Rush - Force Ten bass cover (R30)

[@MatheusSouza-li4jf]

The sound of those strings played at the same time is awesome!

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching. Glad you liked it

[@aschule5684]

Amazing job👍 I was getting exhausted watching your right hand, I couldn't imagine playing like that and singing also, and playing some keyboard or pedals, the genius of Geddy Lee!

[@hemibass]

Thanks! This one takes some stamina for sure. Wouldn't want to play it at the end of a set haha

[@M1n0rXxXthr3aT]

Dude. Your bass tone is killer!

[@hemibass]

Thanks! Glad you like it

[@sirwilliamraleigh2100]

Sick! Great job. Man Geddy is a monster. They all are. Long live the kings!

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching. He sure is. The bass master in my opinion :)

[@TheFlyingEpergne]

how tf did geddy sing and play this at the same time

[@hemibass]

The guy is a genius, no other explanation needed haha. This period of albums was so full of manic basslines that he had to sing over. Must have been a lot of work to get down. Thanks for watching!

[@Adam-Bomber]

Wow! Amazing playing as always. Your bass sound is killer! 3:27 🤯

[@hemibass]

Thanks

[@untakentony7951]

My favorite style of this song, I like R30 a little bit more than R40 but we have out preferences.

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching. I like r30 too. I think it was a great setlist. Sadly I was only 12 and didn't know about rush when it happened

[@nigelclements7367]

I just learned this and I’m pretty good at it thank you for the vid.

[@hemibass]

No problem!!

[@tmb3131]

Dang... ridiculously awesome accuracy, bro. I always thought the bass on this song needed to be cranked up over the synth. It changes the song to hear it like this. 👍 To add, some live shows had Geddy's bass so loud it lost the mixing sweet spot.

[@hemibass]

Thanks! Much appreciated. This is one I like playing a lot. Glad you enjoyed watching:)

[@luizarruda3229]

Hats off to you once again for another great performance. You not only play Rush what by itself is challeging already, you also sound like Geddy Lee. Cheers from Brazil.

[@hemibass]

Thanks! Really appreciate it

[@polorrioabaixo7293]

Pure energy, bravo 👌👌👌

[@hemibass]

Thanks! Hard to keep seated for this one haha

[@PlagueDoctor65]

As usual your tone is perfect! The build up part near the end gave me chills. Force Ten was always a favorite of mine.

[@hemibass]

Thanks. I wasn't sure whether to use the steinberger and try a more wal like tone but since I was playing to r30 I thought I'd just use my normal jazz tone. I do think it works very well on this song! Glad you enjoyed the vid

[@marcelospagnolo8776]

Nailed it mate! Congrats on your bass playing, keep'em coming!

[@hemibass]

Thanks! Will do :)

[@Mattrino101]

4:08 is fire

[@hemibass]

Thanks. I always like putting little bass bits in the 'synth' breaks from a lot of the 80s stuff. Glad you liked it

[@Smashies]

My favorite version! Awesome always mate!

[@hemibass]

Thanks! I'm gonna try and use r30 quite a lot more on future covers there are some really good versions of songs on there

[@patcandelora8496]

How on earth does Geddy do it? You do a great job of covering these songs maybe the best I’ve seen! But The mind that conceived of the parts! How?

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching! Yeah thats why I consider him the best bass player ever. No one else writes bass lines the way he does. They are so fluid and yet never stop being 'bass parts'

[@ultimatebasses]

Spot on! Great tone as well.

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching. Fairly settled on my settings with my Jazz at the moment which is nice. Glad you like it

[@epeli4585]

Rare to see anyone do covers of the R30 show which is an unfortunate as it's one of my favourites. Hoping to see more from it in the future! Could you do Earthshine (R30 Live) at some point?

[@hemibass]

I will probably use r30 quite a bit more because of how well I can remove the bass from the mix. It was a great setlist too lots of ones I play a lot. I've never learned earthshine before but am happy to give it a go after a couple of other vapor trails songs. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@Freddy-6565]

Great sound !!!!

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching! Very happy with my setup I've ended up with

[@robbiehawkins2455]

great job

[@hemibass]

@robbiehawkins2455 thanks!

[@POLARIS2]

Great song!

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching

[@sebastianvirga1015]

Good stuff!

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching!

[@Sarge2112]

I dig it

[@hemibass]

Thanks:)

[@kendetulio4009]

BRAVO

[@hemibass]

Thanks as always!

[@nigelclements7367]

I have a question how do you play the open A while plying the other stuff

[@hemibass]

Just gotta practice the speed! Chords gotta be played fast so your hand is in position to get the a string plucked

[@nigelclements7367]

My dad was at r30 btw great cover

[@hemibass]

I was a couple of years too late getting into rush to see r30. Very annoyed I missed it... setlist was awesome! Thanks for watching

[@AvionHFDG]

You should do "Stick It Out."?

[@hemibass]

I have learned it before so wouldn't take me long to get it down. I've got some others from counterparts I want to do first but I'll add stick it out to my mental checklist. Thanks for the suggestion

[@AvionHFDG]

@@hemibass That song "Stick It Out" sounds like King's X - Black Flag.

[@jeffanders5263]

Great job as always. Is that an American made Geddy Jazz?

[@hemibass]

Thanks! It's a Japanese one from the 00s. I'm on the lookout for one of the crimson red USA ones but only because I love the colour. I'm very happy with my mij one in general (and considering it was only 600ish pounds when I got it in 08ish it's a lot cheaper than the us ones too!)

[@jeffanders5263]

@@hemibass The Japanese models are sweet. That $1600 price tag has kept me from getting an American made model too. :)

[@Thompsongs]

That sounds fantastic. I see you're using the SansAmp 2112 as well as the Trace Elliot preamp. How are you running those two together?

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching. I'm going to do a 'rig rundown' type video if I get to 1000 subscribers so I'll go through it in detail if/when that happens. In short I have the trace and one channel from the sansamp going into my palmer and the other channel from the sansamp straight to the interface/mixer

[@albertogarcia-ee2uw]

well done¡

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching!

[@Delco42]

That opening riff is so much fun to play! Excellent work. How do you go about isolating/muting the original bass track in these songs? I've tried to do it in the past but never got very far.

[@hemibass]

Thanks! I use moises. It's a software that lets you isolate the parts (to an extent). It's very good with some of the more 'bassy' Rush albums (like the modern stuff for example) but all the punchy top end on the Wal era ends up on the guitar track instead of the bass track. I would recommend it though

[@Delco42]

@@hemibass I'll give that a try, thanks!

[@trenken]

You pluck the intro the way i do it, with 2 fingers. Geddy plucks that entire intro with his index finger. Idk why but he seemed to like to do some things the harder way. There is absolutely no reason to do it with 1 finger, but he does.

[@hemibass]

Yeah for a long time I did it with one finger like he does, but I ended up just preferring it with 2 fingers. I'm not sure why he does it that way. He also does Turn the Page with his thumb for the open strings on the Show Of Hands era footage, which I also found uncomfortable. Thanks for watching

[@relaxingforlife4465]

Heyy! great tone!! What settings you used on Tech 21 Ged-2112 Sansamp?

[@hemibass]

Thanks! I have everything at roughly 3 (on a clock face) with treble down at about 10 because I get a lot of the top end from my trace elliott. Then I just tweak from there

[@epeli4585]

How are you getting that "R30-ish" Geddy tone out of your bass? I can't figure it out at all

[@hemibass]

I'm not really sure tbh haha. I pretty much always go for a different stages sound on my jazz. Geddys r30 tone is bit duller than what I normally do but as my strings get a bit older the pop becomes less pronounced (which I like to an extent) so it could be the strings being a couple of weeks old on this one?

[@rushcovertracks2451]

This is awesome! Would you mind if we add an isolated track to our web page? We are a new non-prof. platform that will enable Rush fan-musicians to combine their tracks with one another. We are hoping to form a large enough community to attract more attention to the 2112 tribute foundation for glioblastoma research, the deadly disease that took NP from us all too soon. Many Thanks!

[@hemibass]

Thanks for watching. No problem that's fine by me

[@rushcovertracks2451]

If you have an isolated track, please go to our website and click on “submit iso tracks.” It will give you different options. Much appreciated!

[@NASA-stole-our-money]

That's one hell of a bass head...I'm not sure what it is. My last one was an Ampeg SVT 4PRO, very heavy!

[@hemibass]

It's a trace elliot from the 90s, a ged 2112 sansamp (tech 21) and a palmer speaker simulator!

[@NASA-stole-our-money]

@@hemibass great combo, sweeeeeet! I remember back when Trace Elliot was king, (still are) and Acoustic bass amps (with the big folded enclosures) ruled the earth!