How Mastodon's "Leviathan" Changed the Way I Play!
Added 2024-08-24 15:12:06 +0000 UTCNew video time!!!
20 years ago (!!!!!!!), Mastodon released their landmark album "Leviathan", and I HAD to learn EVERY SONG on it... but what did it teach me, and what can we all learn from this encyclopedia of RIFFS?! That's what we are gonna talk about today!!!
Tune that guitar to D standard and come along on a guided tour through the sickest moments of this album and how they can change the way you play!
Super extended and AD-FREE cut just for you all, with more riffs, licks, and info! Get into it!!!
I had a blast making this video. Is there another record that deserves a similar treatment on my channel? Let me know!!!
-BE
Comments
Great video, more Mastodon please!!
brent byrns
2024-08-30 00:41:04 +0000 UTCNice inspiring video! And true what you say about not always trusting blindly on tabs. One thing i was wondering tho... At the 5.53 you play the lowerer part of the riff before... But in your cover of I Am Ahab of about 9 years ago you play it ever lowlyier on the neck... Which one is righter/betterer?
Matthijs Keuvelaar
2024-08-29 11:33:18 +0000 UTCA breakdown on Mastodon chords would be highly interesting.
Jon H
2024-08-28 15:53:24 +0000 UTCHearts Alive is Mastodon's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. And it might be my favorite mastodon song. So if you are so inclined please break it down ! Thank you uncle Ben !
William Hernandez
2024-08-28 06:47:38 +0000 UTCI'd love to see full breakdowns of Megalodon and Blood and Thunder!
Denis Roginskiy
2024-08-26 20:07:45 +0000 UTCAlso fuck yeah that Dunable is a sick ass guitar the more I look at it. How would an ignorant ass Step Nephew create a Mastodon tone out of an orange amp and Rat Pedal? I don't have all the badass preamps and stuff...in this video the tone was amazing. I feel like half my guitar battle is wading through shit ass plugins trying to understand what good sounds like.
Jake Raymor
2024-08-26 01:54:24 +0000 UTCKeep breaking these things down for us Patreon folks with tabs? Who wouldn’t want to learn how to play the intro to capalarian crest? I appreciate you encouraging us to learn by ear but knowing what things sound like helps.
Justin Andrews
2024-08-25 18:21:34 +0000 UTCWell... there's a new Opeth album coming this fall, could be a good reason to revisit some of their stuff :) I love all the videos you did about them
Vincent Boissinot
2024-08-25 17:35:51 +0000 UTCGreat video. I already commented but here’s another suggestion. I’d love a full Leviathan album breakdown, with explanations of how the dissonant tones work together, and the theory behind the chords/arpeggios etc.
Wahr Wigglin’
2024-08-25 16:10:28 +0000 UTCMan I am just now starting to understand the genius that is Billy K and Brent Hinds after trying to crack through a few Mastodon songs
Jake Raymor
2024-08-25 14:13:21 +0000 UTCSo freakin’ cool. Never really paid attention or heard Mastodon, but now I need to listen to some lost at sea vibes. Something else you could do (just because there are no real good tabs there) would be to break down King Diamond’s “Them”. That’s more of a “40 years ago, this is what came out of Denmark…” kinda thing.
Diogo Camacho
2024-08-25 12:35:54 +0000 UTCwhat pickups does that Dunable have in it? You might of mentioned and I just missed it. I want to order one but don't know what pickups to get.
Robin Mongeau
2024-08-25 11:42:32 +0000 UTCI’m gonna need a breakdown of every Mastodon, Gojira, and Lamb of God song. Ever. Thanks. Seriously though, this was great. I just saw them and LOG on tour and I caught the riff bug from Billy Butterslax.
Wahr Wigglin’
2024-08-25 03:37:03 +0000 UTCThis was one of your best, Ben! I started watching you shortly after I started playing in Dec 2020, and your love for Mastodon is contagious. Getting your playthroughs and deep dives in the lessons shows me under why I like them, and that expanded my playing vocabulary. And after a year of trying out for local original bands, I'm in one and having a blast. Can't thank you enough!
Erik Berg
2024-08-25 01:35:56 +0000 UTCThat dunable is so beautiful. I'd give up a damn toe for an Asteroid Custom. Mastodon's the only metal band I've ever heard that had hybrid picking. It's always fascinated me as I was raised to be a strict alternate picker.
SpaceChimp
2024-08-24 21:43:35 +0000 UTCYes PLEASE to hearts alive lesson, that would be awesome!!
Ian Jess
2024-08-24 21:06:11 +0000 UTCYes can we get tabs uncle Ben.
Mathew A Fascetti
2024-08-24 20:52:12 +0000 UTCThink you said in that Gojira video that Ghost, alongside Mastodon, is one of your favourite metal bands currently - so do some Ghost. Better yet, do everything on Ghost. 😎
Tomislav Biškup
2024-08-24 20:33:56 +0000 UTCYes, please Ben - Full breakdown on Hearts Alive!
Colin Andrews
2024-08-24 20:07:26 +0000 UTCGood shiz
John Townsand
2024-08-24 19:23:35 +0000 UTCExcelente video Ben! It's a great album full of original ideas to learn (and steal from) . By the way i heard those tritone chords here and there in Korn songs
Pedro
2024-08-24 19:04:32 +0000 UTCCan we get tabs for the fucked up Hearts Alive and Joseph Merrick chords?
Shahar Bar
2024-08-24 18:57:34 +0000 UTCI just went back to this album to relearn the songs I used to know, haha. nice.
derek tassie
2024-08-24 17:30:28 +0000 UTCVery excited to watch this. Opeth would be another good choice. Lots of idiosyncratic elements to Åkerfeldt’s approach. Would love to have a break down of some of Fredrik’s playing as well.
chris kocher
2024-08-24 16:47:07 +0000 UTCYes please to a full Hearts Alive lesson! Such a sick album, I was fortunate enough to catch them on this anniversary tour in Connecticut.
Shawn Gilbert
2024-08-24 16:26:05 +0000 UTCYou really nailed it with your analysis of Megalodon. I'd love a whole lesson devoted to that song.
Jeff Wilson
2024-08-24 16:20:50 +0000 UTCThanks for the video! Inspired to play some mastodon now. Are the tabs available for this one? I guess I can just trust my eyes and ears 🤣
DK
2024-08-24 15:56:42 +0000 UTCThe best album of all time! 🙌🏽
H
2024-08-24 15:25:50 +0000 UTCHey Ben is there a new promo/discount code for the upcoming woodshed?
Tom Atkins Band
2024-08-24 15:23:03 +0000 UTCGoing to see the boys next week with Lamb of God at Red Rocks in Denver! Another landmark album, Ashes of The Wake! SO PUMPED!
Shahar Bar
2024-08-24 15:19:54 +0000 UTCBlackwater Park and From Mars to Sirius, 2004-2005 was epic
Erik Berg
2024-08-24 15:18:34 +0000 UTC
