Actually fairly easy cause the parts go together... As a bassist the hard songs to sing and play together are the ones where the Bassist is NOT the singer. (same for guitar or any other instrument I guess) Think Led Zeppelin... good luck LOL. I bet you could do it with practice. Allot of what he's doing is based on octaves, which sound harder than they are and a e major scale, which is fairly simple scale. That takes nothing away IMO it's an amazing inspiring piece of music from all angles! Well Played.
How In The Meantime was written, a brief drama inspired by true events: "Royston! Listen to this riff I wrote!" "Wow Anthony, that sounds great!" "I was thinking about singing on this one." "You already got Space is the Place, man. I'm the singer." "I can't have two? Really?" "Dude... I let you keep that gay incest stuff in even though you tricked me into thinking it was about brotherly love and homosexuality. That's like 30 favors at once." "It WAS about brotherly love and homosexuality! Besides, you haven't even heard the bass line for it." "No, it was about homosexual brotherly love! If you remove the conjunction, you aren't talking about two things anymore!" "Fine. I'm sorry. I won't prank the Label anymore. Oh, speaking of, I told them we would have the song ready for live shows in a week. They been doing promotional stuff for it and everything already!" "Right. Sorry I got upset. You are a good brother, I just don't like pranks." "I still think I should sing since you are playing bass." "I told you I'm going to sing this one. How hard could the bass line be?" (In the Meantime went on to become a hit on US and English alternative charts, launching Spacehog into the spotlight.) (Royston worked his ass off and learned to play the bass riff and sing simultaneously.) (Anthony never bested his gay incest prank and soon retired. He has been assisting in his brother's legal battle with Salt Bae over the rights to Sprinkle related stage names.) *The true event was the song being written, which inspired everything else.*
@1funeral2many lol I heard it and i found it curious but I thought to myself, it can't just blatantly be about incest and homosexuality, there's got to be some deeper meaning to it in the context of the band....I guess I was wrong lol
One of the most recognizable bass lines in rock music. I remember this song playing everyday on the radio back in the latter 90's. This really does a good job of showing how busy that bass line is and makes one appreciate multitasking singing and playing bass simultaneously. Great cover.
Easy: learn one part, then the other. If you know one part well enough, it's sort of automatic. Not quite, but close enough. You don't have to mess up when you know it well enough, just like how I'm typing this entire comment with my eyes closed.
Langdon is like "well, there's about 9 different ways to approach the bass line. I guess I'll play them all" I've loved this song since day one, and til my last. To me (a drummer) it sounds like Sergeant Pepper's McCartney and Mozart wrote a 90s song. Beautiful execution my man!
This song literally inspired me to start playing bass just cause of the baseline. Still my favorite baseline ever! Thanks for this beautiful riff Royston!
I've seen literally hundreds of your videos, and I can't believe that I'm not just seeing this. My best friend in high school played bass, and I played guitar, and we would jam on this song. Thank you for the blast from the past to much better days. By the way, your playing, as usual, is perfect. Thank you for all of your covers. It has helped my playing immensely.
When someone covers a song and doesn't offer tabs, its more about them and less about you. Im 67, been playing bass for about 12 years, I have a good ear, but this is one of those songs where tabs were crucial for me, to understand the song. Once I had general idea, main riffs, then I went down to bass man cave and played along with the video, getting up to speed, then cleaning up a few things, ( bridge C, D, G F# E. then C, D E back to A riff...outtro A G F#, then C B A) and then it was all there. You deserve to be followed. I don't use a pick , and it sound fine on my JP Fender, flats, added some mid. At first glance I thought this would take a month to get, not so. See how its basically 1, 5, 4 E, A, D with some fills and lead in notes. Thank you!
Bass & band were sharp - you're correct. Recorded/mixed during the days of tape and very likely sped up during mixing to please the engineer/mixing ears. Police did this with ELTSDIM. Other artists as well.
Exactly this. It was probably a few BPM slower, and this tempo added the energy that made the track jump out of the speakers. See also Jane Jackson's "Rhythm Nation".@@CowbellProfessional
Thanks for doing this one. We play this in my band and I play it "sloppy" for lack of a better term. This will help my precision in a few parts of the song.
Back when I started bass, I remember watching this video. I go mad and quit this song. I kept practicing with tutorials from you and now I can play this song with ease! Thanks a ton!
I've loved this song since childhood and it was only fitting that I learned to play it on my Rickenbacker 4001. Thanks for the upload! You are truly the best out there providing bass covers!
Man! that's a great bassline, had break it into chunks to learn it. Royston Langdon is killer, & does the vocal as well!!! Very pleased to have learned it and put in my arsenal of tunes. Thank you very much for your site, love it, so glad I found you. Your the man👍
A very nice video. as a non musician i cant mentally separate the different instruments and this visual shows you exactly what the bass is up to. can you try Beggin by Maneskin?
Thanks. Some parts are straightforward but as you mention, others are quite tricky to pick out. Lots of nuance here and probably never played exactly the same way twice by Royston. Even though the original main riff is played at 12 on E, I prefer 7 on D as it retains the tone and you can keep the slide (9 on A to 2 on E) with no one the wiser. Also makes it much less difficult to play and sing simultaneously.
Hey buddy this song so blew me away at the time . And you have got it nail . So therefore I’m gonna dig out resident alien after all these years . Top stuff mate.
Love this song! That baseline is killer.... A request though - you've gotta do The Who one of these days! The Real Me, the Punk and the Godfather or maybe Who Are You.
I know Langdon plays this with a pick but I've always thought this song sounds better with fingers. Rounder tone suits it, particularly the verse up around the 12th fret.
i'm not saying this to be a dick or a know-it-all -- this is pretty excellent. the only correction i would offer is that, during the chorus, it repeats the progression (A, D, F#, B) four times but, in the song, he only hits the octaves of A, D, and F# during the fourth iteration of each chorus. The first three times he just lets the roots ring.
It's like Foghat meets Nirvana meets sPACEHOG, FOR LACK OF BETTER WORDS, but the words are just as cool as the music, with a Garth Brooks meets Faith No More piano ending.
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I can't believe Royston Langdon played that bassline and did vocals at the same time. He crushes it live too, there are videos! RESPEK!
Actually fairly easy cause the parts go together... As a bassist the hard songs to sing and play together are the ones where the Bassist is NOT the singer. (same for guitar or any other instrument I guess) Think Led Zeppelin... good luck LOL. I bet you could do it with practice. Allot of what he's doing is based on octaves, which sound harder than they are and a e major scale, which is fairly simple scale. That takes nothing away IMO it's an amazing inspiring piece of music from all angles! Well Played.
How In The Meantime was written, a brief drama inspired by true events:
"Royston! Listen to this riff I wrote!"
"Wow Anthony, that sounds great!"
"I was thinking about singing on this one."
"You already got Space is the Place, man. I'm the singer."
"I can't have two? Really?"
"Dude... I let you keep that gay incest stuff in even though you tricked me into thinking it was about brotherly love and homosexuality. That's like 30 favors at once."
"It WAS about brotherly love and homosexuality! Besides, you haven't even heard the bass line for it."
"No, it was about homosexual brotherly love! If you remove the conjunction, you aren't talking about two things anymore!"
"Fine. I'm sorry. I won't prank the Label anymore. Oh, speaking of, I told them we would have the song ready for live shows in a week. They been doing promotional stuff for it and everything already!"
"Right. Sorry I got upset. You are a good brother, I just don't like pranks."
"I still think I should sing since you are playing bass."
"I told you I'm going to sing this one. How hard could the bass line be?"
(In the Meantime went on to become a hit on US and English alternative charts, launching Spacehog into the spotlight.)
(Royston worked his ass off and learned to play the bass riff and sing simultaneously.)
(Anthony never bested his gay incest prank and soon retired. He has been assisting in his brother's legal battle with Salt Bae over the rights to Sprinkle related stage names.)
*The true event was the song being written, which inspired everything else.*
@@CNNBlackmailSupport The kissing your brother thing threw me off too lmao
@1funeral2many lol I heard it and i found it curious but I thought to myself, it can't just blatantly be about incest and homosexuality, there's got to be some deeper meaning to it in the context of the band....I guess I was wrong lol
Ikr 😉
I can't think of a cooler bass line from the 1990s, and you do a great job playing it. Thanks.
I don't know man, Soul to Squeeze by Red Hot Chili Peppers is definitely up there as well.
Jerry was a race car driver
There are several.
But what escalated this one is that the bass player is also the lead singer
@@mattsabin1615 you must have never heard of Primus.
One of the most recognizable bass lines in rock music. I remember this song playing everyday on the radio back in the latter 90's. This really does a good job of showing how busy that bass line is and makes one appreciate multitasking singing and playing bass simultaneously. Great cover.
I'm taking bass lessons after 25 years of playing drums. I learned this song today and I couldn't be happier
That tune has bounced inside my head since I first heard it.
How on earth did he sing whilst playing that?!?! Genius
I was thinking the same thing
Ikr 😉
Easy: learn one part, then the other. If you know one part well enough, it's sort of automatic. Not quite, but close enough. You don't have to mess up when you know it well enough, just like how I'm typing this entire comment with my eyes closed.
@@101Volts can we see you play this?
@@101Voltsbut how do we know your eyes were really closed? Huh? Huh? Huh? My mommy told me not to trust strangers. 😂
It just goes for a walk and never comes back.
just like dad :(
Nah it’s not a walking bassline, it’s a strutting bassline 😎
Guardian of the galaxy vol 3 brings me here. Nice base cover!
*bass
Langdon is like "well, there's about 9 different ways to approach the bass line. I guess I'll play them all"
I've loved this song since day one, and til my last. To me (a drummer) it sounds like Sergeant Pepper's McCartney and Mozart wrote a 90s song.
Beautiful execution my man!
This song literally inspired me to start playing bass just cause of the baseline. Still my favorite baseline ever! Thanks for this beautiful riff Royston!
As a bass player of maybe 6 months, this is a bass line I’ve ALWAYS wanted to learn. I’m gettin there. Thank you for posting.
you're welcome.
I've seen literally hundreds of your videos, and I can't believe that I'm not just seeing this. My best friend in high school played bass, and I played guitar, and we would jam on this song. Thank you for the blast from the past to much better days.
By the way, your playing, as usual, is perfect. Thank you for all of your covers. It has helped my playing immensely.
When someone covers a song and doesn't offer tabs, its more about them and less about you. Im 67, been playing bass for about 12 years, I have a good ear, but this is one of those songs where tabs were crucial for me, to understand the song. Once I had general idea, main riffs, then I went down to bass man cave and played along with the video, getting up to speed, then cleaning up a few things, ( bridge C, D, G F# E. then C, D E back to A riff...outtro A G F#, then C B A) and then it was all there. You deserve to be followed. I don't use a pick , and it sound fine on my JP Fender, flats, added some mid. At first glance I thought this would take a month to get, not so. See how its basically 1, 5, 4 E, A, D with some fills and lead in notes. Thank you!
Best bass line of the '90s, great playing. Thanks.
One of the greatest basslines ever.
Anyone notice that in the official music video, the bass was super sharp? Thank you for this clean bass cover, breh!
Bass & band were sharp - you're correct. Recorded/mixed during the days of tape and very likely sped up during mixing to please the engineer/mixing ears. Police did this with ELTSDIM. Other artists as well.
cuz he plays a Rickenbacker - probably with brand new strings on it ............ a la Chris Squire........
Exactly this. It was probably a few BPM slower, and this tempo added the energy that made the track jump out of the speakers. See also Jane Jackson's "Rhythm Nation".@@CowbellProfessional
This is one of my all time favorite bass riffs. Nice job.
Been looking for a bass cover of this song for a long time. This one is by far the best! 👍👍👍👍 Favorite song in college 😄
Thanks for doing this one. We play this in my band and I play it "sloppy" for lack of a better term. This will help my precision in a few parts of the song.
Sick bass line! One of my favorites from the 90s. Great job!
Dude, this brings back memories! I remember getting this single just for that bass line.
This is one of the hardest rocking bass lines ever!
I saw various bass covers for this song, but your sound is the best .
Back when I started bass, I remember watching this video. I go mad and quit this song. I kept practicing with tutorials from you and now I can play this song with ease! Thanks a ton!
I've loved this song since childhood and it was only fitting that I learned to play it on my Rickenbacker 4001. Thanks for the upload! You are truly the best out there providing bass covers!
One of my favorite bass lines ,so groovy
still learning from your great video a decade later buddy! Thanks from an old man and novice bass player
Thank you for putting the CORRECT tabs out there and excellent way to do it!
So glad to be a teen in the 90’s! Greatest baseline ever! Thanks for the video!
the GOAT! Your smooth and right on target! Thanks for the vid just what I was looking for!
Thanks for the accurate tabs! I've been wanting to learn this forever.
Out Frigging Standng.....Best I've heard yet! Keep Rocking - you are the man!
I love the fact you use your right hand the same as Royston, no finger picking, top job.
My fav song, still listening
Your bass is sounding really sweet man!
Best bass line I've ever heard. Great cover.
Fam, all the tabs online were garbage. This is a godsend. Thank you!
Dude, that is SOLID AF!! love it!!!
Beautiful bass line beautifully played!
well done, sir...probably one of my top ten favorite basslines
Dude, this is unreal! Well done!
Excellent cover!!! Spacehog was a great band. I saw and met them along with Everclear and Tracy Bonham back in 1996. It was a great show!
Oh my god that is such a cool bassline. I cannot think of a neater 'during-verse' bit.
Man! that's a great bassline, had break it into chunks to learn it. Royston Langdon is killer, & does the vocal as well!!! Very pleased to have learned it and put in my arsenal of tunes. Thank you very much for your site, love it, so glad I found you. Your the man👍
guardians of the galaxy
this song is amazing
Such a tasty bass line how does he play it and sing at the same time
It sounds hard and definitely takes some skill to play. After a bit of practice of looking away from the fretboard, you should nail it.
@@ripperplaysclon152 Yeah, i just learned it in about 20mins, not hard at all
@@kkona-e9n Really? Took my a whole damn year to figure it out.
@@ripperplaysclon152 Well, i've played bass on/off 2 years, but idk
@@kkona-e9n I’ve been playing for four.
I could listen to this all night. Thank you.
Super awesome bass! This song is like an awesome candy store!
PERFECT TRANSCRIPTION!!!!!!!!!! Hands down my favorite song of the 90s. Now I can play it! Thank you!!!
Good job. I dont play bass (unfortunately) I came here to here the bass louder. Love it.
Your videos make me wanna practice more and more man..this song is a goal of mine. Amazing job once again! Thanks for all the vids.
I never get tired of this song.
Imagine playing that an singing it at the same time.. Royston was truly some kind of spacehog.
I love so much this bassline since I watching movie guardians of galaxy :)
Thats just amazing, you made it look so easy but ive struggled for years with that one.
Man, awesome job :) can't wait to see what you bring in 2015
Awesome mix vol 3
Solid as a rock
Rad. I dug this back in the day. Such a rad line. Thanks for sharing.
That bridge must have take a bit to figure out. Spot on. And may I complement your bass tone. Exquisite!
The coolest bass line and vocals! Spacehog!!
A very nice video. as a non musician i cant mentally separate the different instruments and this visual shows you exactly what the bass is up to.
can you try Beggin by Maneskin?
His setup sounds just as good as the black Rickenbacker I believe it was played on…
Marshall Amps Maybe? So hard to walk that tune AND SING…
Regardless, excellent pickin’ and beautiful songwriting!!!
The little bit of phaser / chorus really helps make this bass line stand tall.
Divine bass riff.. Beautiful.
Thanks. Some parts are straightforward but as you mention, others are quite tricky to pick out. Lots of nuance here and probably never played exactly the same way twice by Royston. Even though the original main riff is played at 12 on E, I prefer 7 on D as it retains the tone and you can keep the slide (9 on A to 2 on E) with no one the wiser. Also makes it much less difficult to play and sing simultaneously.
Perfection at its best
I like how he sings over the hard bit!!!
Hey buddy this song so blew me away at the time . And you have got it nail . So therefore I’m gonna dig out resident alien after all these years . Top stuff mate.
Such a crunchy groove
Outstanding performance on this rendition of Space Hogs cover!
I can't stop playing after watching this video. Preciate you man dope fucking riff.
looks like perfect tab to me great job
the bass is the best part of this song and I do like this song
This sounds closer than I was playing. Thanks for the awesome tab and video!
Love it. Awesome video, thanks!
3 favourite bass lines: This, sign sealed delivered, and ramble on
awesome song
Nice! Now play it while singing the song. :P
And working the audience while high on cocaine like the original.
Well, I managed 2 out of 4 (bass and vocals.) I *don't* want the cocaine.
Thanks for the tab. Well done and well played.
Yes!!! I love this song! Such a great baseline! Thanks for the video!
Here after watching Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3
I’m new to bass, this looks hard 😂
Excellent playing fella
Thanks dude! Can always count on you for accuracy!
Absolutely aced it.
Love this song! That baseline is killer....
A request though - you've gotta do The Who one of these days! The Real Me, the Punk and the Godfather or maybe Who Are You.
I know Langdon plays this with a pick but I've always thought this song sounds better with fingers. Rounder tone suits it, particularly the verse up around the 12th fret.
Cool bass cover dude!!
i'm not saying this to be a dick or a know-it-all -- this is pretty excellent. the only correction i would offer is that, during the chorus, it repeats the progression (A, D, F#, B) four times but, in the song, he only hits the octaves of A, D, and F# during the fourth iteration of each chorus. The first three times he just lets the roots ring.
It's like Foghat meets Nirvana meets sPACEHOG, FOR LACK OF BETTER WORDS, but the words are just as cool as the music, with a Garth Brooks meets Faith No More piano ending.
Man I love this
Thank you so much for making this
Great vid! Thanks so much 😃 I'm just addicted to playing this bassline haha
wow great job pretty close
beautiful !!
Guardians 3 baby!!!
Cover was solid but I want to see you nail that intro while hitting those highs on the mic!
You nailed it!