Ok. Lets try this for the third time!
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Nice Job @Old_WannaBe
Your bass sounds great, nice and clear and loud but the backing track is super low though.
Some minor timing bits and blips but overall good job.
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Hereās my attempt at Highway to Hell. Partway through learning it I decided for the first time to give an honest try at using a pick. I enjoyed it a lot! Definitely flubbed some of the fills and came in way too late on the end part but Iām happy enough with it and even more happy to move on.
P.S. enjoy cat cameo. Nothing like a goofy orange cat staring at you to ruin your bass face 
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Nice Job @RoyB
A bit of timing bits here and there.
This is a tune where nailing the timing makes a big difference as there are not a lot of notes.
one thing on tuning - yours is fine, AC/DCs isnt, you can see hereā¦
If you find our discord server the corrected backing track is there.
Not sure how you are recording, bass is very loud in the mix.
Not a big deal here, as we can ignore that part.
Great effort, keep them coming.
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Thanks for the feedback @John_E, always appreciated!
Regarding the tuning - Iām using the backing track I downloaded from Discord. Does it still sound out of tune?
For the volume, I usually crank up the bass a bit in my DAW to make it stand out more for feedbackās sake. This video is also the first time I recorded with a compressor so I may have overdone it with the boosting. Iāll keep that in mind going forward.
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to me something is amiss, but maybe others will chime in
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Hmm your timingās spot on, the setupās good (nice bass btw!) but I just get the feeling that the tuningās off a little. Then again the bass is pretty high in the mixā¦
Good work with the pick ! Thereās no way you can play ACDC without one IMO
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I love your cat, he was clearly trying to steal your show 
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Great timing on that one @RoyBā¦. The version of the song you are playing to appears to be about 1/4 flat which is why it sounds out of tune. There are numerous songs out there (such as this one) where the song is listed as standard tuning, but run an alternative (slightly flat) tuning that doesnāt fall into the full 1/2 (one fret lower) tuning. For these recordings I have found that by using your ear to match the first note played, and then tuning from that note, youāll be on keyā¦. This is where learning to trust your ear over written tabs or notation comes in handyā¦. Iāve had to retune my bass (and guitars) several times to match the tones of a recorded song - this one is a great exampleā¦.
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Nice job @RoyB ,
Few timing things to work on, and I think the tone was really bright in the mix,
At least you had your audience engaged for your performance 
Keep up the good work,
Cheers Brian
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Bass boosted audio only version.
oops. Guess I missed a song.
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Hi @Vince Vince,
I THINK you did a good job here. I say think because the bass is really low in the mix and a bit to hard to hear, so I used the ādo I hear anything offensive to my earās expectationā tactic and did not.
I think you were in tune and in groove though.
I like the graphics, but would like to hear a bit more bass.
@John_E Thanks. Hereās a bass boosted version if youāre interested. I didnāt really care for the tone of my bass with this song so I just blende it in on the video. SoundCloud - Hear the worldās sounds
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Ah cool, ok, now I can here.
So have a look at the chorus hereā¦
Those little dots under the open A string notes indicate they should be played āsteccatoā, meaning short, leaving little rests in between vs. one note blending into the other (basically, mute the note right after playing it). This gives the chorus a bit of a stomp-stomp-stomp vs. a booombooomboom effect. The G, A and D are normal note values.
I thought your tone was fine.
A couple timing blips but not anything to fret.
Great job!
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Thanks for the info. Lol, I didnāt even notice the little dots, let alone question what they meant.
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@Vince tried listening but the track is missing from Soundcloud. AC/DC are blockers. You canāt use YouTube either. The only place I found that worked was Vimeo.
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Ya looks like it got yanked, I played it but now gone.
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Darn blockers! Oh well, I donāt like the song enough to bother fighting to keep it up. On to the next one.
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Working on the song myself via Yousician, thereās a huge difference between their basslines (both basic and full) and the bass missing backing track we have. I tried recording a video and itās WAY off especially near the end of the song, so Iām going to try to memorize the sheet music from our Discord and see how that goes. Iāve noticed one other thing about everyoneās videos here in this threadā¦the difference in the guitar styles is amazing. Iāve played the basic baseline on Yousician with most of my guitars and my favorites are my Poison Apple J bass, the Squier Jaguar and the Yamaha BB G4.
Iām looking forward to Pam and Johnās video training though. I can use my Logitech Brio (the same one I use for our hangouts) and it records the bass and video but Iām going to need to see about patching the sound from the computer through my mixer or audio interface so I can hear it in the recording too.
Greetings all! I had some fun with this one and hopefully dodged some copyright blocks at the same time by recording my own guitar tracks and muting the AC/DC track during the playback. Iām no Angus, Malcolm, or Cliff for that matter, but man I had fun pretending 
! It was nice to learn a little about multi-tracking in Reaper as well. Iām curious what yāall think of the bass tone? I donāt have a proper bass amp yet so this is coming from the line out of my Fender Super Champ guitar amp. The weird thing is it sounds kind of crappy in the room but I actually like it in the recording, go figure? Thanks for listening
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