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Double Bass Sweet Child O' Mine Solo transcription.

#3
Hey there,

Good work!

My immediate impression...

The distortion effect you applied to the bass diminishes the whole aspect of you playing this solo on a double bass with arco technique. It sounds like an electric guitar, very common and ordinary. Just record with a microphone and get the acoustic bass sound. That will make this sound better and more interesting right away.

Are you making your own backing tracks for this?
 
#5
Thanks longfinger and Geoff !
Longfinger: Thanks for your constructive comment. You're right,this solo is very interesting and beautiful with a natural sound, but it reminds me all the acoustic stuff I work all the day ... And it's really difficult and take many time to record a nice acoustic sound (without too much reverb) ...
I have fun with the distorsion, plus I really learn so much about how 'electrify' a double bass, what is working and what is not, how to imitate some guitar effects in an electrified context, intonation etc ...
And some solos are not really working without distorsion (I think about many Pantera or Metallica solos, who sounded too 'classical' and not 'natural' if you play it correctly).
The goal is to immediately apply lessons from these great musicians, then to make my own chorus with my phrases, but all the tips, tricks and most important SOUNDS I've worked on ...
I've found the backing track on the internet, and for this vid, I discovered Licklibrary, a really nice site ...
Thanks again for your comment, have a nice week-end,
Mathieu.
Ps: I can make an acoustic tutorial of the introduction, if people want it ...
Blessings,
Mathieu
 
#7
As an electric guy, I liked it. I agree that the distortion might kinda kill the idea behind it though, since you're making an upright sound more like a guitar, but I'm sure it helps with sustain a little too.
 
#9
jmattbassplaya said:
As an electric guy, I liked it. I agree that the distortion might kinda kill the idea behind it though, since you're making an upright sound more like a guitar, but I'm sure it helps with sustain a little too.
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Thanks for your comment, on this video (and on the 'Beat It' video), I choosed not to play with sustain, because both of them -Slash, and, more VH- didn't played with so much sustain on these songs- ... It's more difficult, but I think it's closer from the way they phrase than playing with so much sustain ...
To make a comparison with 'natural' sound, sometimes it's easier to play it natural when it 'sings' (Bohemian, Sweet Child O' Mine, Hotel California ...), sometimes it's really hard, or it don't really sounds good (Cow Boys From Hell, Beat It ...)
But I think that playing these solos in an amplified way helps to have a better acoustic control and to understand better the stuff they do.
Thanks again for your comment, good music to you,
Mathieu .
 
#10
damonsmith said:
If there is anything I hate more than this vile trend of "classical" or "jazz" versions of pop songs it is that awful band. What a nauseating song by a nauseating band.
I'll say everything negative I said in the queen thread X 10 + (as always) great bass playing! I am going to bump my Barry Guy thread - that music is far more important.
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Hello Damon, I missed you ... :) Don't you like the cover of 'Spaghetti Incident' to be so much severe ?
Don't be so hard, they made some great tunes like this one -no allusions- :

damonsmith said:
It would be more interesting to get the distortion from bow speed/pressure/placement, actually. I really do hate this song, though.
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Really interesting, a work I do when I play acoustic (and electric too, some saturations are not made "just by the recorder"); anyway, thanks for the advice and for your comment.
Have fun with Barry Guy and sorry you don't like this song, IMKO, you miss a side of the life .
Let's try with another metaphor: I love chocolate (music). I like 'Profiterolles' (classical music) when I lunch in a good french Restaurant, but I f**** LOVE to eat Mc Flurrys during my summer walks (GNR as an example). All is matter of contexts. Maybe you like to eat Profiterolles EVERYTME, even when you party at night (you party, uh ? ;) )or when you're in another country (do you like travels ?), when you make sport (?), whatever ...
And the main interest is to make combinations with all of that.
Good music and good work to you, next time I'll try the 'Hotel California' solo. Or maybe some Lenny Kravitz tune ... :)
Thanks again.
Ps: Next time I'll try the 'Kama Sutra' metaphor ... ;)
 
#14
Michelin97Bass said:
:hyper::hyper::hyper::hyper::hyper::hyper::hyper:Transcription? Anywhere? Pleaseeee?
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Hello and many thanks for your comment ... As I previously said (on the Youtube's video description), I really had no time last week, and the phrases are easy to memorize, so I've really quickly played this solo by learning it through Licklibrary :

Very well played, and he details the solo slowly in 3 videos ...
I'll have more time -maybe net month-, I'll write it properly (especially the tricky phrases) ...
Thanks for your comment, good week and good music to you,
Mathieu
 
#16
Thanks so much rgarcia26 !
It's not really about difficulty of double bass compared to guitar (we all know that playing double bass is always difficult even to play a singl note, 'cause we are playing with the closest instrument to tree ;) ) ...

To be serious, some tricks are easier to play with a double bass, it depends if you play the phrases legato (sweeping) or staccato (picking)... Difficulties are the same when a guitar player wants to play all these solos.
The real difficulty is about picking guitar inflexions (as bends, etc...) and to transpose it in a credible way...
Thanks for your comment, have a nice week end!
Mathieu
 

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