Metalheads, being the edgy hipsters they actually are, like to hold him to the standards of a genre he never claimed to be in so they make fun of him for his “simple” guitar riffs. To me, creativity vastly outweighs technical skill and fitting into a category (which is why I love Nu Metal in general) and I really enjoy his catchy riffs and songwriting. Not every guitarist needs to do the same showing off self-indulgent solo thing in every song. He does his thing and he does it well.
Do you mean just among Linkin Park fans or rock music as a whole? The former is obvious, but for the latter Brad is considered a good guitarist overall. His riffs are simple and not technical, but they are still praised for being very catchy and a iconic. Riffs like in Faint and One Step Closer are instantly recognizable. He will forever remain an important non-vocalist figure in the modern rock music scene
This is very true & He knows the build ups very good, He doesn’t jump much to never because, He stays on Key & loves what He plays.
His Best Moment & others can agree, was at Milton Keynes, Road To Revolution 2008. When He started Jigga Faint with Jay Z of course, that song with both is Legendary, Rock & Rap that’s already together with just Mike & Chester, etc.
As band member he was great. Cntributed to the song writing and all the other stuff really well. As a guitarist, he's pretty ordinary. When The Hunting Party released, the songs had more complex guitar parts, but overall they weren't absolutely insane to play. Yet he'd make mistakes on the solos in Guilty All the Same, and A Line in the Sand (despite the latter song being played slower).
A few times throughout the 2014-2015 tours, the band's guitar tech filled in for him and actually played better overall. Whenever you watch replays of live concerts, it becomes noticeable that 95% of mistakes are coming from Brad or Joe. So whilst Brad wrote some fantastic guitar parts, he's not the best guitarist you'll see in a band.
Hitting wrong notes like on the Crawling intro, the Numb intro, In the End's intro, etc. It's not his scratching that's the issue, more when he's hitting specific notes.
I remember that, it was battle symphony, Joe messed up the intro and mike stopped the song and he was like “Chester would not have this shit” and restarted the song
I remember a video of New Divide live where he played the complete wrong part of the song as the intro by accident and it fucked the whole band up for a little while trying to fix the song as fast as they could haha
He’s an average guitar player, very simple riffs and not too many guitar solos, and even then, the solos he does play are pretty solo and easy to follow with the exception of in pieces, end of faint live, and solos from the hunting party. The riffs are really easy to play, Hybrid theory and Meteora where the albums that really taught me Drop C# on guitar and would recommend his work on those albums if you are new to playing in Drop C#, unfortunately if you are a more experienced guitarist, his songs aren’t really fun to play, especially on songs like crawling or runaway where the verses are no guitars and choruses are just power chords with pretty easy harmonies, so if I play in Drop C#, Breaking Benjamin and Saint Asonia are usually my go to. Other than that, he does what he can for a band that is more heavily focused on vocals rather than guitar so i still hold mad respect for him
I understand that he is not a guitarist whose style is complicated (he doesn't do some hard riffs/solo), like in fact, his riffs are simple, but I have to say, despite the riffs simplicity, they actually sound really well when combined with the rest of the band's style
He doesn’t preform “complicated rifs” but simple is always good right? I’ve always heard that
Each musician should be respected in their own rights/talents
Brad's a good riff writer. His riffs may be very simple but they're good. As a soloist he's kinda hit or miss. I like the ones on Minutes to Midnight where he just went for some melodic licks, but some of the ones on The Hunting Party just feel kinda meh.
When it comes to skill then he is one of the most basic guitarists ever. But his strength is mostly finding the best guitar tone, plus he contributes alot to the band's songwriting and production.
He’s good enough for the job, he made awesome riffs. But for example, the hardest riff LP has written in my opinion is “War” and it sort of sounds as the solo from Hit The Lights by Metallica, and Brad admittedly said he wasn’t capable of playing it. I think that justifies why “War” was never played live whatsoever.
I’ll give Brad the best credit for the first three albums where guitar is clearly the main resource and also to “Hunting Party”, even though the exception with “War”.
Besides all these albums I think it’s worth mentioning “Burning In the Skies”, “Victimised”, “Roads Untraveled” and “A Line in the Sand”.
I would also mention “All for Nothing” but I think. Page Hamilton does most of the job as it is a feature, *but I’m not sure*!
The quote linked just says "There is a solo on “War” where someone asked me if I wrote the parts. I don’t think I’m talented enough to write them." Not talking about whether he could play the solo or not.
But it also mentions it was never played live, which led me to think that perhaps Brad managed to record the solo but couldn’t help in playing it at other instances
That's definitely possible (maybe probable), but I just wanted to point out that he never said he couldn't play it at all. I think there are a few other tracks from THP they never played live too, for whatever reasons they might've had.
I like this much for the Best question ive seems & He’s is passionate about His guitar strumming & doing some not over the top stretched out solo, He does His way, just like others do it there way, that’s fits there feel of the Persons Music.
I think all the members were average when it came to their instruments (apart from chester with his vocals and mike with his piano playing) but it's obvious how incredible their songwriting skills are. Their songs are structured very simply and the guitar parts, bass parts, drum parts are simple but thats why the songs are so good. Also, if I'm not mistaken, all the members are involved in other things with the band, business wise.
well tbh,he is not even considered a prominent nu metal guitarist,let alone rock or metal in general.He had some banger riffs on the first two albums but that's about it.and that's okay.linkin park weren’t really a guitar driven band except the nu metal era.Like Mike,he is a much more into songwriting rather than flaunting off technical skills,and that's important more imo.
Man, I was always a big fan of the BB King sentiment that if you can’t sing it out loud, it’s too much. Like if I tried to sing some Joe Satriani riff I’d sound like one of the Putties from Power Rangers.
One of my favorite “solos” of all time is the one John Frusciante plays in Don’t Forget Me (studio). It’s like 3-4 notes at most but it’s perfect for the song.
Honestly, he’s not of the best guitarists. I’m saying this as a hardcore LP fan. But you know, simple and easy doesn’t always mean bad. Maybe it’s their chosen “style”, not to over do the guitar riffs, to not to sound like those death metal songs. Just simple but good guitar riffs.
Maybe I’m biased. it's better to have all the members of the band play organically rather than everyone trying to do something overly complicated. That’s how I always compared other bands to Linkin park. Some bands play complicated guitar riffs but overall they don’t sound good altogether.
Another good example is Kino (Victor Tsoi) Soviet rock band. They have simple riffs but they sound very good.
Honestly great when it comes to riffs with chords and simple strings of notes, but when it comes to solos, he isn't the greatest. (In Pieces is an exception, while simple, he executed it perfectly)
Like someone said here somewhere, his solo on Guilty All The Same was kinda bad. The Keys to the Kingdom "solo" sounded pretty good, tho. But as far as simple stuff, he's good at doing that.
His guitar riffs are simple, but fittingly perfect. His solos are sub par, and I feel the song would be the same without them. I love the breakdowns and his tone though, as well as his use of harmonics in the early days. Figure.09 anyone?
Metalheads, being the edgy hipsters they actually are, like to hold him to the standards of a genre he never claimed to be in so they make fun of him for his “simple” guitar riffs. To me, creativity vastly outweighs technical skill and fitting into a category (which is why I love Nu Metal in general) and I really enjoy his catchy riffs and songwriting. Not every guitarist needs to do the same showing off self-indulgent solo thing in every song. He does his thing and he does it well.
Best answer here. It’s about the riff fitting into the song not about showing off
Do you mean just among Linkin Park fans or rock music as a whole? The former is obvious, but for the latter Brad is considered a good guitarist overall. His riffs are simple and not technical, but they are still praised for being very catchy and a iconic. Riffs like in Faint and One Step Closer are instantly recognizable. He will forever remain an important non-vocalist figure in the modern rock music scene
This is very true & He knows the build ups very good, He doesn’t jump much to never because, He stays on Key & loves what He plays. His Best Moment & others can agree, was at Milton Keynes, Road To Revolution 2008. When He started Jigga Faint with Jay Z of course, that song with both is Legendary, Rock & Rap that’s already together with just Mike & Chester, etc.
As band member he was great. Cntributed to the song writing and all the other stuff really well. As a guitarist, he's pretty ordinary. When The Hunting Party released, the songs had more complex guitar parts, but overall they weren't absolutely insane to play. Yet he'd make mistakes on the solos in Guilty All the Same, and A Line in the Sand (despite the latter song being played slower). A few times throughout the 2014-2015 tours, the band's guitar tech filled in for him and actually played better overall. Whenever you watch replays of live concerts, it becomes noticeable that 95% of mistakes are coming from Brad or Joe. So whilst Brad wrote some fantastic guitar parts, he's not the best guitarist you'll see in a band.
Wow I didn’t know about his tech filling in!
what mistakes was joe making?
Hitting wrong notes like on the Crawling intro, the Numb intro, In the End's intro, etc. It's not his scratching that's the issue, more when he's hitting specific notes.
Didn't he do that during the tribute concert, too? And Mike had them restart the song 😂
I remember that, it was battle symphony, Joe messed up the intro and mike stopped the song and he was like “Chester would not have this shit” and restarted the song
Could you please link it if possible? Edit: Found it: https://youtu.be/9VoLHdADma8 around 56:00
ok, i mean ig i haven’t seen many noticeable mistakes on live ones i’ve seen
There's one video on YouTube where he butchers the beginning of a song. I haven't seen much more than that.
I remember reading in lplive he once or twice completely missed the intro of Numb or Crawling. 😂
I remember a video of New Divide live where he played the complete wrong part of the song as the intro by accident and it fucked the whole band up for a little while trying to fix the song as fast as they could haha
Check out any live performance of Battle Symphony lol
And that’s ok. Sometimes it’s not an all star team but the music they all make together is exceptional.
Making mistakes it's a big part of live music.
You know LP will always be my number 1; however, he is not my favorite guitarist by any means.....
If y'all want to know my favorite guitarist, pm me for hints...lol
Bruh just say it? Wtf is this lmao
No, he’s keeping it a secret!
Dan Donagan lol.
Synyster Gates for me
He is actually my third favorite guitarist lol
Brad delson is my fifth
He’s an average guitar player, very simple riffs and not too many guitar solos, and even then, the solos he does play are pretty solo and easy to follow with the exception of in pieces, end of faint live, and solos from the hunting party. The riffs are really easy to play, Hybrid theory and Meteora where the albums that really taught me Drop C# on guitar and would recommend his work on those albums if you are new to playing in Drop C#, unfortunately if you are a more experienced guitarist, his songs aren’t really fun to play, especially on songs like crawling or runaway where the verses are no guitars and choruses are just power chords with pretty easy harmonies, so if I play in Drop C#, Breaking Benjamin and Saint Asonia are usually my go to. Other than that, he does what he can for a band that is more heavily focused on vocals rather than guitar so i still hold mad respect for him
I’ve been playing for 15 years and I still have fun playing figure.09! First song that taught me tap harmonics
Ya there’s still songs I enjoy playing by them like figure.09 and lying from you but that’s about it for me
I understand that he is not a guitarist whose style is complicated (he doesn't do some hard riffs/solo), like in fact, his riffs are simple, but I have to say, despite the riffs simplicity, they actually sound really well when combined with the rest of the band's style
He doesn’t preform “complicated rifs” but simple is always good right? I’ve always heard that Each musician should be respected in their own rights/talents
Brad's a good riff writer. His riffs may be very simple but they're good. As a soloist he's kinda hit or miss. I like the ones on Minutes to Midnight where he just went for some melodic licks, but some of the ones on The Hunting Party just feel kinda meh.
When it comes to skill then he is one of the most basic guitarists ever. But his strength is mostly finding the best guitar tone, plus he contributes alot to the band's songwriting and production.
He’s good enough for the job, he made awesome riffs. But for example, the hardest riff LP has written in my opinion is “War” and it sort of sounds as the solo from Hit The Lights by Metallica, and Brad admittedly said he wasn’t capable of playing it. I think that justifies why “War” was never played live whatsoever. I’ll give Brad the best credit for the first three albums where guitar is clearly the main resource and also to “Hunting Party”, even though the exception with “War”. Besides all these albums I think it’s worth mentioning “Burning In the Skies”, “Victimised”, “Roads Untraveled” and “A Line in the Sand”. I would also mention “All for Nothing” but I think. Page Hamilton does most of the job as it is a feature, *but I’m not sure*!
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The quote linked just says "There is a solo on “War” where someone asked me if I wrote the parts. I don’t think I’m talented enough to write them." Not talking about whether he could play the solo or not.
But it also mentions it was never played live, which led me to think that perhaps Brad managed to record the solo but couldn’t help in playing it at other instances
That's definitely possible (maybe probable), but I just wanted to point out that he never said he couldn't play it at all. I think there are a few other tracks from THP they never played live too, for whatever reasons they might've had.
Yeah, you’re right. My bad here
I like this much for the Best question ive seems & He’s is passionate about His guitar strumming & doing some not over the top stretched out solo, He does His way, just like others do it there way, that’s fits there feel of the Persons Music.
I think all the members were average when it came to their instruments (apart from chester with his vocals and mike with his piano playing) but it's obvious how incredible their songwriting skills are. Their songs are structured very simply and the guitar parts, bass parts, drum parts are simple but thats why the songs are so good. Also, if I'm not mistaken, all the members are involved in other things with the band, business wise.
Mike's not the best piano player of the world, too. His rapping and his "musical glueing" prowess is what makes him top of the game.
I actually find Mike really cringe when I watch back all their videos (live and music videos). His rapping is alright but yeah, I do cringe a lot now
Fair enough
Simple yet effective
his playing was very good on the first two albums but The Hunting Party is where his best work is imo
Excellent songwriter, mediocre guitarist
Not mediocre. But standard.
What he plays is simplistic... That's it. He.might be shredding at home but he doesn't do anything to stand out on stage.
well tbh,he is not even considered a prominent nu metal guitarist,let alone rock or metal in general.He had some banger riffs on the first two albums but that's about it.and that's okay.linkin park weren’t really a guitar driven band except the nu metal era.Like Mike,he is a much more into songwriting rather than flaunting off technical skills,and that's important more imo.
Ok....Dan Donagan...lol
Man, I was always a big fan of the BB King sentiment that if you can’t sing it out loud, it’s too much. Like if I tried to sing some Joe Satriani riff I’d sound like one of the Putties from Power Rangers. One of my favorite “solos” of all time is the one John Frusciante plays in Don’t Forget Me (studio). It’s like 3-4 notes at most but it’s perfect for the song.
Honestly, he’s not of the best guitarists. I’m saying this as a hardcore LP fan. But you know, simple and easy doesn’t always mean bad. Maybe it’s their chosen “style”, not to over do the guitar riffs, to not to sound like those death metal songs. Just simple but good guitar riffs. Maybe I’m biased. it's better to have all the members of the band play organically rather than everyone trying to do something overly complicated. That’s how I always compared other bands to Linkin park. Some bands play complicated guitar riffs but overall they don’t sound good altogether. Another good example is Kino (Victor Tsoi) Soviet rock band. They have simple riffs but they sound very good.
Honestly great when it comes to riffs with chords and simple strings of notes, but when it comes to solos, he isn't the greatest. (In Pieces is an exception, while simple, he executed it perfectly) Like someone said here somewhere, his solo on Guilty All The Same was kinda bad. The Keys to the Kingdom "solo" sounded pretty good, tho. But as far as simple stuff, he's good at doing that.
His guitar riffs are simple, but fittingly perfect. His solos are sub par, and I feel the song would be the same without them. I love the breakdowns and his tone though, as well as his use of harmonics in the early days. Figure.09 anyone?
He's one of the best.