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What song did you learn RIGHT NOW?

#42
F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X - The Fall Of Troy
Tim Ward
Prog-Metal
***
Standard Tuning, Bass is easy to hear in the mix, Key of E, In the neighborhood if 200BPM. Bass line stays between 3'rd-8'th frets, moves across strings alot, staccato and muted notes, a couple nasty arpeggios.
 
#44
backline112 said:
I bet most used tabs. Button pressing galore yay!

Hey guys, you might benefit from this:
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Could you keep your comments to yourself and actually post something constructive? Although the video was funny, the rest didn't need to be said and didn't need to be posted. It doesn't matter if you use tabs, (obviously it helps your understanding to work things out by ear) this list can help those wanting to see how theory is applied to create basslines and also give them songs to learn so that they can practice technique.
 
#45
uglymutt said:
Could you keep your comments to yourself and actually post something constructive? Although the video was funny, the rest didn't need to be said and didn't need to be posted. It doesn't matter if you use tabs, (obviously it helps your understanding to work things out by ear) this list can help those wanting to see how theory is applied to create basslines and also give them songs to learn so that they can practice technique.
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:hmm: Sigh...:rollno: It is constructive, and it does matter if you use tabs.


Now go learn Portrait of Tracy. WITH TABS PLEASE.
http://******.com/?q=portrait+of+tracy+tabs
 
#48
I don't agree with that. You can be a bassist without being retentive about theory. It doesn't mean you're just a human jukebox, either. There is a benefit to learning songs (rhythm, timing, dexterity) even when you don't break it down to its tiniest minutiae, and it's unrealistic to expect the average person to have a career-like understanding of their instrument. You're arguing from a pedestal.
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You can also be a bassist without rating yourself against other bassists based on a ridiculous, arbitrary system that involves challenges, stars, etc, etc that just serves to fuel a d*ck-whipping contest. You could, for instance, play for the love of playing music.

Whodathunk.

Aside from the childish ****ing contest by people who are obviously far too good to benefit from any sort of guidance, this particular newb appreciates this thread, gonzilla. After spending hours immersing myself in mind-numbing theory texts and scribbling out pages and pages of notes on modes and scales, it's helps to find songs that I like that I can actually play halfway decently to give me inspiration to keep on pushing on.

It's easy to scoff about songs that any idiot can play after having studied bass for a year when you've already got that year and quite a few after that under your belt. But when you've got another 11 months before you get that first year under your belt you need something, because "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" gets pretty ****ing old after the 50th variation. So thank you, gonzilla.
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??? You obviously have completely missed my point. I don't mind the thread being "what song are you learning right now?". I don't mind people posting what they're learning and a verbal description of its bassline. What I do mind is any sort of BS involving stars and challenges and anything that turns music into a video game.

My post was mainly directed to the rather irrelevant and completely incorrect statement on gonzilla's suggesting that theory is something that you magically pick up just from playing the bass because its so "logical" (whatever that means).
 
#51
HaVIC5 said:
??? You obviously have completely missed my point. I don't mind the thread being "what song are you learning right now?". I don't mind people posting what they're learning and a verbal description of its bassline. What I do mind is any sort of BS involving stars and challenges and anything that turns music into a video game.

My post was mainly directed to the rather irrelevant and completely incorrect statement on gonzilla's suggesting that theory is something that you magically pick up just from playing the bass because its so "logical" (whatever that means).
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Oh, I got your point. You feel that people who attempt to utilize a simplified rating systems for determining the relative difficulty of learning songs at a beginner level are inferior and deserve to be lambasted for their efforts. You believe that everyone who wishes to participate in the process of playing music should only do so in the manner that you proscribe and that any ideas outside of that sphere deserve to be repeatedly and openly denigrated. Don't worry; you've been crystal clear about where you stand.

And as someone who both works for a video game company and who was inspired to try my hand at the real deal after realizing that I could actually develop decent muscle memory and rhythm after playing Rock Band for a while, I salute anyone who ties in musicality with video gaming as it inspires people to explore the idea of playing and creating music on real instruments. We may be beneath you, but we're down here having a damned good time regardless so how about leaving us plebes to bang our thick skulls against our amplifiers. Don't you have some pick users, tab readers, or other bass-playing species that you consider inferior that you need to be lording over elsewhere?

On topic, I've been working on transcribing:

Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde
David Ellefson
Heavy Metal
*

Seriously easy bass line but fun. Only gets slightly tricky in the last few seconds, but otherwise is very straightforward.
 

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