Artist - Jet
Electric Bass - Mark Wilson
Difficulty - Intermediate
This weeks transcription once again falls into the ‘had to learn quickly, never learned it properly’ bucket, Jet’s Are You Gonna Be My Girl!
I first heard/saw this in 2004 when the music video that accompanied the single release was doing the rounds on Kerrang, and I’ve really liked the bass line ever since I first heard it. I then learned it for the first band I ever played bass in and like a lot of the lines I learned back then, didn’t quite learn it correctly.
The interesting part here is in the second bar, most people (myself included have played the 8th notes on beat 3 as a G-A hammer on (which indeed is how it is sometimes played live by Jet), but on the recorded version i’m hearing a G moving back to the open E before it moves to the C….answers in the comments what you hear on the record! 😄
As with many lines, note length and articulation are everything here. Some quarter notes are played longer, some shorter. Some 8th notes are hammered on, some are all articulated. And those little pitch bends in bars 7-8 of that main groove!
I’m fairly sure the original was recorded using a hollowbody with a pick through some sort of valve amp or overdrive/fuzz, I can’t really replicate that (i’m a terrible pick player and have no hollowbody) so I got as close as I could with my Yamaha and MXR preamp plus a little amp sim in my DAW!
Have you all have fun with this one!
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