Halloween bass

[Richard Finn]

So I'm gonna be handing out candy while playing bass, anybody have a few song intros or something? Looking for something creepy sounding that i can learn relatively quick in time for Halloween. Got the thought for this after playing the For the Greater Good of God intro some.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I'm already starting to investigate spooky bass-lines, but I'm dark year-round. Here's one I've been playing lately & today is Johnette Napolitano's birthday:

 

[Lagado]

It's been Halloween since the middle of January.

 

[Winslow]

There are some riffs (or motifs, for classical adherents) from Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain that can be done on bass, and can be pretty creepy if played right.



Edit to add: The motif from Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King is pretty easy to do on bass, and fun to play. I still use that a good bit when warming up, or just noodling around.

 

[Riff Ranger]

"In the Hall of the Mountain King," from Peer Gynt, by Edvard Grieg (it's even Norwegian)

 

[Winslow]

Back to Mussorgsky, and ELP's treatment of Pictures at an Exhibition, specifically, in this opening few seconds of section:

 

[Winslow]

"In the Hall of the Mountain King," from Peer Gynt, by Edvard Grieg (it's even Norwegian)

Excellent choice!

 

[Guild B301]

Hey, Killed_By_Death, you ‘resurrected’ a dead thread! How Halloween of you.
That good old Bach standard- Toccata & Fugue in D minor can work for bass.

 

[Guild B301]

Certainly parts of Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns lend themselves to bass.

 

[two fingers]

I DON'T want to make this political. But isn't PA one of the states the most locked down right now? I wonder if you'll have trick or treating at all.

Again, I DON'T want to derail to whether or not it's a good idea, or any politics! I'm simply trying to save OP a bunch of effort if they aren't going to have it at all.

 

[Guild B301]

I DON'T want to make this political. But isn't PA one of the states the most locked down right now? I wonder if you'll have trick or treating at all.

Again, I DON'T want to derail to whether or not it's a good idea, or any politics! I'm simply trying to save OP a bunch of effort if they aren't going to have it at all.

That very well may be.
But, ya see, the original post was 5 years ago. Killed_By_Death “resurrected” it for this Halloween.

 

[The Owl]

 

[two fingers]

That very well may be.
But, ya see, the original post was 5 years ago. Killed_By_Death “resurrected” it for this Halloween.

Ha! KBD, what are you doing to me???

 

[Killed_by_Death]

I like spooky & dark, but I hate cold weather!
This is the first day of Autumn & I'm already on a downward spiral.

It's ironic that playing dark dark stuff makes me feel better.
I might put on some early Sisters of Mercy tomorrow.

Here's something not-so-early that I find great pleasure in the spookiness of it:

 

[Michedelic]

The three most evil notes ever.

 

[CatchaCuda]

I always think of the Dead Kennedys around Halloween. East Bay Ray's playing sometimes conjures up thoughts of surfing zombies.

I'm sorry to say this, but guitar may be spookier than bass.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

No way, I've been monitoring the Goth folks on FB & the majority that play an instrument are on bass!
many are also women, probably more-so than in other genres

 

[Killed_by_Death]

 

[zontar]

Some good suggestions--but I am a bit surprised nobody suggested this cool bass line (& fun song)