What Song Are You Currently Working On?

'You Oughtta Know' -by Alanis Morissette. Flea does this one quite well, at the moment I don't!

 

Err, I'm working on several songs... Some of them I know but haven't played in a whole year, so I have to re-learn.

 

I've got 10 tunes on my learning list this week. I've been working at 10 to 20 per week for the Country band I just got hired by. I should be gigging in 2 more weeks now

 

Just did Nick Cave's "Ship Song" and "The Weeping Song", got the outro of Ratm's "Bullet in the head" up to speed and picked up the slap intro from "Take the power back" a few minutes ago, and figured out Sigur Rós' "Flugufrelsarinn" on acoustic guitar last night.

I get most of my practise from ear training, you see.

 

Spoonman - Soundgarden

Nothing song for the bass part, I know. But, I'm in a 4 piece band...and the singer is not gonna learn to play the spoons for it So, guitarist is using his whammy pedal 2 octaves down and playing the bass part. I'm trying to find the money area to do a close spoon-playing approximation. I might have to wear something like funk fingers to do it...possibly some metal rings...etc.

I love a good challenge.

 

Currently trying to work out Moving and Mary by Supergrass (inspired by Volker's thread), then I'm going to learn them on fretless until I can play along to the CD without making mistakes.

I'm also mucking around with a transcription of Debussy's Claire De Lune I bought. First, I'm transposing it out of Db major into a key I find easier to read, probably just D major. Then, I don't know what I'll do with it. But it's really helping my reading, in treble clef too, which is a good thing. I think the final aim is to be able to play some of it, but that looks quite a way off yet.

 

For me, I'm on the second page of Portrait of Tracy...

It's been a slow, slow past 2 weeks... I feel musically dumber even when I look at my bass.

 

To counter and groove in E-minor by spastic ink, I've got all of the parts down apart from the end section of the bass solo (not the 'bass' intro) and in a rough order but when I play it it still sounds a bit choppy and loose (then again the bass player pete is impressive to say the least!).

Ive also been typing up one of our songs on guitar pro including drums but I cant drum or type up drums beats :/

 

I've spent the past week working on Tightrope by SRV. Best groove that band had IMO. It's not the notes that are so hard, it's the groove.

I just put on a loop and play to it for 45 minutes to an hour at a time.

 

I'm re-working "chromatic fantasy" cleaning it up a bit

I'm re-working "classical thump" playing it fingerstyle

and I just finished "me and my bass guitar"


I'm also writing a couple of songs.

 

Marry had a little Lamb?


Sike...

um...when summer hits(1 more day of school)

Ima go for Tom Sawyer...

or some

Less than jake.


good stuff.

 

"Kiss", by Prince.

 

"Kiss", by Prince.

 

So important it was worth saying twice, eh JB?

 

"Bernadette"
It's going better than I thought it would, so far.

I'm also working on my first two original tunes and lyrics. I'm not doing as well with them...

 

I too am working on Portrait of Tracy I have about half of it down OK but the second half is still real weak. I'm probably going to start Teen Town in a week or two.

 

OMG!!! *falls to his knees in worship*

 

Tool-Sober