Recent content by Skylear

For me listening to John Myung isolated tracks from Octovarium really helped change my life. Since I began playing bass in 2016 (Was 14 at the time, 17 going on 18 now) I had modelled all my playing off of Ride the Lightning Cliff Burton, being raised in a Metallica household, and I hadn't...

Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes from a memory - Dream Theatre

Hey all, I've recently started working on Death metal riffs in drop C# to Drop B and it has been taking a toll on my current strings (Don't ask what gauge they are because I don't remember) but I was wondering what string gauge other people here use

Hey all, I'm currently doing my Yr 12 Music Extension assignment task on Cliff Burton's use of distortion and Wah and then comparing how Jason fails to recreate this on the live recordings present on the Deluxe MOP album (Live at the country club was recorded post Cliff's death) I was hoping...

So I'm a bit late to this but I only just saw it and I'm only now starting to be hella active on TB Anyway my names Riley and I'm local to Townsville, Australia. I began my musical taste when I was 6 years old constantly messing around with my Grandmothers Cassio Piano and slowly moving to...

I can definatly say that these reponses were done from older Bassists. The vast majority of people listed players like Duff Mckagan, Geddy Lee, Flea, Steve Harris and Paul Mcartny. I saw very few Les Claypool which was surprising and I'm most supprised by no John Myung at all. And I may have...

3 Yamaha RBX170 (Red Black Sunburst) Sterling Music man Sub Ray4 (Ray4-WH) Custom Jordain (don't bother looking up the name because I cant find it either, p sure its a Knock off) 5 string

I cant say I prefer either, My main two basses I use are either My Custom Jordain 5 string and my Sterling Music Man Ray 4, 4string. I think the only times I switch between the two are when I want to play with a pick. I find that 5 strings are more suited for pick playing and 4 strings are...

I'm generally curious to see which bassists inspired everyone when they were first starting out For me I grew up with Ride the Lightning and Master Of Puppets playing through my Stereo 24/7 and when I first picked up my Mother's Yamaha RBX170 Red and Black Sunburst in September of 2015 I...

Goodbye by Slipknot

So, Im looking to start writing Prog/Groove metal bass lines in the style of bands like Gojira and Slipknot. The one thing that has me stuck is i dont know where to start or how to start really. What ive started with basically is im writing in the Speed of the main riff in Flying whales...

Recently ive been curious into famous people who play the basses that i play and of recent ive been wondering, Does anyone play the Yamaha RBX170?

if your wanting to go into heavier stuff that is still successful, pretty much anything slipknot, except Vermillion 1 and 2, Snuff and psychosocial

pretty much all early metallica stuff (specifically from Kill em'all and some of Ride the lightning such as fade to black and For whom the bells toll), Alot of Muse like Psycho and time is running out, Killing in the name of by Rage against the machine, Schism and forty six & 2 by tool, Ace of...

Yamaha RBX170... Enough said