Lozz196 Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 Check out Black Sweden, they put ABBA lyrics with the proper melodies over rock songs. Their version of Take a Chance On Me played over Metallicas Enter Sandmans music is pretty spectacular as it works so incredibly well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo4652 Posted October 20, 2017 Author Share Posted October 20, 2017 [quote name='uk_lefty' timestamp='1508426426' post='3392128'] Dreadful. If you're going to rock it up do it properly, not just have a mildly distorted guitar playing over a carbon copy version of the original. [/quote] Yes - I agree. For me, The chugging guitar in the verses sounds very much like a grafted-on afterthought. The whole effort sounds like two pre-existing songs clumsily spliced together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo4652 Posted October 20, 2017 Author Share Posted October 20, 2017 I'm sitting here trying to decide how to approach learning this. I've never played the bassline to this ABBA song, and I fully realise that it's not straight-forward at all. Knowing my band as I do, I just know that lead guitarist is going to do a Yngve all over it. In fact he's already drawn our attention to Malmstein's cover of Gimme, Gimme, Gimme which leaves me completely cold. My feeling is that if I try to recreate Gunnarson's original line, it will be too busy for the note-heavy treatment the song will get from the guys. In general, with this band (two guitarists, one of whom is a very accomplished prog-rock/jazz exponent who doesn't do "less is more", and the other who overlays his rhythm guitar with guitar synth, and BV's via a vocoder thingy), I find that I have to keep basslines simple to avoid over-egging the pudding. All advice gratefully accepted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dropzone Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 Can you imagine a break down half speed of the chorus in Winner Takes it All, this could be the most metal song every, with a drop back to full speed, metallers could actually explode on hearing due to the dissonance!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 [quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1508489302' post='3392495']...keep basslines simple to avoid over-egging the pudding... [/quote] Mmm..! Pudding..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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