Buckethead - Sail On Soothsayer cover

God I love this song !!! This is definately one of my favourite Buckethead songs =) I always wanted to post a video of this, and now I finally did. I tabbed most of it myself and improvised the rest :D It was really hard to remember all of it, but I've played this song so many times now that it's no problem anymore ;)

The song is "Sail On Soothsayer" by Buckethead. Album: "Decoding The Tomb Of Bansheebot"

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Music

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• buckethead
• cover
• sail
• on
• soothsayer
• solo

[collin292]

You do know that the entire solo is meant to be improvised, don't you?

[Dagon313]

@collin292 I do believe there a no specific rules on how to cover a song. My other covers are usually improvised, this one is a full cover of it, cause I think the original is WAY too good for me or anybody to disgrace it with just 'good' improvisation. :P

[collin292]

@Dagon313

Yeah, you're right about that.

It's too long for Buckethead to have tabbed out before he recorded it, and it sounds improvised anyway...

Has he ever done this live?

[Dagon313]

@collin292 No, unfortunately he hasn't played it live...yet. :D

And I would love to know if Buckethead tabbed it out before, maybe just partly, or if it was completely improvised.

[sathomaso]

damn .... this is really a well done cover .... congrats and kudos ... did you use that 5star GP-tab on ultimate-guitar?

[Dagon313]

@sathomaso Thanks bro, and no when I did this there was no tab, I was forced to tab the whole song myself. ;D

[Administrator47]

awesome cover bro..i spy a kfc bucket and a bh mask atop ur drawer :)

5*s

[DadeReLLiK]

I think you did a nice ass job..!

[moosenghoul]

killed it man, great job!

[raihitler]

great song. great cover!!!

[tomteabagit]

great cover, really loved it, by the way do you know what key it is in ?

[collin292]

@Dagon313

It doesn't sound like he knew exactly what notes to play....

He probably had the basic layout of the solo, and some licks prepared though.

[carpanthers4ever]

@Dagon313 quick question. on bars 5 and 6 that start with an open A string, what fingering do you use cuz its hard to tell? like i do 1st finger 4th fret G string, 2nd finger 5th fret G string, 4th finger 7th fret G string, then quickly reach up with that same finger to the 8th fret of the B string and vice versa for the second half of the "arpeggio" (i know its not really an arpeggio but w/e) but it feels so clumsy. is that how your doing it?