The Awakening - Les Claypool and the Holy Mackeral (help!)

[Midnight]

Hey MX,

I've kind of half learnt this song before, but recently I decided to finish it off. I'm having trouble with a lot of the stuff, honestly. How does he get to the chords so quickly? It sounds like slap for a lot of the stuff, so I can't see how can bust out a chord mid slap?

I know there is a video floating around of this - If someone could YSI or PutFile it, it would be much appreciated. Is there a TAB anyone has? If you could put that here (or even better, into powertab) that would be great.

Also, as a side note - is it a Stingray he is playing in this? The tone sounds like it.

[T2k5]

The chords are flamenco strummed and one is popped using two fingers. The video is extremely bad quality so it won't help much. There are a few tabs (look into MXtabs, it has the shorter version which Les plays with Primus and maybe newer ones too. Mysongbook also might have it nowadays. I used the short version and figured the stuff out myself)

Nearly a ninjaedit: MXtabs has the whole song. Just search "the awakening" (we aren't allowed to open links here now)

[Killer Fridge]

i believe les is either using his main CT (got a video with that) or some kind of fender jazz (got a video of that too)

[the101er]

Yeah, there's a video ont he Primus website of Les playing the Awakening, I'll have a look...

http://www.primusville.com/frames/ffreakout.html

It's the one with a picture of a cream Jazz Bass with red pickguard :thumb:

[neatobassman]

For the bass, probably the Fender Jazz because he started using it during that time.

[PaulR]

Nearly a ninjaedit: MXtabs has the whole song. Just search "the awakening" (we aren't allowed to open links here now)

Mmmm what?

[T2k5]

Mmmm what?
Read the updated rules. I didn't put a direct link because MX might not like it.

[PaulR]

You mean the announcements?

It does't say you can't post links, especially because you're posting a legitimate one anyway.

It just recommends you be careful when clicking them.