What a great job @mahtab !!!
Your ‘bass neck swagger’ is as good at your groove.
My only feedback is to look into floating thumb technique (where you move your thumb down the strings vs. keeping it anchored all the time on the pickup). This helps muting lower strings and will eliminate some of the harmonic resonance. It’s minor here but may be heard more in a cleaner recording. This will help you in the long haul with muting in general too, otherwise your left hand will have more work to do.
Well done, and I promise not to talk about you know who!
Here is my first ever cover with the dreaded pick (gotta happen sometime, right?). I think I have learned the trick to using a pick…compressors…haha.
I was not very happy with the sheet music I was finding online, and bought the ‘official’ Beatles book, which, is officially very wrong and full of typos. So I transcribed the whole thing by ear ever so slowly. I wanted to see how close to original recording I could get, and I think I got pretty darn close.
Researching what bass Macca used song by song on Abbey Road came up pretty empty for this tune. I think most lean towards his Rickenbaker though, however, I don’t have one, so I gave my used $150 ugly green Hofner (next best Macca thing) a go. Original bass sits pretty loud in the mix, so tried to emulate tone and sound close too.
That sounded good! Sound quality on the backing track better than average as well.
For a more Rick-like tone, picking closer to the bridge might help? It’s also easier to pick back there, though I prefer it up between the pickups myself.
I’m not so sure he used a Rick on this one (there’s an isolated bass video on YouTube of the whole album), to me it sounds like his Hofner but not sure. I didn’t like how it sounded back there by the bridge either. Maybe I’ll do another take when the Rick arrives and compare.
Great job with that pick @John_E!! Great job with the cover and the tones seemed to fit well… I couldn’t agree with you more about “official”music sheets being incorrect with notations. I’ve seen this many times when I tried to “officially” learn bass cover songs early on. You can never go wrong using your ear…. And you did a terrific job using it!!
Thanks @Lanny. One thing I learned, esp from this one, is a lot of the transcriptions (official or just others) that are close lose some of the really important feel components. Those short rests, the slightly longer note holds, etc. When I watched Get Back and watched Paul play, you could SEE his FEEL, and you then can most certainly HEAR it. To me this is the difference between a ‘wedding band’ and the original. Hope one day my ear gets as good as yours, as you certainly capture the ‘feel’.
After much blood, sweat, tears and other fluids, I can finally present a more or less workable version of Stay Clean . The solo is still a little rough but I think I could get away with it live .
Actually, I am kind of cheating in the solo - I couldn’t easily remove Lemmy’s bass with the EQ without losing the vocals / guitars, so you can kind of hear me piggy backing on top of it during the solo. So regrettably the tone is not 100% mine…
While practising this I rapidly became aware of the shortfalls of Songsterr - it completely blows for this track. In the end I worked it out by a combination of Motorhead videos and slowing the track down on youtube…
Thanks! I think a lot of Lemmy’s tone was down to him hitting the strings so hard - there’s no way I can get that bite on mine because I play too light…
I don’t know the song or the solo, but I sure liked your solo @Ed.
Great job all around.
Besides, like my guitarist friend always tells me, no solo is ever exactly the same, so make it yours anyway.
You might want to start trying apps the separate the track into stems and then can take the bass out. Moises is what I use. The downfall there is notes high up on the bass are still there anyway, but it does a good job of cleanly removing bass.
Damn nice job @Ed!! Great finger work on the fretboard, and some nice pick work goin’ on!!. You played it like you owned it!!
I don’t know the song, but what you did sounded great. Like @terb mentioned, I could hear the other bass line tones, but like you mentioned, you’d do just fine playing the song live with a band…
As for eq’n out the original bass line without dipping into the mids too far, that could be a real challenge at times…. I’ve never used songster or YouTube for recordings before so don’t know how they work. I only use Transcribe! and Garage band. In GB, I can typically use the built in EQ to lighten out most of the original bass lines in songs making the harder to remove bass frequencies sound a bit like a guitar thus allowing my bass notes to take a more front stage presence without lowering mid’s and vocals. Takes a bit of messing around, but thats what works for me…
You’ve totally got to get that painted
. The solo is still a little rough but I think I could get away with it live 
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