The Red Chord Guitar Lesson PlayThisRiff.com .mov

[littledannypocket]

the guitar tone on the new album was fuckin awsome

[GarretGoodbarrel]

MIKE! YOU WERE OVER 45 MINUTES LATE AT GWAR 2 YEARS AGO IN MINNESOTA!!! UNACCEPTABLE! YOU HELD UP THE WHOLE GOD DAMN SHOW!!!  lol but sweet riff

[sweeps91]

ESP'S FTFW!!!!!!!

[BLJUKS]

He looks like hes just trying to remember how to play the riff

[hovatervater]

most awkward picking hand

[Meelad360]

Why the hell did Mike cut his hair? :(

[StealYaMind]

This is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, back years ago at ozzfest this guy took 45 minutes of his time to explain stuff like this to me, and I got much better! Also the btbam guys are pretty nice about explaining stuff. Just harass the crap out of Mike with guitar questions!! kidding, glad to see you guys are doing well, though I dislike most grind/death or metal in general now. I did buy FTTTM though.

God Bless

[4444HD]

just learned it xD

[Rivalsofeden]

he sounds sloppy, which is strange

[gnarwhal069]

I love how he up-picks almost everything. That's such a strange habit, yet very unique.

[blastbeatdown]

@gnarwhal069 yeah thats weird isn't it? it gives some of his riffs a unique choppiness that i couldn't figure out for a long time

[TheBlackDahlia815]

@gnarwhal069 i think he does that so that you can hear the note better on the 5 string when he's chugging... thats just me, plus i do that when im doing chugs like that.

[keganjgrode]

The whatever chug FTW!!

[fc3603]

this guy sucks

[TheColossall]

@fc3603

is tht a fact?

[TheColossall]

wut does the red chord tune to?

[alexfanx]

@TheColossall I think the tuning is whatever.

[TheColossall]

@alexfanx

i jus realized it shows the tuning at the beggining of the vid, D standard

[tehrapeyturtle]

@TheColossall D standard

[ironcheese1]

hes left handed?

[DaveJauregui]

@ironcheese1 no he's right handed but he plays with his left. he mentions it in a revolver interview a few years back i think.

[kevinkangaroo666]

hardcore sucks. if you wear gym shorts and hardcore dance, fight me about it.

[PrankWankers]

How in the shit would anyone else explain how to play this? For all you fucktards out there dogging on Mike for breaking it down in "layman's terms", explain to me just how you would have went about this. "You must play the X fuckin' sharp note on the dick string, but bend in succession of 6/8's and 12/3's. Now, I must go drink my fuckin' tea."

[PanterAmetal100]

He looks like Mattew Fox (aka Jack Sheppard from Lost)

[RubiksGuitarPlayer]

good lesson. sounds a lot more difficult than it really is. he lost weight haha

[nikakvec]

kaput , da te ebat vsichki manafi

[DarkxSword]

How the hell does he pick like that

[grindcoremaniac]

gunface rules

[DarkxSword]

Looked better with Long Hair, but still amazing

[findanewgoddd]

i love his shirt

[OmegaTroll69]

Wow, I never would have guessed such a good guitarist would have such shitty technique.

[asklcnvivdf]

Very odd picking technique. But it fits well with The Red Chord.

[salibubba7]

Being a musician I can tell this guy has no fucking idea what he is doing, but I respect that more than someone who knows what they are doing. He is playing his guitar HIS way and its effective! Very impressed.

[sicrick666]

Has no idea on what he's doing? Meaning, explaining how to play, play at all

[Ouroboro5]

@salibubba7 You'd probably be suprised at how many musicians you listen to don't know what the fuck their doing haha. Sometimes what works best for people is figuring out things for themselves and playing what they're comfortable with. Ive always thought music was more about feeling than theories or reading from a book anyway.

[barnickd]

@Ouroboro5 It doesn't hurt to actually know what you're doing though

[MyEggIsBoiled]

I love how he talks about the frets for dumbasses like me that love complex music but know nothing about chord names or anything.

[bchoun]

@MyEggIsBoiled lmao that pretty much sums mee up

[choganskateboarding]

Hmmm upsrokes, pretty cool

[Rob919Gore]

yeah thats kinda rare for a metal guitarist

[DVCproDme]

ive never seen mike play any other guitar besides this one. he probably has used it on all albums, and all the tours. maybe esp could hook him up with a standard series..yeah have xzibit give it to him.. Yo Gunface, we heard you like ESP, so we put an eclipse in your guitar, so you can play your esp, while you play your ec 1000.

[caspargrindcore]

stick to your guns are gay but red chord are fucking brutal

[TheColossall]

@caspargrindcore

well said lol

[rh117]

heavy as fuck

[PsychotropicAeonian]

goes to show, that technique can only go that far, hahaha mike has horrible technique, but that doesn't stop him from being such an amazing guitarist, and musician in general.

[iizanthonybuck]

Man, I figured this song out way before this video.

[thefvck]

you're like, the best ever, omgdz

[thefvck]

THANKS MIKE!! NOW I CAN CRUSH! this is a lot mroe simple than i thought btw

[TRIcrew]

Thanks for uploading!!

Dude strokes up!!

[honey1dj]

Bizare! I've never seen anyone upstroke chugging, palm muted chords like that???? And who cares if it's a self-taught technique, it sounded good. Love the guitar tone in this vid.  lol @ the *whatever chord*

[RubiksGuitarPlayer]

yeah i read an article about him in guitar world and he says he can do upstrokes faster than downstrokes.

[MORBIDboeni]

nothing special

[djabthrash]

upstrokes ???

[Passitivity]

self-taught technique if I ever saw it. that left hand is crazy.

[Steve128967]

He's actually right handed, but plays lefty.