Hardest thing to play on bass

[GravitonSelfIntetactionXD]

The title is pretty much self-explanatory "What do you guys think is the hardest piece of music to play on an electric bass?". There aren't any restrictions, songs from any music genre(even classical music) will do and the piece doesn't have to be originally composed for electric bass. I know this question is largely opinion based and that's why I'm asking for YOUR OPINIONS xd. 

[Stylon Pilson]

I tell you, I've been trying to play "Three Blind Mice" for the last 19 years and still haven't mastered it. So I'm going to say that one.

S.P.

[KiOgon]

I reckon if you can master Hit me with your rythm stick, you can give yourself a gold medal 😃

[paul_c2]

Wasn't "Hit me with your rhythm stick" Grade 7 on one of the exam syllabuses, I think the Trinity one? And there's a whole bunch of Grade 8 tunes. And stuff harder than that, obviously, too, out there.

[Twigman]

Anything that involves slapping - a technique that I find impossible - but that's not really bass playing, is it? It's just making a racket.

 

[Doctor J]

If you can play the stuff on Unquestionable Presence or Control And Resistance, you’re alright in my book.

[miles'tone]

Havona - Weather Report. 

Far beyond where I'll ever get to! 

[BassTractor]

...and we have a winner:
Karlheinz Stockhausen: "Gesang der Jünglinge".
Incredibly hard to play on an electric bass.

I'd seriously like to know whether this thread has a goal, an aim or a purpose.

[GravitonSelfIntetactionXD]

4 minutes ago, BassTractor said:

I'd seriously like to know whether this thread has a goal, an aim or a purpose.

No, not at all xd

[GravitonSelfIntetactionXD]

Flight of the bumblebee is pretty hard, not the hardest but pretty hard

[NancyJohnson]

2 hours ago, Twigman said:

Anything that involves slapping - a technique that I find impossible - but that's not really bass playing, is it? It's just making a racket.

 

 

[paul_5]

Anything by the Eagles; just can’t bear them.

[SICbass]

Tastefully.

[Bassassin]

1 hour ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

A wise man* once said: "A gentleman is a man who can play slap bass. And doesn't."

 

*Actually, it was me, so for "wise man" read "blithering simpleton".

[jacko]

3 hours ago, GravitonSelfIntetactionXD said:

Flight of the bumblebee is pretty hard, not the hardest but pretty hard

Look up Sarah Jefferey playing it on her team recorder youtube channel. Makes it look a piece of fosters on an instrument usually reserved for primary school kids (and me  )

 

[itu]

Paganini, but that is violin stuff and thus very hard.

Dragonetti - the Paganini of bass - has done kinky stuff for double bass.

Edgar Meyer and Niels-Henning Ørstedt-Pedersen have played some very hard arrangements. A local record reviewer had a doubt that NHØP was actually two persons playing two basses...

A young player may find it hard to play rests, or long enough notes, or legato. I still do have issues with all three.

[Nicko]

A bass solo that engages an audience?

[Unknown_User]

Of the things I have actually learned how to play/can get near to playing, I would say "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5.  Mainly because of that middle eight bit.  After a couple of goes round that at full speed the fingers on my fretting hand tend to be tied in knots!

[la bam]

Anything, with a dodgy drummer.

[Newfoundfreedom]

Football

[oldslapper]

Non magnetic scrabble

[Stub Mandrel]

I find learning complex stuff harder than playing it, if that makes sense? The fingers are faster than the brain...

 

[fleabag]

Get yer teef into this 12+ minute wotsit

 

[BreadBin]

30 minutes ago, fleabag said:

Get yer teef into this 12+ minute wotsit

 

Also a good reminder of just how good Phil Collins was back in the day. 👍

[fleabag]

Couldnt agree more. Phenomenal tubbist.