The Pretender - Foo Fighters

[Nicko]

Technically not much too it, not many notes either, or even anything particularly fast. Its a bit difficult actually picking the bass up in the mix and an absolute b*****rd to play properly. That is all.

[HMX]

This should help you. I love jamming to this one!
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT7075UsAQk[/media]

Edited January 19, 2016 by HMX

[danbanbass]

Bloody good fun to play though, sometimes the best bass lines are subtle :-)

[PaulWarning]

thought it was Foo's tribute band for a minute I use audacity to it slow down and raise the pitch by an octive it really makes the bass stand out in the mix

[Graham]

I really like playing Long Road To Ruin from this album, really nice bass in it, nothing flashy, just works

[Subbeh]

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I really like playing Long Road To Ruin from this album, really nice bass in it, nothing flashy, just works
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Really fun and satisfying tune to play that one, I didn't really care for the song until I learned the bass part.

[Graham]

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Really fun and satisfying tune to play that one, I didn't really care for the song until I learned the bass part.
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I was much the same

[spongebob]

Used to gig this in a covers band a few years back.

Band were all really happy when we finally perfected it - good fun song to play.

[Happy Jack]

Bit tricky to replicate the fire hoses in a pub band though ...

[Roger2611]

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1453222062' post='2957579']
I really like playing Long Road To Ruin from this album, really nice bass in it, nothing flashy, just works
[/quote]

Great song, we used to play it in the covers band, never went down well for some reason so sadly we dropped it but it was one i really liked playing, we were doing Times Like These which stayed around in the set longer than any other Foo's songs we played, I would certainly look at The Pretender in future covers bands

[Mudpup]

We rotate Learning to Fly, Times like These and The Pretender - love playing them all. Just really good songs i think - some plain and simple and some with crafty subtle bits. Rope is fun too........

[Urban Bassman]

I loved learning the bass part for this one. I also used a volume to pedal to mimic the cello part at the start of the song. Sadly our singer couldn't manage the vocals so it never sounded right and we had to reluctantly drop it. One day I'd love do it agin. We used to do Times Like These and DOA, which were great fun to play.

[seashell]

Although not a huge Foo Fighters fan I absolutely love The Pretender. We tried it with my old band, but never got past the rehearsal stage. I used to love playing the bass line or singing BVs on it, but doing both together was a bit beyond me.
Plus the rest of the band found it a bit challenging too, so we never got it out of the rehearsal room
Shame, I would have loved to have done it.

[Lozz196]

Tried it in a sort of band I was paying with, but as we didn`t have vocals it was very easy to get lost on the structure. Shame, great song, and great fun to play along to at home.

[chrisba]

We did The Pretender in my previous covers band. Performed it live many times, always went down well. Didn't slavishly follow the original bass line, concentrated on getting the rhythm right, Lots of sliding down the E string. Our female BV took lead on that, suited her voice well.