Musical Advice?

[DMBassNVox]

I am a huge metalhead that recently purchased a 5 string, yet I find myself attempting to do grooving more than crazy fast riffing. I guess I'm finally starting to move away from metal and to a more conservative approach to bass playing...what are some groups or musical styles that focus more on groove? Outside of metal and rock I don't know a whole of music....so this is new territory for me and I'm looking to expand my horizon some as I feel it will help me develop more as a musician.

[Dazzare]

I love the guy from Cake's Groove. Check them out.
So
Cake
Red Hot Chilli Pepper's(Chad Smith and Flea are a spectacular rhythm section)
Check out some Funk in general The Weather Report.
Blues has a pretty Deep groove imho.

[colcifer]

If you want to get schooled on groove, listen to The Groovemaster.

Get Aretha Franklin Live at the Fillmore West.

[cjmodulus]

Check out Jamiroquai. All 3 of their bassists groove like crazy. My personal favorite of the 3 is Stuart zender, their first one. Check out the tracks 'mr. Moon', 'too young to die', and 'space cowboy' (the single version, the one in the music video. The album version was done by a different bassist, but it's still worth checking out).

And of course, there's the legendary Bernard Edwards of Chic. Good tracks to check out are 'good times' and 'Le freak'.

[Righteous Thunderer]

I have similar issues, especially when it comes to actually *listening* to other genres of music.

One band I've really gotten into is Clutch, it's still got a nice rock element to it but the bass has a great groove to it.

[FunkyCosmoSauce]

Dazzare has the idea, chili peppers for sure

old school funk has the grooviest lines imo
check out rick james, james brown, curtis mayfield, james jamerson

also R & B/hip hop
such as biggie and tupac

i'd also recommend listening to the sword, crowbar, and of course black sabbath and led zepplin for groovy metal bands

[Stumbo]

If you check out my link below, >500, you'll find a section on "Styles" that may help you out.

[GeoffT]

If you don't have music in other styles in your collection or don't know where to start, Pandora raido is a phenominal resourse, enter some of the artists or styles mentioned above and go from there. Take note of the things you like and then dig deeper into that artist or style, skip the stuff you don't like.

[bassinplace]

The Meters, Booker T. & the MG's, Beastie Boys, Bar-Kays, Parliament-Funkadelic, James Brown, Sly & The Family Stone are the first things that spring to mind for me. Anything in the Funk or Soul genre from the 60's or 70's in general should have a lot of what you're looking for.

[Internet Police]

I forsee funk metal being the big new thing. Imagine with me, if you will, pantera mixed with parliament funkadelic. Pantera funkadelic. I like it.

[GeoffT]

Originally Posted by Internet Police

I forsee funk metal being the big new thing. Imagine with me, if you will, pantera mixed with parliament funkadelic. Pantera funkadelic. I like it.

Didn't this already happen back in the late 80s and early 90s with bands like Infectious Grooves, Suicidal Tendencies, RATM, Extreme, Limp Biscuit and many more mixing funky bass and grooves with heavy guitars? They all took the Funk/Punk of the early Chili's stuff and just went a little heavier with the guitars.

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by DMBassNVox

I am a huge metalhead that recently purchased a 5 string, yet I find myself attempting to do grooving more than crazy fast riffing. I guess I'm finally starting to move away from metal and to a more conservative approach to bass playing...what are some groups or musical styles that focus more on groove? Outside of metal and rock I don't know a whole of music....so this is new territory for me and I'm looking to expand my horizon some as I feel it will help me develop more as a musician.

Don't know if you'll find this interesting, but I'm going to mention it since you are a 5-string player trying to broaden your scope: Dominican Merengue is a style of music that heavily relies on the lowest register of the 5-string bass, and it's very groovy! Check this example out.

[monkeyking]

Though many will disagree (of course), try The Who or Zeppelin. They were the transition point between R&B/soul/Blues and what later became metal. It works in reverse as well.

Great suggestions above mine, but it's tough to switch from today's metal to the outright funk/groove. JP Jones and the Ox were tremendous at bridging the gap between strident guitars and thunderous drums to introduce a groove feel to the songs. Aggressive and rhythmic, but melodic and hip-swaying at the same time.

Hope that helps.

[morgan138]

If you want to stay in a metal-ish ballpark: Geezer Butler and Cliff Burton.

[SBassman]

Make sure you check out at least a few James Jamerson lines.