As something of a followup to yesterday’s article about rearranging or otherwise reinterpreting metal for compositional purposes – Youtube guitarist VAALVLA recently uploaded a video showcasing the main riffs of some popular metal and rock songs played clean and without any guitar distortion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PznnIHVZ3gQ
This was insightful and/or gimmicky enough to earn the attention of a couple other metal journalism websites, and it helps to reveal, on some level, the difference in technique between, for example, a Slayer and a Pantera song. A drum track was provided, but it doesn’t detract from the lesson at hand. VAALVLA also has several other videos in a similar vein that may be interesting to our readers.
Tags: aesthetics, arrangement, composition, music analysis, recontextualization, songwriting
Those YouTube videos Varg posted of him playing classic Burzum unplugged was pretty sweet, some of his sections would sound great on acoustic guitar
This is pretty cool:
Burzum – Lost Wisdom (Clean Guitar Arrangement) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06bSLYjchcY
He’s missed out by far the greatest, most evocative and intelligent riff in metal (possibly in Western Music):
PANTERA – WALK
I don’t care what anybody says, it just IS. Proper tingles-up-the-spine stuff.
Nice sarcasm.
OK then, the 2nd best in Western Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XiDG9acqRk
I don’t like the lyrics but the music is sublime. Apparently it took 3 years to compose.
Surprisingly, Jay-Z was half decent on his debut album. Unfortunately he’s just a biter who jacked off styles & bars. So it’s fitting that he has very much in common with Panterrible.
Is it called “Five Minutes Alone” because that’s how long it takes Phil Anselmo to masturbate, or because that’s how long it took to write that riff?
Early Gorgoroth would sound sweet like this.
Vk goes wild also does a good rendition of metal songs using a piano on YouTube
This is great-
http://youtu.be/Hglnf93H_Fo