FIRST FRAGMENT - GULA (Fretless Bass Playthrough) by Dominic ''Forest'' Lapointe 

The day you have nothing new to learn is the day you should quit. he shifted the goalpost right to the gates of GAWD DAMN!

Such a good comment lol

@@lmlxmetalhead What part should be speeded up ? I don't see anything suspicious

@@lmlxmetalhead nope. That is the original tempo of the song....

@@lmlxmetalhead Ok Jared Dines

Biology is weird as hell. To think this is related to brain hemispheres and all of those things is crazy. I can't help but find weird how you guys play with the instrument facing the "regular" side hahaha

Southpaws do everything better :)

It's forward for him because it's a left-handed bass

This comment is funny 😂

@@ghastlylife9836 Oh shit it was a joke wasn't it

Besides Forest and Hugo Doyon-Karout (Beyond Creation, Brought By Pain) and maybe the bass player from Intonate, I really can't think of anybody else who does. But then again Forest has played with a lot of the bands from that scene.

America has some, Germany has one, I know another European country does, the bassist for Arhideus, Archspire from Canada also has one. Every country has their own personal unicorn (A 6-string fretless bass player) :D Thank you all!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's less a question of how do they all have 6 string bassists, and more a question of how do they all have Dominic "Forest" Lapointe on the same 6 string bass.

Robert Johnson because he's the best so everyone gets some

Levi Slam I've basically boiled my searches for new music down to looking up all the bands Forest is in and somehow they all just nail it.

V House Best true told this week.

this coment made my day :D

well this is the one he actually plays for ;)

V House I love it (Bass porn)😅🤘

He probably ordered it. Very nice bass still

Cant seem to keep them on the shelves. I can you one. Be here in anout 2 weeks

@@keithmcclellan4350 well, ain't this place a geographical oddity!

@@keithmcclellan4350 Sir, I'll need one too !

Can’t see the headstock but the fret marking style is fairly unique. I think he’s playing an F bass and if so they are exclusively made to order. Unless it was a pawn shop find though being a lefty suggests he probably ordered it.

Big strings, round bass

FULL ON CHUB

yes, this bass is easy to masturbate..

I came

I feel ya brother

as a canadian, these are indeed 3 of my favorite things

@Edita Ševčíková well that's just a given

I'm not that much into hockey, but you already convince me with the other two

don't forget tyranny :)

His song writing is just incredible.

@FantasticBeastsFTW Vincent Savary wrote the original bass lines for the album however. Forest re-recorded this song in his own way.

I know he didn't write the bass lines for this song. I was referring to his writing in Beyond Creation.

I think his bass lines on BC's second album are a bit annoying. I really like his work better on the first album and on Augury's Concealed. He's no doubt very good and influential to this new generation of death metal, of couse.

I like them. His solo on the title track is just amazing.

To play, up to the second minute, i think it would take a month maybe. Like i said, to play, not actually master. Now, i shall look for a 6 string fretless

1000 for me, lol.

been practicing for two weeks, can almost play the first two minutes, i think itll take antoher week or two to get thte first two minutes down fully

Anything is possible. You just need to 1. have great technique and 2. start learning this at a slower tempo and gradually pick up the pace as you get more comfortable and clean.

Magicians use illusion to make it appear that they are doing something, on the other hand this guy is raw talent

@@BossDrSample, he’s worked insanely hard. You don’t play at this level without serious work.

Fun fact, I meet First fragment because I was watching another Forest's playthrough for another band, then RU-vid did it's thing.

It is, hell, go listen to their new album, many of epics- i mean songs.... have 5+ minute instrumentals of.... Classical, with some insane drumming.... Neo classical, go figure.

@@zakaryedwards5978 yeah first fragment is basically classical music on like... a shitload of amphetamines or something

He's absolutely not underrated.

How so? He's generally regarded as one of, if not the best death metal bassist. You can't expect the "general populace" to praise him if he only plays a genre of music that the vast majority of people simply hate.

moonra they scared by monstrosity and chaotic musical stuff....tell that to muy neighboo

best? i think otis redding was :p

Teoman kanka yavaş baya biliniyo bu reiz

Cobweb Recordings [Retrowave ] it's kinda sad. I just don't see how it could ever be better than this. And people just don't like it like they like the less amazing stuff.

luke towner it think the worse is that 80% of the world will pass on this cause its not pop or other recycled radio friendly BS.... and they're all supossed to be about the bass.... :'(

Not everyone prefers this super technical and melodic stuff. You aren’t better than anyone else because you listen to this.

Today you have modern tech/progressive death metal giants like First Fragment, Beyond Creation, Archspire, Obscura. Then you have the djent/prog/fusion bands like Animals as Leaders, TesseracT, Intervals... I much prefer the classical tech death sound for the atmosphere it creates

Classical music has evolved to this

Agreed, it doesn't have that heavy dark metallic edge of a group like Necrophagist, this has more in common with yngwie malmsteen than Necrophagist, harmonically

When the new album Gloire Éternelle is clearly Flamenco inspired …

It's like they invented the term "neo-classical" for nothing...

Searched for a piano cover cus i wondered the same and it definitely does hahah

Dude i have goosebumps while listening to this... so fucking good

he or Erlend, really hard to choose

Erlend is my favorite.

what about joel schwallier

Martyr of Grenth Him, jaron evil and scott plummer are my biggest inspirations as a bassist and a musician. To me theyre all equal as the best.

Sean Malone...

Brian Cicio Or 21.

18 here in Québec where he's from :D

Pretty sure I saw A-minor in there

14 where I'm from.

unfunny

Like if he dipped his left thumb in ink I'm sure by the end of this song you would see a perfectly straight line up and down the neck. So in control.

Sahil Londhe t

Frets = smol pp

How many times am I gonna have to say this. Davie504 ruined bass playing on RU-vid. I can't scroll through one bass video without seeing something related to him in the comments. It's fucking annoying. Please stop.

@@braxtonfps3580 it really isn't that big of a deal

@@Arjithki yes it is. Davie and his fans are the most annoying fucks on the internet

@@braxtonfps3580 true

A technical exercise. Maybe speaks a lot about modern takes on music.... It's about technicality, not about creativity and atmosphere/feel.

@@cd0u50c9 I agree with you in most cases. Tech/Prog music is sometimes too... Cold. Lots of virtuosity but without a purpose or cohesion. First Fragment is different in my opinion. They are virtuous without sacrificing melodic, harmonic and structural quality. My favorite metal band right now.

THIS has feeling and soul, the difficulty is part of the work he's presenting us. If you were a painter, you could be Van Gough, but if you try and sell me a finger painting while claiming it means something, i'm going to pick my nose and sell you one back, and ask you what it means to you. Life imitates art? Well so do children, and if my kid can do it unprompted, then I'm less impressed. They didn't put our playdough abominations in museums for us to go see on field trips, we went and looked at statues carved meaningfully, and with skill, that skill can be expressed in lots of ways, Mozart being deaf and still being, well, fucking Mozart, makes it even cooler right? Like yeah it sounds cool but imagine, imagining what all of that sounded like but never hearing what it sounded like... Anyone can apply ink to a canvas, but some create art, so detailed and skillfully that it cannot be easily replicated EVEN WITH EXTENSIVE PRACTICE. He's painting them a picture with a paintball gun from 500 yards and he gets complaints he seems too focused on his aim? I wish he did solo playthroughs, just to hear the composition, I'm certainly not good enough to learn the parts and play them alone, but to say it's just an exercise is to reduce this to a scale run, and it's not in the least.

@@cd0u50c9 you’re a moron if you don’t think this is creative or lacks atmosphere

Dylan Leason haha I am a bass player and I've never noticed his pinky before lmao

That's how you know he's Classy AF.

FFS now I can't stop staring at it

The weird thing is, when I took lessons from Forest, he used his pinky constantly, and that's one part of his technique that I left aside because it seemed awkward to me - he would do fast fingering with index-major-index-pinky-repeat. He stopped using this technique for some reason over the years.

He taught me that pinky technique too. I practiced it for a few months and realized I could never push it as far as I would like to. So I stick to what suits me. It was amazing to see him do it though!

Ikr

Don't know how sarcastic you are, but Glenn Fricker never pokes fun at all bassists, just the ones who are already broken in by guitarists who just want someone to further boost their ego.

^ I found the bass player

@@putridabomination more of a guitarist nowadays, but I played bass for 8 years both fretted and fretless. Some bassists stopped trying to do their best because their entire environment (band) want them to not be noticed. After constant nagging from my previous bands lead guitarist I switched from fretless to fretted and played far less inspired things, and suddenly he was happy with the way the rehearsal sounded. Namely, his guitar parts were heard better.

That guy is irritating af.