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Started covering some Hal Leonard First 50 songs, here’s my attempt at Creep. My first song with 16th notes and hammer-ons. Far from perfect, but didn’t want to leave my November practice diary empty, so here it is. 
Constructive criticism welcome as always.
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that’s a nice cover @akos ! it’s not easy to introduce new things when you play an instrument, but you did quite well 
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That sounded fantastic @akos ! I don’t know the song but you were spot on and the Lakland has great tone. I enjoyed listening.
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One more Hal Leonard First 50 cover while I’m at it: Down on the Corner by CCR. Another one with 16th notes…
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WOW, holy growl Batman!
Well done @akos!
What settings are you using on the Lakland for this?
Sounds awesome.
Is this the Geezer bass?
What strings?
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Another great cover and super cool tone @akos - chorus on there? Octaver?
The first note played brought back a memory I had completely forgotten.
In highschool my guitarist buddy wanted me to learn bass, I said no (dummy).
He insisted he teach me a song though, and this was it!
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Yes this is the one with the GZR pups. Strings are the factory D’Addario EXL165. All knobs are all the way up on the bass - I paid for two pickups, I’m going to use both at full volume! I used the “contour” mode on the Rumble (+1dB @ 80Hz, -13dB @ 670Hz, +2dB @ 8kHz), other than that everything at noon.
Just clean tone, no effects
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Hi @cobaltblue13 - nice work and great song selection for starting out.
Playing whole songs builds a lot of confidence and lots of other skills as well.
Two things to consider…
- Don’t put yourself down when making a video, just enjoy yourself. As my instructor says, “I can hear through the mistakes”. If you are going to make a funny face, own it and make it a bass face!
- more this, not this - 
(reminds me, we need a proper bassface emoji) You are doing great, enjoy it! - You may wish to do a search in B2B or in Josh’s YouTube videos about muting. It is a tricky concept to get at first and at some point you start doing it without thinking. You can hear some strings ‘ringing out’ after they are played, they should be ‘muted’ with one of your hands (depending on what else your fingers are doing). Good time to incorporate some of this in your practice.
Great job overall, timing things but that is normal, new bass still looks great, keep it up!
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I have P envy.
Def need to play with strings on mine.
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Thanks!…it’s a tricky one, that’s for sure. But I love Def Leppard…they were a bit band growing up, and I still listen to them to this day. I do tend to do that, lol, I dunno why, maybe from what you say that I made a couple mistakes and all that…and I still haven’t gotten used to it yet :/. But we do need a icon for that ;3. But thank you for your kind words, I call the Bass Christine ;3 we’ll keep working on it!
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Love it, awesome!
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And because of the…format and not being used to replying just yet, I also forgot to say, some of the notes that ‘rang’ I did on purpose!. I admit I do need to work on that…I cannot mute to save my life XD. but I did some for some added ‘flare’…is…that bad? O.o XD
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Sounds like a couple small timing issues on this one, @akos ,
Tone is nice, I think you did a nicer job on “creep”
Cheers Brian
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Hi @cobaltblue13 ,
Great to see you posting your progress,
What I think you should try practicing is alternating your picking fingers as opposed to using the same finger.
It takes time and practice, but it will all come together,
Keep up the good work,
Cheers Brian
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Depends on what your goals are.
If you are trying to cover a song and get it to sound like the original, then it’s not the best.
Once you get into songs that are a bit more complex, that ringing out will create dissonance and bad harmonics with the notes played next to it and be a hot mess.
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