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Kraken and Bass Guitars
I have determined that if you play The Kraken's Theme (from Pie Rats of the Carob Bean Too, which co-stars one of the Monkees, looking slightly worse for the wear since his glory days on television) on an acoustic guitar - with a palm mute - the first phrase sounds an awful lot like the Peter Gunn Theme.
For reference, that would be: D-D-F-D D-C1-B1
If you transcribe it to E, it sounds reasonably low and spooky. I suppose if I had been more ambitious, I would just tune the low E down to D and taken it from there. It works well on bass as written (because the bass has it in the right octave, which is to say, low.)
Of course, if you play it on bass, and you add the triplet accent on the D pedal, and you don't do that sort of thing often, you get a blister on the tip of your index finger that says to you "Yeoww!" and "I really wish you played the thing as a slap bass line everytime." And, days later, it is no longer a poufy skin-colored bit, and is, instead, a reddish-orange blotch of skin that no longer hurts. Much.
For reference, that would be: D-D-F-D D-C1-B1
If you transcribe it to E, it sounds reasonably low and spooky. I suppose if I had been more ambitious, I would just tune the low E down to D and taken it from there. It works well on bass as written (because the bass has it in the right octave, which is to say, low.)
Of course, if you play it on bass, and you add the triplet accent on the D pedal, and you don't do that sort of thing often, you get a blister on the tip of your index finger that says to you "Yeoww!" and "I really wish you played the thing as a slap bass line everytime." And, days later, it is no longer a poufy skin-colored bit, and is, instead, a reddish-orange blotch of skin that no longer hurts. Much.