Anyone Know any good bass solos that they can share with us bassists here?

NOTE: Excluding Anesthesia by Metallica and N.I.B by Black Sabbath
(but feel free to comment on them)

Thanks.

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Maybe Siege - Armageddon...

Look for terrorcore (2 bassist+1 drummer lineup hardcore) bands BTW. Most of em has really cool bass solos.

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Shockwave - hardcore with cool bassbreaks, all songs are technical.
uhm, Raised Fist (all songs..)

check out Misanthrope a french group and you might find cool songs
there is one song - bass solo called Movemnents for hyppochondrium and liberine tempos or something like that
anyway try all the song

check out also billy sheenan solos

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billy sheenan? as in a singular bass play..or is he in a band??

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search the web for him you might find mp3 on his site
hte address must be something like billy-sheenan.com

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http://www.billysheehan.com/

download the bass solos you'll have work for a long time

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~damn, yeah.. but remember, that other guy, uhm, Stu Hamm, he's got some great stuff also.

this isn't metal AT ALL so don't bitch to me but i heard a really good one in Rancid's "Maxwell Murder".

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I think it´s hard to find many bass-solos in metal bands, it´s easier in Funk or Jazz.
But i would go definately for the bass solo of John Myung in Metropolis pt. I. If it comes to solos i recommoned always DT.

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yeah thats a cool solo..on the album ''..and out come the wolves..''

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Yeah those solo's are the bomb! John Myung is the bomb, but I don't have a 6 string hehe... I only miss one string dammit...

but check that Stu Hamm dude out, on tabcrawler.com he's got cool stuff!

I think i´ve got a song from him. Í like it. It´s o CD that was for free in a magatine from the label "Favored nations". It´s the Lbel of Steve Vai, i think. There´s even Billy Sheehan, Mathais IA Eklundh, Steve Lukather and many more great guitarista and bassists. Try to get this CD for free. But there´s lots of Jazz.

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check:
"Listen to the lyrics" - Roland Grapow
any Dream Theater song





Pablo

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Metallica Call of the kutulu (its hard to hear but its there), damage inc. (the intro), my friend of misery, for whom the bell tolls, and their live shit binge and purge CD.
Anything by Primus
Panteras bass is almost like solos, check out the backing for Floods and 5 min. alone.
Sepultura the third track of the beneth the remains album at the end of the song.
Mad capusual marked, their song tribe has a high pitch bass solo (doesn't sound like bass though)
Thats all I can think of right now.
I think for bass solos u need to go for live CD's and find their solos, thats when they really shine.

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yeah, that jason newsted rules heavily on those video's and cliff 'em all, that vid is really good.. shame no one has tabs for the whole fucking video haha

Pantera-Floods

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it dosen't take all to long to learn either, I've only been playing bass for about a month or two and I can play it pretty decently (after a few screw ups anyway)...

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Another good solo is the one off of Cradle Of Filth's Her Ghost In The Fog

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i didnt know there was a bass solo on that!?

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but that one sounded talentless - compared to the anesthesia (pulling teeth) solo.

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yeah anesthesia is nice

what effects do you use??

I use a Boss V-wah and a Boss ODB3 bass distortion

rage against the machine HAS got some talented stuff on the old selftitled cd.. it's all pretty funky so fun to play.

I dunno dude, i have this Zoom bass pedal, and it has distortion wah and stuff like that i use both distortion and the wah pedal in the bits that are needed

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ALL of Beneath the Remains. Also good Sepultura: Schitzophrenia and Arise.
Primus is great. 5 min alone is fun to play, some parts are so simple and others take practice.

I can play the first half of Anestesia (Pulling Teeth) but it sounds extremely funny because I dont have any way to add distortion, and I dont have a wah pedal or anything to make effects.

I can't believe nobody mentionned "Got The Time" by Anthrax. I love that solo, I can play it, except for the part where he does 5 consecutive slides quickly, i'm no good at slides. Otherwise it's pretty easy, just fast, well the slap part where he hammers the note is pretty hard, but I can do it pretty decent.

Well i got into that song before i had a pedal to make it sound distorted, i just fiddled with my amp to give it a good fuzz sound, and it works, so just try that.


or just get a pedal!

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here are my favs!

Metallica: Anestesia. Call of Ktulu, Orion(both of em)
TestAmenT: Urotsukidoji - will blow yer fucking mind
Black Sabbath: Bassically

theres others.

maybe I wasn't reading hard enough and missed it, but have you heard the bass solo on "Tommy The Cat" by Primus? I found a live version of that on Napster, back it the day, and it totally blew me away. Brilliant finger picked tremelo and such.

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Yes, Les Claypool is great. But i doubt it´s a bass-solo. It sounds like, but normally solos for us are just bass-riffs for him. Hope you know, what i mean.

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yeah I know what you mean, but if you check out that one song there's like a 30-40 second (I think) line in there with nothin repeatin. It's bad as all hell, but I gotcha

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I thing primus sucks donkey dick, though les claypool is a pretty good bassist...

but there are more nice bassist... like me

Check out this bass solo on this!

Rancid - Axiom

If you can play this, then you are God!!

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have you got tabs for that song?

let me be your god :P

Yeah i have the tab, just get it at http://www.mxtabs.net go to bass then type rancid in as band, and then click axiom and go for it dude..

Good Luck!

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I'm going for it.
it's not a real technical solo, but you've heard that, the impressive thing of it is that it is bloody fast!
that's the difficult thing....
compared to stu hamm and shit technically it ain't shit, but the speed...

I think it's do-able
I got the song from kazaa

Im looking at the tabs now. and it looks more simple then it sounds!!!!

-the last riff off the solo is a fingerbreaker though*-

the intro to master of insanity by black sabbath, on the dehumanizer album

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Also, Nativity in Black, that solo, is amazing, is like as slapped, sort of.

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Im busy with Axiom, and I'm pretty much getting there but I don't have a lot of time for it with college going on and stuff...
I'll get there someday

N.I.B. doesnt' stand for Nativity in Black, it actually stood for "nit-like beard." (the I is supposed to be a lowercase L)

The bass solo has it's own title, Bassically is the name of it, and it sounds like slap in parts because Geezer hits the strings so damn hard with his fingers.

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its actually nib, beacuse geezers beard looked like a pen nib or something. ozzy was on crack when he made that up

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Ozzy is always on crack/acid/alcohol or whatever.

come on dude! no-one can really play an awesome solo with a bass!

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Flea... Steve Harris...

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fuck yeah, ofcourse you can play an awsome solo on bass, you're pretty narrowminded.

Listen to Victor Wooten and you'll see, that no one can play a good guitar-solo.
It's harder on the bass!


Just noticed how you wright this smilie: . Never used it before. Now i know what "Beheaded" (yes, the great DM-band) means.

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Dude, I will not have this blasphemous crap crapping up my section of the forums...

Do you even know what a bass is? We don't mean the fish...

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ghehehe go for it drunken yeti god

Your an idiot

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In "Kings Of Metal" by Manowar 4th song is The Sting Of Bumblebee. This is a version of a classic song (for piano I think) and is played by Joey DeMaio (bass player) but Joey DeMaio have a 6 strings of 24 fert so he can play the high notes of this song.

Yeah, don´t be mad at me. I´m sorry if I really insulted someone but don´t you go telling me that you wouldn´t have done that too.
Beside, I love the bass I play!

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Theres a funky bass solo in the song Naked in the rain, by the red hot chili peppers


Oh and moryano, dont come into the bass forums, if your just going to take the piss

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that actually sounded pretty scary


but he's right, think about the stuff you post, or get your ass flamed, the bass forum rules and we want to keep it that way.

if you don't well that's fine to but be prepared to have a boot stuck up your ass.

What sounded scary?

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That sounded scary

Oh...well I can 't always be the big bag of cheer, sometimes I gotta do the moderator thing


Alright, now let's get back on topic.

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yeah, did you know Ra/tM's 'Calm Like A Bomb' has a kickass bass intro/solo thingy?

it's pretty sweet and it's really not that hard, it's all in the upper 4 frets,

Intro/Solo
G :----0-2---------|----0-0-------|----------------|--------------|
D :2-4-----4-2-0-|2-4------2-0-|----2-4-0-----|--0-2--2----|
A :----------------|-------------4-|0-4-------4-2-|4--------4-2-1-|
E :----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

G :----------------|----------------|----0-2---------|----0---0-----|
D :----------0----|2---0---4-0-2-|2-4----4-2-0-|2-4-------2-0-|
A :------2----2-4-|--4------------|----------------|--------------4-|
E :--2-------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

G :-----|
D :-----|
A :--0--|
E :-----|


that's about it but the spacings are a bit weird.

Yeah, I remember playing that...

Rage had a lot of sweet basslines, whether they followed the guitar patterns or went on their own.

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Looks like a cool riff, ill check it out

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You should look out for the bass-book by Josquin des Prés. He transcribed J.S. Bach (yes, THE Johan Sebastian Bach) for Bassguitar. It sounds simple and boring, the same I thought, but after studying for hours and hours and hours, it came to me as genius! It gives easy walking on the bass and some finger-breaking moves also. If you want to play bass-solos, you should have this one in your collection!!! Want more info? Mail me......


Dennis

this isn't metal but if you want something really technical check out Michael Manring

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It doesent have to be metal related just as long as its a bass solo, it can be posted here....

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another bass solo i know of is flea if you like him tatter3d, i think its just called, 'Flea Bass Solo Rare"

Yeah flea from the chili peppers hes got some tasty slap riffs, yeah ive heard the bass solo before its not bad, there a cool bass solo in the song aeroplane, and naked in the rain by the chilis!

yeahyeah old thread.

But i just heard Sting of the Bumblebee by Manowar.

Yeah i know manowar is queer, but this is really worth downloading. I was toled he used an 8-string bass

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An 8-string is nothing special.
It's like these 12-string acoustic-guitars.
You have for each string an additional ocatve string.

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Yep its not like 8 real strings there 4 bass, then 4 smaller string like guitar strings

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what about mark king's Dune tune?

or uhm, Stu Hamm's Quahogs anyone?

(thats a bitch to learn but you can get pretty far if you know how to do two handed tapping)

Or you do it like this.......


http://www.beebasses.com/gbc10.31.03.jpg

Bee Basses

9 strings!

That's one crazy bass!!!!
There's a bend in the fretboard! It's seems not totally horizontal! I don't know how the strings will ring on this!
Or it's just because of the strangr arrangement of the frets.
BTW the fretboard is much to big.



And again a new Dutch!!!! You can tell what you wnat. Your plan is to conquer the world via metaltabs.com!!!

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Sssssssst!! " I'm Dutch.....isn't that weird?"
Def told me about this site...

haha, the dutchies are here for the takeover

Write your own bass solo! These are the best solos !

learn anything by
Stu Hamm
Michael Manring (incredible)
Victor Wooten
James Jamerson
John Paul Jones
Dave Ellefson

you wont get better playing open E strings and contstanly playing 8th notes

any bass solo by koRn like y0 felde is hurdc0r3

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Who constantly plays open E and it's octave?
Also I find that although Ellefson kicked ass on the first four albums, there isn't as much good stuff after Rust In Peace. Not to say there aren't good bass lines, just not as many, since in lots of songs he keeps doing constant eigth notes or sixteenth or whatever you want to call them, depending on your tempo. I'd would have liked to hear more bass fills like the ones in 'Take no Prisonners' on their more recent albums. I was a bit disappointed with him. What do you think?
And by the way, welcome to the forum, we can always use more Deth fans.

Oh, and sorry for going off topic.

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you are a douche.

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Yeah stu hams quahogs anyone is brilliant, i can play half of it, the other bits are fucking insane like the linus and lucy part.. weird..

apparently there is a Quahogs Anyone Pt II? is this true, if so, someone follow me up on it? cheers

Some other good bass solos:

Jaco pastorius - Portrait Of Tracy (80% harmonics)
Victor Wooten - Classical Thump (Holy shit thats impossible)
Les claypool - The Awakening (nice solo, bit of everything)
Stuart Hamm - Moonlight Sonata (the classical, but tapped!)

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These aren't really metal, more fusion/prog-rock than anything but it's what I have.

Stanley Clarke - School Days - School Days [The reason why we play the bass like we do]
Jonas Hellborg - Personae - Rag B B [7 minute solo of goodness]
Jonas Hellborg - ? - Little Wing [The timeless Hendrix classic on the bass]
Michael Manring - Thonk - Distrubed [It's like Primus ... only harder]
Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour - Nuclear Meltdown [Possibly the coolest fretless bass riff I have ever heard]
Marcus Miller - M² - Power [High energy slap-bass song]
Marcus Miller - ? - Voodoo Chile [The timeless Hendrix classic on the bass]
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland - Erpland [Coolest Rock-Bass line I have heard]


Basically anything by:
Stanley Clarke/Return To Forever
John Patitucci/Elektric Band/Michael Brecker/etc
Victor Wooten/Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
Jaco Pastorius/Pat Metheny/Weather Report/Joni Mitchell/etc
Alain Caron/Uzeb
Michael Manring/something in your CD collection

There are more, just too lazy to think of them/type them out.


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If you are really ambitious, check out Billy Sheehan - The Talas Years - 7718 (3a17). Quite possibly the fastest bass song ever, all tapping of course.

Steve Digiorgios solo in philosopher

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