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10-24-2007, 02:51 PM
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who are some good ones and tell me there artist/group. i know the roots are pretty good. a hip-hop band wants me to play bass-gotta get a better idea of the music. keep it simple and grooving? kinda like reggae? just keep a steady rhythm tight with the drums and leave room for the emcee? |
10-25-2007, 06:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | Timmy C (Rage Against The Machine) has always been a fave of mine. Tasty basslines, great tone, solid as hell, doesn't overplay at all. |
10-25-2007, 07:24 AM
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Sales Rep: Benavente Guitars - Endorser: SIT strings, & Epifani Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Atlanta/Lexington | | | Braylon Lacy is really good and he plays with Erykah Badu, also Lamarquis Jefferson (he's played with a ton of people and he is a TB'er) and Preston Crump (another cat to google if you don't already know him). |
10-25-2007, 11:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Torrance, CA | | | Ron Carter. I know he's a jazz bassist first and foremost, but he was was pretty much the "hidden member" of A Tribe Called Quest. |
10-25-2007, 11:37 AM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | Doug Wimbish, Leonard "Hub" Hubbard, and Raphael Saddiq (he played on alot of Snoop's stuff, among others).
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10-25-2007, 11:43 AM
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Sales Rep: Benavente Guitars - Endorser: SIT strings, & Epifani Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Atlanta/Lexington | | | ^Woodchuck |
10-25-2007, 11:44 AM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | Quote:
Originally Posted by j-raj  ^Woodchuck | LOL!! J, what's been up, man? I grabbed that Bacchus from Jim. You should borrow it and slap about a bit. She's a beast!
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10-25-2007, 01:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Los Angeles | | | Don't just listen to bass guitarists in hiphop. You can get lots of great ideas from tracks with synth bass, or heck, even no bass at all, where there's a booming 808 kick. Sometimes I'll roll off all my highs(and if I'm using pedals, use some lo-pass filter with the res up) and do my "808" impression--thumb-muting and doubling exactly with the kick drum, no more, no less---you ARE the kick then--it's pretty powerful. Works great. Any classic soul, funk, rare groove, reggae/dub and jazz can be inspiring of course too, for bass guitar ideas, but don't limit yourself to only wearing the bass guitar hat---for example you might play through an entire song plucking some little figure up high on the neck or what-have-you, like a sample of something OTHER than a bass.
Oh yeah, one last thing: you MUST check out Pino's playing on D'Angelo's "Voodoo" album . . . . |
10-25-2007, 02:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | I'm not a hip hop head, but from what I have heard of hip hop bass, the main factor is restraint. Hip hop is the opposite of Gospel or Old School Funk in that it doesn't lend itself to embellishments or improvisation, at least not in the studio. Locking into a groove, and keeping it fresh, and not sounding bored is an incredible skill that must be attempted to be appreciated. 
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10-26-2007, 12:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: San Jose | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jmcdan3 who are some good ones and tell me there artist/group. i know the roots are pretty good. a hip-hop band wants me to play bass-gotta get a better idea of the music. keep it simple and grooving? kinda like reggae? just keep a steady rhythm tight with the drums and leave room for the emcee? | Mike Elizondo - bassist/producer http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/elizondo.htm
This guy's production credits are pretty insane. |
11-01-2007, 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Infernal Affair Ron Carter. I know he's a jazz bassist first and foremost, but he was was pretty much the "hidden member" of A Tribe Called Quest. | Ron Carter only played on one Tribe song. Other than "Verses From the Abstract", ATCQ sampled their basslines. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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