'Outrage' was written to reflect Tim Commerford’s ground-breaking work with Rage Against the Machine in the early nineties. The bassline for this track is an aggressive, riff-based line that requires both slap and fingerstyle techniques, and in keeping with Tim’s basslines with both Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, it’s heavily based around the minor pentatonic and blues scales.
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This course contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:
This video is a full demonstration of 'Outrage', performed on a Music Man Stingray SUB Series bass.
This video gives a brief overview of the course.
In this video you'll learn how to play the A section, which is bars 1-4.
In this video you'll learn how to play the B section, which is bars 5-8.
In this video you'll learn how to play the C section, which is bars 9-12.
In this video you'll learn how to play the E section, which is bars 18-25.
This lesson covers Tim Commerford's tone and offers advice on how you can achieve something similar.