To Live is to Die, whole w/ solos (Metallica cover)

(Wow, I must give youtube credit for fixing/cleaning up the quality to this video, or should I say restoring it back to how it SHOULD be, now if only they do it to the 'Suicide & Redemption' one...which still has the unexplained blurry look to it) My rendition of 'To Live is to Die' (Metallica, album: ...And Justice for All, track: 8, guitarists: Hetfield/Hammett) well, I guess I could just do a copy-paste of the 'suicide & redemption' video description I have since the same applies (plus I recorded this just moments after that one anyway), so here goes: a few minor errors here and there, but fairly solid overall (well I was satisfied with it anyway), in any case, probably about as close as I'm going to get it in a live take of a near 10 minute song...especially unaccompanied/with a single guitar (I would love to do the harmonies or a split-screen thing but as most of you have already figured out, I'm not too big into 'production values' lol)...plus, it gives a basic idea of one of the many ways to approach the song with just one guitar (and, as with all my videos, without going along with the actual song as a 'crutch' so-to-speak or to hide mistakes). A few additional things I might add: the clean intro/outro is a lot harder than it looks or sounds (especially while standing), and I'm aware that the first solo employs the 'toggle-switch trick' at the beginning of it but since my guitar isn't wired with 2 separate volume controls (it has one volume, and two tones), it's a tad bit impossible to do. (And as a bonus, you can clearly see a 'WTF was that?!' look on my face at about 4:41-42 lol...for some reason a note buzzed weird around there and it pissed me off, but oh well, as the saying goes 'the song must go on')

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Music

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• Metallica
• live
• die
• unaccompanied
• guitar

[AnamariaOcampo99]

were you trying to look like cliff burton?.....o.O

[ahenn84]

@AnamariaOcampo99 No...my likeness to him is merely coincidence. If I were trying to look like him I would have a bass, denim jacket, bell-bottoms, and a Misfits shirt ;)

[Laprevraven]

He must use a metronome

[ahenn84]

@Laprevraven No metronome, just my mind, I try to keep time mentally as much as possible but quite often I either end up second-guessing myself or just don't care and go by feel/instinct.

[pishki27]

best cover of this song on youtube!!!! to do it without a backing track ... is truly incredible and to get almost all of the timing spot on!!! simply amazing stuff ... keep it up bro!!! love the tone of your clean tone from 4:50 :) \m/

[ahenn84]

@pishki27 thanks a lot, glad there are people that enjoy the unaccompanied aspect of it (usually people whine that there isn't a backing track), it truly is more challenging that way. I will indeed try to keep it up!

[metalordamageinc]

awesome cover!!

if you born in 1986 or then, you're the cliff's reincarnation!!

[ahenn84]

@Youreallysuckguy And yet you took even more time to comment...brilliant. Wash your brain, trolls! Btw, 15 seconds is still a lot longer than the time of your videos...all zero of them ;)

[AnamariaOcampo99]

@ahenn84 well then lemme rephrase my comment, has anyone told you that you look alot like cliff burton?

[DonutDude12]

This song is absolutely beautiful and all I can say you have pretty much nailed it in the same way! Very nice cover, as are every other one of your videos! Keep up the good thrash!

[TheZuni143]

You Hair Look like a Cliff Burton !! (R.I.P)

[ahenn84]

@guitarjon117651 thanks very much, yeah I kind of wish I got into them and music/guitar-playing in general sooner than I did but oh well, better late than never I suppose. I wish I was even old enough to enjoy listening to "Master of Puppets" as a 'new album' (I was only 1 at the time it came out lol)