Pedals; Vintage Big Muff fuzz pedal, 1977 Morley power wah, and a BOSS Audio compressor. (Guitar goes into big muff and have the output come out the comp)
YES. I love how he uses that E power chord to make the "ding-dong" pattern of the tolling bell with the low E, especially because the chord makes it sound fuller and more powerful than if it were just a single note pattern. Plus Cliff just knows how to rest on the G, and then have the perfect lick to go on to the next set of bars. Also the C and A octave lines are peak metal badass. RIP Cliff, you brilliantly creative SOB.
@@kiyu3229 I'm a begginer but it is very unusual to use chords on bass from what i know, and as commented, cliff is a genius with this one because it made it sound like tolling bell, and it fits the song really well.
Cliff was a genius, I'm pretty sure everyone heard or read this before but musically speaking, he really was a genius. Dare to study the way he wrote music!
He was the real heart, soul, and mind of 'tallica. The fact that they rapidly became creatively bankrupt after his passing should tell you enough. People really underestimate how much him being classically trained in music and music theory brought to the table.
ImBsal definitely electric. acoustic basses aren't very loud and if you like music like this you aren't going to get the tone you're looking for in an acoustic
I’ve been a guitarist for 1 and a half years aswell, I just learned this song and some parts of Orion on bass because my brother has a bass guitar and a bass, couldn’t miss on the opportunity so I added new strings and started head banging to cliff bass shredding. Don’t wanna be a bass player tho, just doing it for a bit since my brother will eventually will get mad at me
Had no idea this intro was bass. It goes to show how ahead of his time Cliff burton was. The bass is so underrated. Great video btw. We all miss you Cliff!
Finally someone who's actually doing it right. I did this search and the guitar players who came up first have no idea what they're doing. This bassist can do it like Cliff. Nice. Except it always sounded to me like he slid up into the 6th note higher on the neck where the main riff starts. You could pull that off easy.
It starts on 19 of the G, but it's much harder to have your hands in a comfortable position on a 20 fret. Also cliff would solo a lot across the main solo and he had a lot more flexibility due to having a 24 fret bass.
Wolfoe 3604 cliff played this on a Rickenbacker which have 20 frets but he had a lot of flexibility because they have a neck-thru construction giving it good access to the high frets.
my band decided to learn this song on the fly last night as our primary cover (usually all originals) i dont have the greatest ear in the world but i was only missing one note. on the run down i was catching the A on fret 5 again unstead of the Bb on the 6th. thanks for this. long live the Burton lovers!
I have this down cold on my six string, but the bass is killing me. Bass is sooo much harder than a normal six string. You friigin' nailed it dude. I never knew those chords were in the intro. First time I have ever seen four strings hit together on a bass. Cliff was one badass bassist.
CoverSolutions - your tutorials are awesome! The way you split the tabs and your actual playing is by far the best I've seen on the RUclips. Thanks for helping me get better at playing bass!
Finally somebody who can play it correctly. Most of the tabs of this song are completely wrong (well, I don't really use tabs because they are mostly inaccurate, and I can figure most stuff out by ear without a problem - and I think it's also more fun that way). Oh, and your tone is also pretty close to the original. A very accurate cover, the best I have seen. Great job!
MaggaraMarine How come there seem to be very few bassists (other than for orchestral and jazz music) who prefer reading in the bass clef over reading tablature?
@@cyndie26 most people who learned songs played by ear, which meant they could listen to the notes but they didn't read music. So they documented it in tab, and for genres like metal, blues, folk, etc. that's how people learned. Fretted instruments are the only instruments where that's really possible, or else guitar and bass and so on would a similar amount of people reading in standard notation. I wish it was more common too, but it's like that for a reason.
FlipierFat // Daniyar It just seems easier, especially if you're transcribing by ear, to know what notes to play first and figure out the fingerings later. Plus, I learned the piano before I taught myself the bass, so I knew the bass clef more going in.
@@cyndie26 Put simply, tablature takes half or even a third of the time to learn compared to standard notation. Tablature even contains the signifier notes like staccato notes, sustained notes, time signatures, etc. It just removes the difficult part of reading music. I think it's most prevalent in musicians who don't plan to play any instruments besides guitars
No copyright infringement or anything intended. Lyrics for sing along: Make his fight on the hill in the early day Constant chill deep inside! Shouting gun, on they run, through the endless grey On they fight for the right, yes but who's to say? For a hill, men would kill, why? They do not know Stiffened wounds test their pride! Men of five still alive through the raging glow, Gone insane from the pain that they surely know For Whom the Bell Tolls...Time marches on! For Whom the Bell Tolls! Take a look to the sky just before you die, It's the last time he will! Blackened roar, massive roar, fills the crumbling sky Shattered goals fills his soul with a ruthless cry, Stranger now are his eyes to this mystery, Hear the silence so loud!!! Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see For Whom the Bell Tolls... Time marches on! For Whom the Bell Tolls!!!
I've been covering this song for two decades. You corrected my mistakes. High praise dude! Imma be checking out your videos for the next few weeks I think.
Great job!!! As a bass player that is one of my favorite jams to play..your technique is right on and your a very talented player, Cliff would be happy.
That walking riff/bassline when the guitar comes in is a straight up two step part. Just imagine a bunch of hardcore kids doing that to a band like power trip. Metallica always had some of the coolest riffs
damn I wish I could play bass with my fingers like that. I'm a pick bassist, and while I am able to play this with a pick, there's something more satisfying about playing Cliff's bass parts with your fingers. I still need to work on some of my distortion set-ups to match his sounds off the three albums.
1stFallschirmjagerRgt After a while of practice, you'll get there. I have a friend who couldn't play with his fingers about a month ago but now he can play with all 4 fingers.
Wow. I'd always seen Cliff do the downstroke chord part in concert videos but couldn't tell what he was playing. I just thought he was keeping his fingers busy. That was really cool!
Hey man, first of all: Amazing cover, probably the best I've seen in RUclips. Quick question, did you tune the bass to 453hz to make it match the song?; because your cover sounds spot on which is one of the reasons why all others fell short to me. Keep it up brother.
amigo tocar el bajo es precioso pero preparate para personas que dicen que no se escucha tu no les hagas caso porque el bajo es tan importante o más que la propia guitarra y me alegra que la gente aprecie el bajo mas gente como tu amigo y buena suerte y fuerza a todos los bajistas :))))
Awesome bass line won’t lie though more straightforward then I thought which I love nothing better then a bass line that sounds good and doesn’t take a whole year to get down perfect
Every time my bass teacher tells me you can't become a great bass player with a "floating pinkie finger", I show him one of your videos. Thanks for giving me hope! LOL
Cliff was the Mozart of bass. RIP Cliff. Thanks for the bass in this song...they should have made you louder in the mix, and made the kick drum louder to give you punch...that's the engineer/producer in me, but I speak the truth.
CoverSolutions When I play the beginning, G string on 19th fret, it sounds higher than it should be. I played this song last night and several people commented that it sounded too sharp, how do I dull the sharpness to get your sound? I double check my tuning and am in standard EADG @440 with only distortion, no fuzz.
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@@benpetrovic8044 And last
Love your sound in this
Good song, bass player not bad
Maybe, somehow, some of Death, maybe "Philosopher"?
Cliff is a absolute legend this whole time I thought the intro was guitar 😭
Me too, when I found out that was Cliff's bass I was truly shocked .... Like how !!!
I'm sure glad to know I wasn't the only one. LMAO!
Fr
Ccliff isn't fucking legend for nothing. He is a damn beast on bass .
Amp settings for this song: Treble-Max, Mid-Max, Bass-Halfway. Hope this helps ;)
bro, i was looking for the amp settnigs but only found lessons. thanks a ton
tyvm
Sam Xu LOVE YOU
thank you.
Pedals; Vintage Big Muff fuzz pedal, 1977 Morley power wah, and a BOSS Audio compressor. (Guitar goes into big muff and have the output come out the comp)
When the bass is the lead and the guitar is the rhythm
this is an underrated comment
literally funk
Primus be like
no, that would be call of ktulu, the bass here is pretty
rhythmic
cliff moment
Remember kids, everytime a bolt of lightning strikes down that's Cliff shredding bass in heaven
@Seth Belfort The person that killed Hitler went to heaven!
Djordje Oljaca
So Hitler?
Cliff's playing here yesterday and 2 days ago. So, great!
@@DiscontinuedChannelOne _its irony..._
he really do be riding the lightning
1:32 I can’t be the only one that loves those bass slides
1:40 is sick too.
you're not
@@luft4109 that's my favorite one too
I preffer the chord attacks that come before that much more lol
1:23 to 1:59 is literally one of the best and most innovative bass lines i've ever heard in my life. Hats off to Cliff Burton
YES. I love how he uses that E power chord to make the "ding-dong" pattern of the tolling bell with the low E, especially because the chord makes it sound fuller and more powerful than if it were just a single note pattern. Plus Cliff just knows how to rest on the G, and then have the perfect lick to go on to the next set of bars. Also the C and A octave lines are peak metal badass. RIP Cliff, you brilliantly creative SOB.
DING DONG DING DONG
Its maybe because I never touched a bass in my life but it doesn't sound that impressive
@@kiyu3229 I'm a begginer but it is very unusual to use chords on bass from what i know, and as commented, cliff is a genius with this one because it made it sound like tolling bell, and it fits the song really well.
@@kiyu3229 it's not about it being mechanically impressive, it's about how unorthodox the approach he took with that part was
Cliff is smiling down on you from heaven
🙏
Heaven? I'm joking haha
Alexander Hamilham Hell*
Unknown shit oof someone sure is a demonic metal believer 😣
Unknown shit Why
As a guitarist, i now have a new respect for bass players.
Damm,me too
+Funnylime....yes i too!!
Me too haha
Have you heard Anesthesia Pulling Teeth?
Fadelical Nope
"000 3 000 5 000 3 06 2" is one of the simplest and bestiest riffs I've ever heard
ka chun lau just no
That's wrong
They are power chords
But what's bestiest🤣
Oh potato man
Cliff was a genius, I'm pretty sure everyone heard or read this before but musically speaking, he really was a genius. Dare to study the way he wrote music!
He was the real heart, soul, and mind of 'tallica. The fact that they rapidly became creatively bankrupt after his passing should tell you enough. People really underestimate how much him being classically trained in music and music theory brought to the table.
Probably the most accurate rendition of this song's bass part I've seen on RUclips.
Great work, man.
he's still missing the 19h16 after 19-18-17-16, but its super quick and not really noticable
Michael Bracken check out Andriy Vaselynko
He's playing the album version. The 19h16 was added later by Robert Trujillo.
Swarnav Parida cliff done it live watch day on the green 1985
Swarnav Parida no it wasn't listen to the track closely it way faster than what Rob plays
never knew why the part at 1:23 sounded so sick! love that heavy bass riff!
I was wondering why none of the guitar videos had my favorite part in them.
it was the bass.
Actually, almost the entire song is bass, the guitar is usually the main thing you hear but in this song it's the other way around
“Everyone-”
“Hi Cliff! How are you Doing!”
*bass noise* then shreds a solo before playing intro
Cliff: *distorted bass noises*
*aggressive head banging*
That bass tone is out of this world 👌
i have to buy a bass
+Jeroen Reyns Same.
Get an I banez they are cheap and play good
+Jeroen Reyns Ibanez SR500 Is an awesome starter bass. Great tone for 500-600
i know them, well i already play guitar for 5 years and have two ibanez's and yes they are fricking awesome xd
I did it lately, and I'm happy with it :D
It's awesome how the bass sounds like a bell in 1:21 and other parts.
sus
A blast, yes indeed!
For whom?
@@TrueSpider-Mandoes it toll?
after playing guitar for 1.5 years , I wanna be a bassist now coz of this song
charbel ammar which would be better to buy? acoustic bass or electric?
Lol I just bought myself a bass after a year of guitar playing
ImBsal definitely electric. acoustic basses aren't very loud and if you like music like this you aren't going to get the tone you're looking for in an acoustic
u can play the intro on the guitar too xD
I’ve been a guitarist for 1 and a half years aswell, I just learned this song and some parts of Orion on bass because my brother has a bass guitar and a bass, couldn’t miss on the opportunity so I added new strings and started head banging to cliff bass shredding. Don’t wanna be a bass player tho, just doing it for a bit since my brother will eventually will get mad at me
Had no idea this intro was bass. It goes to show how ahead of his time Cliff burton was. The bass is so underrated. Great video btw. We all miss you Cliff!
Finally someone who's actually doing it right. I did this search and the guitar players who came up first have no idea what they're doing. This bassist can do it like Cliff. Nice. Except it always sounded to me like he slid up into the 6th note higher on the neck where the main riff starts. You could pull that off easy.
Rip 20 fret bass players
mmm where?
i dont see anything past the 18 on the G in the intro
It starts on 19 of the G, but it's much harder to have your hands in a comfortable position on a 20 fret. Also cliff would solo a lot across the main solo and he had a lot more flexibility due to having a 24 fret bass.
*24*
Wolfoe 3604 cliff played this on a Rickenbacker which have 20 frets but he had a lot of flexibility because they have a neck-thru construction giving it good access to the high frets.
Dandoesmusic Wasn't aware he was still using the Ric on lightning, the more you know. But having his aria definitely helped his soloing live.
as a new bass player, my fingers are on fire but i love playing this! thank you so much!!!!
Cliff was one the greatest bassists of all time man
I seriously do believe that he would be thought of as one of the best musicians ever if he had survived
@@kennethcoval4970 I am in agreement
Cliff changed my opinon about bass
From board and usless thing to cool and very important thing
my band decided to learn this song on the fly last night as our primary cover (usually all originals) i dont have the greatest ear in the world but i was only missing one note. on the run down i was catching the A on fret 5 again unstead of the Bb on the 6th. thanks for this. long live the Burton lovers!
RUclips recommendations are getting better every passing day
I have this down cold on my six string, but the bass is killing me. Bass is sooo much harder than a normal six string. You friigin' nailed it dude. I never knew those chords were in the intro. First time I have ever seen four strings hit together on a bass. Cliff was one badass bassist.
Why would anyone dislike this??? It’s plain awesome and teaches at the same time.
That tone sounds so beefy, I love it
Because of you, I want to play the bass. Problem is that I don't own a amp or a bass guitar. :(
Try with the Ibanez Gsr200 and a Fender Rumble 1x10 40 wtts, with that, you have enough to begin.
Thank you!
+Red Panda No problem.
I just got a beat up old one on Craigslist for cheap. Fixed it up and it's been doing well as my first bass for the last 24 hours.
Get a cheap bass and amp and get going. It will be the best decision in your life. Making music is awesome.
I really enjoy seeing you play this that accurately
I know Metallica were big Motorhead fans .. maybe Cliff was inspired by Lemmy's playing? I haven't seen too many bass players use chords.
Cliff admitted he liked the way Lemmy used distortion, RIP the bass legends
I doubt it since Cliff fingers and Lemmy picks.
+Coltallic ay mayng
Sure, cliff said that lemmy and his distorsion at bass was a big influence on his career :P (Sorry for my shit of english)
yup, Cliff said that his distortion was inspired in Lemmy's
ITS AMAZING how the chords sound just like a bell!! Bruh how did I not pick up on that before.
This song becomes even better by this point of view. Thank you so much for bringing the tabs. Cliff was a genius!
CoverSolutions - your tutorials are awesome! The way you split the tabs and your actual playing is by far the best I've seen on the RUclips. Thanks for helping me get better at playing bass!
Orion would be really badass!
The Cliff Burton is strong in this one.
69th like
this bass line is so iconic, the best of all time
Pretty cool all the comments people didn’t know the intro was bass. Really makes you appreciate the instrument and how good Cliff was!
Just an amazing song. These guys were so good at creating new and just badass songs back then! RIP Cliff Burton
Finally somebody who can play it correctly. Most of the tabs of this song are completely wrong (well, I don't really use tabs because they are mostly inaccurate, and I can figure most stuff out by ear without a problem - and I think it's also more fun that way).
Oh, and your tone is also pretty close to the original.
A very accurate cover, the best I have seen. Great job!
MaggaraMarine How come there seem to be very few bassists (other than for orchestral and jazz music) who prefer reading in the bass clef over reading tablature?
@@cyndie26 most people who learned songs played by ear, which meant they could listen to the notes but they didn't read music. So they documented it in tab, and for genres like metal, blues, folk, etc. that's how people learned. Fretted instruments are the only instruments where that's really possible, or else guitar and bass and so on would a similar amount of people reading in standard notation.
I wish it was more common too, but it's like that for a reason.
FlipierFat // Daniyar It just seems easier, especially if you're transcribing by ear, to know what notes to play first and figure out the fingerings later. Plus, I learned the piano before I taught myself the bass, so I knew the bass clef more going in.
@@cyndie26 Put simply, tablature takes half or even a third of the time to learn compared to standard notation. Tablature even contains the signifier notes like staccato notes, sustained notes, time signatures, etc. It just removes the difficult part of reading music. I think it's most prevalent in musicians who don't plan to play any instruments besides guitars
Not to toot my own horn but....
0:37 perfect
I don’t play bass but this song really makes me want to get it. Cliff burton is one of my favorite bassist.
I'm a guitarist because of James and a bassplayer because of cliff 😂😅
Im a dictator because of Hitler
@@earth11116 im a serial killer because of Jeffrey dahmer
Heka Hytönen I’m a pornstar because of Mia Kalifa
Just like me
If Lars Ulrich was the inspiration noone would be a drummer
Fucking Nice!!!! One of the best songs (and bass line) ever written.
RIP Cliff Burton!
No copyright infringement or anything intended.
Lyrics for sing along:
Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside!
Shouting gun, on they run, through the endless grey
On they fight for the right, yes but who's to say?
For a hill, men would kill, why? They do not know
Stiffened wounds test their pride!
Men of five still alive through the raging glow,
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
For Whom the Bell Tolls...Time marches on!
For Whom the Bell Tolls!
Take a look to the sky just before you die,
It's the last time he will!
Blackened roar, massive roar, fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goals fills his soul with a ruthless cry,
Stranger now are his eyes to this mystery,
Hear the silence so loud!!!
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see
For Whom the Bell Tolls... Time marches on!
For Whom the Bell Tolls!!!
ty so much, now my neighbors will hear this all day and night
Holy sht, I'm 26 now and whole my life I've been sure that this intro was performed on electro guitar. Cliff was amazing... perfect job, man!
I've been covering this song for two decades. You corrected my mistakes. High praise dude! Imma be checking out your videos for the next few weeks I think.
Great job!!! As a bass player that is one of my favorite jams to play..your technique is right on and your a very talented player, Cliff would be happy.
Wow, just tried playing this all the way through as a beginning bass player, this is tough, yet fun. What sn amazing track 💪🏼
Can you do anesthesia pulling teeth?
Yes Anesthesia would be amazingggggggg.
saulamon rogers That's what i was thinking :0
saulamon rogers Talk to yourself much?
Triston Charge Always.
saulamon rogers you should have replied to yourself again and said "what is this guy talking about?"
I don't know anything about bass guitar but in my respective opinion, you totally slap. Love it.
at 0:50 how it foreshadows the next guitar riff! Brilliant composition by Cliff
X: bass doesn't sound
Cliff: Who says that the bass is not heard
😂
Metallica - Call of ktulu. please!
por lejos, me devolviste las ganas de tocar...gracias.
That walking riff/bassline when the guitar comes in is a straight up two step part. Just imagine a bunch of hardcore kids doing that to a band like power trip. Metallica always had some of the coolest riffs
cliff. pure genius
Your videos are so helpful and awesome!
damn I wish I could play bass with my fingers like that. I'm a pick bassist, and while I am able to play this with a pick, there's something more satisfying about playing Cliff's bass parts with your fingers. I still need to work on some of my distortion set-ups to match his sounds off the three albums.
Just keep playing with fingers, they become like leather after a while :p
axearmorgames know that feeling.
1stFallschirmjagerRgt After a while of practice, you'll get there. I have a friend who couldn't play with his fingers about a month ago but now he can play with all 4 fingers.
Cliffs parts sound better with fingers because he was a 100% finger bassist, I don't know if I ever saw a pick in his hands.
Use a tubescreamer!! Thats how he got his great signature sound
1:49 eargasm
Wow. I'd always seen Cliff do the downstroke chord part in concert videos but couldn't tell what he was playing. I just thought he was keeping his fingers busy. That was really cool!
Hey man, first of all: Amazing cover, probably the best I've seen in RUclips.
Quick question, did you tune the bass to 453hz to make it match the song?; because your cover sounds spot on which is one of the reasons why all others fell short to me.
Keep it up brother.
Lo que me gusta de esta canción es precisamente la presencia del bajo son dudas Cliff nos regaló algo hermoso 😢❤ por algo me gustaría ser bajista
amigo tocar el bajo es precioso pero preparate para personas que dicen que no se escucha tu no les hagas caso porque el bajo es tan importante o más que la propia guitarra y me alegra que la gente aprecie el bajo mas gente como tu amigo y buena suerte y fuerza a todos los bajistas :))))
@@ald7524 no te preocupes entiendo eso y pues les pongo el dedo te nomas jajaja
Estoy planeando comprar y aprender a tocar el bajo. Acabo de entender las partituras y la forma de interpretarlas con este video. Muchas gracias :D
Awesome bass line won’t lie though more straightforward then I thought which I love nothing better then a bass line that sounds good and doesn’t take a whole year to get down perfect
Your bass tones are insanely tasty in every video.
This is like ear candy, man.
Incredible.
this is the perfect way how cliff played it on 1985 august 12th i think i was 23 that time i was in the front row awesome cover son
I love the bass so much it's such an amazing sounding instrument
you know what tuning they use for bell tolls?
@@ErosMoreira1 E standard
cara, essa bass line é surreal.
Just picked the bass up after 20 years. Love this channel
Every time my bass teacher tells me you can't become a great bass player with a "floating pinkie finger", I show him one of your videos. Thanks for giving me hope! LOL
Great bass playing! Hope to see more metal!
best intro ever
1:58 is so damn cool
Literally one of the only Metal songs where you can DEFINITELY hear the bass.
dude you shred
Anestesia pulling teeth please!! Awesome cover!!
War Pigs By Black Sabbath!
Can you make a video about how to strum?
apache08 Sure ;)
That intro is so sick and you play it flawlessly.
Cliff was the Mozart of bass. RIP Cliff. Thanks for the bass in this song...they should have made you louder in the mix, and made the kick drum louder to give you punch...that's the engineer/producer in me, but I speak the truth.
0:50 God bless Cliff!!!
Great job! How are you getting that distinct sound? What pedals are you using for this song?
No pedals. Check the description ;)
CoverSolutions When I play the beginning, G string on 19th fret, it sounds higher than it should be. I played this song last night and several people commented that it sounded too sharp, how do I dull the sharpness to get your sound? I double check my tuning and am in standard EADG @440 with only distortion, no fuzz.
Check the begging of the video the tunning is A450 or something I think
i would love for you to do 666 the number of the beast by iron maiden. it would make my day. great vid much love from chicago
Same
That bass sounds so badass
Dam hell this is some bad ass cover gave me the chills
4:13 FOR JUAN ROBERTOOOOOOOOO!
Beautiful sound :o
How did you get that sound out of the bass
Distortion
Chills, heart racing, let’s fucking go
nice bass love the wood color , awesome sound !🫡🫡👍👍
Jerry Was a RaceCar Driver by Primus
Hi dude, great job, I'd like to request a song whose bass I haven't found, might u please do Bell Boy from The Who?
More bell songs? Ok xD
@@j.j.miranda2996 Can I request Hells Bells?
How he strums it tho 🥵🔥
🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨📸📸📸📸📸📸
🤨
this might be the 30th time i see this video. i love it!
That Bass solo was awesome!!
Great cover man I'm learning this song on bass myself hey would you mind telling me what bass and guitar you use?
+Matthew Berry Check the description
+Matthew Berry MATT! ITS YOU! MATT! I FOUND YOU ON THE RUclipsS BY COMPLETE CHANCE! MAAAAATTTTT!!!
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