This week I have been falling in love with All my loving and Penny Lane.
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Over last few weeks, I’ve worked on Metallica-Disposable Heroes. Always been a personal favorite. I’ve reached an endurance level now where I can play the enitre song with minimal cramping. Accuracy still needs soem work, but I am making good progress, only few spots where I screw up royally. Others minor mistakes that honestly, proably wouldnt even be noticed by most.
On a bit of the opposite end of the spectrum, also started tinkering with REO Speedwagon-Take it on the Run, which is surprisingly more complex than I originally gave it credit for.
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I am finally trying to tackle a song I’ve wanted to play basically since I started playing. A song on my list of “I will feel amazing after learning” songs. Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart by STP. It’s a bit ridiculous tbh. I can pretty much play up to the first chorus and there’s really not much else to learn, but the speed and stamina to play through the whole thing still feels daunting. The whole song is basically 16th notes with some rests, here’s what it looks like. Also, Robert DeLeo is such a criminally underrated bass player. This song is so friggin cool!
This repeats then you get into the pre chorus which is pretty cool
Figured out the chorus which is certainly the easiest part of the song to play
Haven’t made it any farther than this…many many hours of practice ahead 
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Those tabs are all over the place. I’ve learned the whole song at this point. Pretty straightforward honestly it’s just a matter of timing and muting. Have to get the rests in there otherwise it just blurs together into a jumbled mess. Definitely a great workout for the plucking fingers!
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I’d probably contest them all tbh 
I always hear things in songs that I never see in the tabs.
Time to call it a night, my hands can’t take much more. Honestly surprised at where I got to with just a few hours of practice. still needs a ton of work and refinement but here’s an extremely rough take https://audio.jukehost.co.uk/p4jcGUKRT9kqgII7DRwkzBDCQn0rMYZ4
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This is one of my current working-on-it tunes - Happy Now? By No Doubt.
I find the recording quite trebly but the bassline is actually very cool. I’m far from being able to play it well at full speed 
But I’ll keep plugging away at it.
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Currently working on War Pigs by Black Sabath.
What a monster!
Ok most bars are E with a couple of Ds and novelty bits thrown in.
But what Geezer is doing with those Es!
Epic slow 12/8 intro, killer hook and riff and ‘simple pentatonic’ walking over the solos with some octaves and not to mention the bridge/interlude which has a completely different theme.
This is at the very edge of my current ability, in fact slightly above it.
But I am determined to learn it or at least a version passable enough until I get there.
It is on our Jam list with some we have done before and another new one, Shock Me by KISS, which I am not even looking at even though it is much simpler.
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Try Land of 1000 Dances by Wilson Picket. It’s a Motown groove in D7, he’s beating the 1-5-7 and it is hard to keep up!! Fun …
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Currently working on Arctic Monkeys’ “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?” and “Perhaps Vampires Is a Bit Strong But…”
But the Idles “I’m scum” always gets in the way as it is soooooooo much fun and easy to play (and I feel seen by the lyrics ^^):
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Working on my first full song - Paperback Writer by the Beatles.
Was chilling with friends at a brewery and it came on in the background. Thought… that sounds fun.
I’ve got it mostly down but only half speed. Also leaving off some of the flares/flourishes for now (eg slides and hammers) until I get the basics. Fun intro song tho. Not too difficult fingering wise (simple enough that my 7 completed B2B modules of Josh instruction gave me the tools needed 
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Trying to learn as many of the 403 songs in my UG playlist as I can by the end of the year. Sort of a goal. First by watching the tabs and then from memory.
Working on BOC Burnin for you now and the Songsterr version of Phil Collins Easy Lover.
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This is slightly off topic, but I started working on the first Bach cello suite on my 5 string violin. Playing a violin pitch shifted to cello range is so much fun, just putting a huge smile on my face!
The bass practice part is I’m reading bass clef, and man is that a brain twister when I have decades of treble clef muscle memory to push back against
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Fun fact with the Beatles, if you learn Taxman you pretty much learn Rain
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@Gloucestre thanks! I’ll put it on the list
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You also basically learn Start! by The Jam.
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Interesting, I’ll check that one out
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It took me a minute when listening to Start! Where I was thinking “I’ve heard this bass line somewhere” and sure enough it’s almost identical to taxman. I covered Start! earlier this year https://youtu.be/2W_e72wY1c8?si=4EXYtnv3tUd34kym
Obviously it’s a bit different but the basic shape of the riff is almost exactly the same. Love how you stumble across songs & artists that clearly took inspiration from each other!
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