That tapping bit is actually insane

@Musicman995

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@maartenn2217

Жыл бұрын

He's the tapping God, he wrote books on it 👌

@lueysixty-six7300

Жыл бұрын

Dude, that woulda been ground breaking even in guitar.,!

@thestradiosmiles

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, agree. Definitely breaks the formula a bit, which is refreshing sometimes.

@JelloFluoride

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I just posted about the same thing then I saw this comment. I'm not even new to his vids and that still caught me off guard.

Honestly one of the most talented bass players I've seen. You're in the same class as Les Claypool and Billy Sheehan. You've taken it to the next level beyond in my eyes. Thanks for sharing your talent with us

@scottdahneke1031

Жыл бұрын

100% agree

@ReneeNme

Жыл бұрын

Michael Manring - Selene

@filipecarvalho7270

Жыл бұрын

For me this guy is best compared with victor Wooten

@rear5118

Жыл бұрын

Some day he'll even surpass Flea

@cocoworldwideoriginal998

Жыл бұрын

Personally I feel he has already surpassed all the names mentioned. I have seen no bass player on Charles's level imo. I feel like Charles can play anything those guys can play and more.

This is exactly my type of style. Didn't even know it existed. Extraordinary

@jwalkblue7

Жыл бұрын

Prog-metal

@staenlymarcellbombong8865

Жыл бұрын

Check out The Omnific, They did crazy stuff like this!!

@Luke-me9qe

Жыл бұрын

@@staenlymarcellbombong8865 thx

@salty_3k506

Жыл бұрын

primus maybe. it's not the same style per se but les claypool owns a bass with a whammy bar.

@myewgul

Жыл бұрын

Smelled like Symphony X in a good way. Check em out as well!

Charles' musicality on the bass is honestly next-level. He can't just shred, but he can make it musical. Truly a virtuoso of our time. I wonder who some of his inspirations are.

@chair4538

Жыл бұрын

Amazing profile picture

@thornels

Жыл бұрын

Definitely Victor Wooten

@JasperMay

Жыл бұрын

Nice profile picture, I love that album

@RoRo-vr6wx

Жыл бұрын

Yes I dont know maybe he is the best bass player of today or I don't know?

@loganmawhiney2613

Жыл бұрын

He can shred, tho :p

No joke, I'd buy an album of songs like this.

@josepoves6074

Жыл бұрын

Biiiiig money!!

@Dj_pound

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@NyxTheScary

4 ай бұрын

Check out Evan Brewers album "Alone" its just bass and its insane like this

The tapping part took me by surprise. I love the prog metal genre shift on this one.

I can't be the only one who wants to listen to an entire album of Charles playing like this!!!

@Luksmrtorture

Жыл бұрын

no my friend, you're not

@andrewpardue3324

Жыл бұрын

I would absolutely love to hear a lot more of this style of bass playing from Charles ( a full album is a great idea) , I’ve never even heard of anyone using a whammy bar on a bass ever before … it sounds amazing! Especially in Charles’s hands this dude is insanely great ! I’d love to hear him jam a full album with Buckethead ! ( as he’s one of the only guitarists that I can think of that could actually match up to Charles playing) That would be crazy cool 😎 🎸🤘🏻😄 I can only imagine how it would sound 🤪😄.

@DukeRaul

Жыл бұрын

Album my ear... I want 3 hrs of live jams !!!!

Charles, dude, you just did more musical wonderment in 24 seconds than some bands do in their entire careers. Absolutely sick, love it, thanks brother.

Hi Bro, we are watching with pleasure, very professionally. Thanks for the very original content. Respect. I wish you and your loved ones peace of kindness and love and health

@CharlesBerthoud

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, and you too!

@denisbarkovskiy

Жыл бұрын

What is «Гнев Земли»?

@Gnev_Zemli

Жыл бұрын

@@denisbarkovskiy I am the author of a news channel about cataclysms and catastrophes.

@Idonious

Жыл бұрын

Anger of the Earth? Or Rage?

@Gnev_Zemli

Жыл бұрын

@@Idonious Or rage!!!

The whammy is truly a must in the metal sound! Very awesome Charles!

@CharlesBerthoud

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it definitely helps make it sound extra heavy 🔥

@carpediemarts705

Жыл бұрын

This is prog rock with a nice distortion. With the wammy taking the spotlight, the distortion pedal or plugin got skipped. What is it?

@organicmechanic5150

Жыл бұрын

@@CharlesBerthoud what effects were you using? Overdrive and fuzz?

@organicmechanic5150

Жыл бұрын

@@carpediemarts705 yeah I am interested in which effects he was using on the whammy sections.

@wayzUX

Жыл бұрын

@@carpediemarts705 Can you try and do it better? Didn't think so.

As a guitar player who absolutely loves whammy’s and all The different styles that have been developed over the years ..this is just fucking awesome n so many levels

I heard the first note and just ascended. Why does this sound so amazing i love it and now want a whammy on my bass

Crazy how after 30+ years of loving various bands, musicians, etc. Thinking I knew what skill and innovation and talent was. Now that I hear Charles. . . No one does it better

@TeutobergForestryService

Жыл бұрын

Charles and Guthrie Govan should make some music together

Charles, you are a true treasure. Your talent is a gift not just for you, but for all of us. Godspeed

@Danidurga

Жыл бұрын

10% talent, 90% study ;)

As a game programmer, this sounded like a bullet hell boss fight to me. As always, you are insane.

i need an album full of this

0:23 this part is beautiful

@joelprince4635

Жыл бұрын

breh

Can we take a moment to appreciate the crunchy tone he had going? Incredible! Long term sub, can’t believe we’re nearly 1.5 mil now. Keep up the hard work, you’re talented and dedicated (practice). Much love to you and yours

bro it's not the whammy bar, it definately helps but bröther, you are an insanely talented musician. you used the whammy bar not because "yay whammy" but because it actually brings something musically, and you definately used that strength of the whammy impressively. fantastic job

Sounds like some kind of crazy classic Megadeth song in the intro with a god level rhythm!! Except on radioactive speed in the technical department. Amazing.

I can't get over how amazing that whammy sounds on bass, especially with your playing too. I love this.

I wish you had a full album with this vibe. This is fabulous!!

When I was a kid used to listen to Stu Ham , now Charles has taken the bass player level beyond Stu and all gran masters. A M A Z I N G

@svenjansen2134

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for reminding

This sounds like a track directly off a Plini album! I love it! Awesome work and thank you for sharing!

I swear charles can play anything and it always blows my mind, I've been practicing bass more because of people like charles and clay gober a collab would be pretty sick, just a suggestion

This is so sick man! I didn't even consider a regualar bass with a whammy and this is awesome.

@ricktheexplorer

Жыл бұрын

This needs to be the thing that bass players get from now on. This is too good.

@carpediemarts705

Жыл бұрын

They been selling wammy for bass for decades.

@ricktheexplorer

Жыл бұрын

@@carpediemarts705 I've never seen one before this. Who uses one?

@dstdrummer

Жыл бұрын

I know it had been done long before Claypool. But he is the first I can remember doing it back in the 80’s. When I saw it I was like, that’s brilliant!

@och70

Жыл бұрын

@@ricktheexplorer They have been available for basses for a long time, at least since the 1980s. Some players who use, or have used them are Les Claypool, Victor Wooten, Randy Coven and Billy Sheehan.

I wish bassists would innovate more like this, this sounds fucking incredible and should be somewhat mainstream

@TimTrOn3000

Жыл бұрын

People are too stupid. These ideas go way over the heads of most.

@ajanator5263

Жыл бұрын

@@TimTrOn3000 no i would say even non musicians would be impressed by this stuff, charles has hundreds of thousands of subscribers and i doubt they’re all hardcore connoisseurs

@gordonhodgson8403

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say its something just any bass player can do 😂

Chucky this is one of the best things you've ever made imo. This is an incredible composition and performance. A whole album of this with some prog and melodic elements could be world class. Gave me some Mestis vibes.

This is what I need in my life

@CharlesBerthoud

Жыл бұрын

Everyone could use some more metal bass lines with a whammy bar in their life 👌🏻

@andrewpardue3324

Жыл бұрын

@@CharlesBerthoud I absolutely love your bass playing sir 🤘🏻 much love from B.C. Canada 🇨🇦. I agree 100% Charles this sounds amazing! 🤘🏻🎸😮 I’d love to hear a lot more of this style ! You know … whenever You are ready 😄 any chance of a colab with Buckethead sometime in the future ? That would be crazy cool sounding ! 😎🤘🏻

You are so good at every style of bass

1:11 when the shrooms kick in. Good lawd

Everything about this man just is ahead of its time, the bass, the playing, the ideas!!

Can’t help feeling I’ve just seen some amazing musical cleverness that went completely over my head

I think itd be really interesting for a heavy metal group to have a bass lead like this. I love the way this sounded

@SuperHamrick94

Жыл бұрын

**calls Lorna Shore**

@rawkguy4896

Жыл бұрын

It kind of reminds me of the first Mudvayne album

@NathanielBTM

Жыл бұрын

Archspire bass is very technical. just watch one of their bass playthrough videos

@NathanielBTM

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperHamrick94 they don't have lead bass like that... a band that does would be Archspire.

Long-time fan, first-time commenter. I want to express a "critique" about your channel, but I sincerely hope you take it for the enormous compliment it's intended as. I *adore* your channel and think you deserve every accolade accorded you. But something that continually bugs me is your mixes and drum sounds. Don't get me wrong: They're not terrible, and I know firsthand how expensive and time consuming it can be to pay for real drum tracks and professional mixes. But you're so damn f@!king good, that when I hear these videos, they're just *crying out* for real drums to be behind you. Hearing your genius musicianship blended in with non-pro quality mixes just feels like such a jarring mismatch. The level of your talent and the brilliance of your compositions *deserve* that kind of quality woven in with your playing. To me, you're not just some "KZread meme musician". This is genuine music that I'd pay to hear and travel to see live that will stand the test of time. If at all feasible for you, I'd *love* if you'd package videos as if they were Spotify/album-ready tracks (in terms of the mixes and drum recordings.) It's what these songs *deserve*. Cheers from your Canadian neighbours, and keep it up! You're one of the greatest players of this generation, dude.

Just when I thought the whammy bar was bringing him out of the technical space and into some groove.......he hits me with that tap-pegio chorus....

As far as “feel” in the groove, this is one of your best yet. Extremely well done!

You turned the bass into an entirely new instrument. I am just blown away.

I want a full album of this

The part that starts around 0:25 is sick.

Thw whammy suddenly disappeared at 1:09. :) Great playing again, Charles!

@joshuastephens4430

Жыл бұрын

I noticed it, too. The composition was still excellent even though it’s missing

1:06 This tap breakdown is frikken awesome!

The music of this chill guy makes me happy. I was an improv guitar artist before a neural ailment effected memory and motor skills. Im rebuilding, and music like his is a great example of one who can burp music on the fly.

Les Claypool was the first bassist I saw use a whammy bar, because of course he did. You're doing him proud!

Dude, you are the stuff, I'm surprised no big bands or session heads have asked you to play for them yet

@CarlosFernandez-rx3ne

Жыл бұрын

I guarantee you that he's been offered to join several bands. But he makes great money as a content creator while most musicians struggle to make any kind of money. I guess he could join a band if he really wanted to but it wouldn't be out of necessity.

@Joe_Dominates

Жыл бұрын

@@CarlosFernandez-rx3ne yep 👍🏼

@forthebirds4

Жыл бұрын

@@CarlosFernandez-rx3ne Great money as a content creator, but I'm pretty sure no where near the kind of money big name musicians make. And also is your creative expression fulfilled just sharing 60 second snippets on youtube? Idk I'd like to be playing for the roar of crowds on stage while recording lasting songs personally. Every time I watch Charles my immediate impulse is to do a search for "Charles Berthoud Live", alas, there isn't much. He's awesome but these short vids leave me wanting more.

@MrKylederp

Жыл бұрын

@@forthebirds4 Home every night, no rigorous tour schedule, sleeping in your own bed. Not too many upsides even if the money is a bit better

@lred1383

Жыл бұрын

@@forthebirds4 the money musicians make is greatly overestimated. Trust me, there is no band that he could join and not be wasted in that earns anything close to what this channel does. Take Adam Neely, for example - great music channel, incredibly skilled bassist and music theory master. His band, Sungazer, is quite famous for what it is, but barely breaks even considering the touring costs. The only people in the music industry that earn big are the top 0.1% of popular artists. music was a viable career option back in the 70s-80s but that's gone now. And don't even THINK about creative expression, because that's not what the "big crowds" want. The path of a musician is one of poverty or working two jobs

Чарль ты не перестаешь удивлять.!!! Браво!!! Какое классное исполнение и музыкальный подход!! Я понимаю это не предел твоих возможностей ---- далеко.

@rameysue

Жыл бұрын

He is one of the most talented bassists to ever live. my friend

@qweqwe-wv5zq

Жыл бұрын

@@rameysue i can`t trust u! How can you proof your words? (and sorry for my english)

@p020z5

Жыл бұрын

@qwe qwe his channel is the proof

@denisbarkovskiy

Жыл бұрын

Да, крутой музыкант

Yes!!!! Perfect video for you sir in my opinion. You let your technique and composition talk for you! No funny uses just talent. This is where you shine! Thank you!

holy smokes Charles! that complete tapping part was one of my favorite musical sequences of all time!

SO GOOD! It's so good hearing you really go for a heavy crunchy sound on the riffs. I hope you revisit this heavier sound at some point in future. You have an incredible knack for never sacrificing musicality for any other value - heaviness, technicality, complexity - whatever is going on in a piece, however mind-blowing the ability needed to play and compose it, you can guarantee it's just great to listen to.

everytime i think I can't be blown away by your videos anymore, you upload a new video and blow me away again haha congrats man, this is great music once again!

My only instrument I have is an electric guitar I've inherited. I've always wanted to learn how to play, but what with my physically intensively job, I'm almost always too tired when I get home to do much more than vegetate in front of a computer screen. Not only that, but simply beginning to teach myself how to play seems like an incredibly daunting task. Watching your videos, I'm in awe. There are so many techniques, arrangements, and different devices to add to the bass/guitar that it's mind boggling. Just knowing all the possibilities almost paralyzes me. If you or anyone else here have any guidance or tips to share, please do. Some of my happiest moments was when I was in Highschool band playing Tuba. It's just so fun playing an instrument, and I'd love to reconnect to music on such a personal basis.

Probably the coolest sounding thing I've ever heard on the coolest looking bass I've ever seen.🤘

I would kill for a massive metal bass collab with Charles, Jared Smith, Connor Green, John Myung and Fami

That main riff sounds so incredible, Charles is absolutley insane.

I want a full version of this

WoW! I have never been in shock before but this bassing is just every time I think this is the epitome of it just gets even more magnificent!

Been watching your content since lockdown (4 years now?). Love how diverse your sound gas gotten, while also retaining a unique quality to it. Great stuff, Charles!

@FelixHureau

Жыл бұрын

(3 years*)

Simply spectacular. Thank you!

This is EASILY one of my fav videos on internet THANK YOU

Unreal! Please keep loving bass and getting better, but just know that some of us think you have reached the level of mastery within the pantheon of the all-time greats.

That tapping section sounded very Dream Theater, which is about the biggest compliment I can bestow! Also, I wanna hear what a Dime squeal sounds like on that bass next time, please!

@Shinzui011

Жыл бұрын

was looking for this comment, as soon as the tapping started I instantly got dream theater vibes

you should release a variety album where you have like 8 songs from 8 different genres

I sincerely hope this starts catching on 1 because it sounds awesome and 2 it would be nice to see basses with whammys on the walls in stores.

Make it your own signature bass player that uses whammy bar on playing. Make a history man.

Once again... Absolutely outstanding..!!! You are beyond amaze Charles🤘🏼

@CharlesBerthoud

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@david46n2

Жыл бұрын

@@CharlesBerthoud you are truly an inspiration walking miracle. Thanks for the reply. It's such an honour for me.

Once again, your playing never ceases to amaze Great Job!

@chair4538

Жыл бұрын

Bruh you haven't even watched it yet

Unbelievable skill! 200% Musical at the same time. Gold!

Imagine a metal band having a bassist that just sits on a literal throne during all their performances, slapping and tapping, and all the things that this dude did. They don’t even need a guitarist, just a drummer and vocalist.

You're videos always blow me away. But this is genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever heard.

That's some of the finest bass playing I've ever heard, phenomenal!

You've turned the bass into a new instrument all together. Good work my friend.

In my opinion your the best all around bassist! Dynamics,tapping etc etc rrc

Чарльз, ты крутой мужик, музыкант. С любовью и почтением из Санкт-Петербурга!)

@Gnev_Zemli

Жыл бұрын

Привет земляки 🙋🏻‍♂️

Wham bam thank you Charles! That tapping at 1:05 - oh my fkn god. Bass is a new instrument in your hands.

The tapping is insane! You’re honestly one of the most talented bass players there is.

That was pure awesome sound. Reminds me of a mix of old prog metal, computer games from the -90s and well 6 more things.

@snoboater

Жыл бұрын

Big boss battle vibes from the tapping part for sure

Holy f*ck this is good! I'd listen to a whole album of this!

The library of music you've put together over time here on youtube is just amazing Charles. You're a beast

What a pleasure to see a bass player with great technique

Dude, I want to see a bass off between you and Ryan from mudvayne. Every bit of this video reminds me of old school mudvayne and I'm freaking loving it! You know what, you ought to do a gas spot on a mudvayne track after something like this! Most bands don't want the basist to do what you do but they've never shied away from it!

You have been taking bass playing to a new level

wow this sounds incredible edit: I can't stop watching, I've put this video on loop for like 30 minutes now

This sounds like a bossfight with really fast and difficult phases but also fun af

That slow part in the beginning had a nice island sound!

hey, i just love how you can master any genre, it always sounds so great

Charles, would you ever record and release some of this stuff? I bet you a lot of your audience (including me) would love to buy a record of stuff like this.

And we were all waiting for the big deep dive bomb

now thats some metal bass

Charles, you never cease to amaze! Bravo!!! What a great performance and musical approach!! I understand this is not the limit of your capabilities ---- far.

Yo this might be your best video so far, the tapping was on uncharted levels of virtuosity

With this guy, its not about bass playing anymore.. its about exploration across genres, styles and diverse musical possibilities but keeping it crisp and clean!

BRO. WHAT. I would listen to that all day. Next album PLEASE

This is definitely one of the better, if not best, compositions I've seen on this channel. That was certainly a jam. 🤟

Wow, very impressive! Both your technical skills, and the musical creativity of your compositions in your various videos.

This guy would create a band and instead of lead guitar he'd be the lead bass

1:31 This part reminds me of Meshuggah

Man you deserve way more views and subscribers with all the work that you put in your videos. It really rocks 🤟🔥

@mr.e0311

Жыл бұрын

Dont worry.. when he gets more subs his content will change and it will be as stupid as the other 'mega creators' videos. Enjoy it in its pure form while you can.

Anime intro time haha love it!!! (And that tapping 🔥🔥🔥) Amazing as always!

Charles is every up and coming lead bassist in every up coming talented band that you haven't heard about. All built in to one person. He's a robot. I am saying he is a robot.

It sounds incredible! I absolutely love it!