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any help with Cheap Trick - Don't be Cruel

Discussion in 'Tablature and Notation [BG]' started by artdrtr, Jun 29, 2008.

  1. Jun 29, 2008 #1
    artdrtr

    artdrtr

    Jan 24, 2008
    Redondo Beach, CA
    A very cool bass line --- can someone help?

    PM please
     
  2. Jun 29, 2008 #2
    12bass

    12bass

    Jan 2, 2003
    Victoria, Canada
    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.
     
  3. Jun 29, 2008 #3
    artdrtr

    artdrtr

    Jan 24, 2008
    Redondo Beach, CA
    I'm aware of his 12 string bass --- but he's playing a 4-string in the original '88 video.



    Is he just going up and down the scale?


     
  4. Jun 29, 2008 #4
    12bass

    12bass

    Jan 2, 2003
    Victoria, Canada
    Nope.... that's a checkered Hamer B12A... on a stand to make it look like an upright.

    http://www.12stringbass.net/master.htm?http://www.12stringbass.net/B12A.htm

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    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.
     
  5. Jun 29, 2008 #5
    artdrtr

    artdrtr

    Jan 24, 2008
    Redondo Beach, CA
    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...