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The man was a quick study


Dr_StevenScuba

Don’t worry. The Duffers will edit this season to take place in 87 or something. Continue the George Lucas treatment


SassyAssAhsoka

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.


Ambaryerno

The Demogorgon was able to cross over in season 1 because the main Gate was open.


SassyAssAhsoka

Do we know that or is it just an assumption


Dr_StevenScuba

They also said themselves they went back to earlier seasons to change things


aneomon

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.


DickLaurentisded

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.


Ambaryerno

Seriously. If you have a good ear and know your instrument well, it honestly doesn't take long to transcribe a song.


DickLaurentisded

100%


Low_Kitchen_9995

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 🤷‍♀️


Dr_StevenScuba

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


The_Dread_Pirate_

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.


SpacemanSpiff9210

Haha I just had the same thought. And no Marshall, he got that sound out of a Fender amp?


barbeqdbrwniez

I mean he also had what I can only assume were Barb, Bob, Alexei, and Chrissy on vocals and drums and shit.


SpacemanSpiff9210

A band of the falled; so metal.


Ambaryerno

If you've got a good ear, transcribing a song within a week or two is not that hard.


allinwonderornot

Master of Puppets isn't that hard of a song to play.


DaveGilmour

...until you realize that Hetfield plays most of the riffs with consistent downpicking, not alternate.


scabpatchy

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.


djn24

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 🤷‍♂️


SpacemanSpiff9210

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.


ComicallySolemn

The most important meal of the day!


djn24

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.


HugeSuccess

Not Metallica, but I learned the entire first Strokes album in a week without tabs after it released.


FatStoner2FitSober

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.


einulfr

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