Paul Simon - Call Me Al Bass Tab

This bass solo is two measures long, but the bassist (Bakithi Kumalo) only

played the first measure. The engineer flipped the tape and recorded the first measure backwards, forming a musical palindrome. this is a close

Approximation of the solo. It's what Bakithi played on the live versions

it's played slapstyle on a washburn fretless 4string. The first measure is four triplets. using a slap-hammer on-pop approach. the second measure consists of three triplets using a slap-pulloff-pop approach. The last beat of measure two is straight sixteenth notes

Listen to the solo and see if you can hear the backwards sounding delay on the

last beat that tips off the this busy lick's studio-processed genesis G:--3--5-|----------3-------------------------------------|------------------- ---------------------------5--3--| D:---------|--3--5--------------3--------------------------|------------------ ---------------X---5--3----------| A:---------|--------------3--5---------------3----------1-|---------X--------- -X---5--3----------------------| E:---------|---------------------------3--5-------1--3----|--3--1------5--3--- -------------------------------|

Remember-know matter how impossibly busy a riff sounds, it was played by a

mortal, and can be figured out.

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