Artist - George Michael
Electric Bass - Deon Estus
Difficulty - Beginner/Intermediate
NOTE: To play along with the record and not have your tuning jar your ears, set your tuner to 445hz!
Hey all,
This one falls under the heading of ‘learned but never learned properly’. I was watching a video about the late great Deon Estus (who not only played on this record but also played many of Wham!’s great bass lines) and decided to go and do a proper transcription!
I’m quite glad I did because (as with a lot of the music I transcribe here) there are lots of fun little details in there to chew over! The little scale runs Deon puts in in the pre-choruses, the slides and subtle bends and the supreme control of note length! In fact, i’d say that getting the note lengths right is somewhat key to nailing the overall tune, more so that the individual pieces of vocab!
I’ve been really enjoying the way my Yamaha records with the new TI flatwounds so I grabbed that for this recording too! Also in the chain was my Cali76 compressor and the MXR M80, straight into the interface/garageband where I added a little reverb!
It’s a fun and accessible tune to play, I hope you enjoy digging into it!
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