I wouldn’t worry about playing exactly per the original, what you played, sounded great, @fennario!
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INXS - Need You Tonight
This song is another objective lesson in how an incredible groove doesn’t need huge numbers of notes. Garry Gary Beers of INXS was a master at this. Clearly, it doesn’t hurt that this song is so achingly cool!
Ibanez EHB1000S into an Ampero One, then on into GarageBand
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Excellent work as always! Hitting those rests seems like it’s as important to this particular song as hitting the root on 1.
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Thanks gents! @sunDOG I wasn’t worried about it a bit! These past two covers have been learned just by watching and listening rather than using tabs, and it’s been a bit freeing.
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Loving these INXS covers, @sunDOG! Achingly cool indeed!
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Nice one @sunDOG !
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Great job Duncan!
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Great job brother, cool thumb too!
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I do enjoy a bit of R.E.M, so good choice. Well played, you look very relaxed, and it sounded great. 
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Love it, it is indeed a very cool song
Top job!
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I am very dependant on the Blue pill that is Songsterr, I don’t have the talent for the Red pill just yet 
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It gets easier with time. Try a really simple song at first. What got me playing by ear was a lot of songs I wanted to play were deep cuts and didn’t have bass tabs that I could find so I was forced to learn them on my own.
There is a lot of freedom in it, but noting wrong with using tabs either.
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That sounded great @fennario - You’ve also given me inspiration of a different REM song I’d like to cover 
@sunDOG love the song choice, it definitely has a groove 
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That was great! Have not heard that in a while. Mike Mills is the heart of REM, his lines always seem so “composed” to me, like he has thought hard about what to play and when to play it.
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Thanks Travis! Sometimes I like the thumbs, sometimes they are just meh. I did like this one. 
Ha! Totally. I’m not quite “there” yet, but getting away from the prescriptive “play the 10th fret on the A string with your ring finger” mentality and thinking more along the lines of “I know he plays it this way, but this other way sounds pretty good too and is more of my style” is pretty cool. Also takes the real or imagined pressure to “get it right” out of the equation.
Thanks @AndreaJayne , appreciate the kind words!
Thanks @saroohoo , I’ve now paid back the Chris Cornell inspiration. Looking forward to hearing it! There are so many good songs to choose from. I have a few more R.E.M. tunes in mind, but I think I’ll go my own way first and then come back to it.
1000% Dan!
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You got it brother!
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Stir It Up - Bob Marley
It’s pretty easy to learn the groove and song structure. Getting the tone required consistently pulling the full pad of your plucking fingers across the strings. The 2nd challenge is getting the bass line to actually groove. If at any moment you aren’t "feeling " song you lose the pocket. Here’s my best effort to groove this classic!
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Oh yea @fennario nice effort…just the right amount of overdrive to give the song a bit of grit!
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Nice job 401Blues! Solid groove.