we could post the tab for "Dead Goon"...the bass line that even Trevor Dunn would like to never play again

yeah here's the tab i wrote based on dunn's original pics from his site. it's from this old thread - http://www.radiomute.com/rock/21944-...-bitching.html


==|--part 1---||---part 2----||--part 3---|
G --6----5----4--------------------------------
D ------------------8---7---6------------------
A -----4----3----5---6---7---8--9-10-9-8-9--
E -----------------------------------------------

Any way so we could easily show the timing in all this stuff, or easily put up recordings of it?

For timing, it should be easy if everyone has a metronome. If you don't have one, I wouldn't be surprised if you could find one online.

I mean, what's an eighth note, what's a sixteenth, etc

well for what i posted the easiest way to check it out is to get a copy of 'dead goon' by mr. bungle. it's on their first album, about 1:50 into it.

as for 8ths and 16ths. if i remember right 8th notes refer to notes played on the beat, 16ths are double so two notes for every beat in the measure.

For standard 4/4 time: eighth notes would actually be in between the beats. A quarter note would be on the beat, and is counted "1..2..3..4." Eighth notes are in between the quarter notes, and are counted as "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and..." with the eigth notes played on the "ands." Usually, with the drums, the bass drum'll be on one and three, the snare on two and four. Sixteenth notes are in between the eighth notes and quarter notes, counted "1 e and a 2 e and a 3 e and a 4 e and a." When you're writing it out, you don't write it quarter note-sixteenth note-eighth note-sixteenth note, though, you'd just write all sixteenth notes (if that's what you were using). Hope that makes sense, or is what you were looking for in the first place. How you'd convey this in tab, written on a word processing program, I'm not sure.

Hey guys. You've probably noticed that I've been absent for a while...

On Wedneseday, a friend invited me unexpectedly to go here, free of charge:



To Watch:



On Thursday, The same guy invited me back to catch the Sens game. It's a real luxury to know someone who can get free tickets to whatever he wants.

Friday I was just at a party, but there ya go, that's why I've been gone.


Now, that little progression I posted days ago... I've got it recorded, but using Cakewalk, so it's in MIDI. I'm trying to get it to save as a WAV so I can post it here as an mp3.

Would anyone here happen to have Cakewalk? If so, PM me on how to get these things recorded. That way, I can have a recording posted with every lick I post after this, and make it much easier on you guys.

one week later - no recording. who would have guessed?

I guess he really did absorb Rishijin.