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Most difficult bass song ever!!
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playing tommy the cat with your feet while dooing a handstand on a log rolling down a hill. i could do it, i just dont want to. XD
5:15 by The Who. The version they played live at the Royal Albert Hall (I think) was INSANE. John Entwistle laid down a ridiculous bass groove/solo in that. It's on YouTube. Watch it. Now.
Paganini's 24th Caprice
There are some bass versions on youtube but they're kinda 'meh'... not that i could do any better
Here's Heifetz's version
But that probably doesn't count since it's not a "bass song"
So for that sake, i'll give another nod to some of the Chris Squire stuff. I remember hearing Roundabout for the first time in my early teens and being blown away by the bass.
There are some bass versions on youtube but they're kinda 'meh'... not that i could do any better
Here's Heifetz's version
But that probably doesn't count since it's not a "bass song"
So for that sake, i'll give another nod to some of the Chris Squire stuff. I remember hearing Roundabout for the first time in my early teens and being blown away by the bass.
Jeff Berlin "Bach" is a knuclebuster. It's his bastardized almost faithful rendition of JS Bach's second prelude in C# major from the "Well-Tempered Clavier."
BTW: it kicks a$$!
BTW: it kicks a$$!
There's no real way to difinitively pinpoint a particular song from a singular genre and say it's the most difficult, which is probably why it would be correct to say in your opinion. (Only just noticed that)
So ok then, er...
Well for gospel bass I'd say Abraham Laboriel has a very unique and difficult style of playing, Marcus Miller is just complex in everything he does, Relatively speaking from what I've seen and heard and not that I don't think he's an incredible bassist, to play I don't think Mark King is realyl up there with the rest of them on that level, more he's very quick...which is still hard to pull off.
Larry Graham isn't as technical but to pull off what he does with the same sort of groove he has is a tall order.
But honestly I've not seen anyone else who can play a bass from a technical perspective as well as Bill Dickens. Or at least from my point of view.
So I'd say If your looknig for the most technically difficult piece of music I'd start with some of his stuff.
So ok then, er...
Well for gospel bass I'd say Abraham Laboriel has a very unique and difficult style of playing, Marcus Miller is just complex in everything he does, Relatively speaking from what I've seen and heard and not that I don't think he's an incredible bassist, to play I don't think Mark King is realyl up there with the rest of them on that level, more he's very quick...which is still hard to pull off.
Larry Graham isn't as technical but to pull off what he does with the same sort of groove he has is a tall order.
But honestly I've not seen anyone else who can play a bass from a technical perspective as well as Bill Dickens. Or at least from my point of view.
So I'd say If your looknig for the most technically difficult piece of music I'd start with some of his stuff.
Anaethsia by Metallica (Cliff Burton) The first part is deceptively easy...... There are no more than 10 fretted notes below 12th fret! Anyway These songs are all a matter of opinion. I'm not sure anyone knows the true hardest song in the world!
WOW jut listened to YYZ.. how could you possibly say that it's the hardest song in the world??? Go listen to some Necrophagist man... wow....
EDIT: try 'only ash remains' for some crazy bass groovin'
(if you can get past the death-metalness) DOUBLE EDIT:
I was thinking of Manring, and Helios is a great example, however, I think that all the greats have "something" that came to them second nature and they refined whatever that "something" is and it becomes even easier and more natural for them, whereas it gives most of the rest of us fits.
I by no means fall into the category of "the greats"...none of the great players would so much as let me carry their case, but, I have a technique or two that allows me to do something here and there that has given some really impressive players conniptions because it/they came to me easily and I have made these techniques part of my playing.
So "THE" hardest? I believe that question is relative to the player, the genre and the style...what is difficult for one monster player, may be second nature to another. When I see a really good player from a very different style, my jaw drops further than when I see a monster from my own - I understand the guy from my genre; I'm more amazed and awestruck by the player more foreign to me because I'm constantly wondering "how the heck did he do that?"
Just my two cents.
I by no means fall into the category of "the greats"...none of the great players would so much as let me carry their case, but, I have a technique or two that allows me to do something here and there that has given some really impressive players conniptions because it/they came to me easily and I have made these techniques part of my playing.
So "THE" hardest? I believe that question is relative to the player, the genre and the style...what is difficult for one monster player, may be second nature to another. When I see a really good player from a very different style, my jaw drops further than when I see a monster from my own - I understand the guy from my genre; I'm more amazed and awestruck by the player more foreign to me because I'm constantly wondering "how the heck did he do that?"
Just my two cents.
Playing someone else's tunes isn't a measure of Talent. It's a measure of dedication, free time and a lot of practice.
Writing your own music WORTHY of showing up in threads like this is Talent.
Writing your own music WORTHY of showing up in threads like this is Talent.
