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12-21-2010, 12:53 PM
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An earlier thread by someone on what beatles songs to learn first on bass got me to thinking again about some of the beatles bass lines that have kicked my butt for years.
What are the toughest Beatles bass songs to play?
My list:
Old Brown Shoe
Lovely Rita
Good Morning, Good Morning
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
You Won't See Me
Flying
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12-21-2010, 01:00 PM
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White Album.
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12-21-2010, 01:03 PM
| | | | No singing along right? I don't know, none of them are hard I think. Probably the busiest ones are closest to "hard". Maybe the last few album, excluding Let It Be. |
12-21-2010, 01:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Grand Rapids MI | | | I don't find them technicly that hard. I just don't have nearly the creativity to come up with something close. Wish I did. That where the Beatles genius lies.
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12-21-2010, 01:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati area | | | Yeah, take out the singing, they all get much easier, but most of them are still pretty tricky, or have subtle things going on that are hard to get just right. They're still a blast to play. Day Tripper still kicks my butt. Lovely Rita and Lady Madonna too. |
12-21-2010, 01:59 PM
|  | LICENSED TO KILL - any song I play! | | | | | "All My Loving"
EVERYBODY knows Beatles' songs to hum or sing-a-long, but when I try to join in on a jam, I get lost! I haven't been in a gigging band for a couple of decades, so I haven't had the need to actually learn a song. The guitarist I occasionally jam with is a Beatles' nut, so I learned a few. "All My Loving" posed the biggest challenge for me, but now I can ALMOST sing the harmonies whilest playing. I say almost because after years of working in steel-mills and breathing all the dirt and dust, I can "almost" still sing!
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12-21-2010, 02:27 PM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | There's a very cool thing McCartney does during the bridge in Taxman. The; "If you drive youe car..." part of the song.
Might be easy, sounds tricky & creative & stuff.
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12-21-2010, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by darkhorse9  An earlier thread by someone on what beatles songs to learn first on bass got me to thinking again about some of the beatles bass lines that have kicked my butt for years.
What are the toughest Beatles bass songs to play?
My list:
Old Brown Shoe
Lovely Rita
Good Morning, Good Morning
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
You Won't See Me
Flying | FLYING? That's barely a song.
The others have some surprisingly tricky parts.
Last edited by plangentmusic : 12-21-2010 at 02:43 PM.
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12-21-2010, 02:33 PM
| | | | Hey Bulldog. Gotta get the groove just right. |
12-21-2010, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by tycobb73 I don't find them technicly that hard. I just don't have nearly the creativity to come up with something close. Wish I did. That where the Beatles genius lies. |
perfectly stated...
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12-21-2010, 02:36 PM
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12-22-2010, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by ThudThudThud Hey Bulldog. Gotta get the groove just right. | Virtually every bass part on Sergeant Pepper is outstanding, but Hey Bulldog has got to be one of my Top 3 Beatles' tunes ever. On this track, the left hand of the piano part actually holds down much of the basic bass duty - freeing up McCartney to riff away in his characteristically oh-so-melodic manner. So hip... 
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12-22-2010, 10:05 PM
|  | Livin' it up at the Hotel California | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | | At the surface, Beatle music doesn't really sound all that hard to play. Ah, but when you sit down and try to actually learn the bass note-for-note and try to match exactly the way Paul plays it, the profound revelation hits you......(at least it does me)......it is at that moment when I look at the CD player and utter the word "wow" under my breath, as I contemplate the immense level of proficiency of the Mighty Mac.
That guy is incredible.
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12-23-2010, 03:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ireland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SactoBass At the surface, Beatle music doesn't really sound all that hard to play. Ah, but when you sit down and try to actually learn the bass note-for-note and try to match exactly the way Paul plays it, the profound revelation hits you......(at least it does me)......it is at that moment when I look at the CD player and utter the word "wow" under my breath, as I contemplate the immense level of proficiency of the Mighty Mac.
That guy is incredible. |
I agree 100%.
However, I was playing along to "You Never Give Me Your Money" from "Abbey Road", and remarking to myself how good the walking bass lines were in the second part..... only to find out later, that this is actually Harrisson on bass here. 
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12-23-2010, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by tycobb73 I don't find them technicly that hard. I just don't have nearly the creativity to come up with something close. Wish I did. That where the Beatles genius lies. |
There it is.  |
12-23-2010, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by fearceol I agree 100%.
However, I was playing along to "You Never Give Me Your Money" from "Abbey Road", and remarking to myself how good the walking bass lines were in the second part..... only to find out later, that this is actually Harrisson on bass here. | Harrisson did a lot of bass work during the beatles because he said paul was busy doing something else, so george just took it upon himself to do them.
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