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I’ve been asked several times about this track that I recorded with the band Jazz Against The Machine: we do an instrumental version of „Creep“ from Radiohead and it’s pretty much a bass feature ballad. So I made this full transcription of my bass part with all the melodies and improvisations. It’s here in the attachments, I hope You like it.

We made the recording 10 years ago. It was summer, the studio was boiling… I do remember, that we had a good vibe on this one – but still, I now hear inaccuracies and fret noises and stuff that I would like to do better now. And I would probably also not go for the Music Man StingRay as the instrument for this bass ballad. But it’s interesting:  this striving for perfection all does not matter so much: obviously, lots of listeners like this one just as it is and are being touched by the vibe of that moment, and that’s what really matters. So I went back to that „old stuff“ of mine, practiced it again, wrote made this transcription video.

Slappen beinhaltet verschiedene Elemente wie Daumen, Pluck, Deadnotes, Hammer-Ons, Upstrokes etc. Das ist so aehnlich wie die verschiedenen Trommeln eines Drumsets. Aus diesen verschiedenen „Slap-Instrumenten“ kann man dann Grundfiguren (Rudiments) zusammensetzen, z.B. Slap-Hammer-Slap-Pluck oder Slap-Hammer-Pluck. Und aus verschiedenen Rudiments baut man dann Riffs, Motive, Verschieber und ganze Solos. Der Ansatz, das Ganze als Rudiment zu sehen bedeutet, dass Du verschiedene Grundbewegungs-Abläufe übst, bis sie locker, tight und mit Flow laufen. Und dann setzt Du sie zusammen. Du kannst die Bass-Transkription als PDF bestellen – wenn Du Noten fuer die ganze Band haben willst (inklusive Sheets für Schlagzeug, Perkussion, Keyboards und Gitarre), schreib mir einfach ueber das Kontaktformular unten.

drums: Ralf Gustke – djembes: Tilman Bruno – hammond-organ: Martin Meixner

I’ve been asked several times about this track that I recorded with the band Jazz Against The Machine: we do an instrumental version of „Creep“ from Radiohead and it’s pretty much a bass feature ballad. So I made this full transcription of my bass part with all the melodies and improvisations. It’s here in the attachments, I hope You like it.

We made the recording 10 years ago. It was summer, the studio was boiling… I do remember, that we had a good vibe on this one – but still, I now hear inaccuracies and fret noises and stuff that I would like to do better now. And I would probably also not go for the Music Man StingRay as the instrument for this bass ballad. But it’s interesting:  this striving for perfection all does not matter so much: obviously, lots of listeners like this one just as it is and are being touched by the vibe of that moment, and that’s what really matters. So I went back to that „old stuff“ of mine, practiced it again, and made this transcription video.

Slapping includes various elements such as thumb, pluck, deadnotes, hammer-ons, upstrokes etc. It’s like the different drums of a drum set. From these different „slap instruments“ one can then assemble different basic figures (rudiments), e.g. Slap-Hammer-Slap-Pluck or Slap-Hammer-Pluck. And from various rudiments, you can then form riffs, motives and whole solos. The approach of seeing the whole thing as a rudiment means that you practice various basic movement combinations until they are smooth, tight and with a good flow. You can order the bass transcription this song as PDF – if you want to get scores for the whole band (including sheets for drums, percussion, keyboards and guitar), just write me at the contact form below.

drums: Ralf Gustke – djembes: Tilman Bruno – hammond-organ: Martin Meixner