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12-22-2004, 06:25 AM
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 what type of music do you think bass sounds the best in? is most efficiently used in? and is most oftenly recognized in?
answer all or one of these questions.. just looking to see how everyone feels about the bass and how much of an effect it really has on music now days. |
12-22-2004, 07:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Eastern Townships, Québec | | As a mostly rock and metal guy, my answer is jazz and funk. These are the musical styles where you find the most challenging bass lines and the most talented bassists. 
Edit: I just noticed you posted in the wrong forum. A moderator will probably move it soon. And welcome to TalkBass!
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12-22-2004, 08:00 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Czech | | One answer for all three questions: FUNK, baby..
Ain't no funk without tha bass.
Me play funk...  |
12-22-2004, 08:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Eastern Townships, Québec | | | Hey! I found Nemo! ^^^^ |
12-22-2004, 11:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: USA, Oklahoma | | | funk. definately funk. even my mom (who i think is tone deaf :rollseyes: ) can pick out the bass in the funk i listen to
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12-22-2004, 11:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | Funk and reggae are the most bass heavy popular musics that I know, but I think that a well mixed record in any genre should have a recognizable bassline.
By the way, check out a lot of African pop if you really like smoking bass! |
12-22-2004, 05:28 PM
|  | Holy Ghost filled Bass Player Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Heber Springs, Arkansas | | | This isn't really about basses, so I am moving it to Miscellaneous.
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12-22-2004, 08:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: montreal, qc, Canada | | | Funk and reggae, definitely. In funk, it seems to be the most important (does so much for the song), while in reggae it's the most recognizeable (the bass is readily heard and doesn't have to compete with heavy guitars). |
12-22-2004, 09:00 PM
| | | | im mostly a rock and metal guy too but i would have to say funk, jazz and bluegrass
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12-23-2004, 11:36 AM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | Whatever music Jamerson played bass on.
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12-23-2004, 12:03 PM
|  | Player Characters fear me... Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Middletown CT, USA | | | The bass sounds the best in everything. I'm not really equating prominance and complexity with how good it sounds and where it is most effective. Just check out the arco DB in Handel's "messiah". great stuff. As far as most recognized? Well i figure that's by the average person, so of course funk and reggae are way up there. |
12-23-2004, 06:52 PM
|  | Yeah, I'm a guy! Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Marana, AZ, USA | | | I'm also a rock/metal guy and funk would be the answer to all three of your questions.
However, there are some killer bass lines in rock/metal. |
12-23-2004, 07:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Whitmoretucky MI | | | Jazz, blues, funk, and there's some smoking bass in modern gospel music. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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