What piece of music are you learning at the moment?

Such a daunting number of time changes.

Lars is fantastic, what is he like on the other albums he plays bass for?

I haven't listened to any of them lol I just meant in terms of what I thought when I first heard the album.

"Insect" update. So I stopped working on it shortly after the previous posts because, well, it's a Spiral Architect song and is full of fuck... but I have been working on it off and on over the past few weeks, and I know everything except:

- the lick at 0:52-0:56
- need to remember the first half of the part at 1:56-2:02
- the lick at 3:44
- all of 3:54-4:20 (even though most of it appears earlier in the song in one way or another)

Everything else ranges from pretty sloppy to passable. but it's coming.

edit: also lifted the bassline to Esperanza Spalding's "I Know You Know"

WHO THE FUCK IS ESPERANZA SPALDING?!?!?!?!

Agustin Barrios: La Catedral.

Almost done, just working on cleaning up the third movement.

Scale the Summit - The Levitated... with the tab book I've figured out how to play the majority of the riffs, it's just a matter of tightening up and getting it down. Though the last section needs a bit more study for where the rhythm starts to have that bounciness!

Mattias Eklundh - The Masala Conspiracy (an etude w/ the same ideas as Teargas Jazz). I've got everything, just not up to tempo... it's got some seriously nasty grooves in it. Like there's one section where you take a sequence of notes and play 12 123 1234 12345 123456 1234567 in 16th notes with just sixteenth note rests in between.

just learned Rope and Bridge Burning by the Foo Fighters.

I haven't learned a thing in years.
been mostly writing my own material.... which lately becoming harder and harder....
Maybe its about time i learned something new, for inspiration lol

Lafaro's solo section in Bill Evans' "Waltz for Debby",
Also Sikth's "Scent of the Obscene".

edit: Also for you bassplayers out there, Summer Rain has to be one of the most enjoyable pieces in their repertoire to learn/play, James Leech is a beast. (some minor trouble with the run at the beginning/throughout the tune, mostly minor confusion over which 16th note the run begins at any given time, but otherwise its such a great tune to get your hands around)

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

i suck at it

I'm currently learning the hardest thing I've ever had to learn. Fuck you Jeff Kollman.

Have spent a lot of time learning my band's new material, but I've got it down and have been wanting to resume my long-listed agenda of things to learn:

Learn from scratch:
Teen Town (Jaco)
Sex in a Pan (Victor Wooten)

Things I already know but want to precisely perfect:
YYZ

I've just been doing 3 at a time lately. Healthy number without being too overwhelming.

Beirut - Nantes

so much fun

I'm attempting this track to improve my speed and general co-ordination:



I can sort of get the basic grooves but the speed and little fills he plays is pretty hard for me. Urgh.

Just learned the main theme of Waves by Guthrie Govan. So much fun to play.

I'm either going to learn Turn on the Bright Lights or Our Love to Admire, which should help me play a bit more precisely and a little less "notey", because Interpol albums are always littered with succinct and well-written basslines.

Always like the Dunlop crybaby more than the the Vox wahs fwiw.

Beirut - Cherbourg because dudes parts are the funnest to sing.

My arrangement of Twin Peaks' main theme "Falling" which I am considering putting on my second album.

I got to see few other approaches to that sequence. The hardest by far is repeating four notes going up and down in order, ie you continue in order as opposed to starting on the same note each time. Really messes with you and teaches you to play the rhythm as opposed to playing the notes.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge

inb4 lol noob

A Perfect Circle - The Hollow

I haven't learnt a song for ages. Like years. Just had no desire too. So starting Friday I tried to work my way through this, easily the most difficult memory/fingering piece I've ever tried to learn, I can't believe I could even semi-fumble my way through it at half speed.

Nice! I think you might have an easier time if you modified your right hand for some of that stuff that's moving across things, though.

I like playing the first couple of minutes or so of the clean jazz leads. so fucking smooth

I'm practicing some flamenco. I'm working on this one:

My band is working on Level Five by King Crimson. The middle section is fucking annoying to count! 18 measures of 7/8 + one of 6/8, then 2 x 7/8 and 1 x 4/4, then 5 x 7/8 +1 x 4/4, alternating with sections in 11/4

I am working on "Mediterranean Sundance" by Al Di Meola as well as various pieces by Pat Metheny. Trying to get a feel for fusion guitar playing.

Arranged for which instrument? That song is awesome!

Electric guitar. It's not nearly as beautiful as some of the baritone acoustic versions you'll find on youtube.
I also love playing it on piano. Best song.

I do like that baritone version, and was thinking of posting it to your fb, though it still doesn't come close to the original. I've always had that as something I want to work out for solo guitar as well, in my own way...

Another song, but Twin Peaks:

I definitely need to speed it up a bit, though.

Independance in voices like that is something I will never be able to do on guitar...good job.

This is what you get when you try to play all 3 voices of NES and GameBoy songs on guitar as accurate as possible for several years. I usually end up with just two voices, though.

Scale the Summit - The Collective

So far I have most of the first four songs done.

Just got the tab book for A Dramatic Turn of Events, so I'll be working on that for a bit.

Working on DT - Outcry. So far I have most of it down, just cleaning up the sweep-tap part and learning the part at 8:33.

Meg & Dia - Monster
Lindsay Lohan - Ultimate

faggot.

Working on Breaking All Illusions now.

got a few in progress some farther along than others:

[learned and up to speed, just tightening]
Animals as Leaders - Do Not Go Gently

[learned, currently at about 80% performance tempo]
Periphery - The Walk
Periphery - Icarus Lives
Of Legends - Save the Humans

[learning]
Sky Eats Airplane - The Contour

all TO style obv

lol, how can you be 'learning' that? I worked it out one evening when I was bored.

Because I am a 13-year old female.

Django, Fly Me to the Moon, and soon Giant Steps.

fly me to the moon to giant steps.

not advisable.

been working on getting Giant Steps up to an appropriate tempo, and working on the coltrane reharm of But Not For Me, and then a bunch of my own tunes which I still suck at.

I also learnt Jaga Jazzist's "Low Battery" the other day. Such a sweet groove.