Hysteria (Muse) - The Chris Wolstenholme Bass Classic (tabs & tutorial)

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  • čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
  • Chris Wolstenholme is a great bass player. The bass riffs he creates for the band Muse are always inventive and interesting. Especially on the tone front.
    In this lesson we're looking at the classic Chris Wolstenholme bass riff from the song Hysteria by Muse. This bass line is notorious for the debates that rage on bass forums regarding the effects pedals in use.
    We're going to look at the bass line itself and I'll give you some tips on mastering the line as well as some extra advice on learning tricky lines by 'chunking'.
    Tab and tracks here: www.talkingbass.net/hysteria-...
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Komentáře • 134

  • @glenhoddinott3799
    @glenhoddinott3799 Před 4 lety +107

    Well, this should keep me busy for the next 3-4 years or so.

  • @gabo4850
    @gabo4850 Před 4 lety +164

    ah yes muse hysteria, also known as *the finger cramper*

  • @t.j.meechan682
    @t.j.meechan682 Před 4 lety +3

    These song tutorials are great. Love the breakdown and the song choices. Keeps me coming back. Much obliged sir!

  • @luv8670
    @luv8670 Před 4 lety +6

    Thank you so much Mark. I know I was the one bugging you to play "Hysteria's riff" . You look so cool playing it. Thank you again. Respect.

  • @marioprifti6161
    @marioprifti6161 Před 4 lety +34

    Excellent tutorial! I've been playing muse songs for ages and I absolutely love Chris and his bass playing. There's a lot of interesting stuff whether you're looking at tone, rhythm (like in Citizen Erased), or note selection.
    Some muse basslines you could definitely enlighten other bassists with could be:
    Darkshines (Spanish sounding pseudo walking bass with an envelope filter)
    Citizen Erased (Metal-ish riff with a lot of fuzz)
    The Handler (Heavy dirty main riff with interesting melodic chorus part)
    Micro Cuts (Accents with an envelope pedal and great outro riff)
    I Belong To You (Originally an upright bass with wah?)
    New Born (Great dirty riff doubling the guitar and really exhausting arpeggios in the verse. Groovy chorus)
    Panic Station (Slap funk with double stops and strumming and an octave walkup chorus)
    Muscle Museum (Simple groove but great note selection, interesting walkup every 4 bars and some fun octaves in the chorus)
    And much much more. Hell, I probably forgot some of my favorites. There's a lot.
    Excellent work as always!

    • @sheltonprabhakar9811
      @sheltonprabhakar9811 Před 4 lety +1

      Excellent choice of songs!! I learnt some these songs which you've mentioned. They really helped in building ny technique and helped in influencing my own original sound.
      Sunburn also is one of my fav bass lines

    • @marioprifti6161
      @marioprifti6161 Před 4 lety +1

      @@sheltonprabhakar9811 Sunburn is an excellent chorus line

    • @perryborn2777
      @perryborn2777 Před 3 lety

      The Groove is a really fun one to play

  • @bicho_reactor
    @bicho_reactor Před 2 lety +3

    El mejor, mas completo y detallado tutorial que vi en mi vida. Y eso que no hablo inglés.

  • @vherus
    @vherus Před 3 lety +2

    Butterflies and Hurricanes! He does this incredible tapping thing in the intro and bridge that I've been trying to figure out for years. You're the guy for the job!

  • @davidvaldovinos1969
    @davidvaldovinos1969 Před 4 lety +30

    Any true muse fan knows that the real Chris Wolstenholme hidden gems are Darkshines, Hyper Music, Recess, and City Of Delusion

  • @ashtonclarke6973
    @ashtonclarke6973 Před rokem

    I have used many of your videos to help me learn these difficult bass lines and I have seen so much improvement in my consistency so thank you

  • @walterwebb1622
    @walterwebb1622 Před 4 lety +4

    I’m so used to seeing him play it with his bass strung very low, it looks like cramp town having it up that high! Very well researched with his tone, got it right!

  • @TommyMondayz
    @TommyMondayz Před rokem +1

    Excellent instructional vid. Thanks very much for putting it together. Nice job!

  • @user-nq1rd8li5t
    @user-nq1rd8li5t Před 2 lety +3

    Just about to pick a bass up for the very 1st time, after seeing this I'm definitely subscribing, fantastic brake down aswel

  • @LeoNovel
    @LeoNovel Před 4 lety

    As always! Great lessons, Mark! Thanks you!

  • @MrFleshcutter
    @MrFleshcutter Před 4 lety +2

    Thank you for showing the picking part. Was having trouble playing the second part properly, but with using your picking technique it's a lot better.

  • @robk7380
    @robk7380 Před 4 měsíci

    Thank you. Appreciate all you do. Clear great instruction.

  • @skateboardguys7806
    @skateboardguys7806 Před 3 lety +1

    this is crazy gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!!!
    Great Job

  • @AllianceOfCalgon
    @AllianceOfCalgon Před 4 lety +1

    Nice one Mark, love your lessons.

  • @humanidrome
    @humanidrome Před 4 lety +2

    Great lesson man!!

  • @markdavies9319
    @markdavies9319 Před 4 lety +2

    I almost cracked this riff a few months ago but always slip up at some point. This will help me big time. Cheers Mark 😁

  • @ronaldsassano1813
    @ronaldsassano1813 Před 4 lety

    Awesome! Nice lesson. Thanks

  • @ganbei7112
    @ganbei7112 Před 4 lety

    Great video as always !!

  • @OkonkwoPlaysBass
    @OkonkwoPlaysBass Před 4 lety +41

    The 2 most common problems I've come across when teaching this riff
    1) People thinking it's faster than it really is
    2) Playing too hard with the plucking hand, tiring them out quickly. Playing lightly and letting the amp do the work is critical for this to be sustainable
    New Born is a fun bass part too. Way easier on a 5 than drop D on a 4 imo. Liquid State is a fun one too.

    • @OkonkwoPlaysBass
      @OkonkwoPlaysBass Před 4 lety +1

      Forgot to mention that Falling Away With You's chorus is seriously tough. It might be why it's the only song off Absolution they've NEVER played live.

    • @ericjonsson
      @ericjonsson Před 4 lety

      Currently I'm trying to work my way through the second bar, and specifically switching between the open E and the E on the 12th fret of the A string without it becoming a muddy mess. I sort of wish Mark had addressed string muting for this part, it seems to be the only section where I struggle with it (probably because it needs to be done with the left hand instead of "automatically" by the right as it is raking back to the open E instead of alternating.)

    • @OkonkwoPlaysBass
      @OkonkwoPlaysBass Před 4 lety

      @@ericjonsson I tend to rake that part to make it sound clean with muting. This is an important technique as you'll need it if you want to play the chorus cleanly too. You left hand should be muting the D and G strings by having your fingers lay relatively flat across the strings. The opposite of super curved fingers classical guitarists go for.

    • @perryborn2777
      @perryborn2777 Před 3 lety

      I can see how playing New Born with a 5 string could make the chorus more comfortable to play, but I love the feel that playing it all on the D string gives to the song

  • @joebierbrauer4009
    @joebierbrauer4009 Před 4 lety +2

    Great riff to warm up the fingers !

  • @poopydoodoobritches4780

    You are a great teacher! Mahalo!

  • @CarlosRoberto-os9bs
    @CarlosRoberto-os9bs Před 4 lety

    Very nice. Thanks!!

  • @patmurphy1080
    @patmurphy1080 Před 4 lety +2

    12:04 tempo list
    By the way, great lesson, and thanks for info on the distortion pedals at the start! helped my lots!

  • @lowendvibeswesleyhorn8053

    So cool!

  • @bassdrummer9849
    @bassdrummer9849 Před 4 lety +3

    Awesome lesson!🤘
    Please do Futurism or Stockholm Syndrome next, both epic tracks!

  • @steveleeatfullmeasure
    @steveleeatfullmeasure Před 4 lety

    I do love that bass!

  • @saksham3693
    @saksham3693 Před 3 lety

    thankyou so much !

  • @boiledsheep
    @boiledsheep Před 4 lety +2

    Hey Mark. Again thanks for the lessons, they're the best on youtube.
    I'm still a beginner, started less than 3 years ago, and was wondering about pedals and amps and all that stuff.
    I was using Guitar Rig 5 for amp and effects. Sometimes the video game Rocksmith. My setup was plugging my bass onto a laptop with the Rocksmith cable, the laptop audio output redirected to a stereo and plugging my headphones into that. Sadly my laptop died so I'm playing unplugged for the moment.
    Guitar Rig is great since it has all those presets and different pedals and amps simulated. It's kind of like Garage Band I think. It's more oriented towards guitars than basses though.
    With my previous setup, I had more volume and sound options that I needed. Now my parents want to buy me a combo amplifier as a birthday gift. But I played great with my full software setup. I was wondering what more do pedals and actual hardware offer compared to software that does the same thing. Why haven't we fully switched to software for our audio effects ? DJs and EDM producers seem to be doing fine with only their laptop, why do we have to use expensive pedals and amps ?

  • @markbass354
    @markbass354 Před 4 lety

    very nice Mr. Mark

  • @artolan_illusive
    @artolan_illusive Před 4 lety +49

    Futurism by Muse has a great bass riff too

  • @loschen4073
    @loschen4073 Před 4 lety

    Thx helped a lot, i learn english, the sheets and how to Break down Music. Great Video and now i can Play it. Worth it. edit: a Short add to the Music Theorie behind the Song Arrangement would be nice.

  • @suhandisuha6033
    @suhandisuha6033 Před rokem

    Thanks

  • @ericjonsson
    @ericjonsson Před 4 lety +1

    Great video, Mark. Any plans for a follow-up video about the chorus etc? :)

  • @simondavies1050
    @simondavies1050 Před 4 lety +3

    Mark, has anyone else told you about your wobbly head lol
    Keep up the great work

  • @overgarven
    @overgarven Před 4 lety +9

    I would like "bliss" a lot to be made a video...

  • @ArtaghVril
    @ArtaghVril Před 2 měsíci

    My favourite Song and Riff is and stays: New Born 🤘

  • @WoodyWoodyWoody
    @WoodyWoodyWoody Před 4 lety

    Would love to see a video on a trivium song!! Maybe the bass solo to becoming the dragon!!

  • @steveathans1967
    @steveathans1967 Před 4 lety +4

    Muscle museum

  • @bifronsbelphegor9155
    @bifronsbelphegor9155 Před 4 lety +1

    Brilliant! Chorus and other bits though?

  • @AndrewShabovich
    @AndrewShabovich Před rokem

    👍🏻

  • @diaboluspepito5103
    @diaboluspepito5103 Před 4 lety

    Wow

  • @dreamonrockon1216
    @dreamonrockon1216 Před 4 lety +4

    13:36 for the hardest bass riff tutorial! I clicked it with no hesitation.

  • @keiththiha
    @keiththiha Před 4 lety

    You should do the tapping solo for knights of cydonia next

  • @jeremyredd4232
    @jeremyredd4232 Před 2 lety

    Just came across this. I'm a guitarist learning bass, and slap actually isn't too bad surprisingly, but fingerstyle is killing me. I figured I'd learn a lot about playing fingerstyle from this tutorial (and this song), and I did. Should I rake in general going down a string with the first finger? Also it seems I shouldn't rake going down a string with the second finger. Is this correct?
    I also liked that you went over both fingerings. I think it's good for beginners to see that. It's also worth noting that on, a guitar at least, each fingering would sound slightly different because of the slides vs pull-offs. I can't really hear a difference with the bass when the slides are that fast, but maybe that's me. Thanks!

  • @windletab
    @windletab Před 5 měsíci

    beautiful bass guitar ,factory?

  • @zzhot1
    @zzhot1 Před 3 lety +1

    Hi. Can you tell me what your settings are on the Deluxe Big Muff please

  • @TronndoggISAWSOME
    @TronndoggISAWSOME Před 4 lety

    can you do metallica orion with the bridge and the bass solo. Lots of people know this but lots of people also dont know this but the solo after the solo after the bridge is on bass and theres some pretty cool harmonies in there. It would be pretty cool if you could cover it.

  • @jasoncorzantes8381
    @jasoncorzantes8381 Před 4 lety

    Do a you can’t hold no groove tutorial!

  • @LaserPingu
    @LaserPingu Před 3 lety

    I want to be able to start practicing bass by learning Muse bass lines but I don't know what kind of strings I need for it to do so.
    I've borrowed my friends bass, but it's tuned in "Drop B" he said since he plays metal. (I guess it's a lower tuning, no idea)
    It's an old bass of his and the strings are in a rough shape and needs changing. Can I go in to any ol' music store and ask for a set of "standard strings" to get the right tuning for Muse?
    I'm a complete beginner at this, and I don't even know if what i'm writing makes any sense.

  • @armignac
    @armignac Před 4 lety

    I've been able to play this for a long time, but only with hammering and pulloffs at the d string part. Still can't do it otherway 😂

  • @laohernandez6854
    @laohernandez6854 Před 3 lety

    I have a question in the third part(riff) where do you get the 7 freet because in the tab only get to the 8 freet at the progression?

  • @stevieroyce9441
    @stevieroyce9441 Před 4 lety

    Can u post the setting you used on the deluxe muff

  • @glitchxero4687
    @glitchxero4687 Před 3 lety +1

    I've got a pretty good approximation of the sound on my Zoom B1X Four, if anyone's interested. I'm just not going to post it all here if nobody cares lol

  • @GillRigged
    @GillRigged Před 4 lety

    How about covering Justin and the polyrhythmic Invincible? I know you touched a bit with The Pot but maybe a little more in depth with polyrhythm feel in Invincible.

  • @raulnavarrete8776
    @raulnavarrete8776 Před 4 lety +1

    magnificent seven- The Clash?

  • @gonzalorobledo_musica
    @gonzalorobledo_musica Před 4 lety +1

    Great video! Aren't any of the notes played as hammer ons?

    • @ericjonsson
      @ericjonsson Před 4 lety +1

      Try the chromatic run in the second half of the third bar as a series of hammer-ons -> slide one half-note -> pull-offs. If there's anywhere in the riff where I'd use hammer-ons, that'd be the place.

  • @MrFleshcutter
    @MrFleshcutter Před 4 lety

    Do Plug In Baby!

  • @templehillsfunk
    @templehillsfunk Před rokem +1

    I've watched plenty of tutorials on how to play this song. The problem is, because of the distortion and the fact, there are so many notes, whoever does the tutorial has to break it down into parts. However, breaking it down into parts actually makes it hard to remember the notes. Also, leave out telling us the notes, we can pick that up on our own. The best thing is to just listen to the track over and over until you can effectively vocalize it. It's not hard to play. It's hard to pick up each note.

  • @Bready3000
    @Bready3000 Před 4 lety

    When it comes to my Hysteria bass tone, an EHX bass big muff run through my amp OD function switched on to give a more nasal sound gets me very far in getting the Hysteria sound.

  • @benadams4933
    @benadams4933 Před 4 lety

    Are you in by Incubus!!

  • @AlfaPegasii
    @AlfaPegasii Před 4 lety +1

    Supremacy

  • @henryroldan9360
    @henryroldan9360 Před 3 lety

    Futurism would be cool

  • @IgoorRafa
    @IgoorRafa Před 4 lety

    PANIC STATION!

  • @ggnadeknight7733
    @ggnadeknight7733 Před 3 lety

    bon na na na nana nena nena ne nane nade

  • @bossleprechaun4044
    @bossleprechaun4044 Před 4 lety

    A great riff made by their guitarist.

  • @santiagoeiras
    @santiagoeiras Před 4 lety

    Hyper Music please

  • @poopydoodoobritches4780
    @poopydoodoobritches4780 Před 4 lety +1

    Do you teach how to read sheet music?

    • @talkingbasslessons
      @talkingbasslessons  Před 4 lety

      I have a huge step by step course teaching reading over at Talkingbass. Takes you from absolute basics to professional standard.

    • @poopydoodoobritches4780
      @poopydoodoobritches4780 Před 4 lety

      @@talkingbasslessons I will check it out! Mahalo

  • @ardiris2715
    @ardiris2715 Před 4 lety +4

    I think I need a 54 bpm track. LOL

    • @ericjonsson
      @ericjonsson Před 4 lety +1

      I feel you mate! Two things I've tried to remedy this so far:
      1. Play at half tempo. So far I've made it through playing along to Marks' tracks at effectively 37, 42, and 47 bpm, currently working my way up to 74 (it's quite a leap, lol)
      2. Substitute with a decent metronome, the drum track is simple enough for it. For the gap between the full-speed track at half tempo to the 74bpm-track at full tempo (if that makes sense) I'm making do with a simple built-in metronome in my Boss looper pedal. :)

  • @gabet3754
    @gabet3754 Před 4 lety +1

    Nice eyebrows

  • @blendernoob64
    @blendernoob64 Před 3 lety

    if you think Hysteria is a test of endurance for your poor little fingers (it still is), play Stockholme Syndrome. That song is cramp city.

  • @uwrossl
    @uwrossl Před 9 měsíci

    Now do the real Hysteria...From Def Leppard

  • @nikobellic1191
    @nikobellic1191 Před 4 lety

    I don't rake, I SAP. I have a hunch Harris SAPs too

  • @goblinfromdahmoon
    @goblinfromdahmoon Před 4 lety +1

    why am i here i don't even have a bass i'm an acoustic guitarist

    • @ericjonsson
      @ericjonsson Před 4 lety +1

      I, for one, don't mind having six-stringed, short-scale, octave-up bassists around in these corners of YT.

    • @goblinfromdahmoon
      @goblinfromdahmoon Před 4 lety

      haha gotta learn it now then

  • @markedwardspezenosky5814
    @markedwardspezenosky5814 Před 4 lety +2

    To me sounds sounds like sounds like black Sabbath \sound garden

  • @wullie1mccreadie219
    @wullie1mccreadie219 Před 3 lety

    Who knew Shane mcmahon was such a good bassist. 🤔

  • @cursedcliff7562
    @cursedcliff7562 Před 4 lety +1

    Lmao my amp makes distortion without pedals

  • @karlangelomedico7637
    @karlangelomedico7637 Před 4 lety

    Can you give me a bass guitar for my dream😐

  • @RocketEightEight
    @RocketEightEight Před 4 lety

    666th like

  • @mr.rainbowlovescoffee
    @mr.rainbowlovescoffee Před 4 lety

    Oh not again 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Morniac
    @Morniac Před 2 lety

    ....try it without the pedal and tell me....just clean

  • @Fissi0nChips
    @Fissi0nChips Před 4 lety +1

    Not Muse. Yes...Roundabout.

  • @PicklePaint
    @PicklePaint Před 4 lety +1

    Bro we all learned this like 5 years ago

    • @skirwan78
      @skirwan78 Před 4 lety +6

      "the most requested bass song" - saying you learned it != everyone else learned it. You know there are people who...shock/gasp... are just picking up the bass THIS VERY MOMENT? lol Also the song is like 15 years old so saying you learned it 5 years is actually pretty late to the game yourself.

  • @moma8835
    @moma8835 Před 8 měsíci

    wrong!

  • @iamalpharius9483
    @iamalpharius9483 Před 4 lety +2

    Muddy as hell.
    Almost no seperation of notes.
    Too much effect.
    Played at the speed its played at it becomes a mud puddle in the score.
    I cant stand it when poor examples of playing and writing are held up as art.