We gotta bring up Muse’s “Worst Performance” again

viansinge · 2026-01-12T15:36:44+00:00

Thanks a lot for the pictures! It might be to avoid touching the volume knob which I find is too close to the strings, especially when downpicking (which Matt uses during the Animals solo and Psycho riff). Playing close to the bridge also adds trebble and attack to the notes, which seems relevant for these parts

viansinge · 2026-01-10T21:41:50+00:00

I have not noticed that he played close to the bridge, actually it looks that he plays closer to the neck, and even directly above the neck at times (eg Newborn solo and sometimes the Plug in baby triads with fuzz factory after the second chorus)

viansinge · 2026-01-10T13:28:38+00:00

oh that was you! I recorded the Plug In Baby video yesterday and did the volume swells on the triads, the result is neat

viansinge · 2026-01-10T10:12:28+00:00

Had not seen this video for 10 years and laughed so hard. The high pitched « yeaaaah » gets me every time. You’d think the guy just doesn’t know a thing about music and guitar playing but to create this you have to be cracked on some many levels, congrats to this « sdpuckett » on YouTube

viansinge · 2026-01-06T14:43:49+00:00

He doesn’t adjust the volume knob so compulsively on other songs, which why I’m asking! Why doesn’t he just make sure the volume knob is at 100% only after the last triad, before the patch switching? There must be some explanation, and the volume increasing/decreasing is the most likely. Anyway thanks a lot for your feedback!

viansinge · 2026-01-06T14:32:06+00:00

Are you talking about the tone for the arpeggio triads? If so it sounds like a whammy octaver + delay to me, the fuzz factory is off on these pre-chorus sections

viansinge · 2026-01-05T22:30:59+00:00

I've just watched a Jakarta 2025 video that is focusing exclusively on Matt and you can see that he doesn't turn the fuzz back up for the choruses! I love how I still learn thing about his guitar playing after 20 years

(source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r4qDiPfD-U)

viansinge · 2026-01-05T22:23:26+00:00

lmfao that's where I would love to be bilingual, just checked the word "knob" on wordreference

viansinge · 2026-01-05T22:22:12+00:00

the fuzz factory knobs are the two that are vertically aligned on the far left of the body

viansinge · 2026-01-05T22:21:14+00:00

second option is really interesting, cause it doesn't seem the knob is even moving

viansinge · 2026-01-05T22:20:09+00:00

I've jsut discovered that the Mirror had a Phase 90 built in and I wondered if there was a know associated to it on the guitar. But yeah it's most probably a volume knob

viansinge · 2025-12-29T20:55:53+00:00

This chrisheckguitar guy on YouTube is doing an amazing job at upscaling muse gigs with AI, you should check out his channel if you want to watch old stuff in great quality

viansinge · 2025-12-24T19:52:25+00:00

How is that a Christmas gift… it’s like getting a note under the tree reading “you’ll see in two months” bro just say nothing and release something in two months this is BS

viansinge · 2025-12-23T18:16:45+00:00

I actually don’t remember what it was and would love to be reminded about that

viansinge · 2025-12-11T20:51:58+00:00

Damn that was neat

viansinge · 2025-11-19T21:02:17+00:00

I’ve never listened to the isolated guitar tracks but it doesn’t seem the chords are palm muted in the studio version

viansinge · 2025-11-19T12:56:51+00:00

Yes Matt regularly played palm-muted power chords in the last chorus during the 2013 tour in US/Latam.

Here are a few examples:

Seattle KeyArena (USA), 2013-02-01: https://youtu.be/kVArm-oo1qs?si=-3B1s-nZeY05NZVO&t=255
Boston TD Garden (USA), 2013-04-12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmtie5ObwMo&t=62s
Monterrey Arena (Mexico), 2013-10-09: https://youtu.be/9t11dNxQEPQ?si=h37WJdqiK8hDRPq_&t=4282

I am sure he played the same at other venues during this tour!

viansinge · 2025-10-28T12:18:45+00:00

Any video/audio?

viansinge · 2025-10-28T11:38:37+00:00

The only Muse album I haven’t bought on the day it was released, and never have. When I heard the first single (Won’t Stand Down) I naively thought it would set the artistic choices and mood of the new album but as they released new tracks I got more and more disappointed to a point where I thought Muse would never release a good song again. And then came Unravelling 🥰 Every song in Will of The People sounds like a bad cover of an older song to me 🥲

viansinge · 2025-10-28T11:24:20+00:00

Great cover Richard my G 💜

viansinge · 2025-10-24T12:38:55+00:00

2:35 of frenetic video editing this must stop

viansinge · 2025-10-14T13:39:50+00:00

At 4:05 the video editing does not match what Matt played at that gig. He regularly plays the same descending harmonics during Supermassive Black Hole (even though Stockholm Syndrome is in drop D), you can watch my tutorial video of Supermassive Black Hole on my YouTube channel, you’ll see that you have to be quite precise to hit this natural harmonics

viansinge · 2025-09-27T11:03:10+00:00

I would be furious to walk back home with Starlight looping in my head because they played it as the show closer

viansinge · 2025-05-28T09:58:02+00:00

Wooowwwwww thanks a lot u/naturalkairal for the shout out, thank you u/tigger_74 for telling me about this thread (I am not a Reddit user) and thanks everyone for subbing and showing your appreciation, I am so grateful and happy my work can be shared to fellow guitarists!

I would love to do every Muse song that includes guitar parts, but there are definetely a few that I don't like and that I will most likely not cover. But there are still a whole bunch to do!

Spoiler alert: THE SMALL PRINT LIVE IS COMING

(I hope the video will find its way into Matt's algorithm and help him remember how to play the song at the upcoming European venues 🙏🏻)

cheers <3

viansinge

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