Metallica - Ride The Lightning (Bass Cover) (Play Along Tabs In Video)

Bass Tone

- Bridge Action: Low
- Pickup Selection: Neck
- Pickup Tone: Full
- Finger/Pick Strength: Mid to Mid High
- Finger/Pick Shape: Sharp
- Other: Played on the neck pickup, maybe an even more lowered action was needed but i accomplished some of the attack. Some passages were hard to record at high speeds with the action i set up. Try lowering it even more

Amp/Cab Tone

- Gain: 10
- Bass: 8
- Mids: 10
- Treble: 7
- Pedals: No
- Other: -

Mixing

- EQ: Boosted low end, presence at 300hz, 1k, 2k
- Compression: Very High Amount
- Other: -

Transcription Sources

- Isolated Track: Yes
- Live Videos: Yes
- Clips: No

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*All tabs/sheet in this channel are created by me, if you have any advice in the transcription feel free to comment

*Gear: Taurus t-24 Washburn 4 String Bass (D'addario .45 Strings)/Cort CR250 Guitar/ Carlsbro E-Drums - Radial JDI DI Box - Behringer U-Phoria UMC1820 Interface - PC (Cubase) - Waves GTR/Amplitube/Guitar Rig Amp Emulators/Superior Drummer - Waves Plugins - Sony Vegas - Audio Technica m50x Headphones

[HeyIAmJules]

One day when I have the money, I’m just gonna pay you to do all of Cliffs work

[TheFrendlyGiant]

Babe wake up, CoverSolutions just posted

[MertKöse]

What Cliff did in the pre-solo and solo is so cool, shame it is barely hearable in the song

[JackVac_joeblower]

The let ring type power chord in the chorus is so cool. I don't know how he did to come up with such ideas

[andrewpappas]

This has always been one of my personal favourites and has some of Cliff's coolest bass playing (among everything he's done lol), fucking love this song

[pstudio]

That album will be 40 on Saturday! All hail Metallica! 🤘

[miguelmourao]

Wherever I play this song on bass, my fingers grip with fear

[gulag_dt]

4:47
if you listen carefully you can hear the fingers screaming in exhaustion

[William-nm]

Dude gets ill on his bass guitar, outstanding my man! And that's for every song you cover...you make it look easy.

[TheRetroBassist]

All respect just for tackling those Metallica tunes from the Cliff era, trying to play those 16th notes basslines at 200bpm is almost cruel to us mere mortals.

[Cooolytyay]

I’ve been waiting my whole life for the cover solutions Ride The Lightning

[Cliff-fan]

Thank you man i have been searching for a good video for this song for along time but i finally found this one. It is now one of my favorite songs to play and i love your bass tone. You are the best

[bemimu]

Legit the best bass tabs channel on the platform

[haldern]

I sometimes wonder whether guys like Cliff and Steve Harris ever regretted choosing to absolutely lay it on from the start of the song once they were halfway into it lol, their fingers must be made from steel. This song is a hand burner for sure.

[alejandroramirez]

one of the best bass albums in metal much like powerslave or rust in peace.

[nodigital]

sick cover! I never could hear the bass well on the original recordings.

[maxmz_]

Ride the Lightning? More like those fingers riding the bass!🤣 Awesome cover man!🤘

[BigggChuck]

You should do Blackened awesome vid by the way 🤘🏻

[rmps]

I can't help but wonder where I'd be if this shit was around when I was a kid...lol All those countless hours trying to find random tabs on Harmony Central using my buddy's AOL dial up, buying books, just trying to figure stuff out...this would have saved unimaginable time.

[The_real_antYT]

Thank you bro Ive been waiting for you to post this 👍🏻👍🏻🫠👍🏻