What do you think about Sting of The Bumblebee for bass???

[5FireStrings]

Hi all!!!

So what do you think about it??
I'm trying to play it (i play with fingers not pick) and i can see that i'll need a lot of trainning for playing it as fast as possible......

 

[Asmodeus]

Well it's not that hard, it just take a lot of practice to get the right technique, try to play it in a tapping version, it's a lot easier, just put your both hands on the neck of a bass guitar and play it like a piano )

 

[Higon]

Well it's not that hard, it just take a lot of practice to get the right technique, try to play it in a tapping version, it's a lot easier, just put your both hands on the neck of a bass guitar and play it like a piano )

Damn right. I've discovered this technique some days ago, and it surely helps. You can get those difficult riffs from your guitar player and play then in a diferent way just hammering-on and tapping. And it looks pretty cool too =P

 

[israel]

Yeah, tapping for light-speed songs is COOL!! Works great for "Brasileirinha" too!! h0h0h0h0h0h0h0

 

[5FireStrings]

Which is the part of the song i can play with tapping???
have some of you got a tab???

 

[Asmodeus]

You can play almost any part with tapping, but I think that few parts it will be very, very difficult to play with fingers, but never give up hope ! , You can find tab on the net, but remember, with tapping, it just sounds cool and intersting, the right way to play it is to use a pick or Your fingers, because it was written for a violin and that's the right way to get the feeling it was predicted

 

[5FireStrings]

Can someone give me plz the address on the net for this tab???

 

[hakkikt]

(the guitar version)
A couple of versions are located here

http://www.guitarwar.com/search.php?input=bumblebee


regards,
Hakk

 

[DeadLustFuck]

ummm yeah man but like isn't it flight of the bumble bee? ......or maybe you are refering to another song I don"t know lol

 

[israel]

Originally posted by DeadLustFuck
ummm yeah man but like isn't it flight of the bumble bee? ......or maybe you are refering to another song I don"t know lol

Hmm, yeah, he is talking about that Manowar song, a bass solo, called "Sting of the Bumblebee", that is on the "Kings of Metal" album... Right???

 

[Asmodeus]

Well, it's really not a Manowar song, it's a cover of a classic song by Rimsky-Korsakov called ''Flight of the bumblebee''
What Joey DeMaio did, it's not really original, it's just a free adaptation, and if You're comparing the original and the Manowar cover, You can see that, Joey DeMaio did it a bit different, well, a few notes are missing in his version, so it's much easier to play it that way.

 

[Asmodeus]

My sugesstion is to use a pick on this one

 

[xenophobe]

Flight of the Bumblebee on bass...

That would be an accomplishment.

 

[inflamer]

I also have heard version of Flight of The Bumblebee in guitar by petrucci and kee marcelo

 

[CliffEmAll]

Joey DiMaio also recorded "The William tell overture" (commonly known as the theme from the lone ranger) on the "Battle Hymns" album, except it was re-titled "Williams tale". I think they do that (re-titleing) to keep from paying royalties on it.
:Smokedev: