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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1322261134' post='1448835'] Sorry about that, i only noticed your post after i had posted... Garry [/quote] No problem. Just seemed odd you agreeing with Jake after I had already said the same thing. Credit to Jake for the dots though. Have a good weekend.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1322247436' post='1448667'] Its just what Jake wrote.....[with a down slur bar 6 if IRC] 3+3+2 is over complicating things. Garry [/quote] And the same as I wrote. Just different note positions. Had to play it in a show some 2 years ago. I remember it as I didn't have time to swap to my fretless. Just used my volume pedal to try and get the Mwah! effect.

I maybe wrong but I have always played the intro. On the G string (top) 18th fret (Db), 17th fret (C), 15th fret (Bb), 11th fret (Gb), 10th fret (F), slide down to 6th fret on the A string (Eb), The 4th fret E string (Ab).

[quote name='stef030' timestamp='1321820553' post='1443512'] I think that was the tube those backing singers are a bit eh PERT nice [/quote] The blonde is Mrs.Palladino.

Cheers Tandro, been trying to work this out. Problem solved!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1321525398' post='1440103'] I have been looking at this stuff fairly diligently for over 30 years and still have so much to learn. Don't expect it to be handed to you on a plate. If you want to thump away behind the local blues hero, then you can do so without any real investment but, if you have any ambitions to be a rounded musician, start thinking, reading, listening, learning. The sooner you start (and you already have), the sooner you will start seeing incremental progress. No epiphanies. No lights on the road to Damascus. Just one step at a time. You will have plateaus and moments of accelerated learning; its all part of the process. Its a journey not a destination. Enjoy it. When you have learned it all, let us know. [/quote] Bilbo, it would seem as though you totally misunderstood what I was trying to say but then again your second sentence here agreed with me. Whatever. I have been playing for 40 years and as you rightly say still tons to learn, I have never tired of the learning process and if it wasn't for the fact that I began to read from day one I am certain that I would be a far lesser bass player.

There is no great secret to learning the notes on a fretboard. Its just a case of remembering a few simple facts, 1. The notes E and F are always a fret apart [a semitone] and B and C also. 2. A sharp [#] raises the note and a flat [b] lowers a note. 3. A sharp note also has a flat equivilant which is infact the same note.ie. an F# is the same as a Gb. There are only 12 note names. Often students find this simple fact hard to grasp, not through stupidity but because they beleived it was far more complicated. With this in mind and remembering fact 1. if you play an open E [bottom and thickest string] and then play a note on the first fret, this is an F. On the second fret this is an F# or a Gb. The note on the third fret is a G. The note on the fourth fret is a G# or an Ab. On the 5th fret is an A, which is the same note as your 3rd string. Still remebering fact one you can carry on a note per fret up to the twelve fret which is the same note as the open string only an octave higher.If all this still seems complicated then you need to put your logical thinking hat on. The trick is to realise that the higher up the fret board you go past the 4th fret more than one of the exact same note and pitch is available. For example the note on the twelve fret of the E string, an E is exactly the same note and pitch as the note on the 7th fret of the A string plus on the 2nd fret of the D string. How do you remember where all these notes are? Practice is a plus, but, lets say you are use to playing a tweve bar blues in E starting on the 2nd fret of the D string, the first 4 bars can be played without having to change position but when it comes to playing the next 2 sections for the A and B chord then you have a big shift in position. But if the whole piece is played starting on the 7th fret of the A string then only a two fret shift is needed to play the B section. All this is a lot harder to explain than actually play but I hope this helps. Being able to read music will make playing any song so much more enjoyable. If you don't and are content to just dive in to any musical situation so be it but you will no doubt limit yourself to a narrow field and genre which, at the end of the day most likely will limit any work offers.