who's on your practice CD

[olorin]

AIGHT...I know all you bassistas here have a burned CD of some sort with your favorite jams to practice to, since most bass players could care less about musical theory in the first place. So what do you all have on your practice CD's? Let it out, all the dirt I bet you guys got some crazy sheet on thier, especially you dudes over 40...spill the beans man...

 

[Aussie Mark]

I practice whatever songs the band are learning this week.

 

[bovinehost]

Right now, I got:

Steely Dan - "Any Major Dude"
Sheryl Crow - "Favorite Mistake"
Fiona Apple - "Criminal"
Peter Gabriel - "I Have The Touch"
Jill Sobule - "The Girl In The Affair"
Elvis Costello - "Veronica"
XTC - "Across This Antheap"
Vonda Shepard - "Don't Cry, Eileen"
Beatles - "Paperback Writer"
Jill Sobule - "Love is Never Equal"
Beatles - "Lady Madonna"
Joni Mitchell - "Chinese Cafe"
Jill Sobule - "Bitter"

Kind of an eclectic mix?

 

[roballanson]

practise????

 

[oddjob]

Let's see:
Yellow - Cold Play
Hysteria - Muse
Purple Rain - Prince
Nikki - Foo Fighters (Prince)
Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
Sober - Tool
Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Every Little Thing She Does - Ra (Police)

All of which are new tunes for this Sat. - like Jack it is a bit of asn eclectic mix. (thankfully I have played a bunch of them at one point or another)

 

[fearofcups]

I just usually pick up an album and start playing a lot of the songs on it. Currently its Stadium Arcadium, and there are a ton of great basslines in there...

 

[shamus63]

For my gig last Saturday, I woodshedded the following set list...and I'm keeping them on my rehearsal playlist:

*Slow Ride ~ Bonnie Raitt
*Gone, Gone, Gone ~ Bad Co
*What Is And What Should Never Be ~ Zep
*Ramble On ~ Zep
*Run To You ~ Bryan Adams
*She Talks To Angels ~ Black Crowes
*Hollywood ~ Thin Lizzy
*Statesborough Blues ~ Allman Bro's
*Shapes Of Things ~ Jeff Beck
*Plush ~ STP
*It's All Over Now ~ Stones
*Stay With Me ~ Rod Stewart
*Dancin' Days ~ Zep
*Shakin' ~ Eddie Money
*Maybe I'm A Leo ~ Deep Purple
*Man In The Box ~ AIC
*Interstate Love Song ~ STP
*No Control ~ Eddie Money
*Her Strut ~ Bob Seger
*Finish What 'Ya Started ~ VH
*(I Can't) Breakaway ~ Frankie Miller
*Fire Down Below ~ Bob Seger
*Strange Brew ~ Cream
*Rocky Mountain Way ~ Joe Walsh

 

[muggsy]

Buzzcocks, Fiction Romance
Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
Hoodoo Gurus, Bittersweet
Allman Bros, Hoochie Coochie Man
Sex Pistols, Pretty Vacant
NY Dolls, Personality Crisis
Heartbreakers, Chinese Rocks
Led Zeppelin, The Ocean
Jim Carroll, People Who Died
Clash, Brand New Cadillac
Stooges, Search and Destroy
Judas Priest, Living After Midnight
Wings, Medicine Jar
Julian Cope, Safesurfer
SRV, Tin Pan Alley
Devo, Mongoloid
AC/DC, Live Wire
Pink Floyd, Money

 

[kakobass]

The Crusaders' "Southern Comfort." Anybody?

 

[Psycho Ward]

Well let’s see, I’m mostly into educational books at the moment, trying to brush up before SOBII…

Page 7 0f the “Roy Clark Big Note Guitar” book, with stickers!

Esteban’s “You Too Can Play Bass for Fun, Sex and Profit”

Tiny Tim’s “Play Bass Ukulele Now”

Larry Graham’s “Slap that Bitch and your Bass too”

Mel Bay’s “Got two Strings? Join a Country Band”

Sterling Ball’s “Don’t Look Stupid, Learn to Play Righty”

 

[Mobay45]

I'm with Aussie Mark on this one.

Whatever the band is learning right now and brushing up on what's on our set list.

"Jesse's Girl" - Rick Springfield (The girls ask for it all the time.)
"Need You Tonight" - INXS
"Life Is A Highway" - Rascal Flats
"Real World" - Matchbox 20
"Whiskey River" - Willie Nelson (For an upcoming charity gig's guest vocalist)
"Rock & Roll" - Susan Tedeschi (For an upcoming charity gig's guest vocalist)

 

[oddjob]

Larry Graham’s “Slap that Bitch and your Bass too”

Thought that was Ike Turner's book!?!?!?!

 

[phatduckk]

im not much to actually practice. I just grab my bass and play stuff while chillin at home.

when i first got a bass though i pretty much sat down and learned every damn Metallica song from Kill 'em All to the Black album. but since then I havent spent much time playing along with anything.

I still do that on guitar tho. on the 6 im pretty addicted to learning all the stray cats songs I can. its been a lot of fun playing out of my punk/metal box. its a nice challenge and a good learning experience

 

[oddjob]

Hysteria - Muse
is killing me... my fat little fingers haven't worked this hard in a while - I think smoke is coming off the fretboard and trying to remember which run goes where will ensure a night of not drinking

 

[TheDirtyMoocher]

sir duke-stevie wonder

and quite a bit of elvis costello

 

[roballanson]

Let's see:
Yellow - Cold Play
QUOTE]

Thats a great tune. We do a version at about 280bpm and it rocks really well....

 

[Lazybite]

How seriously good is chris from muse... I reckon he takes the cake as far as contempory/alternative bass players go at the moment. love that hysteria bass line..

Don't really practice songs as such... however I have guitar player pro (which has bass tabs) and a complete tab archive...so I everytime I get the craving to know a riff I just refer to that (assuming the song isn't from the last year or so).... not very good at learning whole songs though I get bored...

I learnt money/pink floyd the other day..dunno why but that is one of those hell fun bass lines to play.

 

[Moose308]

I don't use a CD. I use MP3's on random play so I never know what will pop up next. Keeps me on my toes.

Short List,

Ocean Pearl - 54-40
One Day In Your Life - 54-40
Lovers In A Dangerous Time - Bruce Cockburn
Just A Girl - No Doubt
Sunday Morning - No Doubt
It's My Life - No Doubt (cover)
Wake Me Up Buttercup - Save Ferris (cover)
My Girl - Temptations
Stand By Me - Ben E King
Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel (Tony Levin rocks!)
Roxanne - The Police
Walking On The Moon - The Police
Bring On The Night - The Police
Message In A Bottle - The Police
Oh My God - The Police
Shadows In The Rain - Sting
Nautical Disaster - The Tragically Hip
Springtime In Vienna - the Tragically Hip
Where The Streets Have No Name - U2
Still Haven't Found What I Am Looking For - U2
With Or Without You - U2

 

[strummer]

It's a single

Stevie Wonder - Happy Birthday ( I haven't started yet, but this request must be honored on July 29 so I think I'd better get crackin')

 

[AnthonyD]

The Latest Additions...

Working on the latest additions to the list...


Devil with the Blue Dress - Mitch Ryder
Boot Scootin' Boogie - Brooks & Dunn
We're Having a Party - Southside Johnny
Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Hot Tuna
Call Me the Breeze - Lynnyrd Skynnyrd


There's nothing too complicated here, but I tell you they are a blast to play with my guys...