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Isolated bass tracks!
- Thread starter A. D. Fairhurst
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I find them useful if I need to cover a song that I've never played before. For bassists like Chris Squire and Geddy Lee who are right up there in the mix I don't need the isolated track too much (although it is useful for all the little subtleties that you might not otherwise hear). I found it more useful when my band decided to cover Thin Lizzy's "The Boys are Back in Town", it's a great bassline that I've been able to busk along to ever since it was first released, but the bass is back in the mix (at least on the studio version) so the isolated track was a good way to learn it properly.
I also find them more useful when a few of the other instruments are bleeding through, it's not too important for songs like "The Boys", because you can just count along....but a bit more important when there are long gaps or syncopations in the original track; it's nice to get a cue sometimes.
I also find them more useful when a few of the other instruments are bleeding through, it's not too important for songs like "The Boys", because you can just count along....but a bit more important when there are long gaps or syncopations in the original track; it's nice to get a cue sometimes.
No one really knows if this is Tom Scholz or Fran Sheehan on bass. Great line, whoever it is.
Bruce Thomas - Pump It Up (Elvis Costello)
I forget where I got this. It think someone here may have posted it a while back.
I forget where I got this. It think someone here may have posted it a while back.
Little off-topic but I fell in love with these note-by-note vids. Does anyone know an easy way to do this? I have basic knowledge of video editing software but it would be a lot of work to do all of this manually. Might have to write some open-source code for generating stuff like this. Would be a great tool to enlighten some knuckleheads to the importance of harmonies in basslines.
I thought all Bass on that album, except Foreplay and Let me take you home tonight, was Tom Scholz.
I've listened to a few "isolated bass tracks" on youtube and I'm sure most of them are "real" but I've listened to some that I'm sure are "fake". Other than just listening, I wonder if anyone has tried so compare some of these to the original recordings to "authenticate" them in any way. Sorry for all the parentheticals.
It's not so much the playing in this that makes it awesome, but the tone. OH GOD THAT TONE IS AMAZING.
Does a bass & drums combo fit the bill? I think 'tis acceptable.
Something "Epic."
I remember some 8 or 10 years ago, I had a bass student who wanted to learn this song, so I transcribed it off the normal record and have hated him (the student) ever since.
Something "Epic."
I remember some 8 or 10 years ago, I had a bass student who wanted to learn this song, so I transcribed it off the normal record and have hated him (the student) ever since.
Does a bass & drums combo fit the bill? I think 'tis acceptable.
Something "Epic."
I remember some 8 or 10 years ago, I had a bass student who wanted to learn this song, so I transcribed it off the normal record and have hated him (the student) ever since.
Bass and drums is welcome! Epic seems really simple until the middle bit, when it really gets awesome!
One thing you learn by listening to isolated bass tracks is that the way a bass is treated for sounding right in the mix often makes it sound not so hifi on its own.
But Family Man Aston Barrett is kind of an exception. Just to add to this: it's so typical deep and low for reggae but still doesn't contain a lot of unwanted resonances. Might have to do with the prominent role of the bass in reggae.
But Family Man Aston Barrett is kind of an exception. Just to add to this: it's so typical deep and low for reggae but still doesn't contain a lot of unwanted resonances. Might have to do with the prominent role of the bass in reggae.
