Metallica - The God That Failed - Bass Cover with Play Along Tabs

[@JamesDixon]

Hi 👋Tuning and gear listed in the Description ⬆If my videos or tabs have helped you learn a song please consider buying me a coffee ☕🤩🎸 www.buymeacoffee.com/jamesdixonbass

[@chilichad]

Finally a video without the background music drowning out the instrument at hand. Excellent job!!!!

[@JamesDixon]

Thank you!

[@bullyinspace]

That bass sound is evil 👌

[@MrHypnocil]

That Spector growl is all I want in my life. Awesome cover 💪

[@JamesDixon]

Thanks man! 🤘

[@alahad]

tried a trbx?

[@JamesDixon]

@@alahad I've only ever seen and heard a trbx bass played at a gig once and it sounded fierce!

[@alahad]

@@JamesDixon when you said "that Spector growl" I thought to myself, yeap and the TRBX too... cheers m8

[@TexturaI]

my uncle gave me his spector because he didnt play it for about a decade

[@kursatkaya8158]

I love that intro and riff. Amazing job.

[@JamesDixon]

Thanks 🤘

[@Davidjon1946]

Got to hear this song played live for the first time ever!!!!! Darien lake ( Buffalo Ny) may 1993 this was before internet setlist you would simply go to concerts and hope you're favorite band would play you're favorite song!!!. When jason played that first cord i went crazy!!!!!! I loved this song from the first time i heard it. Greetings to you all from Buffalo N.y Be KIND TO EACH OTHER!!

[@noirjakey]

this is probably the best bass cover ive heard covering this song! Good job cuzzo 🤞🏽

[@JamesDixon]

Thank you jayswrld! 👍

[@waltervlogs9617]

Double strap damn!

[@JamesDixon]

Double strap is life after a few left shoulder injuries, helps spread the weight of a bass/guitar, can't recommend it enough 👌

[@JamesDixon]

Straps I use are D'addario Planet Waves 25RVP01-DX Comfort Leather Reversible Guitar Strap, Suede. Theres another brand I've used in the past called Comfort Strap, their straps are really good also 👍

[@criticalbill7421]

That bass tone is killer.🤘🤘

[@FebrianRizkyRamadhan]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉here's a diamond, let's collaborate 😎

[@treesher7618]

Yeah! The Jason tone! great man.

[@JamesDixon]

Thanks 👌🤘

[@connorgriffin1237]

Badass dude!! Lovin all the content your putting out. Love that spector sound also!

[@JamesDixon]

Thank you! More to come 🎸🤘

[@klaushoschi2143]

Thanks a lot. I started playing bass a few months ago, and this video just helped me a lot to figure some things out.

[@kennethmcpherson6682]

Your tabs are excellent. Great work and thanks for sharing them.

[@JamesDixon]

Thank you so much, the tabs take me a lot of time not only to transcribe but to line them up with the recorded audio as well so your comment is greatly appreciated 👍

[@jonblakeslee4585]

Very nice man, listened and practiced to this many times now. Good tune!

[@gabrielmikhail1986]

Well done

[@Thewiz666]

First time I've seen use of double straps, what's the theory behind it or what's it do for ya?

[@JamesDixon]

Already answered this in another comment on this video 👍

[@boarman55]

This is dead fucking on! Nice job dude! I love this!

[@JamesDixon]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@boarman55]

James Dixon I loved it!

[@jeremygziji9186]

great vid buddy ... just learning bass now its a big help ... much appreciated

[@schckoumoon]

well played (y)

[@JamesDixon]

@Noureddine Rida thank you!

[@WilliamSantAnaTJ]

Exccelent. Newsted would be proud of you.

[@JamesDixon]

Thank you 🤘

[@dnurbianto2243]

Nice job bro...keep it up..thanks for sharing

[@otimaniosgaming8580]

First time learning to pick a bass I'm a newbie Thanks man

[@JamesDixon]

Nice, I learnt to pick on bass to this song as well. Enjoy 👍

[@otimaniosgaming8580]

@@JamesDixon can you please post a bass only video for this song?

[@JamesDixon]

@@otimaniosgaming8580 I'm concentrating on getting the rest of the black album tracks recorded but you can request that via super thanks or a donation to www.paypal.com/paypalme/jamesdixonbass

[@b.h.7070]

Great covers and tabs! Thank you! Got another sub🤘

[@JamesDixon]

Thank you for the sub and great comments, appreciated 🤘

[@IkeHowell]

i don’t even play bass but fuck the bass line gets you going. amazing cover btw

[@JamesDixon]

Thanks!

[@j.g9164]

Love ur vids dude. Been using em to learn a bunch as a beginner myself. Only problem is I’m kinda stupid and idk where to find some info on what all the symbols and stuff means lol is it like a hybrid of regular sheet music stuff? Maybe I can start there🤔 also I’m tryna play with my fingers so does some of those movements/symbols really just apply to picks?

[@JamesDixon]

Thanks man, here's a little tablature symbols legend: h hammer on p pull off b bend string up r release bend / slide up \ slide down v vibrato (sometimes written as ~) t right hand tap s legato slide S shift slide * natural harmonic [n] artificial harmonic n(n) tapped harmonic tr trill T tap TP tremolo picking PM palm muting (also written as _ and .) N.C. No chord: tacet or rest / tremolo arm dip; n = amount to dip tremolo arm down n/ tremolo arm up /n\ tremolo arm inverted dip = hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls volume swell (louder/softer) x on rhythm slash represents muted slash o on rhythm slash represents single note slash ·/. pick slide Most common techniques for my tabs will be hammer on's and slides. Only one's that really apply for pick playing will be up and downward but you can ignore them playing with fingers. Any other question's just drop another comment, enjoy playing 🙂🎸

[@j.g9164]

@@JamesDixon ur actually the best dude. Couldn’t have asked for more and now I’m all set. Ima keep practicing as long as these vids are up🤘 stay awesome

[@evanthunder7110]

Simply badass, but can I ask why u have 2 straps for tha bASS?

[@JamesDixon]

Injured left shoulder, so another strap on the right shoulder distributes the weight meaning I can play for longer.

[@pepegrillopantera1988]

James, emg hz, tone pump, maple bass body?...Thank you, brutal tone.

[@JamesDixon]

Thanks, its all stock, maple bass body with EMG SSD pickups 👌

[@pepegrillopantera1988]

@@JamesDixon I think the pair tonepump and ssd sound very good ... I am about to acquire a ssd, its cost is very accessible. Could you compare them with the hz? .Did you think about replacing them with 35 dc or do you think you need an active truck? It is amazing your sound, deep, low and bright with that stock combination. Do you use any distortion for that tone? Thank you very much, your sounds are delightful to my ears! 

[@JamesDixon]

Thanks. Never thought about replacing the pickups as they sound good to me and I'm not all that good at electronics ha. I use a Scarlett 212 for all my recordings and when recording the Spector bass I set the input gain really high, that's were the distortion comes from. Keep in touch, interested to see how you find the SSD's 👍

[@AmandaRogersarock1988]

I know you posted your gear but you're using but can you please confirm the Spector is plugged directly into the Focusrite? This sounds SO punchy and I love the tone you've got here. Great cover and clean playing :) .

[@JamesDixon]

Thanks! Yup yup straight into the focusrite which does glow red so am distorting the input but sounded good to me, strings would have been a few days old at this point as well 👍

[@AmandaRogersarock1988]

@@JamesDixon thanks so much for the reply! Your bass sounds great here!

[@navvarta_6021]

Hey pls you can put a link for the tabs?

[@JamesDixon]

Tabs/Guitar Pro files available via donations 👉 www.paypal.com/paypalme/jamesdixonbass

[@darren8761]

YES 🤘

[@pl4typus595]

how do you get this tone?

[@JamesDixon]

Check the video description and other comments 👍

[@ALTOVALORPERSONAL]

Sabrosón apá. (I like it)

[@Randomov7xx]

Great tone ! How did you get it?

[@JamesDixon]

Thanks. Added a new set of strings, plugged it into my scarlett 212, turned up the input gain until it distorted and that was it. Doesn't take much to get a Spector to sound good 👌

[@E3Cooper]

Jason is that you 😭

[@PandemiuM-gtr]

The god that failed by metallica is very similar

[@GENESISR_RRANCH]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@freddiesesh]

💥💥💥👍👍🤘

[@Lucas_1208]

Your bass has a lot of attack you used Fuzz?

[@JamesDixon]

No fuzz just a very leary sounding Spector bass plugged it into my scarlett 212, turned up the input gain until it distorted and that was it. Doesn't take much to get a Spector to sound good 👌

[@Garrett-on-Guitar]

what do you call those straps like that or is it is just to normal straps?

[@JamesDixon]

Yeah it just two regular straps offset at different angles to spread the weight of a bass across two shoulders as opposed to one. Got the idea from @insanedeathmachine🤘

[@Garrett-on-Guitar]

@@JamesDixon it’s a great idea especially for some of these bigger basses.

[@mrkiiprototype2938]

Dawn patrol but Metallica

[@Bastian_Zugnappen33]

🤘🔝🎸🎼

[@bassboy9700]

Witch tuning is it in?

[@JamesDixon]

The one in the description 👍

[@marselluswallace6]

Do you take requests?

[@JamesDixon]

Great account name 😄 what song are you after?

[@marselluswallace6]

@@JamesDixon more metallica and perhaps soundgarden

[@JamesDixon]

​@@marselluswallace6 in that case... "you ain't got no problem Jules... I'm on the mother ******..."

[@No_amp.guy_]

Oh u mean dawn patrol

[@JamesDixon]

?

[@No_amp.guy_]

@@JamesDixon Megadeth released Rust In Peace album in 1990 and Dawn Patrol is the song of Rust In Peace while Metallica released Black Album in 1991 and I also read that Metallica stole that riff from Megadeth