Get The Funk Out

newi123 · April 2022

So band mates have put this back in the set - was always a challenge, and it turns out my technique has obviously slipped a bit since we last played it.

Major working points for me:

1) The tapped bit - always a challenge to make sure both hands are in the correct position at the same time
3) The picked phrase after the tapping, upto the chromatic stepdown / up with the pedal tone - I`ve always played this on the top string and then 12th position, seen it tabbed elsewhere too. Think it`s just a case of picking practice and finger memory.

Wish me luck!

MrTee · April 2022

My cap is well and truly doffed to anyone who can pull this off!!

CaseOfAce · April 2022

Challenging. That requres some serious time spent woodshedding.!

MrTee · April 2022

Learning how to play the right notes in the right order up to speed seems like only half the battle too! The swing/feel is killer

newi123 · April 2022

MrTee said:

Learning how to play the right notes in the right order up to speed seems like only half the battle too! The swing/feel is killer

This is very, very true!

Sporky · April 2022

I'm pretty sure @digitalscream played this at a Gasfest. I recall being quite astounded by it.

digitalscream · April 2022

Sporky said:

I'm pretty sure @digitalscream played this at a Gasfest. I recall being quite astounded by it.

Yep, with Mr Beagle on vocals. That was a long time ago!

I cheated a bit, though...the tapped bit was easy enough, but the bit afterwards was something similar-but-more-comfortable

fastonebaz · April 2022

I keep meaning to learn the tapping section too

prowla · April 2022

Did you give up on (2) ? :-)

Vibetronic · April 2022

I do something broadly similar but my own version of it. Sounds close enough for the most part, I'll try and dig out the video. I got the tab book when I was in my teens and it was so massively wrong that I had to find my own way of doing it and it kind of stuck.

Danny1969 · April 2022

I tried quite hard in the nineties to get it half decent but it was never great when I did it. Nuno is quite hard to copy as, like Eddie he plays almost from a drummers point of view, even the tapped section has swing and there's unequal notes per measure.
Still love a lot of the songs, they were a cut above the rest of the late eighties, early nineties hair brigade that's for sure.

Vibetronic · April 2022

Here's what I did (at about 2:47). I do try and do more of his pentatonic stuff now in the last bit rather than the widdly-widdly:

Apologies for awful band name and logo.

Kebabkid · April 2022

Danny1969 said:

I tried quite hard in the nineties to get it half decent but it was never great when I did it. Nuno is quite hard to copy as, like Eddie he plays almost from a drummers point of view, even the tapped section has swing and there's unequal notes per measure.
Still love a lot of the songs, they were a cut above the rest of the late eighties, early nineties hair brigade that's for sure.

I'm glad you said this as I've found guitarists that sometimes have that special swing, pump etc started off life as drummers.

stratman3142 · April 2022

Vibetronic said:

Here's what I did (at about 2:47). I do try and do more of his pentatonic stuff now in the last bit rather than the widdly-widdly:

Apologies for awful band name and logo.

Blimey, that's even shreddier than Nuno

I think there's something wrong with my AZ2402, because it can't do that.

newi123 · April 2022

prowla said:

Did you give up on (2) ? :-)

Doh! :-)

newi123 · April 2022

Danny1969 said:

I tried quite hard in the nineties to get it half decent but it was never great when I did it. Nuno is quite hard to copy as, like Eddie he plays almost from a drummers point of view, even the tapped section has swing and there's unequal notes per measure.
Still love a lot of the songs, they were a cut above the rest of the late eighties, early nineties hair brigade that's for sure.

Saw them in 2018 and certainly one of the very best bands i`ve seen - just effortless groove.

wizbit81 · April 2022

Amazing band! Nuno....what a player, so ahead of his time!

That was me playing GTFO about 6 years ago for an Xmas party gig. It was supposed to be played harmonised with my bandmate but he got drunk and started a semitone higher and a beat and a half early. Disaster! Oh, and the drummer played the song about 30bpm too quick anyway so we were both done for whatever happened

Great fun though!
GL with it, takes a bit of time whenever you go back to learn it again but it's worth it!

fastonebaz · April 2022

Vibetronic said:

Here's what I did (at about 2:47). I do try and do more of his pentatonic stuff now in the last bit rather than the widdly-widdly:

Apologies for awful band name and logo.

You look so relaxed like it's a walk in the park. Awesome!

Vibetronic · April 2022

wizbit81 said:

Amazing band! Nuno....what a player, so ahead of his time!

That was me playing GTFO about 6 years ago for an Xmas party gig. It was supposed to be played harmonised with my bandmate but he got drunk and started a semitone higher and a beat and a half early. Disaster! Oh, and the drummer played the song about 30bpm too quick anyway so we were both done for whatever happened
Great fun though!
GL with it, takes a bit of time whenever you go back to learn it again but it's worth it!

Awesome, I think you had the right tab

Your band mate may just have had the original tab book…the solo was virtually unplayable in parts in the way it was written out! (Being drunk probably didn’t help masses though!

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wizbit81 · April 2022

Haha yeah I still have that book somewhere! Bought it over 20 years ago I think. Absolutely terrible! I used a random internet tab as a base then my ear to fix the mistakes. I liked your version btw @Vibetronic, very cool!

bloodandtears · April 2022

wizbit81 said:

Amazing band! Nuno....what a player, so ahead of his time!

That was me playing GTFO about 6 years ago for an Xmas party gig. It was supposed to be played harmonised with my bandmate but he got drunk and started a semitone higher and a beat and a half early. Disaster! Oh, and the drummer played the song about 30bpm too quick anyway so we were both done for whatever happened
Great fun though!
GL with it, takes a bit of time whenever you go back to learn it again but it's worth it!

Bob on that one.. Well done

DLM · April 2022

Vibetronic said:

Here's what I did (at about 2:47). I do try and do more of his pentatonic stuff now in the last bit rather than the widdly-widdly:

Apologies for awful band name and logo.

Don't worry so much about the name of the band, they were attempting to break the seal by waterboarding:

https://i.imgur.com/3pCkMKX.mp4