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Most difficult bass song ever!!

#148
Manring. While Jaco, Wooten, Miller, Mark King, Leighton Heise, Sheehan, Steve Bailey, and Jesus all impress me with their amazingly tricky basswork, I just have to give the cake to Manring. He has the most intimate understanding of the music he creates, but more than that, he creates music that's so insanely tricky to duplicate. I'd almost say that he isn't a bassist... he's a hyperbassist. Such a different instrument. Wish I had one :P

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Anyone ever wanted to arm wrestle Jaco? Tickets for sale.
 
#149
trb6pJM2 said:
billy is somewhat of a joke when you break it down. he uses a 3,2,1,3,2,1,3,2,1 three finger technique making it so all his stuff feels that it's triplets, because it is. so all you have to do to get his techniques down is, learn the trooper, you will then be able to play billy sheehans songs.

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?!?!?!, are you insane? Sheehan is a joke but JM from Dream Theater is a true talent?!?!? If it weren't for Sheehan, there would be no Myung. You just showed how truely ignorant you are.

I'll have to tell Dennis Chambers that he is in a band with a joke of a bass player who has fooled us all over the last 20+ years with is simple techniques. Poor Steve Vai actually hired the no talent bum.:rollno:
 
#150
trb6pJM2 said:
but come on, listen to every song, not just tthe fast songs. just try to learn Erotomania, its slower, but still really impressive. .
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Take your own advise and listen to all of what Sheehan plays not just the fast triplet stuff.


trb6pJM2 said:
.............. i feel like a jerk arguing with people on the internet.
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You should feel like a jerk for making stupid comments.;)
 
#153
Mudvayne - Choices.

The tabs for it are crazy, and it all seems accurate too (I found a simplified version of the tabs, but it sounds off and really repetitive).. Then again, what else would you expect from an 8 minute mudvayne song heh.
 
#156
Some of the chords Jaco used in a few of his songs is completely impossible for me to play (I think Chromatic Fantasy is one).:scowl:

He had extremely long fingers and I have very small hands. I physically cannot bridge all strings at once with my index finger and play notes and move my other 3 fingers.

So Jaco for me can be completely unplayable unless the medical community invents finger lenthening surgery.:D
 
#157
"Hard", to me, means something that is not easily mastered by simple repetition. I thought I'd never be able to play "Portrait of Tracy", but I broke it down, learned it, and played it over and over again until it was perfect. Is it hard to play? Yeah, but you will get it eventually.

I think that songs in irregular meter are hard, because in 15/16 you can't just pick up the groove like you can in 4/4 or 6/8 or whatever. Compound triple time signatures (9/4, for instance) are a challenge for me as well.

Still, even watching Victor Wooten play in 4/4 is amazing... and I sure as hell know that I'm not going to tap out "Norwegian Wood" like that any time soon. Almost anything by Victor is beyond my ability, but that's a problem we run into: if you are talking about two different pieces, neither of which you can actually play, how do you know which one is harder? To me, all the stuff that I can't play (yet) is on that higher, mysterious plane that I will reach "some day". When I first started playing, I thought I'd never get Portrait of Tracy. Turns out I was wrong. I thought I'd never get Classical Thump either - turns out I was right there, so far at least, because I can't play past the first 45 seconds or so. My point is, at the time I thought they were both equally difficult, but THEY'RE NOT.
 
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