"The Crowing" from IKSSE:3

This week I'm doing something a bit different! My pal Julien Bigras recorded an awesome version of the drums for The Crowing and we decided to put some bass to it and release this as a "bass and drums only" cover. I hope you enjoy it!

You can find Julien here:

http://youtube.com/julienbigrasdrums

IG/FB: @julien.bigras

This is my favorite song from In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. It has a lot of very cool parts, lots of sections that are catchy, and of course some great creative playing by Mic Todd who does a great job of following the guitars at times and doing his own thing as well. 

We played the entire song to the same tempo so it does sound a bit different at parts where in the original it seems to slow down a little, and I admit that I had to really focus on keeping the timing because I'm so used to hearing and playing along with the original. 

I also had a few issues with Julien's and my video going out of synch because they were recorded with different devices and different frame rates, so I had to do a little bit of editing to line up my video again about half way through.

I might try to do more bass & drums videos since it works great for hearing how the two parts interact with each other. What do you think?

You can find the bass transcription on this page.

"Queen of the Dark" from Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures

The 6th track of the 'Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures' album. This one has a great groove and feel throughout, nice and slow but still driving forward.

Zach seems to be using some kind of octave pedal on his bass guitar. I tried to reproduce it as close as I could with my Line6 BassPodxt, but I think I really need to buy a proper octave pedal, because I'm not too happy with the results, specially on the low F#. It seems like the Pod just can't get a note so low. Oh well, to the music store!!

As usual, Zach does not repeat his fills, so it was a lot of fun figuring them all out :)

You can find the tab/transcription here.

"The Dark Sentencer" from Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures

NEW COHEED!!!

It seems like it's been forever since we heard a some new music from our favorite band, but it's finally here!

This one showcases some very nice work by Zach Cooper in the choruses, where he lets loose and shows off some tasty fills. I don't think he repeats himself once with those fills, so it was a bit of a challenge to learn each one note for note, but I did my best and I think I'm pretty close.

The tab will be coming soon, I just couldn't wait to put this out there for you all to enjoy!

I'm really really looking forward to the new record \m/

"Crossing the Frame" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

I had a fun time learning this song, Mic Todd plays a very melodic and funky bass line throughout. There is a lot of movement in the bass during the verses and pre-choruses, and then it all goes down to basics for the choruses, allowing the vocal melody to stand out more at that point. Another really cool track. You can find a pdf of the bass tab here.

Please let me know what song should I do next!

"Eraser" from The Color Before The Sun

This is the second song from the album The Color Before The Sun.

As is typical of Coheed songs this one is trickier than it seems. There are a lot of time signature changes, which makes the choruses in particular quite fun to play. Zach Cooper does a great job of varying all the fills so that there is nothing being repeated here.

You can find the tab here

Let me know what song you want me to do next

- Al

"Justice In Murder" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow

This is probably my favourite song off this album. It's very catchy and melodic, and the bass line is interesting. As usual, Michael Todd kept changing the parts slightly so as to not be boring or robotic. It took quite a bit of listening carefully for me to get the transcription as close as possible to the original, and you can find that tab here.

Please let me know what you think and leave me a comment with your choice for my next cover.

Thanks!

"Pretelethal" from The Afterman: Descension

This is the first song off of Descension. It's not very long or complicated, but it has a cool ukelele part!

Enjoy and let me know what you would like me to do next!

"Once Upon Your Dead Body" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

This song exemplifies one of my favourite things about Coheed: their ability to layer catchy melodies on top of more catchy melodies to create an amazing overload of melodic goodness haha. The bass part is not too complicated, but as usual Mr Todd does a great job of varying the fills to keep it interesting throughout.

Let me know what you'd like to me to do next!

"World Of Lines" from Year Of The Black Rainbow

I love the bass tone in this song! it's distorted and growly, but not so much as to take your attention away from the rest of the tune.

What song should I do next?

"When Skeletons Live" from Year Of The Black Rainbow

This song is probably my favourite from this album. Mic Todd played this one and is extremely creative in his bass lines, coming up with slight variations on each verse. It made it hard to remember it all, though (haha)

Leave me a comment and let me know which song you'd like to hear next.

"Colors" from The Color Before the Sun

Colors is a beautiful song from the album The Color Before the Sun. The verses are in 4/4 time and the choruses are in a nice waltz-y 3/4. You can find the tab for this HERE. Enjoy!

Let me know in the comments what song you'd like to see me do next. Thanks

"The Audience" from The Color Before the Sun

This is probably the one song on this album that sounds like classic Coheed the most. It's a ton of fun to play, as it changes between time signatures between 4/4, 3/4 and 6/8. You can find the bass tab HERE.

Let me know what song you want to see next!