A bassline a day

foq1978 · #1 08-07-2009, 02:03 PM

hello!
I've been playing bass for more than 10 years (not professionaly, mind you - but I should be better by now anyway ). I believe everyone here has a mental list of basslines that have influenced/impressed you. Well, I've started a blog (I hope is all right to publicize it here) where I post, every weekday, a song with a bassline that influenced me. You can listen to it, see the tab (when available) and even vote if you like it or not.

the address is:
http://hearthebass.blogspot.com

Does anyone here do something similar? I would love to see it.

Take care!

Gord_oh · #2 08-07-2009, 02:06 PM

this is cool!

riskyrain · #3 08-07-2009, 02:30 PM

Awesome, please keep this up

foq1978 · #4 08-07-2009, 02:40 PM

Thanks a lot, riskyrain and Gord_oh! I am glad to hear you like it.

Waterpilot · #5 08-07-2009, 02:47 PM

Very nice! I've saved it as a favorite...

Alvaro Martín Gómez A. · #6 08-07-2009, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by foq1978

Does anyone here do something similar? I would love to see it.

Take care!

I also created a blog with bassline transcriptions made by myself:

http://alvabasstuff.blogspot.com/

Yours is an uber cool idea. I really enjoyed it!

foq1978 · #7 08-08-2009, 04:39 AM

@Waterpilot: thanks a lot! It's good to see you enjoyed it!

@Alvaro: that's quite a production you've got there! Someone (jeremy c) in another forum told me:

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If you can play all of those, you've learned a lot of music.

If you write down the lines in standard notation, you will learn a even more.

I guess you must be learning a lot with your website. I know I am learning a lot from your website!

Just out of curiosity: is this a Music Man you play with?

Alvaro Martín Gómez A. · #8 08-08-2009, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by foq1978

I know I am learning a lot from your website!

I'm really glad to know that, man. I'm so happy to help.

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Originally Posted by foq1978

Just out of curiosity: is this a Music Man you play with?

Yes. My main bass is an EBMM Bongo.

foq1978 · #9 08-09-2009, 04:16 AM

What transcription software do you use? (am I going off topic here?)

Alvaro Martín Gómez A. · #10 08-09-2009, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by foq1978

What transcription software do you use?

This one.

kiwlm · #11 08-09-2009, 09:46 PM

Wow, that's a good site. I have been toying with the idea of buying magazines just to have a random sample of songs to learn because my songs vocab are really limited.

1. Hope you can keep it up, I don't mind if its like 5 songs a month or something.

2. Maybe you can put some "difficulty level" there so I will skip sampling those that will be too hard?

foq1978 · #12 08-10-2009, 04:30 AM

@ Alvaro: Cool. I have Finale's Notepad (it was freeware a while ago. Or a freebie somewhere). never played a lot with it, though.

@ kiwlm: Glad you like it! (1) I hope I can make it 5 times a week (2) I could try, but it would be subjective (how easy is "easy") and how hard is really hard, or am I just not good enough?

Take care!