You are, of course, right @Vik 
Two things, though: a) I haven’t recorded what I came up with yet (it’s not an audition tape - I hope to jam with them in person), and b) I would need the OK from these guys to post their compositions…
Didn’t mean to be a tease - was on a high perhaps that I could spend some serious time today on music 
yeah it would be cool to share those tracks 
if the guys from the band are ok of course
As we say in Anglais “That’s my cup of tea…” 
Hey fellow bassbuzzians ! here is my new cover, of an old song from the well-known Highway To Hell album. Back in the early 90’s, AC/DC has been the band that made me fall in love with music, so I have some particular attachement to this band.
Of course the video has been flagged in 1 second by Youtube but I believe I managed to find another way to share it. Not sure at all it will work with every computer/browser, please let me know ! Here it is :
AC/DC - Shot Down In Flames
One take, pure rock’n’roll style 
(even if it’s not perfect)
I think this bassline is very interesting for those who would like to learn and practice pick playing :
In its easiest version, the bassline can be summarized by those two patterns :
G-------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------
A-------------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5---
E---5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-------------------
and
G-----------------------------
D-----------------------------
A---------------5-5-3-3-3-3---
E---5-5-3-3-3-3---------------
Also if you’re interested, you might want to know that the album track’s pitch is a bit of, because of the 70’s recording methods, so I had to correct the pitch to make the song playable with standard tuning. If somebody would like to record a cover of this song (and of course in this case I would love to ear it 
), I realeased the backing track with this correction and the bass “removed” (or at least lowered as much as possible) ; you can download it here :
http://laurentberta.com/client/cover-basse/ACDC-ShotDownInFlames-bt-320.zip
believe it or not but I don’t like at all cover bands I might do this if it’s a way to make money by playing music (because why not, after all - I have one good friend who do this for a living, that’s not the worst job !) but that’s not what I really want to do when playing with people.
About all my little covers, what I like is that it doesn’t take much time, it’s a fun and easy way to relax after a working day. Also it’s a way to practice the instrument by constantly changing from one song to another. and also it’s a way to practice recording and studio stuff, which I love.
But when I’ll decide to join/start a band again, we will have to do original songs for sure.
Nice! Also how did you embed the audio player here? Or is that just a link to your site?
yes it’s just an external link to an mp3 file, the forum embeds the player by itself. exact same thing for the video with an mp4 file !
Cool. That’s much nicer than soundcloud.
yeah I agree
Nice job again on the cover. I also like your T-shirts that you wear in your videos, just like Josh, you have a good collection of musician shirts! That Guns N Roses, Appetite for Destruction album cover shirt on the last one was my favorite. Good album.
Pretty much agree with all of what you said, @terb!
PS: will post something tomorrow about my first playing experience with some guys I met online (“not like that”) and had to almost sight-read their original music 
Lots of fun, though!
I’m looking forward to hearing this one.
My first recording (new DAI toy). Not really a cover, just me knocking out a few bars of a lesson with a different drumbeat (because I haven’t figured out Garageband yet). Do we have a more appropriate thread for this sort of thing?
Be kind; it’s the first publicly shared piece of my playing.
Nice!
Nice sound & the recording is working! This is probably the best thread to share it, I think it counts as a cover. Look forward to hearing more recordings, from you, and others - please post them, even if it’s just a portion of a song, or, just a playalong from the lessons!
Thanks guys. I do love that song and my flat wound strings give a warm tone that I like. I play with just the neck pickup but also tried plucking at the bottom of the fretboard on another play through and the sound was even nicer.
