Artist - Paramore
Electric Bass - Brian Weaver
Difficulty - Intermediate
Hey everyone,
Hope this finds you all well. For this weeks transcription i’ve revisited a band (and an album!) that were a real staple of my late teenage years. Paramore. I’ve not been as into some of their more recent music but Riot! is an album that has stayed with me down the years, both for the attitude and songwriting and (more recently) some of the bass work!
While Jeremy Davis was Paramore’s bass player in the early 2000s through to 2015, I’ve read (on pretty good authority) that it was in fact session player Brian Weaver that played bass on the record, and there is some excellent bass work, from That’s What You Get to the classic Misery Business…the whole record has excellent rock bass playing on it. Which brings me to this tune. Fences.
While it isn’t my favourite track on the record (that goes to That’s What You Get, which I might also transcribe at a later date), Fences definitely has the most ‘forward’ bass line. It’s mostly a rapid quarter/eighth note walking line but keep an eye out for some of the triplet figures. I’ve transcribed this for 5 string but it’s possible it was recorded on a 4 in drop D…I’m not sure, some of the figures are a little tricky to fret in standard tuning but they would shift two frets up in drop D…answers on a postcard! It’s also RAPID at 200bpm, so take your time with it.
Signal chain for this was my Yamaha BB5000 (front pickup, treble rolled on) into my Cali76 compressor and then the MXR M80 to add a little grit.
Enjoy!
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