Coolest Bass Riff?

[Tattered]

What do you think is the coolest bass riff, ever? and by whom?

[walpurgis]

I don't know if it's my absolute favorite, but if you crank a distortion pedal onto a bass and play the main parts to Motorhead's Orgasmatron, it's just purely fucking sweet, even as simple as it is :D

[Katham]

Mainly they are on Swervedriver's Raise album...

Adi Vines knew how to control those four stings... Too bad he don't play in a band anymore :(

[Pablo]

Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
Iron Maiden - Phantom of the opera
Racer X - scarified (in a moment has an incredible bass solo)



Pablo

[Tattered]

sweet, ill try and find the orgasmatron song wally, and good news ive got a distortion pedal!

[walpurgis]

Shouldn't be hard to find...Motorhead is awesome :)

[Tattered]

The ''Orgasmatron'' that ive found hasnt got any bass in it:o

[walpurgis]

You do know that Lemmy uses distortion right? Motorhead's version starts with him just playing it on bass...

[Tattered]

Oh right..

shouldnt be hard to work out i guess..but yeah its quite a cool riff


they havent got any motorhead tabs on here which im dissapointed at
they have some at mxtabs but they only have ace of spades and play the game

[walpurgis]

http://motorhead.rockmetal.art.pl/tabs.htm

I don't know if they have the bass tabs, but you can just basically copy the guitar part, I think that's what Lemmy does.

[Tattered]

Cheers mate, ill work on it!

[walpurgis]

Sweetness, should be easy to learn, but it's fun as hell to play :)

[Tattered]

On the word of ''Fun to play'' i can play basically all of Anesthesia by metallica now..and the pedal makes it sound even more beastly, its just it gets harder when the drums enter, on the last part of the solo..but through pain and agony im gonna finish it no-matter what:D

[walpurgis]

I envy you. Anasthesia is fuckin sweet. I'd be able to play the whole thing, I know I physically could do it, I just don't have the patience to sit and try the same parts over and over again then remember it all in order. A fatal musician's flaw :(

[Tattered]

I know what you mean..it does get annoying..when u learn a new part of the song, and then you have to go through it again to remember that part included in the bits of the song u already knew..but yeah, u need a lot of patience..and skill;)

[walpurgis]

I got the skill :p just dont' have the patience :D

[Tattered]

ahhh but you need patience to have skill ;)

hehe :D :beer:

:vampire:

[walpurgis]

Stay on topic, quit cluttering up my forums with your crap! :D
hehe

and what's up with the end of your last post??? :)

[Tattered]

dude that was un-called for, i never said u werent skilled..i was just mentioniong stuff..yah?

[Def]

yeah, I'm back from a 3 week holiday and my fingers hurt like hell after playing my bass for a couple of hours, DAMN! I gotta get used to it again.

ohyeah, about anesthesia, the "storm" kinda part before the drums is the shitty-est part... the beginning is easy and the second part is also pretty easy, when the drums come in its hard to hear on the cd if your playing it right, but I got there...

I used a boss odb3 bassoverdrive and a morley wah... I also used a compressor but you don't really need it for anesthesia.

ohyeah, it's good to be back on metaltabs after 3 weeks of holiday!!

[mrweijia]

another one bites the dust!

[Tattered]

yeah i can play that, i worked that out its piss easy goes summit like :

G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---0-0-0----0-0-0-0-3-0-5--| repeat x2

G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---5-5-3-3-0-0---------------|

etc etc..

[mrweijia]

yeah i figured it out on the guitar, cuz i dont have a bass, but its still an awesome riff.

[Tattered]

sweet could u send it to me (PM) cos i dont know if the one i have is the correct one or the same version as yours?...

[Def]

I played it for a guitarschool show, a long time ago, on bass, the riff is almost

E|---0-0-0----0-0-0-0-3-0-5--| repeat x2

but, the really correct version should be,

E|---0-0-0----0-0-0-0-3-0-5--5-3--0-0-0----0-0-0-0-3-0-5

the 5-3 is played is played fast/bluntly, uhm, ah well, play it and you'll hear it!

[Tattered]

yeah thats basically like my tab, but i might of played of a bit differently

[Def]

ah yeah, I see now, ah well... it's no big deal...

Stu Hamm shit is cool to play on bass though, ever heard of that fucker?

[Tattered]

no i havent, who is he?

[Def]

he's one of the worlds most talented bassist, in the line of Doug Wimblish and Gary Willis and Pastorius....

check www.tabcrawler.com for tabs, go to bass/s/stu_ham or something...

these tabs are fun and take a lot of pratice (well most of them..)

check him out, it's worth the effort!

[walpurgis]

Stu Hamm kicks fucking ass! He's Satriani's bass player but also does solo stuff.

If you want to hear an amazing solo of his download a track called Bass Solo off of Satriani's Live in San Francisco album.

[Tattered]

Ive heard of that band before...ill check out some of his and there stuff, cheers!

[INANE EMANATION]

a cool riff is "dope sick girl" by rancid, good use of scales, and if you play the "slaughter of the soul" guitar verse riff on bass , you'll get addicted :cool:

[Def]

yeah, rancid has some pretty neat bass riffs, but Operation Ivy (former rancid) has even neater bass riffs, but it's difficult to find Operation Ivy basstabs.

but the coolest stuff to play is still the virtuoso shit.. like stu hamm, gary willis, pastorius, john myung, and the guy from "Sade"

[Tattered]

Yeah i can play most of rancids stuff, but im still working on the ''Maxwell Murder'' bass solo, its fucking hard, and the riff from ''Journey to the end Of the east bay'' is cool

[shittybassist]

might not be the best riff, but this is favorite, its longview by green day:stoned:
mj rules!!

[Tattered]

yeah i can play that, the intro riff rules

[shittybassist]

yeah, its a fun riff to play

[Tattered]

also check out slayers disciple that has some cool riffs, but not tricky, but they sound cool, and placebo - every me and every you

[seabasacidtrip]

NIN's Into The Void, Piggy and Suck are pretty cool, plus their easy to learn and fun to play. Same goes for Manson's Tourniquet, The Reflecting God and President Dead, again all pretty stuff, but it still sounds cool. Some other riffs that sound awesome are Outshined, and Somewhere by Soundgarden, as well as Calm Like A Bomb by RATM, Difficult to learn at first but after a while it's easy to play. Mudvayne's Death Blooms has alot of cool riffs in it, Tool's Pushit and Schism are awesome but alas I do not have the proper distortions to pull off some the parts to them.

[Def]

yeah, basically all the ratm riffs are cool on bass... especially the old stuff from the self titled, like bombtrack etc.. the evil empire cd is also pretty fun to play but the battle of LA cd is too easy...
however, the "renegades" cd is really cool! (especially I'm housin and how could I just kill a man)

[Tattered]

Im not really a big fan of RATM but ''Bullet in the head'' has got a cool bass intro riff:D

[seabasacidtrip]

yeah that's a cool song, I find the first album to have the coolest bass riffs on it as oppose to their other stuff, especially Take The Power Back that's probably one of my favorite songs of that album wicked bass, I have yet to master it, I can play the first riff off of it but I thinking of building up my skills a bit more b4 I try to take it on again.

[Def]

rehearsal rehearsal, rehearsal!

timmy C's stuff is all in the same style, well kinda.
just find all the tabs you can get and master every song, that's what I've did and I can play along with any song without the tabs now. but sometimes I forget something ;)

ehhe, but it's not all too difficult to play but the riffs are always catchy and funky, so it stays fun to play!

[Tattered]

what song are you on about dude? a RATM song?

[Def]

about all the cool songs on the oldest and newest cd...

but it's hard to explain, not all songs are cool..

buuuut, if you want, I can pick my favorites for you.. they are not to easy to play and not really to hard, so it stays fun to play them...

[shittybassist]

timmy c is a badass, too bad they broke up

another fun song to play is dazed and confused by led zeppelin, i can't get the solo down though, hard as a motherfucker

another easy but cool song is money by pink floyd

[Def]

hey I know that zepplin song, it's pretty cool

ehm, rage against the machine didn't broke up, they continued with that chris cornell dude and made one cd with that guy, after that the fucker left and now they're still searching for another vocalist.
it's not gonna sound like ra/tm anymore, that's for sure.

[Tattered]

Originally posted by shittybassist
timmy c is a badass, too bad they broke up

dazed and confused by led zeppelin



money by pink floyd

dude is the bass solo good? what album is it on, does it use any effects

i can play the money riff!

(Dark side of the moon one of the best floyd albums ever!)

[NeCr0n0MicA666]

TOOL's Cold And Ugly breakdown scale
Death's Zombie ritual line (following guitar)

Just to show you what I mean:

Cold And Ugly scale:

G------------------------------------------------------
D----------------------3---5-3-----------------------
A-------3------5-3-5---5------5-3-----3-------5-3
D--3-5---5-3------------------------3-5---5-3-----

Zombie Ritual line:

F-----------6-7-6----------------
C--7--7-8---------8-7------------
G------------------------8-7--------
D-----------------------------5--1-0

:vampire:

[NeCr0n0MicA666]

Just to let you guys know, I tried fixing the spacing in those two bass lines as best as I could. Do your best to interpret the spacing.:flame: :angry: :mad: :kaioken: :uzi: :vampire:

[Tattered]

cool, i'll check them out. :beer:

[Tattered]

Yeah heres the Intro riff for Around the world by the chili's the hammer on pluck is quite hard to master, if you havent used that in any piece of music yet

G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--12h14-14-12h14-14-12h14-14-12h14-12------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------14-13-12-10--|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|

and then the second riff goes

G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|D|-12h14-14-12h14-14-12h14-14-12---------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------14-13-12-10----------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------12-10-|

check it out! :beer:

[Def]

around the world isn't that hard, only the part where the bass plays the intro again in the middle of the song, where it goes even faster, that's the hard part.

the verse is also pretty cool, it sounds really funky.

I had to play it for music school when the cd came out, pretty neat :D

but now everybody can play it :(

the speed is the only big difficulty in this song though, if you want a challenge, seach for stu hamm shit.

[Tattered]

Yeah the middle of the song is cool, i can headbang to that while playing it, well with plectrum..

[PantericA]

anathesia is wicked. i'm not a bass player, but i do like to fuck around with it once and a while. my friend left his bass at my house one day and i tried to learn it. i got the first little part down, but before i could get the rest of it, he took back his bass. damn.

i also think the intro to g'n'r's sweet child o mine is a cool riff to play, on bass, not so much on guitar though. i think it kinda sounds gay on the guitar.:cool:

[Def]

more things sound gay on guitar :D

:eek: oops

haha, I can say it here, it's the bass zone man :angel:

[PantericA]

yeah, i'll let you get away with that, since we are in the bass zone. but come to the guitar zone and say it, i dare you!:cool:

[CradleOfFilth]

the intro for "'Quest for the eternal life" by "aphasia" (local death metal band) is great:) I love it, but it's better when guitar and drum kick in;)
I admit "around the world" is cool (the bass) it's not my kind of music but the bass is weird

[Tattered]

Originally posted by *Def-Fx*
more things sound gay on guitar

:

yeah, lol:smash:

[mrweijia]

check out "hunter of the heart" by dio, very awesome intro

[damonta]

David Vincint-break in Suffocation
Greg Cristian-Trial by Fire:flame: :scatter:

[The Crying Orc]

I did not see the mid part of "Slit Your Guts" - Cryptopsy!

Go and listen to that song, and tell me what you think of the little Bass line, and the follow ups. ;)

[Def]

I don't know that particulair song, I do know the band, I'll download it and get back to ya.

[Tattered]

Lars frederiksen and the bastards - If the kids are united

if you can play this song using your fingers, you rule!!!!!!!

Amazing punk song, very hard bass intro and solo, i have been picking with my fingers for about 6 months flat, and havent used a pick, but this song is so cool, i wanna pick up the plectrum again to learn this. As the bassist uses a plec, to get the cool clinky sound, can anyone tip me on how to get some plectrum speed?

Like exercises, and stuff..cheers
(no masturbation tips, hehe)


Cheers
:beer:

[MetalPoldi]

The first thing is, to get a good bass plec. Years ago there were real bass-plecs, but nowadays it's hard to get them.
So take a thick one.

technique: Just turn your wrist and not your whole arm. I f you do it this way it is easy to gain speed.

[Tattered]

Originally posted by MetalPoldi
The first thing is, to get a good bass plec. Years ago there were real bass-plecs, but nowadays it's hard to get them.



real bass-plecs what do you mean..wooden ones?

i did used heavy pics..but have moved to light because it seemed that the heavy pics were messing up my strings.

[MetalPoldi]

The plecs were quite huge and were covered with filth (?).
Couldn't find any pics of it. I hope you know what i mean.

You don't need to misuse your strings. ;) Just hardly touching them is enough on an e-bass.

[Deadfall]

At the end of Savatage's 24 Hours A Day there's a very very cool riff...sounds divine....I love it...the only problem is my fretting hand gets really tired after 1 minute of continous playing of this riff :bawling:

[Katham]

Crass' I Know There's Love uses it's bass riffs really groovy, and cool.

It isn't that hard to play, but it has recognizable technical parts.

[Def]

Originally posted by MetalPoldi


technique: Just turn your wrist and not your whole arm. I f you do it this way it is easy to gain speed.

Yes, ofcourse but that's what using a plectrum is all about :D

I use the ibanez triangles, huge ass triangle plectrums and pretty thick one's, I posted a pic of them once

[Tattered]

yeah i remember, they were some mean played-with picks they had like chunks out of them and everything lol

[Def]

Yup, those where the ones, man that was a long time ago...

[Anubis]

For Whom the Fucking Bell Tolls by Cliff Burton

[Tattered]

is that the real name of it or did u add the fucking bit...ill check it out anyway

[walpurgis]

It's just For Whom the Bell Tolls, tatter3d.

[Tattered]

k thanks wal, ill check it out

[walpurgis]

No problem, and it is a damn good song, I'm just not sure how good of a bassline it has, per se. I don't remember a lot of Metallica's bass lines standing out too much, aside from Orion and a couple others.

[Anubis]

The intro has a technical feel to it, providing the oppurtunity to show the higher notes, the follow up has a good eighth note steady rythm, and the verse and chorus riffs leave room for improvisation. One of my favorite songs to play. Cliff is bass god!

[se7enth joker]

yeah, for whom the bell tolls is a great bass line

[Def]

Originally posted by walpurgis
No problem, and it is a damn good song, I'm just not sure how good of a bassline it has, per se. I don't remember a lot of Metallica's bass lines standing out too much, aside from Orion and a couple others.


Yeah, it's a nice song but I don't think the bass is that special, I started playing a lot of pantera shit lately, and they actually have killer bass lines (check 5 minutes alone! etc...) Orion has some cool bass stuff, but it's one of the only songs where the bass stands out, which sucks, after cliff died the bass parts got less cool if you ask me, I did never like jason that much.

[se7enth joker]

yeah, i agree, after cliff died metallica's bass kinda went to shit, but thats just what i think


:beer:

[Tattered]

Yeah ive heard some of jasons live solo's and there not that bad, but yeah i agree with se7enth and def, i do prefer cliff better, (R.I.P)

[Def]

Yeah, I agree, the live solo's on the live shit binge and purge (or something like that) video where pretty neat, but still it sounded a bit more like guitar shit played on a guitar, Cliff allways kept the funky-ness of the bass in it in a way.

well, we can't bring the fucker back, but back in the day he must have been a half-god or something,

HAIL CLIFF!

[se7enth joker]

Originally posted by *Def-Fx*

well, we can't bring the fucker back, but back in the day he must have been a half-god or something,

HAIL CLIFF!

AGREED!

To cliff! :beer:

[Tattered]

Yeah cliff ruled :) ...anyway enough of this sentimental stuff on with the bass lines

Yeah check this one out.....

Rancid - Black Lung

[corroded]

needled 24/7 bass riff on which alexi sings

R.I.P Cliff Burton

[filth-bass]

it's amazingly easy, but I admit that I enjoy ministry's filth pig... it's hypnotizing and I like playing it, since I'm learning...

[Buganeer]

a lil late, and i don't like Manowar at all but Sting of the Bumblebee from DeMaio is what I'd call a cool bass line, i use it to warm up before playing or to seriously hurt my wrist ;)

[Tattered]

Only recently noticed this but, the opening guitar riff for Sex, Murder, Art by slayer, is also played by the bass so that it is:

Slayer - Sex murder Art

[SoulSlayer]

Favourite bass riffs:

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (cool riff at the end)
In my darkest hour - Megadeth (greatest song ever, everything in this song is so good to play :))
Yyz - Rush
Trust - Megadeth (cool intro)
Mouth for war - Pantera (bass behind the solo :D :D)

So many more, cant think of any off of the top of my head at the moment.

[Tattered]

This is a new song off there EP that they have just released, but the intro is a fast picky sort of melodic riff

NOFX - Idiots are taking over

That is all (i know what your thinking...bloody punk argh!!)

[SoulSlayer]

Lol, damn right!

Also thought Id recommend ALL Rush bass riffs to people who havent heard them, geddy lee is a fucking genius :D

Also adding to my list, N.I.B. by sabbath

[Tattered]

Yeah, never heard of rush..how many albums they got?

[SoulSlayer]

About 25, they're releasing their next one soon. They are original proggy kind of metal/rock. If you get some of their albums get the earlier stuff such as '2112', 'Permanent waves', 'Moving pictures' and 'All the Worlds a Stage' is a cool live album. Some of their stuff is dodgy so you may not like it but keep listening and if all goes well you'll have a new bassist to look up to:cool:

[Tattered]

25?!?! fucking hell man, what label are they on? and how long have they been around for?

[SoulSlayer]

Well they've been around for some time and they are still winning awards to this day. Their first album was 'Rush' and that was released in 1974. And as far as I can see from what albums I have here, they're on PolyGram records. Check out their site, all details are on there:

www.rush.com

[Tattered]

Thanks,cool

But whats the coolest riff out of all the rush songs?

[SoulSlayer]

I woulnt have clue, Ive only heard 5 of their albums + one live. However some to recommend:

Yyz
2112
Marathon
Spirit of Radio

Okay some of those dont have awesome bass but all bass in rush is good and Yyz and Marathon at least have some tricky parts to learn :)

[TillDeathMike]

if you listen very closely to the bassline for jimi hendrix - fire you will really that it was one of the greatest bass riffs you have heard or ever will hear.


jimi hendrix - fire
metallica - pulling teeth(cliff's solo...R.I.P.) :angel:
black sabbath - war pigs
black sabbath - black sabbath
R.H.C.P. - pretty much everything flea comes up with is badass


:beer: heres to you cliff

[Tattered]

Its not actually that good of a bassline.

One of the best basslines has to be Chemical brothers - Block rockin beats

:D

[Lord Arioch]

some really cool bass lines:

Suicidal tendencies on the album friends & family
downset almost everything

(from memory cause I can't find my cds right now)

and of course Atheist and Misanthrope

but I assume that you knew it already


otherwise you're not a bass player:p

[Tattered]

Originally posted by Lord Arioch

downset almost everything



Ive heard of downset there sort of metal/punk, there fucking good.

Havent heard any decent basslines by them tho,,..

[Lord Arioch]

I don't understand how could you possibly miss the bassline

:eek:

[HopeAndChaos]

Rage Against the Machine now their bass lines are noticeable

[blitz906]

I got the skill :p just dont' have the patience :D
You develop patience the more you practice I find :)

[bassist_of_light]

watchtower's doug keyser tears up on like every song, so does does lars from Spiral architect.
anything by atheist or cynic.
martin mendez plays some really great lines on opeths newer stuff.

[IRON90]

Some cool basslines are:

For whom the bell tolls (intro)
American life (intro there too)
Crasy Train (solo)

[burning from within]

Black Sabbath - Faries Wear Boots has a cool bass line behind the guitaring

and opeth have some cool bass in their songs

[Tattered]

Bill withers - just the two of us, that has a cool bass intro, and some slapping in the bridge, haha.

[bassist_of_light]

cool songs

[bassist_of_light]

nifty thrifty lemon sifty

[bassist_of_light]

Bill withers - just the two of us, that has a cool bass intro, and some slapping in the bridge, haha.
withers is a really solid player-

[Zionist]

Jaco Pastorius - Opus Pocus, Portrait of Tracy.

Some other shit too, but I can't remember at the moment.

[DEAD]

Primus - "Spegetti Western" has by far the best bassline ever.

[BassBehemoth]

Victor Wooten..

[Tattered]

Anything by Niacin, Sheehan is a legend, and you cant go wrong with dennis chambers on drums..

[Rattlehead]

The bass part at the end of the intro section in Cosmic Sea (by Death) where the fretless introduces the second "half" of the song.

[Requiem]

Tool:Schism
Primus:Tommy the Cat
I know Les is over rated but hes so awesome

[faygotat]

Anesthesia by metallica definately is the best bass riff. i need to give props though.

in the words of tattered "its just it gets harder when the drums enter, on the last part of the solo..but through pain and agony im gonna finish it no-matter what" you are f*ckin awesome if u can play Anesthesia all the way through. i just started tryin today, and i can play all the individual parts, but it is really hard to do all together. and you definately need a metronome to play it.

[newHELLonEARTH]

Alot of the bass riffs on Steve Vai's Freak Show Excess, and alot of Atheist riffs- especially the peaceful bass interlude on their song Mother Man (with the birds in the background) and Cryptopsy's Orgiastic Disembowelment

[Otiz]

Aye, Atheist had an ace bassist. Also, the guy from Pavor :eek:

[bassist_of_light]

Aye, Atheist had an ace bassist. Also, the guy from Pavor :eek:

dude roger patterson is one of the best groovers ive ever heard

[Tattered]

Any bass riffs by Rocco prestia (band: Tower of power) is funky and pretty challenging in a way..

[Disincarnate]

sean malone-code anticode....thats some awesome shit

[Cloaca]

I'll go for Gorguts - A Path Beyond Premonition (2:50) that slow part around there, just heavenly.

[Nihilist]

Megadeth - Peace Sells, and Stargazer - ...of the Sun have killer bass riffs.

[bassist_of_light]

sean malone-code anticode....thats some awesome shit

sean malone- almost any song, awesome ;)

doug keyser ( watchtower, retarded elf) - " same "
lars ( sprial architect)- " same "