Thanks amigo, yea the slow grooves can, and will trip you up if you’re not careful. I appreciate the kinds words about my dad, he was a great dude. I miss him very much
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Meant to reply also about the Jackson. Yes sir I am a huge Jackson bass fan. Mine is a Dave Ellefson model, and it is the bomb so to speak! I use it for most of my covers. The EMG pickups are great, and it plays great 
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Question about the EMG set up… does it have active / passive ( push / pull ) control?
On my J2SP, which has actives (not emgs tho)… I can select active or passive… I save batt life, by playing 99% of the time passively. 
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No push/pull function, but I don’t burn through batteries believe it or not. I use a good one too, like Duracell or energizer.
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See … the prob with mine… ( I like to keep mine jacked in… ready to grab… right next to me )… I left it jacked, and in active… which sucked the batt DRY. There is a trigger lever in there, that switches the actives ON, if the jack is in. The pullout disables that 
Edit: the reason I was asking… Is I was considering putting EMGs on this… but without the passive option… hard pass. I like the passive option.
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To be honest it may work with EMGs, you’d have to research that brother. I just don’t know
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Thanks. Tricky tune with a lot of little differences to remember!
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"Sometimes I Grab Life By the Bass!,
Sometimes I make me a BassFace! "
My shot at Basketcase - Green Day
Needs work, I know… it’s quick.
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Nice work man! I’m working on She right now and those 2 basslines feel sooo alike to me. Good hammer on practice.
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Awesome!! Can’t wait
I forgot just how quick this tune was … LOL!! This is why we make these vids tho… so we can see our improvement
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Oh I didn’t mean for a cover but maybe I’m stuck down by one now 
I need to do more covers I’m just spending 99.9% of my time learning songs. I haven’t even made time for b2b lately 
I wish I could record audio and video at the same time instead of doing it with zoom and reaper separately. That would make things quick enough to record all of my sessions.
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Do you have a laptop? If so … a very inexpensive DAI will do… and OBS ( the video recorder ) will fix that for you
Oh I have an interface in just saying using 2 apps for video/audio sucks. I record video with zoom and audio with Reaper and then I use Davinci resolve to edit (which I really don’t like).
I might try to reinstall Ableton and use that instead of reaper. I just wish I could still use Windows movie maker that used to be easy.
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See OBS does both at once … takes the feed from the DAI … and DONE. 1 recording… and its over
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Sounds good dude! Love Green Day, I want to cover Christie Road one day.
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Thanks man I just have to work at keeping up with this one! LOL
Not familiar with Christie Road … gonna look it up
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I was doing something like that early on, recording in Garageband and photo booth at the same time. I found that I prefer doing audio and video in separate takes. I can screw up and have to redo audio as many times as it takes and not have to put on the bass face until I have that done. After that, just glue them together in iMovie and export.
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This is why I use OBS … it does it all
I get you can re-master the audio… but I’m not doing these for perfection
I do these so I can track my progress
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But doesn’t that mean that that the fingering/plucking is not in synch with the video sometimes, if you “improvise” a little?
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see … I couldn’t do that … There is an ethics thing… like you pointed out…
What happens in the vid, is what’s happening in the audio.
edit: if I suck, then I suck… Oh well… moar practice lol
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