Here is my americana/country/bluegrass cover of the year ! not very original, as @Lanny already recorded a cover of this song.
but, well ā¦ I felt in love with this song the first time I saw OāBrother. by the way I love more or less every J&E Coen movie Iāve seen. those guys are very talented in my opinion.
The Soggy Bottom Boys & Dan Tyminski - I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow
Here again I made my own bass line, which is not much more than a more evolved version of the original one. As for my previous country cover, and not as usual, Iām playing without a pick and with a foam block near the bridge. The preamp used is the Bass POD Pro with the Ampeg SVT-VR model, but with different settings than what I usually use. Also I used the Dod FX84 in front of the preamp.
Coen Brothers are amazing. I mean, Big Lebowski is enough to vault them to epic tier status, but Fargo was also really well done, and Barton Fink is just so weird.
The P-Bass tone with the SVT model is spot on for that song.
Sounds great as always. Definitely twice as good without a pick.
My wife has asked me to do a cover of a particular song. Started looking at it this morning. Not used to memorizing more than 20 sec or so of a song, so going to be interestingā¦
Thank you Jack Daniels, and thank you @Gio for telling me about this great band !
The Devil Makes Three - Old Number Seven
First of all, believe it or not but the N7 t-shirt is not here on purpose at all, it was not intended to match the song name and I realized the similarity only when I was exporting the video file. funny (itās from my favorite video game of all times : Mass Effect)
About the bass line, here again I went with my own bassline which is some kind of more evolved version of the original line. The thing is that the original song is played with an upright and I was not trying at all to sound like an upright ; obviously you donāt play the same way on an upright and on an eletric fretted bass and Iām totally OK with that. Iām working on what I would call my ādark country grooveā and Iām trying to write interesting bass lines with my own feeling but I hope it doesnāt sound too busy for such a minimal song. what do you think ? honest criticism please
The song and the bass line are not difficult. The (very relative) difficulty here is that there is absolutly no hard tempo reference. I mean, no drum. You just have to listen to the other instruments, feel the tempo and the groove and make your place into the mix. In fact the drum is replaced by two things : the bass line of course (and here the foam is really usefull to give a more percussive yet smooth attack), and the percussive playing on the guitars. Itās cool but not really usual for me, as almost all of the music I listen to have a drum.
Tone-wise, nothing very original, itās my current Americana standard tone : Greenie with the foam block, Dod FX84, Bass POD Pro with SVT-VR model and a very lightly dirty tone (almost clean).
Iām not at all searching for an upright-like tone but yes what you say works pretty well, also plucking only with one finger and not alternating helps sounding like an upright ! and also āthinā single coil pickups work better for this, like JB pickups.
Bioware games. Hopefully they will give up on Anthem soon and get back to Mass Effect and the Old Republic games. I was way into Knights of the Old Republic, KotOR II, and SWTOR. Jade Empire was great too.
donāt know. I believe Mass Effect Andromeda has not been a big commercial success even if itās a great game in my opinion. donāt know if there will be another Mass Effect game ! I never played the Old Republic games but I see exactly what it is.
Sadly I think Bioware is probably toast. Anthem is failing hard, SWTOR is down to a trickle of new content and a few die-hards still sticking around, andā¦ thatās it, really. Thatās all they currently have. Weāll see what they can come up with in the next year. They apparently have a game in the works for āone of their most prestigious franchisesā, which means Dragon Age, Star Wars (Old Republic), or Mass Effect.
I love it.
Nice work, sir.
The walking is great, the additional rhythm and notes doesnāt take away from the tune, and itās all stylistically right there.
DM3 have added a drummer for their latest records and toursā¦ itās kinda funny. You can barely pick out the drum pattern because the guitars (or banjo) sounds are so percussive and so heavy in the mix.
Lucia is their bassist, and she rules, and started playing with the band having no previous experience playing. Their early shows - even though it was just the 3 of them - were rowdy, heavy punk-feeling shows. People would mosh, go absolutely nuts. Thatās their energy. Gutsy, punk, dark vibes for days.
So glad you like it, and great job on the cover.
yeah it seems to be a very interesting band, I did not listen to everything for now but I plan to do so the kind of band where there is some kind of magic, an alchemy, something that just make everything work together perfectly well. so cool.
(itās from my favorite video game of all times : Mass Effect)
Bioware games. Hopefully they will give up on Anthem soon and get back to Mass Effect and the Old Republic games. I was way into Knights of the Old Republic, KotOR II, and SWTOR. Jade Empire was great too.