A Town Called Malice - How Did Bruce Foxton ACTUALLY Play That Riff?

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'A Town Called Malice' by The Jam sounds easy. Then you try and play it. There’s something frustratingly tricky about it. We all tend to play it one specific way, but how does Bruce Foxton play it on the original recording? And should we even care?
Well, I’ve spent a couple of hours going over and over this riff, watching live versions by The Jam, watching the original video, extracting the audio, listening at a bunch of different speeds and today I'm going to share what I discovered!!

#thejam #talkingbass #basslessons

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:46 The Riff Breakdown
1:42 Fast Swing
2:52 Left Hand
3:26 Fingerpicking
4:26 The Picking Mystery - Common Way
5:50 The Bruce Way!
8:32 Possible Hammer On
10:23 Other Ways
11:10 Who Cares!!