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10-06-2009, 02:05 PM
| | | | How do you funk up a bassline??
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Not quite sure if this is the right section but anyway... How do you make an existing bassline more funky? Other than slapping and popping it with octaves I can't think of anything else to add... maybe certain fills? Anyone got any suggestions?? |
10-06-2009, 02:08 PM
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10-06-2009, 02:20 PM
| | | | You might want to check out Bootsie Collins on You Tube he does a formula he learned from James Brown about creating Funk grooves by always playing on "The One". |
10-06-2009, 02:28 PM
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10-06-2009, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Virginia | | | Dotting notes to give them more emphasis.
Liberal use of Rests.
Playing the root then an octave up.
That's all that i can think of right now. |
10-06-2009, 02:30 PM
| | | | Shorten up your notes and play behind the beat (?)
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10-06-2009, 02:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Copenhagen | | | Yeah you can add some ghost notes maybe but well placed silences and fat notes makes it funkier... Rely on the drummer a lot and play around with him.... Funk is also your way to play around the beat and your own personal timing.
Don t force it , there is nothing worse than a bass player that s not funky trying to be...
Listen to bootsy with James Brown and funkadelic , Parliament , Sly and the family stone , Stevie Wonder and so on to start with...
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10-06-2009, 02:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Dallas, TX | | Grab your bass and youtube Bootsy Collins. Listen and practice until you can play his lines and licks, after you start playing it with him, it will start to come on its aow accord in your own lines... Its a start 
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10-06-2009, 06:19 PM
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10-06-2009, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Doublefunk  Dotting notes to give them more emphasis.
Liberal use of Rests.
Playing the root then an octave up.
That's all that i can think of right now. | +1 on rests and use hammer notes to walk up say the middle of a blues scale hitting only on the 4th (b5 and 5 are hammered).
Abruptly stop notes so all you hear is the attaack sound sharply muted.
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10-06-2009, 06:59 PM
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Edit: A chromatic approach may also help.
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10-06-2009, 07:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Columbus, Ohio | | | All good advice. I'll only add my experiences in funking up a bass line is to boost the mids and play more staccato and follow the kick drum. It's also up to the drummer to make the entire song funky so don't try to do everything on your own.
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10-06-2009, 07:11 PM
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10-07-2009, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by phatbass Don't add; take away - leave some spaces in the music... | +1
Also make sure you feel the 2 & 4 either by leaving them out or emphasize them. The BIG ONE is also very funky !
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10-07-2009, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by phatbass Don't add; take away - leave some spaces in the music... | ^^^^^^what he said^^^^^^
Funk is more about what's NOT there! If you want to suck the funk right out of a groove, just add a bunch of fills in here and there and it will go away. Octave slap makes for disco, not funk.
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10-07-2009, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Elrend Syncopations is the key to funkiness.
Edit: A chromatic approach may also help. | I came in here to say this. Respect the ONE (and to a lesser extent, the THREE), but if you have a bassline that you feel is "too boring", shift everything but the One off onto a syncopation beat (the 'e' and the 'a' in the old "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a, three-e-and-a" counting pattern) and voila, instant funkiness. See Victor Wooten's DVD "Groove Workshop" for some excellent exercises in doing this. |
10-07-2009, 09:37 AM
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