I can play it on guitar with a pick but people don't realise how hard it is to rattle through the bassline on repeat on a big bass guitar using only your fingers
@@bassfuzz5783 and during the first half of his career he was a massive alcoholic (by his own admission) and used to play this on stage every night completely shitfaced 🍻 😂
@@Camberwell86 yeah that too, I think he was in rehab during the making of the resistance of I remember correctly. Which made it the album with the biggest Matt flair since Chris wasn't as present
We took a cd player and Muse's Absolution cd into the delivery room when my daughter was born. She took her first breath to Hysteria. I wasn't allowed to stay in the hospital that first night and spent a sleepless night at home trying to figure out the bass line for Hysteria. 18 years later, i was finally able to take her to our first Muse concert. It was like pure Beatlemania for her. When they started playing Hysteria...i might have lost it a little bit too. 🥺
You need to watch The Warning play it when they were little kids at Liceo de Monterrey in 2015! Muse was a huge influence on them. A few years later, they were on stage, opening four concerts in Mexico for Muse. After the last one, Matt Bellamy invited them to the UK to open for them five times there. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fU26wmlF3yg.html They have recorded an EP and four albums, and played on hundreds of stages. They are 19, 22, and 24.
Music teacher here. A high-school student introduced me to Muse in my “Music In Our Lives” course. I became a huge fan, and I thank that student to this day for turning me on to such a great band. Thank you, Dr. Helvering, for featuring “Hysteria” on your channel. Love your videos - keep up the great work!!
I tried to play this song for 23 years now and I still don't smash it. Every time I struggle with the E-part, the rest I would say is 95%. But I wouldn't dare to play it live, it's still not there. And I still keep on playing it every time till I have it 😊
Yes! Great choice, Doug. What makes this bassline so legendary, and thus the song, is its sheer brutal _relentlesness._ No pause ever. Just keeps going, full steam ahead.
Seeing Chris nail this bassline EVERY time he plays it, and the fact it requires such endurance (many people can nail this bassline with practice, but very few could play this for what is essentially on repeat for the ENTIRE song) just amazes me. Most recently I saw him play this bassline while he was standing RIGHT in front of me in Glasgow, rain POURING down, and he still nailed every note. The vibes of that gig were phenomenal.
I have to admit, I have a soft spot for any song (though especially rock songs) that gives the bass player something substantial. It feels all too rare.
My favourite band and also the favourite of my son who is 40years younger which shows their appeal spans the generations ( he doesn’t like much else I listen to). If you get the chance to see them Live Doug then beg borrow or steal a ticket as they have been putting on unbelievably astounding shows for 20 years.
Yeah, I've been to 3 concerts and my mom has been on two of those with me. We started listening to them in the same year. Heck, even my grandma loves some of their songs, and recently she hasn't been liking a lot of foreign stuff (grandpa's influence and the propaganda from TV, sadly, have been affecting her) so, that says a lot to me
Matt Bellamy invited The Warning to open for them in Mexico, and in the UK. He was so pleased with Dany, the Warning's guitarist, that he gifted her a one-off mustard yellow custom guitar. The Warning bassist, Ale, played Hysteria when she was 10...and showed off by playing it over the top of the neck. The Warning has 50 original songs, all by their early 20s. Here is Ale showing off by playing over the top of the neck. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fU26wmlF3yg.html
Yeah the few covers they did on that show were specifically geared towards showcasing their skills that they sent to Berklee College of Music, Crazy Train was for Dany, Everlong was for Pau and Hysteria for Ale. They later attended a summer program there after getting enough funds to enroll, despite only Dany being on the age limit of 15, Pau and Ale were only 13 and 10 respectively. Their mom had to carry her short-scale bass around. On of their teachers there was David Ellefson, Megadeth bassist, so that's pretty cool.
Great choice Doug! One of my favorite songs from my favorite band. Hysteria is so packed with energy, it’s like the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going. As a band they often come up with interesting chord progressions. 🎶
Seen Muse live in Bucharest back in 2007. Still to this day I consider the show to be the best I've ever attended. I've seen some live bands....but man
Muse is so fun. They are so upbeat and full of energy always. Also, phenomenal musicians. You should watch one of their live videos. You won’t be disappointed. Not only are they incredible musically, their audience is huge and plays a big impact on the energy they bring.
When Muse plays live, Chris W pounds out that bass line absolutely metronomically throughout the track. That’s stamina and precision! And they don’t generally process Matt’s voice as heavily as in the studio version. BTW, Muse IS a prog band, 100%!
So many songs you could do by muse. They have heavy songs like Stockholm Syndrome and Reapers, and then beautiful more classical songs like Blackout or United States of Eurasia and much more. One I’ve been listening to again is Take A Bow. The chord sequence is so cool
Surprise you haven’t done this one before. A classic album that gained their breakthrough here in the states. One of the best bass lines in rock history to boot
Space Dementia, Butterflies & Hurricanes, Fury, Bliss, Stockholm Syndrome… I could go on. Please listen to more of this band. I promise it’s so worth it
My band covers this. I'm the bassist. It's the one song that makes me nervous every show no matter how many times I've played it. To do it live you have to be so precise with the 16th notes for practically the entire song. It's not a tough riff. But that precision is super-critical to pulling it off.
Mexican rock prodigies, The Warning, played *Hysteria* live in 2015 when they were 10, 13, and 15. The then ten-year-old bass player, Alejandra, KILLED that dirty bass line on a half scale bass that was bigger than she was! It was her audition to get into the summer program at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Muse was one of their key influences, and one of their idols. A few years later, they opened for them four times in Mexico and five times in the UK! Matt Bellamy of Muse owns part of Manson Guitars. He was so impressed with Daniela, he gave her a custom mustard yellow Manson guitar, that she has played on tour recently. If you haven't checked out The Warning, know that they have an EP and three albums out since 2015, with a fourth on the way at the end of this month. They quit playing covers a long time ago, except for *Enter Sandman,* which made them famous in 2014 and again when they partnered with Alessia Cara of Canada to record a completely reimagined version of it for Metallica to put on their Black List album. If you haven't heard or reacted to The Warning, try any song from their 08/29/2022 concert at Teatro Metropolitan (on their channel). If you want a REAL treat, the whole *Queen of the Murder Scene* 13-song rock novel concept album is worth the time. I'm a huge prog fan of Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, The Who, etc. The Warning are currently my favorite rock band. *Queen of the Murder Scene* is amazing, written, composed, performed by teenagers (13, 16, and 18 at the Lunario debut concert, a video of which is on RU-vid on their channel).
You could try Unintended from the Showbiz album!! It’s one of the few songs that stood out to me because of how different it sounded when compared to their other songs
I second the motion to see you react to The Warning cover this song at their school when they were 10,13,15 years old. The bassist, Ale Villareal, was 10 at the time.
If you never heard them, definitely take a listen to some of their best (but often not very well known) tracks : - Citizen Erased from Origin Of Symmetry (2001) (absolute banger of a song) - Muscle Museum from Showbiz (1999) - Animals from The 2nd Law (2012) - The Globalist from Drones (2015) - Sunburn from Showbiz (1999) They have HEAPS of realy good tracks, I really couldn't name them all. But if I had to name only 5 : here you go
Also I'd absolutely add Survival from The 2nd Law, and Algorithm from Simulation Theory, as well as You make me feel like it's Halloween from Will of the people. I have been a fan for 15 years now, and like their newer stuff too, even though a lot is like pop. Also, We Are F*cking F*cked is a banger
@@atriyakoller136 There is no bad Muse songs honestly. I'm personally a little bit less attracted from anything after Black Hole, but yes there is some absolutely wonderful songs in those albums too. Drones is full of them (I LOVE Aftermath, I think it's one of my favorite Muse song ever... just not for everyone I think) (also when I say I'm not *as much* of a fan of everything after Black Hole, it's mostly just that there is some skips when I hear the album, while on their older albums I skip absolutely no song because I love all of them)
@@matthieuzglurg6015 I kind of agree. For me the album which I like a little less is, funnily enough, Showbiz, but even there I love about half the songs and like the other half, just not as much
This is one of the few songs on bass I just can't forget even though I haven't played much the past 15 years. My wrists ache just thinking about how much I'd practice it. It's actually a really fun pattern that repeats with some variations as you move to different strings.
2003/2004 was a great era of music. Muse, Franz Ferdinand, AX7, etc. Edit, my fave Muse song is Defector. To me it’s musical construction never gets stale.
For real. Indie and alternative rock, nu-metal etc. dominated from the close of the 90s to the late 00s, and it was fantastic. I feel like we've been in a hip-hop and hip-hop adjacent pop rut for over a decade now, where that's pretty much all the mainstream is. I'm tired of it. We need rock oriented music to come around again. At least I have had RU-vid to introduce me to bands like The Hu and Bloodywood in recent years though.
Absolution and the previous album 'Origin of Symmetry' are untouchable, the latter being one of my favourite albums of all time. It goes from that heavy synth-infused alt rock of New Born, through almost Pink Floyd territory on Citizen Erazed to creepy symphonic opera rock on Microcuts. They also make 'Feeling Good' sound entirely their own. It's just so effin' good.
The Bass sound comes from playing stereo bass and putting each output through different bass stacks, and yes, Doug, there is some synth in there as well.
I love the bass track on this one. Another great one is Plug In Baby from their second album Origin of Symmetry. That one basically shows some cool things done with scales on the guitar.
Went to see muse last year for 4th time live at the Rome olympic stadium was my 2nd show they a stadium band which is a dying breed need more of them if you get a chance beg borrow or steal a ticket never be disappointed best live shows I need go again hysteria my favourite
Ditto on all the votes for Citizen Erased and also New Born (my fav Muse song), Plug in Baby and Space Dementia - all from Muse's BEST album Origins of Symmetry. Or just do the whole album ❤
I'm a dream theater guy, wich means i usually don't Listen to "radio approved" stuff that much, but, back in 2007/8 if not mistaken, a friend of mine who also is a prog rock/metal fan, told me, "dude go listen to Muse", so i did, there are songs i don't listen (very few), but at that time i learnt that we can't have prejudice about styles, MUSE are amazing, the show is incredible. From there i discovered other bands, radio friendly that are amazing, for example Biffy Clyro, awesome band too. If you want to check anything from them my favourite album is "Puzzle".
Doug, as a Dream Theater fan have you read about the Muse-DT connection? Mike Portnoy was a big fan of the Absolution album, and "Never Enough" on Octavarium is a Muse tribute. Muse repaid the favor on Black Clouds and Revelations. You'll hear DT's "Panic Attack" in "Assassin" and "Glorious", and the heavy guitar riff in "Knights of Cydonia" is from "In The Name Of God".
Doug, as a classical composer I really think you would appreciate Butterflies and Hurricanes, from the HAARP live at Wembley dvd. Halfway the song Matt is playing his inspired by Rachmaninov piece on piano. The songs settings are very classical themselves!
As a "classical composer," i highly recommend you react to a LIVE version of Space Dementia. The piano playing, especially at the very end, is mind blowing.
Great!!!! I hope you can get to listen to more Muse very soon!!! I recommend Citizen Erased, Space Dementia, New Born, United States of Eurasia, Muscle Museum, Butterflies and Hurricanes, and Unnatural Selection
I haven't seen Chris Wolstenholme's gear, but based on what I've heard, that synth sound you're picking up is, I think, an octave pedal, which gives a synth-sub bass sound. And I think he's running it *after* the distortion, which results in some interesting artifacts.
counterpoint - I LOVE the effect on the vocals, it puts the voice so far away it's giving me the same vibes as the vocals from Heroes by Bowie which sounded like they were coming at you from across a glacier somewhere. This puts the vocals similarly 'distant' which is just so fitting for THIS song of barely-repressed emoting, you don't want that Right Next to you.
Great reaction Doug!! One of my (if not the) favourite Muse song!! That bass line is what gets me every time - especially live!! Chris just takes off with it! Like on the album, the song is lead into by a short instrumental called 'Interlude' - which perfectly segues into Hysteria. I'd love to hear your reaction to Map Of The Problematique from the follow up album, Black Holes & Revelations. There's a lot of amazing stuff to dive into with Muse! And yes, you NEED to check The Wall movie!! Cheers.
One of the best bass lines. I do like several Hysteria bass covers as you can truly hear the bass lines through the whole song. A shoutout - while not a "bass" cover, "2 Cellos" has a great version for those that haven't seen it. My love of music Muse is Unnatural Selection.
To play this song on bass I do the following: Play speed metal for 2 hours prior, take Advil 1/2 hour prior, consume 2 drams of the Macallan 10 minutes prior, press play, enjoy the searing pain in my right hand when finished, consume congratulatory dram of the Macallan. Awesome song. The pedal point bass line by Chris is a Muthaf*&ka (he hates playing it for the same reason), but it really makes you concentrate on 16th note precision between the plucking hand and fretting hand, absolute MONSTER!
Hi Doug, I very rarely comment under videos but here you are interested in a band that makes me vibrate very deeply... You should really be interested in ''Space dementia'', the rest of' 'absolution' (as you did with Dark side of the moon) or 'hoodoo', 'aftermath' which has sounds close to Pink Floyd. Muse is an incredibly interesting band.
That music video is really something else. It started out as a standard MV then the twist and turn. Geezus. The dude fell in love with what he thought was a sweet girl, he stalked her for days on the streets recording her from afar. he finally got his chance and went on a date and hooked up with her. Feeling incredibly lucky to get the girl who he had a major crush on. During that time he rewatched the video he recorded of her. He noticed something off, something odd while reviewing the tapes. She always kept standing on the street corner talking to people in their cars passing by. He finally realized that she was only with him because he was just another client. Heart Broken and shattered like the song, his heart imploded, now knowing that he fell in love with a prostitute. He snaps in a fit of rage destroying the hotel room.
Muse are my favourite band, so I might be little biased, but you can't really appreciate them without seeing them live! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZqCOzgYQsKI.html That's a version of Hysteria live!
Heard this song so many times but I had never seen the music video before, can see the connection to the wall scene.... You need to watch the wall movie!
Since you've returned to Muse, maybe you could check out something by the young Mexican band, The Warning, who cite Muse as one of their prime influences. Perhaps "Choke" or "Evolve" from their third album, "Error".
