Write BETTER Metal Basslines! 

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Heyooooo! Sorry I could not help myself.

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Not funny. *unsubscribed*

Very happy to hear that my dude, glad to help

2 years later how are you playing?

So ... Yeah, bro... Been practicing And stuff? We need to hear it!

If your guitarist doesn't understand what you're doing there and starts questioning his tuning and doesn't know why things now sound different, he deserves any musical punishment from you as a bass player. I'd say screw everything and play the tritone/augmented 4th/diminished 5th to their root. All the power to you, a guitar player

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They'll probably just think you're a shitty bassist

I love your attitude 👌🏼

love it!

Lead bass have your own technical melodies throughout the song

Maybe buy a used bass because apparently they all "cut through the mix great"

I play the bass too

Looking to get a bass. Any recommendations

@@revel9243 what's your skill level and price range?

@@paganjay1085 Just starting out actually. I can play guitar decently nothing super special

@@revel9243 ok,so unless you can and/or want to, don't spend a shit ton of money starting out. Get something good,new or used,sit with it before you buy it. Won't be any fun to learn on if it doesn't feel good in your hands. Try a Squire Jazz. $300 or less maybe for the Affinity lines. They feel pretty good,sound cool and they're upgradable. This ain't gospel, that's the route I took and it worked for me. That's one of many routes. The rest is on you. Good luck brother!

@@paganjay1085 Thanks a lot! Yeah I'll definitely look into that!

Amen to that, the more leads and harmonies you add the less the bass can do imo

I really agree. Its hard to have a lot of that freedom in metal, especially coming from a background of jazz and blues. In those, the bass is driving force, and a bassist locked in with a drummer can make some truly tight rhythms. Honestly a lot of bass in metal is kind of treated as a pad would be in electronic music. Its just kind of there to fill out the low end.

Bassists sure do have freedom and flexibility they just dont put their foot forward enough because they're taught it "holds the glue" bullshit in some parts thats true.

@@619chrismc listen to Beyond Creation there whole band is centered around the bass lines.

@@steve00alt70 They probably specifically composed those songs to be around the bass though. That's kind of my point. If everyone puts their foot forward in song writing, then what does the listener actually focus on? The average listener can only really actively pay attention to two, to four things at once. Typically That's the snare, vocals, kick, and one more thing. (insert foot forward part here.)

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Primus as well.

And that was really only in their debut album. In all their albums the bass doesn't sound nearly as awesome. It's almost like the other band members got pissed that he sounded better than him and told him to tone it down .

Sounds Like a sansamp Bass Driver or a darkglass

Well, most of them are sloppy and have a weak attack. if you are not taking about Orion or call of Cthulhu.

most of them is the same as guitar part. still a boring player

Matija Ravnik Cliff pretty much would just mimic the guitars. Listen to James Jamerson, Carol Kaye, and Paul McCartney -- players who knew how to lock in with a drummer and make a potent musical statement while propelling the song forward.

Don't listen to just his the studio music. Listen to live versions as well. There are also very noticeable occurrences in studio material, like For whom the bell rolls, Call of Ktulu, and Orion where he's not following the guitarists most of the way through the song, even having solos or adding to the song in ways that aren't traditionally a bass position.

80s Metallica, megadeth and Pantera have very heavily influenced my bass playing 🤘😈🤘

I know the feeling. The key is to implement it one small step at a time and on a consistent basis.

Never stop practicing.

I understand what you mean completely, given that your comment is two years old this is probably pointless now, but make sure you have good tone, then just keep practicing bro

@@jeremiahschoonover2774 nope. It's just as accurate as when I first wrote it. 😑

@@ThatBeTheQuestion don't stop playing

I abuse pentatonic scales. Just dance around with scales, you don't have to do basic harmonizations or stick to root notes and what the guitar plays. I hope this helps

@@Tangalang22 ill work on it

Right it won’t tell you much about the quality but it will cement which note is the root, which defines the chord vertically among all the instruments present so you can hear what chord is implied, and that will tell you the chord quality

The fifth in the bass adds tension without changing the quality of the chord. Roots reggae bass, for example, *is* the element of tension in that genre, and therefore lives on the fifth.

yeah, i do that too. people won't probably hear it but at least i'm not gonna die of root note boredom.

@@NotVerySkilledBass lol

Guitar Nerd fairly sure there’s circuits under there and it’s not just an aesthetic choice

@@outsides0metimes I have a MusicMan Sting Ray, so I can confirm that pick guard is nothing more than a plastic slab screwed onto the body.

Ian Mann Underneath the clear pickguard that obviously doesn’t have the wiring harness behind it?

Any thing you get inspiration from. Probably repetitive to say but what you listen to should guide you. Maybe try listening to new types of music if you ever feel stuck?

@@mysterybotts That's just it. I start drifting away from metal when I wish to observe the bass in such a way that elevates the instrument. I'm afraid of becoming a convert to jazz-fusion. Heck, some of that stuff makes me wish I was a bassist. Some genres simply treat certain instruments better, or at least give them more opportunity to shine. That reminds me of a joke I heard somewhere on youTube: A guitarist who played for many years decided that he wanted to play bass. His friends thought he wasn't serious, but they discovered to their shock that he was. Therefore, to his friends' urging, he went to see a doctor. Doc: You sure you want to make this transition? Guitarist: Yeah. I guess if it's good enough for Victor Wooten it's good enough for me. Doc: Alright, but you will need to undergo a lobotomy. I could schedule one next week if you are still interested. Sure enough everything was signed and the procedure attended to; except for one problem that was discussed with the guitarist as he woke up: Doc: I am sorry. The younger surgeon arrived late and proceeded mistakenly; therefore the lobotomy was done twice. How are you feeling? Ex-Guitarist: Give me... ... ... THE DRUM STICKS! (Don't forget the cheesy drum roll)

@@brianbergmusic5288 hahaha never heard that one before. But hey maybe you shouldn’t be afraid of becoming a convert? Maybe you don’t want to be as solely “metal” as you think you do? I just say that because I’ve felt the same thing. Almost feels like I’m betraying the genre I first loved. Now I really like jazz, modern classical, and world music just because sometimes they tend have more exotic “flavor”. But you can always mix and match with metal since it’s a very accepting genre, in my opinion. But then again I’m into the proggy stuff so if your not I could see how it detracts from that same feeling a bit. I hope you have fun experimenting anyhow!

@@mysterybotts I actually have no hatred towards any genre of music (except for "anti-music"/"modern music" usually found only in Universities where insanity is applauded or at least given a free pass). As a music consumer my philosophy is a "time for everything under the sun" kinda paradigm. As an amateur musician, I have grown towards metal because of a sense of jolly machismo that no other genre can supply as well. I chase that excitement that I have even found in post-romantic classical era music and filmscore. Jazz is most cerebral, yet abounds with freedom, and is even very entertaining to hear and analyze, but frankly, above my pleb-level abilities. Fusion appeals to me because it seems to have a lot of techy-fun with synths and simpler rock-lines and reminds me of awesome game soundtracks like some of the Gradius series -- fun grooves and themes with creative modulations. There are probably many who wish they had the time to become uber multi-faceted musicians. If I had that background I would complete prog metal albums for days... play more than one instrument competently... end each collection of tunes with an tongue-in-cheek "Anime-end-credits-jazz-fusion-number" as a running gag. However, those pipe dreams have gotta be rooted in reality, and the cards that reality deals is not always friendly to dreamers -- especially someone with the bare minimum to accomplish one specific genre. Budgeting time and resources is wise, wouldn't you agree? Whatever level we find ourselves, the journey is still a blast. I know I wouldn't even have a Soundcloud page if I existed a generation ago. [EDIT] CASE IN POINT: Today, I gave up trying to get a LOW-A to work on my 5 string bass. The LOW A sounds like crap, even with a 175 gauge string!! The Squire Dimension 5 Bass simply doesn't have enough scale length to accommodate that, it even struggled in standard tuning with completely off balance output. So far, the D as the lowest note makes it feel like an instrument again and not merely a clunky tool micromanaged by a guitarist. This actually is a game changer for my humble setup, that is, if I'm dead set on using a real bass for DI stuff. Scale length woes... what a tangled web we weave.

There’s a bassist on YT that has one with 2 of those phat humbuckers. I think he’s a russian dude, plays a lot of great metallica covers. But yeah, can’t go wrong with a musicman stingray.

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Matthew Paul completely agree with that

The problem with that is, at least during live shows, the bass will be completely buried under the kick drum. The only thing you'll "feel" is the drummer slamming on his double pedal. Bass, especially in metal, needs some level of distortion to boost the harmonics of the low end, and preferably a high pass filter, just to be heard or felt.

@@EvilBlakey hard disagree. the kick drum resides around 62Hz (and the beater ~2kHz), a majority of the bass guitar tone spends most of its time between 125-500, with high end articulation to taste. It is pretty easy to stay out of the way of the kick drum. The issue I’ve always had in metal is having downtuned guitars in your territory; taking a wide, shallow notch out 350-500Hz in your overall mix works well, even live (especially live), of getting out of the guitars’ way without losing your own presence - i boost my high mids to compensate, essentially taking back some of the territory ceded by the drop-tuned guitars.

EzMix 2 Metal Guitar Gods 3 Pack, Ola Feared Bass preset. Instant devastation.

@@treyxaviermusic Thanks!

obviously you wouldn't have it this loud, but that crushing growling sound i feel could really work in a mix. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-difaE4nOVa4.html

It's cold in that studio and he needed a bass to match?

No you wont you'll play technical medlodies along with the guitars