Heaviest Bass Riff Of All Time?! (Tutorial + Tab)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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This week we’re looking at the HEAVIEST BASS RIFF IN THE WORLD EVER (in my humble opinion!) in the shape of Ace Of Spades by Motorhead, played by the legendary, late, great LEMMY!
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Be interesting if you did this for Kings Of Speed Hawkwind to compare Lemmy in '75 to his era in Motörhead, remember Hawkwind had the song Motorhead in 1975 before he formed the band.
Your third tuning peg keeps popping in and out of existence
Yes. That's because I live in a strange white void between this and a parallel dimension! The tuning peg keeps making a transition over, but I'm always sure to pull that sucker back in!
God dammit, now I can't stop looking at it!
@Brain Drain mine too.. but it won't return ;)
@Brain Drain We ARE strong, we are bassplayers don't we?
Fourth peg
Lemmy would disagree he played metal. He would say they played "rock 'n' f*ckin' roll".
It's all "Rock 'n' Fucking Roll".
Kyle Bennett “ Good evening, we are Motörhead, we play rock n roll “
Yeah... thats similar to saying he didn't live in New York, he lived in America. heavy metal is a branch of rock n roll. Yeah Lemmy's a legend, and they did indeed say that, they're one of the few punk/metal mashups that was super respected by both crowds.
@@killval849 Well, he didn't live in New York, he lived in L.A. But seriously, what he meant is he played rock (that is simple dynamic songs about boozing, women, dirty sex, adultery, excess, motorcycles and cars, cards, with no frills in the 50s, 60s, 70s tradition, etc) as opposed to metal (songs about angst, satan, evil, and other mostly juvenile BS, with endless BS soloing and high pitched shrieking voices)
@@foljs5858
Where does Metallica before the death of Cliff fit in that?
The drummer is also driving the hell out of the band! Great song.
Good Old Philthy Phil Taylor. There were certainly better technical drummers, but I’ve always enjoyed his crushing hi hat driven tempo.
Lemmy had such a disgusting sound and it's gorgeous. You ever notice when something is so ugly it's brilliant? Gets you friggin pumped.
Kaz Kuczynski
Disgusting sound? No way..... there's no greater bass sound than an overdriven rickenbacker......
Kaz Kuczynski
RIP Lemmy, may you be rocking the under 🌍 on the day of reckoning.
@@schreineinAV "Disgusting" means good, nice and dirty, like a monster that's so ugly, it's beautiful.
When we really like something, we might say, "i so shitty", meaning "cool".
Like, "the dude was amazing, about half way through the song he laid down the shittiest bass solo, he was so amazing".
Beauty & the Beast !
Cheers Buddy.
Dr Why
You crazy kids and your f**ked up way of communicating! Lol! If I played a bass solo and someone said it was 'shitty'.... I'd use the bass like an axe to split their head.... they wouldn't get a chance to try to convince me it was meant as a compliment!
like pitbulls '' , so ugly their brutally handsome''.
Lemmy’s best bass solo please “stay clean”
lost in the ozone
Overkill
Not even close, try Keep us on the Road, you can't get any better
Absolutely Brilliant Mark..I've great memories of this track although listening to it one night on Radio Scotland it practically finished my old valve radio I rescued from a skip. Was listening at full pelt and the sound just died. It was a sad ending to a great old piece of technology
Great lesson , l like a lot Lemmy's sound setting. Great taste
This is IT!!! Thank you so much for this lesson. And for free. Amazing.
Thanks for doing a Motorhead song.
Awesome lesson!
I'm gonna have to concur with this man. There have been so many technical wizards. From that era Geezer Butler, Steve Harris. That's just on the Heavy Metal Rock end. Funny thing is Lemmy always said "I'm a guitarist who plays bass". Yet he wrote best lines for the songs.
You should check out Peter Steele from Type O Negative. Every one of his riffs are the heaviest bass riffs of all time. BEAD. 🤘🤘
The Watcher from Doremi Fasol Latido first composition and vocals of Lemmy with Hawkwind. Listen to the Dirty Bass there, that sound being established in 1972.
...I remember beating out the riff for what would be "Pump up the Volume", when noodling one night in the late 70's...
As much as I love Lemmy, I'd say that Homicidal Suicidal by Budgie is the heaviest I know. Great lesson, BTW!
Pretty much all of the riffs on the first few Budgie albums are heavy as balls!
FUBB wishbone ash
Shout out to another BUDGIE fan!!!!
Nice ! 🔥
On a metal note, could you do a breakdown of the bassline in "Iron Maiden - Run to the hills" ?
Always found this bass riff fascinating.
Coming soon. Already sequenced the tracks
@@talkingbasslessons awesome !
Iron Maiden 22 Acacia Ave.
Fantastic! Thanks!
Nice, I was just thinking of learning this song! Also, despite Drop D being mentioned all the time, I've been noticing a bunch of metal songs I want to learn are actually in Eb standard tuning.
Originally being a tuba player (as well as other low brass Bb instruments) I've wondered have anyone ever done a sort of Bb standard turning, as in Bb-Eb-Ab-Db? Was something I've pondered yet never seriously considered, though, I am contemplating adding a bass and using a tenor (A-D-G-C) tuning since a lot of the sheet music I read generally stays in a range of notes between A1 and F3 meaning a high C would allow tighter groups of notes (and a good amount of open strings) vs the more E string focused genres I would still have a regular bass to cover. Similarly, a low B-string tuned down a half step would allow similar an octave lower, creating a sort of family of basses like you see in orchestral instruments vs simply replacing them all with a single 6-string bass.
Tuba...a bass with a blow-hole.
\m/ Motorhead always kicks ass and lovey p bass.
"Now it's been a while since I covid any metal stuff"
Glad I found this... Awesome...
I dunno....TOOL's "Invincible" has some of the meanest bass riffs I think I've ever heard.
Heavy as F!!! 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻
Actually it's heavy as E 😅
Gently or My Plague by slipknot probably has some of the heaviest basslines
Easiest song on gods earth but a classic
3:27 5:18 8:50 10:27
Heaviest rhythm guitar riff.
LEMMY LIVES!!!!
Power chords are easy to play, but sound that great when I play them on my bass or guitar that I cannot believe I am not a real bass/guitar player lol
But you can play it on standard tuning aswell right? because in any point you hit the lowest E flat, i always play this song on standard tunning, in bass and guitar, one of the very first songs i learn, but it wasnt till very late with other Motorhead stuff that i get the half step down, like in Overkill
Later on he adds a few open E and A strings into the mix so the Eb and Ab are in there
That is cool. My favorite bass in any song is (I believe in you) by Twisted Sister. You should give it a listen. Thanks
I'd love to see you cover Prison Sex from Tool. But, you know, the dreaded algorithm.
Hey, I am German. I don’t understand the title. „Heaviest“ in the meaning of difficult oder „heaviest“ in the meaning of heavy rock?
Love that you chose Lemmy!
Love that you chose a Motorhead number!
Really fekin aggro`d you didn`t chose their title track Motorhead?????? Nothing like it when it came out, still few tracks that get me as `adolescently testosteroned` (i don`t know if that`s a thing, but that what it feels like! I`m 54 now btw) as that track!
But great vid anyway bud.
One of these days I'll do a Motorhead Best Of riff collection. Motorhead will defo be in there. Luv it!
Death ripper by speed Wolf is pretty heavy
Rip Lemmy !!!
Are you mistaking heavy for quite quick?
Is it heavy because of effects used?
The name says it all - Brontosaurus by the Move
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Nice man
Such a fun piece. What are your thoughts on Duff Mckagan from Guns n Roses out side of the Sweet Child o' mine and Paradise City riffs that are oh so done?
I was a massive Guns n Roses fan. Bought Appetite when it came out and could sing every song in order both guitar and lyrics. Duff is great. There is some lovely playing on the Use Your Illusion albums.
@@talkingbasslessons that's awesome. AFD is still my all time fav. And you're right UYI has beastly bass work like Locomotive and Bad Apples. But not too many cover songs like thoes. Think you'd ever do a break down on some of his playing?
Who’s better Lemmy or god??
What effect pedal you use?
🤘🤘
Take a lot of speed before practicing the riff
What's heavy about this riff?
Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath...
THANKS!
I was RIGHT and the rest of the band were wrong..
"Play it slowly and get it right then speed her up" I said...
NO.. Not a bit of it...
Carry on lads..
Glad I didn't go in front of a crowd with them.. Imagine screwing this one up 2 months after the man himself passed away?
If you think this is the heaviest bassline ever, you've clearly never heard The Wiggles 🤘🤘
Anesthesia!
play the boogeyman solo
You need to hear lemmys solo in stay clean, the heaviest bass riff ever from motorhead, would love if you could do a video on that!
Stay lean is an awesome solo. I'm still searching for that tone Lemmy had in love me like a reptile.
@@csircy such an underrated song, def one of my favourites
"Born to Lose, Lived to Win". RIP Lemmy. Thank You Talking Bass for the upload!
More metal please! You'd love mudvayne's complex lines
Ryan Martinie is a cool bass player
Determined 💪
@@talkingbasslessons Imn off of Lost and Found
Brbr deng
BoozerBane BRBR DENG BRBR DENG
YES! LEMMY! ACE OF SPADES! YES! An awesome player who's playing gets overlooked for his personality. Thanks! and more Lemmy please!
Bob S absolutely. Watch Lemmy the movie it’s brilliant
@@klisher Lemmy is God. LOL
Most motorhead bass lines are heavy
Motorhead for life, and cheers for another Bass lesson, quite possibly the greatest and heaviest by yours truly, Lemmy!
The Young Ones S1E7 [Bambi] brought me here....
Scumbag....Neil
Vivian shoves a donut in his mouth and sticks his fingers up at the girl on the till 😂
World's largest bottomburp?
@@kingloser4198 Toxteth o'Grady, USA , it says here Rick, England ... classic
Lemmys base had such a dirty sound but really punchy it's addictive and freakin LOUD pure genius on a bass.
A history of bad men by the Melvins, probably the heaviest and darkest bass riff of all time
Just so you're aware, Motorhead was never metal. They were just a rock band.
Hi, I want to suggest Rammstein - Seemann as one of the heaviest bass riffs of all time :)
Oh ... and Orion by Cliff Burton
I like “Stay Clean” on the “ No Sleep til Hammersmith” album, especially Lemmys solo at the end.
I Already know how to play this song i was actually just looking for Motorhead videos and came across this and was like ok how are people being taught this song and are they teaching it Correctly???
I gotta say I'm impressed cause you not only break down the riff dumb it down with a drum track to make sense of time and note placement but show all the little tricks Lem did live Great Video man and a Damn Good Lesson 🤘
Marshall Super bass head, Presence at 1 o'clock, Volume at 3 o'clock, Bass and Treble on 0, Mid on 10. that was the sound
That song directly influenced thrash metal and that bass is dirty as. RIP Lemmy.
RIP LEMMY!
Any MOTORHEAD/ Lemmy bass guitar riff would be brutal against any other bass guitar player
Good stuff. Give a run down of 'Day of Suffering' by Morbid Angel. Or 'In Hell is where she waits for me' The Black Dahlia Murder
If you are planning on more metal riffs I'd love to some havok here. It's hard to find proper tabs or resources for their songs and basslines are great. F.P.C and hang em high are great examples of Nick skills and I really wish there was a tutorial on how to perform them :D
What about 5 best black sabbath riffs
Coming Soon!
@Stream of Consciousness Lady Evil kicks ass.
Ah this is a pretty subjective topic haha. There's obviously heavier bass riffs. Besides all of the amazing bass riffs in all the metal/rock subgenres, one that immediately comes to mind is Caravan by Rush.
Jack Bruce stuff?
This is just what I need. I'm learning how to use a pick
Try doing "Lord of this World" or "Into the Void " by Black Sabbath and you'll separate the men from the boys
can you cover the bass solo in motorhead's stay clean please?
Nah, not coffee. Some good ol fashioned biker speed!
Saw them live several times. He was amazing at the picking Rhythms
Your so lucky
I think iron fist is his best.
Simple, brutal, rock.
Nidhogg vom Walde When Lemmy was asked, " What is your least favorite Motorhead album"? He said Iron Fist.
@@Mr005227 the most dislike he felt for "another perfect day"...
Because if was so "different"...
After the recording he kicked the guitar player who was responsible for it, because he had the feeling, that another perfect day is not motörhead and he didn't liked the direction motörhead could go...
But today experts call it the best motörhead lp, because it is much more developed than the most of their recorded material...
But WE talked about bass riffs, not about whole records....btw...
Orgasmatron is pretty damn awesome too
When I clicked the vid I said “Yeah this probably isn’t rock n’ fuckin roll”
This video is 4 years old so I do not know if anybody follows the comments, but I still try:
Why is everybody analyzing this song saying the bass is tuned down one half note - when there is no empty string, why not just play one fret lower?
Had a Numb Nut plug a Bass and Fuzz into a
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Half Stack at my rehearsal place
JUST One of those days , I WENT BALLLLISTIC
Heavy bass? Mel Sacher of Grand Funk 'Mr Limousine Driver'.
Ric with a pick through modified marshals. Lots of people saying it wasn’t the heaviest ever...Lots of people couldn’t carry Lemmy’s fucking jock strap if they had a D9 Cat as well.
Best tutorial ever on this! Iron Fist would be cool!
I usually skipped "ace of spades" and went straight to "love me like a reptile" and played all til' we're the road crew (skipped this one too). Never really like ace of spades.
This is correct, but your picking hand is all eff''d up. To get a more aggressive and percussive sound you need to down stroke on the beat. There's a distinct sound difference between down strokes and up strokes with the pick. Your mix of down strokes and up strokes on the beat gives the song a more relaxed feel.
Just learned how to play this one. So much fun rocking this one out. Lemmy is God of rock and roll
And no it's not the Metallica song "The thing that should not be" James boosted during there early 90's tour that it was the heaviest tune out there not.
“You might want a coffee or an energy drink.” Or some speed. 🤩
Don’t do drugs kids! 💀
Canny! But it's not distortion at all.. Try some Rob Wright of NOMEANSNO yup?
I like how the A string tuning knob disappears and reappears constantly.
Good riff but it's not really a "bass" riff and it's not really heavy. It's more like rhythm guitar on a bass.
Man can't beat a Rickenbacker, you did a great job but the original is just so much more powerful, I think also I think he hits it harder as well.
He doesn't hit harder. That doesn't really do anything beyond a certain point apart from add fret buzz and choke the note. If you watch Lemmy play, he's quite guitaristic (he was a guitarist before a bassist). It's very strummy and fairly light. He's more in the McCartney vein of playing (which he talks about a LOT)
@@talkingbasslessons I agree with guitar influence maybe I wasn't clear with hard hitting, his technique is much more flothy so the speed is higher and the hits are harder. If you look at his right hand it doesn't rest on the base like you do it. ua-cam.com/video/eBIa0o36pPo/v-deo.html. The way you do it it's much more Chris Squire like at least in my opinion, a great lesson as always, it just sounded somewhat different to me.
@@talkingbasslessons Best metaphor I can think of the difference between a face slap and a jab. With a slap you need to hit much harder to achieve the same power as with a jab.
I remember from about 1978 he preferred Thunderbird pickups with all the bass rolled off, his engineer said it was difficult sometimes to know if it was him or Eddie playing. Held his pick in an odd way too. Brilliant lesson and great tone. ;0)
I think being able to talk about this supersimple riff for so long is a achivement of its own😂
Ya right hand rhythm is all wrong, hence why it sounds staggered instead of a smooth rhythm..........
Here's Lemmy's bass track y'all! Enjoy!
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Youre f'n awesome, Mark!!! Outstanding!!! Bongripper's People Mover, yo!
Motörhead played Rock & Roll.
Two questions out of curiosity.
Have you released any music of your own and what type of music do you listen the most?
Thanks for all your vids
Oh hey, this is actually incredibly useful. I tried learning this song a couple of months ago, once I started getting accustomed to the speed I could get by picking. Here I was just playing the intro riff over and over, and it felt kind of wrong at times.