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Hi, I'm new to this group. I am a relatively new
player and have never been in a band before, but I've
gotten all my stuff together and pretty soon I plan on
going out to put together whatever I can. I'm into
punk, which is pretty simple to play (hit note,
repeat...then repeat some more) and rockabilly which
isn't real complicated either, but I also really love
surf rock. I hear some cool little bass parts in a
number of surf songs. While I'm a pretty proficient
player, I'm not very good at picking things up by ear.
Are there any tab resources for surf, or is there
kind of a formula to it the way there is with
rockabilly? I know that surf isn't real bass-oriented
music, but I have some pretty cool ideas and I figure
I can lay down the backbeat while I find myself a good
guitarist to carry them out. Any help would be
appreciated.
~R
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I try to tab out bass parts along with my guitar tabs on my tab site:
I would say that there's kind of a formula. Often times the basslines
involve what I think is called triad notes. For example if the chord is Gm,
the bass would play some variation of the notes G A# B. But it really
depends on the song. Sometimes basslines use more complex scales and stuff,
sometimes the bassline is just a half step hammer-on onto the root not, and
sometimes the bassline is just the root notes.
If you have a specific surf song(s) in mind maybe I could attempt to tab it
out.
-Thor 1460, Monsters From Mars
PS - I'm sittin here listenning to the Dead Kennedys right now and I have to
say that the basslines are a little more than "hit note,
repeat...then repeat some more" ... by a lot.
--- Richard Hawes <> wrote:
>
>Hi, I'm new to this group. I am a relatively new
>player and have never been in a band before, but
>I've
>gotten all my stuff together and pretty soon I plan
>on
>going out to put together whatever I can. I'm into
>punk, which is pretty simple to play (hit note,
>repeat...then repeat some more) and rockabilly which
>isn't real complicated either, but I also really
>love
>surf rock. I hear some cool little bass parts in a
>number of surf songs. While I'm a pretty proficient
>player, I'm not very good at picking things up by
>ear.
> Are there any tab resources for surf, or is there
>kind of a formula to it the way there is with
>rockabilly? I know that surf isn't real
>bass-oriented
>music, but I have some pretty cool ideas and I
>figure
>I can lay down the backbeat while I find myself a
>good
>guitarist to carry them out. Any help would be
>appreciated.
>
>~R
>
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--- One Four Six Oh <> wrote:
<PS - I'm sittin here listenning to the Dead Kennedys
right now and I have to say that the basslines are a
little more than "hit note, repeat...then repeat some
more" ... by a lot.>
Aye, true, but the Dead Kennedys were also not just "a
punk band."
I'm sure any tab I find on your site I'll find to be
helpful. As far as a particular song goes I'd have to
look around, I listen to so much on a daily basis it's
hard to come up with one off the top of my head. My
current favorite is here, There are some
mp3's to be had in the audio section.
Since starting to play I've just started trying to
isolate the bass parts in every song I listen to. I'm
not completely tone deaf (atleast I hope not) but I
still have a pretty hard time finding the notes when
there's an entire bands worth of instruments going at
the same time.
The half-step hammer-down on the root I did manage to
pick up on, and somebody once tried to tell me that
that was all there was to playing bass for a surf band
but I had my doubts.
I'll check your site out, thanks for the response.
~R
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Hi Richard and welcome,
Glad to see another bass player here.
I recently tabbed out the bass on Link Wray's "Rumble" - original
version (1958), someone on the FDP needed it, pretty simple, goes
like this:
D D E D D
G|-------------------||---------------0--|------------------||-
D|-------------------||*--2---3---4------|--2---4---0---0--*||-
A|-------------------||*-----------------|-----------------*||-
E|-------------------||------------------|------------------||-
A D D E
G|---2---3---4---5---|---2---1-----------|---------------0---|-
D|-------------------|-----------0---0---|---2---3---4-------|-
A|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-
D D B7
G|-------------------|---4---3---2---1---|-------------------|-
D|---2---4---0---0---|-------------------|---4---3---2---1---|-
A|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-
D D
G|-------------------|-------------------|-
D|---0-------2---4---|---0---0-----------|-
A|-------4-----------|-------------------|-
E|-------------------|-------------------|- etc.
Hope it helps.
- ilan
--- In SurfGuitar101@y..., Richard Hawes <errant_jedi@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm new to this group. I am a relatively new
> player and have never been in a band before, but I've
> gotten all my stuff together and pretty soon I plan on
> going out to put together whatever I can. I'm into
> punk, which is pretty simple to play (hit note,
> repeat...then repeat some more) and rockabilly which
> isn't real complicated either, but I also really love
> surf rock. I hear some cool little bass parts in a
> number of surf songs. While I'm a pretty proficient
> player, I'm not very good at picking things up by ear.
> Are there any tab resources for surf, or is there
> kind of a formula to it the way there is with
> rockabilly? I know that surf isn't real bass-oriented
> music, but I have some pretty cool ideas and I figure
> I can lay down the backbeat while I find myself a good
> guitarist to carry them out. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> ~R
>
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