Bass Lessons

Bass Lessons - Begging Tap For Bass Vol.9 bass tab

Last lesson one of the things we looked as was the Van Halen "Summer

Nights"

lick:

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|----------5-4-0--|-7-4-0--4-7-12-/14-\12--7---------------------------|

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T s s

We're going to start off this time by developing this idea of

right hand slides.

Start of with a simple one fret slide:

|-12-/--13-\-12-----|

|-------------------|

|-------------------|

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Make sure that you can play this in time, at pretty much any tempo.

If your no

carefull this could turn into a sort of reflex action where you

have little

control over how long you spend on each note.

Now try sliding two frets:

|-12-/--14-\-12-----|

|-------------------|

|-------------------|

|-------------------|

The control becomes more important here, as you have to make

sure that you go

from the low note to the high note without overshooting, at the

tempo YOU

require, not the speed your fingers want to. Sometime you'll

want the note

between to be heard in passing, other times you want to move between

the two

notes as quickly as possible.

Finally try a minor third:

|-12-/--15-\-12-----|

|-------------------|

|-------------------|

|-------------------|

Once you've got the up slides, try sliding DOWN these intervals:

|-13-\--12-/-13-----| |-14-\--12-/-14-----| |-15-\--12-/-15-----|

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|-------------------| |-------------------| |-------------------|

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Now lets put those slides into a musical context:

This is the bass/rhythm part to Satriani's "Always with me,

always with you".

|-------------------|------------------|------------------|---------------|

|o------13/14\13----|------13/14\13----|------11/13\11----|-----9/11\9---o|

|o---14----------14-|---14----------14-|---11----------11-|---9--------9-o|

|--7----------------|-7----------------|-0----------------|-2-------------|

|----------------|------------------|-----------------|---------------||

|------9/11\9----|------11/13\11----|-------9/11\9----|-----8/11\8----||

|----9--------9--|---11----------11-|----9----------9-|---9--------9--||

|--4-------------|-0----------------|-2---------------|-2-------------||

In actuall performance, I probably would only slide the first

two bars, and

then use what we've called the right hand 9th position to play

the rest.

However the bigger intervals should make good practise :-).

So far I would guess that you've been using your middle (or index)

finger to do

most of the work, so go back, and work through the examples using

each finger

in turn.

We can now put these multi-digital skills into practise on the

Stu Hamm riff

from "Flow My Tears" (Free Radio Albermuth(?sp?)).

|--------11----------19-|\16-------------14------||

|o-----9----17----------|----14-------12--------o||

|o---7---------17/19----|-------15\14-----------o||

|--0--------------------|-------------------8-7--||

p ^----^ ^-^

left Hand Left

[transcription originaly by George Dibos. I've adapted it

for Non-Ex-Factor

Basses - Kubicki Users can drop the piece 1 tone, to return it

to the original

key]

The open string is played as a pull of following the repeat - just

slap it

(gently!) with your thumb first time around.

I've marked the left hand parts, the rest is played by using three

fingers of

your right hand. Use your index finger for the A string, middle

finger for the

D string, and third finger for the G string. It's quite easy -

just make sure

you place all those sldes cleanly, moving quickly (but NOT rushing)

between the

notes with no overshoot.

keep practising...

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