Metallica - Orion (Bass Cover) (Play Along Tabs In Video)

Tips And Comments:

- Playing Technique:

Played next to the neck pickup with high strength. Bridge pickup volume at 0

- Gear Sound:

All effects and processing are digital. For most of the parts i added a fuzz wah pedal with middle amount of fuzz, high compression and boosted mid frequencies. Also a little treble added. For distortion parts i added high frequency distortion into the mix

- About The Song:

I had to play the solo separately, mostly because i don't own a distortion pedal or some thing that allows me to change effects between part of the song, and i needed distortion for that solo in order to play it well

Need more tips? Just comment!

*All the tabs 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 .045 Standard Strings)/ Fred Stevens Les Paul Guitar - ESI Ugm-96 Interface - PC (Digital Processing)

MY BAND:

[george_was_curious]

5:40 - 6:17 is nothing short of spiritual to me. Cliff was such a creative genius. He truly elevated the bass to fine art in this song.

[DustinPlatt]

God I wish Metallica still did instrumentals like this.

[hyalinamusic]

Here are the timestamps for the big major sections so you can find the tabs for them.
0:58 - Main Riff
3:59 - Secondary Riff
6:36 - Bass Solo
7:02 - Third Riff

[johngrunwell]

Never been a big Metallica guy. Now I understand why Cliff Burton was so revered.

[seanconnors]

Timestamps for Solo:
3:13 Kirk
6:17 James
6:36 Cliff (Playing a part written by Kirk for guitar actually)
7:00 Kirk

[AndriyVasylenko]

We did “Orion” almost at the same day) It's interesting to compare our versions: on 22 and 24-fret basses. By the way, very accurate bass solo work! Pearl of the song \m/

[Woahbro]

let's all agree cliff was a beast

[rileyyoung]

This is Cliff's masterpiece. RIP legend

[karl-johanlagstrom]

6:34 i always thought that was played by guitar... Holy shit

[lrdagslataas]

I hope people understand what makes this cover AMAZING. Not only is it played to perfection/imperfection, but to actually nail Cliff's tone by playing HARD enough at that speed is next level 🙏

[lonelypotato]

>Bass solo
Nice
>Bass duet
*crying* Nice

[TheEliteStrudel]

Finally someone plays the main riff correctly. Well done.

[sailstone]

Beautiful. Just beautiful.
sincerely
- a guitarplayer

[tydof]

1:40 i love that part so freaking much it's unbelievable

[kendallt]

my bass teacher assigned this song as my first song with 16th notes and this is so helpful 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[martinbougie]

At around 2:15 when the solo ends, the muting between notes is brilliant. Just pairs so nicely with the drums, you really did this well. I believe Cliff would approve 👍

[Angico_Dario]

0:33 Intro
0:55 Riff 01
1:18 Riff 02
1:40 Bass Lead
2:10 Chorus Riff
2:40 Riff 01
2:54 Riff 02
3:25 Bridge 01
3:57 Interlude 01
5:39 Interlude 02
6:06 Bridge 02
6:15 Pre-solo
6:33 Bass Solo
6:52 Bridge 03
7:30 Chorus Riff

[blazexcel]

just started Bass 2 weeks ago and my band told me to learn the entire song in a week. 💀

[alexalmeria]

best cover i've seen on youtube, no mistakes!! haha, congrats!

[Jeudaos]

I'm a simple man. I see a bass cover of a Cliff Burton bass line, I click. And that bass tone is beautiful! Damn son.