christhammer666 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 hi guys have just started playing again after a year off through hand injury and have just started a project with a guy. he has wrote all the music and has sent me the songs to learn and wants me to record my parts as soon as possible. i was just wondering how long it takes you guys to learn a song from scratches wth no tabs,chords or whatever thanks jamie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHimself Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 not long at all, maybe about half an hour to an hour if i've not heard it before. A lot quicker if i have. Perfecting it, on the other hand, can take me weeks lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christhammer666 Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 yeah thats whats been getting me i pick up the song enough its just the nuances wierd time changes ect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc2009 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 He could at least give you the main chord patterns! Also, is it covers or originals? If it's originals, can you change the bass parts to what you want to play? I had this situation recently and without music/tab to go off, I wasn't going to play someone else's basslines when I was coming up with things that IMO were better suited to the song (and of course my style of playing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christhammer666 Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 its all originals.he has recorded bass on the demos but has said for me to come up with my own stuff (he must be mad) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHimself Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 (edited) [quote name='christhammer666' post='1342497' date='Aug 16 2011, 10:25 PM']its all originals.he has recorded bass on the demos but has said for me to come up with my own stuff (he must be mad) [/quote] So you're not really learning basslines, but coming up with them? That's a different kettle of fish. Edited August 16, 2011 by EdwardHimself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icastle Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 I was approached a few months back to play bass on a rock theatrical piece based on a Belgian fairy tale (yeah, it happens all the time in my world! ). There's about 45 mins of material and I was given carte blanche to do whatever I wanted with it. I played it in the car for a few days to get an idea of what was going on and then spent about an hour reading the fairy story and relating the story back to the music. Some of the bass lines were ok with a bit of a tweak here and there, others needed a complete rewrite as they jarred with the scene\music. Excluding the driving time, I guess I spent about three hours on it. The composer has more or less organised musicians and rehearsals start in October, the cast will be picked in May with a Belgian tour pencilled in next summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Vader Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 About 20 minutes to come up with something workable. Then the rest of the song's gigging life tweaking and playing with it til it works. (Never sounds the same live as it does on a demo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Depends. When I play gigs, it is now unknown for me to not know the tune as it is being counted in. One chorus later I have a sense of it, two chorsus in, I'm pretty much there and aat three, we are home and dry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc2009 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 The other thing is of course the type of music, if it's tech death metal with time sig changes and runs going out of key and all over the place then it'll probably take a while to do. If it's 4/4 indie with 3 x 4-chord-patterns per song then you'll probably have it down in 5 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christhammer666 Posted August 17, 2011 Author Share Posted August 17, 2011 out of 6 six learn/write bass parts for i have got 2 down 100% even wthout looking at the tabs i have written give me a little glimmer of confidence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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