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psydave · Post by **psydave** » Sat Sep 09, 2017 11:47 pm

Hi,
I want to make a remix of the track "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran but I feel like something is sounding wrong with my bass. First 2 bars seem to fit fine, but 3rd and 4th bar doesn't sound right to me. Maybe it's just me so I ask you guys if you could help me with that.

Here you see in blue the bassline, in white/grey the melody.

Here is the audio:

http://www109.zippyshare.com/v/kTn9ZU1I/file.html

What do you think, does it sound right?

Thanks in advance

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:09 am

From my recall of the tune, measure 3 sounds funny but my sense of the problem is in the harmony vocal, not the bass. I'm not going to click on that file any more, shit keeps popping up and one of them is very dodgy 'update your Flash player' which bodes not well.

psydave · Post by **psydave** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:22 am

jancivil wrote:From my recall of the tune, measure 3 sounds funny but my sense of the problem is in the harmony vocal, not the bass. I'm not going to click on that file any more, shit keeps popping up and one of them is very dodgy 'update your Flash player' which bodes not well.

thank you for the answer. No worries, zippyshare is a very well known and common upload-service. U should get uBlock to block unwanted ads everywhere

but i uploaded it here too: https://vocaroo.com/i/s0bLwdg9OJi6

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:45 am

Ubisoft transcribed it for Rocksmith.. they are rather methodical.

Wide lines mean open string, long lines mean you let the note ring out, bent lines mean you slide, [X] blocks are mutes

psydave · Post by **psydave** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 1:08 am

:O ...i have no idea how to read that ^^

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 1:33 am

psydave wrote::O ...i have no idea how to read that ^^

It is a tab like notation.
Wide lines mean open string, long lines mean you let the note ring out, bent lines mean you slide, [X] blocks are mutes

4 String bass so E (red string) A (yellow string) D (blue string) G (orange string)

The numbers at the bottom are the fret position from the top (head) of the bass guitar.

Here is a neck chart so you can match up notes (please note the software flips the neck so E is on top while E is on bottom on the chart below):

For instance.. this one starts as: E E E B B B B B B(slide down)F# F# F# F#(mute) F# F#(octave higher) F# F# D D D... etc

If you slow it down or even pause it you can probably make out structure.. tedious, yes, but accurate!

someone called simon · Sun Sep 10, 2017 3:53 am

3rd chord is D add 9, not A. I always remember it as a nice progression under the melody.

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:06 am

I'm not a big DD fan or 80s pop for that matter, but I always liked this song.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:42 am

Find a decent MIDI file and download it.

Example:

http://www.midiworld.com/files/1027

Drag and drop into your DAW.

psydave · Post by **psydave** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 6:30 pm

hi and thanks for the answers.

I already downloaded the MIDI but there are so many changes in it and it sounds very weird.
I also want to make every bar static and dont want to move up and down like in the original.#

here is a remix of this track, does anyone know which notes the bass are playing here? (starting 4:37)

I thinks its B3 - F#4 - ??? - D4 ? ...puh never thought its that hard to figure it out.

psydave · Post by **psydave** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:38 pm

here is my try... u think it fits?

http://www96.zippyshare.com/v/Tya2clDc/file.html

someone called simon · Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:54 pm

it's D9 as I said. Chord on 3rd bar. bass not is low D, the rest of the notes are A, F#, E. (though listening to the recording I don't think they are playing the F#. 4th chord is E9, E, G#, B, F#

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:04 pm

just for the hell of it
Warren co-wrote the thing

psydave · Post by **psydave** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:14 pm

someone called simon wrote:it's D9 as I said. Chord on 3rd bar. bass not is low D, the rest of the notes are A, F#, E. (though listening to the recording I don't think they are playing the F#. 4th chord is E9, E, G#, B, F#

hi and thanks for your answer. it was that way:

so now it's "B - F# - A - E"

if i push the 3rd bar (which is in A) up to "D" it doesnt sound right.

what do you mean by the 4th cord? ...

someone called simon · Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:27 pm

Go down to D, not up. Take another listen to the original, and play a low D over that 3rd chord, that's the root note of it, you should be able to hear it.
And I was talking about The 4th chord in the sequence, which is an E as you have, but it has an F# in it too, making it an E add 9. But you don't need to add that. For the 3rd chord adding the 9 in will. So the sequence is B, F#m, D add 9, E add 9. If the D chord you are playing is like an auto generated chord it might not sound right, the D has to be low, for the higher notes I would only play an A and an E.
D add 9 is different to D9, I should say D add 9.

Need help with bass notes from "Ordinary World" (Duran Duran)