Chords for Bass - Bryan Beller from Dethklok - "Freak Show Excess"

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[E] So, about [F#] that difficult song and those difficult licks.
There were these things that,
you know, when you're in Steve's band,
it's one of these things where it's not enough
to just play the notes.
It's kind of like we were talking about before.
You've gotta play them exactly the way that he does them.
And when you're a bass player,
that means dealing with some very unorthodox
left hand fingering for the most part.
So, [A] there are these licks that come in rapid succession.
The first one, these are the notes. _ _
_ [D] _ _ Okay, so pretty simple, you know, D, A, E, A, C, G, D, D.
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_ [D] _ Just really fast, like,
da-ba-do-ba-da-da-da [G#]-da, okay?
But the thing is, is that he's using a lot of pull-offs
and hammer-ons like a guitarist would.
So, what he's doing is he's gonna strike the D
on the A string first and [D] then pull off.
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[E] And then strike the open E and then hammer-on the [A] A.
_ [D] _ [A] So, like that. _ _
_ _ [C] And then strike the G, or excuse me,
strike the C, excuse me, [G] and then the G.
And then pull off here onto the open D
[D] and then strike a fretted D on the A string right after [G] it.
So, that's, _ _ [C] _
_ [D] _ [C] _ _ [D] _ so the whole thing is,
[C] _ _ [D] _ and if you do it fast, it just kind of rolls like that. _ _ _
_ Again, you can dance to it.
_ [C] All right, so there you go.
And then there's another,
there's three more licks just like [A] it,
_ _ which is just another series of notes
with the same concept.
And then, [Dm] _ _ [G] _ [A] all right, then you've got this really long one,
which is kind of like a,
this is like mini nightmare before the real nightmare.
So, here's the first one.
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_ _ _ [E] So, it starts off with an A major triad
and [A] then a D5, like 5-1-5-A-D-A,
and then a hammered-on F major seven.
_ [E] _ Then pull off the open G
_ [G] _ _ [Am] and then play the top [G#] two notes of an [C#] A7,
_ or the third and the seven of an A7.
[A] _ [B] And it's like this.
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_ [E] _ _ Fast.
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That was sloppy.
[A] _ [B] _ That was better.
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ Like that, okay?
And you know, this is coming, you know,
you're doing this live, you know,
you get one shot at it.
So, [A] _ _ let's get to the really hard one.
You get the same three ones again.
_ And then you do this [G] third one.
_ And then [G#] the really long [A] one.
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ That's hard, okay?
So, let's recount that.
That's the beginning is the same, the A major,
[A] the D5, _ hammered-on F major seven, _
[G] _ the pull off there.
And then you've got, then it changes.
Then it goes to a G major.
_ [A] And then to an A major, where you hit the open A,
then fret the 12th fret A,
and then hit the top two of the A major,
the third and the eight.
And then again, pull [G] off on [D] the open G,
and then hit an open D,
[N] and then play the fifth and the third of a [D] G major,
_ then open D, [D#m] and then a [D] C9, _
_ [B] and then an [D] open D, and then a [F#] D9.
_ _ _ _ Right?
So, slowly.
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ There it is.
All right, so one more time. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Really fast.
So, you know, you can imagine having to sit down
and having five hours to figure this out.
I mean, I had to have the rhythm guitarist, Dave Weiner,
sit down and be like, okay, it goes like this.
This finger goes here, this finger goes there.
And then we worked it up together.
And then when we're in rehearsal,
we run it a million times in a row
to make sure that we have it tight.
So, you get it, you work it.
And again, this is one of these things,
you [D] get a lick like this,
it's really easy to just kind of try and jump in
and just learn a thing up to speed.
Don't do that.
You just, you won't have a good time doing that.
[F#] Just slow it down.
Make sure you can play it a couple times in a row
at the slow speed.
Work the metronome up slowly,
little by little by little by little.
Steve likes to say that he likes,
he wants to play something 10 times in a row perfectly
before he bumps up the metronome.
I don't have that kind of patience,
but I do do it a couple of times in a row before.
So, here's that lick again.
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[D] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ B [A] minus.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [F#] There we go, that was [A] better.
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_ [N] _ So, I've practiced this a lot,
but I still need to kind of come back to it all the time
and get it right.
And then, when you're gonna go do something like this live,
you just gotta trust that you can do it
and then just go up there and just let it rip.
I would say I got it right maybe 85 to 90%
of the times that we did it live.
And that's gotta be good enough,
because you're not a machine, you're not a robot,
you're a human being.
You're not gonna do everything perfectly.
You do your best, you practice a lot,
play this song live,
make sure everybody out there's having a good time,
move on to the next part.
Don't sit there and think about what you did
or just didn't do, because that's just gonna be a trap
for making more mistakes down the road.
_ _ So, that's just one part of it.
The song is incredibly long and incredibly complex.
I'm not gonna sit here and describe the whole thing,
but there is a live solo,
because I'm gonna be playing along to the live version,
the version from the Where the Wild Things Are
live CD and DVD.
And there is a solo that I worked out with Steve.
That was the solo that I did in the show
and I'm gonna be playing it here later in the song.
So, _ _ all right.
_ _ I wish myself luck.
You can wish me luck too on this one, please.
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_ [G] _ _ [F] I wish myself [G]
luck.
[B] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [B] I wish myself luck.
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_ [G] _ _ [N] I wish myself luck.
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_ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ I wish myself luck.
[B] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I [F#] wish myself luck.
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