Is there a bass line that you just couldnt do?

[Bass_In_Yer_Face]

I've always been flabbergasted by Norman Watt Roy on "Hit Me With Your Rythmn Stick"

Having seen the guys on youtube playing it, I can safely say that if I played till I was 100 years old I still couldn't play it!

[Jam]

I love the old metallica stuff but I just don't have the time, patience or skill to do master of puppets or battery. Yes Yes I know someone out there is saying "what, you suck, they're easy" but yeah..

[paul, the]

I could never play Higher Ground properly in the trib' band and I like to kid myself that I can play For Once In My Life.

Edited September 27, 2007 by paul, the

[grosa]

zenders mr moon had me for years until i figured it out,still nothin on the master zender

thers loads i jam to and they still have me off everytime with something,what keeps me goin i recks

that ian dury one is a fiddly one innit?

[grosa]

also does anyone know who the bassist was with linda tillery during the tune of freedom time?????
its a fu**ing loveley tune proper soul jazz funk stuff,makes me go funny

[low note lee]

YYZ - Rush. I can't play that with a pick, let alone fingers.

[john_the_bass]

we've (bizarrely) been asked to do a wedding in November and have to learn some covers. I'm struggling with going underground by the Jam and have resorted to winging it now - I've only spent about 5 hours on it and it's not bad, but I can't get the rhythms spot on - it shifts between 3/4, 4/4 and 5/4

[Machines]

[quote name='Jam' post='66243' date='Sep 27 2007, 01:20 AM']I love the old metallica stuff but I just don't have the time, patience or skill to do master of puppets or battery. Yes Yes I know someone out there is saying "what, you suck, they're easy" but yeah..[/quote]

My band cover MoP. I find the most part of it fairly straight forward, but there are a few parts I just can't nail, but no-one can hear me anyway .

I find Dream Theater stuff to be almost impossible to play through a whole song.. there's always some part that will totally own me.

[gilmour]

[quote name='grosa' post='66254' date='Sep 27 2007, 02:32 AM']zenders mr moon had me for years until i figured it out,still nothin on the master zender[/quote]
+1 on Zender - there are some awesome lines on early Jamiroquai stuff, I always find the phrasing in Virtual Insanity tricky.

Worst is Jaco - I can spend hours tryng to nail his stuff

[fleamail]

Jaco!

You can never come close to his tunes

[tredders]

[quote name='Bass_In_Yer_Face' post='66222' date='Sep 27 2007, 12:38 AM']I've always been flabbergasted by Norman Watt Roy on "Hit Me With Your Rythmn Stick"

Having seen the guys on youtube playing it, I can safely say that if I played till I was 100 years old I still couldn't play it! [/quote]

What he said! Great bassline, which I will never be able to play!

I'm always stunned (and slightly humbled) whenever I see Youtube clips of some of the guys on here playing. There's a lot of talent around here....

Mark.

[guitarnbass]

stevie wonder tune black man is tricky, I can do it now but it took ages.

[Hamster]

Funnily enough, I can manage something like Norman's rythmn stick, but I've never really cracked For Once In My Life. I'm gonna have another go at nailing it this evening!!!

Hamster

[bottomfeed]

although I can play the notes...in the right order... (almost!) at the right tempo.... I just can't get the 'feel' of Rocco on 'Funk the dumb stuff'
tightness like a schoolboys wallet!!...










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[niceguyhomer]

Bootsy Collins' Sex Machine - I'm 90% there but I can't play it properly at the right speed.

[SJA]

lots of Billy Sheehan, John/Juan Alderete, John Myung fast shredding stuff, and Jaco.

[Dood]

'When Doves Cry' by Prince. has me stumped everytime lol lol...

[bubinga5]

Incognito's Jacobs Ladder is fairly hard.

Played by this master!!

[bassmandan]

"I Wish" by Stevie Wonder, I can play it but [u]I wish[/u] it didn't reduce me to tears, doubled up in a contorted state of RSI induced agony by the end of the song!

[Phaedrus]

Just one?

The ones I [i]can[/i] play are in my band's set-list . . .

Can't but would dearly love to?

YYZ - Geddy
Teen Town - Jaco
Havona - Jaco
I Need More Love - Robert Randolph Band
Lucretia McEvil - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Mr Pink by Level 42

So many more...

Mark

[Phaedrus]

[quote name='bottomfeed' post='66305' date='Sep 27 2007, 10:16 AM']tightness like a schoolboys ****!!... [/quote]

Call me a prude (I'm not), but IMO that's inappropriate - smilies or no smilies.

Mark

[gilmour]

[quote name='Phaedrus' post='66428' date='Sep 27 2007, 02:32 PM']Just one?

The ones I [i]can[/i] play are in my band's set-list . . .

Can't but would dearly love to?

YYZ - Geddy
Teen Town - Jaco
Havona - Jaco
I Need More Love - Robert Randolph Band
Lucretia McEvil - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Mr Pink by Level 42

So many more...

Mark[/quote]


ahhh.... Teen Town.

I spent a whole day from 10am - 10pm learning that, I can play about 30 seconds of it

[Dood]

[quote name='Phaedrus' post='66433' date='Sep 27 2007, 02:37 PM']Call me a prude (I'm not), but IMO that's inappropriate - smilies or no smilies.

Mark[/quote]

Actually I agree. I'm sure you won't mind if I edit that one

[Guest subaudio]

There's load's of techno and jazz stuff I couldn't play, but the "day to day" stuff I could never get Billy Jean by Michael Jackson right, easiest Bline in the world but it just went on forever and then a mid 8 jumps out of nowhere, caught me every time.

[Jase]

Too many to list