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02-12-2010, 10:12 AM
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Think I might have (re)found just about the easiest bass line in the history of popular music.
Bad Moon Rising - by Creedence Clearwater
Its three chords (DAG) but I reckon you can quite easity get away by playing just D on the off beat throughtout the whole song. Which is actually what (IMHO) it sounds like the original bassist was doing.
Easy or what?...
...unless anyone knows otherwise?
Z.
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02-12-2010, 10:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois | | | "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac... 2 notes... Except that one small bridge part.
Oh, yeah "Cocaine"... mostly three or four notes mainly, VERY BORING bass part to play.
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02-12-2010, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by M.R. Ogle  "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac... 2 notes... Except that one small bridge part.
Oh, yeah "Cocaine"... mostly three or four notes mainly, VERY BORING bass part to play. | Good shout...
...but do they beat just the one note in Bad moon?
VERY, VERY, BORING.
Z.
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02-12-2010, 10:35 AM
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02-12-2010, 10:41 AM
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02-12-2010, 10:43 AM
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02-12-2010, 11:06 AM
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If it fits the song, then it works. No need to be complicated when it's not called for. |
02-12-2010, 11:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Hagerstown, MD | | | I play 'bad moon' with the cover band and I don't mind playing it. I add a fill in one or two places. Also, Stu Cook definately played more than just a D...
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02-12-2010, 11:41 AM
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But, unfortunately the groove is SO hard, no one plays the song.. haha |
02-12-2010, 11:44 AM
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02-12-2010, 11:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Zegie Think I might have (re)found just about the easiest bass line in the history of popular music.
Bad Moon Rising - by Creedence Clearwater
Its three chords (DAG) but I reckon you can quite easity get away by playing just D on the off beat throughtout the whole song. Which is actually what (IMHO) it sounds like the original bassist was doing.
Easy or what?...
...unless anyone knows otherwise?
Z. | He's playing the root note of each chord. You cannot get away with playing only the D.
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02-12-2010, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by M.R. Ogle "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac... 2 notes... Except that one small bridge part.
] | Gah.. I have to play that live, and I almost fall asleep during.
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02-12-2010, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by MonetBass If it fits the song, then it works. No need to be complicated when it's not called for. | No argument with that. Point taken.
But are there any simpler?
Z.
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02-12-2010, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by J. Crawford Gah.. I have to play that live, and I almost fall asleep during. | You can play around with the harmony and have a little fun with 'Dreams.'
For example instead of verse figure F, G, and then F, G again, I'll sometimes play the 4th and b5 to finish a bar(F, G, A, B). You can even extend it if you dare, to make it F, G, A, B, C, D, F(or E if you're feeling cocky), G. Cool to do this leading into the chorus "Thunder always happens when it's raining." |
02-12-2010, 01:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Eddinburgh, Scotland | | I remember when I start playing Smoke on the Water. That was such an easy one!
Most of Deep Purple's are so... 
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02-12-2010, 01:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Yeah, Cocaine is one of those songs that I *hate* playing... dull, dull, dull...
And don't bag on Deep Purple - some of the bass parts are more interesting than you think once you dig in a bit... |
02-12-2010, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark Wilson Everyday people by Sly and the family stone is ONE note.
But, unfortunately the groove is SO hard, no one plays the song.. haha |
+1
I was in a cover band w/ horn section that used to do a ton of killer old skool funk & R&B charts, and "Everyday People" was probably the hardest of the bunch, because if you don't nail that pocket to the floor there's nothing else to fall back on. You & the drummer need to turn your brains off & think with your sphincters to get that groove happening...but when it clicks, it's more satisfying than any knuckle-busting syncopated 16th note stutter-funk-fest.
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