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How Mastodon's "Leviathan" Changed the Way I Play!

🕑 Added 2024-08-24 15:12:06 +0000 UTC

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brent byrns

Great video, more Mastodon please!!

Matthijs Keuvelaar

Nice 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?

Jon H

A breakdown on Mastodon chords would be highly interesting.

William Hernandez

Hearts 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 !

Denis Roginskiy

I'd love to see full breakdowns of Megalodon and Blood and Thunder!

Jake Raymor

Also 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.

Justin Andrews

Keep 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.

Vincent Boissinot

Well... 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

Wahr Wigglin’

Great 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.

Jake Raymor

Man 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

Diogo Camacho

So 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.

Robin Mongeau

what 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.

Wahr Wigglin’

I’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.

Erik Berg

This 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!

SpaceChimp

That 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.

Ian Jess

Yes PLEASE to hearts alive lesson, that would be awesome!!

Mathew A Fascetti

Yes can we get tabs uncle Ben.

Tomislav Biškup

Think 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. 😎

Colin Andrews

Yes, please Ben - Full breakdown on Hearts Alive!

John Townsand

Good shiz

Pedro

Excelente 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

Shahar Bar

Can we get tabs for the fucked up Hearts Alive and Joseph Merrick chords?

derek tassie

I just went back to this album to relearn the songs I used to know, haha. nice.

chris kocher

Very 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.