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02-29-2012, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ThudThudThud  "Sober" - Tool | Deceptive in a way, though. The timing can actually be a little tricky. |
03-29-2012, 12:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Hollywood, CA | | I've loved this song for some time now. Bassist is Mike Murphy who I believe posts on TB and is now a rep for Line 6. Sweet Aerodyne Jazz bass, happy bass line. Hacha - Brown Rabbit - YouTube |
04-06-2012, 07:14 AM
| | | "Message in a bottle", you could play it at least in 1000 different ways. Still Sting would play it better 
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04-12-2012, 09:18 AM
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05-16-2012, 06:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Hollywood, CA | | I think I just remembered a bass line that might be the thread winner. Twin Peaks Theme
Grammy Award winner for Best Pop Instrumental in 1991. According to Discog, bass/guitar on the Twin Peaks soundtracks was Vinnie Bell.
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05-16-2012, 07:59 PM
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05-16-2012, 08:34 PM
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05-16-2012, 08:56 PM
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05-17-2012, 03:30 AM
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05-17-2012, 05:09 AM
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05-17-2012, 06:42 AM
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05-17-2012, 07:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2012 Location: Canada | | | I'll list the first few songs I learned - none of them are tricky beyond what a good teacher can get a beginning student playing fairly soon, and I think they're all fun:
Andy Metcalfe's really lovely line from the Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians song Airscape. It's a nice one for students, because it's fairly obscure and it can be really encouraging to play something you haven't heard everyone else do a thousand times.
The Velvet Underground's song Candy Says - I think this was the very first bass line I ever learned, and I also think it's a particularly satisfying line for one so uncomplicated.
Kings of Leon's Joe's Head - very simple, but it definitely makes the song.
Pretenders - My City Was Gone. I think this one was said before, but ought to be reiterated... So satisfying!
The Soft Boys - Tonight. Great for learning to play a lot of repeated notes evenly.
Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives. Doesn't really need an explanation, does it?
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. It's not hard, but it really drives a song that would otherwise feel a bit static.
Porcupine Tree - Strip the Soul. Technically simple, but I think it has a lot to teach about how to glue a band together.
Madness - Baggy Trousers. Lots and lots of fun, great silly song for kid students.
And most of Tina Weymouth's Talking Heads lines, of course. |
05-17-2012, 08:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Tasmania, Australia. | | | Not a massive fan but I always thought New Years Day by U2 was a great song and the bass/piano line is simple and forms the structure of the song.
And as I AM a massive fan - Wrathchild by Iron Maiden.
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05-17-2012, 08:19 PM
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05-17-2012, 08:28 PM
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05-17-2012, 08:35 PM
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05-17-2012, 09:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: I'm a wandering minstrel | | | I used to have fun playing Tommy Tutone's Jenny. It had been years since I played it and this thread got me try it again. Yep, still fun.
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05-18-2012, 04:27 AM
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Originally Posted by saskia strange I'll list the first few songs I learned - none of them are tricky beyond what a good teacher can get a beginning student playing fairly soon, and I think they're all fun:
Andy Metcalfe's really lovely line from the Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians song Airscape. It's a nice one for students, because it's fairly obscure and it can be really encouraging to play something you haven't heard everyone else do a thousand times.
The Velvet Underground's song Candy Says - I think this was the very first bass line I ever learned, and I also think it's a particularly satisfying line for one so uncomplicated.
Kings of Leon's Joe's Head - very simple, but it definitely makes the song.
Pretenders - My City Was Gone. I think this one was said before, but ought to be reiterated... So satisfying!
The Soft Boys - Tonight. Great for learning to play a lot of repeated notes evenly.
Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives. Doesn't really need an explanation, does it?
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. It's not hard, but it really drives a song that would otherwise feel a bit static.
Porcupine Tree - Strip the Soul. Technically simple, but I think it has a lot to teach about how to glue a band together.
Madness - Baggy Trousers. Lots and lots of fun, great silly song for kid students.
And most of Tina Weymouth's Talking Heads lines, of course. | Great selection to teach or learn from! And I like that you say a baseline is "satisfying." So true, for many of these!
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05-18-2012, 07:09 AM
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05-18-2012, 07:28 AM
| | | | The Joker by Steve Miller (if it hasn't already been mentioned) - I can tell you that its harder to find the pompatus of love than to play this riff, and EVERYONE knows it. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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