Counting Chickens

[stewblack]

Learn "Forget You" by something called Cee Lo Green they said. Is that a band? A person? I wondered. Never mind let's have a listen. Ah good, given my hectic learning schedule a nice repeated three chord pattern is just what I need. I like days like these, they make up for the 'now let's learn Everybody Dance' days.

Then, just as I'm smiling at myself for having essentially learned the bassline during my first ever listen to the tune, just under three minutes in and the bloody bass player wakes up and decides he's bored. Never count your tofu until it curdles folks.

[la bam]

Yep. That solo hiys you out of the blue.

You really need your drummer to nail that part properly to allow you to do it.

[stingrayPete1977]

I gave up on that one in the end, lol.

[SpondonBassed]

Aw.

I thought this was a follow up to KFC's chicken shortage last month!

[casapete]

Make sure your bass is in tune beforehand, or it may end up sounding like this!

'Forget You' starts around 3.50. Don't say you've not been warned.........................

[fleabag]

If we're on about Chickens ...

 

[BassTractor]

6 hours ago, fleabag said:

If we're on about Chickens ...

Classic! There is or was also a version without any text, which I thought to be even funnier.

[stewblack]

7 hours ago, casapete said:

Make sure your bass is in tune beforehand, or it may end up sounding like this!

'Forget You' starts around 3.50. Don't say you've not been warned.........................

Eeeeeeeeew

[stewblack]

10 hours ago, la bam said:

Yep. That solo hiys you out of the blue.

You really need your drummer to nail that part properly to allow you to do it.

Interesting you say that, another tune we do has a couple of lovely bass runs which I can play pretty nicely on my own or with the original recording yet when I've played it in rehearsal they never quite work. I suspect the drummer and I need to spend a little bit of time together on them. Perhaps their old bassist played something different.

[SpondonBassed]

8 hours ago, casapete said:

Make sure your bass is in tune beforehand, or it may end up sounding like this!

'Forget You' starts around 3.50. Don't say you've not been warned.........................

Gosh, snippy.

[Oopsdabassist]

I got distracted by the drummers hair wafting in the breeze of her fan..why was I watching this again?

[SpondonBassed]

46 minutes ago, stewblack said:

Interesting you say that, another tune we do has a couple of lovely bass runs which I can play pretty nicely on my own or with the original recording yet when I've played it in rehearsal they never quite work. I suspect the drummer and I need to spend a little bit of time together on them. Perhaps their old bassist played something different.

I've been hoping to corner a local drummer just to do drum and bass sessions for practice.  No luck yet.  I've had a few false promises though.

[SpondonBassed]

7 minutes ago, Oopsdabassist said:

I got distracted by the drummers hair wafting in the breeze of her fan..why was I watching this again?

Because it reminded you of this?

[Oopsdabassist]

that'll be it