Van Morrison - Moondance (Bass Cover) (Play Along Tabs In Video)

Tips And Comments:

- Playing Technique: Played next to the neck with low to mid intensity. Neck pickup full tone

- Gear Sound: Just DI, not much more. A bit of compression, bit of bass

- About The Song: Here's a great song to begin with walking lines (me included). It's very important to practice this knowing what notes are you playing and how they relate to the harmony, so then you can create your own walk. I recommend to study the original line and the functions of it, then creating around chord tones, first tonic, then fifth, thirds and so on. Then applyin more scale relations and tensions, passing notes, etc

So for the verse you have Am7 and Bm7. They relate creating a dorian feel to the Am key of the song (shifting F to F#). Here are the chord tones:

Am7 (A C E G)
Bm7 (B D F# A)
A Dorian scale (A B C D E F# G)

For chorus you have Dm7, Am7, then finally E7 and a riff. Relation now is more into A natural for Dm7, Am7 and for the dominant you have G#, so you can create more tension with even a harmonic minor A

Dm7 (D F A C)
E7 (E G# B D)

Need more tips? Just comment!

*All the tabs in this channel are created by me, if you have any advice in the transcription feel free to comment!

*Gear: Taurus t-24 Washburn 4 String Bass (D'addario .045 Standard Strings or Dunlop .045)/ Ibanez SA 120 Guitar/ Alesis Dm6 Drums - Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Interface - PC (Digital Processing)

[CoverSolutions]

Here's a great song to begin with walking lines (me included). It's very important to practice this knowing what notes are you playing and how they relate to the harmony, so then you can create your own walk. I recommend to study the original line and the functions of it, then creating around chord tones, first tonic, then fifth, thirds and so on. Then applying more scale relations and tensions, passing notes, etc

So for the verse you have Am7 and Bm7. They relate creating a dorian feel to the Am key of the song (shifting F to F#). Here are the chord tones:

Am7 (A C E G)
Bm7 (B D F# A)
A Dorian scale (A B C D E F# G)

For chorus you have Dm7, Am7, then finally E7 and a riff. Relation now is more into A natural for Dm7, Am7 and for the dominant E7 you have G#, so you can create more tension with even a harmonic minor A

Dm7 (D F A C)
E7 (E G# B D)
A Natural Minor (Aeolian) (A B C D E F G)
A Harmonic Minor (A B C D E F G#)

Passing notes are important and will give you more glue to the line. They are just notes that pass through one consonant note (chord tone, scale) to another creating a resolving dissonance.

Please if you have more questions or you want to help me explaining this better, use the comments!

[bluesguy]

One of the tastiest bass lines in existence…

[Revvylo]

It's nice to see a bit more jazz on the channel.

[idontuseapick]

This video is saving my butt for an upcoming gig. Thanks for posting this

[anactualmechanic]

All of your videos are great, but I especially love this song and the walking bass line. Thank you for your hard work.

[sillyrabbit]

I've never heard of this song till right now, me gusto. Also, the flute solo was pretty sick 😎👌

[Sreven]

Glad to see you're branching into walking bass lines. Maybe now I'll donate to the patreon so I can get "If I didn't have you" You know, the theme to monsters Inc. Fantastic bass walk there

[garyeckman]

One of my favorite bass lines, Thank You!

[Stevenaramburo]

I have never heard this song before, it's

[nunzioforpresident]

This song is perfect for the double bass

[danieldumpweed]

You should do a slap cover of we close our eyes by oingo boingo or cover Take on me by A-ha

[buqueefy]

bro I love your videos thank you for making them and keep going.

[Noa-cn]

Learning this in two nights because i lowkey underestimated it.. wish me luck

[davidamato]

Boy, does Van Morrison have any seventh chords to spare?

[stuartmoore]

Someone said this song is not hard..[!?] I'm a pretty decent player but the song has always intimidated me and it's killing me trying to learn it. I just don't have the musical wherewithal to figure out all the modes, I have to learn it note for note by the tablature. Just mechanically drilling it so I can get it under my fingers. I can feel the flow of it but my goodness this is hard. Thank you very much!

[DatBananaTV]

It's not a very difficult bass line, but it's fun to play. (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea by Elvis Costello. Try it out sometime!

[TheFakeTroll]

Great video as always !
How long does it take you to do all the video editing ?

[LocalBombardier]

could you do bowl for two by the Expendables? love your videos by the way

[cenalavecena]

Me voy a comprar un bajo Fender Squier, es bueno?

[jonathanlamb]

Anyone else getting a severe drop in video quality from 3:00 to about 4:16? The tab is unreadable during that time. First time that has ever happened to me and there is nothing wrong with my connection. Every other video looks fine.