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05-17-2008, 11:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: California | | | Simple But Catchy Basslines?
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songs that are easy to play but have a memorable hook to them?
Up All Night - Boomtown Rats
The Show Must Go On - Pink Floyd (the root-fifth "take me home/let me go" part springs to mind)
Cities - Talking Heads |
05-17-2008, 11:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SF Bay Area North CA | | | Buddy Miles - Them Changes. --Kent |
05-18-2008, 02:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada | | | Money - Pink Floyd
Come Together - The Beatles
Under Pressure - Queen
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05-18-2008, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Southeast Mass | | | Billy Jean- Michael Jackson
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05-18-2008, 02:54 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | Lenny Kravitz's "Mr. Cab Driver" and The Knack's "My Sharona" were the first that came to my mind. |
05-18-2008, 02:57 PM
| | | | Time - Pink Floyd
1976 - RJD2
Clean Living - RJD2
Rhime Animal - Thousand Foot Krutch |
05-18-2008, 03:09 PM
| | | | Steve Miller Band-The Joker
War-Low Rider
Queen-Another One Bites the Dust
Bob Marley-Stir It Up
Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit
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05-18-2008, 05:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | | I think about anything by The Talking Heads could qualify. Psycho Killer , Take Me to The River, I could go on. Bow down to Tina Weymouth. |
05-18-2008, 05:53 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Seven Nation Army. I hate that stupid song, but it kind of gets stuck in your head.
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05-18-2008, 05:56 PM
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It don't get much simpler, than "My Girl"
also, "Taxman" the Beatles. |
05-18-2008, 06:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: sin city baby... | | | anything Sting did with the Police
anything "Family Man" did with Bob Marley & The Wailers
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the space between are still notes...
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05-18-2008, 06:12 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Medina, Ohio | | | "Turn My Back On You" - Sade, with Paul S. Denman on bass.
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Variety in basses is the spice of life. |
05-18-2008, 06:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Flashlight by Parliament
Papa was a rolling stone by The Temptations
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05-18-2008, 06:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Bay city, Mi | | | Stir it up- Bob Marley & the Wailers
Nice and simple and catchy, can't ask for more. |
05-18-2008, 06:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassist15 I think about anything by The Talking Heads could qualify. Psycho Killer , Take Me to The River, I could go on. Bow down to Tina Weymouth. | +1... Talking Heads from "Remain in Light" or earlier is chock full of simple, yet catchy bass.  Never could get into the later stuff.
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05-18-2008, 07:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | For me, pretty much anything by Larry Graham... That man could make 2 or 3 notes interesting and fuuuuunky!
For a specific example, see Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)... |
05-18-2008, 07:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: S.E. Connecticut, USA | | | N.I.B. |
05-18-2008, 08:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Ashley Ohio USA | | | It's Your Thing- Isley Bros.
Mr. Big Stuff- Jean Knight
Pressure Drop- Toots & the Maytals
I'd die happy if I could come up with things that simple and that cool. Well, happier anyway. |
05-18-2008, 09:18 PM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | "When the World is Running Down..." - The Police
"Blood and Roses" - Smithereens
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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