What song are you learning?

[Jonesy]

4 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

You’re gonna need a Red Bull subscription to keep up with that 😂

There's a bit, about 2 mins I to that vid, where Troy just shakes his right hand. I might need a support! 

[Piers_Williamson]

11 minutes ago, Jonesy said:

There's a bit, about 2 mins I to that vid, where Troy just shakes his right hand. I might need a support! 

Watching it has made me want to go and learn it.  I must be a masochist

[Killerfridge]

I'm enjoying learning/transcribing No Way by Alain Caron:

 

 

 

 

[Agent 00Soul]

5 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

No we don’t have any singers in this band, instrumental only

 

That's really cool.  My last band was also instrumental and I loved it.

[steantval]

Thought I would have a crack at I Wish by Stevie Wonder, finding it tough, so repetitive, drop a note and you are totally out of sync, struggling to play it at the tempo with full accuracy, I think I’m at 90% of the tempo after spending thirty minutes on it.

Phew.

 

[Buddster]

Persevere. It's worth it. It's great line to play once you've locked it in. 

[Woodinblack]

It is - its one of those lines that you can use for warming up or just testing a bass out

[Grooverjr]

 

2 hours ago, steantval said:

Thought I would have a crack at I Wish by Stevie Wonder, finding it tough, so repetitive, drop a note and you are totally out of sync, struggling to play it at the tempo with full accuracy, I think I’m at 90% of the tempo after spending thirty minutes on it.

Phew.

 

 

I Wish is a great line and loads of fun to play. Easy to get it  most of the way there but the feel is tricky, as is nailing the sound. Those mad upper octave slide wigout things are very cool when you get them right and make you look a total chump if you get it slightly off. SBL did a YouTube vid on it a couple of years ago that was good for breaking down the little bridge bit in the middle and for general advice on feel that you might want to check out. 

[NoRhino]

We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals

Mama Don’t- JJ. Cale

Is There A Better Way - Status Quo

 

[Stub Mandrel]

34 minutes ago, NoRhino said:

We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals

 

 

Check out the Alice Cooper arrangement, much more fun with a key change that drives it forwards 🙂

 

[bass_dinger]

On 24/03/2025 at 22:28, steantval said:

Thought I would have a crack at I Wish by Stevie Wonder, finding it tough, so repetitive, drop a note and you are totally out of sync, struggling to play it at the tempo with full accuracy, I think I’m at 90% of the tempo after spending thirty minutes on it.

Phew.

 

It's a hard line - every not counts, and terrific fun.

 

Here, a version with the "weww-weww-weww" slides. I think that I am ready to try that extra bit, having learned the line a few years back. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tony_m]

Having worked up Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" and Joe Walsh's "One Day at a Time" over the last couple of rehearsals, we (Rascallion) have decided to take a detour into Steve Miller Band territory, so "The Joker" and "Rock'n Me" are now installed on the faithful Tascam MP-BT1 ready to have a go at.

[Fishfacefour]

On 26/03/2025 at 15:22, bass_dinger said:

It's a hard line - every not counts, and terrific fun.

 

Here, a version with the "weww-weww-weww" slides. I think that I am ready to try that extra bit, having learned the line a few years back. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had to give this a go last night. Lots of fun! 

[Jolltax]

Dani California (RHCP) - putting the main riff on a loop and practicing the fills between each cycle 

Save a Prayer (Duran Duran) - so nice to play, the bass line is almost the melody 

Le Freak (Chic)  - I can get up to speed, but how long can I stay there and will I last the whole 5m27?  .... No.  Can I do the fills , also frankly no ....  ? If you click the link you can see Tom do it properly 

Hungry like the Wolf (Duren Duran) - fun when I get tired after the above

 

J

Edited March 28 by Jolltax

[Sean]

27 minutes ago, Jolltax said:

 

Hungry like the Wolf (Duran Duran) - fun when I get tired after the above

 

J

 

That’s on my learn list for the next few days. One of the few on the list I’ve never played before. After that it’ll be Bohemian Rhapsody.

[Stub Mandrel]

On 28/03/2025 at 13:21, Jolltax said:

Hungry like the Wolf (Duren Duran) - fun when I get tired after the above

 

Our soundcheck song.

[odysseus]

You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC

Ace Of spades by Motorhead

Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi

 

And I'm learning them all on guitar. Yes kids, I've moved over to the dark side again! I'm not bad on rhythm guitar, but I've never really experimented much with the widdy-widdly, so I'm learning these songs mainly because the solos are reasonably achievable.  I bought myself a USA Strat a couple of weeks ago to give me the motivation.

 

 

[Piers_Williamson]

On 26/03/2025 at 15:22, bass_dinger said:

It's a hard line - every not counts, and terrific fun.

 

Here, a version with the "weww-weww-weww" slides. I think that I am ready to try that extra bit, having learned the line a few years back. 

 

 

I tried to play this all in one position, down by the nut for ages, but you are right, if you miss a note, you are screwed.  Much easier with the slides, even if you revert to playing the walking Bb part down the bottom.  My little finger will thank you for this post!

 

 

 

 

[Woodinblack]

Lots of metal songs, started playing with another band so several linkin park songs, audioslave, Muse, Slipnot, Metallica etc.

[Stub Mandrel]

Going to be helping out a band whose bassist is expermenting with moving to keys (pressure!) Mostly songs I know (or thought I knew!)