Argh...
What's up everyone? And welcome to Ola Learns Shit.
The video series where I sit down and take a song you guys requested
That I will learn in a video
Basically I would just take a song that I... you know...
I've heard it before, so it's easy for me to kinda remember the structure of the song
But then I actually learn the song on guitar
And usually I just do it by ear, because...
That's how I'm used to learning songs
Back in the day there wasn't really internet with tabs and all that shit, so...
You know, I had to listen and try to transcribe it myself
If you're wondering why there's a fan blowing my hair, it's because...
You know, it makes me look beautiful
It's not because it's hot in here, in the room, it's just to make me look beautiful
A lot of people has requested me to do Slipknot, so that's what I'm gonna do today
I'm gonna start off pretty simple for me and...
You know, just because I'm doing Slipknot today
might not mean that that's it for Slipknot right there
I might learn another Slipknot song in the future, OK
But today we're starting with their absolute most popular song
At least according to Spotify, Duality
I actually did one of the riffs from this song together with Delta Empire
Uh... a couple of years back, but...
Good for you guys that my memory is short
I probably have to relearn it again
To play Slipknot songs, you need to tune your guitar to drop B
So you have a drop B right here
In some of their songs they're playing drop A, but for this song they're playing drop B
And we're just gonna head straight into it, man
I have the youtube video up here, this is the official video
The good thing about youtube, if you just quickly wanna...
...be able to slow things down, you just go to the settings here
You can play it like 0.25% of the song, of the speed
OK, it's a little too slow, let's say that
And you can speed it up too
Uh... great
Alright, let's start with normal
And let's start the song
The song Duality is from Volume 3: Subliminal Verses
And it's so old, it's in 4:3 format, the video
It was just before widescreen, OK?
OK
Pretty easy
OK
OK, OK, OK, OK... easy
I feel like this is probably one of Slipknot's easier songs
Easy
First riff is really easy, and that's the chorus, so...
Great, easy
OK
Is it?
Or is it...
OK, that's it, it's on the first fret
OK
OK, OK
Easy
OK, that's a short riff
OK
I think that's it
Easy
Alright, there's another guitar
I think that's it
OK, OK, OK, I got this
OK
Oh...
OK, OK
Chorus
Which is just the intro
OK
Ahh...
This is actually more complicated than it seems
You have this alternate picking
It's pretty tough to get that even and nice
If you're having problems with that, I recommend doing it slow, so...
So you can do it with a metronome, that's probably easier, and then you speed that up
It's probably even harder if you play it slower, to be honest
There's something happening
That's a weird rhythm
OK, tha- dude, that's a little mindfucking right there
OK
Dude, that's... that's fucking with me a little bit
OK, OK, I got it
Oh...
Oh, I could see what he's playing
Oh, hello?
OK, it's just the...
OK
OK, OK, OK, OK
OK, OK, so they change it up
They just move the... instead of the...
They just move it up to the first fret
But it's still the same on the...
The thingamabobs surrounding this, so it's still...
Argh...
Oh shit, OK
It's time to slow it down, what was played there?
OK
OK, OK
OK, so...
Is that it, really?
OK
Something like that
OK, up to speed
OK, we got this
Easy, this song is easy
And it's a banger
Oh, he's playing...
Last time it was...
There's a little difference in the chorus
Hang on
Oh shit, so the...
...single version on youtube is shorter than the album version on Spotify
Alright
OK, so there's a little longer of a breakdown, so that's cool
But I saw something here when I was scrolling
I saw the cheat-code for this
Here's a video of Jim Root performing Slipknot
I can basically watch exactly how he's playing it
What the fuck is he doing there?
I mean, shit like this didn't exist when I was a kid
OK, I was right about the first fret, so that's cool
What the fuck is this?
So, apparently there's a full lesson from Jim Root on how to play this song
So I could have just... you know, not waste your time
And go watch how to play this song here
But what the fuck is this? I didn't hear this.
What?
I can't hear that in the song
I can't hear that on the album, hello?
I seriously cannot hear it on the album version
Maybe this is how he was initially playing the song
Maybe he plays it live like this
Well...
Let me just play it the way that I play it, OK?
Let's just do it
I got this
Oh shit
I'm sorry, let's do that again
It starts on the lowest
Uh... note, not on the third fret, OK?
OK
Argh...
OK
Oh no, shit
I thought it was somewhere else
Ohhh
Almost
Oh shit
Fuck
Almost
There it is, holy shit
Well...
The smallest details might not be exactly where they're at, but...
You know, overall...
I think I nailed the song
It's a very fun song to play, I must say, it's...
It's not that advanced
But it's still kind of half-challenging
Obviously it helps if you've heard the song a lot before you attempt to start learning it
You know, I'm more familiar with the first 2 albums of Slipknot
And the songs that are on those
Not as much familiar with the later albums
So... it was a little challenging still for me to...
Just, you know, memorize and find some of the notes
But it's a fairly simple song to play
I would definitely hit up a harder Slipknot song at a later point
You know, last time I played a Lamb of God song, it was kinda rough for me, let's just say that
I wanted to, you know, chill a little bit and then I'll do another advanced song
Uh... next time, maybe
So there you go, that was Slipknot's Duality
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So, thank you so much
This was a lot of fun
The song is very fun to play, and there it is
Thank you so much guys, bye