@DelDuio Not only finger style (he never used a pick) but he had a tendon injury on his pinky which made it hard to use his ring finger. Everything you hear him play is just with his index and middle finger. Two. Fingers.
@@SymbiSkuggisame,i can't play bass with pinky fingers,because i am getting bone dislocation on my pinky fingers, i can only play Index finger, middle finger and ring finger.
The specific reason is because at the time cliff listened to the guitat tracks from monitors in the studio room, not headphones. He did apparently because it allowed him to headbang, meaning you can just slightly hear the guitars in the track
It's the same 'kick, snare, kick, snare' pattern that 99% of thrash metal songs have. Similar to a Polka Beat but this is called a 'skank' beat - cymbal hits on both the down and upbeats unlike Polka. Comes from Hardcore originally.....
i feel like it’s more of a fast groove beat that has a snare on the on beat like ‘snare kick kick snare kick snare kick kick snare kick snare” which matches the rhythm guitar perfectly
@@daltonmerrill9070the snare in most of this song is actually on the upbeat, but the speed and the way it's accented make it seem like it's on the downbeat
@@SunnyTheRic It is definitely simplified, but James is a machine of speed, also, bass strings are thicker than guitar strings so it's harder to be fast on bass than guitar. It is simplified, but it is still very very impressive and doesn't make Cliff any less of a genius.
A lot of people in the comments complaining that cliff isn't playing 16th notes with the guitar. It's not that he can't play it that way, it's that it sounds better to play it the way he did. What he's doing is locking in with the rhythm of the bass drums while following the chord progression of the guitars at the same time. Its not a simplified version of the guitar riff, its called a bassline. The bassists job is to glue the rhythm guitar and drums together, not double the rhythm guitar. A lot of non musicians don't understand this.
@@lukelee7967 100%. I think for him it was always about 'making it'. Once he and Metallica were established it was almost like, "why the fuck do I care about these drum things?" lol
@@nintendad1166 After the touring of 90's ( BA was 3 years straight with 3h shows each night for example), lets see if you can play that everytime with knee problems ligaments and both shoulders completly fucked up
En el Guitar Hero se escucha el bajo mucho mas potente si tocas ese instrumento incluso en las cansiones del album de ...And Justice For All el bajo de Jason esta muy potenciado :>
@@elgrillocantor87 Sometimes if the bass i doubling at that speed it can sound bad cause you get too many bass frequencies, the way Ciff played here accents only half the notes giving them more weight making it sound better.
in the alternate universe: they were really fired lars after puppets tour.james,kirk,cliff made a new band with paul bostaph faster than slayer,,master of puppets became a legend album which band no longer exist.
Lars groove is a strange mix between forward feeling and backwards feeling... in damage inc..it change from forward feeling to bacward feeling a few rounds after the guitar solo... really hard to copy exactly :)
You're a fool. Remastering is not remixing. You're confusing the two. The bass was always inaudible on all these 80s metal records, Metallica being no exception.
If anyone asks why Cliff is so fucking good and was the best bassist on this goddamn planet, just show them this clip and his isolated bass on Orion. and dont forget about lars's drumming skills he is insane idfk why people hate on him but they can go fuck themselves
With all the technical stuff he plays and the crazy melodic fills, why was he so low in the final mix? You can't hear most of what he's doing on this album.
@@honigdachs. i know! I started playing bass in the 90's and even with the best headphones turned all the way up, the best car stereo, the best home stereo turned all the way up, you still could barely hear the bass on the album. It was extremely frustrating trying to learn your favorite songs when you had only a basic idea of what the bass was actually playing. I never knew Cliff was doing so much until people could start posting the bass tracks on the internet
@@jonathanryan2915 I think it's still a problem with a lot of heavier styles honestly. I started hanging out in this club a lot lately where they play a lot of 60s and 70s rock'n'roll. The bass is just monumental on all that stuff. So much of what we learned to identify as hard rock and heavy metal gets its thunderous heaviness from the bass guitar. That kind of totally went away in the 80s. Maybe it's the multi-tracked guitar gain fetishism that happened with the first true "super hotrodded" amps and the advent of the really big recording consoles with their many channels etc. ... but people kind of forgot how important the bass is for hard rock.
Eu tive em Brasília com minha esposa em 2016 na Umadeb, Jesus fez um milagre na nossa vida e minha esposa não podia ter filhos naquele ano ela engravidou hoje temos dois filhos um casal. Somos gaúcho .
