Best 6 note bass line ever

Pretty hard to beat that but what about the 3 note repetitive riff by Jamerson on
"Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher"
It's a deceptively simple but driving bass line. Chord changes go D-G-Em but the bass never ventures away from these three notes: A-B-D.

 

You are correct.
The riff is 8 notes long using only A-B-D

 

Herbie Hancock's Chamleon. (Well, it's a 6 + 6, with the 2nd 6 transposed up from the 1st 6, and with two different end notes.)

 

I was thinking it was Bob Babbitt. It seems as though I read one time that it was GONNA' be Jamerson, but when they asked him to keep playing the same bassline over and over he got up and walked out. Not sure if that's true or not. I THINK I read that.

 

"Big Chief" by Professor Longhair.
6 pitches.

 

Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night In Tunisia". Six on the nose!
Miles' "So What" misses by 2.

 

This may not strictly fit the 6 note parameters

 

I'll go listen to the Ramones' complete discography and get right back to you on which one's best.

 

Can it get any better than that?

 

Six notes? Here ya go.

 

Under pressure (Queen / D.Bowie)

oh no that's 7 notes

still cannot find better though

may the bass be with you

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