Flying Whales (Old Version) - (DROP C VERSION)

[@SteelKicker01]

6:12 that riff is so evil even the tabs are

[@owenschneider2738]

I play multiple instruments, and not only is this useful for bass, it’s useful to play with especially for drums since there are no good drumless tracks of this song. Best cover I could find out there!

[@AlkaRez]

Make one. Capitalize on the absence and improve your playing along the way

[@xchitta7012]

dude I would love to see a Drum less cover of this track

[@yugdails]

But this isn’t drumless

[@baros387]

That bass sounds so heavy like a flying whales!

[@keaganjohnstone3481]

Had the honour of seeing this song live front row In a pretty small venue, and the whole intro I was glued to jean he was doing very trippy stuff

[@DyckJustice]

Like what?

[@Becforbass]

I've been playing bass for like three years on and off now and man- this is hard. Took me like a week to even get to 80% speed....Thank you so much for transcribing it, I wouldn't have ever figured it out by myself. Also what a gnarly bass tone you got there, I'm in love!!!

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Thank you! But I have to add that the song is actually in standard D. Believe it or not, I recorded the "real" version today which is slightly different.

[@Becforbass]

@@LeoBassCovers2yep I've read other comments that said it wasn't in Drop C, I'm curious to find out what the new version sounds like!

[@logantibbets5096]

God this cover is so sick. Love it

[@zakarisz1]

Best on KZbin. Following since the beginning!

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Thank you so much for the support!

[@pamelaakina]

Man, you REALLY helps me with the covers!! Keep going this great job!! By the way, I have a request!! Another song from Gojira!! Maybe Toxic Garbage Island or Global Warming!!

[@aitornavarro6597]

Man some many time signature changes, I fucking love it!!

[@lil_ezz120]

What a Great cover!!

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Thank you!!

[@aether9197]

this is awesome. its really sad though, sense i can almost never hear bass in their music

[@4GrimReaper]

I understand what you mean, but you just need some headphones with better bass. My Sony MDRXB950BT have great bass response and a boost for extra bass. These aren’t the only ones out there, but these are the ones I use.

[@TheSentry777]

Don't understand this at all. The bass always sits well in most Gojira songs. This song is a good example, the bass is perfect in the mix.

[@aether9197]

@@TheSentry777 idk, i've just never really heard bass in gojira songs

[@_omnisl4sh]

That weird, cuz for me i feel like the bass is so loud in almost every gojira songs, and i like it a lot

[@joelkagemyr7284]

Weird i can even hear it on my mobile speakers

[@mistamasta9892]

thanks much man. gonna be my first Gojira tune to learn.

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Have fun!

[@jujubawav3818]

JUst awesome bro! I really love this songs, means a lot for me.

[@rukh27]

Very nice, gonna learn from this, special thanks for the playalong tabs!

[@LeoBassCovers2]

No problem and thank you!

[@ps150-6]

Sick!

[@Raiden20105]

This is fucking awesome

[@dragontape161]

Great Work. That whole Album is a Masterpiece but hard to Master but you truly do!

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Appreciate that! Thank you

[@ninjalite9024]

Insane cover, all your covers are amazing. Ive been grinding every day workin hard using this cover, and all your others have helped so much! Thank you for these! Also, Maybe some more Gojira covers?? (Ocean Planet, Explosia, Into the Storm ect.)

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Great to hear! And thank you very much. I recently finished a cover of New Found which will be up somewhere in December or early January. And after that I might do more older Gojira :)

[@xaviervinas137]

perfect

[@daverichards9141]

Damn good job dude!

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Thanks Dave!

[@dylananderson4573]

This was awesome!!! More gojira!!! Please!!

[@LeoBassCovers2]

I'm on it!

[@doomsdave_fm8649]

Truly Amazing! Kind of an obscure one but it would be awesome if you did “Loathe - Heavy is the head that falls with the weight of a thousand thoughts”

[@trashjuice8598]

This is fucking awesome it helped me huge

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Glad to hear :)

[@iwbsi2033]

love that warwick tone. Hoping you're gonna do more gojira cuz i'm craving for it after the olympics lmao

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Thanks! I have done like 28 Gojira covers but I will definitely do more! I recently finished two more Gojira covers so.. no worries :)

[@oFFeNdor014]

good cover keep up !

[@afonsoteixeira2070]

Just came across your cover, and it's awesome! Good job. I play bass as well, and I have a small question... Do you actually memorize the tab, do you play with it in front of you?

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Thanks! I used to memorize, but I tend to just get my laptop in front of me and sight read the song.

[@jrk10]

I may be a bit late but I’d always try memorise songs to get them stage ready whenever

[@ДмитрийКиреев-щ2п]

Hi, nice play, please make a cover on a absolute power parkway drive

[@jessicaramalho585]

Man! what a incredible job! i'm learning oblivion by mastodon with your video! can you make a cover of the willing wel III: apollo II: the telling truth by coheed?

[@jessicaramalho585]

looool you already have! haha

[@LeoBassCovers2]

@@jessicaramalho585 I was just about to say that haha! Thank you :)

[@jessicaramalho585]

@@LeoBassCovers2 thank you so much! is the next song that I will learn with you haha ;D

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Good luck cause it's quite a difficult one..

[@jessicaramalho585]

@@LeoBassCovers2 yeah :/ I'll take 1 year to get it haha

[@willhammond4290]

Lol I actually drop my B string to G when I play this song and use it on certain parts that you play on the A string

[@LeoBassCovers2]

That's either super heavy, or just flappy as hell lol

[@willhammond4290]

LeoBassCovers Iv got a .145 on it so it isn’t that bad

[@pjotrvangriensven]

HamSandwich Can you even hear that? Sounds to me like that would just suck all the tone out whatever you’re trying to do.

[@willhammond4290]

Pjotr van Griensven I use a .145 that doesn’t flop too much and I have a good distortion pedal and active pickups so I don’t loose tone or sound

[@rockereivanivan]

I was like that can't be right they tune in D and then I read what nobody was going to read XD

[@swannautiluskayk4642]

Gojira always finds a way to fuck up our brains

[@levianck]

joder que gran rola..... fuck thats a great song

[@andrewhigdon8346]

Please forgive me, but some of that sounds like what Gojira guy is doing, but a lot of it sounds very different. I recognize that the bass is always a bit low in every Gojira mix, and I do understand that he doesn’t always follow the vocal or guitar, and sometimes it’s really hard to figure out what he’s actually doing, like in Global Warming. So the question is, how did you positively define what were the “correct” notes? Did you figure it out or read the right notes in a reference of some kind? I’m not trying to criticize you, because I too am just a mere mortal, but I have run across this phenomenon often. Like the fast low part in Heartwork sounds different to me than what some people play in covers on you tube. It’s kinda weird for me, because it seems like the hard parts are easy for me and the easy parts are hard. The runs, the huge hooks, as complicated as they might be, even like Mr. Bungle and Fishbone and whatever, the hardest parts seem easy. But a slow ballad is hard as hell for me. I guess that’s why Harmony Corruption is my morning coffee. So how do you know you’re playing the songs exactly correctly? And btw, Silvera sounded and played exactly the way I play it. Oroborus not so much. I basically play the guitar parts. I don’t know how you can pick out the bass parts that you play in some of these vids. Cheers. Good stuff. How about some Entombed? Wolverine Blues is obvious and fun. Stranger Eons?

[@LeoBassCovers2]

No worries, you're just asking a very normal and good question :) Now this is a funny one cause this is one of the only videos on the channel where I kinda messed up quite badly. I do everything by ear and I use multiple techniques and software to make the bass stand out a lot more in a song which makes it easier for me to hear. But in Flying Whales, I was a 100% certain that I heard a low C. I still do to this day. But when you look at live videos, he plays most of the intro in a different way because he's in standard D which doesn't even have the low C. Some has said that there was another bassist before the current one who recorded this on a 5-string bass and some say that it's just plain wrong. But here's the thing, you never know when it's 100% correct. Not even when you have live videos as a reference. You can only be a 100% right about when you actually have the original bass track. So all these tabs and references you'll see online, are usually close to the original. But, you never know for sure. But at least I can improve and correct some of them cause a lot of tabs online are just very bad and written by people who can't even play bass. But after 2 years of transcribing, you get better at it. Your ears are trained to focus on what the bass is doing. Hope that helps :)

[@andrewhigdon8346]

@@LeoBassCovers2 hey man, big thanks for responding. I’ll not call myself a true musician, and I can’t tune by ear, but I definitely can tell when it’s off. Which has been my problem fir many, many years, not realizing that my bass was not intonated properly, and I rarely play open strings. I have a 5 string, so that helps. Problem has been that when I tune, everything seems legit. But as I go down the fretboard the supposed note is not correct, so I’m always hunting (used to be), trying an octave up or down, and definitely frustrated. When you know you’re on the right fret, and the one up is wrong and the one below is wrong, yet the fret you’re on is just not right, it gets frustrating. Between bridge saddle adjustments and nut height adjustments, I’ve got it within a few cents all over the fret board. The vast majority of your cover us dead on, it’s really jus the first part if the intro. You rock. Keep it up.

[@sorrow2477]

@@LeoBassCovers2 Know I'm replying to an old comment but who knows, someone might come looking for info one day. There very well could be a low C in there, I don't know what was used to record the album but if you look up live stuff in the 2003-2005 range Jean-Michel is often using a 5 string, so it could be there if he used one to record the album. Haven't looked into what gear was used but always a possibility.

[@rhecyeeyeejake7184]

Can you do the drop d version?

[@fitcove883]

Will you do a video for Indestructible by Disturbed?

[@bendykirby4828]

That a chorus or a flanger at 5:30? Just double checking.

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Oh yeah that's flanger. Completely forgot to mention that it seems.

[@bendykirby4828]

@@LeoBassCovers2 Aight, thanks

[@bleedblack23666]

Anyone know what effects he uses?

[@maltos365]

What string gauges are you using?

[@LeoBassCovers2]

045-065-085-105-135

[@jaapaardenburg9376]

Nice! Can i ask why u use a 5 string?

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Thanks! I only have 5 string basses actually. I like the spacing between the strings on 5 string basses, but I will get a 4 string at some point. Matter of time :)

[@iwbsi2033]

is there really a drop c version of this song? Because from what i heard jean michel was hitting D# instead of C

[@LeoBassCovers2]

So, there isn't a drop C version of this song. It's just that when I transcribed it years ago, I was convinced that I heard multiple low C notes. After looking at live videos, it became clear that he's playing in D standard so I changed this title to "DROP C VERSION" as I will probably do the real D version somewhat soon

[@iwbsi2033]

@@LeoBassCovers2 wow, looking forward to that my friend. You did amazing works

[@LeoBassCovers2]

Thanks! :)

[@tatocta]

but the song is in D standard, how?

[@LeoBassCovers2]

There are a lot of comments about this, but yeah.. I was very sure that I heard a lot of low C notes in the intro of the song. It would make sense since that would still be in the scale of the song even. But apparently it is in D standard and I basically fucked up. So consider this a low C version of FLying Whales.

[@tatocta]

@@LeoBassCovers2 I just bought a bass and wanted to learn the song, I was kinda confused, but it sounds really good like this. Thanks for the clarification.

[@LeoBassCovers2]

No problem! Have fun with that new bass :)

[@c4gam1ng12]

The guitars are in D standard, but the key of the song itself is G minor

[@Svartig4ldur]

What kind of plugins do You use to get such a fat tone? :D

[@chuckschuldiner5884]

Its just Warwick bass itself

[@briocheman21]

I thought this song was d standard?

[@LeoBassCovers2]

It is. There's more comments about this issue in the comments but basically, I'm still convinced that I am hearing a low C during the intro. Especially since Gojira often plays in drop C. So I guess this is a drop C version..

[@briocheman21]

@@LeoBassCovers2 Thanks for the feedback

[@briocheman21]

@@LeoBassCovers2 I think i have figured out what he plays, he usually uses a 5 string in his recordings so he plays the 5th fret of his B string and slides down and that is the lower note you are hearing

[@c4gam1ng12]

The guitars are tuned to D standard, but the key of the song itself is G minor

[@andrewhigdon8346]

We do read your tuning Leo, but I just don’t understand why people playing a 5 string alter the standard tuning. If you’re gonna stop your E to D or C or whatever, why not just do that with one of your four strings? Maybe I’m looking at it wrong, but way, way back, I ONLY HAD a 4 string, but since the strings were all floppy at C, so I would buy a 5 string set and leave off the high G, trim the nut for the bigger strings, and just use BEAD strings, all tuned normal. When I finally got a 5 string, I always keep it tuned normal, B, E, A, D, G. The way it was designed. I’d like to have another four string, and would most likely keep it tuned D, G, C, F. Cause, fucking metal, man. But why do that with a 5 string? Is it for an open string, octave on the seventh fret thing that makes it easier? Even this bass player nowadays plays a four string Fender, and sometimes he’s drop D, other times drop C. I don’t get it. It would drive me nuts having to keep track of what the new tuning is, or which bass it is and what it’s tuning is. I guess it’s just me. If I need a low C, where open is B, then octave C, I’d just reach down to he third fret on the D string and there it is. Now obvious there’s a distinct tonal difference playing it there as opposed to just open D, 7 fret on next string for the octave. I get it. But is that really it?

[@LeoBassCovers2]

I can't speak for other people but me tuning down a 5 string is mainly just because I want it to be accurate. Most bassists don't have a 5 string so I can't just transcribe it for a 5 string and expect everyone to get a 5 string. I didn't have a 4 string bass when I made this video so I could only play it on this bass. And when I do have to drop down to a C, I actually just use a capo on the bass which works like a charm. Anyway, this video is not a good example of this as the original song was played in D standard. So technically, this is my worst video on the channel.

[@dontlosehope1]

Is there a reason why you don't play the pauses? Or are the tabs wrong? Never mind. Figured out the tabs are wrong and you are also playing said tabs wrong lmao..

[@FunkInTheTrunk]

Wait how are the tabs wrong, elaborate

[@c4gam1ng12]

You’re talking out of your ass