Here's a bass cover of Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics; it's one we decided to learn and play as the cove band. Upon first learning this one I was pretty intimidated by it and just couldn't really get the hang of it, but once I got the riff down, it was a lot easier. I find with this one, once you're in the zone of playing it, the whole thing becomes much easier and you barely have to think about it, and just let it play out.
I did have trouble with the initial change into the chorus and that took me a few weeks to get used to, as the finger placement for the chorus of the song is a pretty tough one to hit, and the notes of the chorus, especially on bass have to hit that mark straight away.
Upon First Learning It
I went out and said to the others that I kind of have it, and I'm sure they were expecting it to only be about 60% there, but I managed to play it completely the first time around, bar a few minor trip-ups.
The guitar player straight away looked at me when I cracked it out, and I was like "It's a bit rough and I found this one tough to do because it doesn't feel comfortable to play, almost like it wasn't meant to be played on a bass." he just laughed and said, "It isn't, it's supposed to be played on a keyboard."
Playing It Live
This one seems to get a warm reception from people, as pretty much everyone knows it, and typically it isn't the sort of thing you'd hear in the pub, which means it's right up our street.
When we first got the cover band together, we had the intention of playing pub gigs and making a few bob for doing so - because, in all honesty, trying to make some money with music kind of requires you to play other people's songs. But, in saying that, we didn't want to go the route of most other cover bands, where they only play the typical set, and instead chose to have some fun with it and play the sort of songs we enjoy and that you wouldn't hear that often.
While it's great to do that, it has taken us a while to get our set together, whereas if we chose easier songs we would have had the 2:30 hour set in about 6-9 months.
Currently, we're at around 1:30 minutes, and it is a lot of fun to play really, there is something for everyone in the set and we usually get a warm welcome when we do a gig.
Suggestions
If anyone has any suggestions or requests for songs don't hesitate to let me know, not only do I want to learn more songs to practice, record and upload here, but I'd also like to add some of these songs to the growing list of music we're currently working on.
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