Thank you! Yeah, I usually play with a crunchy, zingy tone to match Geddy Lee as best I can with just my amp and bass knobs. This one had the tone knob cranked all the way to the warmest one, which was nice experimentation for me.
Me too. Another of my influences is the YouTube channel TJH3113, who does that often too whenever he makes covers of songs whose endings fade out like that.
Thank you for the kind words. I’m not afraid to be myself. In fact, I go out of my way to be different from most people and is one of the reasons I am a Rush fan (most of my fellow Gen Zers are not). I do my best to have my public self match my private self as to not be a phony. I remember reading a quote by Ray Dalio that said, “The worst thing you can be is a phony, because if you’re a phony, you will lose people’s trust and your own self-respect.”
My authenticity isn’t always well-received, but I’m used to it. I could never forgive myself for spending my life trying to be someone else.
The quote you shared is also something I read about in The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy. The law of attraction applies to most everything, whether it’s a partner, financial resources… you name it. In Hardy’s case, and you can fact-check me by reading the book, he basically designed his ideal partner, then made all of the positive changes in his life that were necessary in order to attract that kind of partner, and it worked very well.
I’m doing the same thing. It’s not easy, though. I love to study history, but I’ve met very, very few women who do, too. But you know… nothing worthwhile is easy. If I have to wait until I’m 30 or 35 before I meet my ideal partner, then fine. It’s better than settling.
@Professor – She is a fantastic singer-songwriter from Alabama (now based in KC). If you want to check her out, her last two albums, Saint Cloud and Tigers Blood, are excellent.
You got it! All her stuff is great - she has a new side project out with her twin (I Think) Sister called SnoCaps. Check that out too. @johnf Can I ask, did you learn that by ear, or from Songsterr or something?
I learned this one by ear. I popped it into Moises, cranked up the bass, turned down the other instruments, and wrote out the structure as best as I could.
I think I played parts of the high-register verse sections (where she sings “I…imprint all your ideas on mine…”) in a different area of the neck compared to the studio track. It sounds like Brad Cook got a fatter slide on the A-string with a little more runway taking it all the way up to the 15th fret… I used the D-string for a shorter slide to the 10th fret. But, that’s just where it felt most comfortable to me on the neck! This was a fun one to take my time with because of all those subtle variations baked into it.
Yes, that SnoCaps album is really cool, and I’m definitely looking forward to digging deeper into her older catalog!
I also recorded this today. It took me a few days to really get this down as I only normally practice new songs once I have done more structured learning. It’s all waking bass at the moment. Anyway, I really love this song and wanted to play it for a while.
@sunDOG Interesting how different and great both versions of this song are! I thought the bathroom had been a setting choice It looks cool! “crappy Hofner Shortie”? It has a great tone, though!
@THRILLHO Great cover! Interesting that you were able to post a Beatles cover on YouTube without it being blocked!
@John_E Great cover, John! I didn’t know you play so many instruments. Maybe you could do like @Paul_9207 and make a cover of some song playing all the instruments? bass, sax, guitar, etc? I didn’t know there was such a thing as an banjo rabbit hole. Things can get very expensive with so many instruments. I imagine the sax rabbit hole might be the most expensive one!
@Qohelet-David Great job with this cover, well played! It looks like a hard song to play.
@Mktony32 Great cover! I’m sorry to hear you suffered at school. I can relate to that. I didn’t study at a boarding school, just a regular school, and was bullied so much that I seriously thought of putting an end to my suffering. I’m glad I listened to a wiser part of myself who told me to be patient, that things would get better. I’m glad I was strong to keep going. I’m glad you too were strong.
I do know how to play banjo but very much in the early learning stages. I know how to play piano and trumpet as well but it has been years. Bass and sax are my mainstays. I have done a couple bass/sax covers but I never like the way my sax sounds recorded. One of these days I need to sort that out once and for all.
Yes the sax rabbit hole blows bass GAS away. I actually started bass playing for a ‘cheaper musical hobby’. Although it is, sadly there was a lot of bandwidth to work in. I have several sax mouthpieces that are worth more than many of my basses, let alone the saxes themselves.
The last of the early Beatles albums - Help! - gives me my first real string crossing challenge with the pick. I struggled to figure out how best to play the main verse riff here. I tried plucking the strings in the same direction (all upstrokes), but I found the timing difficult. So I settled on playing an upstroke then a quick downstoke.
It’s almost certainly not the most efficient way, but it worked for me.
The next Beatles album, Rubber Soul, is a big step up in terms of complexity. I haven’t decided which song I’m going to do yet.
Today’s football shirt is my adopted home of Brazil. They definitely need some help after their insipid performance in the first game.
Probably my fave early Beatles tune. Nice job here, a weird twang in the tone I’m not loving on this one as much. That said very well played.
A study in Macca bass is a lot of fun! note the tabs out there get progressively worse as you get later in the catalog. I spend hours trying to correct them (a hobby in itself). Even the official sheet music is horribly wrong. Fun Beatles facts.
I got so annoyed with all the tabs for Can’t Buy Me Love because there’s a hammer on that I can hear but not one of them mentioned it. I watched a bunch of cover videos with tabs too and none of them had it.
So I transcribed the whole song myself. I thought about adding the tabs to my video but that would involve learning how to record my screen and sync them over the video. So that’s something for another day maybe.
Constantine on You-Tube is the closest to good. I usually start with him. He’s got way more on his website that’s linked from his YouTube account, link below.
If you get into any other ones that I’ve done, let me know and I can scan my chicken scratch tabs for you
It looks cool! “crappy Hofner Shortie”? It has a great tone, though!
