Yeppers @John_E. I practiced the slide a few times and knew I missed it. I was more worried about which fingers to use that far up the neck and the fret buzz I had experienced on almost every other take. Thanks!
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Whoa, the Tele P-bass is killer!
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Nice job @JDDaniel,
Your dog added a bit of extra bite to your cover:joy:
Tone and production very nice, if I was going to be critical about your performance I’d say you just need to try and focus on having your picking between strings being more consistent, you seem to have a really heavy strike on the E string when changing from the A string.
Keep up the good work,
Cheers Brian
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Well done! You played all the right notes as far as I could tell. Even though it’s the first song of the challenge, it’s not the easiest. The syncopation is a bit challenging.
That bass looks ace. And I don’t blame the dog for wanting to be a back-up singer on Floyd. 
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My attempt
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Good job! Few stumbles and missed notes here and there, but most of us are doing the same (I know I did!). You definitely carried the tune through overall. Thanks for joining in. Looking forward to the next one you do! How did you find the overall experience of learning the song? It’s the first one I learned in it’s entirety and it was more of a challenge than I thought it would be. 
I know from Discord that this was your first time recording like this, so well done for taking the plunge on that too.
BTW, by my count we’ve had 22 recordings submitted. That’s incredible!
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Yep Brain @TNKA36 not sure why the E string pluck was so heavy. I was conscious of it and when I attempted to go lighter, I tended to go WAY lighter.
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Thanks, listening to the song (for like 75-100 times advice from @Lanny which helped a lot!) it sounds easy, but it isn’t so easy.
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Yeah, familiarity with the song helps a lot for sure. Especially in knowing when you play something that doesn’t sound right. If you don’t know the song then you might not realize you are playing something that doesn’t fit. And on this one for example, I’ve heard it so much, that I could just sense when transitions were coming, like lyrics and guitar solo progressions. I think I’ll struggle more on other songs in the challenge that I don’t know, but I feel like I know most of them to some degree.
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Much more than an ‘attempt’ @BassDarling!
Try to get those fingers separated in more of a 1 per fret if you can vs. microshifting so much.
This will help build up those nasty little finger muscles and start to tame them into submission to do what you want them to do. Will help in the long run also with faster songs.
Great plucking!
Sounded very good! Nice job!!
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Hey Belle,
pretty good job! Liked it and this bass looks astonishing <3
Two remarks I have:
I noticed in the beginning that when you were playing 3rd Fret on A string, you tend to drag down the string which alters the pitch.
During the 7x Repeat, I noticed that you are playing 5th fret with your ring finger. If somehow possible, try to use your pinky for more effiency and less hand work.
Keep it up! looking forward to CCR!
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Thanks for the feedback
I found this quite hard for a number of reasons, I have tiny hands and a short wingspan hence the short scale bass
For slow songs with a stretch my pinky behaves beautifully eg module 1 lesson 4
For faster stuff mod 6 less 4 where I have my pinky bend to reach over a string it sticks bent and sort of pops back to straight, it feels horrid and can be painful, I stopped playing for a few weeks as it hurt so much
Since starting again I tend to use pinky and ring together to exercise my pinky so I can do scales etc but try to reduce the weird locking
I’m sure it will come with time but it’s so frustrating at times.
I don’t want to stop using my pinky but I do swap if I can get away with it
Thanks again for the feedback, I hadn’t noticed the string bending
It’s really hard to keep my bass in tune with the dropped D as the strings are slacker on the short scale, it took forever to get it to stay out lol, I was glad to tune it back up to E
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Nice job guys, awesome covers still rolling in!
I’m enjoying watching/listening to everyones covers, hopefully we can all keep it up over the coming weeks!
Cheers Brendan
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No worries, you’ll get there! You may want to try and angle/lift the Nut/Tuner part a bit more, to have this on shoulder hight. I feel like this steep angle help to spread the fingers
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Make sure your action isn’t too high. If you have no idea what I’m talking about then let me know and I can explain that better. Lower action is easier to play, but medium and high action have their uses too. It’s a personal thing.
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Thanks @JT I’ve had a set up and my action is nice and low. When I first got the bass the neck was convex and had a ridiculously high action, there was buzz on the E just from the vibration of the string and being slacker on the short scale you need a bit of clearance
I might try a standard bass in a shop to see if I can reach but even with her minor issues I love it
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Sounds like you are in good shape then. Fingers will naturally get stronger and more flexible the more you practice. Mine still have a lot of breaking in to do. And my pinky still has a mind of its own as to whether it wants to bend or straighten-out.
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