Girls, girls, you're both beautiful: "the bubbling bass line was also produced by the Clavinet fed through a synthesizer."
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Bass lines that almost everybody plays wrong...
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Girls, girls, you're both beautiful: "the bubbling bass line was also produced by the Clavinet fed through a synthesizer."
true, but up until the guitar hero tracks leaked, almost everyone assumed he did. even me, and i'm a cliff fanboy.
I prefer to think of it a putting my own "spin" on a tune. While there are some licks you need to play, I think for the rest you need to have the "spirit" of the tune but can do a little of your own thing.
There are many tunes that get played wrong.
There are many tunes that get played wrong.
Most Stone Temple Pilots covers I've heard are played wrong. Not wrong enough where i would say "butchered" but defintly not how Robert Deleo played the song.
"All Blues" by Miles Davis
Not strictly a bassline, but most players seem to walk on C7 in the 4th bar instead of Gm.
Always pisses me off - it's so against the modal vibe of the tune.
"Come on come over" bridge by Jaco
It's all about ghost notes and right hand raking. Very few players get it right.
Not strictly a bassline, but most players seem to walk on C7 in the 4th bar instead of Gm.
Always pisses me off - it's so against the modal vibe of the tune.
"Come on come over" bridge by Jaco
It's all about ghost notes and right hand raking. Very few players get it right.
Can't believe Born to be Wild hasn't been brought up yet, even though the organ covers up the bass line a bit in the original.
I can play money in 7/8ths time, but haven't found a guitar player that can follow.
China Grove is a hard bass line to do correctly, for me anyways.
I always learn note for note, then play whatever suits the band I'm in. Hitting the highlights.
I can play money in 7/8ths time, but haven't found a guitar player that can follow.
China Grove is a hard bass line to do correctly, for me anyways.
I always learn note for note, then play whatever suits the band I'm in. Hitting the highlights.
"I Saw Her Standing There"
I've never seen anyone play this correctly. Most players just do straight blues "walks".
It's even harder when the guitard counts it off at six hundred miles-a-hour. My fingers are shot after that one! Luckily I make the set list so I can put something slow after it to give my aging fingers a chance to recover!
How Paul sang lead while he was playing that line is amazing!
I've never seen anyone play this correctly. Most players just do straight blues "walks".
It's even harder when the guitard counts it off at six hundred miles-a-hour. My fingers are shot after that one! Luckily I make the set list so I can put something slow after it to give my aging fingers a chance to recover!
How Paul sang lead while he was playing that line is amazing!
I recently had only a couple of days to prepare a potential 100+ song set-list. Of course, we didn't end up playing anywhere near the entire list. I had to go through and decide which songs were particularly bass driven, and required the original bass line, i.e. "Schism," "Soul to Squeeze," etc.
It was a quasi-acoustic 3-piece gig, so nothing was exactly right(it might just be me, but "Schism" is kind of hard on a fretless ABG), but my point is, sometimes good enough has to be good enough.
BTW, our list managed to get laced with an insane amount of R&B/Pop, which was all melodic groove improv on my part. Must have been pretty funny watching 3 white dudes bring the T-Pain.
It was a quasi-acoustic 3-piece gig, so nothing was exactly right(it might just be me, but "Schism" is kind of hard on a fretless ABG), but my point is, sometimes good enough has to be good enough.
BTW, our list managed to get laced with an insane amount of R&B/Pop, which was all melodic groove improv on my part. Must have been pretty funny watching 3 white dudes bring the T-Pain.
Dude...Thanks!!! I always get so confused at a gig when somebody calls "I got You", and then I start playing "I Feel Good" and it sounds really weird!!! What they really should have called is "I Got You (I Feel Good)". This clears up everything.
Excuse me, but no. Ive always learned things right before I see if changes are needed... The only part of that song that works from a disk to a live transfer is the drop out in the prechorus. The rest needs more notes for a simple 4 piece.
I used to think this way, but it's simply not true. There are many artists that "rework" their material - especially older or over-played stuff. For example, Sting does just about every tune he performs different every time.There are many examples.
Recently saw a band and a bass player was butchering every other song. He wasn't a bad player (he is actually very well known and reputed) but it seemed that he just hadn't listended to the songs or that he didn't care. I left after one set.
Understand that I am extremely anal about accurate bass lines and hyper-critical of local bands. I strive to listen to the bass line and copy it accuratley but I know its not possible to do it note for note. At least get the right feel and groove, sheesh!
That being said, heres some tunes I hear repeatidly butchered:
Crossroads - Cream
Stranglehold - Nugent (wheres the flanger and the solo in Fsharp?)
Tush -ZZ Topp (its not a walking bass line)
Understand that I am extremely anal about accurate bass lines and hyper-critical of local bands. I strive to listen to the bass line and copy it accuratley but I know its not possible to do it note for note. At least get the right feel and groove, sheesh!
That being said, heres some tunes I hear repeatidly butchered:
Crossroads - Cream
Stranglehold - Nugent (wheres the flanger and the solo in Fsharp?)
Tush -ZZ Topp (its not a walking bass line)
