Longview Bass tab video
Green Day
Make your own Longview tab video, freeNo editing. No card. 10 minutes free.- Instrument
- Bass
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Tuning
- D# G# C# F#
- Tempo
- 138 BPM
About this riff
The Longview verse bassline is a busy, syncopated melodic figure that walks and slides all over the neck rather than just following the roots, making it the driving hook of the whole song. It demands solid fretting-hand accuracy, controlled position shifts and a steady sense of the shuffle-based groove at around 138 BPM, so it's a great study in phrasing and finger independence. Fingerstyle attack helps it sing, and nailing the muting between notes is what separates a clean take from a muddy one.
Did you know?
Mike Dirnt has said he came up with the Longview bassline while tripping hard on LSD, sitting against a wall with the bass resting on his lap after Billie Joe Armstrong gave him a shuffle beat to play over. He admitted it took him a long time to actually learn to play the part again sober, joking that it only made sense to him while he was on drugs.
FAQ
Is this the real audio?
The audio is rendered from a high-quality SoundFont (FluidR3), so it plays for real. It is not the original master recording.
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