Master of Puppets - How to Play Master of Puppets by Metallica on Guitar

Описание: Master of Puppets by Metallica taught on the guitar with this FREE online video lesson by Joe Wiles. To learn the rest of this song go to http://goo.gl/0yI2b

Arguably the best metal song of all time, Master of Puppets is the title track from Metallica's third studio album released in 1986. Both the album and the song have received accolades from numerous media outlets and industry publications including VH1, Guitar World, Q magazine, Time, IGN, and Slant magazine. Kirk Hammet's guitar solo in Master of Puppets has been regarded as one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.

Lyrically, the song deals with the intensity of drug addiction. Master of Puppets, explains James Hetfield, "...deals pretty much with drugs. How things get switched around, instead of you controlling what you're taking and doing, it's drugs controlling you."

Master of Puppets is the band's most-performed song. It was originally performed for the first time in San Francisco, California on December 31st, 1985 and has been included in most concert performances since. As of December 2012, Master of Puppets has been performed live by Metallica 1,417 times. Before his death 6 months after the album released, bassist Cliff Burton regarded Master of Puppets as the best song on the record.

The guitar part for Master of Puppets is notably chromatic, shifting up and down in half-step increments via power chords and singular notes. In this tutorial, we cover the intro, the chorus, and the clean guitar breakdown which occurs just after the three-minute and thirty second mark in the song. Although the playing style of Metallica - and thrash metal, in general - favors down-strumming, we explain the song with an alternate-picking technique that should prove easier for the challenged guitarist. This is a complex and challenging song, recognizable as a stand-alone guitar riff. Master of Puppets is a great song to add to your personal repertoire of guitar riffs.