Awesome audio video of Cliff Burton playing Orion with just his bass. The song appeared as the instrumental seventh track of Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” album. This song was played at Cliff’s funeral and the lyrics “…cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?” from the song “To Live is To Die” are written on Cliff’s head stone. “To Live is To Die” was the eighth track of Metallica’s 1988 album “…And Justice for All.”
Cliff Burton is the most recent addition to the Music Quotes section on Sabra’s Bass. Check out what he had to say that stuck in the minds of those who lived on. Rest in peace, Cliff! Looks as though the Kingdom of Salvation heard your plea.
This guy has seen lots of people teaching the 1234 exercise to beginner bassists at the bottom of the neck. It’s a recipe for disaster! Here’s some advice on how to keep that exercise safe and approachable for beginners as well as a well versed players. Avoid carpal tunnel syndrome or worse … all you have to do is check it out.
The long awaited Funk University is here…Bootsy’s Funk University! Together in an online campus, bassists from around the world will be learning directly from “Professor” Bootsy Collins. The name says it all, this course will be concentrating on intermediate and advanced Funk styles.
To get in on it, visit http://www.thefunkuniversity.com and sign up for their email updates. Once you’re on this list you will start receiving exclusive information and be notified when and how to enroll for the first semester which begins July 1st.
Completely off the bass topic, but have you heard of Earth Hour? Earth Hour started three years ago in Sydney, Australia and is now the largest event of its kind in the world. Nearly one billion people from 4,100 cities in 87 countries on seven continents participated last year and, with your help, Earth Hour 2010 can be even bigger.
During Earth Hour, international landmarks including the Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State Building, Eiffel Tower and Great Pyramids have gone dark alongside the city skylines of Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv and more. To see it for yourself, check out the video posted below.
Earth Hour isn’t just for national landmarks and big cities—anyone can participate, whether it be individuals like you and me or schools, businesses, organizations, and our state and local governments. I hope you will join me for this amazing event and help send a message that the time for action on climate change is now. To sign up and start spreading the word, visit www.EarthHour.org.
The first song that I learned on the bass guitar was Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes. This is also the first song I mastered on the bass guitar. It is pretty easy, and the rhythm is slow enough to pick up quickly. After reviewing other site’s tablature and picking it out the first few times, I realized that it was a bit difficult to read these tabs since I was coming from a sheet music background. I decided to tab it out here very clearly for anyone who is just picking up this song for the first time or is a beginning bassist. I have also included the video with lyrics at the bottom of the Seven Nation Army bass tabs page.
The fact about this song is that there is no actual bass guitar being played. The sound is actually created by running Jack White’s semi-acoustic guitar through a Digitech Whammy pedal set down an octave. The riff was composed at a sound check prior to a show at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia.
When I first got my bass, I didn’t have a tuner. So, what does one do when there is no tuner available? Go online and see what the internet has to offer. I have found this website called “TuneMyBass.com” for free help with that. It has an interactive tuning feature for 4 string, 5 string, 6 and 7 string basses. It also offers different tuning styles including standard, drop d, 1/2 step down, low b and drop c.
The image on the left gives you a good view of what the tuner looks like. You just hover over the strings on the image while on TuneMyBass.com and it will repeatedly play that note for you. The greatest thing about this online bass and guitar tuner is that it is 100% free. I love free stuff! Check it out and give yourself a hand. You can also use this site to help verify that your tuner is on target if you do have a tuner. This is how I found out that my tuner was calibrated too high.
This was originally an unreleased Unplugged Performance by Pearl Jam due to the fact that Eddie Vedder is seen here writing Pro Choice down his arm during the performance. Or, maybe it has something to do with him falling off his stool, I don’t know. At 2:19 in, Jeff Ament takes off on his bass solo as he stands on the drum platform. Awesome little video that I had never seen prior to today. Thanks to Matt S. for giving me the tip on this one!
I have added the bass tabs for Porch to the website. I am currently learning this song, and thought I would share. It has been a pretty easy learn, but the pace of it has been my challenge. Jeff Ament plays it on a 5 string but it is very easy to play on a 4 string. The beginning has no bass, but the bass slowly makes its way into the song. It’s a very progressive song, music energy and power continuously builds up throughout this song. Check it out!
Want some good solid quotes from the best bassists in the biz? Check out the new page on Sabra’s Bass by cicking here & find some good quotes and images. If you have a suggestion for more artists or quotes, feel free to contact me anytime. The artists do not have to be isolated to bassists, so anyone from Jimi Hendrix on down the line is welcome.
This page will continuously be growing so, enjoy! If you want to suggest something now, click here.
I’m getting excited. I am going to see Carbon Leaf on the 19th and this is a show that I thought I would never see. For the longest time they only played the East Coast. I don’t live anywhere near there.
In light of the occasion, I have been working on a Carbon Leaf song called Let Your Troubles Roll By. The video to the original song is below and when I get it perfected, I will add my own. The bass lines are fairly easy. There is a part that I have not quite figured out yet, but the majority of it is the same few notes. I have not found any tabs online for free or otherwise. I’ll keep my eyes out, but if I figure it out first, I will post my own bass tabs for this song.
The guitar chords are very easy, too. It consists of two chords, A & D. I have about mastered the basic chords on the guitar, so now to completely master it on the bass. I am close…so close.
Awesome audio video of Cliff Burton playing Orion with just his bass. The song appeared as the instrumental seventh track of Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” album. This song was played at Cliff’s funeral and the lyrics “…cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?” from the song “To Live is To Die” are written on Cliff’s head stone. “To Live is To Die” was the eighth track of Metallica’s 1988 album “…And Justice for All.”
