@DelDuio Not only finger style (he never used a pick) but he had a tendon injury on his pinky which made it hard to use his ring finger. Everything you hear him play is just with his index and middle finger. Two. Fingers.
@@SymbiSkuggisame,i can't play bass with pinky fingers,because i am getting bone dislocation on my pinky fingers, i can only play Index finger, middle finger and ring finger.
A lot of people in the comments complaining that cliff isn't playing 16th notes with the guitar. It's not that he can't play it that way, it's that it sounds better to play it the way he did. What he's doing is locking in with the rhythm of the bass drums while following the chord progression of the guitars at the same time. Its not a simplified version of the guitar riff, its called a bassline. The bassists job is to glue the rhythm guitar and drums together, not double the rhythm guitar. A lot of non musicians don't understand this.
It's the same 'kick, snare, kick, snare' pattern that 99% of thrash metal songs have. Similar to a Polka Beat but this is called a 'skank' beat - cymbal hits on both the down and upbeats unlike Polka. Comes from Hardcore originally.....
i feel like it’s more of a fast groove beat that has a snare on the on beat like ‘snare kick kick snare kick snare kick kick snare kick snare” which matches the rhythm guitar perfectly
@@daltonmerrill9070the snare in most of this song is actually on the upbeat, but the speed and the way it's accented make it seem like it's on the downbeat
The specific reason is because at the time cliff listened to the guitat tracks from monitors in the studio room, not headphones. He did apparently because it allowed him to headbang, meaning you can just slightly hear the guitars in the track
@@SunnyTheRic It is definitely simplified, but James is a machine of speed, also, bass strings are thicker than guitar strings so it's harder to be fast on bass than guitar. It is simplified, but it is still very very impressive and doesn't make Cliff any less of a genius.
@@lukelee7967 100%. I think for him it was always about 'making it'. Once he and Metallica were established it was almost like, "why the fuck do I care about these drum things?" lol
@@nintendad1166 After the touring of 90's ( BA was 3 years straight with 3h shows each night for example), lets see if you can play that everytime with knee problems ligaments and both shoulders completly fucked up
@@elgrillocantor87 Sometimes if the bass i doubling at that speed it can sound bad cause you get too many bass frequencies, the way Ciff played here accents only half the notes giving them more weight making it sound better.
En el Guitar Hero se escucha el bajo mucho mas potente si tocas ese instrumento incluso en las cansiones del album de ...And Justice For All el bajo de Jason esta muy potenciado :>
in the alternate universe: they were really fired lars after puppets tour.james,kirk,cliff made a new band with paul bostaph faster than slayer,,master of puppets became a legend album which band no longer exist.
You're a fool. Remastering is not remixing. You're confusing the two. The bass was always inaudible on all these 80s metal records, Metallica being no exception.
Lars groove is a strange mix between forward feeling and backwards feeling... in damage inc..it change from forward feeling to bacward feeling a few rounds after the guitar solo... really hard to copy exactly :)
If anyone asks why Cliff is so fucking good and was the best bassist on this goddamn planet, just show them this clip and his isolated bass on Orion. and dont forget about lars's drumming skills he is insane idfk why people hate on him but they can go fuck themselves
With all the technical stuff he plays and the crazy melodic fills, why was he so low in the final mix? You can't hear most of what he's doing on this album.
@@honigdachs. i know! I started playing bass in the 90's and even with the best headphones turned all the way up, the best car stereo, the best home stereo turned all the way up, you still could barely hear the bass on the album. It was extremely frustrating trying to learn your favorite songs when you had only a basic idea of what the bass was actually playing. I never knew Cliff was doing so much until people could start posting the bass tracks on the internet
@@jonathanryan2915 I think it's still a problem with a lot of heavier styles honestly. I started hanging out in this club a lot lately where they play a lot of 60s and 70s rock'n'roll. The bass is just monumental on all that stuff. So much of what we learned to identify as hard rock and heavy metal gets its thunderous heaviness from the bass guitar. That kind of totally went away in the 80s. Maybe it's the multi-tracked guitar gain fetishism that happened with the first true "super hotrodded" amps and the advent of the really big recording consoles with their many channels etc. ... but people kind of forgot how important the bass is for hard rock.
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Only real Bassist will understand how fast he really is playing. Honest to god, cliff burton was the best metal Bassist to grace the earth
Yeah this is really good, especially since he’s finger plucking. The chorus especially holy shit!
@DelDuio Not only finger style (he never used a pick) but he had a tendon injury on his pinky which made it hard to use his ring finger. Everything you hear him play is just with his index and middle finger. Two. Fingers.
@@SymbiSkuggisame,i can't play bass with pinky fingers,because i am getting bone dislocation on my pinky fingers, i can only play Index finger, middle finger and ring finger.
Criminal how much of Cliff's brilliance is drowned out in the mix.
Metallica is known for doing that to its bass players.
I'm so angry about it, I can never hear the bass.
@@ThaiThom Shitload of metal/rock bands do that.
@@KiKfilms Tbh you don't even need bass, amps are basically able to have enough bass now
Cliff's overall sound would stand out more if it wasn't so distorted.🤷🏻♂️
I didn't know it was possible to love Cliff more but this track did the trick
Cliff 'em ALL.
Cliffs bass lines always worked incredibly well with larses drums
A lot of people in the comments complaining that cliff isn't playing 16th notes with the guitar. It's not that he can't play it that way, it's that it sounds better to play it the way he did. What he's doing is locking in with the rhythm of the bass drums while following the chord progression of the guitars at the same time. Its not a simplified version of the guitar riff, its called a bassline. The bassists job is to glue the rhythm guitar and drums together, not double the rhythm guitar. A lot of non musicians don't understand this.
👍🏼
Yeah, back in the day I always thought the bass was mirroring what the guitar did, but nope...
Damn straight.
.......FINALLY someone said it.
..Respect.
Cliff is just going the fuck off on this. Love it.
Just realized one of the fastest thrash metal songs, has a polka beat as it's main drum beat.
It's the same 'kick, snare, kick, snare' pattern that 99% of thrash metal songs have. Similar to a Polka Beat but this is called a 'skank' beat - cymbal hits on both the down and upbeats unlike Polka. Comes from Hardcore originally.....
i feel like it’s more of a fast groove beat that has a snare on the on beat like ‘snare kick kick snare kick snare kick kick snare kick snare” which matches the rhythm guitar perfectly
@@daltonmerrill9070the snare in most of this song is actually on the upbeat, but the speed and the way it's accented make it seem like it's on the downbeat
Is it weird I can hear the guitars and not hear them at the same time?
Is it weird that i know exactly what you mean?
Is it weird that this all seems weird?
Is it weird to be humming the guitar part out loud cuz u know it very well
Its not that wierd no
The specific reason is because at the time cliff listened to the guitat tracks from monitors in the studio room, not headphones. He did apparently because it allowed him to headbang, meaning you can just slightly hear the guitars in the track
HOLY SHIT that BASS tone 😳
You mean floppy and dull? Find some standards.🙄🤦♂️💩👎
@@spanqueluv9er have a great day sir
@@spanqueluv9er Rickenbacker standards, cretin. Lmao....sorry that Metal doesn't have a Jaco Pastorius.
@@spanqueluv9er lol were you the one dislike
@@murk4552 What a retarded retort you’ve crafted! The bass tone is trash.
It’s weird how much slower it sounds without guitars
@@uignireddngfiurdsgfiurdse James only
Yeah because bass plays a much simplified version of the guitar riff
@@daigo120
Wtf are you talking about!?
It’s fkn Cliff Burton playing the bass!
@@SunnyTheRic I didn't mean simplified as an insult, It is no surprise that the overall picking speed of James is faster than finger plucking
@@SunnyTheRic It is definitely simplified, but James is a machine of speed, also, bass strings are thicker than guitar strings so it's harder to be fast on bass than guitar.
It is simplified, but it is still very very impressive and doesn't make Cliff any less of a genius.
All guitars play along in my head LOUD and CLEAR
I love what Cliff does in the chorus!
1:50 makes me go crazy every time I hear it
Damn near crawled in my brain
Nice. This sounds surprisingly tight.
Good job, Cliff and Lars!
Lars could play those damn drums in the 80s.
And you watch live footage of him from years later and it's like "wow, he can't play"
@@lukelee7967 100%. I think for him it was always about 'making it'. Once he and Metallica were established it was almost like, "why the fuck do I care about these drum things?" lol
@@nintendad1166 Also, "and fuck fans who might download one of our songs before deciding to buy the album"
@@nintendad1166 After the touring of 90's ( BA was 3 years straight with 3h shows each night for example), lets see if you can play that everytime with knee problems ligaments and both shoulders completly fucked up
@@Nissardpertugiu that’s not an excuse, look at Lombardo, still a beast after all these years.
With a four string in his hands Cliff was one of the biggest, angriest monsters to ever walk the earth!
Love how the bass is loud in this album
40 years ago this album was a blaze in the sky. Phenomenal.
Hey Lars, play the drums.
Wow you're clever
stop fucking with him there wouldn't be a metallica
Lars probably plays more with the melody than the beat. just how he does it
Lmao it's a joke 🤣
EXACTLY!@@tronspaniada8363
The only kind of drum and bass i care about
wack, have you heard the mop drum n bass remix by pendulum? its so great.
@@hoovy1163 he means he doesnt like that type of drum and bass because people have different tastes in music
bass line is fantastic
sounds soooo good
That bass is intense! Wow!
I loved how Cliff held down that low end rhythm.
My lord Cliff was amazing
Cliff was and will always be THA MAN😁. He made Lars sound like he was actually a great drummer 😎😎
Perfect pairing instrument 🎸 🥁
MY GOD THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE
🙄🤦♂️This is perfectly believable. Nothing special about it at all.
@@spanqueluv9er have a great day sir
SICK BASS
How grate sound..majestic
It's strange, but without guitar parts it somehow sounds more fun to me, it reminds me of Cossack songs (I don't know why)
Cliff was so good !!! Tight!!!!
Insane musical mind. Cliff
Just add the drums and Cliff becomes even more badass. He was locked in there.
Cant mistake that Cliff warble.. love it
3:33
Very cooooool, man!
Amazing
ripped from actual song?
not slowed down?
nah just an audible illusion.
regular speed
its because cliff is only playing half the notes the guitar riff is playing, it would be impossible to play the same rhythm james did
@@pessinieminen4341 honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Cliff actually managed to pull that off, but it's better how he did it c:
@@elgrillocantor87 definetly possible but its hard to stay consistent at 16th notes at like 200bpm, plus it doesnt sound good at all
@@pessinieminen4341 exactly, it would've been an awesome feat of Cliff's bass skill, but it would've sounded more like "muddy" and saturated
@@elgrillocantor87 Sometimes if the bass i doubling at that speed it can sound bad cause you get too many bass frequencies, the way Ciff played here accents only half the notes giving them more weight making it sound better.
3:00 is cliff playing in a different time signature on top of the double kick run that is insane I've never heard that ever
Not a different time signature, just half time, sort of.
@@harrr53 still it's rather unique and f..cking cool!!
@@wassilijstrugalski934 totally.
Maybe you're just not exposed to a lot of music. Chili peppers do it all the time and even more.
@@jimboy6414 Wonder where they got it from?
😯😯😯😯😯😯😯 que tremendos arreglos que jamás se escucharon en la mezcla del disco....😢
En el Guitar Hero se escucha el bajo mucho mas potente si tocas ese instrumento incluso en las cansiones del album de ...And Justice For All el bajo de Jason esta muy potenciado :>
@@toroloko99 It's true! It sounds very loud!
Everytime I hear Cliff playing, I think, What if he was here today.
Damn. R.I.P maestro!!
Один из немногих бассистов, которых слышно
great
P e r f e c t o!!!
Cliff...simple the best!!
in the alternate universe: they were really fired lars after puppets tour.james,kirk,cliff made a new band with paul bostaph faster than slayer,,master of puppets became a legend album which band no longer exist.
No Lars - no MOP, unfortunately
Folks should be rightly gushing about Lars' playing, to make up for all of the hate he gets elsewhere. lol :) Great to hear them isolated together.
Krái, foda
qué buena mierda. gracias, causa.
386 Thank you people👍
Holy shit.
Bassmaster
Makes me resent these guys more and more for burying the Bass lines. Even in the so-called "Remastered" releases.
Yeah, that's a shame...
You're a fool. Remastering is not remixing. You're confusing the two. The bass was always inaudible on all these 80s metal records, Metallica being no exception.
Wow! You can actually hear the clip-ins on the drum parts. 🤣
Hey man how'd you get these tracks?
Lars groove is a strange mix between forward feeling and backwards feeling... in damage inc..it change from forward feeling to bacward feeling a few rounds after the guitar solo... really hard to copy exactly :)
Pack it in metal bands of today, just forget it
i need to find this photo
You couldve brought up the snare more like at the end but other than that its fucking awesome
Why do i hear lightning sounds in chorus
A paw, not a hand
@Soap more like a grizzly bear paw xD
true hardcore
Never knew Cliff played in the intro.
Emma Watson had a mustache and was in Metallica?? Is it just me, or did they slightly speed up tempo at 3:10?
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If anyone asks why Cliff is so fucking good and was the best bassist on this goddamn planet, just show them this clip and his isolated bass on Orion. and dont forget about lars's drumming skills he is insane idfk why people hate on him but they can go fuck themselves
With all the technical stuff he plays and the crazy melodic fills, why was he so low in the final mix? You can't hear most of what he's doing on this album.
That's how things sounded back then. You can't hear the bass on most of those 80s metal records.
@@honigdachs. i know! I started playing bass in the 90's and even with the best headphones turned all the way up, the best car stereo, the best home stereo turned all the way up, you still could barely hear the bass on the album. It was extremely frustrating trying to learn your favorite songs when you had only a basic idea of what the bass was actually playing. I never knew Cliff was doing so much until people could start posting the bass tracks on the internet
@@jonathanryan2915 I think it's still a problem with a lot of heavier styles honestly. I started hanging out in this club a lot lately where they play a lot of 60s and 70s rock'n'roll. The bass is just monumental on all that stuff. So much of what we learned to identify as hard rock and heavy metal gets its thunderous heaviness from the bass guitar. That kind of totally went away in the 80s. Maybe it's the multi-tracked guitar gain fetishism that happened with the first true "super hotrodded" amps and the advent of the really big recording consoles with their many channels etc. ... but people kind of forgot how important the bass is for hard rock.
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Металика это творчество Бёртона.....остальное)))
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Somos gaúcho .
Too bad you can't here all the riffing that Cliff did on the albums.
It would have made those first three records so much heavier.
Shame
Wyjebanie w kosmos!!!!❤❤🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
1:50 wtf
Lars
Lars. The king of rushing
this isnt drum and bass music >:(
What
D:
It is literally only drums and bass.
Lmfao wrong genre buddy
Ellefson > Burton
this jungle not drum and bass!!!
Its incredible how out of time cliff is sometimes on this song, it sounds like ass 85% of the time
Tanto él como Lars eran muy malos en cuanto al tempo (y Lars continúa hasta hoy).
It's called feeling, computerised musicians wouldn't know about this
@@delalicanto7432 últimamente Lars ha tocado muy bien en vivo, sin tantos errores o que se le vaya el tiempo
this is pure trash R.I.P Cliff
Man this nasty...sure it not from the album. This is terrible.