Getting up to speed on Wolfmother - 'Woman'

[julietgreen]

The band in which I play bass (at only an intermediate level, since I'm mainly a saxophonist) wants to do a cover of this. I'm definitely not up to speed with the triplets in the interlude, though the others parts are coming. Is there any advice other than keep going till it's faster? I'm concerned that bad technique will prevent me from ever playing at speed.

[dannybuoy]

How are you playing it? You can play it faster if you play with pull-offs and hammer-ons as low down the neck as possible.

Gonna attempt some tab from the top of my head:

[font=courier new,courier,monospace]---------------------------------[/font]
[font=courier new,courier,monospace]---------------------------------[/font]
[font=courier new,courier,monospace]-----5--------5--------5--------7[/font]
[font=courier new,courier,monospace]0^5^7----0^5^7----0^5^7----0^5^7- (this bit needs lots of stamina during the keyboard solo!)[/font]

[font=courier new,courier,monospace]---------------------------------
-2^0-0------------2^0-0----------
----2-2^0-2^0-0------2-2^0-2^0---
-------------3----------------3^0[/font]

Edited February 23, 2013 by dannybuoy

[julietgreen]

Hmmm - hadn't thought of that. I've been trying something along the lines of ...

[b]--------------------[/b]
--------------------
[b]7-5---5-------------[/b]
[b]----7---7-5-7-5-3-5-[/b]
and since my hands aren't huge, been having to use little finger on the 7th fret. I shall have a go at that suggestion, Danny, ta.

[ben604]

We play this, takes some time to get up to speed, practice is the only way... with the band too, it's getting back into the little run down to the verse that's hard to get right together.

[julietgreen]

Well Ben, do you have any advice on the fretting and the fingering of this? I can't make up my mind whether to try to hit all the notes or pull off on some. Gonna try Danny's suggestion, but I'm sometimes slower on open strings than on fretted...