"Jet Airliner" (bass)

[ElectroVibe]

What do you call that funky off-beat that the bass guitar is playing? You mainly hear it in the first verse.

It's like a 1970's teen white-rock thing. I remember hearing a 1970's style girl band do a similar thing in one song. It sounds kind of natural, without a lot of thought put into it. But I wouldn't usually play something like that because I usually try to play on the main beats.

 

[elgecko]

I call it "playing the upbeats". There's a similar thing in this song.



BTW, when ska guitarists do it, it's called skanking.

 

[ElectroVibe]

I call it "playing the upbeats". There's a similar thing in this song.

BTW, when ska guitarists do it, it's called skanking.

"Moves Like Jagger" that's a good example. But on that and SKA, you can feel it on the whole song.

"Jet Airliner" has more standard generic rock feel though, doesn't it. Dang, I wish I could remember the other rock song I heard it on.

 

[elgecko]

How about Slow Ride?

 

[ElectroVibe]

How about Slow Ride?

Yes! That is the classic, along with Jet Airliner. Pop open a brew with your buds and get down with some Foghat.

 

[5StringBlues]

Yes! That is the classic, along with Jet Airliner. Pop open a brew, break up some buds, and get down with some Foghat.

fixed?

 

[consectaneus]

Woman from Tokyo by Deep Purple was a big hit that prominently featured the bass playing the off beat in the intro. So much so that it's a signature of the song.

 

[saabfender]

I remember hearing a 1970's style girl band do a similar thing in one song.

You mean this?

 

[ElectroVibe]

You mean this?
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The GoGo's did have that sometimes. But it was a different group.

 

[ElectroVibe]

Woman from Tokyo by Deep Purple was a big hit that prominently featured the bass playing the off beat in the intro. So much so that it's a signature of the song.

Cool. That goes back even further.

 

[ElectroVibe]

I was listening to "Sister Christian" today and the bassist (who I think is also the singer) was playing standard notes, but they almost had some of the pulling feel to them. It was like, even though he was playing kind of standard beats, you could tell that he had definitely listened to some Foghat and popped open some brews in his day.

 

[SteveC]

The term is syncopation. Playing on the typically "non accented" parts of the beat.

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

The "+" is the 2nd part of the beat or upbeat as I think someone said earlier.

 

[elgecko]

Foghat was fond of the feel.

 

[ElectroVibe]

The term is syncopation. Playing on the typically "non accented" parts of the beat.

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

The "+" is the 2nd part of the beat or upbeat as I think someone said earlier.

I know. But it's really freaky when it's all just that.