What are you learning?

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The Days of Wine and Roses
September in the Rain

I’ve decided I quite like a Pearl Jam album “Yield” so as time allows will transcribe the Bass lines

And finish The Cult and STP “Tiny Music”
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Yield is my favourite PJ album from back in the day when I was a fan :-)
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One of my brothers played me a live version of “Sirens” I have forgotten what album it’s on but a lovely tune

I quite like Pearl Jam , sort of.

Anyway I am practicing playing quarter, triplet and 8th notes in the same bar over a 80bpm swing beat. I can do 1 or 2 in my sleep. Can I do all 3 with any authentic feel?? Struggling but enjoying it. Might be a late Bass night
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I have been a bedroom player for too long, I don't know any songs. I know the intro to plenty of songs, I know the verse and chorus of songs, but nothing that is a whole song. So I will take the bits I already know, and learn the rest.

That way, when someone hands me a guitar and asks me to play something, it's not just the intro to Over the Hills and Far Away...
The older I get, the more disappointed in myself I become.

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Danger Mouse wrote: Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:14 am I have been a bedroom player for too long, I don't know any songs. I know the intro to plenty of songs, I know the verse and chorus of songs, but nothing that is a whole song. So I will take the bits I already know, and learn the rest.

That way, when someone hands me a guitar and asks me to play something, it's not just the intro to Over the Hills and Far Away...
I've even forgotten that. :oops:
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I can only remember songs I learnt when I was 16 :-(
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I'm not much of an Aerosmith fan, but I've always liked the guitar parts in this one:

Nice and easy too.

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Defeated in round 1, I'm back for another go. The level of fretting hand cramp this causes is my biggest barrier but after a year of occasionally playing around, it's starting to reveal itself. I really want this one under my fingers, it might be my last big jump ever.
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Jamiroqia 'Cosmic Girl'.
Trying to break out of a plateau by genre bending ....
Any idea what guitar the used to record that track on? Im guessing stratty mcstrat pants

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StrummersOfThunder wrote: Mon Nov 06, 2023 8:29 am Jamiroqia 'Cosmic Girl'.
Trying to break out of a plateau by genre bending ....
Any idea what guitar the used to record that track on? Im guessing stratty mcstrat pants
1000% likely strat :-)
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StrummersOfThunder wrote: Mon Nov 06, 2023 8:29 am Jamiroqia 'Cosmic Girl'.
Trying to break out of a plateau by genre bending ....
Any idea what guitar the used to record that track on? Im guessing stratty mcstrat pants
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Oh no lets not get ahead of ourselves here....

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The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby and the Range, on piano.

It's not going to well, but the determination is there.

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Movie/TV themes... on the Godin nylon, drenched in ambient effects.

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codedog wrote: Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:22 pm Movie/TV themes... on the Godin nylon, drenched in ambient effects.
Twin peaks (tho baritone would be the ticket here)

We (mostly used to/past tense) play a fair few tv themes in the bull kelp surfers
Get smart
Munsters theme
I dream of jeanie

Ok im off to learn to learn twin peaks now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go7x-cB ... =RomainCNC

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