Vocal Pitch - Micro Cuts Breathing - Dead Star Lyrics - Reapers Guitar Intro - Plug In Baby Space Synth - Bliss / Blockades Piano - Do We Need This? Bass Itself - Futurism Bass Tone - Time Is Running Out Drums - Starlight Strings - Supremacy ...perfect
You forgot the bit where Matt must always seem to do this "power scream" that Muse used to do a lot in their early stuff especially with Showbiz and Origin Of Symmetry.
or like he does in Time is running out, or Take a Bow, or ES Part 1: Overture, or in Survival... but not in Drones. Let's not talk about Drones right now
Everything but the vocal was spot on. The lyrics should have a "one word -- pause -- rest of sentence" structure. See Madness ("I -- I can't get these"), Handler ("you -- were my oppressor"), Assassin ("war -- is overdue"), etc.
parasti Psycho (Love-- it will get you nowhere) Dead Inside (Unleash-- a million drones) Animals (Animal-- you're an animal) Starlight (Starlight-- I will be chasing a starlight) Map of the Problematique (Fear-- and panic in the air)
Oh trust me, he is! Believe it or not, there are people out there who are kept up at night debating the ethics surrounding gently telling people that yes, Chris has a synthesizer track mixed in with his bass rig when Muse play Hysteria live... The sound/feel of Hysteria relies IS that sound. It relies heavily on Chris running multiple hefty amps simultaneously, each preceded by a carefully picked/dialled in distortion/fuzz/effect pedal. Add in a clean amp, and DI signal, and that's the meat of it. Then they went one step further, and mirrored every single note Chris played down to the tiniest inflection with a synth (which poor Rich Costey must have spent a whole day EQing to be flawless enough to layer perfectly with the combined bass tracks without turning into a sonic mess). If one ever catches themselves in that dilemma, the answer is.... to let people believe whatever they want to believe.... (at the risk of sounding like that culturally significant dude with cool sunglasses who goes around offering people multicoloured pills). I tend to fall asleep thinking "Eh, I think Chris' best Hysteria tone live was Glastonbury 2004, and that's why I use a Wooley Mammoth/Mastotron pedal as 70% of the sound, dialled in like I'm rushing around like a madman at a music festival. Maaaaan I can't wait to pick my bass up tomorrow". Sleep may or may not occur. Welcome to the brain of someone with ADHD :D
Not gonna lie, as a musician, Muse fan and mix engineer, this is fucking killer! This could actually be a lost demo from basically any of their albums after Showbiz! I fact, fuck it, I can play all the instruments needed..... I might actually cover this, turn it into a full song just so see how far we can go with the quirks of Bellamy, Wolstenholme and Howard!
Ahhh, go on then, it'll be a proper laugh! Will take a while though. It annoys me when people do parodies that actual fans think are a bit shit... You can't parody Rammstein just by singing in German and having vague rock guitars, that's funny to a lot of people, but not to fans. Same goes here, I want an actual hardcore Muse fan to laugh, fuck everyone else who likes a single song off each album!
Any chance of getting the MIDI files for the bass and synth arpeggio? Don't worry if it's too much hassle, I've transcribed plenty of songs by ear after getting cheesed off by totally wrong guitar tab, but it would save me a few hours getting the synth arp right!
Yeah, I think they're different in that they don't (or didn't, I think they have in some of their newer stuff) edit out breath noises, which most other music does
I am a casual Muse fan, but love how polite and self aware the real fans are here. BTW just saw them live for the first time and it was one of my favorite concerts.
Flippin' brilliant. I was dying laughing at first, but this is seriously good stuff. :) One more element to add to make this more Muse-like is to repeat the verses and add a different guitar riff and a different synth arpeggio each time around.
I did this and played it at Wembly, however, they also required 10 other songs which I hadn't thought of. Luckily, I have rather an extensive George Formby repertoire and I'd bought my ukelele with me in case the space synths didn't work. As you can probably guess, my renditions of "When I'm cleaning windows", "Standing by the lampost" and "Ohh where's me washboard" went down a storm with the kids.
Sorry, I had to come back... I am waking up every night, thinking of this and giggling like crazy... I have never realized mocking the band you love can have such an impact, thank youuuuu!!!
The synth isn't even close to the one in Bliss. The only thing they have in common is that they both use arpeggios, which is the thing they're making fun of Muse for. If that's the synth from Bliss, then Muse steal from themselves constantly because they use fast synth arpeggios everywhere.
What melodic concept is that? Anyway it's also almost the same tempo as the synth arpeggios in Knights of Cydonia as well. And it doesn't really matter because he could have used a synth arpeggio at pretty much any tempo because you can find them in almost every Muse song.
Their music is Muse's music no matter what, styles change, people get bored and try new stuff, you don't have to like it, but don't belittle an artist for evolving.
I feel like Muse also adds some small details from here and there and uses weird guitar effects all over their songs and they toy with the whammy a lot too,anyway great video
9. OCTAVES ON GUITAR! 10. Ensure first verse is twice as long as the second 11. Whammy solo 12. Chorus with heavy vocal effects before going into the main hook
I was a fan from the first album and I'm still a huge fan. Honestly as long as they still sound good, I like it. Artists can't just do the same old stuff over and over, they gotta evolve.
