Run to the Hills (Iron Maiden) - Bass Cover (With Tabs) by Leo Düzey
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"Run to the Hills" from Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" album (1982).
I probably already made a comment about this but yes, I am not going to spend 900 hours trying to learn the Steve Harris way of playing bass for just this cover. I will stick to my three-finger technique. I did switch to the Harris technique during the fast bridge in both the recording and the video. So I used the official isolated bass track for this song and a few things became very clear to me. And these things ALSO got confirmed in live videos.
1. Steve plays the intro up high. You can hear it in the warmer tone too, but also see him play it like that.
2. The verse gallops aren't really JUST long notes. You can hear many many stops in between the gallops. So this tab will look a little different to your average Run to the Hills tab, but I think this one just works a bit better than the others. If you listen to the isolated bass track, you can hear that he often skips a few notes. His technique doesn't always allow him to play perfectly. In fact, his track is really quite messy.
Some important information that nobody is going to read.
Tuning: E-A-D-G
Artist: Iron Maiden
Bassist: Steve Harris
Album: The Number of the Beast (1982)
Song: RUN TO THE HILLS
Bass: Warwick GPS Corvette 5A Ash - Hudba
I saw it was acknowledged in your write up, Harris’ style is definitely messy but it works very well. For him and anyone who wants to learn it. Too many people are hung up on isolated bass tracks and getting things to mirror exactly without realizing these tracks are a capture of 1 specific point in time. Mistakes happen, changes and growth occur, sometimes people can’t even play the songs they’ve written in the fashion they’ve been recorded. Sometimes all of that makes a recording and sometimes it doesn’t. We need to focus less on mimicking recordings (and their imperfections or changes) and just enjoy developing the skills to play everything and anything with whatever way we’re comfortable playing it. A lot of the greats don’t even play their recorded version of a song when they tour. Why would someone expect anyone else to? Great job breaking this down, playing it with your gallop style, and getting it out there for everyone to see 🧡
Thank you so much! And I definitely agree with you. There is no need to do the EXACT same. If we're talking about accuracy then yes, in my opinion a transcription should never be "your version" of a song. So the isolated bass track helps a lot with getting as close as possible to what the musician was doing. But I don't see why I would have to learn his technique first in order to cover an entire song that way. No way!
@@LeoBassCovers2 100%! I didn’t mean to trivialize isolated tracks. They’re so helpful with transcriptions and visualizing a part of history when a track was being recorded. I love them for that! My point was more to not worrying about what anyone says or thinks of a play through especially considering an “album version” may sometimes only ever be heard on that album to begin with, never being played that way again when live. There are a lot of comments like “finally, someone who plays it the right way”, “this is supposed to be drop-D” or “you missed 3 ghost notes in the second chorus” that just take jabs at people for no reason other than to make the commenters feel good about themselves.
Can you clarify "messy"? I think that is MASSIVELY wrong and unfair. I'm pretty sure Steve would wipe the floor with many of us haha. Are you talking about his gallop style?
I'm only guessing here, but probably "messy" as in, when you listen back to the isolated tracks or even just the full studio versions, you can hear that his tracks are quite messy. His tone makes it seem a lot more messy but you can hear how he often mutes a string by accident, you can hear him play out of time and you can also hear him struggling at times. That is exactly why he wipes the floor with us. Even his sloppy playing is still good as a final bass track. If you listen closely to the bridge in this song, you'll notice that it's not perfect. Unlike most bands and artists these days, they didn't care so much for these little mistakes in a take.
@@captainchunk4078 Leo explained it perfectly in his response. There are a surprising number of tracks (not just Harris) that come across as messy by some of today’s standards but these guys weren’t recoding and cutting and aiming for perfection at every turn. They were putting out a recording and moving on with a tour. People also weren’t picking them apart like we do today either. A portion of “noise” was buried under other tracks or totally undetectable in the full studio so it was left alone. When you’re fantastic and miss a few things here or there, you’re still great. Steve Harris loves his clicks and clacks too so accidentally muting a note here and there or having a lot of chaos in his gallop was probably fine anyway.
I'll say it again mate! You're a massive blessing to the bass community and an absolute LEGEND!!!
Thank you so much!!
Agreed. I love these covers. Reignited my passion for the instrument.
1982 I was 16 rockin this. Retired got bored bought a bass at a pawn shop, Im 57 now, and I will learn this thanks to you. Keep Rock alive, its on life support right now.
You got this! Well it's definitely not an easy song but you'll get there I'm sure
Also known as “Hope You Got Good Stamina: The Song.”
That repeating gallop at 2:14, one of the best bass lines ever written in my opinion.
Legendary!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
can you imagine playing this with flatwounds and only ring/middle finger on the gallops? Steve and the boys in Maiden might actually be demons here to play metal XD
I just started last week. You can get it before the end of the week at speed and just work on endurance. Like anything else it’s just consistent practice and thinking about what you’re doing.
Great quality!
Thanks a lot :)
Awesome!
Thanks!
great cover!
Thanks a lot!
Excellent ! Merci pour ton partage. ☠☠🤟🤟
Merci beaucoup!
Nice playing!
Thanks a lot!
I once again read some important information no one is going to read😂
Very helpful. Keep the vids coming. This more guitarist than bassist appreciates it!
And I appreciate that!
hi leo,,, ive not long started playing bass and ive been playing along with your bass covers for a while now .. im doing quite well...... just hit the subseribe button .... thanks for your great work its inspired me alot 👍👍👌👌
Thanks for the sub! It's nice to hear that you play along with my covers :)
@@LeoBassCovers2 ..you make it easy to learn with ...i never thought ide be playing the songs i have been ... again thanks
A pleasure!
👏 bravo
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Santo cielo...
Nice Corvette!
Thanks!
@@LeoBassCovers2 I play a red Corvette $$. I love it!
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Hey, that's cheating!
Its illegal paly maiden songs using trhee fingres