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Anyone here play Eton Rifles regularly? I play quite a few fairly challenging songs with my band but for some reason I am struggling with the bass run in the verse from the D to the high E on the G string, sometimes I play it really cleanly and other times it's a bit sloppy, it's a bit hit and miss as to if I play that part cleanly with no slop or fret noise, any tips?
And it's me and my limited abilities not the setup of my bass
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This part of the song is a bar of C to a bar of D and repeats. C/// D/// C/// D///
My approach to this is playing the D on the A string with my 1st finger (this is 5th position), the D octave on the G string with my 4th finger, slide that up to the E on the G string. You're now in the 7th position and you use your 1st finger and 4th finger to play that E-D-B-A box pattern lick. If you're using your 3rd finger and 1st finger to play that lick, it could be the root of in the inconsistency.
Just keep running through it consciously (as slowly as you like without a metronome) until it builds muscle memory and say the notes to yourself as you play them.
Until it becomes second nature, in a live gigging situation if you could just repeat the pattern that is played on the C chord or even just play root D to octave D. I've never gigged it but have played it live on guitar where the bassist played a simplified version of that part that we agreed on.
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