better now but my lady is getting tired of hearing just Metallica. We met in a club I was playing and she turned down a Metallica ticket to hook up with me. Fool! But we were in our 20s and are now pushing 60. Worked out for me but she could've met James and lived happily ever after. I hope she's happily ever after with me. Hahahaha!
Video, or it didn't happen...
Rhythm guitar gets very hard as we go higher. Some riffs are almost impossible to play
Cheers man! Sending love from a 28 year-old! \m/
@@Twobarpsi bs bro
I think it’s safe to say he’s still got it
I remember when Machine Head brought James up on stage with them to play "Aesthetics of Hate" and James just straight up played their own song better than them. His rhythm playing is unreal.
James is just like a fine wine, always just getting better the more it matures. I would say THE best rhythm guitarist in Metal, and definitely one of the best vocalists too.
Definitely 100% agree!
yes bro
The best rhythm guitarist ever in any genre
I just realised how some riffs are really similar to each other...
Gonna be honest, it sounds like he improved his rhythm steadily throughout the years. What a guy
I could listen to those riffs alone for days. So much emotions coming from this tightness
this video couldve gone way longer than under 3 minutes
That's what she said..
I love the detail that you matched every old photo with its respective new one, especially the ones with the two bassists.
1:06 Best clean riff ever that old James has written. (2008)
Kinda reminds me of Don’t Fear The Reaper lol
Agreed, to me it's the one with the most emotion carried with it
Personally I think it's the to live is to die interlude but every clean riff James writes is fantastic. I think that's one of a the things that sets him apart from his competition, he's a heavy thrashy master that can also write some of the most beautiful melodies out there
@@declanabers902 The OP was talking about old James.
TDTNC shows cases all of his talents in one song.
I fully believe Hetfield is one of, if not THE best rhythm guitarist of all time.
However, comparing studio tracks is moot. They are all going to sound perfect. If you truly want to make this comparison you need live tracks.
The new ones are going to sound perfect because recording technology has advanced a lot in the last 40 years. Back in the 80s you had to be on point even in the studio because you could not just cut and reshuffle tapes. And recording was extremely expensive so you had to avoid retakes as much as possible.
@@UserJWR yes that is the point bozo
@@yusufyusuf1998 No it's not. There is a distinct difference between old and new studio recordings. If only you had understood my comment bOzO
James Hetfield is to me the most important ingredient to Metallica - and one of the most iconic figures in metal. Timeless, classic (and catchy!!) high precision riffing, a great voice (I still can't understand how one can synchronize simultaneous singing and playing guitar on that level)
he is Metallica, and to a lesser extent Lars also
everyone else in that band was/is just a session musician
whatever works for James man, he’s still got it.
Never mind the precision, we need to talk about how much better his tone was back in the day!!!
This was my thought. DM sounds pretty good on its own, but then Master or Justice start playing and it's unreal. Those tones sound fucking evil!
I love how in the thumbnail they look about the same age. Got to love that Stache'
0:40 is The End of the Line
1:27.
I'm not sure 'Sanitarium' was the right thing to name that song, because that is a *SICK* riff!
Why, he mainly says Sanitarium in the song.
Too different periods of his life to draw conclusions: from Death Magnetic on, Metallica's intention has been to play a livelier and "looser" music, while the first four albums saw a band totally focused on making it "tight".
I love it how they can change tempo or stop in the middle and so something different. The constant thrash can get old I thimk
@@julianmcculloch3235 how fucking dare you even suggest that the constant thrash gets old. Thrash is what it’s about, thrash is the best, THRASH IS PERFECTION.
@@roadtostrongestmanever2099 I'm glad your day is going well. Internet arguments 😀
Yea I don’t get the fucking purpose of this video. Maybe play the old version and then play some clip from a recent show…OF THE SAME GODDAMN SONG!
Very valid point, man.
He may be older, but he still has that machine gun arm of his.
Atlas Rise making-off comes to mind:D
"-lotta... gug-guh-guh-guh.
-but you like gug-guh-guh-guh!
-I like gug-guh-guh-guh! got to get back in guh-guh shape!"
Also could be fun to compare the "doodly thing" in Disposable and Moth into Flame.:)
Or the other gag abt it😂
“-Lotta… gug-guh-guh-guh.”
“Ga-ga-guh-guh”
Ga-ga- *fart clip from the 91 black album documentary*
I saw Metallica 1991, 2004, twice in 2009, 2017, 2019 and its amazing, how James playing his stuff, singing and headbanging in the same time. RIFF LIFE - enough said🤘
With you. Saw them in 1994 and not again till 2019 (twice). I couldn’t believe how much better they were in 2019. And James was just as tight as ever. Amazing shows.
Not only does he still play well, a lot of times he makes that iron wrist of his look too easy. First time I ever tried playing Disposable Heroes, I thought my arm was going to fall off.
There’s still hours of work behind, i think 😊
James Hetfield will never lose his grace on a guitar 🎸🎶🎸!! He made me want to play when I first heard them VIA bootleg tapes in the very early 80's !! Before they were famous, they are the first metal band and or metal music I had ever heard!! Even after this long, they still KICK ASS!!! METALLICA RULES !!!!!!🎸🎶🎸🎶🎸🎶🎸
Death magnetic has some absolutely killer riffs. Underrated record overall.
transitions are so fucking on point that it's scary
I love DM more than KEA, so YES HE STILL GOT IT!
wow! bold statement! i like it!! rock on
That's bold. Very bold. Both great though, I wont complain.
Damn what's your ranking? Heres mine:
10 - Reload
9 - St. Anger
8 - Load
7 - HTSD
6 - KEA
5 - DM
4 - TBA
3 - RTL
2 - AJFA
1 - MOP
I can agree with this, even though I love kea to death
@@arthurgabriel4325 nobody asked for mine, but i'll do it anyways, my top 10 would be:
10 - ReLoad
9 - Load
8 - Death Magnetic
7 - Hardwired
6 - Metallica
5 - Master of Puppets
4 - Ride The Lightning
3 - Kill 'Em All
2 - St. Anger
1 - ...And Justice For All
yeah i basically love St. Anger
James will always be awesome, before, now and always!
James is my inspiration. Whenever I dont feel like playing, i throw on something from Justice and play along and it never fails to get me in the mood.
This guy's right hand is mechanical.
I would tell that he is the best Metal rhythm guitarist of this universe 🤘
And this is one of the reasons why Metallica has always been the top Thrash band since they started in 1981 (when James and Lars got together initially, "Kill 'Em All" (Originally supposed to be titled "Metal Up Your Ass") was recorded and released in 1983), along side James' writing as the band's lyricist. He's always had it, he's just that good.
His vocal and guitar skills are still legit to this day
that was just your life is a beautiful riff
Well there’s always the burns that might have brought down his riff precision plus being young and having that kind of reaction time would also help. But nice to know!
Still fuckin awesome
Every time that Justice guitar tone pops up it’s so satisfying.
Saw Metallica back in 2017, and James guitar technique was so accurate. Huge !
So as a fellow guitar player and a HUGE Metallica fan, I would personally say that James's riffs from the MOP and AJFA albums are the hardest. James's precision definitely hasn't regressed, but it has changed. Back in the 80s James just has a freakish power about his playing. James now is more refined, which in my opinion, makes it much easier. To put it this way, I can sight read the tabs and play along with the newer stuff, but the older stuff I have to sit back and dedicate some time to learning, especially Blackened and Battery, two of my personal favorites from that era.
I personally struggle a lot with some Death Magnetic riffs too
@@ViniciusMartarello For some reason they seem very straight forward, so they're not as technical rhythmically speaking as the old stuff. That's what makes the new stuff like DM and HTSD easy to me
Fucking incredible both of the young vs old. Back then there was more aggression in his playing. You really feel it. I love it.
Het is my favorite guitarist ever he always nails it!
Watching and listening to this made me realize that his tone was amazing back then during the first 4 albums
His singing and lyrics are what kills it for me nowadays. 80s singing so much better and raw. His guitar playing has always been amazing!!
Same here, the riffage is still amazing til he starts to sing now
That signature Metallica tone is definitely lost as he got older. You can clearly hear the difference.
Someone did a version of spit out the bone but in AJFA tones and it sounds it belongs on the album. For me, a lot of the feel of the songs comes from the production too, like ''old Metallica" is still there if you engineer/record/mix/master it like they used to.
@@Rhythmic1274 I don’t think it has to do with the production. That Metallica tone derived from the amplifiers they were using in the early days. After the black album they changed the gear around and also changed their music style
I believe papa Het still got it, but it’s hard to hear cause you know, the edition in protools is more easy than the tapes back in the day, maybe if we can get a raw cut maybe we can compare it better; I know it’s impossible to get the original cuts, fucking love James!! Metallica
A tu inglés le doy un 6/10 krnal
It never gets old hearing this man chug, never gets old
The Day That Never Comes intro is one of the most beautiful intros they have ever written.
I take a risk and I feel him better now than before ..about playing, charisma, attitude, fan adhésion skill...the best for me
99.8% is insane!! At any point in his career. The others may have slipped a bit, but Hetfield still has it.
James himself, "People where saying, 'You're not the fastest anymore!', and I would think, So what, we'll go for power, we can do that, we could still bring something powerful!" So true! Fast is good, it stimulates higher cerebral senses, (even classical pianist knew that) I like Dragonforce licks, but powerful tracks, the more primal kind, you can feel in your body's core!, and thats a whole other animusimal d>_0b
He ain't lost a zillionth of a step. The man is a bonafide metal god. He's goddamned great.
I was expecting this to show him playing the songs live in the 80’s and now. He’s still pretty on point. He removes a few 0’s here and there for staminas sake but still nails the main riffs.
In the thumbnail on the left, Hetfield looks like Wags from Billions. If I can’t unsee it, neither can you.
1:06 The Day That Never Comes reminds me more of Fade to black than One
It's like a twisted hybrid. They have the same chord progression but the fast part is a machine gun riff like One.
@@jaybyhop I’ve always compared it to One. Same progression, same structure (clean intro mostly, clean verses, heavy chorus.) that’s probably why I love Day That Never Comes so much since It first came out in 08
@@H3llboundHeroIt definitely a different progression but you are correct about the structure being exactly the same. I honestly like The Day That Never Comes much better. I'm probably in the minority here, but I like Metallica's later stuff better than the old stuff.
anyone know what the riff at 0:02 is? sounds heavy and dope af
I want to know too
Saw them for the first time on the “Load” tour with COC… stage came crashing down and all.
I have seen them 4 times since then and haven’t regretted a single thing from each show.
I just feel lucky to be alive in the time they are here.
How do you calculate riff precision?
I guess with metronome
1 Hetfield equals 99.8% precision by definition. You can find 1 Hetfield precision unit in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Didn't you know?!
@@shryggur Yeah, just like Han Solo completed the Kessel Run with the Milennium Falcon in less than 12 parsecs. I thought this was common knowledge.
Back in the day the patterns he used to write music were more aggressive and sad and now he use happier notes and patterns (like fade to black and the day that never comes) but he still got the power and riffs punch in the face
Mis Respetos, por tan bestial trabajo sobre el gran (e inigualable) James Hetfield !!
Yeah!
Sounds pretty clean and perfect chops to me 🎸🎶🤘
I'm glad I discovered metallica a few years ago, best band ever
Flawless!
Once in the zone, James is impeccable.
Incredible!ovesome! 🤟💗
James always been kicking ass!
I think James has still got it although I just prefer the earlier riffs
I think the guitar tone in the older stuff was better but he definitely never lost his touch
What intro song?
You had "Judas Kiss" on That was just your life riff.. The MetallicA perfectionist in me needed to point out that. The video itself was a well thought out and i think illustrates his skills and riff writing now and then in a very good way. MetallicA 4 ever.
You mean The End of the Line?
Yeahhhhhh!!!!!!!He is the master of Metal!!!!
What the % at the beginning mean ?
That guitar sound on Sanitarium is THIIICK
What is the intro from? Is that a riff on Hardwired? I like the album, but I haven't listened to it as much as some of the others.
What song is that in the beginning like the intro to the video.
Disposable Heroes just gives me chills every single time
Still has it!!!
Saw them in Columbus Ohio in 2004 and in Cleveland in 2018.
You can barely hear the accuracy go down but that's cuz we're listening for it. Kinda gives the guitars a wider sound tho.
Someone else also said Kirk tracks guitars as well in the later albums? If that's the case then they're both synced very well with each other.
The 10 second mark in the four horsemen always makes me smile tho cuz it has so much more character than the quantized cookie-cutter tracking of bands from today.
0:40 you made a mistake, *you've reached the end of the line*
Can someone tell me the name of the song at the intro of the video?
Guys the accuracy is amazing cos the dude not only play good riffs 99.8 percent...he is also the front man of the band..so we are talking about doing 2 different things at the same time.
0:41 it's the end of the line, not the judas kiss 😅
still epic
Song at the beginning of the video?
How exactly did you determine that his riff precision is 99.8%?
Math
A Master at his craft 👍
Mann the justice tone is just, SO FUCKING MEAN. Just evil, vile, fowl perfection.
Always and still Phenomenal.😁😁😁
Conclusion: *inconclusive*
James is the best now and then.
Still amazing.