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Hotel California by The Eagles

This document provides instructions for playing the bass line to the song "Hotel California" by The Eagles. It outlines the six main parts of the bass line: the intro, the verse split into two sections, the first chorus, the second chorus which is subtly different, the guitar solo split into four choruses, and the fading out section. The tutorial includes notation of the bass lines for each section to teach players how to play through the entire song.

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Hotel California by The Eagles

This document provides instructions for playing the bass line to the song "Hotel California" by The Eagles. It outlines the six main parts of the bass line: the intro, the verse split into two sections, the first chorus, the second chorus which is subtly different, the guitar solo split into four choruses, and the fading out section. The tutorial includes notation of the bass lines for each section to teach players how to play through the entire song.

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Hotel California

by The Eagles
HOTEL CALIFORNIA

Hotel California is one of those


songs that’s popular with bands
and has got a really distinctive -
and cool! - bass line!

In this tutorial we’re going to out-


line the main six parts that you
need to play through this tune.
Now this line - and the backing
track that accompanies this lesson
- were made with close reference
to the isolated ‘stems’ of the song
that were used for the ‘Guitar Hero’
or ‘Rock Band’ version of the song.

Here’s the intro - play these long notes twice:

Next up is the verse - we’ve split that into two sections. Here’s the first
section:

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And here’s the second section:

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Following on from the verse is the first chorus:

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The Chorus leads straight into Verse 2 - which is identical to Verse 1.
Chorus 2 though is subtly different from Chorus 1:

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After this chorus there is a verse that’s made up of the whole note sec-
tion as per the intro for the first half of the verse, and then it uses the full
rhythmic second half of the verse as per part 2 of the verse.

This leads to a guitar solo - here’s the first chorus of the guitar solo:

The second and third choruses of the guitar solo are pretty similar to
this. The fourth chorus though is different and here’s what’s played:

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After this chorus the bass line goes back to the kind of pattern used in
the verse as the song fades out - you can see the first three bars or so of
this notated at the end of the section above.

And that’s Hotel California!

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