Nice job gal!
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Thanks Travis!
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That was great, Dan!
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The Rocky theme bass cover!!
I must confess, this song was WAY harder than I expected, it’s like, Rush-level difficult with all the variations. I also just couldn’t quite nail the timing, and rushed (ba-dum-tss) a handful of times throughout this cover, but it was the best one out of a bunch of attempts. This was also a birthday present for my friend Matt, who had this song played when his business growing to a certain threshold was celebrated.
Also, I couldn’t find any accurate transcriptions of this song online, so I had to transcribe it myself, almost entirely by ear, and man, that was tedious!
Also regarding the sound quality, I moved from playing the song through my amp to playing it through an AirPod, then using the exact same file I listened to through it in iMovie, then syncing it as best I could with the bass audio, which was recorded from my phone’s mic.
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I think 2024 will be the last year I keep the statistics about this thread. A bit tired about asking all the time for a “Artist - Song” mention, and almost nobody do that (or for some reason in the wrong order, which requires me to check on Shazam all the time, which is quite time consuming). Well yeah, a bit tired. Not a big problem but the stats will end.
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A. Thanks for starting this fantastic thread and giving punters like me an outlet to improve their playing.
B. You should go on strike. That’s the French thing to do. Non? 
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Hi there! Here’s a recent cover I did:
Jesus culture - your love never fails
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The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
How about a bit of old skool, proto-punk, played on the fretless? Originally recorded in 1969, this song heralds the birth of punk a few short years later. Super simple to play, it’s basically G, F♯, E and repeat…apart from a couple of 4 bar bridges, but it’s so satisfying!
Vintage overdrive tone dialled in, helped by flat wound strings, I played this on the Sire V7 fretless (well, who says you can’t play punk on a fretless?) into the Ampero One, then on into GarageBand.
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Awesome. Look like a fun song to play. Sounds great on fretless.
Can I ask you a couple things - (1) I just got the Ampero Mini - can you share any tips or patches that you think work well on the bass, and (2) What do you use for the video effect - super cool. You can send me a direct message so as to not derail this post. Thanks a lot. Scott
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Excellent work. That looks like I a nice chugger. I’ve tried T.V. Eye out and it’s on my list but it’s a little beyond me still (not by much).
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Love this simple bass line. It’s a fairly beginner song but I’m learning more every time I play it
Cigarettes After Sex - Pistol
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Thanks @macshark! I’ll message re: your questions at some point tomorrow, been out all day today and just got home!
Chugging rocks, @faydout! .
I’ve just had a listened to TV Eye. What a cool song! When you isolate the bass track, a) you can hear, what I assume to be, mistakes and b) while song is in Am, the bassist also climbs up to the C and the D, but the pattern changes and feels pretty random to me. I think you just need to get on top of the rhythm - basically 8ths - start with the root (A) for one bar, then randomly add in the C & D in the second bar, after playing the A on the 1. Sometimes, I think I hear a drop to G, before coming back to the A. Stay on top of the groove and you’ll sound good, pretty much whatever to play! The song does resolve to just bashing the A after about 2mins 30secs. The energy is freakin’ fantastic!
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Imagine my surprise, when I didn’t read the title properly, pressed play and didn’t hear the Sex Pistols 
Great playing!
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Oh it’s about to get even cooler. Here’s a cover of it from a movie (Velvet Goldmine) with Ewan MacGregor a year after Trainspotting and year before Phantom Menace on vocals with Thruston Moore and Steve Shelley from Sonic Youth, Mike Watt from the Minutemen on bass, and Ron Asheton from the Stooges on guitar. Talk about crazy super groups.
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David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
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Blur - Good Song
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That’s from Songster:
The Stooges - Tv Eye (songster 71274).pdf (462.1 KB)
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What’s interesting is that the tab you’ve provided, @Whying_Dutchman, might be what he was intending to play, but when you listen to the isolated bass track, there is some variation, including mis-struck notes. To be honest, I think it’s the mistakes and slightly varied nature of the repeated phrases that give the song such raw energy.
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As always, great job and great tone on this song.
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