Symphony X - Domination (Bass Cover)

[infinitebloosky]

Just batshit awesome.

[ltayl1]

0:46. The Domination button was turned on.

[brndnbass]

0:41 - HOLY CRAP

[KannosxAgamenon]

Amazing man! Great Job!



[Mp0nken]

good sound for 240p :) awesome cover

[symbolic261293]

michael lepond will be proud of you :D

[michleferink]

And people think they need ridiculously expensive basses to sound good and play well. Nothing against your SR506, I used to have one and still play an SR755, but so many gear snobs would turn up their noses at it and it definitely gets the job done!

[cursedswordsman]

This song makes YYZ look like Smoke on the Water.

[Slappinstyle]

@cursedswordsman Talkbass? :)

[cursedswordsman]

@Slappinstyle Yyyyup!

[HeliosFramework]

Jesus fuckkkk! Simply amazing!

[JeffAnthonyFilms]

after watching that it makes me feel like I have a ways to go on the Bass. Damn.... right when i was feeling like the shit....lol

[vteczone]

As Russel peters would says : "mind blasting!"

[T0nychiva]

hell yeahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you rock man

[kilby20]

It's official, 30 people have no clue what good music is.

[coasternut3091]

cover some Braindrill lol

[Lally953]

Incredibleeeeeee!!

[mercenarysoldier]

BADASS!! :D

[Julietiac]

0.45 hell yeah!

[counterification]

0:45 ULTIMATE METAL HORN \m/

[TheLaperriere]

Awesome job Tony !!

[vomise]

... :O Just... fucking... wow. :D

[hypolittleskittle07]

I just love watching those 2 fingers furiously going at it :L and yes, that's what she said....

[DigThoseDiamonds]

Dude, this is awesome!

[rexxar12345]

ITNRO!!!

[grippas]

who would come on this video and dislike it?

It's amazing

if you dislike it then you must have come on here just to do it

faggots

[MysteryBassMan96]

what is the tunning you are playing?

[2010pretender]

Capo de los capos!

[BlackenedThunder]

How long are your fingers o.0

[amtelectronics]

Excellent Tony. We need more BASS player endorsements. If you are interested in our AMT ELECTRONICS Bass Crunch Preamp email us. Keep up the good work man. AMT USA

[SoiDBass]

Fuck yhea

[SteveHaris666]

ooou yeaaah.....fuckin awesome!

[Elgard94]

TU NON SEI UN DIO! SEI UN CRISTONE! RESPECT!  \m/

[CoscuLeFay]

:O so so nice. are u using just two fingers in your right hand? but a lot hammer on and so, right? anyway this is so cool!!!

[PSZenPS]

@CoscuLeFay isn't necessary to use 3 fingers to fast pizzicato. I , for exemple, play fight fire with fire with only 2 fingers

[alecks666]

mother fucker!!!! Amazing!!!

[tequilasciarrai]

Holy shit.

[Boldmeateor]

Whoever thinks this is fake is an idiot... nothing about this looks fake.

[B5ASS]

Where did you get that strap? I want it desperately

[ScooterScooper]

Pro devil horns at 0:42 

[mOrtpengu1n]

And for the record, he actually does use the 6th string of his bass on this video.

[EddieBsB]

That's awesome. BUT...

WHY 6 STRINGS IF YOU DIDN'T EVEN TOUCH THEM?

Sorry, but I'm anti-5/6 strings bass. hehe

[mOrtpengu1n]

@EddieBsB I'm sure that the next time he records or plays a song that only needs 4 strings, he'll remove the extra strings. Make sure to also tell drummers like Mike Mangini and Thomas Lang to only play songs that use EVERY single drum that they have on their kits too.

[FrozenSparky]

@EddieBsB same :)

[MrSulfurMustard]

@EddieBsB Then, my friend, excuse me but you're anti-music diversity.

Greetings to the past, together with Queen and Pink Floyd (great bands, by the way)!

[MrCooterbruzer]

That run at .42 is wicked

[gangsterthomas1000]

jesus man, you're still the best bassist on youtube!

[sartaajhussain]

The horns at 0:43. Holy shit.

[slayermanbob]

Your the reason I want to buy a bass.

[Orangemongoose1]

Excuse me Tony, but you dropped something... my jaw!

[ZanesSuccessor]

@Orangemongoose1

They Broke His Jaw!

Ther Ber Cur Jer!

Chu Puku!

[Arcinatus]

That...is......awesome! :O



[Murgftw]

Fuck yeah man, great job!!!

[stanke666]

 i thought bass was easy to play O.o

[devluvs2cheer1]

Hey you told me to look this up when I talked to you on omegle and dude you are really really good! Keep up with the good work!

[septempublicas]

power pizzicato only two finger wow master

[transamman69]

You're tearin that fucking bass up! nice

[MrAngelRare]

You are a crack. I want a bassman as you for my band T_T

[HippieBr]

0:45 Nail it!

[toastpfanne]

best bassist on youtube :D

[xxMonsterGuitarxx]

FUCK i came all over my desk 

[RockxRevy]

Dude, seriously... You fucking rock and do awesome cover... you're my "youtube-bassist" idol :-p

[jo27hn666]

great job (how many time to learn this song?)

[jkanounji]

friggen awesome! \m/

[ServantOvDeth]

0:44

Fucking Rock !!

\m/

[eduardoiba98]

Awesome cover! Could you please send me an download link with the backing track you've used to do it? I'd be very gratefull ^^

Again, beautifull cover!

thx

[WelcomeToZomboCom]

BEST PART: 4:11 - 4:31

[PlatypusBassist]

any tabs? can't find any six string ones on the internet and btw great playing man :D

[Telyn305]

man to be honest you're a hell of a bassist and i wish you lived in Miami, Florida so i could get some bass lessons from you

[deathconceal1]

@TonyDickinsonBG Dude, I know you've heard this about 100,000,000,000 times, but you're probably one of the fastest players ever, and you're one of my biggest role models. You kick ass, and dont let dumbasses like HugelyBig, tell you different. You rock.

[ElTioChalo14]

0:45 - 0:47 best part hahahhaha good job man symphony x best band

[oniman13]

Been playing bass for a little over a year now :P When I started playing, this and Panic Attack were two of the songs I'd always wanted to learn. After watching your covers and getting the tab, I was motivated to learn the into to both and was so proud of myself. Then I got to the fills section of both and they destroyed me. Mad props to you.

[Fabibass99]

You're the best that a have seen in this last 20 minutes of watching Domination's bass cover.

just one think, your right hand seem so stressed... that looks wierd =)

[Socialdem18]

I am in awe of your plucking technique, I have been playing bass for 6 years and am nowhere close to that kind of plucking skill! Not that I'm even near the fretting either...

[MayhemEA]

great cover man! is there anywhere you can get the tabs?

[Guyverhoeven]

@MayhemEA ultimate-guitar com

[MayhemEA]

@Guyverhoeven thanks! I love watching this cover!!!

[DevinParker18]

dude great great job. question though. in the beginning why do you place your hand so close to the neck? do you find it easier to play that way? i found it interesting and it actualy made it easier to play in a way. good work bro i love all of your stuff

[Longshot9]

wow, great job bro. I would love to see you do some Seventh Wonder.

[gangsterthomas1000]

these kind of songs is why I play bass.

[Teguhdinatazt]

good job man!!!

[librered13]

eres la verga we

[TheAlexxcoeur]

You are a great bass player dude, really, excelent job.

[MegaFinFan]

"It's the way his hair moves so quicly" :D lol

How long did it take to learn this :P

[overshadowed666]

great job awesome bass playing

[METALPUNKRAGGA]

teach me jajajajajajajaja wow this is so fuckig great!!!! congratulations you are the best bass player i ever seen

[RhewBleiddiad]

I admitt it you are very very very good but I know one guy who is freaking amazing he is called Grzegorz Kosinski like that chek him out he does classic covers like Vivaldi and other stuff.Good job man you are great.

[xlxfinaldeathwishxlx]

I've never been a bass hater sense I play 7/8 string guitars but this is a bad ass bass cover

[hkbassman]

good job and thank Q for sharing.....

[hkbassman]

good job and thank  Q for aharing.....

[kazeryuudan]

Awesome !

And Awesome bass too *slurp*

[diegodeth100]

uffff man you kick asss!!!awesome.......

[mitalca35]

Holy fuck. I am blown away. Over 9,000 thumbs up!

[Crodignolo]

Hey Tony,

I'm starting to play a Bass, and I'm really happy to see and to learn from your videos. I'm really impressed! I know that i'll never be at your level (too old!), but persons like you are inspiring me!

Don't pay a f..k to people who are telling you're cheating. Worthless time loosing. I wish you a great career!! And sorry bout my English.

[RazumenkaKiedis]

man this cover is excellent but not perfect :D

I'm telling from the aspect of the bassist...

but that sound... tell me more about it...

I would like to know what you think of my bass... I have Aria 1976 Vintage with Ibanez double magnet and Di Marzio single magnet... you know what these produce sound like...

and yes this song can be played on 5 string bass too :D

[murder555]

This is damn good! Great job m8!

[softhail1]

Call me stupid about an instrument but if he slowed it down the audio would be fucked up and it is not i hear it fine he is actually playing this if you do not know any thing about playing an instrument dont talk shit about it thanks for the cover it helps to see someone play it did you learn it be ear

[LiquidCruelty]

Mike Lepond said you did excellent, and apparently some people think a human being couldn't possibly be moving as fast as you

You're doing a good job :D I play bass too and can slog through some of the other stuff you've covered (though not as well as you), but the Symphony X shit for whatever reason destroys me! Symphony X bass parts seem to be a rarity in that they often end up being more difficult than they sound

Stay hard.

[MrASM1992]

2:06-:2:11 blew my face off!

[MetalBaronRojo]

Damn i almost suffer spontaneous combustion trying to play this in a 5 string bass... Shit i have to practice a lot.. Exelent video!

[MetalBaronRojo]

Damn i almost suffer spontaneous combustion trying to play this in a 5 string bass... Shit i have to practice a lot good video!

[frkman24]

0:45 :D

[sezabass]

Dude, I'll study A LOT watching this video. Thanks =)

[LSnakeBR]

Se eu tocasse 1% disso eu tava feliz!

(if I can play 1% like you, i was a happy boy)

[hereawhile]

OMG, he looks like he's moving faster than he is, he mustve spent to time to play half speed, it must be sped up, let me go cry about it and troll right along...

Geez people please find another hobby.

[Kw1q51lv3r]

if anyone doubts the speed, they doubt both Tony Dickinson and Mike Lepond.

[3hickmanm]

anyone who thinks tis fake, look at his new video, same thing but with a clock to prove its not sped up

[guitarsehole]

Bro, I think you're fucking awesome! That was incredible.

[Therez195]

you can tell he didn't speed it up when he moves his hand from the neck rest to pickup rest.

If it was sped up that wuda been like superman shit.

good cover

[dethtilldeath]

@LivingForBass

Don't be stupid. I personally know Tony and know for a fact that he didn't speed this up one bit.

[guitarsehole]

@LivingForBass you're fucking kidding, how can you play along at a different speed then match it up to the song perfectly and match the pitch perfectly???You're a goose mate...watch my video of "Breakout" it has the same effect because the camera frame rate is too low.

[LivingForBass]

@guitarsehole Ok maybe your right, but I'm just saying, it's not that hard to match it up, it's called use windows media player, slow the song down to half speed, then play along with it, then speed the vid back up

[chrisbDTM]

@LivingForBass haha idiot. watch his newest video

[LivingForBass]

@chrisbDTM haha idiot i did and you should have seen my comment on it, now stop being an igorant ass

[Deevon667]

@LivingForBass He's just better than you, don't be butthurt.

[Guyverhoeven]

Been practicing a few evenings on getting those hammer ons on that intro clean and solid but its trickier then i tought.

[goodygoody23]

2:10 blew my mind

[Scarecrow545]

I'm having a lot of trouble hitting the triplets in the bass intro. How does one pull em off? The first shape is forefinger, middle finger, pinky, the second, fore, ring, pinky, but I always end up mistakenly hitting the first shape for the second triplet. It's confusing.

[Rimes87]

@Scarecrow545 you take that part, slow it down to let us say 50 bps and then do it at that speed for like 10 minutes, then go to 60 bps and do that for another 10 minutes, and so forth until you are capable of playing it correctly at the speed you desire it to be... practice makes perfect and a metronome is your friend in those kind of situations ;)

[Scarecrow545]

@Rimes87

I tried that actually, and even then, I seem to fuck up the triplets. Just go even slower? :_:

[Rimes87]

@Scarecrow545 well it is all about the hard work... once, you will just feel that it comes naturally to you to that thing... but practice takes time, so don't lose hope ;)

[Scarecrow545]

@Rimes87

Ok, thanks.

[Rimes87]

@Scarecrow545 Anytime bro, enjoy the practice ;)

[Scarecrow545]

@Rimes87

Yup ^^

[johnyeinoz]

muy bien!!!!!!!!!!

[Guyverhoeven]

This is exaclt why im buying a 5 string this weekend. 6 string basses are so badass.

Hope i one day get to this level of playing.

[Margalus89]

I feel so dumb i think i'll take off my bass covers .-.

[dencki]

such amazing...xD your a great bassist ;D our bassist in the band now learning to play it xD but he never will be so epic like you ;D

[sourcekv]

I have to ask you how long it took you to learn this one...

[4everGoreLover]

men you fckn rule! nice damn played!

[lzeppelinrocks]

I don't understand how you can dislike this video its perfect

[rockpop1]

damn man you are fucking awesome i just bought my fender delux active 5 string and im learning this shit...... you are good but still no one can play with his dick like murderface :P anyway you got  5 points from israel.....hail :)

[deathconceal1]

Well, this video is a very interesting assesment showing us extremely correct and proper technique in KICKING INSANE ASS AND BLOWING THE FUCK OUT OF MY MIND! very interesting indeed...

[iluvsystemofadown]

SO beastly.

[masterkuprij]

Si el maestro Lepond te dijo que lo hiciste muy bien, pues quienes somos nosotros para criticarte!.

Keep up the good work, bro!

[Sickburton]

amazing cover!

[gangsterthomas1000]

I want that bass strap :) oh and the bass would be nice too :D

[asilikasaletimdir]

Yuh, ayı! Resmen çalıyor :) (Great performance, in rocker Turkish.. :)

[TheMrbaasb]

at 0:45 bass domination mode was turned on

[Geraa24]

@TheMrbaasb HAHAHAHAHA!!!

[leechwarrior]

Somebody actually covered this OMG !!!! WAY TO GO DUDE!!!!

[PressAltF4OrElse]

At 0:45, I yelled out "Fuck yeah!" and I woke up the neighbors. Thanks.

[MetalBaronRojo]

Damn! How long time you have been playing the bass!!!!!!??

[iatemine]

Haha I love the way You through out that "Devils Horn" at 0:45

Very kick ass man. You are a phenom!

[TheMetalUnited]

@Hugelybig You can tell he didn't by the way his hair moves, his hair would move unnaturally fast if he sped it up :P

[helios5868]

Videos like this are making me consider leaving guitar for bass...that and the overabundance of guitarists.

[Damien9607]

For the record, I think your version is simply better than the actual song, simply because I can hear the bass the whole time, rather than just the intro

[demonwolf7]

im not learning this on guitar as im watching this and its ridiculous even cliffs of dover was easier to play so id hate to think what this is like trying to do on bass lol bloody good playin 0:45 is great \m/(^ . ^)\m/

[HugelyBig]

I know I'll get a bunch of "that's so stupid" this and "you're a dumbass" that, but I think he played this slower, then sped the footage up to match the tempo of the song. It's the way his hair moves so quicly. And he moves himself so quickly and easily it just doesn't look right. Even if he did record at half speed, that's still some sick playing.

[TonyDickinsonBG]

@HugelyBig A wise friend once told me. "If you can get the internet to cry fake, your work is done."

Probably true, but I just think you guys are fucking dumb.

[greendagger87]

@TonyDickinsonBG dude the fact that u know the song is enogh not anyone can play symphony x

leave the rest of these noobs alone ur bad ass thats all that matteers let the faggot haters cry

[unamericano]

@TonyDickinsonBG

Tony....they're trolls.

[AndreasKotsamanidis]

@HugelyBig

It's easy to think that kind of stuff when you're impressed. But I hang with Tony in person and I can tell you that this is not recorded at half speed. He can play this song probably even faster than in this vid. Also, he plays live onstage at MAGfest and he rocks it all out there too.

[BerrySexyG]

@HugelyBig i can play this. at the correct tempo. if i can play it, i know he can. so stop being fucking dumb idiots.

[iunnox666]

@HugelyBig You're just high, stuff looks sped up sometimes to me too.

[MetalxXxMayhem]

@HugelyBig Looks and sounds fine to me, and i'm high on weed. I think you're just dumb.

[DarksZero]

@HugelyBig Hahaha shut the fuck up, youre just jealous cuz you cant play that. Go fk u.

[Rimes87]

@HugelyBig hahahaha, WTF? dude, are you serious? xD

[panteralover23]

@HugelyBig, you don't know much about playing bass then! This guy is definitely playing this and he has in no way played it slow and then sped it up! I hate it when people like you who know absolutely nothing of music theory or anything what it takes to play an instrument act like you're a genius in the subject. I'd love to see you try and top that!

[websterx9]

@HugelyBig dude u made fun of your self man be carefull...=|

[Kownu]

@HugelyBig I think you're right, but not entirely sure. Judging from the break at about 4:10, either he's on crack and doesn't know what the hell calm is, or is just extremely up tight when he plays.

[Flipaish]

@Kownu It's a fast song, you need to be on crack to keep up... OF COURSE HE'LL BE UP TIGHT WHEN HE PLAYS THE SONG.

[Kownu]

@Flipaish In the break.

[TheBassman5000]

@HugelyBig

just bc you cant do it doesnt mean its fake

[guilreispaula]

0:45 best ²

[SuperDizzy12]

...By God. My mind has been ripped to shreds.

[TheZanderizer]

Dude you're electric among all the bass players you can I look up to as I use a 6string, you are a god! :) but Ireally would love to know where to get these tabs rofl.xD I try to follow this butthe riff at the start and at 0:45 are just wow!xD

[jburd999]

got the same strap ;)

[Kloudexx]

lml

[Kloudexx]

Damn i got to say it again, The best youtube bass player

[gangsterthomas1000]

You sir are one of the best youtube bass players :)

[19drummer]

Precise. Well done.