Well some of his stuff on the most recent album is a bit boring and even some of the good parts are drowned out in the mix. Pretty disappointing album from a bass standpoint imo. Over emphasis on Adam. Like his guitar work is awesome but it gets a bit reptitive because it seems to be the showcase of every song. 7empest goes on for so long it had room for a bass groove like Rosetta Stoned but it never comes.
@@lred1383 I'm not sure the point you are trying to make. Because to me FI is an awesome bassline, probably the best on the album and it supports OPs comment. While 7empest as a really repetitive and drowned out bassline that contradicts OP.
@@AVerySillySausage I found FI to be pretty boring to play, because that song relies VERY heavily on delay. The actual riffs you play are so minimalistic and bland that you almost feel like falling asleep while playing it. The chorus riff is sick tho. I'm gonna be honest with you, i thought of 7empest instantly, but the meme format requires multiple objects, so i had to pick one more song to go there
@@lred1383 OMG that part in 7empest where you play the same fucking riff for like 5 minutes and its in some bullshit time signature so you cant just doze off and "feel it." WHY ? Justin whY?
There are many ways to make odd time signatures feel normal. This song kind of works off two of those ideas. 1. Each Phrase leads into the next with a little bit of a push, such as an octave drop to the tonic "D". 2. In the beginning of the song it is less metrically strict, making it easier to get a feel for the riff and tempo. The 1st way is definitely the easiest and it's the same technique used by the James Bond theme to make the 5/4 sound less off. But the second way is something that can only come with time while working with people. A good example of this is in "Master of Puppets" by Metallica, in which there is a single measure in the riff where there is a missing 32nd note. Keeping that in time is extremely hard if you don't know the people you're working with. Either way is effective, and they both work to serve the piece put in front of us. So, yes, it is amazing that they can do that, but so can you. As long as you understand a little bit of theory. :)
You can imagine it as 11/4 (3 + 3 + 3 +2) but I don't personally. 3 3 3 2 makes more sense to me. And, the reason it feels so normal is because you're splitting the song into those 3's and 2. Each of those measures can be felt "isochronously" (i may have butchered that word), or "regularly" in layman's terms. Each measure can be felt as a fairly simple beat. In this case, you'd count it out as "1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2". 3/4 and 2/4 are both extremely easy to count and feel and are more common than you'd think. If the song was written in 11/8 or 11/4 it would probably sound more like beats were getting chopped off, and become more uneven in that sense
@@DanielPain96 you can notate it that way but as a performer it would be harder to sus out the rhythm. sure, it would be fewer measures and less ink on paper but it's important to consider the psychological factor of writing out the 3 3 3 2 rhythm
Yeah that's why chancellor is such a phenomenal player. He plays like a guitarist in some parts, but he stays true to the nature of the instrument he's playing. Plus, he's the only one I've heard who's been able to make good use of the whammy, which is by itself a useless piece of crap imho
1:40 I just realized that that could be an amazing use of an 8 string bass! If you have one of those 8 strings where each string is doubled, and then add a hint of chorus and delay, you could make that sound super cool!
Damn, I never knew that the high pitched sounds were made by the bass! It's cool how the lower notes are played by the guitar and the higher notes are on bass when it's usually the other way around.
@LeoBassCovers note that after the words "...humans free will" at 0:48 the pedal pattern changes a little bit. It is more smoothed out :). Check out in the original song
6:24 Every time I play the drums to this with the intensity that I want to I end up falling out of time and fatiguing on the double bass :( I have to consciously maintain control if I want to play it clean
El bajo es mi instrumento favorito (no soy música, pero considero que es uno de los más difíciles de dominar). Cuando escucho un tema, juego a cerrar los ojos y "seguirle la pista" al bajo, aislarlo en mi mente de los demás instrumentos...es fascinante . Tu cover de esta canción tan complicada (en mi opinión) es muy, muy bueno!! Gracias Leo, por compartir tu talento y perpetuar a Tool con la magia de tus dedos sobre las cuerdas!! Desde Granada (España) 💓🎸
Thanks to you channel I've finally started playing bass again. Got hype for the new album and wanted to relearn older tool songs. Your covers are amazing! Keep it up 🙂
Such a GEM. Been working on this the last few days, one of my favorite TOOL songs. Just saw them in Portland (7empest is amazing live) - bummed the Eugene show was postponed, but oh well, so is everything! Thanks again man.
i love this cover, you've helped me learn this song so easily. sometimes i even prefer to listen to this over the original track. appreciate the effort you put into these
Thank you for highlighting such a beautiful and important element of this song perfectly! I really enjoyed getting to hear this! Excellent instructional video and play along tabs too! You fuckin rule!
What chorus effect are you using at 1:46? I can’t find anything that sounds like that, and I love the tone, it doesn’t even sound like a chorus effect to me
Am I crazy or is the beginning a bit off regarding timing? I'm literally listening to this and the "real" version back to back, and still can't put my finger on it.
that part where you turn your treble knob while you play semiquavers, im sure they mix in fades and effects in the studio but does Justin do this live? interested to know because any recordings of live performances are in quite bad quality.
I think he does to a degree. I don't think he pulls off stuff like that when he also has to turn on some of his pedal, but he does try to re-create these sounds live.
This sounds like if 10,000 Diamond cords were used to play this song. At at most perfect placement, on the most perfectly tuned bass guitar. You are the one who everyone should use to learn to play bass.
Leo how did you get the tremelo on just the 7s live? Or did you add it later? I think we have the same pedal but I don't see how you did that in real time. Like you, I want my sound to be exact. Thats why I like your channel.
I actually don't have a pedal, I used a plug-in for this cover. I know Justin uses a Guyatone Vintage Tremolo pedal, but I have no idea what his settings were. I don't understand how the tremolo sound doesn't set in during the whammy parts. In live videos, you don't see him switching it off and on so I have no idea tbh
@@LeoBassCovers2 sorry, I meant that we have the same multi processor. Yeah no matter if you put the tremolo before or after the whammy it would still come through in the 6th oct position. Idk. Thanks for responding. I'll search it up
Finally got a multi effects pedal that had a whammy in it but it doesnt have the right harmony option so ive been messing around with pitch shifters and all other sorts of things to recreate the effect 😅
I think the DigiTech pedal is the only one that has the harmony option, as far as I know.. But hey, it doesn't need to be exactly 100% the same sound :)
oof, I remember recording that. I actually had to record this part on another bass. I think I didn't use any effects there, but I should've used some more distortion. I think you can make it sound similar by just turning down the treble a bit.
Thanks! I sold this bass a long time so I can't quite remember, but I do remember buying pro steel strings for this song actually. But uh, just lots of treble and bass really.
It is yeah, I do this in every video basically. Just to show everyone that I'm clearly not playing this live :) Recording audio and video separately allows me to be so much more efficient, rather than having to do it all in 1 take.
Hey Leo,I know that this video is really old so you probably won`t see my comment but anyway How did you turn the tremelo effect on and off so fast? Or did you add the tremelo after you recorded the part? Cheers,
New comments land on top of the "comments" section, no worries :) But I indeed added tremolo later since I don't have a tremolo pedal. Justin uses a tremolo pedal however. I think it's a Guyatone vintage tremolo
@@LeoBassCovers2 Oh, good to know. Thanks for the response. Also I`ve been following you since the early days and I think your original songs are great. You are the ultimate ``Hidden jam of youtube`` in my eyes. Keep up the great work :)
Okay I don't know much about basses so can someone explain to me how he's playing notes but not pressing down on the frets? I have no idea what's happening
I think you're talking about the harmonics during the main riff of this song which is made with a bass whammy. But to play a harmonic note (Flageolet), you actually don't have to press down on anything. You just slightly touch and hover you finger over a string and strum it. You'll get this beautiful light sound which makes it sound a bit like a guitar really.
I use the free modulation plug-ins that came with the Universal Audio Apollo Twin Duo audio interface which is quite expensive. So I don't recommend it.
Justin NEVER writes a boring bass part
7empest and Fear Inoculum: Allow us to introduce ourselves
Well some of his stuff on the most recent album is a bit boring and even some of the good parts are drowned out in the mix. Pretty disappointing album from a bass standpoint imo. Over emphasis on Adam. Like his guitar work is awesome but it gets a bit reptitive because it seems to be the showcase of every song. 7empest goes on for so long it had room for a bass groove like Rosetta Stoned but it never comes.
@@lred1383 I'm not sure the point you are trying to make. Because to me FI is an awesome bassline, probably the best on the album and it supports OPs comment. While 7empest as a really repetitive and drowned out bassline that contradicts OP.
@@AVerySillySausage I found FI to be pretty boring to play, because that song relies VERY heavily on delay. The actual riffs you play are so minimalistic and bland that you almost feel like falling asleep while playing it. The chorus riff is sick tho. I'm gonna be honest with you, i thought of 7empest instantly, but the meme format requires multiple objects, so i had to pick one more song to go there
@@lred1383 OMG that part in 7empest where you play the same fucking riff for like 5 minutes and its in some bullshit time signature so you cant just doze off and "feel it." WHY ? Justin whY?
6:30 - 7:10 is why Adam and Justin are fucking geniuses. Who thinks to play something so different but works so well together?
Only Tool can pull it off like this too!
It took me more than a year to realize this song was in 11/8, goes to show how Tool can write in odd times and have them sound normal
There are many ways to make odd time signatures feel normal. This song kind of works off two of those ideas.
1. Each Phrase leads into the next with a little bit of a push, such as an octave drop to the tonic "D".
2. In the beginning of the song it is less metrically strict, making it easier to get a feel for the riff and tempo.
The 1st way is definitely the easiest and it's the same technique used by the James Bond theme to make the 5/4 sound less off. But the second way is something that can only come with time while working with people. A good example of this is in "Master of Puppets" by Metallica, in which there is a single measure in the riff where there is a missing 32nd note. Keeping that in time is extremely hard if you don't know the people you're working with.
Either way is effective, and they both work to serve the piece put in front of us. So, yes, it is amazing that they can do that, but so can you. As long as you understand a little bit of theory.
:)
You can imagine it as 11/4 (3 + 3 + 3 +2) but I don't personally. 3 3 3 2 makes more sense to me. And, the reason it feels so normal is because you're splitting the song into those 3's and 2. Each of those measures can be felt "isochronously" (i may have butchered that word), or "regularly" in layman's terms. Each measure can be felt as a fairly simple beat. In this case, you'd count it out as "1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2". 3/4 and 2/4 are both extremely easy to count and feel and are more common than you'd think.
If the song was written in 11/8 or 11/4 it would probably sound more like beats were getting chopped off, and become more uneven in that sense
isn't this song in 11/4? Maybe I'm wrong tho :D
@@DanielPain96 you can notate it that way but as a performer it would be harder to sus out the rhythm. sure, it would be fewer measures and less ink on paper but it's important to consider the psychological factor of writing out the 3 3 3 2 rhythm
@@cupparuppa yes I understand you I really like this song set-up it's so clear to measure those 3-3-3-2's and beside with a beautiful melody
Ah yes, the lesser known brother of coversolutions. I know this cause they both have no heads.
I actually have two heads which is why I'm shying away from the camera.
read that as conversolutions and it made perfect sense
The section at 1:40 has to be the most genius line I've ever heard!
it's one hauntingly beautiful riff huh
I always assumed it was just a double guitar track...
So did I...
Yeah that's why chancellor is such a phenomenal player. He plays like a guitarist in some parts, but he stays true to the nature of the instrument he's playing. Plus, he's the only one I've heard who's been able to make good use of the whammy, which is by itself a useless piece of crap imho
Well my quest to find a tab for the second guitar track can come to an end now. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
H501 whammy is an amazing pedal. of course it has to be in the right hands. many people don’t know how to use it which makes it sound like crap.
1:40 I just realized that that could be an amazing use of an 8 string bass! If you have one of those 8 strings where each string is doubled, and then add a hint of chorus and delay, you could make that sound super cool!
It could be yeah. Wouldn't it just sound almost the exact same as with a whammy though?
@@LeoBassCovers2 I mean, yea. But if you use that logic then I won't have an excuse to get an 8 string bass! Haha
Hey you could play some Pearl Jam with that I think. Or is that a 12-string.. No idea.
@@deepsolar169 haha epic comment! Good luck out there brother
@@LeoBassCovers2 Jeff played a 12-string Hamer bass back then
One of the most underrated Tool songs, great cover 👍
Thanks a lot!
I feel like the whammy pedal is one of the most underrated pedals there is
Oh definitely!
This song works so well in what turns out to be 11/4. And then such a release when it changes for the chorus. Brilliant. Briliant analysis too Leo.
Watch out for the people who will be like "It's actually 3/4 + 3/4 + 2/4!!!!!!!!!". Thank you so much!
This song is so underrated. I wish they still play it live .
Less than we want it
Damn, I never knew that the high pitched sounds were made by the bass! It's cool how the lower notes are played by the guitar and the higher notes are on bass when it's usually the other way around.
Yep! It shows how creative they are really..
@LeoBassCovers note that after the words "...humans free will" at 0:48 the pedal pattern changes a little bit. It is more smoothed out :). Check out in the original song
6:24 Every time I play the drums to this with the intensity that I want to I end up falling out of time and fatiguing on the double bass :( I have to consciously maintain control if I want to play it clean
El bajo es mi instrumento favorito (no soy música, pero considero que es uno de los más difíciles de dominar). Cuando escucho un tema, juego a cerrar los ojos y "seguirle la pista" al bajo, aislarlo en mi mente de los demás instrumentos...es fascinante . Tu cover de esta canción tan complicada (en mi opinión) es muy, muy bueno!! Gracias Leo, por compartir tu talento y perpetuar a Tool con la magia de tus dedos sobre las cuerdas!! Desde Granada (España) 💓🎸
Thanks to you channel I've finally started playing bass again.
Got hype for the new album and wanted to relearn older tool songs.
Your covers are amazing!
Keep it up 🙂
Thank you very much!
Such a GEM. Been working on this the last few days, one of my favorite TOOL songs. Just saw them in Portland (7empest is amazing live) - bummed the Eugene show was postponed, but oh well, so is everything! Thanks again man.
Oh wow, you saw 7empest live?!?
No problem :)
@@LeoBassCovers2 It was awesome! If you have the chance, its worth the effort.
BTW, looking forward to hearing your music!
I'll think about it if they will ever tour in Europe again.
Glad to hear!
i love this cover, you've helped me learn this song so easily. sometimes i even prefer to listen to this over the original track. appreciate the effort you put into these
Wow, thank you!
love the cover, great view on the grippers as well
He's done it again Bass Lord!
Thank you for highlighting such a beautiful and important element of this song perfectly! I really enjoyed getting to hear this! Excellent instructional video and play along tabs too! You fuckin rule!
Thank you very much! Glad I could help :)
Love it, great sounding Bass, brillant job!
Thank you very much :)
Gotta get me one of those digitech bass whammys! So cool!!
Missed a part at the 2:40 mark. That trippy tremolo scratching effect was from the bass. But otherwise you did an excellent job.
how do you do that?
@@hetfieldbnu by stretching high D string with pick quickly, just by the bridge, with some fx, a flanger probably?
Really cool looking foot, nice cover.
Got a Bass Whammy for my birthday! Just so I can play this absolute banger. Great job 👏🏻
Have fun with it!
Beautiful tone man
Thanks a lot! :)
Man, very good cover!! THANKS A LOT!!
No problem!!
6:25 just perfection
That's great man. Well meet..
Nice work 👍
I was 100% sure this was metered in alternating 6/4 & 5/4. gotta love TOOL
hermoso cover el detalle del pedal no lo conocia jaja
This song is my favorite TOOL song, as well as my dad's.
Been binging on this song all week! Nice
Thank you so much, and congrats!
Nice work.
Thanks!
That whammy pedal is beautiful
DigiTech bass whammy! Favourite pedal for sure..
Amazing
What chorus effect are you using at 1:46? I can’t find anything that sounds like that, and I love the tone, it doesn’t even sound like a chorus effect to me
I have no idea man. This is the standard "smooth chorus" preset that I always use. Don't forget that the bass whammy is also still on though.
Does justin really use chorus at around 1:43 The album version sounds just like a whammy to me. Your version sounds beautiful too though
Crap, it seems to be whammy+chorus. I completely missed that..
Shouldn’t there be a flanger at 2:38?
5:03 lil wayne
Am I crazy or is the beginning a bit off regarding timing? I'm literally listening to this and the "real" version back to back, and still can't put my finger on it.
youreallydontneedtoknow it’s off by an 8th note, you can see a little pause
1:42 😍😍🔥🔥🔥
Oh the awesomeness
that part where you turn your treble knob while you play semiquavers, im sure they mix in fades and effects in the studio but does Justin do this live? interested to know because any recordings of live performances are in quite bad quality.
I think he does to a degree. I don't think he pulls off stuff like that when he also has to turn on some of his pedal, but he does try to re-create these sounds live.
@@LeoBassCovers2 tysm for the quick reply, I'm currently writing an analysis for the song and that helps thank you :))
Awesome
Thanks Ian
Bought a bass whammy just to play this song XD
Ohhhh ok. Damn he’s good.
6:59 so i watched this part a lot, i cant tell if youre playing the low D string or not. In the tab it has it, but i cant see you plucking
Oh yeah, I messed up the playback there. Always trust the tabs over what you see me do.
This sounds like if 10,000 Diamond cords were used to play this song. At at most perfect placement, on the most perfectly tuned bass guitar. You are the one who everyone should use to learn to play bass.
Thank you so much Andrew :)
I just bought the whammy. This was the first thing I did lol
Time for Disposition!
Leo how did you get the tremelo on just the 7s live? Or did you add it later? I think we have the same pedal but I don't see how you did that in real time. Like you, I want my sound to be exact. Thats why I like your channel.
I actually don't have a pedal, I used a plug-in for this cover. I know Justin uses a Guyatone Vintage Tremolo pedal, but I have no idea what his settings were. I don't understand how the tremolo sound doesn't set in during the whammy parts. In live videos, you don't see him switching it off and on so I have no idea tbh
@@LeoBassCovers2 sorry, I meant that we have the same multi processor. Yeah no matter if you put the tremolo before or after the whammy it would still come through in the 6th oct position. Idk. Thanks for responding. I'll search it up
Finally got a multi effects pedal that had a whammy in it but it doesnt have the right harmony option so ive been messing around with pitch shifters and all other sorts of things to recreate the effect 😅
I think the DigiTech pedal is the only one that has the harmony option, as far as I know.. But hey, it doesn't need to be exactly 100% the same sound :)
@LeoBassCovers2 thats what i get for neglecting research lol
hey what effects do you use to get the bass to sound muddy when it drops around 5:44?
oof, I remember recording that. I actually had to record this part on another bass. I think I didn't use any effects there, but I should've used some more distortion. I think you can make it sound similar by just turning down the treble a bit.
You're amazing 👏
You are!
How are you not switching back and forth from the tremolo to the whammy?
Cause it's playback. I recorded it seperately for better quality like always :)
I have to sit down and use both feet. Momentary contact on the tremolo with the left foot, whammy with the right foot
What are the chorus settings on 1:51? Ik its been a while but, do you remember by any chance?
I wish I could. it's been 3 years since I made this video..
How are you disabling the tremolo with the whammy pedal?
What kind of Chorus pedal was used for 1:42 ?
None actually. I just used a digital plug-in for that
@@LeoBassCovers2 what were the chorus settings
👏
This is awesome how do you get so much punch from your bass tone?
Thanks! I sold this bass a long time so I can't quite remember, but I do remember buying pro steel strings for this song actually. But uh, just lots of treble and bass really.
are those the same notes as sober at 6:44
I have no idea. I've never learnt Sober
@@LeoBassCovers2 Oh my bad lol
for some reason the video keeps glitching out, big green bar across the top with some static but the audio keeps playing. wtf?
Oh yeah, this is happening a lot right now. It seems to be a Adobe flash player problem.
how do you make your chorus pedal sound like that!?
I wish I knew.. I use a digital plug-in for these sounds and tones so I'm just one click away from getting such a sound.
Man, i wish justin played bass like this on Fear Inoculum
How do you get trem only on the 7ths?
What is the name of your pedal bass? I really want your pedal because I have the boss gt-1b and I cant reach that sounds :(
DigiTech bass whammy :)
@@LeoBassCovers2 Thank you :D
Wait. The bass isn’t plugged in. Still an amazing cover! I’m sure it’s filmed separately from the recording but I just noticed.
It is yeah, I do this in every video basically. Just to show everyone that I'm clearly not playing this live :)
Recording audio and video separately allows me to be so much more efficient, rather than having to do it all in 1 take.
@@LeoBassCovers2 so you split the work…right in two? 🤣
Exactly ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Hey Leo,I know that this video is really old so you probably won`t see my comment but anyway
How did you turn the tremelo effect on and off so fast? Or did you add the tremelo after you recorded the part?
Cheers,
New comments land on top of the "comments" section, no worries :)
But I indeed added tremolo later since I don't have a tremolo pedal. Justin uses a tremolo pedal however. I think it's a Guyatone vintage tremolo
@@LeoBassCovers2 Oh, good to know. Thanks for the response. Also I`ve been following you since the early days and I think your original songs are great. You are the ultimate ``Hidden jam of youtube`` in my eyes. Keep up the great work :)
how do you set up the chorus pedal in the second diff?
For me it's just a digital effect so... no idea to be honest.
@@LeoBassCovers2 oh shit i asked the same thing a month ago haha sorry. The tone just gets me hyped everytime
Okay I don't know much about basses so can someone explain to me how he's playing notes but not pressing down on the frets? I have no idea what's happening
I think you're talking about the harmonics during the main riff of this song which is made with a bass whammy. But to play a harmonic note (Flageolet), you actually don't have to press down on anything. You just slightly touch and hover you finger over a string and strum it. You'll get this beautiful light sound which makes it sound a bit like a guitar really.
@@LeoBassCovers2 wow that sounds really really cool! Thanks for the response man!
No problem!
what pickups are you using?
what are the chorus settings you used?
I honestly can't remember. It's all digital for me so I just click on "chorus" and click on how loud I want it to be.
LeoBassCovers oh i see, thx a lot!
LeoBassCovers what app do you use?
I use the free modulation plug-ins that came with the Universal Audio Apollo Twin Duo audio interface which is quite expensive. So I don't recommend it.
Such a beautiful song and I'd love to play it, but I can't justify paying $200+ for a whammy pedal :/
What about the fact that you can also use it for Eulogy, Pushit (Salival), Jambi, Schism, Disposition, Invincible and Third Eye?
@@LeoBassCovers2 That's a good point, I guess I'll start saving then
How dome your “woops” sounds better than my best attempts xd. How long have you been playing for btw?
I think played for about 2-3 years in this video. It's 5 years now :)
Why your bass is unplugged🤣 ?
Cause it's playback :)
I don't want anyone to think that all these videos are a one-take recording while it's a much bigger process
Biblical
Great job but, In the name of all humanity, put some shoes on man. ugggh
No! Shoes in the house.. are you nuts?
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