Share your technical death metal techniques!

[Erlend]

Originally Posted by Beast

That's what I'm talking about, maybe if Erlend sees this he'll clue us in on what he's doing there

it`s just straight forward double thumping, playing exactly what the guitar does. so it`s hardly considered a bass line, I`m afraid.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by Erlend

it`s just straight forward double thumping, playing exactly what the guitar does. so it`s hardly considered a bass line, I`m afraid.

Really? It sounds like theres a lot more going on than that, just to make sure we're on the same page, I'm talking about the riff that goes until 0:20ish

[Erlend]

that`s the one. blame it on an awesome production and a micked up 30w Roland amp :P seriously.

[Beast]

Originally Posted by Erlend

that`s the one. blame it on an awesome production and a micked up 30w Roland amp :P seriously.

Dayum, well, I guess we're example-less then

[Erlend]

sorry to burst your bubble, but sometimes less is more :P

[Beast]

Originally Posted by Erlend

sorry to burst your bubble, but sometimes less is more :P

Well yeah, but sometimes it is pretty fun/good for the song to add a neat little melody thing in the back ground

[Gawd]

Still that bass part sounds awesome on that song.

[(hed)-less]

Originally Posted by Beast

Well, there's always the chance to pull out some crazy melody, if you demand to be heard in the band it can really work. Take a listen to "Smite" by Blood Red Throne to get a listen of what I'm thinking about, the guitars are just doing 16th burst double patterns and Erlend does some wicked melody kind of thing.

I saw Blood Red Throne live last night in Manchester and i paid close attention to Erlends bass playing - from what I could make out Erlend was doing a double thump mixed with some Les Claypool style chord playing during some parts during the set...from what I could make out (correct me if I'm wrong man!) when the guitars played open triplets, he would slap the open and strum down and then up again on a double stop using the octave.

[Beast]

Nice observations!

[Erlend]

Originally Posted by (hed)-less

I saw Blood Red Throne live last night in Manchester and i paid close attention to Erlends bass playing - from what I could make out Erlend was doing a double thump mixed with some Les Claypool style chord playing during some parts during the set...from what I could make out (correct me if I'm wrong man!) when the guitars played open triplets, he would slap the open and strum down and then up again on a double stop using the octave.

uhm,if you`re reffering to triple thumping, then yeah , i do that on the opening part on Mephitication. can` t really remember if we played that one in manchester,though.

[(hed)-less]

yeh thats what I'm talking about...very impressive technique you got going on there man! Could have sworn you did that during a few tunes through out the set...but obviously you would know better than me :P ...keep up the good work ..ps....any plans to come back to the UK headlining at some point?

[Cult_King(216)]

I ushaly play 2 or 3 finger style..in 12321 order and depending on the song i might slap.

[drnkfstdiedrunk]

listen to my band

www.myspace.com/processforenigma

i use the 3212 parttern

[justincest]

This is an exercise I made that ended up becoming a bass intro for one of my bands songs.

It's played at 180 bpm

G -----------------------------------------
D ------------------------------------------
A -----------------------------------------
E -4--------8-7-5----------1-------------
A ---8-7-5--------8--0-1-4---4-3-1-0---

(note the dropped tuning) You could technically play this in drop d, just wouldn't sound as heavy.