Yeah I guess I need to build up the muscle in the hand - I’m relying a lot my wrist muscles to keep the speed up at the moment. I tell you though I’m going to have a right hand like a bunch of bananas if I keep playing this.
Thanks 
I keep trying stuff that’s a bit above my level and I never get it 100% but I can feel the improvements later…
Hi Folks, not been on this thread for a couple of months and it seems like I missed about a thousand posts! Took me a long time to go through them and check out some of the covers. Amazing work by y’all: Gary Moore, Motorhead, Pink Floyd, Monkees, Four Non-Blondes, Chris Isaak, Status Quo (who did I miss?), all artists/bands I like and would like to have a go at playing along to! I can finally do Money from Dark Side of the Moon all the way through. Probably about the most complex things I can play as a beginner (not that it is that complex)
Anyway I have made some progress…I downloaded the software that came with the Zoom U44, Ableton, both DAI and DAW work, have done a few tests. And tested filming myself with video.
So now I know I can make a recording of myself, and a video. The piece of the jigsaw I’m missing now is getting the original material. A song that I decide to cover (and then strip out the bass track), and the video - as I’d like to do something like Pam Purrs has done, me playing, alongside the official video of the original band playing (unlike Pam though I’m not yet if the stage of going down the green screen/chromakey route)
So what I need to ask is, where can I get the source material from? I know Pam said we can get songs from Amazon, I’m a Prime subscriber but not sure where in their options there is music to purchase that we are then allowed to use for our own recordings? Likewise, where so we get an official video from we can use? Again, I’m happy to pay for it. I’ve searched online but get hit with a ton of sites saying ‘music for your YouTube videos’. It’s overwhelming.
I’m not actually aiming to out it on YouTube anyway, it’s just for personal use and sharing in forums and on social media for friends (Facebook) but I want to stay legal, I guess even if not using YouTube, sites like Facebook still need purchased copies or a license?
If anyone could guide me or advise me as to where you get your source track you use to play bass with, and if you use original videos, where to get those from, and all legally, that would really help. As I think I may be able to record some simple bass tracks soon. Thanks 
p.s. sorry for all the typos…more coffee required today… 
Songs - you will need to pay for Vs use from a “subscription service”. Those are protected and you can’t manipulate them. If you buy the song (I use iTunes but same for Amazon) for ~$1.29 then you can use one of the many softwares to strip the bass out.
Videos - the way to do this is to use a screen grab/capture tool (can’t really buy them often). I’ve never done this so can’t tell you which software is best etc but @PamPurrs can.
If you have an Nvidia card, then a free screen capture tool comes with it.
But there is software too, I use 4k Video to download videos from YT and Dailymotion to an MP4 on my hard drive. Then you can edit. Or I use 4k Video to MP3 to convert the MP4 to an MP3 file for a playlist.
And there’s other software out there.
Most songs can be purchased from Amazon for $1.29 some are even less. I strip out the bass with a program called RX9 by Izotope. It’s not cheap, but it does a good job. I also use it for many other audio post production tasks, but I mainly bought it for the music rebalance feature.
I host my videos on either Vimeo or YouTube and link it to my own site. i prefer YouTube, but sometimes they block them, depending on the agreement they have with the owner of the copyright. If I get a message that it will be blocked, I just cancel it and put it on Vimeo. Much of the time YouTube has an agreement wherein they will allow your video, but the monetization goes to the copyright owner, which is fine with me. You’ll also notice, I always put a plug at the end of my video telling the viewer how to purchase the song, which makes my video sort of a plug for the artist and producer. There’s a grey area in Intellectual Property law (one of my favorite classes in law school), in which you can often get around the copyright law as long as you are not selling or in any way being enriched through the use of the material. Since I don’t sell anything on my site, and am allowing the IP owner to be monitized by my video, and I’m promoting sales of the song, and most importantly am not claiming it to be my work, I’m pretty much in compliance with IP law. The worst that can happen is YT is compelled to take my video down. It hasn’t happened yet.
For grabbing music videos from YouTube, which I sometimes incorporate into my videos, I just use screengrab software. The best I’ve found is the one by Movavi.
Excellent @Ed ! Not familiar with the band but your playing dexterity is outstanding! I enjoyed it.
Great chuggin’ @Ed and nice finger work, especially at the re-intro mid of the song 
very nice playing @Ed , this kind of cover is not the easy way !
Get out!
Fantastic @Ed a blast from the past. I saw them at the Isle of Man TT races in the early 90s. That’s a serious workout.
Go and join @John_E on the naughty step. Never heard of The Quo. The world’s gone mad 
Today’s homework for @JerryP and @John_E is to put your feet up for 3 mins and listen to a 1973 classic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4TJfEA7C3C4
Homework done. Never heard of that song either.
OK, I take back the statement that I was not familiar with the band. I looked them up and found out that I am familiar with one of their songs “Pictures of Matchstick Men”, 1968 (which I have on my playlist in the car) but I am unaware of rest of their work.
Don’t feel bad @John_E and @JerryP . I’m unfamiliar with most of the bands that are covered in this thread. I’m stuck in the 70s, 80s, and some of the 90s and I’m okay with that
Looks like a mainly UK band. Very very popular there. Crazy how a band around for 50 years can escape being know. By many.
I had a friend that was really in to them. I never really got in to them myself. One of those bands like Big Star or The Tubes that kind of flew under the radar with a lot of talent onboard.
Here we go. First song I figured out completely by ear. Think I got it right. Still need to work on the chord changes during the chorus. Syncopation is killing me. The band “Something to Do” is a Milwaukee-based ska/punk/rock band that I discovered two weeks ago after seeing them open for Mustard Plug. This song caught my attention and couldn’t stop listening to it.
How did I do?
Hey that sounds good to me . I always cheat and go to the tab …