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04-02-2006, 11:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Islamabad (Pakistan) | | | Easy but cool bass solo?
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I'm looking for a cool bass solo but not very hard. I really don't know how to do harmonics. I am starting with slap and popping so something funky would be nice. Can someone help me? |
04-02-2006, 11:41 AM
| | ...cultural explorer | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Hinsdale, IL - outside Chicago | | | dude, harmonics are pile drivingly easy. Just hold your finger on the string, but don't push down on the string. BAM! Harmonic.
Never limit yourself, dude.
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04-02-2006, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Alex dude, harmonics are pile drivingly easy. Just hold your finger on the string, but don't push down on the string. BAM! Harmonic.
Never limit yourself, dude. |
Make sure you hold it over the fret.
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04-02-2006, 04:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA | | | John Myung does some cool harmonics stuff, but unless you have a 6 string, I think you're gonna be out of luck.
Check out the songs by Dream Theater "As I Am" and "Lifting Shadows Off a Dream."
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04-04-2006, 03:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Swansea, UK | | | The bass solo in Aeroplane by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers is relatively easy. It's not slap but it's very funky. |
04-04-2006, 05:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Islamabad (Pakistan) | | | The bass solo in Aeroplane is cool but I was looking for something more difficult. |
04-04-2006, 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Ikkir The bass solo in Aeroplane by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers is relatively easy. It's not slap but it's very funky. | +1
Beat me to it.
Or try the bass solo in RHCP's 'Coffee Shop' |
04-04-2006, 08:44 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sweden | | | Serious, what's up with all these songs with bass solo's?
Why not just come up with your own solo? Be a little creative...
but of course, Dance of eternity - Dream theater |
04-04-2006, 09:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | Just to spite Vorago I suggest Classical Thump as an easy but cool bass solo. 
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04-04-2006, 09:11 AM
|  | Secret Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Please Do Not Go by the Violent Femmes. No pop or slap, but a cool little solo that's not too terribly difficult. The recorded version is obviously a acoustic bass guitar, but it works well on an electric.
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04-04-2006, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | | I believe the song is called "Broken Hearts" by Living Colour. Melvyn Gibbs does a wonderfully melodic solo on this track and it is not too hard to learn. I sure liked playing it 'back in the day'!
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04-04-2006, 09:30 AM
| | Secret Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by tZer I believe the song is called "Broken Hearts" by Living Colour. Melvyn Gibbs does a wonderfully melodic solo on this track and it is not too hard to learn. I sure liked playing it 'back in the day'! | Wasn't that Muzz Skillings? Good solo, not too hard.
I might learn that tonight!
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04-04-2006, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by guy n. cognito Wasn't that Muzz Skillings? Good solo, not too hard.
I might learn that tonight! | You may be right about that... for some reason, Melvyn was at the top of my mind...  Oh, well... good solo anyhow!
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04-04-2006, 12:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Northern VA | | | more melodic, and not too funky, but one of my faves was the solo in Kindergarten, by Faith No More. Learned that tune for a band audition and I've really dug that little bass bit ever since. |
04-04-2006, 01:47 PM
| | | | A lot of infectious grooves has some cool solos, maybe try 'please excuse this funk up'? My personal favorite. |
04-04-2006, 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Woodchuck Make sure you hold it over the fret. | Not necessarily. You can get some really good harmonics around the 2/3rd frets. Some day I'll learn what they all are...
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04-04-2006, 08:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Southern California | | | "Bassically", the intro to NIB on the first Black Sabbath album. A bit too memorize but very groovy. |
04-05-2006, 11:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: England | | | I started out on Metallica's - Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) its a good one.. |
04-06-2006, 01:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Västerås, Sweden | | | i know it's not funky, but its great.
my generation - The Who
or why not the one in fireball with deep purple
it's a little odd but its rocknroll!
maybe not what you're looking for.. |
04-06-2006, 01:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: West Palm Beach | | | Incubus - Battlestar Schralactica.
it is lots of fun to play.
Also, magic medicine(incubus) is easy and sounds good.
or even better, get a pedal with a drum function and funk around to it by yourself. after hours of fun you will find a line that you like. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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