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The lowest one your bass can accomodate, then take that down an octave. The ideal note is A-2, A-3 if you play bass, instead of guitar.
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What's the best notes to use for metal?
- Thread starter madmatt
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No dotted notes. Nothing syncopated. Eighths are good, sixteenths better...we only hire bass players who can blast 32nd notes tho.
NEVER more than one note selection per bar (example- one may blast E1 in rapid fire 32nd notes but may not play a BASSLINE using something musical A.K.A I III V VII as a chordal pattern over the I chord).
This is my experience playing with METAL guitarists intimidated by bass MUSICIANS, insisting on fast non musical non groove oriented bass that supports their musical masturbatory noodling.
Um... what was the question again?
NEVER more than one note selection per bar (example- one may blast E1 in rapid fire 32nd notes but may not play a BASSLINE using something musical A.K.A I III V VII as a chordal pattern over the I chord).
This is my experience playing with METAL guitarists intimidated by bass MUSICIANS, insisting on fast non musical non groove oriented bass that supports their musical masturbatory noodling.
Um... what was the question again?
Thank you all for teaching me the error of my ways. I now realize that playing in metal bands makes me a non-musician tool,lacking both technical ability and an understanding of even the most basic theory. I have decided to give up playing the bass,as I see now that I have no chance of ever obtaining the other-worldly skill level of the average non-metal musician. I was blind,but now I see.
Everyone know that all the super talented bassists play country music. As a metal bassist, I refuse to be put on a lower skill level than country bassists..... as a genre, not individually.
Best X for metal threads can be funny sometimes. This isn't one of those times.
Agreed... I feel like I am the only bassist on this forum right now who takes playing bass in a metal band seriously, and that half the people posting here are just making fun of metal.
Not that I am offended or anything, I just find to be a discouraging fact...
Yep,joined TB about a month ago and the metal-bashing gets old pretty fast. "Uniting the low end since 1998"-yeah,right...
Man we as a culture are doomed if sarcasm and dark comedy can't be seen for what it is. Comedy. I feel like I should add this as my sig, the glory of Internet forums is you have the freedom to not click on or read a thread.
Nevermind. I forgot....
This truly no different than a bassist, drummer, guitard joke threads. Lighten up. Or does metal take itself so seriously it can't?
Nevermind. I forgot....
This truly no different than a bassist, drummer, guitard joke threads. Lighten up. Or does metal take itself so seriously it can't?
Tune down to low F#, then play only in your lower register while using an octave pedal to double everything down an octave. That's brootal.
Sad part is that I too am a serious metal bassist. Metal players aren't just angry people who picked up an instrument now a days. you look at people like Dan Briggs and Jeroen Thesseling (spelling?), who are clasically trained and everything, and you can see that metal is evolving. I play a lot of jazz and alternative stuff in addition to metal to broaden my musical horizons and it seems like a lot of metal musicians now are doing the same thing. My 2 cents.
Sad part is that I too am a serious metal bassist. Metal players aren't just angry people who picked up an instrument now a days. you look at people like Dan Briggs and Jeroen Thesseling (spelling?), who are clasically trained and everything, and you can see that metal is evolving. I play a lot of jazz and alternative stuff in addition to metal to broaden my musical horizons and it seems like a lot of metal musicians now are doing the same thing. My 2 cents.
Man we as a culture are doomed if sarcasm and dark comedy can't be seen for what it is. Comedy. I feel like I should add this as my sig, the glory of Internet forums is you have the freedom to not click on or read a thread.
Nevermind. I forgot....
This truly no different than a bassist, drummer, guitard joke threads. Lighten up. Or does metal take itself so seriously it can't?
Try listening to bands like Inferno,Aura Noir(find the track "Black Metal Jaw"),S.O.D/M.O.D,Cannibal Corpse etc,and i think you will find that many metal bands are full of dark(and not so dark) comedy,sarcasm and irony.(And they are the bands i usually enjoy the most) IME,people who take metal too seriously are usually people who dont listen to it and therefore the internal humor escapes them. Theres just something about constantly being treated like a second-rate player that can sometimes rub me the wrong way. And yes,I realize metal is not the only target chosen by haters-they seem to pop up in just about every thread here on TB,no matter what the subject is. Not exactly the most charming quality of the site...
Yep, Jeroen is certainly versatile, he actually started playing bass for a flamenco band. IMO he shatters the metal bassist stereotype of having no musical knowledge, he has studied microtonality for so long he has each octave divided into 72, that's 4 microtones in each semitone, I think that is pretty impressive.
Metallica has copyrighted the F-E and E-F chord progressions. If you use them without a written consent or contract, Mr. Ulrich will sue you.
doesn't matter what tuning you're in, doesn't matter how many strings are on your bass, just be playing the 6th fret on exactly three strings at all times.
