[sorry I made a mistake and posted a thing on the wrong thread 
my bad !]
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ā¦ and today Iāll do something rather new, Iāll post a cover made by one of my best friends. this guy was the bass player of Kernel Panic, a band I created in the 2000ās (I played the guitar then). he was a guitar player, like me, and he decided to switch to the bass a few years ago. like me, but he did it a bit earlier. and weāre not that much in the same musical trip even if we all recognize what is good music in the styles we donāt know much. I can recognize what is a great song in a jazz/fusion style, and hopefully my friend Mathieu can admit what is good music in the sludge/doom/post-metal groove. So, yeah, Mathieu is more in the jazz/fusion things.
his thing is to play serveral parts at the same time and it can sound like this :
I absolutly LOVE the original composition. I think my friend did his thing well, I like the way he makes the song his own with a very different approach.
@Gio and @JoshFossgreen I donāt ask you very often but, this time, Iād really love to know what you think about my friendās playing ! thank you !
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Hail @terb!
Cool video, and thanks for the intro/share for your buddy.
The song is Nardis, by Miles Davis (or Bill Evans, depending on who you ask), and itās a gorgeous tune, and a jazz standard staple.
As for commenting on his playing - I have lots of different filters I apply to comments for a person. Itās mostly based on what their background is, and their ambition. If his goal was to be a session bassist in the NY jazz scene, I would reply differently than if he wants to make music for himself and his community, while having his profession being something non-bass related.
I think he has good technique, good time, and he has created a lovely solo bass arrangement for a lovely melody.
Let me know if there are more specifics you want, or questions you want answered. But to put a non-forum member up for critique is tricky, as I donāt know them or their bass journey at all!
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yeah sure, thank you very much @Gio , I know thatās a bit strange. no pro- ambition, heās just a guy who plays bass and he released this thing, heās in his trip to do several melodic parts at one time. I find itās interesting, not very common.
thank you very much @Gio, itās pretty cool to have your first-approach-analysis already 
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Nice!! Would like to be able to pull off something like that in a year or two 
Just out of curiosity: was he hearing the chords on his headphones or just his own playing??
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donāt know if he has the chords but he has at least a drum track !
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so he said he has the drum and the bass but no chords
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Cool 
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A couple of questions about posting covers on this site:
Does the cover have to be exact note for note as the original recording?
Are there any copyright issues when posting the recording youāre playing with?
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not at all ! you can record your own bass line if you want
it depends from one band to another, the more a band is āknownā the more likely you will get a claim on Youtube or Soundcloud. on Youtube, often you get a claim but the video is still available.
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Where do the covers reside when we post from here?
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Most people upload them to YouTube, privately or publicly and then just link to the YouTube video in this thread.
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Yes, but YT is more āproneā to be visited by bots that check for copyright violation - my King Crimson cover was pulled after two days. A better option, in that respect, is to put the videos on Vimeoā¦ so far, my cover video hasnāt been pulled yet from Vimeo.
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or if you have your own website, you can upload your videos directly there. thatās what @Lanny always does, and what I do too when Youtube bans a video (it has been the case for my AC/DC cover).
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Here is my americana/country/bluegrass cover of the year ! not very original, as @Lanny already recorded a cover of this song.
but, well ā¦ I felt in love with this song the first time I saw OāBrother. by the way I love more or less every J&E Coen movie Iāve seen. those guys are very talented in my opinion.
The Soggy Bottom Boys & Dan Tyminski - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvsUUkl8m8
Here again I made my own bass line, which is not much more than a more evolved version of the original one. As for my previous country cover, and not as usual, Iām playing without a pick and with a foam block near the bridge. The preamp used is the Bass POD Pro with the Ampeg SVT-VR model, but with different settings than what I usually use. Also I used the Dod FX84 in front of the preamp.
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Coen Brothers are amazing. I mean, Big Lebowski is enough to vault them to epic tier status, but Fargo was also really well done, and Barton Fink is just so weird.
The P-Bass tone with the SVT model is spot on for that song.
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Sounds great as always. Definitely twice as good without a pick. 
My wife has asked me to do a cover of a particular song. Started looking at it this morning. Not used to memorizing more than 20 sec or so of a song, so going to be interestingā¦
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Same here! Great cover, and well thought-through choice of tone, plucking style and, uhm, outfit 
I hope that is the summit cross there in the background!?! 
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itās the cross of the village where I live, maybe 20 meters from my kitchen
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Thank you Jack Daniels, and thank you @Gio for telling me about this great band !
The Devil Makes Three - Old Number Seven
First of all, believe it or not but the N7 t-shirt is not here on purpose at all, it was not intended to match the song name and I realized the similarity only when I was exporting the video file. funny 
(itās from my favorite video game of all times : Mass Effect)
About the bass line, here again I went with my own bassline which is some kind of more evolved version of the original line. The thing is that the original song is played with an upright and I was not trying at all to sound like an upright ; obviously you donāt play the same way on an upright and on an eletric fretted bass and Iām totally OK with that. Iām working on what I would call my ādark country grooveā and Iām trying to write interesting bass lines with my own feeling but I hope it doesnāt sound too busy for such a minimal song. what do you think ? honest criticism please 
The song and the bass line are not difficult. The (very relative) difficulty here is that there is absolutly no hard tempo reference. I mean, no drum. You just have to listen to the other instruments, feel the tempo and the groove and make your place into the mix. In fact the drum is replaced by two things : the bass line of course (and here the foam is really usefull to give a more percussive yet smooth attack), and the percussive playing on the guitars. Itās cool but not really usual for me, as almost all of the music I listen to have a drum.
Tone-wise, nothing very original, itās my current Americana standard tone : Greenie with the foam block, Dod FX84, Bass POD Pro with SVT-VR model and a very lightly dirty tone (almost clean).
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