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Well I think it's a good idea to have a songbook. One that is printed up or sketched on or whatever, but on paper right in front of you. I've got mine in a three ring binder, divided up into songs I know, songs I'm learning, and songs I want to know.
It's a good tool for learning.
First time I ever sang into a microphone, I had to stop. There was this weird voice echoing everything I said into my ear.
"Do I sound like that?"
"Yeah, man, get your face up on it!"
The Beatles are not Meshuggah. If they were, they would have super complex rhythms and screaming cookie monster vocals.
So, in summary, The Beatles are not Meshuggah.
Singing and playing the bass is beyond me for most songs. I can do it if it's a really simple country walk, but anything even remotely complex will have me fumbling the line, the lyric, or most likely both.
Guys like Geddy Lee and Les Claypool just make me stop and scratch my head.
More Meshuggah, because they are awesome.
Alright then, lets go with that bass walk over chords.
Lets pick three chords. I choose C F and G, but really, any chord progression will work, so long as you stay within the triadic chords of the key. But for now, lets just stick with old reliable I IV V progressions. In C, that's C F G. For our purposes, we're going to talk about the strings in terms of "basses" and "trebles." The basses are E A and D. The trebles are G B and e.
It's important to know which strings you would normally strike when you strum a chord. We mute the big E for open C, striking only the strings from the A on down. If you use a full barre for your F, then you would strike the E string, but if you're like most humans, you're going to just barre the B and little e string with your F, and strike the A string on down. G is a full chord, so you strike all the strings, starting with the big E.
So go ahead and fret the C chord. Now take your thumb and alternate between striking the A and D strings. Use your thumb. Not your fingers. They'll have their own job to do in a minute.
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---2----2-----2---2-
-3---3-----3----3-
x---------------
Now keep that same alternating pattern going, and transition to the F. The tab now looks like this.
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---3----3-----3---3-
-3---3-----3----3-
x---------------
Now to the G. Move your alternating rhythm to the E and A strings, though.
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---2----2----2---2-
-3---3----3----3-
So that's the walk part. It's done completely on the basses. Now lets put the rest of your fingers to work.
Move back to C. Start your walk with your thumb, but between each thumb strike, pluck the treble strings with your remaining fingers. The walk then looks like this tabbed out.
----0---0----0----
----1---1----1----
----0---0----0----
------2----------2-
-3---------3-------
x------------------
Then progress through the chord changes as you did before. It's pretty easy with a little practice. I sometimes use a pick on the basses if I want the bass walk to stand out a lot, but using just your thumb is easier, I think. Work on training your treble fingers to find their assigned string naturally. Once you're doing it it will look like your hand is barely moving at all.
If you're comfortable playing scales in position, then this becomes a really powerful tool, too. You can alternate between your bass walk, and your melody line and never come out of position.
So there it is. Walking bass lines made easy. I hope. 
Meshuggah. These guys have been doing it for years, and they are awesome.
New Millennium Cyanide.
It's just the I IV V. Every song in the universe uses that progression. You can play it in any key. I play it in C because it's easy, and thats about where my vocal range is at.
EAB
DGA
GCD
ADE
would also work just as well.
I play bass in my band. It is not an easy instrument, unless you want to suck at it. It is more difficult to play than the guitar for one simple reason. To play it well, you *must* know scales, so you can create walks and bass lines in key. You should know where the IV and V of every key is at a minimum.
The strings are heavier, and the frets, particularly at the top of the neck, are much wider, so your hands are going to stretch, and need to be in good condition. Further, it's not a "support" instrument. It's the rhythm section. If you can't find the pocket, there is no where you can hide. Your guitard will hide behind you all the time. You have no such out.
If you play bass regularly for a while, you will find the guitar a much simpler instrument to play. All those long reach chords will all of a sudden seem quite small.
Each song is labeled as tab or chord format when they come up in the search engine.
CFG, actually.
I IV V, just like all the other songs in the world.
I'm sure a guy on this web site, Jerome.oneil, will be able to explain this clearly
Well thanks!
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "walk up and down the chord" though?
Do you mean arpegios over a single chord? A "bass walk" over a chord progression? Chord progressions through a song?
Do you have an example of a song where this is done?
...1971 T/A 340 Hemi "Cuda" is the car for me...
Yeah, but what's coming out of the radio?
And on a more topical note,
Plastic Jesus, a great traditional of unknown origin, but made famous by Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke" (one of the all time great movies.)
I don't care if it rains or freezes
'Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through my trials and tribulations
And my travels through the nations
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far
Riding down a thoroughfare
With His nose up in the air
A wreck may be ahead, but He don't mind
Trouble coming He don't see
He just keeps His eye on me
And any other thing that lies behind
When I'm in a traffic jam
He don't care if I say "damn"
I can let all my curses roll
Plastic Jesus doesn't hear
'Cause he has a plastic ear
The man who invented plastic saved my soul
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Though the sunshine on His back
Make Him peel, chip and crack
A little patching keeps Him up to par
When I'm goin' fornicatin'
I got my ceramic Satan
Sinnin' on the dashboard of my car
The women know I'm on the level
Thanks to the wild-eyed stoneware devil
Ridin' on the dashboard of my car
Riding home one foggy night
With my honey cuddled tight
I missed a curve and off the road we veered
My windshield got smashed-up good
And my darling graced the hood
Plastic Jesus, He had disappeared
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus,
No longer chides me with His holy grin
Doctors in the X-ray room
Found Him in my darling's womb
Someday, He'll be born again!
I don't care if it bumps or jostles
Long as I got the twelve apostles
Bolted to the dashboard of my car
Don't I have a pious mess
Such a crowd of holiness
Strung across the dashboard of my car
I don't care if it's dark or scary
Long as I have magnetic Mary
Ridin' on the dashboard of my car
I feel I'm protected amply
I've got the whole damn holy family
Riding on the dashboard of my car
You can buy a sweet Madonna
Dressed in rhinestones sitting on a
Pedestal of abalone shell
Goin' ninety, I'm not wary
'Cause I've got my virgin Mary
Guaranteeing I won't go to Hell
God made Christ a holy Jew
God made Him a Christian too
Paradoxes populate my car
Joseph beams with a feigned elan
From the shaggy dash of my furlined van
Famous cuckold in the master plan
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Once his robe was snowy white
Now it isn't quite so bright
Stained by the smoke of my cigar
I don't care if it rains or freezes
'Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through my trials and tribulations
And my travels through the nations
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far
Jerome, I just got back from a Youth Workers convention, and one of the speakers called Lutherans the "Frozen Chosen", so I think you're on the right track. And she was an equal opportunity offender, I'm not all hung up on titles (which tend to get in the way of the important work), but I do go to a United Methodist church. She started her talk by saying that she "had a conversation with a United Methodist right before the seminar...that's not unusual around these parts, but the fact that he was literate was".
Ha!
Best joke along those lines I've ever heard was
"The Jews don't recognize Jesus as the son of God. The Catholics don't recognize Martin Luther's proclamations. The Baptists don't recognize each other at Hooters."
Talk about high maintenence.... Are you sure you're not a 15 year old girl?
At my age, it's Jon Prine all the way.
She don't like her eggs all runny
She thinks crossin' her legs is funny
She looks down her nose at money
She gets it on like the Easter Bunny
She's my baby I'm her honey
I'm never gonna let her go
He ain't got laid in a month of Sundays
I caught him once and he was sniffin' my undies
He ain't too sharp but he gets things done
Drinks his beer like it's oxygen
He's my baby
And I'm his honey
Never gonna let him go
In spite of ourselves
We'll end up a'sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize
We're gonna spite our noses
Right off of our faces
There won't be nothin' but big old hearts
Dancin' in our eyes.
1st, any church telling me I can't get busy isn't going about winning my business in the right way.
2nd, I've got a project in mind to put together a bluegrass revival group, and do the church circuit. Most church and worship bands are boring (sorry worship band players!) as all get out. I think a little boot stomping revival bluegrass is just the thing to liven up your average Lutheran service.
Any I IV V chord prog would work.
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Or something therabouts.
There's no talent. It's a really simple song.
The alternating bass walk you can do just by bouncing your thumb from the E string to the A string, and plucking the rest of the treble strings with your fingers. Everything else is done with your fretting hand. When you switch from G to C, you don't alter your picking at all.
I do strum the D portion, though. The tempo doesn't change, but it does switch to a half time beat, so it sounds like the song slows down.
Even the riff isn't that hard. It's played directly out of the G shape, and you can do it with one finger. I'll put it in notation and tab, and post it up.
You barre it, just like you would any other E form anywhere else on the neck.
Dude, you're 15. You're going about this all wrong. What you need is a theme song.
"Super Freak"
She's a very kinky girl, the kind you don't take home to mother...
The only girl better than the current one is the next one.
There are only two.
1. Buddy Rich.
2. Neal Peart (of Rush fame)
Peart, besides being the greatest living drummer today, also wrote a book about the loss of his daughter and wife, and the 55,000 mile motorcycle trip he took in order to escape from it. As a parent and an avid motorcyclist, this elevates him to a whole new height of pedestal.
I've been playing (Seriously) for a little over a year now.
I don't do well with timing or barre chords just yet. I play in Drop-D mostly for rock, but I'm learning
how to play along with my church band. I'm not that good (in my own opinion) but others tell me that I'm doing well for someone who is self-taught.If I could just get my timing right I'd be loads better.
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Playing with other people is the best way to get better quickly.
Go buy yourself a metronome for Christmas. Practice with it every day. You'll notice improvement quickly.
You are within three frets of any major or minor chord no matter where you are on the fretboard.
The CAGED sequence details this.
You get a brand new fretboard at the 12th fret. Just barre, and you're golden.
B down at the 12th fret is a closed D form chord.
-11-
-12-
-11-
-9-
-x-
-x-
E down there is a closed G form.
-12-
-9-
-9-
-9-
-11-
-12-
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