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Permalink Help with Bass for Tranquilizer by The Lively Ones

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peanutswilson
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Link Posted on Oct 14 2023 12:25 AM

Hi, New here so I hope this comes up where it's supposed to.
My Band is doing a cover of Tranquilizer and I've driven myself nuts trying to work out the main bassline for the verse. Can anyone help?
Normally this duty would fall on our bassplayer but he's been crazy busy with work and child care. We've got a gig coming up and I'd really like to get it nailed by then. Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Redfeather
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Link Posted on Oct 14 2023 02:23 AM

I imported the song into Reaper and EQ'd it heavily to bring the bass out with some success. It's still muddy and really hard to hear clearly, though. Moreover, there's no way to post it on here.

Do you have Reaper or something like it where you could do the same thing?

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Link Posted on Oct 14 2023 07:54 AM

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ldk
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Link Posted on Oct 14 2023 01:29 PM

I used spleeter to separate the instruments (https://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/35457/?page=1#p457487). You can find what I got for the bass here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lk8c_8z1tPe3tJ2AbY_hKbt1YXIxClU6/view?usp=sharing. I gave anyone with the link access, so you shouldn't have a problem downloading it.

As often happens, the separation into individual instruments wasn't great for the bass. I haven't studied the track, but there's a lot of boogie-woogie in it.

Hope this helps some.

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Link Posted on Oct 14 2023 02:40 PM

Hey PeanutsWilson, welcome to SG101! When you have a moment, you should go over to the Shallow End forum and the "Introductions! New Members Post Here" thread and tell us more about yourself and your music!

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peanutswilson
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Link Posted on Jan 21 2024 03:22 PM

Damn! Much appreciation for the help! I haven't set my notifications up correctly and life got busy so I didn't even realise I had all these responses. In the end I spent a couple of hours going over the Lively Ones and Satan's Pilgrims versions. I ended up with something very usable, happy to post here if anyone's interested. It's a really cool bass line. Main difference I noticed was the bass over the descending guitar break towards the end of the song. The Pilgrims bass line follows the rhythm guitar in the lively ones version but the original bass part is really cool. We're a three piece currently and I suspect following the rhthym on bass actually highlights the contrast between the two parts better. The original part was such a f*cker to work out though. I didn't want it to go to waste so that's what we've been playing live.

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peanutswilson
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Link Posted on Jan 21 2024 04:21 PM

psychonaut wrote:

It's basically a boogie woogie type bassline. You can hear it much clearer in the second verse when the guitar is playing staccato.

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Thanks for this, Basically what I came up with minus the (D)4 (A)7 at the end which really completes that run in a much more satisfying manor. I also had a slightly different descending fill for before the chord change. Rather than (D)77-44, (A)77-44, I had (D)77-55-44, (A)77.
Please forgive me if I use incorrect terminology, never been that sharp with proper terms

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