[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1361191003' post='1982405']
The key being an ideal world. I find quite often that it's not always easy to pick out some lines and somoetimes what the guitarist hears and interprets are different to what I have heard and interpreted. Especially when the bass is indistinct on the recording and 'almost' doubles the guitar. That's what practices are for, to make sure you're all playing together.
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We must be talking about different kinds of music or songs, not many covers I'm asked to play where there is not an easy to distinguish baseline, but we are talking basic pop, rock and soul, typical covers band stuff.