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Just got back from my first ever audition...

#21
xxfaux_punkxx said:
So I found out that I had an audition on sunday (for today). They gave me a set list of what to play. In the short time I had I picked one song and just went to work. Practiced pretty much non-stop for todays. Played until my fingers were raw and my pick left cut marks on the side of my finger.

Show up we start jamming the song I learned and five seconds in we stop.... Apparantly I learned the wrong version.. oops.... If that wasn't bad enough the guitarist ended up tuning my bass to regular tuning for me (was in BEAD) and had to re-teach me the song pretty much. After about an hour of playing (me getting lost after the first measure every time) they stopped. Told me that they would send me the right tabs and to come back next tuesday to try again...


so although things were bad I got a call back.:hyper:
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Tabs :)

They are almost always wrong. There are 50 different threads on how to learn new songs (covers, that is), and sitting down in front of the PC with a tab from 911 tabs is a bad idea.

I have found ZERO tab that was 100% accurate. NONE. And I mean tabs for songs for which you actually need a tab, not White Wedding.

Even the best ones will transcribe a gallop on triplets or dotted eight and a sixteen as eights.

At least they are giving you a second chance :)
 
#23
just goes to show that there may be a dearth of bassists and if you have the right attitude and make a strong attempt and act professional you can get a call back.

Was this a case of playing Holy Diver....and you prepped for the Killswitch version rather than the Dio version?? :-)

Unless the song had you hitting notes on the G string, I don't know why you would need to retune. It's more a matter of you and the guitarist being able to transpose. Again, since you learned the 'wrong' version (like the detuned version of a popular song) then it should have been relatively easy to just play it without retuning. Again in the tuning you used (BEAD) you just cut out the G.....may not be necessary on some songs.

Make sure you liked the band and what they were playing before going back. IF there are more plusses than go nail it.
 
#25
I am still having trouble understanding how the bass player being tuned to BEAD was throwing off the lead guitar? Were they staring at your fret board? Didn't know their own part?

If the notes sound the same, the tuning of your bass shouldn't matter.
 

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