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12-15-2006, 09:12 PM
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Are there any nice mellow bass solos i can find around the internet? I'm really interested in doing a solo and i can't really improvise myself yet. |
12-15-2006, 09:35 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | What do you think of this one? |
12-15-2006, 09:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | My style tends to be on the mellow side. Check out my "bass page", there are some mp3's there.
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12-15-2006, 10:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A.  | Damm! That was awesome! You are brilliant. Very, very, very, nice
As for the OP are you looking for bass solos or solo bass pieces? check out some of the more calm wooten such as The Vision or Sometimes I Laugh. If you mean like mellow impro solo over a song you should get a teacher who can help you and teach you to play changes. It dosent even need to be a bass teacher, most teaching jazz musicians can tell you how to solo over changes. Impro is the way to go!! |
12-15-2006, 11:17 PM
| | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bass_Mule Damm! That was awesome! You are brilliant. Very, very, very, nice | Man, thank you so much for your nice comment, but I'd really love to play like that. You can read more about that recording here. |
12-16-2006, 12:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. Man, thank you so much for your nice comment, but I'd really love to play like that. You can read more about that recording here. | Well i feel like an idiot. It still is great!! |
12-16-2006, 12:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | | Call me whack, but I've always felt Cliff Burton's Anaesthesia - Pulling Teeth was rahter mellow after the first rythm (it mellows when he starts playing wah'ed chords) and before the drums kick in... |
12-16-2006, 09:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Hong Kong | | | i meant like just a bass playing a whole song, not like part of a solo or something. That was an awesome solo there alvaro! |
12-16-2006, 09:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Newcastle, Australia | | | This might be a little obscure, but Mark Egan on American garage by Pat Metheny, sublime.
Any Fraser's solo on Mr. Big by Free is also a slow building melodic classic. |
12-16-2006, 12:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | Listen to Vic Wooten's solo on 'Flight of The Cosmic Hippo'. Great fretless tone, laid back, good note choices. |
12-16-2006, 12:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland | | I'd go with Wooten. The 'slow groove' off of his instruction video is great, have a look for it 
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12-17-2006, 04:56 AM
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12-17-2006, 03:35 PM
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12-17-2006, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Bass_Mule Sometimes I Laugh | That song is just beautiful. Vic is just...out of this world, his music is so touching. |
12-18-2006, 03:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | Stanley Clarke's "School Days" solo is great and a little mellow.
The beginning of Stu Hamm's "Live In Francisco Solo" is beautiful and very touching.
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12-18-2006, 09:21 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | If you dig Love Thing by Stuart Hamm (even though it's Satch's piece) then make sure to check out Apologies and Charlotte's song by him.
A nice mellow bass solo by Jonas Hellborg is Reebop from his first album, dedicated to his late percussiontist friend. It's actually a very touching piece!
I'm not sure I would call School Days "mellow" at all though...it's a rocker! |
12-18-2006, 10:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | Not quite a solo per se but Weather Report's 'A Remark You Made' has some beautiful sort of solo bass from Jaco... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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