julietgreen

It's got to be my own personality because I'm just not good enough to make a faithful replication of anyone else.

Play with other musicians.

Love the Korg. Not too pricey and saves so much frustration for quick tuning while the guitarists are doing their incessant widdling. As a sax player, I downloaded the gStrings app for android and I'm very impressed. It picks up the tuning notes from the instrument or the amp and isn't phased by all the extraneous noise going on around.

Check out Dave Marks too. He's ace.

Well Ben, do you have any advice on the fretting and the fingering of this? I can't make up my mind whether to try to hit all the notes or pull off on some. Gonna try Danny's suggestion, but I'm sometimes slower on open strings than on fretted...

Hmmm - hadn't thought of that. I've been trying something along the lines of ... [b]--------------------[/b] -------------------- [b]7-5---5-------------[/b] [b]----7---7-5-7-5-3-5-[/b] and since my hands aren't huge, been having to use little finger on the 7th fret. I shall have a go at that suggestion, Danny, ta.

The band in which I play bass (at only an intermediate level, since I'm mainly a saxophonist) wants to do a cover of this. I'm definitely not up to speed with the triplets in the interlude, though the others parts are coming. Is there any advice other than keep going till it's faster? I'm concerned that bad technique will prevent me from ever playing at speed.

Yeah we cover this with female vox in our band. Always goes down well.

Thanks for the welcomes folks. I also play saxophone and in fact am doing both on New Year's Eve - 2 bands - cheesy rock and then some ska to finish the night.

Followed the signs from Dave M on YouTube. I'm relatively new to bass, having done more blowing than fingering, so to speak - but having fun now playing local gigs and slightly out of my comfort zone.