Great getting your feedback @terb! Couldn’t use either of my “P” basses for “My Girl” since I had both tore apart waiting for parts to upgrade the electronics on both…. I’m sure it would have sounded better with a P bass though…
Thanks for the feedback @John_E!! As for the 50 song challenge,… not sure my rendition would be keeping with the nature of the challenge itself since I didn’t play it according to the written sheet music or tabs. I play most all of my music by ear and by how I feel at the time. My interpretation of the “challenge” is to play those songs as written - something that I kinda don’t do since I don’t read sheet music or tabs…
If however you want me to post it there, I will if you think it would help someone…
Younger?? Must be either the bourbon or single malt I enjoy every evening!!
Shot that buck a few years ago outside my laundry/mud room door. Came in from working out on the property, stripped all my dirty clothes off, and saw it just standing there. I always keep guns by every door in the house, so I grabbed the one I had available (12 ga slug shotgun) and shot it when I was bare ass naked…. Damn thing was standing in my driveway staring at a couple does…
I think it would be great to show folks that you can write your own bass line over there.
Some folks have done different things other than as written on a few tunes, so to me, it is in the spirit of it all.
Came in from working out on the property today when it started raining so decided to throw this one together for something to do other than get wet outside… My rendition of: Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing”…
I put this simple bass line together by ear and simply used the changes as my basic bass line and added what I felt at the time. One thing I wanted to do was to add more ghost notes and several slides into my bass lines, so it doesn’t follow the original bass line recording as written.
yeah I love this song @Lanny ! funny how it remembers me that the guitar part at 5:22 has been a little technical challenge with a friend, a very long time ago …
your bass line works very well, and also I really like how this P looks. love the color scheme and the black block inlays on a maple neck. gorgeous.
Thanks @terb Laurent…. As a fellow guitarist, I’ve always loved how Mark Knopfler could make his guitar work so seamlessly - especially in this song…. One of the reasons I wanted to use a simple bass line and just add ghost notes and slides on some of the riffs…