mplspaul Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 I'm sticking bits and variations of the line into way too many songs but I can't help myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edendude Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Ah...The dreaded 'riff addiction curse'! There is only one true known cure... You must learn to play the riff just as proficiently 'backwards', and then play the backwards riff live, in a song, just once. This will forever cure you of this curse. World-class fingerstyle guitarist 'Leo Kottke' swears by this method. He once had Woody Wood Pecker's famous "ha ha ha har har" line stuck in his head. John Hammond told him about the 'backwards riff cure', which has apparently been passed down through the ages, directly from Robert Johnson himself. My Last Band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 You mean this song? http://home.jps.net/~jeremy/taxman.jpg Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Capasso Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Sounds like another problem people have. That "song stuck in my head" thing. Most people solve that by getting another (more agreeable) song in their head. Look for another great riff, and start sticking that in instead. Then another. Eventually you go back ot your style, or your style becomes a combination of what you've been doing. Hopefully. Keep doing McCartney riffs, and you'll be able to play one song that has every Beatles bass lick in it I remember wayyyyy back, when I used to put the "Born To Be Wild" lick into places it didn't belong. Fun to play, horrible to hear. Tom www.stoneflyrocks.com Acoustic Color Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mplspaul Posted October 24, 2002 Author Share Posted October 24, 2002 Originally posted by Dr Zarkov-Capasso: Keep doing McCartney riffs, and you'll be able to play one song that has every Beatles bass lick in it TomI've already combined Taxman and Birthday in one song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Capasso Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 So all you have to do is add Ticket To Ride, Helter Skelter, a walk like All My Loving, Come Together, some schmaltz from Maxwell's Silver Hammer, and end it with a nice legato passage from Something. That will get you about half way there. Hey Jeremy - I remember that sheet !!! We had that chat about a year ago !! Tom www.stoneflyrocks.com Acoustic Color Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fonz Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 ahhh taxman, which i consider to be one of the greatest work in sir pauls folio. i occasionally throw it in, though it's actually a crappy warm up. so it could be worse, you cold have some korn in your head. keep korn where it belongs, undigested and floating in the bowl. Eeeeeehhhhhhhhh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraub Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Are you sure you're not thinking of the classic "The Corn Remains The Same?" 'Cause that would be something else. Peace, wraub I'm a lot more like I am now than I was when I got here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Capasso Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 You guys - the correct warm up song is Rocky RaCorn Tom www.stoneflyrocks.com Acoustic Color Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraub Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Or music from the soundtracks "Corn Free" and "Corn With the Wind"? Or what about those funky groovy lines I've heard are in those Cornographic movies? Like "Behind the Green Corn"? Just wondering... Peace, wraub I'm a lot more like I am now than I was when I got here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamixoye Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Originally posted by Bastid E: you cold have some korn in your headSometimes a hear of Korn is just a hear of Korn. Sorry, wraub... I believe that is the greatest reply I\'ve ever read! I\'m not even joking. -- justinruins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick_dont_fret Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Dude, wraub, you gonna take that from Adamixoye? I'd take him to court, man. You ever read the copyright warning on a CD? Same goes for here, man. You stole intellectual property from wraub, now you must pay the price! But if wraub doesn't care, then it's all good in da hood. And might I add that piece of music is the ugliest thing I've ever seen written down before. Who transcribed that to paper? If McCartney did it, I hope he's learned how to make the notes by now, cause even I can do it better than that, and I can't even read that well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Capasso Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Whoa !!! Real musicians can read notes from wet bar napkins !!!! Jeremy was kind enough to send me that a year ago when we were talking about that riff (I don't remember for sure, but I think he had written it out at the time for his own fun just before I asked about it). He did me the favor of sending it along. Don't forget that one of the problems this forum has is that there is no easy way to pass transcriptions along. If Jeremy had the best most beautiful software, we have no way to sohw the printed results here. Besides, if he gets that holster he was after, he'll show up at your ranch and vibrate your house into the dust !!! He's quite an accomplished teacher and bass-slinger... Tom www.stoneflyrocks.com Acoustic Color Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraub Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 Shucks, Patrick, it's all good. Some would say my intellectual property is not all that intellectual, and there's probably a kernel of truth in that. I'm in the Lessig camp on this one. And Adamixoye, I could stalk around and field bad corn humor all day, and not even chip the surface my sense of ...humor? Do your worst, agronimically speaking. In the words of the great Willy Maize, "The corn is immutable, while the Korn is not." And so it goes, pop... Peace, wraub I'm a lot more like I am now than I was when I got here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Capasso Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 Well, we're growing this thread by plowing thru the bad puns... Such a great gang are we - each post fertilizes someone's imagination for the next one !! (hey wraub - "stalk around" was pretty good !!) Tom www.stoneflyrocks.com Acoustic Color Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraub Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 Thanks Tom, praise from Caesar. (Now we can start the salad puns.) Hey Tom, I know it's OT, but could you possibly PM me with info as to using avatars? I'm doing what the ubb code says, but to no avail... Thanks. Peace, wraub I'm a lot more like I am now than I was when I got here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zack Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 & check out Macca's ripping guitar solo. Great stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Thorne Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 I for one don't consider an addiction to Paul's "Taxman" bass line a problem. I play it about every day myself... You wanna kick your butt? Learn the bass lines from "Rain" and "Paperback Writer"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g. Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 Playing the verse to "Day Tripper" (in the correct octave) and singing at the same time is quite a romp : } . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbloke Posted October 25, 2002 Share Posted October 25, 2002 For variety , you could always try to learn the bass line from The Jam's "Start". No, wait a minute, sorry, I'm afraid that's still the Taxman riff. Bruce Foxton obviously had the same problem as you do. Bassbloke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mplspaul Posted October 25, 2002 Author Share Posted October 25, 2002 Originally posted by bassbloke: For variety , you could always try to learn the bass line from The Jam's "Start". No, wait a minute, sorry, I'm afraid that's still the Taxman riff. Bruce Foxton obviously had the same problem as you do.The Jam were a big, big deal for me when I was in high school and starting to discover good music for myself. Bigger than the Beatles. Foxton was a badass. I should steal bits of Absolute Beginners. And as a matter of fact, I knew Start before I'd even heard Taxman. Weller and Foxton were the ones that taught me that liberal stealing from the Beatles was okay. Afraid I'm not going mine the Traffic catalogue like Weller though... How's Illumination? No word of its release date stateside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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