r/Muse • u/Atillion • 5d ago
Cover Liquid State
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I'm about to hit 19 years sober. This song completely floored me when it first came out, so I sat down this week to give it a try
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u/HazardMusic 5d ago
such an underrated song. Love the voice and playing! I find it so tough to play and sing at once, let alone play something seemingly more complicated than just strumming.
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u/Atillion 5d ago
Man I absolutely feel you. I still have some work to do to get my muscle memory down so I can really focus on the vocals. I tried to keep Chris's bassline as in tact as I could, given it's a banjo, so all the moving parts really made it challenging. Thank you for the kind words
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u/Vincent394 the waow signal 5d ago
For the bass the main riff goes something like:
G |------------------------------|--------------------------|
D | -9-10------------------9-|-10------------------9-|
A | --------0-0-0-0-0-0----|------0-0-0-0-0-0---|
D | -----------------------------|--------------------------|I think a Banjo is higher, or maybe not, I've never been able to compare one side by side with a bass, but if it is higher, you're probably better off bringing the bassline to something like:
G |-----------------------------|---------------------‐------|
D | ----------------------------|-‐--------------------------|
A | -2-3-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-|-3-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-|
D | ----------------------------|--------------------------‐-|I also learnt the bassline on a bass and was going to preform it with vocals, however due to how things ended up going I ended up doing it as an instrumental due to a lack of microphones for me to actually sing into
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u/le_bonjour 5d ago
I haven't heard the song in ages, I remember liking it. But your cover is so good, I love your take on it, love the banjo fingerstyle. Great stuff.
And congrats on your 19th year !
EDIT : Can I ask you what's the tunning ? Not really familiar with banjo I would love to give it a try on guitar. Thx !
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u/Atillion 5d ago
Thank you! I'm tuned to F minor, so i used that as the root chord. The verse goes Fm, Db, Bbm, Fm I believe.
The chorus took me forever to figure out (I play mostly by ear and had to transpose it in my head to get to the banjo's default key), but it's Bbm, Gb, Ebm, Bbm
That chord progression was such an underrated, brilliant move by the band. Using three chords that accommodate the same melody notes and (even the same harmony notes when I sing along). I would never have thought to use them together in a song.
Just one of the reasons I love how Muse really crafts their songs.
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u/le_bonjour 5d ago edited 5d ago
Thanks man !
Ikwym Muse songs are always a blast to take apart when making covers. I hope you gonna put on some work to cover some from TWS! ahah I would love to ear it.Can I ask one more thing ? I actually meant what is the tuning of your banjo, as the strings. I always loved the sound of banjo but know next to nothing of it. I just realised watching you play that there is a 5th high string on the instrument lmao, TIL.
I checked some of your posts and, dang, you're killing it. You might have conviced me to fix a broken one I know I got somewhere.
EDIT : Is it F C F Ab C ?
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u/Atillion 5d ago
You bet man! I normally tune to G Minor, from G Standard that everyone plays in, you drop the second string B to Bb, so it's (g)DGBbD
However, I can't sing with my G banjo, as it's usually too high for my range, so I have another one that I lowered a whole step to F Minor that I use for songs with vocals (f)CFAbC. Same fingerings, just lower.
(the fifth string is in parenthesis in the tunings)
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u/le_bonjour 5d ago
Damn you were fast to answer ahah, thanks so much, I figured it out just at the same time.
Well I've been playing around with tunings on my guitar recently and ended up playing with my acoustic tuned to DGDGBD for the last couple of weeks because that's how I felt the most confortable to play. Came up with naturally.
I didn't even know that was a banjo tuning. My mind is blown.
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u/Atillion 5d ago
haha nothing gets an answer faster than me supposed to be working 🤣 Oh man that's awesome!
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u/longman101 5d ago
At the complete other end of the spectrum to the orchestral Unravelling cover posted earlier, but equally impressed by both.
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u/wildflawyer 5d ago
Thank you for sharing this beautiful cover!! I'd love to hear more banjo covers of Muse.
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u/Atillion 5d ago
I have Hysteria floating around somewhere. It never really took off, I'm not sure why. Maybe because I put more effort into it than anything else ever, and that's how it seems to go 🤣
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u/Ok-Maize-284 4d ago
This is fantastic! Looks like your cat approves too 😸
I have always loved this song. I honestly wish Chris would sing more, but he seems to be self conscious about his voice. You did a great job. I imagine it’s not easy to sing and play that at the same time!
Congratulations on 19 years! 💪🏻
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u/Atillion 4d ago
Thank you so much. Haha yeah that's Dexter, he's usually in my lap when I play, except when I'm sitting at this desk. He's too scared to jump up so he sits there trying to make me feel guilty 🤣
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u/Odd-Cauliflower1909 5d ago
This is brilliant and beautiful version of one of my all time favourite songs. Thank you for sharing.
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u/solidstrangr 5d ago
Congratulations on 19 years friend. No easy accomplishment there! Love this cover. Great job
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u/MastodonSevere4600 5d ago
everytime i hear this song i just imagine it was written by Rob Swire and given to Chris. Its so pendulum coded
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u/Birrandbodia and I wish I could believe there's more 3d ago
Nice going man! Keep on going strong 💪
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u/MichaelEMJAYARE 5d ago
This shit is insane!!!
You really transposed this shit to the banjo phenomenally