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05-04-2005, 11:04 AM
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forgive me if this has been posted already, and delete it if it needs to be, but since the tommy the cat thread i had been wondering what primus songs you all consider harder? For me, it is...
1. is it luck?
2. hamburger train
tommy the cat is somewhere in the mix of those two for me. |
05-04-2005, 01:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Orlando, FL | | | Yeah, Tommy the Cat is one hard friggin' song. I made the mistake of choosing it at random for the first slapping song I learned. I new that Claypool was a prime slapper, unfortunately that was the song I just kinda picked out of a hat. I was so discouraged, I didn't slap for like a month. |
05-04-2005, 03:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Montreal QC CA | | | +1 on Hamburger Train |
05-05-2005, 09:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New York, NY | | | is it luck is deffintly one i have much trouble with, if you took out all the hammer-ons and pop-offs i could play it no problem, but o well, i never tryed to play hamburger train, i figured the whole thing sounded kind of improvisational and its long as hell. Tommy the cat becomes not so hard to play if you don't worry about playing it exactly correct, most people wont notice the differnce
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05-05-2005, 02:41 PM
| | Howzit brah | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Kauai, HI | | | Yeah, I think you really need a tremolo to make Is It Luck sound like it does on the cd.
A few notes Les gives:
"I play it on the 4-string. I hold on to the whammy bar while I slap, which gives it a real weird sound. It's all on the D and G strings, and the second bar is the same as the first, but up a half-step."
Another note: Les uses standard tuning, but instead of standard strings on his 4-string, he uses two A's and two G's to help out with his chords.
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05-05-2005, 11:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Amherst, NY | | | 2 A's and 2 G's = easier bends, taps and slap
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05-06-2005, 11:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Clawson, MI | | | Talk about wierd tension and string to string balancing. I'd never do that on my bass, but I'm also not sponsered by any string manufacturers, so...
I don't really like the riff from Is It Luck?. Sounds like a really tiny exerpt from a Wooten solo or something.
-Eric.
P.S. - I love Wooten. |
05-06-2005, 11:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: montreal, qc, Canada | | | Tommy the Cat in itself is not that bad once you have it down. If you can get someone to teach you the right way to do it (like my bass teacher did) you can practice at slow speeds until the act becomes automatic. The only parts that are weird are the octave up/down parts that I have to transpose on my 4 string, meaning playing high up, and the solo section that still eludes me completely.
Personally, I find the tapping stuff more difficult, but that's because I'm not a tremendous tapper. I can hobble my way through DMV but I miss most of the fills and it sounds a bit sloppy.
Hamburger Train is an impressive one that I don't see mentioned often. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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