Has any Song Totally Defeated You?

[Kirky]

For Once In My Life.  I had to learn it for a wedding once.   Totally random, and then it changes key and the randomness continues.   And Rhythm Stick, it's the plucking hand that defeats me.  

[diskwave]

19 hours ago, casapete said:

Great tune / bassline. Their follow up single ‘Can’t get by without’ had a similar and arguably

better bass part too.

 I think that could be the one I meant, tho Ive played both and equally testy.. Its those beamed 16ths all over the place.. haha. Cheers.

[Bassassin]

On 02/04/2025 at 08:41, NancyJohnson said:

While a lot of people may define defeatism as something that John Myung might record, insofar as a body of work goes, there's a post-hardcore/alternative band called Shudder To Think where, despite every song being less than four minutes, there's a ton of stuff going on; bizzaro key changes, timing changes, guitars all over the place with a falsetto vocal capping it off.

 

Because things don't come across as being particularly cohesive, it's difficult to simply noodle along to if you have a bass to hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hadn't encountered this band before you posted that track, and having had a listen to Pony Express Record, the album this song's taken from - what an incredibly interesting band!

 

I very much doubt I'll be trying to learn any of the songs - like you say it's not really about technique, but I'm having a great time trying to get my head around what's going on compositionally & arrangement - wise. Such a lot to take in, I think I'll be coming back to this for a while. Thanks for posting that track!

[lowdown]

On 13/04/2025 at 15:26, itu said:

MM starts his solo @ 2.50. I didn't make it when my teacher gave it to me 30 years ago.

 

 

When that album came out, I couldn't stop playing it. 

Friends & Strangers was also the first Bass solo I ever transcribed.

I had gone over it so many times; it eventually fell naturally under my fingers.

 

It's a lovely, melodic solo from a young Marcus. Very lyrical.

[Sean]

On 06/04/2025 at 10:04, fergs40 said:

I would love to believe that some studio trickery was employed and that Mr Watt-Roy’s efforts were ‘assisted’. But this video suggests maybe not:

 

 

Back to the metronome…

That is mesmerising. Wow.