Sounds very good, @y.farkash . . . 
Cheers
Joe
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Hello, I did this cover with a pick also which was my challenge because I never use picks. Overall it was a pretty straight forward one, I had to modify my tone to fit the pop music genre. I adjusted the camera angle to make it easier to see from my last vid. I also always play standing up which when I recorded previously I sat down and had a floating right arm. Thanks for the tips y’all keep them coming.
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Nice job! Sounded great. Impressive wingspan on your fretting hand 
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That was great!
The tone works so good for this song.
You changed your plucking (picking?!?) pattern half way through the song.
Those are some well behaved pinky and ring fingers!
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Okay, here is my cover of Crazy, I found parts of covering this difficult, little nuances in the song I could not quite match, keeping an even tone and making clean note changes. I also had trouble getting a tone that I liked 
. I know this song quite well, and I think I just ended up with a bit of fatigue after listening, learning, and playing it so much, so I just bit the bullet and recorded the cover. I think it came out okay 
Time to move onto the next one, I will revisit this at some point though.
Set up the same as always:
Yamaha TRBX174EW
UMC22 DAI
GarageBand
Recorded on phone
Synced in imovie
I envy everybody else adding their own flavour to the songs, I don’t think I am creative enough for that just yet, soon hopefully. For now i will stick to trying to imitate the original.
Cheers Brendan
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That was a pretty epic cover! Sorry, can’t give you any tips as it looked and sounded perfect to me.
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You say you struggled a bit and it was just “okay”. That’s not what I’m seeing or hearing. I think you totally nailed it! I thought the tone was a perfect match too. I know when we are playing songs we love, we want them to be as good as possible. I think you really did this song justice and should be proud of this cover. We all have to find the right balance between doing the best we can and not having fun anymore. Personally though, I didn’t detect anything wrong in your cover at all.
Don’t worry about adding bling to your videos either with playing or editing. If you get inspired to do something different, that’s cool. If you don’t, that’s cool too. I suspect as the songs get harder, we’ll see less playing flare added in by people.
Its also cool that people do that and it’s good video editing practice, but that’s not what we’re here for. If someone wants to record their bass unplugged on a tape player and submit it I’d still be happy. It’s just about taking part in playing the bass on entire songs and collectively improving. That being said, it’s cool to see the video editing and stuff, so people should keep that coming.
And I totally don’t buy that you aren’t creative. I think it’s more what you are eluding too. To add layers of creativity on top of something, you usually need a solid foundation first. It’s perfectly fine to focus on getting that foundation as solid as possible for the time being. That’s certainly where I am.
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This was Great @Brendan.
We are own worst critics, so let that go for a moment and enjoy how good this was!
This was solid all around. Good form, great timing. Nice groove
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Oh crap, I just re-read my post and realised that it probably comes across as a bit negative 
sorry that was not the intention.
I was just trying to be honest about what I had trouble with, but in doing so I have realised I did not point out the things that I was happy with.
I think @John_E said it well,
We are own worst critics
I can get a bit OCD and am probably a bit hard on myself.
@JT Thanks for the detailed response, yeah it is ‘okay’ not perfect (in my mind anyway) but pretty good, I AM happy with it, it came out really well, there are still a couple of bits I would like to improve on, and some of them might just be ‘more time playing bass’ hence the revisit sometime. Thats the beauty of this whole process, a cache of covers we can all use for learning purposes, re-cover at a later date to compare and look back on and see how far we’ve come.
I did have trouble getting a tone I liked, I spent a bit of time trying different things out, but in the end I came up with a tone that worked great for my ears, yours to obviously, but tone can be pretty subjective, might not suit everyone and thats fine too.
And I totally don’t buy that you aren’t creative. I think it’s more what you are eluding too. To add layers of creativity on top of something, you usually need a solid foundation first.
You are totally right here, this is what I was getting at, at the moment I need to concentrate on just playing well, flair and extra creativity will come with time. I do enjoy seeing others add their mark though.
So to sum up, I think I did a pretty good job! I appreciate all the lovely comments, thanks.
Cheers Brendan
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Thanks for the link and the explanation. I setup both my basses “by feel”, meaning I didn’t really measure anything. It’s probably time to take this a bit more seriously, so I ordered a guitar/bass ruler:
Ordered a capo as well, so I can keep my strings depressed without needing three hands, plus three replacement knobs with dots on them, so I can see what my tone and volume pots are set to.
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Yeah, I bought a capo solely for doing setups. It does come in handy.
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These things are so cheap and useful all Bassists and guitarists should have one.
The capo is another cheap item everyone should have although I do not recall ever seeing a Bassist use one while performing. I have used one a few times on six strings though.
Neck radius gauges and feeler gauges are something else I thought I needed but rarely use them now. You can get neck radius gauges online, there was no internet when I bought mine, that you can cut out and use and a credit card works just fine as a feeler gauge to set initial neck relief and then just adjust from there.
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Great cover @Vegaswizzle,
Nice to see you stretching out over the 4 frets, I play the same way, makes it easier when you get to quicker songs down the track.
Standing is also important for down the track, you looked relaxed,right on point and had a good mix and production,
Cheers Brian
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I think you did a great job @Brendan,
Nice to see you stretching out over the 4 frets👍
You looked relaxed and the tone I think was ok,
Cheers Brian
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I bought a capo for guitar but only use it with my bass now
Still have never felt the need for gauges or rulers though. Allen wrenches work fine to measure thinga when I need to, but usually it’s by feel.
This will change if I ever do my own fret job though. That just looks so much easier with the correct tools.
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My engineer anal-retentive side must measure everything (even though I know humidity changes keep the thing in constant motion essentially.
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Youtube shows this as partially blocked, so let me know if I need to repost this somewhere else. I can see it, and it doesn’t tell me where it’s blocked, so…
https://youtu.be/-G1vrkd1VQ8
(I need to remember to turn the TV off so that the lighting doesn’t constantly change…)
In the interest of catching back up with the challenge, I recorded this basically as early as I could - didn’t memorize the song, so I’m looking at the music throughout (even though it’s just 2 different 8 bar patterns). A couple of small timing flubs, but I think it’s generally solid. If I’m wrong, let me know…
As always, open to critiques and comments. It’s mostly why I’m doing this. 
While I didn’t spend much time with this song, and it’s a simple line, I had fun covering it… (uh, despite how I look in the video )
Now I need to try to make some progress in B2B before the next song opens up and sucks up all my practice time…
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