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No idea if this is the correct forum, cant make my mind up which one to post in sorry. Anywho. The famous track [i]Love will tear us apart[/i]. by [i]Joy Division[/i]. I looked it up on one of the many bass tab sites and find that people not even 100% sure that its a bass doing the main groove. Certainly sounds like Hooky to me. However apparently he appears to be playing chords on the bass in many instances ie: hitting E & A together i think, on the intro. Can anyone out there confirm this? I tried it and it sounds like my efforts on an old acoustic i used to own ie: awful. Can anyone tell me whats going on in this track. Even better would be if anyone has it in bass clef instead of tab.

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[quote name='daz' post='807391' date='Apr 15 2010, 05:18 PM']No idea if this is the correct forum, cant make my mind up which one to post in sorry. Anywho. The famous track [i]Love will tear us apart[/i]. by [i]Joy Division[/i]. I looked it up on one of the many bass tab sites and find that people not even 100% sure that its a bass doing the main groove. Certainly sounds like Hooky to me. However apparently he appears to be playing chords on the bass in many instances ie: hitting E & A together i think, on the intro. Can anyone out there confirm this? I tried it and it sounds like my efforts on an old acoustic i used to own ie: awful. Can anyone tell me whats going on in this track. Even better would be if anyone has it in bass clef instead of tab.[/quote]

He used an 8 string Sheargold for it I think

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[quote name='keeponehandloose' post='807410' date='Apr 15 2010, 05:32 PM']Pick out the melody on the G string ,all the time playing open D as a drone note.
Fist note is E on the G string with open D.[/quote]

This footage of Hooky playing it at a benefit gig shows the fingering pretty clearly - I always thought he did the drone on D too, but I don't think he is here, as he drops down to play the final few notes of the riff on the D: -

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8BdAUXfO18"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8BdAUXfO18[/url]

The intro/bridge bit is an A - looks like he's doing the octave & fifth as a chord.

Cheers,

B.

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[quote name='benebass' timestamp='1271540499' post='809910'] This footage of Hooky playing it at a benefit gig shows the fingering pretty clearly - I always thought he did the drone on D too, but I don't think he is here, as he drops down to play the final few notes of the riff on the D: - [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8BdAUXfO18"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8BdAUXfO18[/url] The intro/bridge bit is an A - looks like he's doing the octave & fifth as a chord. Cheers, B. [/quote]

I love the original but that really strikes me as a dire cover. Pete Hook obviously giving it his all but a stiff backing band and dire singer don't help things.

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