Play It Like It Is Bass: Metallica (Conference Proceedings / The Metallurgical Society of Aime)

This was a goft for a bass guitarist and he adores it, I am told he is the envy of all his musician friends.

I got this book for one song. The book starts by the author dedicating it to Cliff Burton. Quite frankly that’s an insult. Perhaps his most memorable piece “Orion “ is very poorly transcribed and incomplete. They’ve even left his solo out. It’s good for the basics of the song but don’t except advanced trance options and it’s certainly not note for note.

Master of Puppets is probably one of the best metal albums ever recorded, and one of the reasons for this is the contribution made by the late Cliff Burton. Nobody apart from the members of metallica can tell us just how big Cliff's contribution to metallica was outside the studio (by all accounts it was massive),but in the studio Cliffs influence and talent are obvious.The bass lines recorded for this album are a mixture of simplicity and complexity, from the basic to the very advanced. Any bass player will find something here to both educate them and inspire them, whether this be through technique or through musical ideas.When Cliff Burton died a bass player was lost and a legend created. And if new generations of bass players continue to be exposed and inspired by his music, his legacy will live forever.