can someon tell me any particular scale that mettalicas bassists would use in their solos? or any other tips on their soloeing?

or any other tips on their soloeing?

yeah, don't do it unless you've already learned to play all the 'mettalica' songs first of all... you'll benefit more as a bass player from learning to play 'Blackened', 'Battery' and 'Damage Inc' correctly than learning a bass solo

+1 for battery!

Yeah, Battery is a damn fast one to play, it'll build your chops, try Disposable Heroes too.

Mind if I throw in Orion? That song has a very nice bassline and you get to play with a bit of a solo in the middle.

let me see... I called Cliff Burton and he told me:

E phrygian, E Dorian, E Aeolian, E Locrian, E mixolydian, E Lydian, E Ionian, E Pentatatonic, E harmonic minor, E harmonic major, E melodic minor, and Bb diminished.

Yep that's all of them.

Hope that helped. :)

Brushing up on arpeggio's might be useful too.

And there were 3 other bassists in Metallica to ask thanks!!!

The guy before Cliff, and the 2 after :hiding:

I only called the important one:hiding:

I only called the important one:hiding:


Thats harsh :D

Flame me all you want but Metallica lacks bass. :ninja:

No flames from me, each to his own :)

I've only heard Metallica's Kill Em All, Lightning, Puppets, Justice, Black, Load, Reload, St. Anger, Binge and Purge and Garage albums and the only album I ever had an issue about the bass was on Justice...that constant "wooh-wooh-wooh" through any stereo I tried playing it on just wrecked what I feel was otherwise a fantastic album. The same songs sound great on Binge and Purge IMO.

And I only saw them live once...April 7th of '93 at the Perth Entertainment Centre. Kyuss opened. Can you tell I *was* a fan? :)

Since watching Some Kind of Monster I stopped liking them, but I guess if more bands exposed themselves in that manner I'd feel the same about them too, kudos to them for doing it I suppose.

I like the bass on songs like Horseman, Hit The Lights, Bell Tolls, Ktulu, Creeping Death, God That Failed, Misery and I could go on and on and on about what I used to like about their music when I was into them. I spent so long listening to and playing their songs I just want a change :bassist:

I don't get why Jason has to do that heavy downstoke thing. It's nice sounding but not for every single goddamn song!

I don't get why Jason has to do that heavy downstoke thing. It's nice sounding but not for every single goddamn song!

probably because he doesn't know anything else. (by the way i'm not bashing him)

to answer the original poster's question, scales depend on chords. if you want to solo over a Dm chord you would chose the Dm scale.
In the case of Metallica, chances are thet the key is either Emajor or E mionor, so you only have two scales to learn.

I don't get why Jason has to do that heavy downstoke thing. It's nice sounding but not for every single goddamn song!

I've heard on some Metallica media somewhere (cant remember where) that when Jason first started playing bass, he didn't have an amp so thumped the strings to hear himself and it's a habit he just never got out of.

Yea, I know that. But I also heard that pple say "Don't judge him cause of what he does in Metallica. He can really play pretty techincal stuff without the heavy downstrokes." (Behind the scenes I mean, I think I read this at a Interview.) So wth ya know...

I hadn't heard that :)