The Call of Ktulu

By: Metallica

This early Metallica song has Mustaine and Burton written all over it. Awesome instrumental. Ride the Lightning is my favourite Metallica album overall. I love how Kirk doubled the leads on most of his songs back then.

For this one I used several different live performance videos to help figure out who plays what. Kirk plays some parts differently and I tried to highlight that with the Charvel. For the solo, Kirk plays the arpeggios in an uncommon way but I duplicated that as best I could. For the descending scalar run, it’s a little unclear what happens position wise because the live performances are a bit spotty for this part, either the camera wasn’t on Kirk or he just goes off on the wah. So I tried to play this part as logically as I could. Kirk gets a lot of flak but he was on fire on this album. James slightly switches up how the clean outro is played. It’s almost exactly like the first time but there is a different note being played.

Hope you enjoy digging into this one!

Original Artist: 
Metallica
Release Date:
1984
TITLE:
The Call of Ktulu

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Backing Track Video

Here is the backing track video for The Call of Ktulu, with my main rhythm and solo tracks removed. This will make it easier to jam along with the Metallica cover recording lesson, and still be allow you to read the guitar tab. For even more control, check out the The Call of Ktulu isolated tracks below. 

The Call of Ktulu was recorded in  tuning.
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ToneS

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Tone Screenshots

Here are some of my screenshots, so that you can see exactly how I achieved my The Call of Ktulu guitar tones. I matching the solo and rhythm section tones from the Metallica recording as closely as possible. Patrons can reach out with any tone questions you may have.

Clean Guitar

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Isolated TRACKS (mp3)

Here are the drums, bass and other background tracks to jam along to The Call of Ktulu. I've also included all of my isolated guitar tracks in case you really want to hear what's going on. Isolated tracks are normally very difficult to find online, and can be very helpful in cracking a difficult solo tab.
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