Metallica Breaks Down Creating the 'Enter Sandman' Riff #shorts #metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career

[RolandSpecialSauce]

Its pretty easy to come up with the riff but coming up with something good to sing over it is the hard part for me.

[psychonautpupildiallater]

Kirk wanted everyone to know that Enter Sandman was HIS riff!
😉👍

[markperrin]

Willie Nelson said something to the effect of " writing a song is easy, writing a song people like is the hard part".

[nathanbrown]

god that tone is just godly. i need that tone

[rickmainville]

Incredible riff and song. Makes me wanna rock out

[JayKayEllEmm]

Metallica is an amazing combination of several pretty solid musicians.

Edit: guys, Lars isn’t THAT bad. He’s a decent drummer *for Metallica’s songs* at the very least.

Edit: Okay, I get it, Lars isn’t a good drummer. I’ve gotten that same comment twice a day for the last two weeks.

[rowanshreds]

James had some really good advice here!

[giannislampadoxitos]

Simplicity at its best. Simply perfect.

[jimmyjames]

James has a freaky talent with his right hand mainly! He and Lars are a legendary original talent.. always loved these guys

[Droughtson]

I don’t understand how ANYONE can still pay attention to Howard Stern.

[goldeneraever]

What a surreal moment that would be to be sitting there and James/Kirk just start jamming out with one of the most iconic riffs of all time. It will never NOT get the adrenaline pumping.

[Realzeaz]

Fyi for everyone that hadn't seen the full interview. This was edited to make it look like James gave the advice but it was actually Lars

[jamesc]

As a songwriter, i think everybody is different. I think every song is different. Sometimes the fiff comes first, other times the lyrics are first. I dont play guitar but i hear riffs in my head. The right guitar player will hear me vocalize the riff and will play what im imitating. Usually ill have a stack of lyrics and when a riff comes up ill thumb through the stack and choose what fits or ill improv something and figure out what i was singing later. I dont understand how you cant feel lyrics when a piece of music speaks to you. There is no wrong way. Everybody is different.

[zerotwo]

God those guitars sound so metal and nice. Godly

[davidmathes]

An a non famous, but great songwriter, the songwriting was sooo much more satisfying than the show boating, but having even 500, or a. couple thousand people singing lyrics I wrote in 9th grade, it's amazing, or covering a Fear Factory song while opening for Divine Heresy (Fear Factory's Dino Caseras's new band and HE COMES OUT OF THE BUS TO WATCH THE WHOLE SET, then back at our merch booth, he said " that was a great show other than Fear Factory cover, what were the other songs you guys covered, they were awesome and I've never heard them before? " I was stunned and said, those were all Originals, talk about justification from one of my IDOLS! Remind me of the show where you try to get the celebrities to turn around, the was can you get the musician out of the bus, before their set😂😂 great memories

[bama]

Living legends...I'll always be a fan!

[SPGRAMPA]

no matter how much
i dont get that 72 album with all its hype and glamour
i hold those other Met slbums dear to my life
for these guys altered my lifes history back in 1986
ive never been tha same😎🤘🏽🎵🌙🙌🏽

[Warriorjc]

Genius of his craft! I love Enter sandman

[eugeniovasquez]

This very specific instance with Stern interacting with the guest. Metallica makes both parties involved seeing genuine.
Therefore A salute and a tip of the Cap to all parties involved here

here here

[mitchellcarter]

James is truly one of the greatest frontmen to ever exist.