Artist - Thin Lizzy
Electric Bass - Phil Lynott
Difficulty - Beginner/Intermediate
Hey everyone,
This one is a direct request from my dad and goes back to the very first band I ever played bass in! Prior to me sitting down a while back to transcribe this properly it was very much in the ‘sort of learned it but not really’ category, and having transcribed it properly (as with a lot of songs from this era), there are a range of little nuggets that jump out.
The first is the shift in inversions in the choruses, something that completely bypassed me as a teenager, but it’s a really fun little shift in the harmony! The other that comes to mind immediately is the shift to running 8th notes in the final part of the song, representing a real shift in energy that I wish I’d learned in full the first time around!
Given that I always associate Lynott with his black P bass, I grabbed my own Fender P for this recording, along with my Boss CEB-3 bass chorus plus a little additional processing in garageband.
Have fun!
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