How to play this bassline?

[light blue bass]

The bass tone on this!

 

[Funky_Be]

This website isn't the most accurate but it does a pretty good job at showing you the chord changes. Click on ''Overview'' and jam away : )

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[dkelley]

Or you could actually use your brain, keep your cognitive juices glowing, train your ear, and have a sense of accomplishment and some skills. What I hear are stock funk licks, nothing that difficult, but something that a player could throw their own spin on. The bassist is Doug Rauch, who replaced David Brown; he was more versed in funk/fusion; talented, but met an unfortunate end...
Doug Rauch - Wikipedia

Exactly... and since he appeared to be finding it a complex thing without knowing where to start, he was asking for guidance of how to start.

Hence my suggestions of learning tools that will allow him to start doing exactly what you just outlined, but with smaller steps....

... followed by my comments that after he's gotten comfortable doing it that way, the slow down tools no longer become required.

You're saying contradictory things here:
- the sarcastic "you could actually use your brain"... nice, by the way, since that wording suggests that he wasn't going to use his brain if he listened to the part slowed down and compared it to his own playing by listening back.

And the "train your ear", which literally means TRAIN, as in you start learning from a certain level, master that level, move up to the next level, and continue mastering level by level, skill by skill.

I suggested some tools for the first level or two, which will let him do it himself, as opposed to having someone here do it for him... his original request since he was finding it overwhelming.

Good talk.

 

[JRA]

I work on it till I get it. Its good ear training and LOTS of fun!

good luck getting the part yourself!

 

[light blue bass]

Exactly... and since he appeared to be finding it a complex thing without knowing where to start, he was asking for guidance of how to start.

Hence my suggestions of learning tools that will allow him to start doing exactly what you just outlined, but with smaller steps....

... followed by my comments that after he's gotten comfortable doing it that way, the slow down tools no longer become required.

You're saying contradictory things here:
- the sarcastic "you could actually use your brain"... nice, by the way, since that wording suggests that he wasn't going to use his brain if he listened to the part slowed down and compared it to his own playing by listening back.

And the "train your ear", which literally means TRAIN, as in you start learning from a certain level, master that level, move up to the next level, and continue mastering level by level, skill by skill.

I game him the tools for the first level or two, which will let him do it himself, as opposed to having someone here do it for him... his original request since he was finding it overwhelming.

Good talk.

Yes, thanks for clarifying.

 

[dkelley]

Yes, thanks for clarifying.

Have you started working on it yet? (you've had, what, a couple hours outside of your sleep time, right? LoL )

 

[light blue bass]

Yes, I am working on it!
I slowed it down a bit as you suggested so I could hear the notes better and I think I may have the first part of the song.

 

[dkelley]

Yes, I am working on it!
I slowed it down a bit as you suggested so I could hear the notes better and I think I may have the first part of the song.

SWEET!!

 

[retslock]

Another recommendation for Anytune. Slow it down and you'll hear it better.

 

[Paulabass]

Note for note is for orchestras. Polish your version of it, and play it loud and proud.

 

[Flamingo21]

Note for note is for orchestras. Polish your version of it, and play it loud and proud.

That's what I do!!! Always!!!

 

[Slevage]

Note for note is for orchestras. Polish your version of it, and play it loud and proud.

Polished bands are great, and lots of fun. Reading gigs have a high rate of return.