Can anyone help with this? Frustrated :(

[xilddx]

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1379239759' post='2210072']
He`d have got two Warwicks?
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[Marvin]

It's a Jamiroquoi song???

Yeesh. Easy then...move on to something else

[Lowender]

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1379235251' post='2210014']
Dammit I can't even tell what that girl's RH fingers are doing. YouTube slow-downer anyone? She has a nice tone too.
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She's doing II: index/index/middle/index :II It works, though II: index/middle/index/index:II falls a little easier for me.

[stingrayPete1977]

[quote name='Jack Cahalane' timestamp='1379239117' post='2210060']


Let's find out, do you have a string vest I can borrow?
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I can chuck in the black SR5 if it helps?

[pete.young]

Index index middle for me. Wouldn't do index middle index because you've got a lot less time to go down to the E string than you have to go up to the D string.

Or chuck it like Bernard, down down-up.

[TimR]

Let the amp do the work. Turn it up and lighten right off the touch. Start slow and PRACTICE. There are no easy ways.

[Evil Undead]

Thanks for all the replies most grateful.

I've been working on it today, and there's an improvement. Not much yet, granted, but slowly. I shall get there.

Thanks again

[charic]

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1379185667' post='2209676']
Not happy with some of the advice so far... tapping!? WtF?
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[size=4]Two handed tapping would have been my approach if I couldn't match the tempo with the octave jump. Makes perfect sense[/size]

[JapanAxe]

Feeling a bit cross with myself that I compromised on this bit of technique. I recall when I moved from plectrum to fingerstyle - it just seemed impossible at first, but I kept at it it and one day it just clicked.

[tedmanzie]

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1379282610' post='2210923']
Thanks for all the replies most grateful.

I've been working on it today, and there's an improvement. Not much yet, granted, but slowly. I shall get there.

Thanks again
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I'm often in these kind of situations.
I like to remind myself of Homer Simpson's advice -
"If at first you don't succeed, give up."

[Musicman20]

Just keep at it...slow it down...get it right slow, then speed up. Trust me, this applies to virtually all of us on here I think.

[tauzero]

[quote name='Evil Undead' timestamp='1379181486' post='2209613']
I'm horrible with a pick. Awful
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It's no bad thing to improve your plectrum playing. If you have more than one plucking style available, it does mean you can [size=3]take[/size] [size=2]your[/size] [size=1]pick...[/size]

[Conan]

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1379325069' post='2211174']
Just keep at it...slow it down...get it right slow, then speed up. Trust me, this applies to virtually all of us on here I think.
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Absolutely! I remember learning Muse's Hysteria for an audition a few years ago. Took me ages until I slowed it down. Once I Had the notes I could gradually speed it up again. Now I can play it faster than necessary, which is, of course, unnecessary.

[stingrayPete1977]

I just tried it at 100 bpm (what bpm is it at?) I went for low F# with my 1st finger then octave with my 2nd then 1st to finish and repeat.

[Fat Rich]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1379351402' post='2211599']
I just tried it at 100 bpm (what bpm is it at?) I went for low F# with my 1st finger then octave with my 2nd then 1st to finish and repeat.
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Have a go at doing the 1st finger stuff in one raking motion (muting the A string so it doesn't sound) and your 1st finger is in position to play the low note again. It turns it into a sort of rakey galloppy 1>2>1>2 alternating finger line rather than a 1>2>1>1>2>1 line.

Oddly I find it hard slowed down but up to the tempo of the song it's easier.

Edit: I'm guessing BPM is around 125 to 130ish

Edited September 16, 2013 by Fat Rich

[stingrayPete1977]

Ah yes I see nice one Rich! Confused me at first you mean play the last 16th (semiquaver if your not American at home). I just watched Marta's version again for scientific reasons you know and I tapped it at about 125 bmp on my metronome too, very good

[Fat Rich]

Hard to explain in words, but I know what I mean!

I'm playing strictly alternating finger but I'm playing two notes with the first finger by raking. First time round you'll need to play the root with your 1st finger but then:

The first of the octaves with the 2nd finger.
The second of the octaves and the root in one movement with the first finger.
etc.

That might be even more confusing than what I wrote before

[stingrayPete1977]

Nope I have got ya, its good

[Norm]

yarp, that bubbly disco lick is a tricky feel to get. I copied what the Spanish lass is doing (sorry, Marta ;-) ) & after a while it got a bit easier, still way off but easier. She plays it very well & has that funk down! Good track, lots of neat basslines in Jamiroquai stuff, whoeverso is on bass but spesh Zender, he's the beanz!
You'll have us all learning this. Going to have to practice hard before i unleash this as a rehearsal warm up, ha ha!

[Lowender]

I wish I liked Jamiroquai more since their basslines are always fun and grooving. I just think the music is horrible.

[risingson]

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1379316245' post='2211052']
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Two handed tapping would have been my approach if I couldn't match the tempo with the octave jump. Makes perfect sense
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It depends on the context and I would say the majority of the time, tapping is absolutely not the way to approach lines like this one. It's actually making me shudder a bit!

It's a case of grabbing a metronome, slowing things right down and gradually speeding things up until it becomes unmanageable again, at which stage drop the tempo back and repeat. There isn't a quick way to get round straight forward, good old fashioned practice and stuff doesn't happen overnight!

EDIT - just grabbed my bass to see how I do it, index finger on the lower note, index + middle on the octave.

Edited September 17, 2013 by risingson