To me it is Mr Brightside by the Killers. The song to me is soooooooooooooo boring and the bassline is not exciting at all...
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Bass lines that make you yawn
- Thread starter abotaun
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Anyone that gets bored playing simple bass lines is probably not putting any feeling into those lines and is probably is playing the wrong instrument.
+1 on Coldplay making me yawn. Put Muse in there too. No... wait... Muse also makes me laugh as those guys and their audience thinks they're something special...
... and they're soooooooo not.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz to Coldplay and Muse.
I've been enjoying a ten-year run of NOT hearing that song.
The difficulty or complexity of a bass line are unrelated to wether or not it does a great job.
With or without you and Papa was a rolling stone are song with 4 and 3 notes respectively for the whole song yet they are brilliant.
Private investigations is let for almost 3 minutes with a single note.
Then you have the proverbial Pachelbel Canon with its 8 note riff repeated 60 times.
With or without you and Papa was a rolling stone are song with 4 and 3 notes respectively for the whole song yet they are brilliant.
Private investigations is let for almost 3 minutes with a single note.
Then you have the proverbial Pachelbel Canon with its 8 note riff repeated 60 times.
There are awesome funky and slapped bass lines all along the album yet the song that sold the best had the simplest root pedaling line. The audience may be trying to tell us something.
The unfortunate situation is, that the general non-muzo public enjoy simple tunes as there brains are not able to process complex passages.
Which is why a band playing 3 chord rock/pop songs will get an audience of 100,
while playing 100 chord jazz songs will get an audience of 3.
Which is why a band playing 3 chord rock/pop songs will get an audience of 100,
while playing 100 chord jazz songs will get an audience of 3.
My cover band plays Creedence "Born on the Bayou". I like the song, but MAN is it a boring, repetitive bass line:
Hi guys 
this is his secret
and playing a sunburst/ tort Fender Jazzbass in a metalband...
makes him one of the coolest bassplayers of all times
may the bass be with you
Wise(b)ass
this is his secret
and playing a sunburst/ tort Fender Jazzbass in a metalband...makes him one of the coolest bassplayers of all times
may the bass be with you
Wise(b)ass
Funny, a lot of songs have been mentioned that I have a blast playing; even in my Reggae days where I could be playing one one or two measure riddim that repeated the whole song I never got bored. I guess I'd focus on precision, on the feeling of the line, on singing, on enjoying how the part forms the whole - I don't know.
Been playing a long time, and never really got bored. EXCEPT - the only song I remember getting bored during, and started dreading playing, was Stranglehold by The Nuge. Maybe cuz it's over 7 or 8 minutes with only one little change the whole song (which was a pain, cuz you couldn't just zone out & get thru the song; you had to pay attention so as not to miss that part & trainwreck the song!). Probably didn't help that I just didn't like the song that much, but I've played others that I haven't liked listening to and gotten into playing them. God, I forgot about that song... been quite a while.
That is a boring bass line.
Been playing a long time, and never really got bored. EXCEPT - the only song I remember getting bored during, and started dreading playing, was Stranglehold by The Nuge. Maybe cuz it's over 7 or 8 minutes with only one little change the whole song (which was a pain, cuz you couldn't just zone out & get thru the song; you had to pay attention so as not to miss that part & trainwreck the song!). Probably didn't help that I just didn't like the song that much, but I've played others that I haven't liked listening to and gotten into playing them. God, I forgot about that song... been quite a while.
That is a boring bass line.
The title and premise of the thread fills me with dismay. Music is a sum of parts. Try taking some of the tunes mentioned and imagine them without the bass. If the overall feel of the arrangement is compromised then the bass part, no matter how simple, is important and should, IMHO, be respected as such. Even in the most simple parts I can usually find scope to add a few personal touches...
That is a joke right ha ha ha R III V following every chord in a descending pattern. I rewrote the bass line myself for our live show so, I could make it less of a yawn fest. Yeah I know the haters are going to hate
Ringo always seemed to get lumbered with the tunes that noone else liked, what goes on, octopuses garden, i wanna be your man,yellow submarine , I know he wrote octopuses garden but you get my point
Anyway the one that I hate playing with my band is Roll with it by Oasis, the verse is pretty much one note throughout, i've started adding in my own fills during the verse to liven it up a bit, i am a pretty simple root,5th,octave kind of player but playing this one just bores the pants off me
That's exactly why I said What's Up. I just feel like it's equally or even more suited to being played acoustically.
