Disco basslines

[ste30]

Hi people, Im after some other cool basslines to learn, stuff like

Chic - Good Times / I Want Your Love
Narada Michael Walden - Should Have Loved Ya
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper

Anything with that kinda feel please. I cant play them properly anyway, but I got the basics down, and anything that sounds that mint keeps me practising

Cheers

[Asa Samuel]

lots of disco basslines are theese kind of affairs:

G--------------------------------------
D--------5------5----5----5----5------
A---------------------------------------
E------3-----3----3----3----3-----------

but when good bassists write stuff for disco i really like it.

so a well earned bump!

[ste30]

Yeah I know half of it is octaves in time with the beat, but I want songs with a groove, just make you smile hearing it and think "Yep".

Theres a drum instruction video on Youtube, by Jeff Porcaro. At the end he plays a song called "Creature Stomp" - the bass to it is mint, and you can see the guy just loving playing it.

EDITED FOR LINK


Song comes in at 4:10 - watch the guys face when he's playing.... awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJL7hbd7ZKA

[Philbiker]

Get a load of McCartney's Disco song "Goodnight Tonight".

[ste30]

Originally Posted by Philbiker

Get a load of McCartney's Disco song "Goodnight Tonight".

Wow good shout just listening via Youtube
Do you know where I can get it without McCartney singing on it? Just an instrumental? Cos I dislike the cheesy one!

[Marcus Johnson]

Anything that Bernard Edwards did is good for me.

[kobass]

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+1. Bernard was THE MAN!!!

[Mingus]

Disco Inferno?

[Hoover]

Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson

Anything that Bernard Edwards did is good for me.

+2

"Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste Of Honey always struck me as being the archetypal disco bassline. Not the solo, but the rest of it.

[DWBass]

Originally Posted by ste30

Yeah I know half of it is octaves in time with the beat, but I want songs with a groove, just make you smile hearing it and think "Yep".

Theres a drum instruction video on Youtube, by Jeff Porcaro. At the end he plays a song called "Creature Stomp" - the bass to it is mint, and you can see the guy just loving playing it.

EDITED FOR LINK


Song comes in at 4:10 - watch the guys face when he's playing.... awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJL7hbd7ZKA

Jeff was a bad mutha................!! That's not a disco groove though.

[DWBass]

Here's a good (and funky) one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gnClyJDsEU

[DWBass]

Another good one (even though he's playing it wrong). The gist of it is correct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EfPQd9QexY

[DWBass]

And another.............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmJLlHGTT-U

[ste30]

Originally Posted by DWBass

And another.............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmJLlHGTT-U

Already mentioned that one in the first post - thast exactly kinda thing im looking for

And yeah i know the Jeff one wasnt disco but its still a mint bassline!

[DWBass]

Here's another Narada disco cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJXbkaZ2RY

[phat daddy]

Le Freak- Chic (I'm almost sure it's a Bernard Edwards line)
Fantastic Voyage- Lakeside
Flashlight- P Funk
Fire- Ohio Players
Roller Coaster- Ohio Players
anything by The Commodores in that era

Hope that helps.