My Generation - Bass solo on acoustic guitar

Here's a version of My Generation with a couple of twists.

The first part of the video shows me recording two tracks in GarageBand, one acoustic and one electric. The second part of the video is a voiceless tutorial showing how I played the bass solo. I've included film of my right hand picking patterns.

The acoustic track is in open G (D G D G B E). I play a version of the bass solo using the open tuning and some hybrid (pick + finger picking) riffs. This isn't note-for-note the same as the original, but does use that same G pentatonic scale.

The electric track is in standard tuning. The guitar solo is very simple. I improvise the last phrase, so it's not exactly like the record, but it does use the same G pentatonic scale.

First guitar riff

x x 5 0 x x

x x 3 0 x x

x 3 0 x x x

3 x x x x x

Second guitar solo riff

x x 5 4 3 3

x x 5 5 5 x

x x 5 7 6 x

Third guitar solo riff

x x 5 x x x

x x 5 5 5 x (bend half step)

x x x 3 3 x

Start of fourth guitar solo riff

x x x 4 3 3

x x x x x 6

x x x x x 3

Then I improvise the rest

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I played the rest of the song to note the chord changes. If my acoustic chord fingerings look strange, remember I'm playing in Open G.

I play the main chord riff like this:

G
5 0 0 x x x

G(F)

3 0 0 x x x

The chorus parts go like this

Open G
x 0 0 0 0 0

C
x 0 2 0 1 0

G7
x 0 3 0 3 0


After the key change to A, it's

A
x 2 2 2 2 2

G
x 0 0 0 0 0

With the chorus in A like this

x 2 2 2 2 2

x 2 4 2 1 2

x 0 5 0 5 0

Then in Bb

x 3 3 3 3 3

x 1 1 1 1 1

Sometimes, I through in the Eb

1 1 x x x x

Finally, the outro is in C

C
x 5 5 5 5 5

Bb
x 3 3 3 3 3

F
1 1 x x x x
or
x 10 10 10 10 10

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• Entwistle
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• vonhasselbach

[lucadl15]

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[bfe00019]

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[pork543]

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[pork543]

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