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Paul McCartney
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This is one of those albums I had as a kid but hadn't replaced on CD yet. So I did as NukeBass suggested. You should get this album. The way it's recorded is bass heavy so you can pick up his lines very well.
I just realized I put baselines instead of basslines... oops! 
The only bad thing about Wings Over America is last I checked it is out of production in America and imports are expensive...
The only bad thing about Wings Over America is last I checked it is out of production in America and imports are expensive...
Ive heard better drummers play bass. Paul has good songwritting skills but sucks at bass. A backstreet boy could learn to play a beattles song and sing good. if you call playing 1/4 notes tallent every bass player would be famous.
See, the thing is Paul McCartney played Melodic Bass. Its a supportive role and even then it still isn't just quarter notes. If you knew what Melodic Bass was about then you'd understand.
Have you ever even listened to the Beatles? You couldn't have listened very close if you believe he just played 1/4 notes. Listen to "Something" for an example of excellent bass. Paul was a true innovator, and one of the greatest bass players in rock music.
You're completely right, but many young bass players' credo is that a good bass player MUST play fast and complicated lines, as if music was a speed competition.
This kind of theory leads to think that Sting or Tony Levin are also suckers.
All the best,
I know, I've run into a lot of young bass players who think you judge how good a bass player is by how many notes they play. They may play a lot of notes, but it usually lacks taste and feel, very important things in music. For all you guys that feel this way, you should know that taste and feel are far more important than speed and complexity. Quality beats quantity any day of the week.
So this is the change in demographic that HeavyDuty was talking about earlier. I really hope this post is either a joke or a troll. It's cool if you don't dig McCartney's playing, but to say he sucks at bass just shows your ignorance.
I think I posted this somewhere else, but the Flea Flickers keep invoking it! Playing bass is like making love; as you mature you discover fast and furious doesn't always get you/her/it /them there. Sometimes less IS more!! In music at least, quality is usually preferred to quantity. Otherwise there would be plenty of multi Marshall stacked "musicians" running ragged with riches. Paul McCartney was and is creative quality in all that he does. His basslines were inovative and sound/ground breaking and continue to offer challenges to bass players as myself. Whether it be four quarter time or not, his bass lines were tasteful and not many players could have developed/created basslines that could have been any more appropriate than what Paul put together for The Beatles or in his solo career. I'm not a huge McCartney fan, myself. But I can give respect and consideration where and when it is due!
In music at least, quality is usually preferred to quantity. Otherwise there would be plenty of multi Marshall stacked "musicians" running ragged with riches. Paul McCartney was and is creative quality in all that he does. His basslines were inovative and sound/ground breaking and continue to offer challenges to bass players as myself. Whether it be four quarter time or not, his bass lines were tasteful and not many players could have developed/created basslines that could have been any more appropriate than what Paul put together for The Beatles or in his solo career. I'm not a huge McCartney fan, myself. But I can give respect and consideration where and when it is due!Another McCartney question! (complete with bad grammar).
What answer are you looking for here? He was talented...
What answer are you looking for here? He was talented...
No - he's just been playing for more than 40 years!!
Seriously - the Beatles put in a huge amount of time playing in Hamburg every night before making it big and then had a fairly long career - plus Paul has had his own solo career - I bet he plays bass in his sleep after all that!
Seriously - the Beatles put in a huge amount of time playing in Hamburg every night before making it big and then had a fairly long career - plus Paul has had his own solo career - I bet he plays bass in his sleep after all that!
True. We like to brush over the abomination that is his solo career though, and I'd kindly appreciate it if you didn't bring it up. It only brings back the pain of "Silly Love Songs".
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