L'Via L'Viaquez - The Mars Volta [Bass Cover]

The tracks are the isolated tracks from Guitar Hero. I've messed with the mixing in the beginning to give you an idea of my track sitting in the mix. The original bass track has been removed. The bass you hear is my playing with the VT Bass pedal going into GarageBand.
It's a little tricky to turn my tone knob down and pull the Hipshot D-Tuner at the same time! You may notice at 1:37
I was messing around with the Tech 21 VT Bass pedal and decided to record this.
The Bass is a Warmoth Jazz Body with a Fender 62 Reissue Neck and Dark Star Pickups.

[@teiladnam]

I love what you did with the mix, it sounds really cool.

[@sc45470]

What a killer sound and playing man! I couldn't tell if Juan had his bass in drop D for this, because that riff seems impossible to play in drop D. I tried to transcribe and learn to play it in DGCF (whole step down) because that second part uses the drop D. I also realized there was an open E in that triplet/breakdown riff part which would make it very difficult to play in DGCF. This cover has been a lot of help, and I really enjoyed your playing! Keep it up!

[@fer_rmrz]

Thank you so much man, been awhile since this was posted but it was super helpful in order to record my own bass cover, hope you're doing great!

[@joerobot32]

Hey man, glad you enjoyed it and found it useful . Thanks!

[@darkdragon301]

I love your bass cover!
So underrated :(

[@joelb79]

Those dark stars sound just so killer. Really.... I have same body and neck, and about the same right/left hand touch, same pedal... this really makes me gas for dark stars. :)

[@choosevimeo]

Fantastic job.

[@joerobot32]

thanks man. my guess what that it was a d-tuner only cause juan puts them on most of his basses.

[@felixcf1]

awsome video man!!!

[@joerobot32]

get the VT Bass!!! I'm telling you, kicks the basses up a notch

[@Luigi8573YT]

Vince Di Francesco i wanna play the same part as you

[@joerobot32]

@espaguetydeloeste try learning it by ear, sorry, im not gonna make a tab

[@espaguetydeloeste]

cool, great,can you make a tab?

[@defconsound2565]

woah totally cool, how did you separate the different parts? Did you find stems?

[@erickgonzalez2839]

I prefer a bass when it slides..

[@bmoneyrancidfan91]

I honestly though juan milly vanillyed during shows

[@joerobot32]

Do you mean he was pretending to be Juan the whole time? lol, I can only assume that was a jab at his live performance, I dunno, not really disliking anything about the 100+ bootlegs I've heard.

[@defconsound2565]

woah totally cool, how did you separate the different parts? Did you find stems?