Why do so many people play this riff wrong?

In this video I am showing why many people play this riff wrong.
Thanks to the peeps of the YouTube clips I was showing, it's not meant to bash, but to learn other viewers why this happens to so many guitar players! And of course to teach you how to avoid this stuff from happening :)

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[PaulDavids]

Oh and by the way, I've been there too. I totally played Master of Puppets wrong back in the days until I really listened to the song again! Any songs you discovered you've been playing wrong the entire time?

[beeeennnnnnn]

He censored his accidental middle finger I'm dying 😂

[lopocaldeiramarques]

I don´t even play the guitar, why am I watching this at 3am on a monday

[quarter_moon_and_a_guitar]

Did you ever consider that Kings of Leon may be playing it wrong and everyone else is right?

[prahTV]

this man has a beard, therefore I trust him

[thecampfire]

As a musician, I've heard so many covers of this song, and was never really sure why they sounded funny. This is a great video

[kanealson]

I start counting the one about an hour before I start playing the song and then I come in around the 6, 216th beat. Hey but that's just me.

[TheOneWhoSimps]

You played sweet child O mine on the wrong pickup position.

[mjallenuk]

4:28 ... I return your salute sir with tone knobs on! 😁

[brianwarner]

i know a girl named Anna Crusis….i tried to pick her up

[eamonsefton]

YOU SO MUCH! I've wanted to point this out forever. In highschool my band played this song and we did it correctly, because we listened to the song. It would drive me CRAZY hearing other bands do it wrong.

[jeffmaxwell]

This is a great instruction on pickup sections. It's always been a difficult thing to explain to students and listeners alike. Thanks for making this easy to understand and communicate to others!

[PianoVampire]

It's not really anyone's fault they are hearing it wrong, as there is a definite stress on the second note of the intro (possibly accidental), not the third note, so your brain is thrown from the start - thanks so much for the video !

[coopercarter]

Throw "All Along the Watchtower" and "Panama" in with this for songs everyone starts with the wrong rhythm.

[BTsMusicChannel]

I am with you on the "who cares if it is exactly note-for-note, but you have to make it rock" attitude. And when it comes to making something rock, the pitches are 99.9% of the time not as important as playing them in time. I also agree that too many people rely on tabs. How do I know? Because they ask me to make them for stuff that I've performed on my channel. During the 80s, when I was first learning guitar, we didn't have tabs or the internet. Back then, guitarists used their ears and didn't get caught up in note-for-note as much as making it work musically. Your point about looking at performances on YouTube is spot on! If a guitarist wants to learn a song, first try my ear and get as far as you can. When you get stuck (or if you want to check your work), go look at a live clip. I sometimes take a look at other solutions to the musical problem by looking at a tab or another person's performance, but I don't go there first and I don't trust them implicitly. Tabs have become the enemy of the people. Good video -- and you don't come off as a snob. (I was afraid you would after I saw the title.)

[biscuitking]

Man if wasn't for people as helpful and useful as you we'd all get stuck thanks so much for this lesson it really did help me

[PianoVampire]

Thanks for clearing this up - it always confused me ! Same with the beginning to Drive My Car

[veeralmanekdrums]

I mean technically it's probably the drummer that's wrong...

[AirsoftAddicted]

What a nice upload... you are very positive and it's a pleasure to learn from someone like you. All best, keep up a good work.

[gorbashin]

We covered this song for the hot second I was in a band. The first practice was hell because I knew something was off and it took a full half hour before I got it to sound right...and you just illustrated why. Glad to know that even if the mind doesn't know the term, that the ears still hear the truth.