I've been following the "BAIB is hard" thread and I suppose this is my contribution. With 11 or 12 years experience I should know how to do this, but I don't!

I have a song with the regular halfnotes 120 bass. This lopes along fine for most of the song, but the middle 8 (actually 16 bars) needs a more insistent regular 8 to the bar so I've tried using the metal bass 120 (which the blurb suggests can be used in this sort of way). Fine as far as it goes, but try as I might, I can't get it to play the root for 16 bars - it always introduces a little slide or something similar which is fine in the middle of an AC/DC song but kind of kills a Tim McGraw song. Is there any way of persuading the metal bass to just play the root - the beat is fine, it's just the notes it plays.

I'm now getting to the point of acutally considering getting my Jazz bass out of the cupboard for the first time in a year or so and actually using it on the song - but I don't want to admit defeat just yet. I could also just cut and paste individual bars or pairs of bars to make 16 bars from scraps, but I've kind of got to the point of obsession about this!

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Best wishes

Brian