Paul Wolfe: It's Paul Wolfe from How-To-Play-Bass.com. I got a quick lesson for you here on how to play "use somebody" by the Kings of Leon. Okay, the intro 16 bar section and the cords which should indicated by the root notes in terms of what we have to play, pretty much go through out the tune. There are some, this small variation in verse two and the section slightly later on in the tune like an instrumental interlude where the progression changes. But other than that, this progression plays throughout the tune. I'm going to play with my metronome from task com bass trainer. This is going to be set, just setting it to 105 which is slower than the original, the originals is at around 137,138 something like that. Set it slow so that you can kind of see in here what I'm doing.
So set the metronome going. This is the intro; three, four. Okay, so let's look at those notes and while we were playing them. Of course depending the size of your hands, the fingering system you use, the size of your bass, you might want to play them in slightly different locations, but I will give you the note names too so if you do you can. Starts off in C which is third fret of the A string. Plays a bar of that in root notes, root notes, eighth notes and the root note. Then it drops down to A, open the E string, plays a bar of that, then two bars of F, again just solid steady eighth notes. Back to C, down to open E, then to F which is the first fret of the E string if you didn't know and the second bar, sorry the fourth bar and the second time repeat has a very slight slow rhythmic variation so that playing all eighth notes, so the last note is a quarter note. So the seventh and eighth bar just go.
And then it goes up to A. Now you could do the next progression like that or even and use those notes here. I like to, from the F go up to A there and put the slide into the bassline. It just gives you a bit of color, gives you a bit more interest. So you play a bar of A there which this time is the fifth fret of the E string, then back up to C, but this time I'm playing on the E string again, so playing at the eight fret and then you are down to F and you can also get it but it will slide down to F to add some color to the bassline.
Does that again and then on this one through, it holds that F two bars and then you got the verse comes in where there is no bass, but in the rest of the play through that F is sort of begin held. It's just played in eighth notes. So that should be fairly straight forward if you listen to the original and play along with those notes. C, third fret of the A string, E opening string, F first fret of the E string, two bars, then back to C, third fret of the A string, then E, F again first fret to the E string, then up to A fifth fret to the E string, C eighth fret to the E string, down to F two bars of F back up to A fifth fret to the E string, C eight fret to the E string, down to F. And that's the intro that you'll see from that information you should be able to play through the verses and the courses as well.
The one exception to the pattern of very rhythmic eight notes eighth notes just playing root notes is a verse two and I'm just going to talk through, its just the first eighth bars for the cords of C, E and F and it does something slightly different, bit more interesting. I have changed the metronome tempo and put it down to 95, so you can have a listen to the rhythm and then I will talk through the notes in a second; two three, four. Okay, stop the metronome. So, the rhythm is slightly different there. We will talk through the notes and we will talk through the rhythm and counting as well. So, first bar, you have got C, the third fret of the A string, then those two higher notes, G just the fifth fret of the D string and the octave of C which is the fifth fret of the G string.
Then in the next bar, you are just down to the open E string and the next bar is F and that bar is and its just F and it goes down to the open E string where you hear that difference, you see my finger move off. I am trying to really make it obvious. And in the off beat notes, again just F. You see my hand coming there. Well that's doing is just muting, muting the F notes so that it doesn't ring and fifth bar is a repeat of the first bar of the pattern. So you got to C, G fifth fret for the D string and C at the fifth fret of the G string. Open the E string again, and again that bar is the same pattern and then the next bar again is just a F, just a root note, first fret of the E string but the rhythm is changed.
So let's talk through the rhythms, to go back to the start and I will just count it really slowly, I'll play through and I will count the rhythm. So one, two, three, four, one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four. And okay, so that's what the first four bars. So, if you have a close listen to that, the other way you might be able to pick it up is by getting the notes working out from where I just said where the notes are then having listen to the original as well. That's the other way you might be able to work it out.
Okay here is the second four bars done exactly the same way; two, three, four. One and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four. So, again by listening to that, listening to the count through, referencing it with the original recording, you should be able to work at how to play through that section and then from there it goes back up to A, C, back down to F. You are back into the rest of the pattern, that's normal with the root notes played in eighth notes etcetera. So, then the other problem we need to look at is the interlude.
Okay this is the interlude part of the tune. Set the metronome going. Two, three, four. Okay, pretty straight forward with that section. That's how you got two bars of D, again the rhythmic pattern is just straight eighth notes and D, played it fifth fret of the A string and you are going to drop down to F sharp second fret of the E string, two bars of F sharp, two more bars of D, one bar of F sharp and then you are playing B, which is the seventh fret of the E string and you can slide down before you then come back in on the C. You got that pattern starting all over again. It goes through the tune. So, that's the interlude section.
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