Deftones - Minerva - Bass Cover with Play Along Tabs

Bass Guitar Cover with Play Along Tabs of Deftones' song Minerva. The tab is for a 4 string bass in Drop Db Tuning. Underrated album, song and bassline.

Song: Minerva
Artist: Deftones
Album: Deftones
Original Bassist: Chi Cheng (RIP)
Bass: Custom Jazz Bass
Tuning: Drop D Flat (Db Ab Db Gb)

Minerva is a song by the American band Deftones and the lead single from their self-titled fourth studio album. Despite the album as a whole containing some of the band's heaviest work to date, Minerva itself has an uplifting alternative metal sound and has also been described as shoegaze.

In 2016, Consequence of Sound placed Minerva at No. 12 in its article "The Top 20 Deftones Songs", with Jon Hadusek claiming that "In a way, Deftones brought shoegaze to the alternative metal mainstream with 'Minerva', a crushingly heavy, textured jam indebted to Siamese Dream-era Smashing Pumpkins and Hum". The song charted at No. 9 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, No. 16 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart.

The music video for Minerva, directed by Paul Fedor, is notable for its similarity to Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii concert film. The band is featured playing the song in a desert-like landscape backed by various amplifiers and other stage equipment. It was filmed near the Salton Sea in southern California in 2003, during a sandstorm. The filming process itself was fraught with problems, as the sand caused problems with the recording equipment and lighting setup. The shoot eventually took 22 hours to complete, with Abe Cunningham saying that "the shoot sucked" and Chi Cheng calling it "terrible", but conceding that "it is a trippy video. I actually like it a lot".

Deftones Minerva Lyrics:
I get all numb
When she sings, it's over
Such a strange numb
And it brings my knees to the earth
And God bless you all
For the song you saved us
You're the same, numb
When you sing it's over
Such a strange numb
It could bring back peace to the earth
So God bless you all
For the song you saved us, oh
For the hearts you break
Every time you moan
I get all numb
We're the same, numb
And it brings our knees to the earth
So God bless you all
For the song you saved us, oh
For the hearts you break
Every time you moan
And God bless you all on the earth

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