Transcription note-for-note of David Freiberg's bassline on this Amazing Song Composed by R. Polite from the debut album of Quicksilver Messenger Service, released in 1968. I did this bass cover thanks to a "Song Request" by one of my Followers. David Freiberg's bassline is melodic during the chorus parts as his bassline outlines the Chord notes and is done in a very tasty way. It required only two (2) days of listening to transcribe all of this note-for-note. It's interesting to note that David Freiberg plays each Chorus with different bass notes: this showed great creativity on David's part, while requiring a lot more effort on my part to transcribe each and every measure just the way it was played. And of course, I've memorized none of this: am reading my own two (2) page transcription note-for-note to be faithful to the original recording.
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The bass guitar in the video is a Fender Jazz Bass Roadworn model made in Mexico in 2012. **This bass's electronics: A few years ago my expert guitar luthier swapped out the standard Fender capacitor and replaced it with a genuine vintage 1960 Sprague tone capacitor (value = 0,1mdf) to the electronics, so now this bass has got an even more authentic vintage Fender Jazz Bass tone. The bass has got flat Ernie Ball Slinky flatwound medium gauge strings which are 6 years old. Neck pickup 9, Bridge pickup 10 and Tone switch 10. Marshall B25 MK II amp settings: Bass 5 o'clock, Mid between 3/4 o'clock, Treble 2 o'clock.
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I own no part of any of this music. Only an illustration to show how to play it.
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