Jazz Musician Sucks at Metal (w/ Rob Scallon)

Summary by Krater

Adam Neely, a jazz musician, visits metal musician Rob Scallon to learn how to play metal music by writing and recording a heavy metal song in about an hour and a half.

From the video

Answers: How do you play deathcore metal music?

• writing a metal song
• deathcore guitar rhythm
• pinch harmonics
• double-tracking guitar
• metal drumming technique
• metal bassline

What it concludes

• A Midwest deathcore style uses simple, heavy, palm-muted power chords and pinch harmonics.
• Double-tracking guitars by recording one on the right and one on the left with a bass down the middle creates a massive metal guitar sound.
• In deathcore drumming, matching the kick drum rhythm to the guitar's lowest strings on the two and four keeps the band locked in rhythm.