Black Metal Bass Lesson

[@unaaa8124]

One of the main reasons why Life eternal by Mayhem is one of my favourite bm songs is because of the fact that the bass isnt just plain and boring

[@DevGohil]

Great song

[@SeedOilFitnessOfficial]

Varg did bass on that album

[@oisac3223]

@@SeedOilFitnessOfficial exactly

[@Sakeloni]

@@SeedOilFitnessOfficial Without Varg black metal is not anymore what he need to be ... Hail Varg,modern black metal today is nothing more then fake deppresive deep minded people who try to create fake darkness loool.

[@benferrisinverts4198]

Theres alot of good thrash, and black metal bass players but you just got to seek em out

[@vladimircokorilo8105]

I like the fact that you didn’t talk about bass “just being in key” with the guitars but rather have the ability to do its own thing. That’s why many people praise B. War for being a sharp and creative bassist in black metal

[@DevGohil]

Exactly

[@EPKKC]

B.War is more than an elite player. Huge loss for the scene. I was a diehard Mardukian and to this day, i still thinks his departure killed the band.

[@timothymckane6362]

Hearing that bass guitar in black metal in doing it's own thing that's not too simple, but not too complicatedly technical as well is why it has its good low melodies. It reminds me on Ulver's "I Troldskog Faren Vild" where the bass follows along with the guitars with most of the song, but at one point it does its melodic part which really stands out to be one of my favorite part on bass.

[@roderickcortez138]

This made me love Black Metal even more than I already do!

[@mormontabernaclefire]

fr \m/

[@SeedOilFitnessOfficial]

That 1st Riff is Dark Funeral in a nutshell

[@DevGohil]

lol yup

[@kadestorm]

Hauntingly beautiful use of natural minor in the ascending pattern for the transition work. With bass, depending on the riff in question, it can be tricky to take various liberties, but here the melodies are done to excellent effect. By the way, the audio quality was uniquely great, given that you used stereo tracks.

[@DevGohil]

Guitar and Bass Tabs for the riffs in this video are available in my Tab Book - devgohilofficial.bandcamp.com/merch Bass Lesson Part 2 is here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/joK6pqWemtqhqqc&lc=UgzKlNsEd3aNAWguxpB4AaABAg

[@DyckJustice]

Thanks so much for making this video man, I started learning to play bass so its awesome for me to see people making videos like this.

[@juns_bf2]

the second norwegian inspired one went SO HARD

[@billyhiggins1908]

Perfect timing i am creating original song and my bass was so boring until you provided these amazing tips thank you🙏🙆💯🎶🙋

[@DevGohil]

all good man thank you

[@manfrombritain6816]

Great vid and i wish more people would do the bass guitar justice, especially in metal

[@DevGohil]

preach

[@WakizashiSabre]

Well, tech-death bands with their five and six string madness... And you got it :)

[@alakablam7901]

Although not exactly Black metal, Arcturus’ Sideshow Symphonies album is a great example of bass lines being not overly complicated, but still adding an extra melodic element to the music without distracting from the main riff.

[@danielhanssen8664]

Strid is another band that let's the bass do much of the melodic bits, the song "Nattevandring" is a great example.

[@MrAMG-fn3pw]

I found this very informative and educating. Im not really a black metal player or even a real black metal fan tbh. But i like using these types of riffs/chords to my own playing. As a bass player, it is sometimes difficult to find your place with metal in general, even the bass tone in general. I myself usually start with the same guitar riffs(most time root notes) and build from there. Thanks for enlightening us👍

[@DevGohil]

Nice one glad you got value from this video

[@Peppeblackmetal]

In black metal there is so much space for the bass to do stuff. Older Marduk's songs are a great example.

[@Nate_Sanity]

Your playing is killer dude. Thank you for the lessons keep it up!

[@DevGohil]

cheers man, stay tuned for more

[@cad1049]

This was so needed, thank you ! I think it'd be cool to do a lesson on harmonizing, or rather how to get 2 guitars to sound good together while still doing their own thing (kinda like you did there with the bass). A prime example of that would be the song "Where Dead Angels Lie" by Dissection (yes, I love that band)

[@DevGohil]

yeah can deffo do a lesson on harmonies

[@cad1049]

@@DevGohil I'll make sure to be there whenever it comes out !

[@pbl6888]

Thanks for that excellent metal bass lesson and for that very interesting food for thought about writing metal bass lines.

[@pxtixntzero7127]

Its so cool how many explorers you have, the Explorer is one of the coolest body styles. i have multiple schecter starts, some guitars just look cool

[@DevGohil]

Pointy shapes supreme

[@OrbitalDeathRay]

Awesome riffs dude. Love the Griever necklace too, I see you. 💎

[@DevGohil]

ff8 best game

[@tomasbarta3020]

What a great lesson! Thank you for your great work!

[@aldosansan2335]

Like you are the best explanation I ever seen in my life! thank you bro! Lot of things are now clear to me as bass player!

[@DevGohil]

All good my g thanks for watching

[@nachfullbarertrank5230]

calling the 7th scale degree in e minor e flat instead of d sharp is slightly aggravating. 1:49 nitpick ik lol i also think of that note on the fretboard as e flat

[@florenttenryu5011]

Great to follow this ! I try to improve picking hand. Thank you for this riffs 🤘🤘

[@DevGohil]

nice one thanks

[@willmatos3787]

Oh hell yeah I've been waiting for this video!!! Thank you for putting this out I hope you put out more bass videos 🤘😈🤘

[@BLADEOUTDATOMB]

i swear you have the best tone for black metal

[@DevGohil]

Looool it’s just plugins in this video

[@BLADEOUTDATOMB]

@@DevGohil that's insane lol

[@TheCritic5150]

@@DevGohil is it archetype gojira?

[@DevGohil]

@@TheCritic5150 nah I used amped roots (the free one) and a logic bass sound

[@TheCritic5150]

@@DevGohil oh okay

[@jessvolina6007]

Very cool. Nothing more I hate then when bass guitar is drowned out and that generally happens when the bass player is doing the bare minimum to bring low end to the song. There are some very good players though and I personally don’t believe you need to be a musical genius to add solid bass lines to the song. Necrobutcher’s bass lines are often simple but he’s loud and has a very unique tone. The flip side to that? If you want to hear pure Black Metal bass mastery it’s B.War’s playing on Marduk’s “Blood-Fire-Death” trilogy. Finger picking and all over the fretboard! His work on Panzer Division is incredible. For me in my band, I write most of the music on bass, then flip it to guitar chords, give it to my guitarists and they will turn it into something more interesting. I’ll learn how to play it on bass exactly how it is on guitar then once I “know” the song, I’ll go back again and play with ascending/descending notes, where I can switch a single note into a power chord, especially if I’m using an Overdrive and find places to hit an A chord which is just thunder splitting the ground and smashing through the guitars. Everyone says “listen to jazz and blues” fuck that. I’m almost 50 years old, I’ve been having a good time playing and it’s never been anything but Black & Death Metal and of course classic stuff, thrash and some old punk like Discharge. If you love heavy music, listen to it, figure it out, plug in everyday and play hard! Open the gates of Hell with volume and tone! Fuck what everyone says you’re “supposed” to do and make heavy evil sounding shit that resonates with you!!

[@pinkyellowblue007]

I wish you would have played the first riff with just single notes ringing out, that might have also sounded cool and ominous.

[@DevGohil]

Great idea

[@cosminpetre5150]

I didnt touch a bass in my entire life and i have a simple question,is there any type of bass more good for black metal like jazz bass modern bass heavy bass etc who is the best?

[@DevGohil]

Anything that suits your style. theres no right or wrong

[@nightlord8756]

I was in a black metal band ,were I was the bassist, and we decided we put the gain and treble as loud as possible with my bass in order to get a rhythm guitar like sounds, as we didn't had any rhythm guitarist in our bands, Do you think it can be a good way for black metal bass parts ?

[@DevGohil]

if you make it work, sure

[@mrnogot4251]

I have heard of ppl using an octive pedal for that kind of thing

[@cathat9622]

Really cool tone

[@thestørmcrier2024]

You forgot a part most bands do..have it as low in the mix as possible and the bass is never noticed sadly

[@DevGohil]

it sucks

[@vanndupappa]

Great tutorial! Thanks 🤘🏼

[@coolestreviews5315]

Totally awesome, I can't wait to try this!

[@DevGohil]

nice one man

[@coolestreviews5315]

@@DevGohil Yeah, I fell in love with Black Metal when I first heard it in the early 2000's, but I never thought I could play it, (except on drums). Well, now my attitude has changed. I am going to learn it on bass and guitar this winter.

[@DevGohil]

@@coolestreviews5315 awesome man, you're in the right place for that

[@BadEconomyOfficial]

Great advice! Might I recommend a 5 string bass over a 4 string bass though. You don’t have to detune it.

[@DevGohil]

5 string basses are supreme

[@BadEconomyOfficial]

@@DevGohil Yes 👏!

[@mortality_sorrow]

Nice bass sound, can you tell the signal chain?

[@DevGohil]

Just a bass straight into a logic preset

[@alexanderz8052]

Great stuff thank you. In general I'd love more songwriting rationales lile how do I turn a chord progression I like into a cool song.

[@RandyBakkelund]

Great ideas man, very helpful!

[@DevGohil]

No worries

[@tbenoit1540]

I like using bass as an excuse to get really wankery, just a positive that it usually makes a part sound more technical/interesting.

[@marduk6836]

Awesome lesson and I guess one of the few videos on the net at all about bm bass

[@DevGohil]

Was about time someone did a lesson on this

[@Dapno_]

@@DevGohil absolutely man! Glad to see you working on it. For a lot of bassists in BM bands it's root notes only because they can't find the resources to show them more variety. Hope there's more on the way, really enjoy your style :)

[@tarrangriffith4653]

Thank you so much for the lesson it was really helpful, what kind of guitar are you using at 8:26? it’s beautiful!

[@DevGohil]

hey man thanks The guitars used in the video are a Dean ML metalman bass and my Jackson Rhoades Minion Guitars in the background are some of my Deans

[@tarrangriffith4653]

@@DevGohil thank you so much man! been trying to get into playing so i could try a one man band type thing and i think these two would work best for me. keep up the great work!

[@DevGohil]

@@tarrangriffith4653 Cheers man, check out the latest video I made about the Jackson, play before you buy

[@tarrangriffith4653]

@@DevGohil absolutely i’ll definitely check it out! i’m thinking that i’m gonna start with one of them first then work my way to the other, any recommendations on which bass to start on out of the two?

[@DevGohil]

@@tarrangriffith4653 honestly, any bass that you feel is comfortable and nice to play will suffice

[@NewAeonWarlord]

This was really quite helful. Thanks!

[@DevGohil]

thanks man

[@alastorvankleeck3329]

This is great! Just curious, do you have suggestions for EQ settings (bass and amp) to get a good black metal bass tone? Yours has a good balance of punch and low end-I’d love any tips!

[@DevGohil]

Yo man, i just try and go for a tone similar to Mayhem's Chimera album, 'tanky' high mid bass tone

[@MichaelBlume-ry7ez]

Verry good Video! I have a question , is it right by minor triads is the rootnote on the pinkie ? I mean when i Play Guitar were is the rootnote by major triads? The whole question is about when i Play Guitar And what Finger are the Rootnote by dyads Minor and Mayor? I Now ist a big question, but it helps me a lot to find the rootnote on my Bass thank you very much in advance !

[@DevGohil]

all the info is in my black metal music theory series bruv kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX6zfpqanZ6Ef7s

[@MichaelBlume-ry7ez]

@@DevGohil Thank you

[@WMfin]

Riff starting at 6:00 is fucken sweet!

[@DevGohil]

thank you!

[@barbarianblood2316]

Great episode. 🤘

[@krzysztofzakrzewski7777]

Good lesson, concrete and helpfull, thank You Dev 🤘

[@DevGohil]

Thanks man

[@SeedOilFitnessOfficial]

This is Bass huh? Wow

[@mormontabernaclefire]

great post, sharing with my bass player \m/

[@ronnieribeirogarvett5289]

Hi Dev, do you have another Bass line videos?

[@DevGohil]

not yet

[@999NVLVS]

Super helpful love the vids

[@DevGohil]

thanks man

[@clemtrap]

how is the norvegian band called ?

[@DevGohil]

tsjuder/urgehal/taake/one tail one head

[@kellmustbedestroyed]

the riffs at 5:35 , are they from a song? which?

[@DevGohil]

i made all these up for this vid

[@kellmustbedestroyed]

@@DevGohilsounds great man, thanks for the response

[@DevGohil]

@@kellmustbedestroyed tabs available in my book

[@-GRAVESITE-]

Sick collection of pointy’s

[@DevGohil]

best shapes

[@nbitsolutions8819]

Without your tutorials I would be helpless 😂

[@czipendejs]

nicely done

[@gmltnsg6500]

What bass it it?? Looks killer!!

[@DevGohil]

Dean ML Bass

[@gmltnsg6500]

@@DevGohil is it light?

[@DevGohil]

@@gmltnsg6500 Light enough, it's been used for a number of shows and neither myself or anyone using it had any issues with the guitar. Always sounds killer

[@gmltnsg6500]

@@DevGohil i see.Thanks for answering!

[@DevGohil]

@@gmltnsg6500 no worries

[@rockandrollisyourmom]

Now record it to a tape deck, copy it, copy that copy, then record it through a phone.

[@DevGohil]

loooool

[@Trentonius]

why did the "boring version of bass" sound so malicious??

[@jaanlove-y4t]

I didn't know there is bass in BM

[@p3l1k44n1]

how do you get your bass to sound so clean? I'm running d'addario XL strings and D tune but i'm getting lots of string noise. Also my higher strings are loud and lower strings are too quiet..

[@DevGohil]

Not sure, I’m using a clean bass tone if that helps

[@DarkVanities]

Wowww, amazing, this reminds me the soundtrack of dorian gray in peny dreadful made by abel korzeniowski, where bass partshad more dynamic and where indipendent and even mroe interesting adding a sense of movement and mistery to the track! the same concept here but made in black metal i love it. what is the name of your bass? i like its shape ... ☺ #DarkVanities

[@DevGohil]

Thanks man! The bass is a Dean ML

[@DarkVanities]

@@DevGohil you know what? I subscribed! it's freaking awesome dam!!! Dev you are a great guitarist and bassist, did you record a full track of the riff shown in this video? do you produce songs or tracks? i will watch all your videos bro, cause these tips are gold ♥ ♣ let's bang it out!!

[@DevGohil]

@@DarkVanities Thanks man I've made/produced a few songs ereskigalofficial.bandcamp.com/ devgohilofficial.bandcamp.com/

[@Cj_Hellectric]

Awesome Pokémon Shirt.

[@Phicxtion]

I like that bass tone. What are you using?

[@DevGohil]

some logic X preset which i tweaked

[@Phicxtion]

@@DevGohil ah nice. Sounds wicked. Thanks

[@pestilentdeath5814]

i like how you play 8th notes instead of 16s... playing 16 notes doesnt give the notes the time and space to breath out and be heard

[@DevGohil]

exactly, makes the mix muddy

[@pestilentdeath5814]

You should make more bass videos

[@DevGohil]

@@pestilentdeath5814 stay tuned

[@johan7344]

Live its needed, it can take a lot of tempo and energy out of the song in my opinion

[@pestilentdeath5814]

Which bands?

[@ImThorels]

i wanna sell my electro and buy a bass after watching this video

[@DevGohil]

keep and electric and a bass both will be handy

[@ImThorels]

@@DevGohil im living in turkiye the guitar,piano, drum etc etc prices is so high

[@necroseer9825]

What distortion do you use?

[@DevGohil]

No bass distortion, guitars are the amped roots plugin

[@Dhieen]

oh so making transitions ? And you should upper the volume of your voice, its low compared to the guitar

[@Blackwave94]

Good lesson

[@DevGohil]

Thanks man

[@rottyrotten2139]

What pedal are you using?

[@DevGohil]

No pedals

[@user-rl2rw3tp6s]

What type of bass is this

[@DevGohil]

Dean ML

[@user-rl2rw3tp6s]

@@DevGohilis it good for all the four main metal genres. Like death metal /thrash metal/ speed metal/ black metal.

[@DevGohil]

@@user-rl2rw3tp6s of course

[@Phexatar]

Dude is this a song? If not, please make it

[@DevGohil]

no songs, just messing about

[@Phexatar]

@@DevGohil well that first one should def be a song

[@freddymaierx2363]

I'm playing in a black metal band and i'm not a big fan of that fancy basslines Sure it's way more interesting to listen to but personally i prefer more simple bass lines for black metal

[@akhimakhi93]

Indian Dave Grohl

[@donnyowle9336]

I wouldn't worry about the bass taking away from the guitar. You can't hear the bass. Guitar is way to loud. Drowns the bass out. Balance the sound more or don't bother even playing bass.

[@nicu3168]

why arent you using distorsion for your bass?

[@DevGohil]

Didn’t want or need to

[@tristantzara3995]

WELL DONE.THANKS FOR SHARING THESE TIPS.COULD YOU MAKE A TUTORIAL FOR THE MILLENIUM KING BY OMC

[@officialquate1341]

Hey Dev thanks for your videos really helping me a lot, could you do a review of an album from an italian band? It's called ATAVICUS they got inspired by ABBATH you can find the album here on KZbin. Whatever if you want to actually make a review video it's up to you, I just want to hear your thoughts and want to learn their style.

[@jasonstouder]

isnt it funny how its all really just modified versions of the blues? metal. thrash. punk. all of it follows american blues patterns.

[@stigbeve]

I have subscribed to your views on bass in a black metal context for a long time now. I’m in Sacramento and want to play bass for a black metal band. Hit me up if you need a bass player and are near me. Have wanted to play with a black metal band but not too many black metal bands in my area.

[@farqueleyou7578]

Here's a BM bass lesson: Unless you're the dude from DsO, don't be audible, not once not ever. 10/10 would learn again.

[@hansapils4889]

dude you have played ad hominem i hope they let you in peace \m/

[@doomyeti3521]

\m/ Yesss

[@DevGohil]

My g

[@brianrussell1565]

too technical

[@DevGohil]

good

[@Car1naDarkspell]

Dont agree at all…. First of all, the bass always needs to serve the bass drum and drums… second, when guitars are playing a riff it’s not always good to play additional notes on the bass. It needs to fit between drums and guitars and bring them together. Not to play melodies.

[@DevGohil]

depends on the riff

[@Car1naDarkspell]

@@DevGohil no. Depends on the beat. Looking for the riffs is the typical failure of bassists who never had bass lessons. And even in black Metal you should know how to get rhythm and string section together. But if it fits for you it’s okay.

[@DevGohil]

@@Car1naDarkspell I treat bass as an extra guitar that locks in with the drums

[@WakizashiSabre]

Id ask Geddy or Mr. Squire about that. But u are right for most of the time.👍

[@nachfullbarertrank5230]

lame

[@stayelusive]

pretty good, but needs to be less audible...more "non-existent" to be black metal. That's why I take my strings off and mime playing the bass.

[@DerUnhold]

100% better without bass. This the way black metal should be.

[@milenkovacevickelvinmedrano]

🤨

[@jrhist16gmail5]

found the boomer

[@xezerik62]

black metal bass? no such thing

[@Davidbrompton58]

It’s fools like this that have ruined black metal.

[@carperformance3669]

u focking rock 😮