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Maxwell Murder Scale

Tue, 06/26/2007 - 4:34am — OHagan

I recently stumbled upon some rancid songs and the bass player matt freeman really caught my attention. i was listening to one of their songs Maxwell Murder and i was just wondering if anyone could tell me what scales or arpegios he's using. Thanks

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Tue, 06/26/2007 - 1:58pm — Hazz
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Here are a couple vids that

Here are a couple vids that might help our more "theory minded" members to help you out. It seems to a fairly simple line but it is the speed that'll getcha.

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Tue, 06/26/2007 - 1:59pm — Hazz
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And welcome to BP as

And welcome to BP as well.

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Tue, 06/26/2007 - 9:40pm — OHagan

thanks

thanks for the help. Some of those notes he's playing seem a bit random to me, probably because i don't know alot about some of the more complex scales or arpeggios out there. I hope I can learn more on theory because I think it would really improve me bassplaying.

Wed, 06/27/2007 - 2:47am — jaymie

Hey ya mate, welcome to

Hey ya mate, welcome to BP.com.

I only had a quick listem but there are a lot of notes out side of the scale, I'm finding it hard to pick his key center on this one but I think he's playing over Dmin in the top vid but he's playing it more like a bluse scale (very cromatic from G to A).
This is only a guess so I could be way off.

Jay

Wed, 06/27/2007 - 3:20am — Hazz
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Just an fyi J, two different

Just an fyi J, two different people playing. The top vid is Matt Freeman. The bottom is some guy trying to imitate him. I am sure you already knew that though. ;)

Hazz

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Wed, 06/27/2007 - 5:29am — jaymie

Naa, I didn't even look at

Naa, I didn't even look at the bottom one :)

Thu, 06/28/2007 - 1:26am — OHagan

Thanks for the input

Thanks for the input