Rudolf the Red - deceptively hard

[Whousedtoplay]

Here's the walking bass line for the song.

The chord changes and the bass line, kind of, don't match each other. That rendition makes my head spin and nervous.

Here is a soundclip (slowed down to 50%) of Measure 1 through Measure 8 of first Verse.
The bass in Measure 7 has solidly came back to A major when the melody and harmony is going through Edom7 cadence.



https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...2/?temp_hash=1a15ebb2578c94491a546d44bbd7f6af

 

[Whousedtoplay]

Only the first measure was giving me a problem.

From the video posted in this thread, the harmony changes from A to E7 while the bass plays/arpeggiates the same A major chord in Measure 2.

 

[Whousedtoplay]

Im playing it just bass and vocals.
The written part is 1-r-5–r.
But that isn’t filled out enough without other instruments.
So I was playing 1-3-1-5.
Only the first measure was giving me a problem.
I just couldn’t sing the melody right over that rhythm. It just kept coming out with ‘Dolph on beat 2 instead of 1and. Lol

Swing or not to Swing, that is a question.
(One could replace Swing with Shuffle for simplicity purpose.)

Polka (as the accompaniment) does not SWING!
The promoted version of the Rudolf the Red Nose Melody - it SWINGS!

 

[MVE]

Yeah, I eventually figured it out. But the problem was the melody.
Playing it in C, Ru-Dolph is an eight note tied to a dotted quarter. So Dolph is the on the 1-e- and the bass needs to hit the &.
That was throwing me.
But I got it eventually. Lol
Thanks to everyone for all the help snd input.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

Move over, Rudy, and let Jimi take over.