angular bass lines?

[Tombolino]

Good Morning friends!

Looking to find out your suggestions for songs, whether its rock, funk or jazz that are groovy and sound "angular"....I guess I mean by angular that they may use sort of edgy intervals.....? make sense?

thanks!

[bassicmelodies]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeD_p...Ku15zyfrTsnUja

hope you enjoy, the whole record is epic, Tim Lefebvre is stupendous.

[dtiii]

Originally Posted by bassicmelodies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeD_p...Ku15zyfrTsnUja

hope you enjoy, the whole record is epic, Tim Lefebvre is stupendous.

that's edgy... thanks for sharing

[JimK]

Originally Posted by Tombolino

Looking to find out your suggestions for songs, whether its rock, funk or jazz that are groovy and sound "angular"...

Not bass-centric per se...

The Brecker Brothers are well-known for composing angular horn lines...
Steps Ahead had Mike Brecker as a member for awhile...so they have some angular tuneage.

John Scofield, too. IIRC, "Scofile" from a John Patitucci album (Sketchbook) would be JP's nod to Scofield. Maybe even "Spaceships" from the same album, IIRC.

Others with some tunes with angular heads/melodies-
Wayne Shorter
Andrew Hill
Alain Caron (Leni Stern's "Bubbles" from Like One)
Allan Holdsworth ("Devil Take The Hindmost" from Metal Fatigue)
Mike Stern ("Chromozone" w/ Mike Brecker)
The Flecktones ("Life Without Elvis" from UFO TOFu)

More bass-centric-
"Smash" by Avashai Cohen
"Free Man" by Screaming Headless Torsos
"Pride" by Living Colour?

[Midfour]

Because there are no actual "angles" in music, "angular" is a somewhat subjective term to use. Though in fairness, I can make an intuitive guess at what your going for here...

Listen to "Summit" by Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green and see if I've got the right idea.

[PlaysAJunker]

Whut's an "angular"? Don't they make bass cabs?

I think part of the point of pentatonics (not really the question, but thinking out loud) is that if you stay to those notes you never have a tritone or a half-step interval, so you avoid dissonance. But if you superimpose a pentatonic over a tonic outside the pentatonic, you can have some pretty badass runs that are inside what you already have in the toolbox and you get dissonance off of the tonic (and related fifth, right? probably), but still avoid the tritone and halfstep intervals in the notes that you're actually playing. Which is good on the ears, right?

[derekd]

If we connected the dots of vocal melody lines or melodic basslines on a page, they would mostly resemble waves. Angular lines are going to have larger intervallic leaps and feature more uncommon intervals.

So if I were wanting to work out angular lines, I would think in terms of intervals. I don't know if there is a bass version of Carl Verheyen's work in this area, but if not, his Intervallic Rock or Improvising Without Scales books/DVDs are really good.

[Tyso]

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpGFEfihCw

Yugen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsaOZHhsjZs

Tigran Hamasyan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFbIDj-0eL8

Enjoy!

[derekd]

Originally Posted by Tyso

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpGFEfihCw

Yugen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsaOZHhsjZs

Tigran Hamasyan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFbIDj-0eL8

Enjoy!

Interesting clips. Definitely angular.