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Most difficult bass song ever!!

#89
Killtron said:
YYZ and Tommy the Cat are not HARD. They're definitely difficult but they can easily be conquered through practice. I can play YYZ and Tommy the Cat perfectly now after constant practice but can still play nothing by Wooten.
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I can play those, I cannot play Wooten:crying:
Same deal, I have a lot of practicing to do before I can play Victor.

Micheal Manring's songs are insanely tough, detuning all over, fretless, very bright sound(which makes the darn mistakes show upreal good) 101 techniques, it gets ugly quick.

Billy's chops are pretty fast

Jaco's tunes are all harder than Tommy the cat and YYZ......


I like all the tunes listed

Regards,
Tom
 
#91
I actually figured this one out a few years back when I did a few gigs with a cover band. You ready?

Brown Eyed Girl. Frickin' hard as crap! After playing it 50 bazillion times, some days it was STILL all I could do to keep from hurling before the intro was even over and time for me to come in.

Conincidentally, it also is the number one most difficult song to sing, or even listen to for that matter, since I generally want to hurl during these times as well.

Caveat: Large quantities of beer tend to reverse all of this, making it one of the easiest songs ever to play or sing along with. When in this state, I even sometimes catch myself having fun. What's up with that?
 
#94
XansNiceSweater said:
However, if we're gonna get into synth bass...
the opening theme / "bombing mission" from Final Fantasy VII.

I'll post a sound clip of each later because people might not be familiar with these.
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Yay! Mention of Ueumatsu bass!! :D

Still More Fighting is pretty tough too... Been trying to get that down for a year and a half now (since I started playing)... Should give it another go sometime.

yeah, I was gonna mention The Glass Prison by Dream Theater too. Seriously, if you can do that... THEN I'll find something harder in their discorgraphy :P
 
#95
Theres definatly alot of stuff out there, that NOONE other than 1 person could play

and thats Jean's stuff (Baudin)

i know that it's simply a matter of circumstance, but, Those songs, are EXTREMELY hard.
Along with Jean's stuff, Adam Nitti's lines are a mix of techniques that few can pull off other than he.

but for just straight hard to get down and play, FULLY, probably Free Port Jam by John Myung
Home by Dream Theater
Glass Prison by Dream Theater
Instrumedly by Dream Theater
..... sorry all the Dream Theater fanboyness, its just in my blood.

Moonlight Sonnota
Flight of The Bumblebee

If you wanted it perfect, Portrait of Tracy, because even Jaco couldnt play it live the way he did on the album
Donna lee is extremely hard

Carry on by Angra takes a tole on your hand after all the tremelo
But as you can see by this list, this is a dificult topic with no real answer.
 
#97
Classical Thump i will say is way too hard for me to get over a minute through at 15, but theres a 20 something kid who does it on youtube, cant find the link, and yes he plays the whole song. Adam Nitti deserves more mention, along with Ray Riendau and Brian Bromberg's "Slang\" Tribute is amazing. But i can play, YYZ and Teen Town and POT at age 15 so they dont qualify in my book, and i felt the same way about aeroplane haha. i dont know much about YES but i skipped most of 80's for obvious reasons. i will never, ever appreciate metal, its just so unmusical imo, and here comes the flaming. anyways,i think hardest are vic's stan the man from bass extremes, the divine wind or broken part 1+2 from nitti, a morning star from manring, slang from bromberg, and the whole power song, or the baron from marcus miller
 
#98
Redhot6 said:
Classical Thump i will say is way too hard for me to get over a minute through at 15, but theres a 20 something kid who does it on youtube, cant find the link, and yes he plays the whole song. Adam Nitti deserves more mention, along with Ray Riendau and Brian Bromberg's "Slang\" Tribute is amazing. But i can play, YYZ and Teen Town and POT at age 15 so they dont qualify in my book, and i felt the same way about aeroplane haha. i dont know much about YES but i skipped most of 80's for obvious reasons. i will never, ever appreciate metal, its just so unmusical imo, and here comes the flaming. anyways,i think hardest are vic's stan the man from bass extremes, the divine wind or broken part 1+2 from nitti, a morning star from manring, slang from bromberg, and the whole power song, or the baron from marcus miller
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Yes was not an 80's group in my definition. they were formed in 1968. get Fragile and Yessongs. they are the two albums where Chris Squire really shined. if you arent sure about whether you will lke Yes or not, get Classic Yes. Chris Squire compiled and mixed that album and the Bass is REALLY LOUD on that disc.
 
#99
DeliriumTrigger said:
Victor Wooten - Classical Thump

I can sort of play the intro, but that's about it.
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classical thump is really like an intro demonstration to the double thumbing technique. its normally one of the first things you move onto after getting comfortable with double thumbing, so its hard because its an all new technique, not because its a particularly hard track! once you've got used to double thumbing, and played that track you'll find there are allot more difficult pieces that utilitise the technique (and allot of them are wooten tracks)

but its a good way to learn that style of bass playing
 

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