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Giants of Bass – Tim Commerford

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'Outrage' was written to reflect Tim Commerford’s ground-breaking work with Rage Against the Machine back 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 is 17 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:

1. 'Outrage'

This video is a full demonstration of 'Outrage', performed on a Music Man Stingray SUB Series bass string with stainless steel Rotosound strings.

2. Course Overview

This video gives a brief overview of this difficult piece and the technical challenges that it presents. I’ll also be offering advice on finding a suitable tone.

3. A Section

This section is aggressively played with the slap bass technique. Popped double stops form a key part of this line. This lesson covers bars 1-4 in the transcription.

4. B Section

This line is based on the F# blues scale and is played with the fingerstyle technique, again, quite aggressively. This lesson covers bars 5-8.

5. C Section

This section is also based on the F# blues scale and is played in unison with the guitar. This lesson covers bars 9-12 in the accompanying transcription.

6. E Section

This is a continuous sixteenth note line that is a nod to ‘Bullet in the Head’, from the first Rage Against the Machine album. This lesson covers bars 18-25.