Gig tunes...

[Linkinbassist]

hey guys,

My band has just come off the back of our first gig at camberley footie club. We got a call from the Silkes Bar in Basingstoke and they said they want us to play! It huge, and we will landmark it by being the first Under-18 band ever to play there! problem is, its a 2 hour set...we have barely enough original stuff for 1/4 of it! So, whilst we are gonna write like mad to fill at least half with originals, we are gonna stick some covers in. Now, i plan to tap something solo, but it needs to be of a certain theme. That theme is...Scottish. I plan to jig in a kilt, and tap a scottish style theme as i do it. So, what scotland style songs can i arrange for tapping? please give me lots of suggestions!

Thanks

Linkinbassist

[thelowsoundofbass]

get an effect that makes your bass sound like bagpipes

lowsound

[Linkinbassist]

get an effect that makes your bass sound like bagpipes

lowsound

haha! flea with a trumpet pedal++...

Any actual songs?

[thelowsoundofbass]

haha! flea with a trumpet pedal++...

Any actual songs?

sorry dude, i am no help beyond that comment

lowsound

[katana_manatee]

Well if you are going to do a Scottish theme then make arrangements of Auld Lang Syne and Loch Lomond for starters. I am planning on making some solo bass arrangements of some classic Scottish tunes for the hell of it soon. Problem is I might look like some mad over patriotic Scots nutjob. I am barely patriotic at all. Possibly because my heritage is Norwegian, Polish and Irish. :p

And fit Charlie is my darling in there to, a Rabbie Burns tune.

[katana_manatee]

Infact, your a Londoner right? There is a shop in Denmark street which has a lot of printed music, it says sheet music outside and in the back there is a world musicy kinda section, giving folk music of various countries and there are some books of Scottish tunes.

[Linkinbassist]

Infact, your a Londoner right? There is a shop in Denmark street which has a lot of printed music, it says sheet music outside and in the back there is a world musicy kinda section, giving folk music of various countries and there are some books of Scottish tunes.

I'm not a londoner, but i would like to make a trip to Denmark square...now i have an excuse!


still, need some more suggestions...

Thanks for yours Katana!

[katana_manatee]

Oh yeah, how could I forget Scotland's unofficial national anthem, flower of Scotland? :lol:

I don't even know the melody to it, I am the must unpatriotic Scot ever. :p

[Linkinbassist]

Oh yeah, how could I forget Scotland's unofficial national anthem, flower of Scotland? :lol:

I don't even know the melody to it, I am the must unpatriotic Scot ever. :p

Lol, i'm half scottish...I'm having to ask on an internet forum for scottish national tunes!

[kilian]

2 hours?! That's ridiculous! Tell them that you can make it 1 hour or something, but that 2 hours is way too much. Say that you want to give them a class show and not a 2 hourshowthatwasjustfinishedintime. With my band, we can only play like 1 hour and we're busy for 1,5 years.

[Teh Glees0rz]

Play some Franz Ferdinand. :p

[Killer Fridge]

I'm not a londoner, but i would like to make a trip to Denmark square...now i have an excuse!!

denmark street deary denmark street :D

awesome road, the bass cellar is a brilliant place - worth going in just to try the stu hamm urge II theyve got

and pretty much everything :thumb:

shop across the road has a couple of custom fenders too:thumb:

[BassPlayingPineapple]

They have a stu hamm urge bass :eek: Didn't see that when i went in :angry:

[Killer Fridge]

yeah its red and sparkly and hanging up near the front of the fender rack (on the left as you walk in)

its goooorgeous

[ebe9]

basically pick a whole lot of bagpipe tunes
e.g.

- scotland the brave
- a jig of some sort
- a strathbey and reel (completely unsur of spelling on that one)

to the best of my knowledge bagpipes are tuned to Bb
so try and dig up a book of some sort.

one final thing, if you are really feeling brave tab out and tap:

The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down To Georgia

specifically the violen part, ignore the fact that its more in an irish theme