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09-20-2006, 05:59 AM
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09-20-2006, 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by BrandonBass it has to be | No, it doesn't. |
09-20-2006, 06:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO | | Considering that it sold a gajillion copies, you might call it the "most popular SONG with a distinctive bass line".
I would have guessed that it's a synth playing the bass line, but according to this article it's Louis Johnson on a Yamaha bass. http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=1777 "Bassist Louis Johnson ran through his part on every guitar he owned before Jackson settled on a Yamaha bass with an ideally thick and buzzing sound."
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09-20-2006, 07:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | | it has to be. i get two frequent requests:
"can you play seinfeld" and "can you play billy jean". |
09-20-2006, 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by ras1983 it has to be. i get two frequent requests:
"can you play seinfeld" and "can you play billy jean". | So Seinfeld is actually the most popular bassline. According to this highly reliable research. 
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09-20-2006, 07:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | Oh no, no, no. It is very memorable, but in no way is it the most memorable or the most popular.
And I cite the Poll/Thread started by our friend Burk48237 as evidence of why I feel this way; BEST "POP" BASS LINES
The minute you said, "Billy Jean" and "bassline", I instantly could hear the bassline in my head ( ||:bim bum bum bum bim bum bum bum :|| ) - so it is definitely a very memorable line - however, as Burk's thread demonstrates, there are SO MANY other lines that shine, your statement, Quote: |
Billie Jean = most popular bassline?
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09-20-2006, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by ras1983 it has to be. i get two frequent requests:
"can you play seinfeld" and "can you play billy jean". | You mean people actually request songs because of their bass lines? And not just "play some Skynyrd!"? |
09-20-2006, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by bassteban So Seinfeld is actually the most popular bassline. According to this highly reliable research. | Hey man, its midnight and i'm tired  . so this is as rational as my intelligence will be for the next 8 hours...  
ok, so maybe two people don't represent the global community, but who's keeping count?! |
09-20-2006, 08:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | I'm listening to it right now, and I still suspect it's a synth. Or at the very least, there's a synth playing along with a real bass. It's just so rigid and MIDI-like in its tempo, and I hear that synth-y tone.
On the other hand, there's definitely a human-played bass on the bridge (the "People always told me, be careful what you do...." sections).
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09-20-2006, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by ras1983 Hey man, its midnight and i'm tired . so this is as rational as my intelligence will be for the next 8 hours...
ok, so maybe two people don't represent the global community, but who's keeping count?! | That's cool- I'm this dumb in the middle of the day.
Back on topic, the most popular 'bassline' when I was starting out was actually the g****r part to Deep Purple's Smoke on the water: DUNT DUNT DUNNN DUNT DUNT DU-DUNNN
DUNT DUNT DUNN DUNT-DUNNN.
On bass. 
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09-20-2006, 09:06 AM
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09-20-2006, 09:22 AM
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Billie Jean, in addition to Thriller and Beat it |
09-20-2006, 10:32 AM
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09-20-2006, 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Cambass What about 'Another One Bites The Dust'? | +1 to that!
It's up there with Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" for most over-requested guitar riffs and bass lines.
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09-20-2006, 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Cambass What about 'Another One Bites The Dust'? | +1 |
09-20-2006, 10:52 AM
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09-20-2006, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Cambass What about 'Another One Bites The Dust'? | + eleventy
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09-20-2006, 01:35 PM
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Money REALLY amazes me sometimes. It's NOT hard, but I've heard alot more wrong versions than right! |
09-20-2006, 01:57 PM
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09-20-2006, 06:52 PM
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Sounds synthy to me.
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