Master Of Puppets on 300bpm (Cover)

The only excuse to play this song with alternate picking! At least in my opinion hehe.

We recorded this with three cameras in one take in Magdeburg, the home of my camera man Emanuel. Thank you again for this. If anyone is interested, no this was not the first take. This one was take 43 I think. I prepared this for a month. A few people already knew about this but I was pretty quiet about it.

I took 2 liberties with the song. The first one is in the solo: the tremolo picking should be 16th notes but I play 8th triplets instead. It's a triplet pattern anyway and playing it with 16th notes on 300 bpm is practically impossible, at least for me. The other liberty I took is in the scale run in the riff after that. This sort of bridge part. There are 2 gallops in there but I only play the second one because the first one was weird and kinda impossible for me. But it works anyway.

Intro audio made by me with the Zynaptiq Morph plugin and time-stretching the "Masters" with Ableton Live. It's not a vocoder haha.

Filmed and edited by Emanuel Oropesa.

Highlights of the video:
0:00 Intro
0:13 Start of the actual song
1:43 Close-Up of the main riff with short down picking at the end
4:12 Main Solo
4:34 Room audio snippet #1
4:53 Room audio snippet #2

Gear I used for this video:

Guitar: Ibanez GRG170DX
Picks: Dunlop Tortex Jazz III White 0.88
Pickups: Dimarzio X2N and PAF Pro
Strings: D'Addario EXL110 with 10-46
Amplifier: Fractal Axe Fx Standard
Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 2nd Gen
Headphones: Ultrasone HFI-580
Computer: HP Pavilion 14 Inch Laptop with Intel i5 8th Gen
DAW: Ableton Live
Coffee Mug: Summer Breeze Mug
Hoodie: Goblin Clit
Shorts: The Black Dahlia Murder

I don't endorse any of these brands yet. Feel free to contact me if you want to. I use all of my gear because I trust in it and play it with confidence. I'd love to endorse any of these products with the same passion I play it!

[gejv]

The only time people ever didn’t complain about not downpicking

[seanclarke]

This has solved the problem of me loving the song and not having enough time to listen

[ddritg]

I want to see him play "Everytime he says 'Master', It gets faster"

[tpags]

He isn’t faking you can’t fake something this metal

[MICKSHRED]

Surprised no one saying "ah man, lost all the feeling with playing it faster" lol badass!

[ozymandias_]

Intro was sick kinda makes want a 300 bpm Battery cover but this was spot on

[BassRocker]

So it's basically Revocation, sick

[muhammadirsyazman]

Nobody:



Metallica: this is how fast we played back in 80’s

[woodsofypres]

2:53 on 2x speed is like Sonic on crack

[triledink]

i really want to play guitar but i have a train to catch.

[LeonTodd]

"But I need better gear to play good" - DESTROYED.

[Tefal]

Bet James is able to downstrike that tempo

[DavidNwokoye]

I was already like "holy sh^t" and I heard the solo. Now I need jaw surgery.

[no_one]

Kevin: does master of puppets at 300bpm with alternative picking
James Hetfield: hold my beer

[Mrzone]

All the haters saying this is fake pffh... here take a sub

[fraguio]

Doctor: I'm sorry, you have only 6 minutes left, u don't Have enough time to listen to master of puppets
Me:

[ianscott]

Dude...this is simply super-human. Incredible.

[nickhoward]

The only time you’re forgiven for up and down strokes

[BenevolentBees]

From the the playing to the video scenes, perfect, bravo man

[anonymousinc]

"James Hetfield hung his head, because he knew that he'd been beat...
And he laid that shiny guitar on the ground, at Kevin's feet..."