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03-02-2009, 03:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Portugal - Lisbon | | | Prog bands/songs with a challenging bass
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Howdy. I'm looking for prog music with a difficult bass part. It can be old prog (king Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator, etc) or modern (Jelly Jam, Spock's Beard, etc). Thanks.
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03-02-2009, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Belgrade, Serbia | | | Justin Chancellor from Tool is an awesome prog bass player, you can try some of their songs... "Jambi", "Schism", "Vicarious", to name a few. You can find those on Youtube if you don't have the CDs. |
03-02-2009, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | | How hard? Try King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (the middle section especially)
or Yes - Heart of the Sunrise - easy to learn, difficult to master.
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Originally Posted by JimmyM  acdc with victor wooten playing bass would suck, but so would bela fleck and the flecktones with cliff williams on bass. | |
03-02-2009, 04:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Portugal - Lisbon | | | Well, not Pastoriusly hard, but not that far from that. Something similar to Dream Theater would be nice, without the metal vein. |
03-02-2009, 04:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | | Well, King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man will be quite a challenge, I'd start with that. As well, "The Great Deceiver" is very fast, I can't play it cleanly. Good one for speed.
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Originally Posted by JimmyM acdc with victor wooten playing bass would suck, but so would bela fleck and the flecktones with cliff williams on bass. | |
03-02-2009, 04:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: New Jersey | | Quote:
Originally Posted by GoryGummyBear Well, not Pastoriusly hard, but not that far from that. Something similar to Dream Theater would be nice, without the metal vein. | Try my band on for size. link is below "lady radiator"
pm me if you want the actual tracks. |
03-02-2009, 05:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Concord, NH | | | Try some Jethro Tull- it's not too chopsy, but Ian Anderson really liked to screw with the time. |
03-04-2009, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by vl4dimir Justin Chancellor from Tool is an awesome prog bass player, you can try some of their songs... "Jambi", "Schism", "Vicarious", to name a few. You can find those on Youtube if you don't have the CDs. | Dear god, stop calling that hack a prog bassist.
And neither Schism nor Vicarious is particularly hard.
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03-04-2009, 09:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sylva, NC | | Please check out Ray Shulman's stunning bass line from the title track of Gentle Giant's "Three Friends". Here is the sheet music: http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/sheetm...ends-score.gif
The Gentle Giant catalog is rife with stunning bass passages. They are really worth checking out. http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/
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03-04-2009, 09:35 PM
| | | | in the metal vein, some between the buried and me stuff is good although most is repetitive. check out selkies the endless obsession and viridian. the album colors as a whole is pretty amazing. |
03-04-2009, 11:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newark, NJ | | Quote:
Dear god, stop calling that hack a prog bassist.
And neither Schism nor Vicarious is particularly hard.
| ..and that makes either line sound worse how? I think you've gotta open your ears man. I've seen "that hack" live and it was tight, his lines complement the songs very well and he manages to lay out some nice stuff through long fairly complex songs with tons of time changes. Tool was established when they choose him, they could have had anyone, they picked him for a reason. |
03-04-2009, 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by akaTRENT Try my band on for size. link is below "lady radiator"
pm me if you want the actual tracks. | Sweet baby jesus!
You band is one of the tightest things I've heard in a while...You all sound totally amazing |
03-06-2009, 04:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chicago, IL | | | John Myung or Tony Levin
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03-09-2009, 03:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: St. Louis, MO | | | Anything by Protest The Hero
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03-09-2009, 05:09 AM
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Originally Posted by rtav | +1
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03-09-2009, 12:25 PM
| | gone to Longstanton Spice Museum | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: UK | | | does Zappa count as progressive rock? if so, there's a lot of challenging bass on my site (see sig)
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03-10-2009, 07:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Perth | | | Panic Attack - Dream Theater.
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