So, Georg Solti couldn't be considered one of the best conductors ever because he doesn't write the symphonies? Jessye Norman isn't one of the best operatic vocalists because she doesn't write the operas? Hell, Frank Sinatra and Elvis weren't among the best because they didn't write their own lyrics? Your argument doesn't make sense.
So you will discount every backup musician, every sideman, every non composing instrumentalist simply because they do not write the music they play? Every classical musician? To address simply Ellefson, you are seriously suggesting that Dave Mustaine writes every single note of every bassline in Megadeth's music and hands it to Ellefson (or whoever is playing bass at the time)? He writes every single bit of the drumline and hands it to the drummer? ARE YOU SERIOUSLY SUGGESTING THAT HE WROTE MARTY FRIEDMAN'S SOLOS? All of those tracks are credited to Mustaine alone. And I'm making a retarded argument?
OP didn't say he WAS the greatest, he said he is one of the best. I don't understand how you can put the writing stipulation on instrumentalists. Songwriting and playing are two entirely different talents. Complimentary at times, yes, but separate. I don't understand how you can dismiss huge numbers of musicians simply because they don't write. Seems ridiculous to me, almost on a par with saying a painter can't be great unless he mixes his own paint. (shrugs)
Who gives a shit about picks or fingers, the point of the bassline is to be tight and form a solid layer between drums and guitar. You play your instrument as you like to play it! i think David is an awesome bassplayer. \m/
+Brent Bowman No, it's not. It's supposed to be done with a pick. You can't get that tone with your fingers, so there's no challenge at all. I see a lot of comments disrespecting Ellefson's style just because of the pick. People need to get over it already or at least try to play like him and then realize that they suck. Bassits need to be more humble and stop pretending. I'm a bassist, by the way, and a big fan of Ellefson's playing
+Roman Nosov I was never disrespecting his style, and I've seen some palm muting techniques that didn't involve a pick but the tone isn't as good, Also when I started playing bass I watched guys like Steve Harris, geddy lee, and Rob Trujillo so I learned their finger techniques and have gotten good at that (I admit I actually suck at using a pick)
Man. Actually being able to play along with ellefson is really something. Fucking hurts after you spent 6 min trying to keep up with the recording and not fuck up, but still, i can play it!
If you can videotape yourself playing it in perfect time with no background music I can use it for a project I've been working on with a bunch of guys on the Rattle heads Facebook group. It's a cover played by guys from all over the world representing all major religions. I just haven't been able to get a good bass cover yet, everything else is done. Interested? Email me at mansworstday@gmail.com. I could use a good vocal too if you know anyone or you random person reading this comment, yes you, join the Rattleheads on FB and get a hold of me. I'm an admin so Ill get any messages or posts
if Dave scratched your face with his bass pick... you're surely will be called scarface.. One of the best thrash metal bassist.. ever. sorry for my bad english.
+John Shepherd no sean malone is the most underated bass player ever , also the thousands of great bass players that are unknown that can play circles around the current great ones . Dave ellefson is a great Bass Player . metallica had exactly a bass player of that caliber ( Jason Newsted )
@@cringycraig5130 Playing hard as fuck. Insane speed, attack and precision. Mostly playing the same thing as the guitar. There are a lot of similarities.
@@georgiykireev9678 Jason is neither fast nor precise. His bass on AJFA is horrendous, his bass on The Black Album is mediocre. Probably the reason they "muted" it.
I get pretty close with a vintage Charvel 2B and treble all the way up and both bass and mids at 10 or 11 o clock. He uses Jackson (Jackson owns Charvel, or vice nersa I don't remember) so you could really close with either.
+Scraplord32 Active pickups, fresh strings, play hard with a pick (so you get the clicky noises), scoop mids on your amp, boost highs, and use some overdrive.
+Scraplord32 another BIG TIP to capture his tone correctly is to slightly, but aggressively, strike the string with your index finger like Dave does (the finger you point with) while picking.
Because Jason is fairly sloppy, has the habit of copying the guitar note for note, and doesn't play with any kind of dynamics. He bulldozes a bass, Ellefson runs over it like Usain Bolt. Also frankly Jason's picking irritates me, someone that plays rhytym guitar. Jason sounds bad because he is playing the way someone told him to play instead of the way he played in Flotsam
@@My_Lacrimosa Megadeth bass is built on copying note for note guitar as well as pantera for example. Jason was bit buldozerish because of his way of picking (only electric basses, without amp you need to hit hard, I do this as well) and he used a lot of shoulder as well
@@eaglelee6904 You ever played that fricking Dyers eve the way Jason did? Or fricking AJFA title track, Frayed ends? Those lines are hard as fvck to remember and play. Justice has more of those twists and fills (one note here, 2 there) than any megadeth album, riffs might be more technical but try playing whole And Justice for all ( ~10 minutes) without missing a note or getting lost during playing it, same Frayed ends 2 extra notes here, one there, you will see how frickin hard that is. I played those songs, I know what it is. If not for Mustaines jazz and blues background megadeth wouldn't be that hard.
Truly amazing heavy metal bassist. There's a reason Dave kept him around for about 40 years. The man is a beast. He really is in the holy Trinity of metal bassists along with Cliff Burton and Steve Harris. So unique, heavy, inventive and creative. He tells a story with the bass.
Ok, this is kind of amazing. It's like this perfect wedding of everything a bass player is fundamentally meant to do. A perfect bridge between rhythm, harmony, and even supporting aspects of melody. All with incredible precision. Played this CD out in high school and loved Ellefson but hearing the isolated bass tracks is even more imoressive.
Insanely good player, definitely my favourite of them all. I had the good fortune to meet him at a Meet and Greet in Melbourne about a month ago. Ellefson is a true class act, very approachable and really quite happy to talk to fans. His live playing is just phenominal too...
4:50 is down picked mostly so it takes some serious stamina. That part is way harder and requires way more control and consistency with a pick. Much harder to pick this than to play it with your fingers but - makes a huge difference in sound too. Much thinner and tighter with a pick.
This is actually technically pretty advanced. And there's no way you can get this kind of precision with fingers. Most of the fingerstyle elitist who criticize pick players do so because they have limited expertise with a pick. It just takes years and years of work to get to this level of pick playing.
Yes. I have lots of respect for pick players. It is not as easy as it seems. Listen to Chris Squire! Ellefson is probably my favorite metal bassist. Love how he’s always heard and distinguished in the music. Especially with Mustaine’s riffs, which are very technical and blow Metallica and Slayer out of the water IMO.
I was actually quite surprised at the lousy tone Cliff was pulling as late as Master of Puppets. Maybe it was the way the bass was compressed or something, but it is also quite uneven dynamically. Still love his playing and style, but something went catastrophically wrong during the recording process.
@Nicholas Debono he was precise imho, live especially. Studio recordings were sloppy on purpose as that was the tone they were sorta going for. Very much inspired by Geezer.
Been playing bass for 30 years. Always been a finger player. I have always said if I ever decided to get proficient using a pick It will be so I can play this song properly.
Jeez. I always knew Dave was a really good, solid metal bassist. I had no idea he was actually a fucking MACHINE. Brilliant playing, so even and consistent, no clams.....pretty damn superb, actually.
+Spooky Scrub Guitar Hero/Rock Band. They use the original master recordings with each instrument on its own individual track with full volume adjustment, so you can mute everything you don't want to hear.
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David is an under rated bassist! He's actually one of the best metal bassist ever!
***** And...?
So, Georg Solti couldn't be considered one of the best conductors ever because he doesn't write the symphonies? Jessye Norman isn't one of the best operatic vocalists because she doesn't write the operas? Hell, Frank Sinatra and Elvis weren't among the best because they didn't write their own lyrics? Your argument doesn't make sense.
So you will discount every backup musician, every sideman, every non composing instrumentalist simply because they do not write the music they play? Every classical musician? To address simply Ellefson, you are seriously suggesting that Dave Mustaine writes every single note of every bassline in Megadeth's music and hands it to Ellefson (or whoever is playing bass at the time)? He writes every single bit of the drumline and hands it to the drummer? ARE YOU SERIOUSLY SUGGESTING THAT HE WROTE MARTY FRIEDMAN'S SOLOS? All of those tracks are credited to Mustaine alone. And I'm making a retarded argument?
OP didn't say he WAS the greatest, he said he is one of the best.
I don't understand how you can put the writing stipulation on instrumentalists. Songwriting and playing are two entirely different talents. Complimentary at times, yes, but separate. I don't understand how you can dismiss huge numbers of musicians simply because they don't write. Seems ridiculous to me, almost on a par with saying a painter can't be great unless he mixes his own paint. (shrugs)
"playing someone else's stuff doesn't really take any talent at all"
(Guy walks away, chuckling and shaking his head)
Holy bass
Ba(da)ss.
Bass wars between David and Cliff
Breno Cordeiro They never had any ill will towards each other really.
The man, the myth, the legend. I'm so glad Dave threw a flower pot up his window
Ahhh, I see the man of culture again
Hi, huge fan of your comments
@@winterlucy Hi!
Hol up, I have fans?
@@larsswig912 I guess 😆 The only thing funnier on some Metallica videos are the comments
I see you everywhere please stop lars's wig XD Jk i like your comments
Wow this guy is so good, I hope he never gets caught doing nasty things
Lolololol!!!
Did he even do anything
@Vancouver Island Railfan Which was kinda stupid
@Vancouver Island Railfan i really don't get why it was a problem if she was 19. still nasty but he shouldn't have gotten fired for it.
@Vancouver Island Railfan nah megadeath will never die but i do hope dave does good.
Who gives a shit about picks or fingers, the point of the bassline is to be tight and form a solid layer between drums and guitar. You play your instrument as you like to play it! i think David is an awesome bassplayer. \m/
can you say it louder for the people in the back
It matters a lot in other musical genres
There's a huge difference from pick and fingers.
@@drpeppero3 can you explain please?
I'm really asking
@@jehovah104 sound. That's basically it
How to be agressive on bass
Renato Baixaria clean as a whistle too
Bass got it's ass kicked.
Renato M. Jason?
Jason
Cliff
Cliff Burton,Steve Harris,David Ellefson and Geezer Butler can play bass for me all fucking life long
\m/\m/\m/\m/\m/\m/\m/
Those, Rex Brown and Frank Bello for me.
mkfanforever58 Give me them and Danny Lilker.
sainandan anime And where is Jason Newsted?
sainandan anime you are forgetting John Myung. if you have not heard of him, go look him up right NOW!
***** jason is a great bass player, but he isnt a crack like those one 😱
Ellefson is so underrated. One of the greatest metal bassists ever. The guy is giant and doesn't get the credit he deserves for his elite playing.
Dude is palm muting on the bass, your argument is invalid.
The true challenge is to palm mute while playing without a pick
+Brent Bowman No, it's not. It's supposed to be done with a pick. You can't get that tone with your fingers, so there's no challenge at all. I see a lot of comments disrespecting Ellefson's style just because of the pick. People need to get over it already or at least try to play like him and then realize that they suck. Bassits need to be more humble and stop pretending. I'm a bassist, by the way, and a big fan of Ellefson's playing
+Roman Nosov I was never disrespecting his style, and I've seen some palm muting techniques that didn't involve a pick but the tone isn't as good,
Also when I started playing bass I watched guys like Steve Harris, geddy lee, and Rob Trujillo so I learned their finger techniques and have gotten good at that (I admit I actually suck at using a pick)
Román Nosov
thats easy.. just palm mute with your left hand
This dude don't get enough credit when the convo of best bassists comes up
Damn you gotta have mega wrists to play like that on bass with pick.
Well, time to fap everyday to get strong right hands...
Djenithalls Motherchugger It's getting it as clean as Junior does at that speed which is the real challenge. His execution is fantastic.
I don't agree:) but I do think you need to be very good to be able to play like that:)
I'm sorry but,that profile picture is amazing.
You gotta be hardcore to keep up with Mustaine
Man. Actually being able to play along with ellefson is really something. Fucking hurts after you spent 6 min trying to keep up with the recording and not fuck up, but still, i can play it!
If you can videotape yourself playing it in perfect time with no background music I can use it for a project I've been working on with a bunch of guys on the Rattle heads Facebook group. It's a cover played by guys from all over the world representing all major religions. I just haven't been able to get a good bass cover yet, everything else is done. Interested? Email me at mansworstday@gmail.com. I could use a good vocal too if you know anyone or you random person reading this comment, yes you, join the Rattleheads on FB and get a hold of me. I'm an admin so Ill get any messages or posts
It's easier with a pick which is how he played it.
anthony tenkku well thats how i play it. i started on guitar, and tried adapting to finger picking, but i cant do it.
Do you still have that group going on?
I play it by finger, but im a big maiden fan so im used to it
holy shit ellefson, you are holy wars
@@erojerisiz1571 whats wrong with that?
@@erojerisiz1571not really… it’s the same thing as using a slide for guitar
Dave Ellefson is easily one of my favourite bassists. His playing is just so precise and clean, it's absurd
Funny that you can hear the static noise in the background when he’s not playing.Long gone analogic era.
That's not static, that's the hiss from tube screamer
His amp is too hot
It's an excellent and creative bass line. Dave should get more accolades for his effort here.
***** - No, Dave Ellefson. :)
Just call him either David or Junior and everybody knows who you're talking about.
This bass line was written by Dave Mustaine, actually. Of course Dave Ellefson it's an amazing bass player.
You're right.It is the guitar riff after all. Junior just converts Dave's riffs to bass lines to perfection.
punishmentforall it's just copying the guitar riffs. Nothing creative about that
I can just listen to this and be happy.. If you really, REALLY listen.. All the stuff he is doing, chords, 2 strings... Etc... Truly AMAZING.
And palm muting it sounds like too. I agree!
David Ellefson is one of the best bassists of metal ever. Fact!
Funny how so many people don’t know the difference between “fact” and “my personal opinion”.
Cliff Burton, Steve Harris And Geezer Butler >>> All
I can't stand people like this ^^
8un3zz he’s definitely up there my dude at least top 25
DD Verni is better than David, in my opinion
Oh shit.... Why am i hearing this at this moment
if Dave scratched your face with his bass pick... you're surely will be called scarface.. One of the best thrash metal bassist.. ever. sorry for my bad english.
I'm glad my bandmates haven't seen this or else they'll know everything I'm missing while covering this MOST AWESOME MEGACLASSIC!
Dave Ellefson is such an underrated bassist! RIP and PSBWB are the albums which feature his best work. Thanks for uploading.
Your the first comment
i love the part "da dum da dum dam da dum"....you know what i mean
In the end of the solo of marty friedman
Read exactly at that moment!
Damn Ellefson is a beast. His playing is so tight and clean and his tone is amazing.
i'm still amazed at how they can play that fast
Its called "pick"
NO it's called MEGADETH
and im drunk rn so shut up idiot
Playing fast is one of the easiest things you can do
@@MegaHamvideos but the precision isn't that easy.
Easy as with practice. Plus studio breaks up the takes.
most underrated bass player ever :(
+John Shepherd no sean malone is the most underated bass player ever , also the thousands of great bass players that are unknown that can play circles around the current great ones . Dave ellefson is a great Bass Player . metallica had exactly a bass player of that caliber ( Jason Newsted )
David has the same playing style Of Jason Newsted.
Both are incredible bass players
N..no. Not at all. The only thing they have in common is they play with a pick.
@@cringycraig5130 Playing hard as fuck. Insane speed, attack and precision. Mostly playing the same thing as the guitar. There are a lot of similarities.
@@georgiykireev9678 Jason is neither fast nor precise. His bass on AJFA is horrendous, his bass on The Black Album is mediocre. Probably the reason they "muted" it.
@@ElioRigonat I don't know what you've been listening to but Newstead's isolated bass tracks from AJFA are insanely good.
@@ElioRigonat go listen to "...And justice for Jason" and rethink what you said, Jabroni
I've always wondered how to get Ellefson's awesome bass tone...
+Scraplord32 There are videos of himself talking about how to get his tone.
I get pretty close with a vintage Charvel 2B and treble all the way up and both bass and mids at 10 or 11 o clock. He uses Jackson (Jackson owns Charvel, or vice nersa I don't remember) so you could really close with either.
+Scraplord32 Low action, fresh strings, picks, treble and mids cranked up
+Scraplord32 Active pickups, fresh strings, play hard with a pick (so you get the clicky noises), scoop mids on your amp, boost highs, and use some overdrive.
+Scraplord32 another BIG TIP to capture his tone correctly is to slightly, but aggressively, strike the string with your index finger like Dave does (the finger you point with) while picking.
Damn, straight up I did not give this guy nearly enough credit. This is some really fucking great playing.
Such a clean yet NASTY tone.
The key is too much gain
@@nielsvanheteren1662 no, alot of mids is the key.
@@snow15243 this tone is mid scooped though...
Wow, this guy can really play!
I mostly play fingerstyle bass, but David is my main inspiration for pick bass playing, next to Jason
badass and clean playing - Ellefson is a perfect player
Hang in there Dave. We love you.
Why David is considered good and Jason not?
They are both amazing with their fast aggressive precise groovy pick technique
Jason is compared to cliff, but David is the og for megadeth
Because Jason is fairly sloppy, has the habit of copying the guitar note for note, and doesn't play with any kind of dynamics. He bulldozes a bass, Ellefson runs over it like Usain Bolt. Also frankly Jason's picking irritates me, someone that plays rhytym guitar. Jason sounds bad because he is playing the way someone told him to play instead of the way he played in Flotsam
@@My_Lacrimosa Megadeth bass is built on copying note for note guitar as well as pantera for example. Jason was bit buldozerish because of his way of picking (only electric basses, without amp you need to hit hard, I do this as well) and he used a lot of shoulder as well
Metallic is easy
@@eaglelee6904 You ever played that fricking Dyers eve the way Jason did? Or fricking AJFA title track, Frayed ends? Those lines are hard as fvck to remember and play. Justice has more of those twists and fills (one note here, 2 there) than any megadeth album, riffs might be more technical but try playing whole And Justice for all ( ~10 minutes) without missing a note or getting lost during playing it, same Frayed ends 2 extra notes here, one there, you will see how frickin hard that is. I played those songs, I know what it is. If not for Mustaines jazz and blues background megadeth wouldn't be that hard.
only someone like Mustaine could afford to fire Ellefson..TWICE1
Playing with pick == destruction
I can hear all parts by the other members by listening his bass. Magnificent! 🙌🏼🤘🏼
Truly amazing heavy metal bassist. There's a reason Dave kept him around for about 40 years. The man is a beast. He really is in the holy Trinity of metal bassists along with Cliff Burton and Steve Harris. So unique, heavy, inventive and creative. He tells a story with the bass.
yeah you're right, this shit is EPIC my god.
DIAMOND FINGERS
My gawd that TONE! Dave...best metal bassist ever.
Cliff, David and Steve are some of the best bassists we've ever seen, and yet people wanna argue who's better. Shame...
Some people are just miserable like that.
Cliff kills them, because he died at his peak
@@My_Lacrimosa man how do we know it's his peak? If he were alive today we could easily judge if it was or wasnt but this way... i disagree.
cliff was shit the fuck you on?
Ok, this is kind of amazing. It's like this perfect wedding of everything a bass player is fundamentally meant to do. A perfect bridge between rhythm, harmony, and even supporting aspects of melody. All with incredible precision. Played this CD out in high school and loved Ellefson but hearing the isolated bass tracks is even more imoressive.
He's even doing the minor third intervals during the verse riff
Insanely good player, definitely my favourite of them all. I had the good fortune to meet him at a Meet and Greet in Melbourne about a month ago. Ellefson is a true class act, very approachable and really quite happy to talk to fans. His live playing is just phenominal too...
Ellefson Rules!!!!
dear obligatory finger players...picking with a pick is not as easy as you guys think.
4:50 is down picked mostly so it takes some serious stamina. That part is way harder and requires way more control and consistency with a pick. Much harder to pick this than to play it with your fingers but - makes a huge difference in sound too. Much thinner and tighter with a pick.
Most of finger guy cant even play half speed of what ellefson playing with pick
True
Bikepacking Indonesia because using a pick is easier
Idk why this infighting is a thing
This guy is really good at bass and....
We know how he gets that technique now.
thanks for uploading, this vid helped me learn the song on bass real easily
Solid, tight, clean, clear... plus one of the best metal songs ever made.
Fukin amazing!
u dont how much this helped me..my band and i were trying to do this perfectly but alot of people of different versions of it thank you sooo much
Wow! solid playing. Very consistent.
ellefson has to be one of the best metal bass players of all time. along with being the coolest dude ever!
Really really good tone!!
Great tone, great picking!
Masterpiece!
Cheers from Portugal 🍺🤘
*compares Dave to Cliff, starting war between butthurt Metallica fans and pretentious Megadeth fans*
😂😂😂
Megadeth won’t ever be as big as Metallica, get over it.
Antonio Pilar Being bigger doesn't mean being better you fucknut
Deivyt if metallica isn’t better than them why are they more popular than them, if megadeth is more better than why aren’t they more popular hm?
Marrku 524 if the band doesn’t have better musicians why is the fan base so big? oh yeah, public opinion overpowers
He has bass really low, yet managed to palm mute for around half a song. Now, that's cool
Holy fark! This is a masterpiece 🔥🔥🔥
Holy bass …The Ellefson due
the highs of this tone was sucked out so on the 2004 remaster this sounds like a massive earthquake
The bass sounds like shit on the 2004 remaster
Ellefson has to be a mega bassist to keep up with Mustaine and still stand out on his own
Love his playing.
Niiiiice upload! You could set your watch by this guy's playing.
This is actually technically pretty advanced. And there's no way you can get this kind of precision with fingers. Most of the fingerstyle elitist who criticize pick players do so because they have limited expertise with a pick. It just takes years and years of work to get to this level of pick playing.
Yes. I have lots of respect for pick players. It is not as easy as it seems. Listen to Chris Squire! Ellefson is probably my favorite metal bassist. Love how he’s always heard and distinguished in the music. Especially with Mustaine’s riffs, which are very technical and blow Metallica and Slayer out of the water IMO.
“no way to get this kind of precision with fingers” wtf are you even referring to?
Cliff burton says : hold my beer
I was actually quite surprised at the lousy tone Cliff was pulling as late as Master of Puppets. Maybe it was the way the bass was compressed or something, but it is also quite uneven dynamically. Still love his playing and style, but something went catastrophically wrong during the recording process.
@Nicholas Debono he was precise imho, live especially. Studio recordings were sloppy on purpose as that was the tone they were sorta going for. Very much inspired by Geezer.
Been playing bass for 30 years. Always been a finger player. I have always said if I ever decided to get proficient using a pick It will be so I can play this song properly.
Great tone!
Amazing bass!!!!
espectacular
Damn this is hard!!!
david is the man! what a tone! :)
That's incredible maaannn!
Jeez. I always knew Dave was a really good, solid metal bassist. I had no idea he was actually a fucking MACHINE. Brilliant playing, so even and consistent, no clams.....pretty damn superb, actually.
ROCK ON DUDE
I´ve never expected you to be here lul
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Awesome bass line and bass tone.
God damn that tone is so raw 🤘 dude is shredding! David is such a great bassist.
THIS BASS LINE IS INSANEEEE, I LOVE DAVE ELLEFSON´S TECHNIQUE
Kickass bass playing \m/
Great bassist !!!...🤘🤘
I love his pick style, one of my favorite bassists!
Aguante Megadeth!
Bruh
XD
Awesome !!!
What a great tone
5:51 - 5:54
Just beautiful
How do you get these bass tracks, they are so cool :D
+Spooky Scrub Guitar Hero/Rock Band. They use the original master recordings with each instrument on its own individual track with full volume adjustment, so you can mute everything you don't want to hear.
Oh, wow thanks
Geddy Lee meets Lemmy
It's great!
1:07 "killing for religion!"
Incredible. I idolized Cliff growing up, but DAMN if I heard this back in 99-2000, I may have had a new favorite.
So precise💪🏻
Crazy bass!
Now he has an even more famous " bass track"
0:27
Damn he thicc
God, I remember 10 seconds ago when I didn’t know this comment existed.
Skinny jeans man.
Thighs for days
awesome.
best bassist in the world
Shit he's good. I want to be like that!
Fucking tasty
God I love his bass riff and his sound in the song I want his signature bass guitar and the amp sound to replicate his sound
Definitely one of my top 3 Bass players