Keep in mind that Iāve also tried playing guitar for several months (8 - 9 months) before trying playing bass. I think this also helped immensely!
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Sounds great @robbp nice job!
āWeāre not even halfway to Connecticut yet and already youāre annoying me.ā This is What pops into my head when I hear this song.
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Good news @booker_t none of those songs on your table are on my playlist. Unless thatās āI want you backā I can see half covered. In which case I did that as my 12 month playing bass cover. Sorry.
It took me a very very long time to learn it 
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You bastard.
Yes, that is āI Wanāt You Backā on the table. I did try it and it was very tough so I decided to wait for another day (sooner now).
Awesome job. I know thatās not ājust playing the roots.ā
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Awesome cover, loving the Cure stuff. Itās also cool that you started adding the drum tracks too. Iām kind of inspired to do a guitar + bass cover now. Great playing!
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Oh man the bridgeā¦ it was so nice, you nailed it!
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Thank you. Yes, do a bass and guitar cover. I would love to see that.
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Wow @robbp, great cover! Yeah definitely couldnāt play this after three months. The drumming gave you rhythm, and guitar helps with the left hand, but your plucking hand is pro and thatās you putting in work the last 90 days
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wow, thatās some serious foam !
great cover ! but Iām wondering if you tuned your bass before or after putting the foam in place. the note seams a little bit out of tune to me.
anyway your playing level is very impressive, considering you play bass since a few months. I guess your experience with drums helps a lot about all the rythm things 
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I did tune after the foam, @terb. Weird, with my limited knowledge I set the intonation correctly so everything should be in tuneā¦ Iām taking my bass at the end of November to a professional luthier for a full pro setup. Hopefully this will solve this issue (that my untrained ears canāt hear)! 
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maybe the original record is not tuned to exactly 440 Hz, it happens quite often with older records and it creates exactly this kind of issue. not a big deal, but itās always good to know where this can come from !
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maybe the original record is not tuned to exactly 440 Hz
Wow, I had no idea about this! Yeah, it can be it since I tune my bass to 440 Hz (Iām not very confident in my luthier skills too setting the intonation, but it looked right to me and the tuner after setting it! )
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Wow! Awesome work guys! I get on a plane for 14 hours and I miss three great covers. All of them favorites of mine (because Iām old).
@Barney , great work on both songs. I remember hearing āMr. Big Stuffā while watching āSoul Trainā on TV.
@robbp , The Temps another favorite from my youth. Great job!
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When I look up songs on Chordify it will occasionally pop up a warning that the song is not tuned to 440 Hz.
Mainly older songs. It works by listening to the song from YouTube and then creating a chord chart. So it must recognize non standard tuning when itās magic software is doing itās thing.
I put in your cover song @robbp and Laurent is correct, itās slightly out of tune.
Itās a free website but if you pay you can use all the features like the looper etc.
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Havenāt been on here in a few months. I got COVID and started a new jobā¦ Been working on my picking and speed for a while. Decided to cover this silly punk song by a local band. They wear ski masks and all I have is my daughterās kitty mask. Let me know how I did. Thanks. Hope everyone is well.
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Hey @Old_Noob that sounds pretty damn good 
- picking and tone is spot on and I admire the dedication to your art with the mask 
Great job
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Nice job as usual @robbp
Great playing.
Aside from the original being off a bit, consider much narrower foam.
As you know the foam will effect tuning? But this length of it is extreme and would likely throw intonation way off too.
It doesnāt need to be more than 1/2ā wide really.
@terb @Barney - I read an interesting article that a lot of āsingle versionsā of songs for the radio were slightly sped up from the album cuts which in turn effect tunings. Was their way of squeezing in an extra couple tunes each day on the radio.
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