Most difficult bass song ever!!

[7StringBassist]

Oh and hardest song I've tried is called sexually active by Stu Hamm which I'm surprised not to see here

 

[Epi Rivoli]

Bow Wow Wow's version of "Fools Rush In" is too scary for me to even attempt to learn... But then again so are a lot of their songs... Not my playing style anyway... Leigh Gorman is a bass divinity, but I have no interest in sounding like him at all...

+1: weird over the top playing..

On the other end of the spectrum: "What is hip" from Tower of Power; I really don't know how anyone can play that tight...it's like a machine

 

[GrindYourMind]

Cannibal corpse - Frantic Disembowelment

I tried and my god...that song is rediculous.

 

[Allmanfan456]

Finite by Origin... Bass sweeps, ridiculous riffs and inhumanly fast.

 

[djero44]

On the other end of the spectrum: "What is hip" from Tower of Power; I really don't know how anyone can play that tight...it's like a machine

+1


I've been playing this for months now and still have so far to go to play it anywhere near as tight as Rocco (I usually play it on fretless and sing with it, making it much harder for me). This song has been a huge teacher for me.

Technique can be learned and mastered. Emotion and power are WAY harder to represent in my opinion.

 

[mvw356]

bach cello suites, technically not a bass song but hard enough to spend a lifetime on them

 

[six-one-6-six]

anything from :

Alain Carron
Victor Wooten
Mark king
Steve Bailey

 

[Alduroth]

Braindrill - Swine Slaughter

 

[Illbay]

In your opinion, what is the most difficult bass song in the world to play?

"Cucumber Slumber" - Weather Report

 

[lowendisthebest]

i just listened to YYZ by Rush. how the hell does geddy do that

i had a roomate that looked like geddy. though i doubt he ever picked up any kind of instrument. unless you count a beet bottle

 

[Illbay]

...though i doubt he ever picked up any kind of instrument. unless you count a beet bottle...

Yuck! Beet juice is the WORST! I guess it's an acquired taste...

 

[blues_bassist]

Free Bird. The bass line that Leon does during the vocal part of the song is amazing and then when it come to the solo, he is probably doing harder things on the bass than what Allan Collins was doing on the guitar.

 

[5string5fingers]

uhmm..i know i could never dream of playing a song called glove by nathan hughes

if you find the video on youtube, gets crazy at 2:48

 

[AltGrendel]

how about 'Heart Of The Sunrise' by Yes. that song has (in certain places) 2 basslines and it is 10:29 in the studio.
just about everything by Yes deserves mention.

Chris Squires use to have tab of that song on his web site. I've got the PDF somewhere. The solo stuff at the beginning is almost all 3/4 time.


Jeff Berlin's bass on "Fainting in Coils" is stunning.

 

[bassksun]

Jeff Berlin's Joe Frazier

 

[WhiteKnuckles]

Currently it's 'Come on come over' for me...I'm just having a devil of a time with keeping the chorus pulsing along at speed with all that ghosting. I'm close, but not quite there.

Once I feel I've conquered this, I'll have to see if there is anything in the thread that would challenge my playing while still be something I'd want to play.

 

[El Beardo]

Anything by Fall Out Boy, I know I wouldn't even make it past the intro.

 

[Fassa Albrecht]

I'll give anybody here $5 if they can play just the turnaround from Havona . . . cleanly . . . at speed . . . on a fretless. Post your clips now!

I went throught the metal years (even opened for Death and Testament) before I came to the Victor, Jaco, Manring stuff. The metal stuff is NOT hard. It's fast, but not hard. I've played both, I feel like I can comment with some perspective.

I've got this in my Jaco scores book...I'll give it a go on my Shergold!

 

[Dvidae]

Anything by Fall Out Boy, I know I wouldn't even make it past the intro.

+1

 

[avatar>ampeg]

anything by manrig or vic
marcus miller stuff is prety tough (for me)

YYZ is kinda difficult but not the hardest

thunderstruck tab E:777777777777777777777777 lol