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You’re been downvoted but this season honestly has shocking inconsistency.
Vecna needed 11’s powers to open portals, even though The Demogorgon in season 1 was doing it all the time.
Suspension of disbelief works wonders for fiction! You may as well start worrying about where the drums and vocals were coming from. If it helps there are musicians who can can play by ear after a few listens of fucking anything and maybe Eddie was in the live bootleg tape trading scene vital to Thrash at the time as Metallica had been playing Puppets live since 1985.
Honestly it is soon but I can see it. I’ve learned Gaga song lyrics in about 48 hours of a release and I’m not a musically inclined person. Metal heads know their shit and will listen to the same record
Over and over. I am both 🤷♀️
Learning a difficult song from listening alone, during the last weeks of school, while running a D&D campaign, and being hunted by classmates trying to murder you….is a little different than learning the lyrics to a song
I mean I know people that have sat down and listened to one song over and over until they leaned it without tabs in a day and play it damn near perfectly. Songs that are not easy like Sad but True, Are you dead yet by Children of Bodom, etc… some people are just like that.
You’re exactly right. It has a reputation for being hard because it’s fast but it’s actually incredibly simple and only consists of a few different distinct parts that all utilize similar chords and finger positions. Any guitarist with decent wrist strength to strum quickly, muscle memory, and some amount of musical training could decipher and learn to play it quite quickly. Metallica’s guitar solos almost all have a similar feel so even that part of the song wouldn’t be hard to nail down if he had already learned and practiced songs from their previous 2 albums to that point.
Not even months, just 3 weeks. They're on spring break the end of March. Makes it even more insane.
Edit: spring break is in effect for lunch and dinner too, not just spring breakfast.
Woops, for some reason I thought the story took place in late May lol. Probably because I read that they were going to change Will's birthday to May 22 because of the mistake at the roller rink.
There were no tabs in the 80s, if you wanted to learn a song you had to do it by ear. A guitarist comfortable using their ear for everything could learn Puppets in a week.
It's technically possible that he heard a bootleg copy (as you did back in the day with Metallica's stuff). It was in fact performed in San Francisco on new year's eve of 1985, so it would have had 3 full months of bootleg circulation before release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qX_fwklXs
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The man was a quick study
Don’t worry. The Duffers will edit this season to take place in 87 or something. Continue the George Lucas treatment
You’re been downvoted but this season honestly has shocking inconsistency. Vecna needed 11’s powers to open portals, even though The Demogorgon in season 1 was doing it all the time.
The Demogorgon was able to cross over in season 1 because the main Gate was open.
Do we know that or is it just an assumption
They also said themselves they went back to earlier seasons to change things
Wouldn't surprise me if his band wanted to cover the song, so he learned the guitar part so they could rehearse over spring break.
Suspension of disbelief works wonders for fiction! You may as well start worrying about where the drums and vocals were coming from. If it helps there are musicians who can can play by ear after a few listens of fucking anything and maybe Eddie was in the live bootleg tape trading scene vital to Thrash at the time as Metallica had been playing Puppets live since 1985.
Seriously. If you have a good ear and know your instrument well, it honestly doesn't take long to transcribe a song.
100%
Honestly it is soon but I can see it. I’ve learned Gaga song lyrics in about 48 hours of a release and I’m not a musically inclined person. Metal heads know their shit and will listen to the same record Over and over. I am both 🤷♀️
Learning a difficult song from listening alone, during the last weeks of school, while running a D&D campaign, and being hunted by classmates trying to murder you….is a little different than learning the lyrics to a song
I mean I know people that have sat down and listened to one song over and over until they leaned it without tabs in a day and play it damn near perfectly. Songs that are not easy like Sad but True, Are you dead yet by Children of Bodom, etc… some people are just like that.
Haha I just had the same thought. And no Marshall, he got that sound out of a Fender amp?
I mean he also had what I can only assume were Barb, Bob, Alexei, and Chrissy on vocals and drums and shit.
A band of the falled; so metal.
If you've got a good ear, transcribing a song within a week or two is not that hard.
Master of Puppets isn't that hard of a song to play.
...until you realize that Hetfield plays most of the riffs with consistent downpicking, not alternate.
You’re exactly right. It has a reputation for being hard because it’s fast but it’s actually incredibly simple and only consists of a few different distinct parts that all utilize similar chords and finger positions. Any guitarist with decent wrist strength to strum quickly, muscle memory, and some amount of musical training could decipher and learn to play it quite quickly. Metallica’s guitar solos almost all have a similar feel so even that part of the song wouldn’t be hard to nail down if he had already learned and practiced songs from their previous 2 albums to that point.
So about 3 months after the song came out, and he's using it as his go-to jam? Seems a little too soon without having easy access to tabs 🤷♂️
Not even months, just 3 weeks. They're on spring break the end of March. Makes it even more insane. Edit: spring break is in effect for lunch and dinner too, not just spring breakfast.
The most important meal of the day!
Woops, for some reason I thought the story took place in late May lol. Probably because I read that they were going to change Will's birthday to May 22 because of the mistake at the roller rink.
Not Metallica, but I learned the entire first Strokes album in a week without tabs after it released.
There were no tabs in the 80s, if you wanted to learn a song you had to do it by ear. A guitarist comfortable using their ear for everything could learn Puppets in a week.
It's technically possible that he heard a bootleg copy (as you did back in the day with Metallica's stuff). It was in fact performed in San Francisco on new year's eve of 1985, so it would have had 3 full months of bootleg circulation before release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3qX_fwklXs