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S**t bass lessons For those who want to learn to play like Sid Vicious

No Steve Harris, Tim Commerford, Sean Ysealt, Rex Brown, Scott Reeder or Al Cisneros? Unacceptable.

There are a few bits on metal. When I had the subscription, it was one video with Dave Eleffson about how awesome Dave Eleffson is and one with Nolly about his picking technique. Slap in metal is a really rare thing and with good reason. Nothing at all on punk, not a single video. Something like Matt Freeman's bass lines with Rancid could be a great lesson in the use of arpeggios and fast walking bass lines. I didn't stick with the subscription long before I got bored and cancelled it.

I'm sure he's a lovely bloke but he just reminds me of the jazz club character from the fast show but without the hair or smoking. He can play some utter rubbish by some famous jazz bassist and it's like he's got tourettes with the random outbursts of nice, oh man that's great, tight, pocket or just a similar random word.

I'm currently getting Auto Autodesk CAD software and Yamaha motorcycles and occasionally viagra which I think may be due to looking at things popular with gentleman during mid life crisis (fast cars, fast bikes, bad back treatments, real ale and old rock music.

It's less effort to just not watch the beanie wearing, reliced p bass sporting, F# dorian 7 add 9 sus 3 noodling, low end holding down tool.

Jazz noodling is never better than anything. I'd rather hear Coldplay or even Nickelback.

The downside of his successful marketing is that if you watch one of his videos then for the next three months you cannot escape from his adverts. I now actively avoid anything to do with SBL because I don't want months of smug jazz noodling adverts from the beanie and glove enthusiast. I tried his lessons and found it really boring so gave up. I know jazz and soul contain all the fundamental skills and techniques but when you're a metal head or punk, it very quickly becomes a chore. It wasn't for me.

Maybe he will stop all the bloody jazz noodling and will never again mention holding down his low end. All jazz and blues based lessons will be replaced with grime and viking metal. Scott will be raising his glove game with a pair of welders gauntlets. All instructors will be playing BC Rich Warlocks through a Boss Metal Zone

Sausage Fest - The Sewer Cats

Root note plodding is rarely a thing in good metal. It's all about the riffs.

Those seem to be more popular in stoner and doom metal. They work really nicely with a really nasty fuzz

With a face like mine, looks are not something I take in to consideration.

Mario does one of these solo composition videos each year as a way to push his creativity and playing and then uses bits of it for the bands new material. I think he's up there with Mike Portnoy, Neil Peart and Danny Carey for technique and skill. I'll check out Bill Brufford

I forgot about Brainiac. Everything a gentleman of culture needs in a TV show. Science, explosions, destruction and nice ladies

I'm not sure this is quite the same question. You can play metal on anything. I use a P bass for metal at the moment and that's the most generic, non specific, do anything bass ever made. My question was do basses marketed as metal specific offer anything extra for the discerning metal head?

Moist - Janet Jackson I nearly went for the similarly titled Nirvana song but decided its too crude

Several of the top metal drummers have trained in jazz. They've realised that the technical skills from jazz help them create really interesting heavy drum parts such as what this genius does.

Super long straps are more of a punk thing (yes I know, Church of Misery). I did wonder whether they were just an aesthetic thing. An Ibanez SR 5 string would probably do the job quite nicely. A set of super bright strings and a bit of overdrive should get me to a disgraceful metal tone

Having never actually played a metal specific bass I'm curious about whether they're actually anything more than just a bit metal looking. Do they actually fo a better job of producing a good and clanky tone? I ask because I'm a bit curious about the Ibanez Iron label basses as a replacement for my P bass

Turbot Lover - Judas Priest

Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys

The Long Road North - Cult Of Luna

Nancy Boy - Placebo

It's more like the USSR than modern Russia. It has that distinctive bleak, austere landscape of 1970s communism. The sort of depression that leads to the creation of Black Sabbath