Well done as usual Lanny! When is the scrolling sheet music & tab coming? 
I struggle to have the willpower to learn a whole cover. Tend to just learn a riff or two from a song. Might do it sometime though. Have one in mindā¦
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do it ! do it ! do it ! 
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Nicely done! . . . 
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I thought of that @JTā¦ Well, at least for the lyrics but then figured that Iād be taking everyone back to the early 60ās to the time of black and white TV and a show called āSing along with Mitchāā¦
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Thanks @terb - Couple places where I was ārushingā a bit, but for this cover my focus was to write the notes that I actually heard being played in the original recording and try to replicate those same notes and tones as accurately as possible. Even though there are tons of tabs and youtube videos out there, theyāre not played the same as what I transcribed and played here. Goes to show that I guess we all hear things differently. When I listen to the original recording now, and then listen to what I play, I suppose I didnāt do too damn bad putting to paper what I heardā¦ All round a great learning experience - and FUN too!
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That it isā¦ and you are ahead of most of us here when it comes to transcribing and covering 
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Yet āWay Behindā when it comes to āMusic Theoryā and āGearā @joergkutterā¦
What really puts a smile on my face though,ā¦ is when I finish the cover and then actually listen to the finished product side by side to the original versionā¦ Just being able to emulate (what I hear) as being just the ārightā tones with notes fretted where I believe those specific tones live on my bass fretboard is most satisfyingā¦ Again,ā¦ why I personally donāt like using online tabsā¦ but then again, if those tabs are all a person has to go by and use to be able to play their bass, then by all means use them!! Itās all about playing and making music while enjoying the experience!
Keep on Thumpinā!
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thatās a great exercise you chose to do, @Lanny. I very often have to transcribe the songs I cover, as many of the bands I listen to are not popular enough to have been tabbed on the net 
but in my case I usually donāt try to sound like the record ; here itās a personnal/artistic choice and both options are pretty interesting in my opinion.
and as you say @Lanny, transcribing is not mandatory at all : if some of you want to record a cover based on tabs founds on the net, itās perfectly fine 
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I remember that show. Corny as all hell, but lots of fun.
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Follow the bouncing ballā¦ Where āKaraokeā actually first startedā¦
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Only been playing a month, there are a fair share of mistakes. Iām pretty close, but who knows how long it will take to get a good cut, so Iām posting now. Be kind, but honest, for a month, how am I doing?
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thatās pretty cool ! sure there are mistakes, but nothing very surprising after one month of playing. Iād say the more difficult might be to catch the right rythmic placement, which is not easy. it requires some time, but youāre on the right road.
anyway you will get better and I prefer having a focus on what is more important in my opinion than the final result :
- you played a full song, which is a very good thing already. compared to the short lessons on the B2B course for example, itās a totally different exercise. way more challenging overall. you did pretty well !
- you recorded a cover and posted it ! which is really really cool. really a very good way to learn a ton on different aspects of playing and recording
and talking about the result, Iād say that Iām impressed by the tone you get with your phone. of course itās not the best studio tone ever, but we can hear everything very clearly and thatās what matters !
well done dude ! 
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Thanks Terb. I wanted to get a perfect cut, but after take #50 things were getting dicey 
. I could see my inconsistencies in the rhythm and then I notice and either slow down or speed up. I also need to be more consistent in my pluck. The big thing for me in those chugging parts is I start to hit my pickup and I need to fix that.
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@jazmo1999 - For only one month, youāre nailing it! Everything that @terb mentioned aboveā¦ Timing and fingering will come in time. Just being able to record a full song and post it like you did is totally Badass!! Iāll be willing to bet that You could nail that song hands down timing wise if you knew you werenāt recordingā¦ Sometimes (at least for me) when I know that Iām recording, I focus a bit too much on hitting the notes instead of focusing on the music being playedā¦ Locking into the groove is the key to creating the perfect tone at exactly the right timeā¦ I can only imagine how good youāre gonna be in another month!
Keep recordingā¦ Itās a great way to watch and hear yourselfā¦ You will always be your worst critic, and seeing and hearing what you do, and sharing that with others really helps to make yourself better. Keep it up, and remember toā¦ Keep on Thumpinā!
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Great job! Just posting a cover to a whole song a month into it is awesome - and ditto to whatās been said above.
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@jazmo1999 What @terb and @Lanny said was spot on.
Man, for one month, that was pretty great. Doing a whole song while filming and still getting your body bobbing along and getting into it, thatās really good.
I feel like I blinked and now Iām over a hundred posts behind on this thread.
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That was really good for just a month in, man.
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Hey guys, I want to say thank you for all the support. A little terrifying to post that and no way I would have done it on my FB page or something public. But I knew you guys would be supportive. Iām working hard now and listening to the drum beat and the band and that is helping to slow me down and keep me in the groove more. Sounds crazy but one day later and I already feel like Iām doing much better. One thing Iām having an issue with. I practice it with the VOX headphone amp and the music put through that as well. Through that I get a great springy tone to my bass that fits the song better, but when I go to my amp I feel like the strings are concrete. I canāt get that light springy sound. Maybe I just need to get used to it, but I canāt seem to play it as lively or playful as I can through the VOX.
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Might just need a little EQ adjustment on the amp?
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