Understanding Enter Sandman

Enter Sandman is a dark, heavy, twisted take on a lullaby from one of the biggest bands in the history of metal, and it's served as many future metalheads' first exposure to the genre. It's big, it's powerful, and it's exciting, but at heart, it's kinda just one riff. Almost everything they play for the entire song can ultimately be traced back to a single two-bar pattern. So how did they take such a simple foundation and build one of the most famous metal songs ever recorded? By carefully building, transforming, and manipulating it in order to create different sections and feels, showing off every possible facet that one little idea had to offer. It's a masterclass in metal minimalism. Patreon:   / 12tonevideos   Merch: standard.tv/12tone (There may be a thing that says we've sold out but are ordering new notebooks. Ignore that, they're back, the site just takes time to update.) Discord:   / discord   Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook:   / 12tonevideos   Twitter:   / 12tonevideos   Instagram:   / 12tonevideos   Email: [email protected] Last:    • Playing My Favorite Music Theory Game   Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c... SOURCES: https://www.guitaralliance.com/ROMTOP...    • Video   https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic... Huge thanks to our Elephant of the Month Club members: Susan Jones Jill Jones Ron Jones Howard Levine Duck Brian Etheredge Gabi Ghita Elaine Pratt Ken Arnold Khristofor Saraga Len Lanphar Paul Ward Benjamin DeLillo Mitchell Fund William (Bill) Boston Susan Lingenfelter Owen Campbell-Moore Anton Smyk Chris Prentice Jack Carlson Dov Zazkis James Treacy Bagshaw Christopher Lucas Hendrik Payer Andrew Beals Thomas Morley Jacob Helwig Duncan Dempsey Patrick James Morley Tyler Leite Paul Grieselhuber Ben in RI Thomas Linevitch Braum Meakes And thanks as well to Corvi, Henry Reich, Gene Lushtak, Eugene Bulkin, Logan Jones, Abram Thiessen, Anna Work, Oliver, Jc Bq, Adam Neely, nico, Michael Fieseler, Rick Lees, Ben LaRose, Justin Donnell, rhandhom1, Dave Mayer, Thomás, Davis Sprague, Paul Quine, Alex, Harold Gonzales, CodenaCrow, Nikolay Semyonov, Marc Himmelberger, Chris Borland, Arnas, Sarah Spath, Skylar J Eckdahl, Daniel Gilchrist, Caroline Simpson, billy roberts, Elliot Burke, Alex Atanasyan, Alex Knauth, Michael Alan Dorman, Greg Borenstein, Tim S., David Tocknell, Elias Simon, Nathan Petchell, Blake Boyd, Trevor, Michael McCormick, Lilith Dawn, Jonathan Beck, Dmitry Jemerov, Ian Seymour, Charles Gaskell, Luke Rihn, Rob Holton, Jerry D. Brown, Elliot Jay O'Neill, Elliot Winkler, Payden Nissen, Tom Evans, Fabian, Ohad Lutzky, Kurtis Commanda, James A. Thornton, Benjamin Cooper, Kevin, Ken Bauso, Brian Dinger, Max Wanderman, Stefan Strohmaier, Adam Wurstmann, Kelsey Freese, Shadow Kat, Adam Kent, Hape Company, Lee Rennie, Richard T. Anderson, Angela Flierman, Mark Feaver, Kevin Johnson, Brian McCue, Stephan Broek, JH, Jake Lizzio, David Conrad, ml cohen, Sylvain Chevalier, Darzzr, Roger Grosse, Rodrigo Roman, Francois LaPlante, Jeremy Zolner, Rowan Fox, Paper Coelacanth, Britt Ratliff, Eddie O'Rourke, Ryan, Jon Bauman, John July, Volker Wegert, Danny, Matthew Kallend, Patrick Callier, Joshua Gleitze, Emilio Assteves, Alex Keeny, Alexey Fedotov, Charles Hill, Valentin Lupachev, Joshua La Macchia, John Paul Welsh, DSM, Chris Chapin, Gary Butterfield, Niko Albertus, Luke Wever, Elizabeth von Teig, Steve Brand, Rene Miklas, Connor Shannon, max thomas, Jamie Price, Kennedy Morrison, Red Uncle, Darrell Milton, Kirk Natoza, Doug Nottingham, Scott Howarth, Barendo, Smackdab, Nicholas Wolf, Ben Phillips, Todd Davidson, Alex Larking, Paul Guziewski, Scott Nystrom, Douglas Anderson, Greg Hodgdon, ZagOnEm, Robert Beach, veleum, Kevin Boyce, Peter Leventis, Greg, Aaron Zhu Freedman, Hexa Midine, Nicholas Steicke, John Polgreen, Tuna, Mathew Wolak, Mark Sibly, Killian Hackenschmidt, Lamadesbois, Eric J Amorelli, T, Lincoln Mendell, Vincent Engler, Noam Fields-Meyer, Luke, Blake White, Michal Mikolaj Maslowski, Cattus_ex_Machina, Todd Hauser, Phillip D Neal, Aaron Epstein, Chris Connett, Scott Frazer, salman karout, Carsten Lechte, Sam Rezek, Lucas Augusto, Matt McKegg, Dominic Montanez, Marcus Doyle, Beth Martyn, Caitlin Olsen, and Taylor Martin! Your support helps make 12tone even better! Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!