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Putting something on record and playing live is pretty different. I’d imagine you’d just do what sounds best live and usually a little simpler to play while you’re running around on stage wearing a mask 😂 Awesome breakdown, thanks

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The original bass track is available on TH-cam, and has been for at least a year (just search for "Duality bass only" and it'll be one of the first results). That said, you got most of it right. However, Paul doesn't start playing 16th notes until the second part of the verse: the three part harmony. During the first part of the verse, he simply plays a single note along with the note changes.

I don't remember where did I learn to play this song, but I was taught all of what you showcased here and I was also confused when I saw Paul playing it, but I wasn't able to play the verse riff when I learnt it so I didn't learn that part… I think I'm now ready for it!

I've had mine for 16 years. Still love it!

I claim the 666th like 👹 dope playing fella.

Soooo how about the original album bass track: th-cam.com/video/G7w4ue22mpE/w-d-xo.html

my dude, do you think that the guitar covers for this song are also incorrect? like, is there more intricate details hidden in the original track that are not played live?

need more of these kinds of videos, this is awesome!

Paul grey aint playin it anymore so that's out the window

Something to add about Vman and Paul Grey they were both guitars first. Vman was guitar tech for Mastodon and Paul said in an interview that the first band he joined as a bassist he had no clue what he was doing he just played what the guitars would play like fake it until you make it. I know i read somewhere that Paul was kind of deep in his heroin addiction during the recording and it was so bad he would fall asleep when he was recording/ with the internal fighting and the substance abuse almost every member had at that time it was more or less just Paul and Joey that would work on the songs while getting input from Mick and Jim. There is just a slight chance that Paul wrote duality the way you play it but it was just to hard to remember/to play live that they just said fuck it follow the guitars. And with Vman being a guitars first it would be natural for him to learn how to play the guitar parts and then just doing what Paul did follow the guitars. (just a side not here from hearing how Jay rushed liveshow until he was fired it would be even harder to do this bass arrangement with a tempo thats faster and goes up and down as it is not steady)

Man, I swear you got the heaviest bass tones on TH-cam...can't believe this is tuned UP with how thick it sounds and how much it stands out from the guitars, despite being in unison. Keep delivering ❤️‍🔥

Excellent cover and I really liked the song. Is that high F in the original tuning, or you just decided to tune like that to make those minor 9th jumps easier?

so basically just a matter of octaves. no big deal

always bothered me when i would notice a band changed how they playa song. most would never know, but when you do know, it bugs you

Oh my God THE TONE

Not sure why any grown-ass adult would care who’s playing Duality wrong. 😂

I am a drumer. And a big fan of Slipknot. I noticed, that the same stuff in live druming. A lot of drum parts are not the same as in album version. Or simplier, or oposite. But I don't like word "wrong". It's just another way. Wrong playing has no musicality

I've always noticed the differences in the chorus, I think even in his DVD Paul played it "wrong", but the other stuff really blew my mind. I mean, live versions are live versions for a reason, but one thing is to add something, other thing - is to take something away

dude your bass sounds great!

There's a few songs my band has where my original bass parts I recorded have almost no influence on what I play live, simply because I prefer what I play now to what I played when we first wrote the songs

I love your communique precision. Actually, the precision is not limited to communication!

Ok buddy now go back to moms basement and slick that hair back some more. Truly a portley troll that still holds his virginity card proudly but doesn't understand that fucking the sheep still counts.

There's a bass in Slipknot?

Pack it up everyone. @OnThaCode says it’s clickbait Nah but fr awesome video. I love learning about stuff like this

Maybe just ask him why he changed jt

I never noticed but I heard the song and you are right! Btw that tone is amazing

What rig are you using for that bass? What a godlike rattle

When you came up with that title did you expect more meatheads to react so literally to it? I have to say, 99% of all these comments got what you were going for, which is a damn good record for youtube. I've seen lots of content creators talk about bands playing riffs 'wrong' live (Metallica comes to mind) and point out how differently certain riffs are played live versus on the album. Not once did I ever think the video was accusing an artist of forgetting or consistently making a mistake, and there was always a justification or suggesting for why that might be the case, like adapting something complicated for consistent live performance/comfort. I think if Paul was alive he would be embarassed to get triggered by that title. This is youtube, the title and thumbnail is very literally how you hook people.

I'm not even a bassist but absolutely love this breakdown. And I am totally not stealing Slipknot's idea for 2 guitars - 1 bass harmonies for my band, no sir 😇😇

that octave stuff really adds to the vibe of the track. Paul Gray probably did write the basic riff n maybe one of the guitarists over-dubbed some lead bass parts. Engineer heard it like "bet"

Okay but what does Corey Taylor think about how people play Duality?

You smashed it. Killer playing and absolutely sick tone.

The Studio Version is more challenging to play than the Live Version...specially if you have to synchronize with Joey's drums. Maybe that would explain why Paul changed it.

He wrote the baseline ya tool.

That's beautiful bass and mighty bass sound you got going on there mate!

Man that bass tone is gnarly! So satisfying 🤘

I don't understand why some people are so resistant to the idea of the original writers of a song making a "mistake". Jim Root teaches the intro psychosocial riff completely wrong on the internet, and you can confirm it by watching it live AND listening to the recording. However the comments are full of "are you trying to correct them on how to play their own song?". Sometimes good musicians just make mistakes, it happens, and it's not that big of a deal.

So goooooood

I would make the hesitant speculation that what's happened here is a classic case of the guitarists have stepped in to record the bass parts on the day because Paul maybe wasn't getting it done quick enough or was having a performative block in his playing. Harmonising the guitar riff that way strikes me as a guitarist's idea, or the producer. I could be totally wrong. I've just seen this happen a lot.

Do you find 125 is enough for the low string in B? And are the strings nickel or stainless steel?

It would be nice to hear a comparisson between the Dingwall and a traditional Jazz Bass, since I always think I prefer the traditional jazz bass tone... ;)

I still take umbrage with your wording of them playing it wrong. They just are not playing the slbum track as you know it and love it. Doesn't make it wrong. Otherwise, love the breakdown and look forward to more content from you.

Nice video mate! When we did our cover of Before I Forget, we realised there were isolated tracks on TH-cam already, so used those as a reference. So helpful, but Moises is awesome too. I love how unedited his takes are too, really adds to the magic of the track (and the album as a whole).

Great review!! Thank you

i think it was recorded on a 5 string

I think Paul did play it as it is on record when he jam with roy mayorga

Great video, I love this stuff. Also funny, and in the theme of this video is how you pronounce Slipknot wrong - the "k" is silent

tunnistin sut Tampereen Musiikin mainoksista ja olin että mitäs kummaa, onkos sulla oma kanavakin. sullahan on täälä loistavaa settiä! oon jäätävä Slipknotin fani mut pakko myöntää et iteltä tää on jääny huomaamatta. mut näinhän sitä oppii! tilasin sun kanavan saman tien ku video loppu. ja hurja tone sulla on myös!

Your tone rips, man.