any help with Cheap Trick - Don't be Cruel

[artdrtr]

A very cool bass line --- can someone help?

PM please

[12bass]

For one, it's played on a 12-string bass with the E strings tuned down to D. Other than that, the bass line is a fairly standard walking blues line, using mostly major pentatonic.

[artdrtr]

I'm aware of his 12 string bass --- but he's playing a 4-string in the original '88 video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxvP96Lddko

Is he just going up and down the scale?

Originally Posted by 12bass

For one, it's played on a 12-string bass with the E strings tuned down to D. Other than that, the bass line is a fairly standard walking blues line, using mostly major pentatonic.

[12bass]

Nope.... that's a checkered Hamer B12A... on a stand to make it look like an upright.

http://www.12stringbass.net/master.h...s.net/B12A.htm



Most of the song is in G major, with a key change (modulation) to A major later in the tune. The beginning descending riff is A G F# E D C B A G....

Other than that.... maybe look for a program to slow it down, or find some tab somewhere.

[artdrtr]

my bad, I must have been too busy looking at the girls in the video to see the headstock... Thanks for the notes, and posting the link, those are cool basses...

Originally Posted by 12bass

Nope.... that's a checkered Hamer B12A... on a stand to make it look like an upright.

http://www.12stringbass.net/master.h...s.net/B12A.htm



Most of the song is in G major, with a key change (modulation) to A major later in the tune. The beginning descending riff is A G F# E D C B A G....

Other than that.... maybe look for a program to slow it down, or find some tab somewhere.