i like that root fifth thing you are doing!

Good man...just two notes can sound great, especially when you add some ghost notes in there. Its all in the rythm!!!

 

What song were u guys doing?

 

lol, thats what I started doing when I was a bass player. Simple root 5th stuff. Then some triads. then descending/asending runs. then some 7th licks.

 

It's amazing what one well placed ghost note can do to the pulse of a rhythm section. It's a cool thing to work with, especially if you're working around simple two-three note riffs.

 

You'll find that the root-fifth thing will serve you well.

 

Its the start to an awesome riff !

 

What else would you do for basic latin grooves? Root, Fifth, Octaves, those are like the meat of that style.

 

A simple root-fifth-octave vibe with the right rhythm can be a very effective line. I loves me some claves.

One of my favorite latin sounding lines is just i-iii-iv in the root i-iii-iv in the fourth and then a scalar descent from the vi of the root,( which, if I'm remembering right is the iii in the fourth.) set against a 3-2 clave.

Whoa, wow, woe...That sounds SO much more confusing in print than the actual line is to play. I suck at tabbing but maybe I should try that to express it. It's a really simple line, and darned useful.

G---------------------------------------------
D-------------4---7------------4--------------
A----4---7--5----------4---7-7-7-5-4---------
E--5-----------------5----------------7-5-----

Okay, those are the notes. And the rhythm fits against a 3-2 clave. Here, listen closely and I'll clap it really loudly. Lean in close to your monitors.



Like that. Okay?

 

No, you're one step closer to being a Country bass player

 

It's in plenty of non-country songs, too!

 

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125536

This is a nice, easy to apply way to take that foot fifth thing up a notch - BAM!