Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour (cover)

Finally, my new cover of this masterpiece is up! My old cover had some bad syncronization and, obviously, not fully nailed. So I needed to re-cover this one too. This song might just be my favourite Megadeth song together with "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" and "Good Mourning/Black Friday", it really gives you the goosebumps, or like Dave himself says in this song: "My flesh still crawls..." It has a beautiful solo by Young, some very simple but memorable riffing and a nice mix of melancholy and aggression. I used my Small Clone for the cleans and my Boss DD-7 for the chromatic riff in the beginning and Young's solo.

Recorded May 12 and May 13 2010 using a Pentax Optio M30 regular digital camera, audio recorded with an iAudio 7. Edited using Magix Music Maker 10 Deluxe and converted as a 640x480 resolution Windows Media Video with 25 fps.

Guitar: Jackson Warrior WRMG (with EMG 81/85)
Amplifier: Peavey 6505+ and an Ashdown Peacemaker 412A cabinet with Celestion G12E-50 speakers.
Effects: Electro Harmonix Small Clone, Boss DD-7.

Settings:

Lead channel:
Pre: 8
Low: 2.8
Mid: 3.2
High: 9
Post: 1
Resonance: 3
Presence: 9

Strings: GHS TNT (.010 - .052)
Pick: Dunlop Jazz III

If you rate it, please motivate and write a comment too. Thanks for watching!

The powertab I used can be found here (it's not perfect, I had to figure a lot out on my own):
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/m/megadeth/in_my_darkest_hour_power_tab.htm
You can download Power Tab Editor here (freeware):
http://download.cnet.com/Power-Tab-Editor/3000-2133_4-10502034.html

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[SuperThrashGod]

how di d u learn to do the solo

[SwedishBerzerker]

@SuperThrashGod Economy picking is the obstacle in this solo, if you're talking about Young's.

[SuperThrashGod]

@SwedishBerzerker oh and how about mustaines

[SwedishBerzerker]

@SuperThrashGod Well, if you can play his other solos I'd say this shouldn't be much different. ;)

[DarthMex1991]

its SKWISGAAR!!!

[SwedishBerzerker]

@JosephLesPaul It's in my username ;)

[disengagejam]

this guy has the best Megadeth covers on youtube ... so amazing !!!

[rsesoes]

Good cover men i like it.

[SwedishBerzerker]

@Fractur3dMirror All you need is to practice economy picking. Once you can go from the sixth to the first string using three notes per string the solo should be fairly easy :)

[SwedishBerzerker]

@Megadeth1213 Thanks! About 5-6 years now.

[SwedishBerzerker]

@santinhoww I did on my old cover but tbh it's too tiring when sitting down and I'd rather have it really tight than miss a couple of notes. Thanks!

[Lefterisrethymno97]

This is awesome..!! I can finally hear the guitar harmony in the beginning...!!