Archspire - The Mimic Well [Bass Cover]

Here we are: the last song off 'Relentless Mutation' that has not yet been covered on bass. At a blistering pace of 334 BPM and with tons of dynamic tapping parts, it is among the hardest songs I've ever covered. And like all of Archspire's songs, it's packed full of riffy goodness. Learned using their official tab book as usual (linked below). I pretty much played it verbatim aside from more closely following the guitars at 2:43 and not using slap 'n pop during the chorus for tonal reasons. Enjoy!
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Tuning: B E A D G C
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Performed and edited by Linden Poirier | @linden.poirier
Filmed by Amber Poirier | @amberpoir

[@deathmetalanddoom]

You continue to be one of the very, very, very few people I've seen do Jared's parts absolute justice. Absolutely killer man!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man, means a lot!

[@appeasedbeast408]

He's not only back, he's killing it! At 2:15 i laughed out of joy. Sick cover dude

[@LindenPoirier]

Haha thanks man, glad to be back!

[@Irokutarabelmont]

THAT FUCKING TONE holy shit what a fucking amazing tone.

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude! It's a constant work in progress.

[@AgnorRonga]

“Please Subcribe” in the break cracked me up 😂
Wicked cover as always!

[@LindenPoirier]

Haha thanks man, glad you picked up on that!

[@ZakAndrews]

Great cover man! I looked at doing this one myself but that tapping section at the end is mental. Great stuff as always!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude! That run that the song ends on was easily the hardest part haha.

[@ChrisBevanBass]

Awesome job, and love the kind of back and forth plucking technique for the super fast stuff, never seen anyone do that before!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man, I've actually got a tutorial for it in the works that I'm hoping will be out early September! Well, same idea but using two fingers instead of one.

[@Chaoriz]

Wow you played The Mimic WELL 😎

[@LindenPoirier]

HA, I see what you did there. Thanks dude!

[@bmhyakiri]

Your tapping looks so smooth and effortless. Excellent technique and beautiful bass!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude!!

[@mandowall]

Breathtaking and flawless, as per usual from you of course! Easily one of the best off the album

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man, an underrated one for sure!

[@corymcdonald1369]

Finally! An Archspire bass cover where you can actually hear the bass.

[@LindenPoirier]

Haha thanks man! I try

[@corymcdonald1369]

@@LindenPoirier Great job dude. Ive seen so many bass covers and they all are turned way down and I mean.....they are talented but if you cant play it clean enough that you are confident in turning it up then just dont post it lol. Your sick dude, Im currently working on one of their covers myself, Ill post it in a few years when im confident I can turn up

[@LindenPoirier]

@@corymcdonald1369 Looking forward to it!

[@BlackFriday242]

Never ceases to amaze, boi. Always killing it.
Archspire is definitely my favorite tech death band of all time. They're just filled with so much tastiness.

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man! And ikr? This album still feels so fresh to me, I'm surprised it's from 2017. Sounds like there's some new stuff on the way though!

Whatever the song is, I always love watching you. You're definitely a brilliant artist, keep it up man. Greetings from Turkey!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man, should have another before the end of the month. Cheers from Canada!

[@AmberPoir]

The best as always ❤️

[@LindenPoirier]

Aww thanks bb!

[@g0dzilla_au]

Those tapping parts are fuckin silly. Great job dude!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude!

[@jasonwaters120]

That was awesome. Great job man.

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude!

[@charlesoliviersdufaux6943]

Wooooow crazy cover very nice performance you blow my mind again

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man, glad I could be of service!

[@charlesoliviersdufaux6943]

@@LindenPoirier keep you nic work

[@LindenPoirier]

@@charlesoliviersdufaux6943 I appreciate the support!

[@r_wallace2356]

Killing it as per usual always sick to see tech death played on bass

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude!

[@soliderfromtf2]

Oh god that tone is fucking heavenly

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man! That's Darkglass for you haha

[@thegallows8280]

Great cover🤠

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man!

[@cmd_f5]

Your covers are probably my favorite out there for the techy fast and flexible stuff. Timeing and accuracy is just spot on, especially with all the layering a song like this has from guitars and drums all playing somewhat different progressions. In short, keep it up. Will show this one to a few bassist friends of mine. They'll start practicing more, guaranteed lol.
Peace

[@LindenPoirier]

Haha thanks man, hope I can encourage them to keep at it!
Btw, you might be interested to know that this song is NOTHING compared to what I'm currently grinding away at ;)

[@chairmanofthebored6860]

Amazing. The melodic section in the middle is one of my favorite bass parts ever written. Hoping to have my own cover of this up soon.

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude, looking forward to it!

[@LindenPoirier]

Btw, as a fan of The Room I really appreciate your username

[@chairmanofthebored6860]

@@LindenPoirier lol you're the first person to make that connection

[@JulianEmdon]

Brilliant job!! Love it.

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man!

[@osirisgrin8870]

WOW！ Circlepit！

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man \m|

[@LucasAbPb]

Awesome job! I will record human murmuration this month, your videos always get me some inspiration 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude, stoked to see it!

[@mickebroman]

Amazingly played. I really like that your angles and video cuts are more focused on showing your technique rather than being actiony. Also, gorgeous bass tone!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man! I aim to make it like one-third flash and two-thirds substance so that people can see exactly what's going on

[@DarkShaman667]

More people need to see this.

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude, agreed!

[@jackalhate6445]

Fucking awesome!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude!

[@anterdox621]

Great bass cover man! It would be so cool to see Ubiquitous by Origin played by you, this song has one of my favourite basslines :)

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude! It's a pretty sick bassline so we'll see! Lots of fun bits, like that bass break toward the end of the song

[@anterdox621]

@@LindenPoirier yes, that bass break is so damn good! Good luck with your future bass vids!

[@LindenPoirier]

@@anterdox621 Cheers dude :)

[@iron_itchy]

Fantastic!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude!

[@foxtrot8784]

Amazing, i wonder how much time do you spend practicing only one song and if you have to re-record the videos too many times because of missed notes or whatever, huge props, keep it up!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude! It's hard to quantify, but usually I'll have a few songs in the works so it'll take a little while to get through. For a song like this I typically allot more than a month, but could probably do it within a couple weeks if it was urgent. Since I use multiple camera angles and only have one camera, I have to do it in a few takes minimum.

[@user-zg7pm4je2l]

Шакарно!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude!

[@williamsmith2643]

Nice tight tone.

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man!

[@mackaus1]

Absolutely incredible as always, you never cease to amaze, my favorite part about this song is proably the clean part starting at 1:56
and the little bass lick starting at 2:16 to 2:19 is so fun to play on the bass
Also it's kind of cool that if you listen to the lyrics of this song, it's kind of the start of the whole storyline about AUM and using the black fluid taken from this Mimic well
allthough i think Seven Crowns and the Oblivion Chain from their previous album, is the start of the whole storyline as a whole, anyway i kind of like the story/concept they have built up
Also, i did a tab of Dualis Flamel if you are interested in checking it out, it's on UG, now that would be a song i would love to see you cover.
If anyone could do justice to Hugo's basslines it would be you

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude! Agreed, it's so satisfying when you get it just right. Also very interesting, I've never actually read them before but I'll have to check 'em out!
I'll defs check out the tab-been toying with the idea of an Equipoise cover for a while but would probably opt to get my fretless chops back up for it, so it'd be a while. Thanks for all the support!

[@thaigo972]

I had no idea this was a concept album. Guess I'll have to look up the lyrics listen to it again...

[@franciscomoratobass]

Man I love your playing! What string gauges do you use? Keep up the awesome work!!

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks man, appreciate it! I have the D'Addario Prosteels 130-32

[@franciscomoratobass]

@@LindenPoirier thank you!

[@kommunar1484]

Глазки испуганные)) Хорошо сыграл.

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude!

[@GabrielaSilva-xk5yf]

Amazing! Can you make a play through of “Remote tumour seeker? Please 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude! I'm hesitant to do that one since there's already a handful of good covers (and Jared's playthrough), but it is a sick song so it's possible :)

[@GabrielaSilva-xk5yf]

Linden Poirier but you’re left handed , that’s why I wanna see you playing 😅

[@LindenPoirier]

@@GabrielaSilva-xk5yf Ah true, I'll definitely consider it! If it does well then that'll increase the chances, too.

[@patrickgonzalez3806]

sick

[@LindenPoirier]

Thanks dude!

[@patrickgonzalez3806]

@@LindenPoirier I love how you strum the bass; still working on that two-fingered tremolo technique you showed us; Kinda tricky to keep the timing, but I love it. Killer tone by the way.

[@LindenPoirier]

@@patrickgonzalez3806 thanks man! Yeah, it takes a lot of experimenting to get the feel really dialed in but I'm sure you'll get it soon!

[@theofficialassmob]

[@LindenPoirier]

Back atcha

[@mmmicroplastics]

Xavier Jara hands

[@LindenPoirier]

Haha thanks man! Dude is a beast

[@chairmanofthebored6860]

Hope you stopped beating people up. I'd know those knuckles anywhere 😉

[@LindenPoirier]

Aww dang, you caught me!