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The Clock in Pink Floyd's Time

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Cool! When I was playing this song many moons ago I also did the clock but I more or less tapped the two clock strings at the end of the fingerboard and used my fretting hand to mute the strings. It definitely sounded more 'clacky' and less muted than this. Then I would use my thumb to hit the muted E string (sort of like muted slap) for the heartbeat sound.
 
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pingvuiini said:
Cool! When I was playing this song many moons ago I also did the clock but I more or less tapped the two clock strings at the end of the fingerboard and used my fretting hand to mute the strings. It definitely sounded more 'clacky' and less muted than this. Then I would use my thumb to hit the muted E string (sort of like muted slap) for the heartbeat sound.
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Kudos for thinking outside of the box.
 
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I found a crusty olde recording from 1997 of my old band playing Time. I forgot that in addition to the clock and heartbeat I also played the keyboard sounds with a Roland PK-5 foot pedal controller hooked up to a XP-60 keyboard. Back then we were doing a lot of Rush, so the keyboards and pedals were a must. Although I liked the music and the challenge of playing bass and keys, I am sure glad I don't have to haul all that stuff around anymore.
 
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That's killer that you were doing Rush with Keys. I never found the right band to pull off Rush tunes. I really needed to step up and play Keys like you did. It's hard to find a good Keyboard player around here. Especially Synth.

I can't get your audio file to play. What format is it?
 
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Guy is quite the bassist. You can hear his virtuosic bass compositions on plenty of iconic pop recordings, but he is probably best known (outside of communities like this) as “the guy who plays Roger’s parts”… which he does quite well, I might add.
 
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Here's a sort-of-related fun fact: When David Gilmour was blooking to rebuild Pink Floyd after Roger Waters quit he asked Tony Franklin to join PF and for Tony, it was a dream gig and he already had experience playing with David Gilmour. However, Tony playing in PF was not to be. Just a few days prior to being asked to join Tony had signed a contract to be the Bassist in Blue Murder. He hired a lawyer and asked Blue Murder to release him from the contract but they refused and he was locked into that contract and he reluctantly had to turn down David's offer. That's when Blue Murder was born and they went on to be successful. Tony told this story at a clinic I attended.
 
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Spectre Gunner said:
Here's a sort-of-related fun fact: When David Gilmour was blooking to rebuild Pink Floyd after Roger Waters quit he asked Tony Franklin to join PF and for Tony, it was a dream gig and he already had experience playing with David Gilmour. However, Tony playing in PF was not to be. Just a few days prior to being asked to join Tony had signed a contract to be the Bassist in Blue Murder. He hired a lawyer and asked Blue Murder to release him from the contract but they refused and he was locked into that contract and he reluctantly had to turn down David's offer. That's when Blue Murder was born and they went on to be successful. Tony told this story at a clinic I attended.
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That is amazing to me. But I guess a contract is a contract. I can’t see forcing someone to be in a band but Tony is a professional through and through.
 
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