Another Mick Karn bassline help question?

[mentalextra]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W14YmRABFFg[/media]

Mick Karn playing Dalis car. Can any "Basschat gods" help me get a handle on playing this. Obviously no tabs available! . I cant seem to get exactly what he is doing from 0:54s Its not that it seems technically difficult but its sounds wrong when I play? There must be more going on than is obvious, or is it down to the Wal?

Help?

[Laurence]

Here's a tab for it off his site: http://www.mickkarn.net/igallery/igallery.asp?d=collaborationdalis_car

[mentalextra]

[i]Good find![/i]

[i]That'll keep me busy! [/i]

[Lozz196]

Don`t like the tone much, but the playing - wow!

[mentalextra]

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Don`t like the tone much, but the playing - wow!
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Yeah, I agree about the tone. I did think it was down to the recording though. He seems to play with straight fingers and sort of press the strings, weird!

Shame she didnt shut up!

Edited November 8, 2011 by mentalextra

[xilddx]

I just had a quick crack at trying to work out the main riff and I think what you've got are little ghost notes, just whispers, of the open strings between the main riff notes as he changes string. They are sort of random and peculiar to his playing style I think. They are not diatonic really so they are hard to pick up just by listening, and because you rest the finger pad on the string as you pass to the next string, the note barely sounds but it seems intrinsic to the riff sounding more interesting than it actually is. I think he may do a damped pull-off to the open A (on the A string) before the final F sharp - G sharp hammer on before the low open E. But not every time.

No normal tab or notation will give you these expression elements. It's a lovely riff to play actually, very natural and expressive once it's under your fingers.

Of course I may be completely wrong

Edited November 9, 2011 by silddx

[mentalextra]

I agree completely. While you are in the Karn mood, have a crack at this!

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Gqqb3IPmU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Gqqb3IPmU[/url]