Journey Separate Ways Bass Cover with Notes & Tablature

Click link for Bass Tab & Notes: https://tinyurl.com/BassScore Thank you to Peter Crosta for writing our the bass score "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" is a song by Journey from their album Frontiers and released as a single on February 5, 1983. It peaked at #8 for six consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and spent four weeks at #1 on the Top Tracks chart. This song was used in the 2010 film Tron: Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 Academy Award-nominated film Tron. he song was written in 1982 during the tour for the Escape album. There is some degree of uncertainty regarding the specific date of authorship or the first time it was performed live. While some sources will claim the 1982 Day on the Green concert (June 26, 1982), as the first time the songs was performed (citing singer Steve Perry from that performance... "We just wrote this song about two weeks ago.") Subsequent bootleg recordings have revealed that the band performed this song live at least a month earlier on May 21, 1982 in concert at Chicago's Rosemount Horizon. In that recording, singer Steve Perry indicates that they had "just written this song about two weeks ago." There were some minor differences in the lyrics on this live debut compared to the final version found on Frontiers. In a 2008 interview, guitarist Neal Schon recalled the first time it was played live: "It doesn't matter where we put this song because it has always had a strong effect on the audience, all the way back to the first time we played it — before it was even recorded. It was written on tour and we threw it in the set to see how it would go down. The audience had an amazing reaction to it without even knowing what it was." Co-writer Jonathan Cain described the song's origin: "Usually we don't write songs that far in advance of an album. But on that occasion, Steve [Perry] and I were just working an idea backstage and it all came together. He was working on a bass and I had a guitar, and we just worked out the melody that night and the lyrics the next afternoon. Sometimes you can get lucky and have a song fall together like that. Schon described the influence for the song's sound: "A big part of Journey's influence comes from Motown mixed with R&B and blues, and that's pretty much where 'Separate Ways' is coming from. It's got a heavier guitar than an R&B song, but I think that's what makes it sound like Journey." Co-writer Jonathan Cain echoed these thoughts in a 1983 interview: "We wanted to write something rhythmic and still have a strong and haunting melody. We needed a main rhythm to run through the synthesizer and Steve Smith designed that kind of drum beat to let everything breathe. It's really a throwback to all of our roots and the Motown sound. Steve [Perry] has always listened to a lot of Motown records, songs with a strong chorus approach. Songs that were real urgent sounding, but still had rhythm and melody." I hope you enjoy it. Please comment and subscribe. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.