Highway Star Bass solo? Help!

[manwiththedogs]

I`ve been asked to play the organ solo in Deep Purple`s Highway Star as a bass part, and honestly, it`s giving me fits. It starts out easy enough, but soon breaks into these 16th note arpeggios. The only solution I`ve come up with that sounds even close is a tapping pattern on the G string. Problem is the stretch is killing my left hand
Anyone here tackled this or even something similar? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated

[JimmyM]

organs are definitely easier than basses for parts like that. I would load up on distortion and play something close

[manwiththedogs]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

organs are definitely easier than basses for parts like that. I would load up on distortion and play something close

Yeah, I`m just gonna try and get as close as I can and hope it passes...

Thanks for responding, btw.

[seequeue]

for quick 3 note arpeggios like that, I've found the easiest way to play it is:

------11------
---12----12---
14----------14

instead of playing it on just 2 strings or trying to tap it on one string. It's a very common motif (for me anyways) to go up and down three strings very quickly with 2 fingers this way, so it's always a good technique to practice. The alternative I would do is:

--7-11-7-
9---------9

but this requires more stretch, and it's harder to play as fast (I usually use 3 fingers to keep it up to a fast tempo). Depending on how close your gig(s) is, I would try to cut out the last note in the arpeggio and just play triplets for ease, but both the above fingerings I mentioned are really good to learn for future circumstances

[manwiththedogs]

Originally Posted by seequeue

for quick 3 note arpeggios like that, I've found the easiest way to play it is:

------11------
---12----12---
14----------14

instead of playing it on just 2 strings or trying to tap it on one string. It's a very common motif (for me anyways) to go up and down three strings very quickly with 2 fingers this way, so it's always a good technique to practice. The alternative I would do is:

--7-11-7-
9---------9

but this requires more stretch, and it's harder to play as fast (I usually use 3 fingers to keep it up to a fast tempo). Depending on how close your gig(s) is, I would try to cut out the last note in the arpeggio and just play triplets for ease, but both the above fingerings I mentioned are really good to learn for future circumstances

Ok, I`ll try both of these. I`ve got till 12/20 so between tapping and the techniques you guys mentioned I should be able to get something going.
Thanks for the advice