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11-01-2005, 10:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada | | | How does Stu Hamm do that?
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Can someone please explain to me exactly how to play Stu Hamm's "Country Music - A Night in Hell?" I'm fine with the double-tapping section. I don't understand how he plays the slapping bit. Somehow, it seems like he's got that country bassline going... "C G C G" on half notes, as well as the eighth-note "F#G G G F# G G G" thing on top of it. Is he double-slapping/popping the F#-G stuff on the D string, while tapping the half-note CGCG thing down on the A/E strings? That's the only way I can figure out how to do it. It's mighty difficult though, and I'm still lacking the sound he getse. Where does the popping fit in to all of this?? If someone who has succeeded in playing this could help me I'd greatly appreciate it 
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11-01-2005, 10:13 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | He taps the low C-G notes with his left index finger (A and E strings). At the same time, he hits the F# on the D string, 4th fret with his thumb (fretting the note with his ring finger), hammer to the G on the 5th fret with his pinky and then pops the open G string with his right middle finger.
Hope this helps. |
11-01-2005, 10:15 PM
|  | Four on the floor | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: 大和/Alyeska | | | Alvaro beat me to it, but if you can see a video of him playing it makes it a lot easier to understand what's going on. |
11-02-2005, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. He taps the low C-G notes with his left index finger (A and E strings). At the same time, he hits the F# on the D string, 4th fret with his thumb (fretting the note with his ring finger), hammer to the G on the 5th fret with his pinky and then pops the open G string with his right middle finger.
Hope this helps. | Nearly there..there's an extra beat...
"At the same time, he hits the F# on the D string, 4th fret with his thumb (fretting the note with his ring finger), hammer to the G on the 5th fret with his pinky Slaps the G on the 5th fret and then pops the open G string with his right middle finger"
ie: F# G(Hammer On...D string) G(Slap...5th fret D string) G(pop..open G string).
Hope this helps...
Murf
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11-02-2005, 03:13 PM
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11-02-2005, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Scottsdale, AZ | | | When he takes a break during the third minute of that video, doesn't it sound like half of the crowd is booing him? |
11-02-2005, 05:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Woodlands, Texas | | | I don't think tapping the C-G-C-G bassline while playing the slapping part is necessary. It's not really that audible even when he does it. |
11-02-2005, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Grueber I don't think tapping the C-G-C-G bassline while playing the slapping part is necessary. It's not really that audible even when he does it. | True..I've done the whole tune live and I started leaving out the the tapped c/g parts because the audience didint seem to notice whether I played them or not...now, the end piece with the dual left hand walking motion and right hand tapping is an absolute bitch to play up to speed.
thank you Stu Hamm bassbook.. 
(sadly not in print anymore..but you could try here...) http://fios.stuarthamm.net:8080/tabs/country_music.btab
(yeah its tab..but you get the idea)
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"A great bass player MAKES a great vocal happen while a mediocre one limits the singer. The bass player is like a pilot keeping the ship away from the rocks. It doesn't draw attention to its self but it's a great big pain when there's nothing wrong with a bass but nothing right about it either".
Bob Ohlsson, former Motown 'super' engineer.....the man responsible for THAT sound.
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11-02-2005, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by The Clap When he takes a break during the third minute of that video, doesn't it sound like half of the crowd is booing him? | They're 'Stuuuuuuuu-ing' him. |
11-02-2005, 10:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | Nice solo, whats that thing he plays when he first starts tappin, its on about 2:05 |
11-02-2005, 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by The Clap When he takes a break during the third minute of that video, doesn't it sound like half of the crowd is booing him? |
I haven't seen the video...but my guess is they're saying..."Stuuuuuuuu Stuuuuuuuuuu" |
11-03-2005, 12:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada | | | Ahhh, that makes a lot of sense
Thank you!
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11-03-2005, 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted by bassist 4 life Nice solo, whats that thing he plays when he first starts tappin, its on about 2:05 | That's the intro of a song called "Sexually Active" from his 1988 debut solo album "Radio Free Albemuth". |
11-04-2005, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. That's the intro of a song called "Sexually Active" from his 1988 debut solo album "Radio Free Albemuth". | And he explains how to play this intro on his second video. |
11-04-2005, 07:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | Know where I can get this video ur talking about? |
11-07-2005, 06:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Goldsboro / Raleigh NC | | | Hot Licks Videos, not sure of the site, but I have em both. Good stuff.
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11-09-2005, 03:24 AM
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Originally Posted by The_Ryst Hot Licks Videos, not sure of the site, but I have em both. Good stuff. | Well, hotlicks stuff is very hard to get hold of. The company has been through so many managment changes and cash flow problems I don't know where they are anymore. Arlen Roth's compnay has really been through the twister in the past few years.
I don't think the videos are made anymore, the ones that exist are stock and therefore limited, which has made getting hold of them tough (I've had people asking at Stuarthamm.net before, since I mod the forum). I made both of my videos into dvd's (for my own use only, you'll be glad to know) so I could preserve them.
I myself had hell getting a hold of them, I paid Ł25 for the second video when I finally found it, brand new, in a music stroe. I guess that shows how limited the stock is... |
11-09-2005, 04:28 AM
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Thats Beethoven my man, Piano Sonata no 14 in C#m aka "the Moonlight Sonata" written in 1801.... a little before "Sexually Active"
Check out a recording one day its worth your while.....
Thanks for posting that link, i love TB!
L.
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11-09-2005, 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by AJ Brown | Is there anyway to DOWNLOAD the video instead of watching it online?
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