Cathedral - Fountain of Innocence bass cover
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Bass cover of Cathedral's "Fountain of Innocence" from their 1993 record, The Ethereal Mirror. I've recently begun to really appreciate these guys' stuff and thought it would be fitting to learn my favorite track from them so far, this one. Their riffy, grooving, heavy sound mixed with the wacky, humorous aesthetics is right up my alley, so I've been having too much fun with them. The bass on this song (and the whole record) was done by the band's primary guitarist, Gaz Jennings, and in my opinion he does an absolutely phenomenal job on the bass work. He channels some serious Geezer Butler which makes it a lot of fun to jam along to. I got most of the fills in decently accurately, but I did improvise on a few parts; other than that, I've followed the main line almost fully.
I'm playing an 80s Charvel CSM-2B PJ bass with DR black beauty strings and Seymour Duncan pickups through a Genz Benz Contour 500 amp. I've got the P pickup soloed with the tone knob rolled down probably by about a quarter turn. I'm tuned to BF#BE, which is like C standard with a drop B. I boosted the mids in the EQ a bit, and cut some of the highs, because this bass likes to scream even when sometimes I'd rather it not.
Thanks for watching! Happy new year, too! I hope everyone's 2017 was as great as mine was, and wishing a wonderful and blessed 2018 to everyone. Shout-out to all of my viewers and subscribers, new and old. Please leave any questions, criticisms, suggestions, ideas, requests, and thoughts in the comment section below!
One of my favourite songs of all time. Love your technique and the sound.
Cool! It is a really awesome song. Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed!
Such a great song... remember jamming to this one back in high school when it came out. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah! This is an awesome song. That's cool that you got to catch it when it came out. Thanks for watching!
Very Nice!!!
mu fav song of ethereal mirror
Hello very fantastic cover 👍
Thank you!
That Charvel has such an amazing tone! You should use it in more bass covers.
My favourite song of this album. Great baseline!
Yeah, this one's awesome! It's the song that got me into the band. Thanks for watching.
I️ loved it. The bass line is gritty and very Black Sabbath like. Love that bass too, seems like we got the bugs worked out on it. It think those black beauties sound great on it. Glad to see you back in the studio laying down awesome covers again bud. Happy new year son!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed! These guys do have a really Sabbathy sound, which is really cool. And yeah, this bass has come a long way. I suppose it's less a prog bass and more of a metal bass now, but I think it's one of the burliest sounding basses in the collection. And yeah, the black beauties fit this bass so well, I love them. Happy new year to you, too, dad!!
what tune bro? great cover btw!
YOU MAN, YOU ARE MY PERSONAL IDOL!!!!!THE BEAUTIEST SONG AND BASS LINE EAVER!!!!THANK YOU SOOO MUCH.TAKE CARE
Thanks for making this! I also appreciate your forewords for this one. Many covers don't care to tell anything. Keep going that way please.
But, you're from 2018 or 1971 ??
I am... t i m e t r a v e l e r
Nice! can you maybe write tabs for it? thanks
Jesus Christ this is so awesome!
Good to see you back at it mate, hope things are going well for you :)
Thanks, Porcupine! Things are going very well! I hope the same to you.
Oh yeah - Black Beauties alright! Good match for a that hard rockin' bass. Great job!
Yeah, they're awesome strings! I'm glad you like them on this bass! Thank you!