favorite ostinato

[wrench45us]

(hey I just learned the word last week)
derived from the Italian for stubborn

musical pharse repeated -- as in 'My Girl', 'Pretty Woman'

I'm especially looking for good warm up, flexibility and strengthening exercise
(not riffs to play in music store 'auditions')

ex I have some difficulty keeping all my fingers working smoothly for 'We Gotta Get out of this Place'. Chas Chandler's classic ostinato.

I think because it uses all 4 fingers.

 

[Tony Gray]

look at most anything Nate Watts did with Stevie Wonder

 

[Petethebassman]

Chic - Good Times: a great Bernard Edwards bass line that's a good workout for both hands. Clean fingering and rhytmic accuracy are the key to nailing this ostinato.

And for something a little earlier, I sometimes warm up with one of the earliest and most famous bass ostinatos ever, Pachelbel's Canon in D major, composed in the 17th century. For 4-string I transpose the low D up an octave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachelbel%27s_Canon

 

[Journey55]

Would the part under the solo for Dazed And Confused count? Cause that's pretty sweet

 

[Schmorgy]

I listen to a lot of metalcore. I like that part that goes
C: 0---0-0----0000----0--0----
in that one song.

 

[L Anthony]

Theme from Peter Gunn ...

 

[Russell L]

Green Onions
ComeTogether
Badge
Trouble No More

 

[905]

Thriller.
Perhaps it's not a "real" ostinato but that's the closest thing I like.

 

[JimmyM]

I think my favorite are the red ones. They go great in a nice marinara sauce.

 

[Russell L]

I think my favorite are the red ones. They go great in a nice marinara sauce.

Actually, I prefer mine with a little chocolate fugue. Gotta chop da capo off first, though.

 

[Already In Use]

Soul Man Sam and Dave OK work out IMO played note for note. I just learned that word also! Mark C Gridley, Jazz Styles.