I love this series. Great song that throws up a few unusual challenges. You can tell Scott & Ian are just having so much fun with this, Ian probably more so.😂
Like the format. Would be good to see more. A note though on this. You are right about signal being split. Rather than toggling the dry channel by cranking up the knob, you would have a dry out which you can mute with a tuner/kill switch going to a different amp, but the approach taken here works for single amp owners to an extent. The hammer on/pull off riffs are also all on the E string, with the one at the end using a +2 octave on the “guitar” channel.
I’ve never heard of Royal Blood. I’m now a fan! Immediately looked them up and saw the live performance at last years Glastonbury. Holy crap he is a beast playing his Gretch. Thanks. More of this please.
I used to have a Gretsch in the same color as his, and it was AMAZING I sold it because I'm moving and decided to only keep a Spector and a P-bass. The Gretsch played just as well as my Spector but only cost $200. Now, as for his pedalboard- that's something I can't begin to afford lol
The Glastonbury 2023 set of Royal Blood would absolutely be the one I'd recommend to a newcomer to the band, one of their best performances I've seen. Their latest album has certainly started to take a bit of a different step in direction, but it's still very very good (the first 2 albums for me are fantastic)
@@jasondorsey7110 @thierry18 I have more than just a bass amp, so I use the effect out on my POG as a line splitter to get this sound. The octave up is on for the whole song, so I keep the pog on, sending the effect signal to a guitar amp with drive - then the bass signal can be muted with my tuner/the switch on my preamp pedal. Great if you have two amps and just want to play around with the Royal Blood sound, but not necessarily super flexible for anything else. 😅
Helix got some crazy good poly pitch shifts in last firmware updates. My bassist through the use of new "poly capo" (or something like that) basically can make a whole power chord or even the major/minor chord and it will sound good, and artifacts are minimal PS. I don't know HX Stomp that well but I think it might be limited for recreating a true Royal Blood rig (channel split to octaver+guitar amp and bass amp).
I’ve never heard of Royal Blood. I’m now a fan! Immediately looked them up and saw the live performance at last years Glastonbury. Holy crap he is a beast playing his Gretch. Thanks. More of this please.
Man that timing on even that first part is insane, I have so much trouble getting that down, I can only do it slowly counting to 8 downstrokes and then up-down-up, then count to 7 and ending with an up. Mad props to these pro's just nailing it with relative ease.
A coworker turned me on to Royal Blood about 6 years ago which prompted me to get any A/B/Y switch (EHX SwitchBlade) and a Micro POG. The A goes to my bass pedalboard and amp, and the B goes to my guitar pedalboard and amp. This rig opens up so many sonic possibilities!
Such a cool riff! From what ive heard/seen, mike splits his signal and sends it to two guitar amps and one bass amp (all fenders) the octaves coming in and out is him switching amps on and off. Also his basses have guitar strings for their D and G strings for extra craziness!
Since you guys are diving into Bass focused bands with no guitar maybe you should do one of these for Death From Above 1979's. I'd love to see either of you try to wrap your heads around anything off of You're A Woman, I'm A Machine. Jessie Keeler is my inspiration for playing bass! Bought an Armstrong and everything because of him.
Me and my band played this song at a high school pep rally because there was no guitarist, learning this on bass made me feel so cool. Even tho it’s pretty simple
This was cool! Love this song. I think it would be cool to see one of you guys try a queens of the stone age track like ‘negative space’ or ‘I appear missing’.
They use a split rig; a guitar amp for the octave up and a bass rig for the lows. What makes this song ironic iconic for Scott is how often he’s dogged short scale basses in the past and Royal Blood is all short scale bass.
Thanks guys that was great fun ! (again). Towards the end of the track l thought lan had pulled a Dr. Venkman stunt & electrified Scott's chair, pressing the on/off switch whilst cackling in devious glee ! - Now that's an idea for next time, play a wrong note & - ZAP ! - l jest of course .
Awesome video, that was so fun to watch and I've always been bewildered on how they get that iconic guitar tone from a BASS in Royal Blood!! Great job guys!!! Since Ian is up next I think he should try to learn just about any TOOL song. That would be very amusing to see how quick he (or Scott) could learn it on the fly, plus you guys have that awesome Wal bass to finally put to some use too ;-)
I've been in a few shitty bands in the past, and it amazes me how many times they just expected me a learn a song i never heard of on the spot. I would always ask if i could learn it for next session and the weird looks they would give me. Like Jesus Christ, can i at least learn the song structure? No, just play along, You'll get it. Then the looks of disappointment when the bass sounded nothing close. So seeing this makes realize how fucking unrealistic muscians can be at times.
Love this channel and this series of videos. How about the bass line to Stone Temple Pilots' "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" next? Robert DeLeo has some brilliant parts
Hey, I've got one for ya. Its one you know, but you probably don't know how crazy it is. Spiderwebs by No Doubt. Its hard and fun as heck. When Tony brings it home near the end, its so satisfying. Also, the next song "16" is just as fun but there's not much to it.
That was impressive. This song seems to have a lot of subtle variations. Those would have tripped me up way more than any of the technical aspects. If I can make one minor critique, I thought there was too much low end in your tone. The way to make a bass sound like a guitar is remove a lot of low end and distort the mids and highs. I believe the Royal Blood bassist uses a bi-amp system, but the mix is tilted much more toward the "high frequency" amp. It's different than someone like Chris Wolstenholme, where the low end remains massive.
You should check out Death From Above 1979 (arguably the influencers of Royal blood) and their song "blood on our hands again" for more distorted bass shenanigans
Mike Kerr has such a cool sound, especially since it’s just him like Ian said but I can still remember hearing this song for the first time and being absolutely blown away by his playing. He definitely has one of the coolest bass tones I’ve ever heard in modern rock, such an absolute badass
I recorded some albums with bass only, although I multitracked and used different amp combinations for the "bass" and the "rhythm", as well as octaver for "solo" and "lead" parts. But it was a chore and I can't listen to these recordings nowadays ;)
ohhh yeah, actually for the Ehx Micro Pog you can use the effect out going straight to the guitar amp with distortion on it and the dry out going straight to the normal chain.😎
great tune! I've been trying to learn Honey Key Jamboree from Mirthkon, It's super funky but also challenging for me to learn, more complicated than I'm use to so I have been writing out the notation which has actually helped me pay more attention to what is going on in the parts! I highly suggest checking it out! or even more challenging, A Coven of Coyotes also from Mirthkon. Side note, curious how you choose songs for this segment (great segment btw, please continue it!), are you guys looking for popular/well known songs? or any song that appeals to you and feels like a challenge?
Must, MUST mUsT try to learn Kajagoogoo - Too Shy 80s pop, Nic Beggs LEGEND & seems a genuine nice guy. Please try to learn it (& it will be hilarious)!
Fun. A.F! And must admit, satisfactory watching a Master take on a song I learned some three years ago, if I do say so myself, ahem! Around 3:00: oh but we DO play it. No strange reason, it's just insanely good (and probably the easiest song of theirs). I was introduced to this song by a drummer, and honestly this was the reason we convinced our singer to join in our covers band. All this album is incredibly good! When I first heard it, I thought it was actually a Jack White song or something like that, it was the aforementioned drummer that told me that is 'just' a singing bassist and drums. Boom, mind blown. So, it has been in my setlist all this time, now with a third band; yes, I struggle still with the tone as all I have for effects is a Zoom B1, but every gig I play it is... freaking... bliss. To me, Mike Kerr represents the youth and still unknown versatility of the bass as an instrument, in search of more melodic bass lines; Mike Mills from R. E. M. was my first approach to that "goal". I always took as dogma that a bass is not to be played like a guitar, and okay, maybe not because the groove might suffer and we can't have that, but I think that making bass more melodic, without it stopping being "THE bass", might be the next step in the evolution of the instrument. Or, I'm delirious and know nothing 'cause I'm a bad bassist, I haven't decided yet. GREAT video!!!
Id be great if you guys find out how Mike actually plays it since he does no up picking and adding the fact that he uses two signals, a clean bass one and the other one with the pog, distorition etc. Would be great if you guys watch a video of him playing it live or something!
Well done, guys! For a challenge, i would like to see Ian learn "Light years" by Janek Gwizdala. Just because it might be fun to see Ian struggling with Jazz fusion while Scott is watching from the side. And, I heard Janek and Ian have a collab album in the work. Cheers.
Awesome video! One of you need to learn the bass solo/intro to Ghosts by Big Wreck from the Live at the Suhr Factory Party 2015 video. It's crazy hard.
Tom Fowler passed away this week. A towering legend in the bass community. You should do a dedication to Tom leading into a retrospect of the genius stable of Zappa’s bass legends - Tom, Patrick O’Hearn, Scott Thunes, Art Barrow, Max Bennett, Dave Parlatto. R.I.P. Tom.
