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Songs that suprised you with difficulty
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'New Born' by Muse. Sounded fairly easy, and was, but I didn't anticipate 6 solid minutes of what is basically an arpeggio exercise in E. I got really bad cramp the first time I tried it. On the bright side, it made me realise I actually had to warm up
Yeah that song is a fret hand workout. Also worth mentioning: Knights of Cydonia. It's a pick hand exercise for sure.
There are a number of Police songs that are surprisingly difficult just because of Sting's rhythm and placement of notes. It took me awhile to get the change from the bridge section to the first note of the second verse in Roxanne just right - and even now I still screw it up from time to time!
Yeah Leon Wilkeson was a MONSTER if you ask me. Where most
of his band was overrated (not Steve Gains) Leon was way way
underrated IMO.
Check yer liner notes, bub--Ed King did the bass tracks on Freebird, Simple man, and several othersI didn't know it until I got a box set for Christmas a year or two back, which included session musician credits. Rick Medlocke even played drums on some of the really old stuff-after Bob Burns quit and before Artimus Pyle was hired.
Even John Taylor found that "a challenge" to pull off live. Netflix has(had?) their RIO stuff in a "Classic Albums" show and he explained that he had to switch between pick, fingers, and styles all within one song. Easy in the studio, not so easy live.
+1 to the Skynyrd comments. There are a couple of tunes that caused me to find live videos to see WHERE he was playing the chosen notes.
And. of course, most anything featuring the legendary Bob Moore....probably the most recorded bassist in history. There are reasons for that. http://www.nashvillesound.net/index.htm
Mtnman said:
Great player, yes. "Planet Earth" has a great galloping triplet workout too!
But underrated? I dunno man, I think that anyone who knows anything worth knowing about bass has got him up there as one of the great 80's pop players...
"Cath..." by Death Cab For Cutie.
Not exactly the most challenging song ever, but I was surprised by how much moving around you get to do.
Not exactly the most challenging song ever, but I was surprised by how much moving around you get to do.
Hey all,
I've found that Hutch's lines on Bonnie's tunes are always very tasteful. Take a listen to "Silver Lining", the entire album, for some very good stuff.
One of my fave tunes of her's is "Come to Me" from her great double album Road Tested!
Later, Kirk
I've found that Hutch's lines on Bonnie's tunes are always very tasteful. Take a listen to "Silver Lining", the entire album, for some very good stuff.
One of my fave tunes of her's is "Come to Me" from her great double album Road Tested!
Later, Kirk
Smooth from Santana and Rob Thomas. Not so much the notes but the feeling and the groove took me a bit to get down. Now that I'm playing in a Latin band that was an easy one! 
No matter how hard I try, I can not seem to play that bass riff from Sweet Emotion. I also am having difficulty with Roundabout, but that is significantly harder.
RichardCranium said:Smooth from Santana and Rob Thomas. Not so much the notes but the feeling and the groove took me a bit to get down. Now that I'm playing in a Latin band that was an easy one!
My biggest challenge with that one is trying to play it while watching the video on YouTube. Talk about some beautiful girls. Wow!
Rio for sure. And that Footloose sounds like fun to learn. We tried to learn a Donna Summer disco song in my last band and had to drop it. It was too complicated...cant think of the name at the moment, but alot of those old disco songs had some deceptive bass.
+1 I was going to say Stings work with The Police but you beat me to it. They don't sound hard but getting the timing and rhythm right is key.
When both our guitarist and vocalist said they'd like to have a go at the studio version of Whitesnake's "Fool for your Lovin" I thought "Easy, soon rattle that off".....
.....Weeks later I finally nailed all the variations that Neil Murray puts into all the verses and choruses, the best fingering (for me), all the little 16th note fills at the end of the choruses and all the string skipping workouts for my plucking fingers...
One of my favourite songs in the set now
.....Weeks later I finally nailed all the variations that Neil Murray puts into all the verses and choruses, the best fingering (for me), all the little 16th note fills at the end of the choruses and all the string skipping workouts for my plucking fingers...
One of my favourite songs in the set now
