If Beethoven Were A METAL Bassist...
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2020
- Hope you enjoyed these METAL bass covers of two classic Beethoven pieces!
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Original Compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony No. 9 (Ode to Joy)
Moonlight Sonata 3rd. Movement
Piano Sonata No. 8 (Pathétique)
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Everything about this video was 100% historically accurate.
Brilliant
Yes
This comment is 100% hilarious!
I want twoset to react to this
Beethoven rocked MySpace back in the day.
I always wanted to start a band called "Mozarthead". Where id play metal music on piano, and classical music on guitar with metal.vibe.
I dont know why this comment doesen'/ have 3000 likes, its the greatest idea i have heard
Go on!
Yo, if you want a mandolinist for the classical metal part, and bassist/vocalist(when applicable) I'm down.
Lets go!!
Go crowdfunding :D
The odd thing is that, Beethoven having been deaf, would probably have absolutely adored the low vibrational resonance in bass. It's as much sensory as it is auditory and I think he would have appreciated that fact.
They had bass and cello back then.... it's not like the bass line was only invented now.
@@ws8080 modern amplification as well would have made it clearer
Have you noted how he introduces both the instrumental and vocal iterations of the Ode to Joy melody in bass?
@@williamschnarr7961 Actually, not.^^
And not even just that, listen to the 6th symphony finale for some amazing bass passages.... Beethoven's appreciation for bass spotlights is what proved even further what an individual he was
This song is already pretty metal when played on piano.
Repeat with me: it's not a song, it's a piece
@@viola8021 its not a piece
its two pieces mixed
3rd Movement Moonlight sonata
and Pathetique Sonata
@@neutronenstern. You got me in the first half, not gonna lie !
SongSSSSS (Moonlight 3rd mov and Pathethique 1st mov) oh yeah... PIECESSSSSS (fkn snobs)
@@neutronenstern. count it as pieces
I like how I discovered Charles through Davie but he’s completely his own UA-camr now. Epico
Same, I dont even play bass or particularly seek it out or anything, but this has become one of my favorite channels. I especially like his solos
Yeah me too...
Guy is far better skilled than David. Charles is one of the most talented musician that owns a yt channel I have ever came across to so far.
Grande bro
liked him more before davie
Beethoven broke all the rules of classical music. He was the first ever shock rocker. He had to constantly tell his musicians to play harder. He was shunned by the sophisticated elite at the start of his career but he gave 0 f*cks and did his own thing the way he wanted. His music is some of the most emotional (dark emotions) that was created. Beethoven created amazing music that forever changed the way music was perceived by the masses.
I think you're mixing up Beethoven with Slayer.
Yep, Beethoven was a real bad ass! Luckily for us, a lot of other rule breakers followed. Listen for instance to the 'Firebird Suite' from Stravinsky or 'Alexander Nevsky' from Prokofiev. This is real heavy stuff. Listen to 'Die Toteninsel' from Rachmaninov, as dark as it can get. And 'Bolero' from Maurice Ravel, why the hell repeating a pattern over and over again? :-)
He wasn't necessarily the first, but he was definitely before his time to your points. And easily the most recognised now for it compared to others. The romantic era of art did bring to light much more emotion and passion out of its artists. If you're into prehistoric rockers, check out Franz Liszt, the first rock star. Dude was so famous he started getting recognised on the street by random people and it gav him have crazy bad anxiety as no one had ever had to deal with this before.
@@TheJgrimm Thanks for your insights. And indeed I am into those early rock stars! 🙂 'Totentanz' of Franz Liszt is one of my favorites!
@@janvandenberghe8583 pure brilliance
Beethoven was as metal as he could be back in his days
really was actually.
What Paganini or liszt
Yap, my music teacher said that if Beethoven lived in nowadays he would be playing metal.
IT NEEDS MORE B A S S
*contrabassoons intensify*
I read somewhere that Bethoven was often frustrated that the instruments of his day didnt have the power and intensity he envisioned for his music.
FYI, Beethoven was a young thrasher killing it on a new fangled instrument called the piano. It may seem staid and boring to you now, but at the time he was as metal as anyone today. In his teen years he would astound people with how fast, complex, and angry he sounded. Someday, young guys playing a digital Kazoo will laugh at how old fashioned and stiff you sound. That said, very cool playing.
Digital kazoo. I hate you.
Dude, I'd so be on board with this being a series, Classical Music gone Metal! Sounds and plays awesomely, and of course really brilliant and PRO!
Thanks! Haha yeah I could see that 😅
@@CharlesBerthoud That would be cool indeed! Cheers
@@RC32Smiths01 check out symphony x's older stuff. you could call that neoclassical metal
@@meowth9245 That is very true! Always love Neoclassical!
I second this idea so much!!!
Charles: Pretends to be Beethoven, puts on British accent......
All of Germany: 9
Most people won't understand how cleaver this joke is.
This joke needs big brain to understand ... and you need to know at least the basics in german..
Ja das ist correct
Why did you call me ?
@estoban kupah lol
As a bass player, I feel the rage whenever anyone calls my bass a guitar. Perfect! Loved this video so much.
It actually is a bass guitar. Leo Fender invented it and called it a “bass guitar”. But I like “bass”
I frequently find myself headbanging to classical music unconsciously... it's the way my body reacts to it. It's so damn awesome. And as a metal lover, I must say: this is EPIC! Metal and classical pieces like these movements from Beethoven's 14th and 8th sonatas are like relatives. Every metal lover should give classical music a try, it's not boring at all. Saludos from Panamá! You are great, maestro!
Prog rock is the perfect marriage between classical and rock. Check out the bands Yes, Focus, Emerson Lake and Palmer
I would check out Neoclassical music.
Royal Hunt anyone?
@@shimmime 100%. Rush and Jethro Tull also.
@@shimmime And you check out Collegium Musicum, if you like the marriage between classics and modern instruments...
Davie: SLAPP
Charles: TAPP
둘이서 한판 베이스로 뜨면 볼만하겠네요 ㅎㅎ
TAPP LIKE NOW
Tapp the BASS
me: crapp
Lol....good play
As a metal bassist, the only things I have in common with Beethoven are my deafness and syphilis.
Hairstyle?
@@plasticglueman9966 nah. Even longer bb.
really sorry about the syphilis part
What kind of bass is that then?
@@yimuxiao8941 dont be. Modern antibiotics got rid of it a while back
Mozart and Beethoven were the heavy metal of their day. I too love jamming out to some loud kickass classical!
Mozart was pop
Bach was pretty metal too. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is heavy!
Lot's of musicians in greece say that if bethoven lived now he would have probably been the biggest metalhead in the world
why greece?
@@asrielgoddard8 because I'm from Greece and lots of musical teachers have told me bethoven would have been a metalhead abd I have never heard of anyone foreign talking about it
@@yourkeel9012 hmm interesting
@@yourkeel9012 Because only greeks would think of this! :))))))
@@suzybeza9412 not quite because Greece used to be one of the most metal related countties back in the 80s (at least that's what my dad said) but now everyone listens to rap and it's really annoying so its super rare to find someone who likes it wether he is old or not
My favorite part is the crystal clear British accent coming out of Beethoven who was German.
Hahah
German and English come from the same family of languages and the histories of the two countries have been intertwined for ages.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@@mightymikethebear Yeah, but I think that was old english which is more like dutch than the oxford english here :)
The past is British, no matter when or where.
If Beethoven was a metal bassist he would only play deaf metal
😂
Why you!... Allright take your like .
Lmao
Did he also play with Def Leopard … ?
technical deaf metal 😏
One of the few bassists I've seen who actually keeps his thumb on the center of the spine. Nice example for the kids. Truly groovular.
A more realistic version would be.....
"Splendid Ludwig, perhaps some of your finest work yet....what's wrong old chap?"
"WHAT?"
"I SAID SPLENDID LUDWIG, PERHAPS SOME OF YOUR FINEST WORK YET."
*"WHAT?"*
"Never mind"
Hahaha
I just realised the joke...
I'm dying 😂😂😂😂
Beethoven clearly inspired Lil Jon
Nice one 😂👏🏻
This literally brought a tear to my eye. It was beautiful, creative, entertaining...it was about as perfect of a video for me as could ever be made. Why can’t I like it more than once?!?
Thank you!
CharlesBerthoud, no thank you!
Create a new account and like it 😉
If Beethoven was a metal bassist, Lars and James would have bullied him before telling the engineer to bury him in the mix.
Sad but true...
Don't go there. It's an old on boring meme. AJfA is just perfect as it is.
@@CharlesBerthoud Y'all deserve more time to shine. That's all I'm saying.
Ajfa with louder bass mix is way better than orginal
@@SpectralUltra it's waaaay better with boosted *bass*
I just can't believe that this guy exists. How can someone play an instrument so so PERFECTLY and MORE... This is more than breathtaking!!
Oh my god!! I love the 3rd movement of moonlight sonata and this is the first time I've ever heard it played like this! It's absolutely wonderful! I love it! 💕
then you will enyoj Tina S 3rd mov. gitar too
you gotta keep up the "IF ________ WERE A BASSIST" content bro, trust me.
Bro, you've got a beautiful name.
reply
METAL BASSIST, get It right smfh v:
If Lars was a drummer lol
Ludwig Van BASSthoven
Cuzjudd Epic
Get out
Ludvig van Beatheaven
@@cecilrosa2 o
EPIC! You win!
I actually really want to hear more of you playing Beethoven songs on bass
I had to give you a shout out I've seen some of your other stuff and you are a great player but I didn't realize the level of genius you were at until I saw this Beethoven thing bro that takes years of experience and practice to execute that so flawlessly and your timing was insane your spot timing coordination right left hand was crazy your tone the inflections of what you're playing and how you're playing it and how you're feeling it bro hats off to you
If Beethoven heard what monstrosities are being done with his music in the modern era I reckon he would quite like it.
Jokes on him i guess
Him being deaf and all
if only he could hear it
Beethoven "Where's my axe!"
If Beethoven heard*
But absurd! Do you even know the history of Beethoven? LOL
Yep, its official, isolation has made him go mad.
I've been playing for 37 years and this makes me look like I've never picked it up in my life. That's fantastic!
I like how his fingers are going so fast yet he's enjoying it and having so much fun playing it
When he said: "It needs more anger"
i was like: "Just play Moonlight sonata 3rd mvt, no need for sth slow on a bass"
But then
MOONLIGHT SONATA 3RD MVT ON BASS
beethoven in fact was the first rockstar ever. true story
It could be argued that Mozart was the first.
Idk. Bach was a bit of a rockstar
The First Rockstars on tours were Liszt and Paganini. They had Groupies and played before standing Crowds!
I say it was the caveman who literally played rocks and invented the entire concept of rhythm
@@UDLXXL touché
Absolutely awesome. Most people can't even play Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement or Pathetique Sonata on Piano. Love the way you switched between them.
Simply fabulous!
Two and a half months since I got my bass and I'm loving it! Thanks for inspiring me and thanks for the awesome music you continue to put out.
Congrats! Glad you're enjoying the bass!
Ive been struggling with the insanely difficult guitar version of that 3rd movement for like 2 months and now someone's got it ON FRIGGING BASS
Switch to bass mate, 2 strings less to worry about.
@@mkl3603 I do have a 5-string bass, but I have short fingers so guitar is my best fit
Charles, you are an amazing bassist! Thanks for that.
A:"So you play classical music, yeah?"
Charles:"Yes'nt"
"THIS IS NO ELECTRIC GUITAR.... THIS IS A BASS!"
Happy Davie504 slap noises*
i ain't ruining yah 69 likes though
*Checkmate* 1700's
@@bazzfromthebackground3696 how did you hit such a creative wall that you stoop so low.
Assuming he played a very cool funky bad ass riff.. i ..
Its a an electric bass guitar. Still a pass.
I guess if Beethoven was a metal bassist then he’d be Jason Newsted.
He can’t hear himself in the mix.
Stephen Donovan F
Alexa play sad but true
Fuuuck lmao
...and justice for JASON
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Outrageous! Awesome!
Dope as always, Chuck.
Cheers
One of your finest compositions yet, CharlesBerthoveen.
When Beethoven is wearing headphones but he can't hear...
he was deaf in his later ages, this version of bethoven doesnt look so old imo.
@@mauer1 you right
Fun fact: Always wearing headphones when composing is what caused his deafness.
@@davidwuhrer6704 THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE OH MY GOSH! His snare was always too loud, and it ruptured his ear drums!
It's to save what little hearing he has left!
Wow this is incredibly beautiful sounding.
Truly brilliant absolutely love it!
Dude, please record an album of you performing classical pieces, similar to what Chris Thile did with Bach. It would be incredible! You are such a talented player.
Thumb's up for Chris Thile. 👍🏻
It's almost a shame that his virtuosity on the mandolin gets frequently overlooked because of his choice of instrument.
I'm glad I found out about him watching The Punch Brothers doing a cover of "Just What I Needed" by The Cars; not Bach's Brandenburg Concerto-3, iii in G major (unbelievably.)
I don't really listen to Bluegrass, either.
Chris Thile is amazing. Thanks for mentioning him!
I mean Beethoven's bass parts were already kinda metal
yeah, Pathetique's 1st movement ending is way more "metal" than this video
Beethoven was very metal on a number of levels. One need look further than his organ pieces...
Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata and Pathetique
Although Mozart was more the pretty boy, glam rock, party guy that took great pleasure in deflowering his groupies and their boyfriends as well, Beethoven was the hard core acid rock type that blared his music and when someone complained, he turned up the volume even further. He went deaf for a reason. I believe his unconventional speed metal technique may have played a very big role in his hearing loss. Let's face it. Beethoven was the predecessor to heavy metal speed rockers.
Honestly that is my favorite piece of classical music for the sole reason that it was one of the most metal sonata movements in my humble opinion.
Oh my god! I didn't even know you could du SUCH things on a BASS! This is utmost outstanding.
Thanks A LOT for sharing this! I am utterly dumbfounded...
"This isn't no guitar, it's a bass!" Sounds like davie504
Bass.... gUiTar.
Ik right
Or Stu Hamm.
slapped like now
*Is. He's far too posh to use a double negative.
That's the real reason Beethoven lost his hearing. He turned his amp up way too loud.
True - few people are aware of this
Everyone needs to learn history
I thought it was from that one time that Mozart exploded his harpsichord with a bunch of tnt, that one time on that tv show
Imposible. Bass doesn't produce sound.
Unfortunate.... he turned it to 11.
Absolutely epic. Cheers!
Even thought I was listening to rock and progressive music, I was a classical pianist and I played the Pathetic during my youth. I never thought that I would hear it played in this way, it gave me shivers. Brilliantly done ❣
Bro.........That face at 1:41. Epic.........as well as the bass playing. Absolutely phenomenal. Hats off my friend.
The haircut is most accurate: Wild and glorious. :D
Coming back to this video, it's really nicely done.
absolutely beautiful!
Beethoven's later stuff is insane, those string quartets were so ahead of their time.
Awesome video!
But Beethoven indeed plays in a metal band: Dream Theatre,he wrote the song "under a glass moonlight sonata"
Tell meeee
Okay, cringe. But also, extremely fantastic.
Also for megadeth: 9th symphony of destruction
Good stuff Charles!!
Absolutely brilliant omg yes!
Really awesome playing! I feel obliged to mention, however, that Beethoven's ninth symphony, from which the first melody is taken, is one of the most epic things ever written, or performed.
Next up, Pachelbel's canon in D? I've been told it's got pretty much the most technical bass line ever written.
He needs to practice it for 40 hours
Really? Need to Google that
He should play the cello part XD
@@nagasakiotaku-sama6252 ooooh, that hurt 😂💔
@@nagasakiotaku-sama6252 tats the point cello is the bass...
OK, this was an instant subscribe. Love it!
Good music is good music. No matter the time or instrument.
It's really nice to see you playing.
Congrats!
So if Beethoven was a metal bassist, he'd be writing Castlevania soundtracks---I believe it.
uhhh Fooee...
@TwoSet
Give this man a shoutout. Deserves way more subs than he has now.
That was freaking awesome!
Awesome, thanks for sharing
Haha, good stuff! Yess, metal baaaass. That stare down about the electric guitar comment was grand 😂 Hope you’re well Charles! 🤘
Don’t feel like scrolling through the comments ... hopefully someone said “Bassthoven” ... if not then I’m glad I didn’t.
BASSHOVEN
BASSTHOVEN
BASSTHOVEN /,,/
B a s s h o v e n
Bassthoven
really incredible man, I keep coming back to this, amazing technique I'm going to try this myself, that has to be some of the coolest fingering ive ever seen honestly im blown away
This is freaking amazing, I love neoclassical style!
Classical music is METAL before electricity!!!
Fact
Along those who said " PLAY FUCKING STRONGER".
heavy metal appeared when record companies realised people would buy it. Same with singing chipmunk records.
metal is too dumb, too conservative, too basic, too surpriseless, modulationless, dynamicless, harmonically static and too monotonous to be compared with classical music. but that's fine, metalheads will be happy to think that although is BS. According to what you say, Lady Gaga could be Mozart with a blonde wig.
@@za-music HAHAHAHA Lady Gaga wtf? You haven't heard much to judge it man and look from your flat minded perspective. Best metal musicians are Jazz lovers. Bassist Ryan Martinie, guitarist Synyster Gates, vocalist... Oh yeah classical music has no vocalists. But if I was to come up with one to fit than it would be Tarjia Turnen from Nightwish. Metal is too fucking wide to compare it with something else
@@za-music Yeah because it was Lady idgaf who wrote the songs...
Dude. Get from your high horse and let him take your ass. You dont lnow shit about the music industry.
You dont like metal? Ok fine with me, its not like I think we choose what we like and everyone deserves an oppinion.
But you dont know shit abput the current pop music industry dude.
"IF" Beethoven were metal? Mate, Beethoven WAS metal.
lamenamethefirst totally agree. The original pioneer
Vivaldi was metal too
長崎おたくさまNagasakiOtaku-sama - you make a good point here. In which case- he would’ve been first. I feel like lvb was “next level “ though
Paganini says hi
He was MENTAL
Soo talented!
Pretty sure they're my new favourite renditions of Beethoven's sonatas!! That's totally awesome
Just wait till he discovers SLAPP
Also this cover was unironically fantastic and so metal. Thank you.
Beethoven is the reason why I love playing bass, and particularly why I love pressing my ear against the body
This is EPIC and AWESOME!
I like these versions a lot. Thank you for this mixture.
i'm starting to feel convinced that charles is trying to get two set violin's attention XD
they do not hold a monopoly on classical music
He should play the flight of the bumblebee for the world speed record, and do it really poorly.
I had a strong feeling Moolight mvt 3 was coming! Didn't see the Pathetique coming though. Nice Job! Reminds me a lot of the covers I used to do as a music student
This is most likely the best youtube video I have ever seen. I love this so much. You are amazing, and hilarious!
Nice job on that base brother! Well done sir! Well done!!!!
You have no idea how many times I've watched this for the humour and bass-version 3rd Movement!
Excellent. I am pretty sure now that everything on UA-cam is just to make me feel inadequate & useless. Great vid. 👍👍
Hopefully it will inspire you. It does for me!
That's awsome! Thank you
this sounds so much better than I expected
You make me wish to here more of Beethoven played on bass
What people forget is that Beethoven, Haydn, Handel, Bach, and others WERE the rock musicians of there time. There are really only two differences between what was going on then, and what is going on now, and those two things were how they were getting paid, and how the audiences behaved. Audiences who listen to "classical" music today are often a stayed and rather stuffy lot whereas the audiences of the composers of the times of the aforementioned composers behaved in a fashion much more similar to the audiences of today's popular performers. They were loud, and often raucous, and would cheer with great excitement over a particularly well crafted bit of music just as crowds today get and express excitement over a great guitar riff or any other particularly spectacular piece or part of a piece. Before roughly 1875, most music was paid for on the patronage system; that is, the composers would be hired on as the full-time composer of a noble or a very wealthy member of the landed gentry. That began to change to some extent in the 19th century, and to a lesser degree in the mid-18th century as composers began finding increasing amounts of work outside of the courts of Europe. Handel was retained for a time by King George I and King George II, but he made a large part of his income for writing for the opera. He is perhaps best known for his oratorio "Messiah", which though not an opera, was in fact a dramatic piece scored for an almost Cecil B. DeMille-like cast of thousands, and meant to be heard in an opera house, sung by the most popular musicians of its time, and attended by the general public, not just the monarchy (who did also attend). At the same time, Bach was firmly ensconced in the patronage system, being hired as a composer/organist at several churches, and at other times as a court composer for various members of the German nobility including for a short time with Frederic the Great. Never did he compose music for the great unwashed masses. A number of forces came into play by the end of the 19th century by which composers were able to gain greater creative freedom and make more money by composing for paying audiences than by working for churches or nobility, and as public venues for performing became widely available the patronage system came to an end. When the nobility wanted music, they would simply commission it, rather than having a composer on staff at all times.
We often speculate what instruments a given historical composer might have used if they were alive today. I am almost certain that they would have used whatever was available, chief among them being electric basses and guitars. The old composers of the past used whatever was available to them, including the newest and most unusual instruments of their time, and there is no reason to think that the would do the same now. The inner drive to create and play is no different now than it was then. For those of us who are professional musicians it's more of a matter of what instruments we like to play, and what we can get a job playing than anything else. The desire to make music is strong enough within us that most of the time there aren't many things we'd rather be doing, and we want to be good enough that we are willing to put in the hours of practice and work each day which are required if one wants to make a living being a musician, no matter what the genera we end up being in. No one goes into music as a means to make money. Only a very few musicians get crazy rich. Most end up just scratching by, and it has always been thus. Mozart died a pauper, and in spite of his musical accomplishments, was buried in a mass pauper's grave, his remains jumbled in with hundreds of anonymous others. We don't even know what pauper's grave he was buried in, and therefore, we only the city near which one of the greatest musical minds to have ever lived is buried. Likewise, I will end up in the modern equivalent of a pauper's grave, and since I am no longer able to play, I will most likely be going to a state home for the indigent disabled, probably soon.
The important thing to remember is that both the musicians and audiences of the times of any of the great musicians of the past is that they laughed, and cryed, and loved, and hated, worked and played, felt joy and sadness, and all of the same things we do today. In Beethoven's time, there was no such thing as "classical" music. He and other composers of the time thought they were making modern music. Would Beethoven have written for the electric instruments of our time? Of course he would. Everyone makes music on the instruments available to them in their time and place. One of the things that I have always wished for as a music historian and a historically informed performer is that audiences would loosen up and that more people would "come as they are". Let me ask, would you be more likely to attend a classical concert if the codes of dress and behaviour were no different than for any other concert?
Holy god. How much work did you put into that?
@astro_ogalde Thank you. I'm glad it was helpful, and perhaps insightful.
What's impressive is how you can play. That makes the video worth watching. The theatrics are superfluous.
Amazing bro! Two of my favorite Beethoven pieces. Moonlight 3rd & Pathetique 1st. Bomb
Cliff Burton would be proud.
Check his Orion vid^^
Makes me think of one of the ghost castle songs on Mario
I was looking for this comment
Just found this video... and totally enjoyed it. Great musicianship dude.
I’m proud to be one of your subscribers and I LOVE your skits! This arrangement is mind blowing👍