@rickfeith6372

8 months ago

I don’t even know this tune, but after listening to you play it about 10 times, I can really appreciate the complexity of the rhythm.

I’m but a simple guitar player….

A simple guitar player with 14 dope guitars that has been playing for 33 years, and lives for odd time signatures and groovy rhythms. I can even tap my foot in 17/8 time like JP showed me!!

Anyway, I love when 4/4 gets a little tricky. I’m still having a hard time deciphering this though. Let’s just use the snare hits to explain the bars…is it 2-2-1, but it starts in the middle? I can’t groove it as 1-2-2, but flipped around and starting the real count after half a bar works. Is that how it is?

It’s those damn dotted quarter sextuplets that are throwing me into 4/4 warp brains freeze music basket case. Damn you Dave Grohl!!!

For anyone reading this who is a guitar player, loves Metallica, and is struggling to comprehend the machine gun like second riff/verse riff of the 5th track from the 1986 album, Master of Puppets…the little darling war anthem known as Disposable Heroes. If so, you’re ABOUT TO GET KNOWLEDGED!!😅
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After the opening riff with the wah on top it finishes with a ringing/sustaining E chord. Now comes the tricky bit, and I’m gonna make it simple for ya. Here goes:

Shave and a hair cut bum bum digga digga.

I imagine that everyone reading this must fit those criteria like a glove, to that I say you’re welcome. To anyone not fitting that criteria, try this: start playing guitar, start loving Metallica, struggle with the Disposable Heroes riff discussed here, use my patented “Shave and a hair cut” trick, succeed at defeating the beast with said trick, smile and laugh out loud, and finally, get yourself a proper Mark Series amp from MESA/Boogie. A Mark IIC+, Mark IV, Mark V, Mark VII or JP-2C will be fine. Metallica used a IiC+ preamp into a Marshall JCM800 power section and an 800 series 4x12…but just get a Boogie cab with UK made Vintage 30s. That will get ya there…I promise, the rest is up to you.

Nice drumming by the way little miss…you’re a real power hitter, just like Dave!

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