What song are you learning?

[steantval]

10 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Heard it through the grapevine (Creedence CR version). Interesting walking line, no two tabs remotely agree, I will have to use my ears...

Just learnt the FM version of Heard It Through The Grapevine, our band played it live for the first time Saturday night.

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 20:18 by steantval

[Woodinblack]

 

This, which was trickier as I hadn't heard of it before last week.

 

[stewblack]

I have a little list to sort for Bandeoke tonight. 

They won't be learned as such, more charted or transcribed then seat of the pantsed if they get called.

 

Mamma Mia- Abba 

If it makes you happy - Sheryl Crow 

Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus 

Hot to Go- Chappelle Roan 

Pink Pony Club - Chapelle Roan

Wagon wheel - Darius Rucker

All along the watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

 

Suffice it to say I've only heard of two of them.

 

[Reggaebass]

A favourite of mine at the moment I’ll be working on tomorrow 

 

[Little Helios]

I'm working on Jethro Tull's Bourée, which I've wanted to learn for a long time.

 

The hard part isn't playing it as such, but remembering all the different variations. I started out by transcribing the whole thing in standard notation, which took three evenings of work but was worth it, because it's so much easier to see all the different patterns and variations in this form. I don't think I could've learned this one from tab, it would've done my head in.

 

I'm getting on pretty well with it but have almost got to the bass solo bit, so I'm about to find out whether I have the chops for it or not!

 

One thing I certainly have gained from learning this is a massive admiration for Glenn Cornick.

 

[Stub Mandrel]

38 minutes ago, Little Helios said:

The hard part isn't playing it as such, but remembering all the different variations. I started out by transcribing the whole thing in standard notation, which took three evenings of work but was worth it, because it's so much easier to see all the different patterns and variations in this form. I don't think I could've learned this one from tab, it would've done my head in.

 

 

Lol! I've tabbed the whole thing because the online tabs were so bad especially the fingering choices. I have an official Jethro Tull songbook and it is utterly wrong...

 

I think the double stop parts are simplified.

 

Actually got accepted by UG! I bet it's different from yours!

 

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/user/tab/view?h=lmJUuipOVdeIcBzbyJjyAK3V&tab_id=12151325

[Stub Mandrel]

Should add, I aaw the Ian Anderson + session musicians version of Tull a couple of years ago. The bass player massively simplified it! I was well miffed, if I can play it anyone claiming to be in Jethro Tull ought to at least attempt it.

[Little Helios]

Ooh, your tab looks great. Yeah, I bet it is different from mine! Every version I've found has been slightly different. I know there are at least a couple of wrong notes in mine, but it does the job. The downside of using notation is that it doesn't include the fingering, so I'm having to work that out as I go along, and sometimes having to change bits I'd already learned when I find myself in the wrong part of the fretboard for the next bit.

 

It can be quite hard to make out the early Jethro Tull basslines because of the slightly flubby tone and it being buried in the mix. In fact I was a Jethro Tull fan for decades before I even realised how great some of the bass playing is on the first few albums, because I'd never put the work in to hear it properly. That might be one of the reasons there's a lot of crap tab out there.

 

I sometimes wonder if those official books purposely transcribe everything wrong to try to stop you copying the song too closely...

[Stub Mandrel]

Glenn Cornick was awesome. But much later Tull bassist Dave Pegg is my hero