Lesson material here: www.talkingbass.net/mustang-sally-why-every-bassist-plays-it-wrong-tabs-and-tutorial/
@michaelokane6065
2 жыл бұрын
Really hope you've planned a whole series of these "pub standards"! Great stuff as always Mark, cheers
@alfsmith4936
2 жыл бұрын
When I wake up..
@richshields6692
2 жыл бұрын
As a bassist I have found that even if you play the part right, it wont sound "right" if everyone else doesn't play their part correctly. Lol
@shaunjohnson9210
2 жыл бұрын
Amen!!!! And “Thank you!”
@sandergordon6289
Жыл бұрын
Very true that's why no matter if you play it right or wrong as long as Everybody Plays the same thing it sounds good to those listening out in the audience.
@Brad5161
Жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@vaudronphilippe5415
Жыл бұрын
Comment on appelle un mec qui accompagne des musiciens ? Un bassiste 😅 ou on l’appelle pas humour
@partabilitychoirrehearsalt2452
Жыл бұрын
Sorry to disagree with most of the folk on here! But I think "Wrong" in the title is putting it strong, unless you're determined to play it exactly as Pickett's original - but frankly, most people - bassists, other players and most importantly the audience - will be far more familiar with the Commitments version. IMHO it's one of those rare cases where the cover surpassed the original - cleaner, somehow funkier. So, sorry, I'll be sticking to C-F#-G-Bb-C the way I've always played it Thanks for the tips re. isolation software, will no doubt come in handy in the future. Cheers John
@lamper2
2 жыл бұрын
it's been decades since anyone requested this song in a bar
@georgecovetskie6717
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting that. Wow, Mustang Sally. Yea, I been playing bass since 1974 and I remember that song being brought up so, so many times. I did it, well we did it and no matter how off to the left or the right we did the tune, it mostly went over due to the condition of the listeners at that point. Well, one day when I was home practicing new tunes that our band was doing, I remember we discussed that It would be a good idea to actually get the dam song Mustang Sally down right, as best we can. Let me tell ya, Im talking the year 2001 when technology was just not what it was today. So, I had to do this the hard way. I sat back and just listened to the dam song over and over until I had to pick up the bass and try. I am a very good " pick up by ear " bassist but Dam, I could not get the lick perfect. I had to try different headphones, studio monitors and equalize until I thought I had it right. When I finally got it ( that same thing you just showed us on your video ) I sat there trying to sink in the riff and I thought to myself, No No, this aint the dam lick! So I started playing along with the record like I did at the start. Holy Crap! It took me 4 hours to get the Mustang Sally lick! I felt stupid and satisfied at the same time. Thank you for sharing that. Helps me even more to believe I got that dam song down right. Now, it's actually more fun to play!
@keithclark486
2 жыл бұрын
Dam more fun to play.
@beatlesrgear
2 жыл бұрын
This may sound musically blasphemous to some, but I think the original bass line sounds a bit herky jerky with no real groove to it. So I made up my own bass line using almost the exact same notes and it really puts some funk into the song (no, it's not slap & pop). I just play the line in a different way.
@dlawlis
2 жыл бұрын
If you're gonna do Mustang Sally you're gonna have to do Brown Eyed Girl 😁
@frostriver4547
2 жыл бұрын
Just no Wagon Wheel or Turn the Page without a $100 donation to the band
@emmanuelacharithayamim3627
2 жыл бұрын
....and “Hi ho, silver lining”
@talkingbasslessons
2 жыл бұрын
@@emmanuelacharithayamim3627 well…that’s another one people play wrong. The first chord!
@dlawlis
2 жыл бұрын
@@talkingbasslessons For me personally there really is no "wrong" way to play anything; just good and bad 😉
@talkingbasslessons
4 ай бұрын
@@dlawlisBig tip: Do NOT take a gig with an orchestra.
@stevehazlewood2960
2 жыл бұрын
Damn I have been playing this song wrong all these years. I even played with Eamonn Flynn, the road keyboard player for the Commitments for a few years. When I see him next and show him this riff, I am curious to his reaction.
@banjominer9682
2 жыл бұрын
i play it better than the original
@mrnelsonius5631
2 жыл бұрын
This is such a funky bassline for a simple blues progression. The rhythmic placement of everything is *chefs kiss* 👌
@MrGavinspoppop
2 жыл бұрын
Starting to play bass in the band ... giving the guitar a rest .... great info thanks
@jamesrichardson3322
2 жыл бұрын
I bought the R&B Bass Bible HAL LEONARD, Bass recorded version. On page 100 has Mustang 🐎 Sally words and music by Bonny Rice. I don't think there is a wrong way of playing it really, the public don't give a 💩 how it's played, especially if they are hammered mate!! Are they going stop 🛑🖐️ you? Say hey!! You are playing it wrong 🤣, NO. Tommy Cogbill and Donald Duck Dunn, John Paul Jones are my top three bassists. They influence me on becoming a bassist.
@mytoosents8998
2 жыл бұрын
AMEN, Brother!!
@mytoosents8998
2 жыл бұрын
Been doing covers for over 50 yrs., still pulling some of these old gems out cuz some clown yells out, "Mustang Sally" and you just automatically latch on to who ever kicks it off and try to adjust to the tempo/feel/key of what's going on. Not exactly easy when you might know the correct bass line and it doesn't mesh with the aforementioned variables. The crowd does not give a rat's Ash what you're doing. They want to dance to something that sounds like Mustang Sally and sing in the chorus. Just play, and shut the hell up and drink the free beer the guy bought you for playing his friggin' request. Ain't nobody cares who's fucking bass line you are trying to create. Give yourself a big gold star because you learned the correct MUSTANG SALLY BASSLINE! NOW, sit in your basement and relearn PROUD MARY and most everything else you've ever played wrong and try to teach your band to do the same. See where that gets you!
@jamesrichardson3322
2 жыл бұрын
@@mytoosents8998 Someone here has some anger issues!! You didn't get hugged enough? There will always be some drunks idiots, yell shit at the band and throw shit at the band stand. The band play the tunes and play at the tempo, if you have adjust it oh well. The crowd has deal with it, you are going to get payed anyway for the gig. I had a drunk at a blues club jam session tell how much I sucked, and the argument got heated. Security and some friends broke it by before our fight got out of hand.
@1965JB
2 жыл бұрын
I probably never got the notes right, but nearly every time I’ve played that song it was the Buddy Guy version, which just murders the beautiful syncopation of the WP version. Drove me to the brink of despair some nights!
@kahwigulum
2 жыл бұрын
I like that you used math to solve Master of Puppets and used AI to solve Mustang Sally. Kids these days will never know what it's like transcribing from a cassette tape that someone else recorded off the radio.
@Jesse-B
2 жыл бұрын
From where I am sitting, the original is not as aurally pleasing as some of the modern interpretations.
@taurus3973
2 жыл бұрын
Kudos to you for isolating the authentic bass line. The only question I would have is, is that the best bass line for the song? The slide up from B to C on the first beat suits me fine, as does the slide from F# to G on the way back up. However the choice of the 6th (A) note instead of going to Bb, irks my ear a bit. I tend to think that the song works in spite of that choice, and because under all the instruments, the bass riff is murky anyway. In a perfect world I would lose that 6th and use the 7th.
@lilmelvin11
2 жыл бұрын
A great breakdown! Nice that people study and appreciate the skills these "old-school" musicians had. They didn't "overthink" things, had some knowledge of theory but mostly used instinct from tradition. Music is Rhythm and Pulse in the foundation, with the vocals providing Melody while telling a Story. Learning how to interact and mind-meld within the Pulse is the key to being a good player, and not just an ego-tripper Thank you!
@talkingbasslessons
2 жыл бұрын
Partly true but most of the 60s session players had a jazz background. Learning to play walking lines and solo had a huge influence on the lines they played.
@AtomizedSound
2 жыл бұрын
This song has the Muscle Shoals legendary rhythm section “The Swampers” on its track. These guys just knew how to groove. They don’t have much background in jazz either to my knowledge but they were amazing players
@Altair4314
2 жыл бұрын
@@talkingbasslessons Cogbill played jazz guitar before becoming a studio player. The jazz background seems a parallel with Jamerson and how they both use a lot of chromatics. Really sounds like any 'out' choices he made were entirely deliberate (such as the major/dominant against minor in Chain of Fools).
@michaelmattson3515
2 жыл бұрын
Super Freak has a alternating riff that no bar band uses. I’m a guitarist in a funk groove band and nobody plays like the record of the songs we play just the hooks. Which is actually nice because I can kind of jam on the tunes.
@TM-jo4wz
2 жыл бұрын
Every time I play it I have to follow the guitar player as usual! Guitar players love to play their version of the bass parts.
@frankortega4280
2 жыл бұрын
Nicely done Mark. A must know for bassists everywhere. Thank you for sharing your work.
@jonmccravy
2 жыл бұрын
The real reason bassists get this wrong is because we can't be bothered to actually learn it. You know you get the song list and this one always gets pushed to the "it's just a 1-4-5 with a groove" pile. Well now I know it, so thanks! I might still play it wrong on purpose though. I like to do like a funky shout chorus under it.
@douglasdingwall4915
2 жыл бұрын
There is no right or wrong way....it's a jam, interpet it anyway you'd like.....is there only one way to play "Feelin' Alright"?
@ramonmoreno8014
2 жыл бұрын
Doug is all up and down this page trumpeting his hackdom
@ianmackenzie686
Ай бұрын
To be fair, the bass subtleties are extremely difficult to pick up. The software Mark used cleared things up a bit.
@davidpanzer1166
2 жыл бұрын
I played guitar with Wilson Pickett for five years. The bass player never played the original bass line 😳
@davidpanzer1166
2 жыл бұрын
Now I do a lot of bass gigs and I always do it right! But as you say nobody cares. Actually that isolated part is a little different than what I thought it was 😮
@derekbrand9760
Жыл бұрын
I completely believe that. All of the older Blues artists I've played with have told me their bands never "Played it like the damn record !"
@davesrvchannel4717
2 жыл бұрын
At 53 years old I’ve never heard this song one time on the radio. I had a music store for 4 years and never sold a copy. I’m intrigued by the fascination with bands playing this song in clubs. I honestly don’t get it. Played in bands in my youth, and this song was never requested. Yet every time I go see a live band, the song is always played. Glad there’s a tutorial to get it right.
@jwsaxe
2 жыл бұрын
This is why: kzitem.info/news/bejne/y4B6tZprpneIpmU
@GMan269
2 жыл бұрын
Dave: You're not quite old enough. At the age of 70.5, I can tell you it burned up the AM airwaves during my early teens. I'd say this and Midnight Hour were the two most played songs by Wicked Pickett that I can recall. How it got to be a club favorite I'm not quite sure, but if I had a dollar for every time I've played it beginning at age 14...Certainly it was due in large part to the renaissance the song enjoyed in the early 90's with the movie, and soundtrack to "The Commitments." It's an infectious, greasy groove when it's not over-executed by a drunken bar band. And nobody on this planet sings it like Wilson did!
@carlmontney7916
2 жыл бұрын
Greg I'm 70 and agree 100 % with your post. In the mid to late 60's I lived in Michigan 60 miles from Detroit and Mustang Sally and Midnight Hour got CONSTANT airplay on every station. I've played many times.
@geraldfriend256
2 жыл бұрын
It was a meme before memes. The Stairway to Heaven for bar bands. Lord spare me
@GMan269
2 жыл бұрын
@@geraldfriend256 you are spared my son, go in peace and serve the groove.
@TheMusicianTom
2 жыл бұрын
Legend doesn’t even begin to describe session players like Tommy Cogbill.
@fbass8657
2 жыл бұрын
Tommy Cogbill is unarguably the most underrated bassist of all time. Period.
@MrFlint51
2 жыл бұрын
I disagree. Taking the bass line in context with the sax riff, the note on the down beat is definitely the C, preceded by a B natural on the last eighth note of the preceding bar, played by both sax and bass. The next notes are G, B flat, B natural, all played on the eight notes. The sequance moves up a fourth and then back down. When this came out in 1965 I was the organist and arranger for a Motown(and Stax and Atlantic) covers band and I spent a lot of time working this out
@MrFlint51
2 жыл бұрын
Correction: Pickett's version was not a hit in the UK until 1967, so it would have been later in that year when I analysed it for the band
@thewannabebassist
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Mark. No offense but I think you're wrong. I don't know which version of the song have been submitted to the track-splitting app but it's not what I'm hearing on my side. The timing on your chart is bad too, first beat on the C, not F#G. The part is easier: C__F#G_BC__F#G_BC__F#GCF#_F__... I made a complete tab transcript that I think is more accurate if you are interested. I put some time on that song because someone said to me that graduating students in bass from several reknown music schools were not even able to play it right.
@fernandogarajalde4066
2 жыл бұрын
You play it your way and I’ll play it MY way. 😎
@ianthomson9363
2 жыл бұрын
I'm so, so, so glad that I'm retired from playing bass and I never have to play this song ever again.
@ramonmoreno8014
2 жыл бұрын
No doubt the public agrees
@ianthomson9363
2 жыл бұрын
@@ramonmoreno8014 As the public generally ignore the bass player, I doubt any of them have noticed.
@ianmackenzie686
Ай бұрын
@@ianthomson9363 Hell, bands ignore bass players. Ask me how I know😊
@mdew24
2 жыл бұрын
That does not help when in all of the bands I know the guitar players play the chords C G Bb C G Bb C . If I played the Bass correctly as in the recorded song I would be messing up the whole groove. No matter who you are and what song you are playing you have to fit in with what the rest of the band is playing "Right or wrong" according to the recorded version.
@luvbasses5487
2 жыл бұрын
Those Road Worn P’s are pretty killer for the buck, yeah?
@mightyV444
2 жыл бұрын
That's how I'd actually heard it in the recording when learning the song for a covers band three years ago, but it sounded 'wrong' to my ears so I omitted the A and moved the B in its place, followed by two C 8th notes on the '1' beat 😁
@bluessixstring48
2 жыл бұрын
Hey , ya play it the way you play it , Artistic Expression , I like my version better …. Ha
@rontabuteau1721
2 жыл бұрын
Nice work but I can't let you get away with saying the original version is by Wilson Pickett when in fact the tune's writer Sir Mack Rice recorded it a year earlier!
@db91977
2 жыл бұрын
This is not only instructional but very funny, Mark. I tend to do the Commitments version, but this is very interesting too!
@tombeyerlein3813
2 жыл бұрын
Commitments version here, too.
@ErnieLeblanc
2 жыл бұрын
However, Mark: You are a Dangerous Genius Bassist at LARGE! - Thanks for Another Great Video.💯
@Tedroy
2 жыл бұрын
We've had people pay us to NOT play Mustang Sally.
@douglasdingwall4915
2 жыл бұрын
"Mustang Sally" just freaking blues which you can jam on with just about anybody...nobody cares whether it's like the record or it's right or wrong, there are probably hundreds if not thousands of versions out there...I'm sure every guitar great or bass great has played it....and nobody would judge it right or wrong.
@talkingbasslessons
2 жыл бұрын
That’s pretty much what I point out in the vid. Nobody cares. BUT there’s an interesting lesson to be had in looking at the original recording.
@audibletapehiss3764
2 жыл бұрын
Fair enough, but counterpoint: all my musician friends hate playing this (and other "standards" like Brown Eyed Girl, etc.) and the reason is because they never took the time to actually dig what was played on the record and have a little pride in capturing what worked about it in the first place. They just write it off as a blues jam. The "blues jam" mentality is what takes a song like this and kills it frigging dead, to the point where everybody scoffs openly when it gets called. Play it like the record, and guess what... the audience doesn't know why, even the other musicians don't know why, but everyone is like, "gee why did I enjoy that?" To which I say, have me back next week and find out. Cheers.
@ramonmoreno8014
2 жыл бұрын
You really make me want to see your band. Do you even like music, or just the idea of being seen?
@douglasdingwall4915
2 жыл бұрын
@@ramonmoreno8014 I've been playing bass since 1968...I've played "Mustang Sally" many different ways....I used to play it as a Rascals medley into "Come on up", played it like the Wilson Picket version. What's your problem....when you play in a band you adapt to whatever style the band does it.... its usually a song which everybody should be able to wing it if you're at a party or an open blues jam at a bar. Don't make an ass of yourself my original post didn't call for your snarky dumbass comment...
@skineyemin4276
2 жыл бұрын
My question is, who the heck is really playing "Mustang Sally" these days, anyway?
@petersanderson3696
2 жыл бұрын
I always played BC F# G.. Never heard the A or Bb ever. Learn something new everyday.
@kenbash2951
2 жыл бұрын
I play the same part that is on the record by Wilson Pickett. Fairly straightforward.
@kenbash2951
2 жыл бұрын
@Wayne Green My point is- it's easy. Nothing fancy about it.
@SubsurfaceMedia
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly, I believe most experienced gigging bass players hope they never have to play this song again, along with wagon wheel, brown eyed girl, and margaritaville.
@mqblues
2 жыл бұрын
Proud Mary
@JamesThomas-gg6il
2 жыл бұрын
Well crap. I've been doing it wrong all of these years. I will say that not doing it the way he did it made me come up with some real cool ways of playing it wrong. Go figure
@audibletapehiss3764
2 жыл бұрын
Just hitting the B on the one is all the difference in how this tune feels.
@elflakeador09
Жыл бұрын
The commitments is one of the greatest films ever!! 🇮🇪
@normt6226
2 жыл бұрын
There is no such thing as playing something WRONG...Different ? Yes...Not the Same ? Yes...Wrong ? No...
@talkingbasslessons
2 жыл бұрын
Hate to be pedantic but there are millions of ways to play something wrong. If you’re given a piece of music to read and you play a pitch or rhythm different from what is written…it’s wrong.
@normt6226
2 жыл бұрын
@@talkingbasslessons Well there's two theory about that...either the music is created before hand when it is written or it is created afterward at the perfoming stage...Musicians who are slaves to what's written bore me as hell...but musicians always improvising and changing things bore me too...The great ones navigate between the two...
@talkingbasslessons
2 жыл бұрын
@@normt6226 If I’m playing in a theatre show or an orchestra or even backing a cabaret artist and I’m reading a written part, it’s my job to play exactly what’s written. If you start messing around with a part for an arranged piece it’s not going to work. Those specific notes are placed in those specific places for a reason. Hence, there is definitely a wrong way to play something.
@nicholas1460
2 жыл бұрын
Ok, now that you've done this how about Paint it Black? I keep seeing two slightly different versions. Does it have the F?
@kdrexler
2 жыл бұрын
After playing this any old way, a new challenge! Great job. I might actually learn to unhate this for awhile.
@itsenergybob8917
2 жыл бұрын
I play it the way I want to play it. Did Van Halen play "You Really Got Me" wrong? I think not.
@ramonmoreno8014
2 жыл бұрын
Let's see it
@markplumb3968
Жыл бұрын
The Thrill is Gone uses the same chromaticism approach… was popular back in the day and today of course in Jazz and rockabilly.. but you have to take into account that a lot of those early bass lines were trying to replicate double basses… ( think fretless and flat wound strings ) one would need to be careful in hitting a full on B especially if you have a heavy handed keyboard player playing the b7th…. Just food for thought…..
@dunatyphon5416
2 жыл бұрын
This song gives me the scurvy! I absolutely hate it. The original by Mack Rice was great! And 3:09 long.... I have literally timed a band dragging it out for 12;30 so that the guitarist can wank.... I hope that I never hear it again.....
@JayDeeChannel
Жыл бұрын
That’s true. I played this for the first the other night and it was appalling!
@rick00770
2 ай бұрын
Oh man the memories, 1966-1970 started in high school , top 20 stuff included lots of Motown plus British Invasion .
@gregoryparks210
Жыл бұрын
Lets hear you mix it up with Memphis Underground by Herbie Mann, segueing Mustang Sally to Memphis Underground.Please...
@derekbrand9760
Жыл бұрын
I've always wondered about this line and this is correct. But just try getting a guitar player to hear it. I've actually played this with Sir Mack Rice, and he told me to just "play it like the Buddy Guy version". Ha!
@jrfrondelli2023
2 жыл бұрын
Most of the time, entire BANDS play this tune wrong! As a drummer, I will go in as a sub, and try to play it correctly, but I am battling gratuitous arrangements, syncopation, etc. Aaarrrgghhh!!! 🤬
@NelsonMontana1234
2 жыл бұрын
Nice.
@GrahameRogers
3 ай бұрын
The Original from Sir Mack Rice and Don Was on bass kzitem.info/news/bejne/lqKPu46DcoNzjaQsi=-5euuiPjWxuJfvR2
@j.p.fitting9226
Жыл бұрын
Thnx for this ! What a motherCogbill was !! Could swear when you first play the extracted sample it starts ON A ! oh well TY
@winstonsmith8240
7 ай бұрын
So start on the major 7 on a dominant chord? Makes sense. Charlie Parker used to do that a lot. To mess with people's heads, I believe. 😉
@AtomizedSound
2 жыл бұрын
Actually thought legend, David Hood played the bass line on this with the rest of the Swampers
@Altair4314
2 жыл бұрын
Cogbill was part of the Swampers and on some of the earlier recordings where Cogbill was playing bass, Hood played in the horn section. From an email exchange I had with Hood, his words, "Tommy Cogbill was a friend as well as a great inspiration (even a hero) of mine, so I really kept up with all of his recordings in Muscle Shoals." Both fantastic players.
@myronbuck2436
Жыл бұрын
This is a great video, but you never sing the words so I have no idea where the first note comes in. I can't find the beat....are the first two notes (the B leading to the C) a lead in, or are they played on the one beat?
@Gert1803
2 жыл бұрын
Nonsense ! You can play the original tune but also other versions; there is no law about "good" or "wrong" in playing music !
@geoffgoodall3839
Жыл бұрын
As a guitarist played this old number many times I don't doubt for a second you got it right but whare this old song has been butcherd over the years and ime included in this confusion reigns man !
@nigel900
2 жыл бұрын
If I never hear that f-ing song again, it’s too soon…
@ijencole6788
8 ай бұрын
Funny, I was like: But non of them sounds right 😂. Then you hit that b and it was "yeah"
@RashaadAbdul-Salaam
Жыл бұрын
If you listen to smoke on the water... By Deep Purple their baseline sounds da same
@mikacplavi3573
2 жыл бұрын
WOW! What an unusual accent, this is a spit in the face of English language. Where is this guy from?
@kevinryan2396
2 жыл бұрын
Every bass player plays it wrong because every band plays the song wrong.
@AtticusFinch.
10 ай бұрын
Mustang Sally are written and was first recorded by Mack Rice.
@raymondmoore2707
Жыл бұрын
I played it wrong on purpose so I wasn’t imitating. I hate imitating.
@ErnieLeblanc
2 жыл бұрын
''Nobody Cares, Kid!'' - Sonny, A Bronx Tale
@ajhieb
2 жыл бұрын
Is the lighting super weird in this shot? I'm getting a black/blue or gold/white dress vibe from your pickguard. My brain keeps telling my that's just a white pickguard in dim lighting, but the lighting doesn't seem to be dim, so I'm thinking it's a flat-gold?
@cary3428
2 жыл бұрын
It’s gold anodized aluminum
@ajhieb
2 жыл бұрын
@@cary3428 That makes sense. Thanks.
@BSidentifier
2 жыл бұрын
I got half way through this video and decided you are right, no one cares.
@TorqueTheRich
Жыл бұрын
Great video sir!!! I began 45 years ago finger plucking because, frankly, almost none of my bass heroes used a pick. I began experimenting after 3 years or so and really fell hard for the plectrum. I use the big Fender triangle heavy gauge. I found that by varying my hold location, I can get more or less flexibility and there's plenty of surface area to work with. Plus, when sweat becomes a factor, you can spin the pick to catch the closest point if it slips. Just my take on the subject. I realize it isn't for everyone.
@PowersDave1966
2 жыл бұрын
Ha!! Love it. The bassist in my band did it right! 😝
@PowersDave1966
2 жыл бұрын
Never mind I was wrong 😫
@harryseper7353
2 жыл бұрын
Who really gives a shit, I've gotten paid not to play it more than once
@sandergordon6289
Жыл бұрын
Very nice work there however that one thing that they're telling you that where they say it's a B natural instead of a B flat against the C7 it doesn't work it can't work I took my I have bass speakers headphones with a enhancer and put it on the record and it is a B flat he's playing not a B natural. However I will say it's easy to confuse them because listening with my naked ear it was hard to tell until I put my space speakers on my head my I have base headphones but it was very plain that it was a B flat not a B natural. Anyhow love your stuff definitely a subscriber and we'll continue to watch it you're very good. Thank you have a good day
@talkingbasslessons
Жыл бұрын
Nope. It’s a B natural.
@edoca1
Жыл бұрын
Hahahha Very same to Guajira start.....beauty thanks
@thomasrodante3602
3 ай бұрын
Been playing that wrong since eternity……..
@MoggioMTB
2 жыл бұрын
Really interesting! Funny how dodgy one can play this song in a covers band and still get away with it. This is one of those be told the changes and be shown the rough feel of the riff and your ready to go type songs.
@mrsatire9475
2 жыл бұрын
Buddy Guy has a good version
@wretch1
2 жыл бұрын
Why is the talking part 1000 times the decibels of the bass playing?!
@talkingbasslessons
2 жыл бұрын
It isn’t. You’re probably watching on a phone or laptop. You won’t hear anything below 200hz. Check-out the recent vid on tone to hear what I mean. The only way to remedy that is to either crank the mids crazy high, play with a pick or add distortion. You’re listening to a 60s Precision with flatwounds. You can’t circumvent the laws of physics. Listen to the vid on headphones or decent speakers and you’ll see what I mean. I can’t boost the instrument anymore. It’s already bordering on clipping. You’ll notice that lots of my other lessons have bass cutting through on a phone. From an educational standpoint it’s worth asking yourself why that is and checking out the tone I’m creating for the vid.
@markvilleneuve6655
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. I love blues, Rhythm and blues, Country and western, of course 50s 60s 70s rock and roll. I play Rhythm Guitar it is time to play bass. How about getting both on one body. 😁😁
@TheRockerxx69
2 жыл бұрын
Which movie is that (?) Not the Commitments (!) (?)
@peterzabriskie
11 ай бұрын
Mark ! ! ! Thank you so very much for this break down of Mustang Sally.... Like you have said trying to pick it out of an old 45 rpm record is tough. I have had countless arguments and a few "your fired" over this tune in the 50+ years I have been playing it. I discovered some cities different are adamant about how they perform certain oldies among the local musical populations. Your presentation style is terrific. I have been a long time lurker on Talking Bass. Thanks again. Maybe a Word on "Peter Gun" next time. :) 🤣
@johnwalter9696
2 жыл бұрын
now I have to go listen. with my half deaf ears. lol
@BROOKS39
4 ай бұрын
Does really matter how you play it. Particularly in pubs. Most people are too hammered or too preoccupied with themselves to appreciate it.
@talkingbasslessons
4 ай бұрын
Well, that is actually what I said 1:37
@balbo1981
2 жыл бұрын
Well done! 💪 Just a question... Sorry if it was already asked... What kind of dr strings do you use? I have a squier p bass cv 70 with lindy fralyn pickup and i'm actually using thomastik.
@lisamann
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for showing this bass line, and the song, some proper respect, it's been trashed for far too long!
@gregmartin1757
2 жыл бұрын
I usually played the buddy guy version.
@davidpanzer1166
2 жыл бұрын
Never ceases to amaze me how great those Alabama white boys were. The guitar parts on MS are absolutely brilliant. Nobody plays then right either! Usually just some random idea of “funky “ with a bunch of 7th and 9th chords. There are only major chords being used. One is doing a v Cool riff using octaves (like Wes Montgomery). The other guitar is playing a Chuck Berry type of double stop parts. Anyway, great video! You got a new subscriber!
@jakeschneider7846
2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes it's hard to pick out the fundamental notes from a recording, so we're stuck with using some music theory to fill in the gaps. Which is why I always played C (1) F# (b5) G (5) Bb (b7). I guess I was wrong.
@the116army2
2 жыл бұрын
I really liked the Commitments sound, just because it’s not like the original doesn’t mean it’s bad
@webstercat
2 жыл бұрын
If you are playing mustang sally, realize no one cares about the bass line. You are correct!
@timesroman
2 жыл бұрын
This was a great vid &, like almost everyone, I've not played it correctly most of the time. For the record, though, the original was the songwriter, R&B/soul artist Sir Mack Rice's, version released in 1965. Wilson covered it a year later & had the big hit.
@Eric2650
2 жыл бұрын
I believe the original bass player was crap or had a hearing problem. I believe any other bass player correct the bass line automatically.
@ramonmoreno8014
2 жыл бұрын
sounds about white
@SarahDop-c6g
11 ай бұрын
Great analysis - your playing makes Mustang Sally almost palatable. I possibly have to play this at a jam night tomorrow and a private party on Sunday. Your insight has been invaluable. Let's hope I can keep with the proper bass line... lol
@josecastellanos5187
2 жыл бұрын
DUDE!! Thanks! I never quite felt completely comfortable playing this song. I incorporated pretty much every version you played at the beginning. But now I can at least fake it better!! LOL!!
@fortunatejeremy
2 жыл бұрын
Do most musicians actually hate this song or find the chorus annoying, or do people just say they do because it's said online?
@pualdupvandoff8199
2 жыл бұрын
If you don't hate it, you haven't played it enough..
@aikensrus
2 жыл бұрын
On the isolated track, it sounds to me like F natural, not F#. Maybe it's the motion that's more important than the actual chord tone, with the super muddy P-bass sound... Thanks for the breakdown!
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