Artist – George Benson
Electric Bass – Neil Stubenhaus
Difficulty – Intermediate/Advanced
This weeks transcription features session great Neil Stubenhaus playing with the great George Benson. Neil’s credits include Gino Vanelli, Al Jarreau, Barbara Streisand, Smokey Robinson and Dianne Warwick so as with Nathan East and Anthony Jackson, he is someone well worth investigating!
This particular track, Never Give Up On A Good Thing features an intricate bass line, with ghost notes galore and lots of little details to work on! My advice would be to take the tune a section at a time, paying close attention to how it might be different from material you’ve worked on earlier in the song as there is a LOT of variation in there!
For this song I chose my Fodera with the pickups in single coil mode, approximating a J bass. Pickup selection is biased slightly towards the bridge pickup (not something I usually do but appropriate for a line like this), passive tone rolled on around 40%. The full signal chain is as follows…
Fodera – Cali76 compressor – Audient interface – Garageband (platinumverb plugin).
Have fun!
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