Roots and fiths

[SLO Surfer]

Two-beat.

or Two feel.

 

[Thumpin6string]

A Roooot Fiifth.

 

[Smooth_bass88]

The 2-feel

this.

 

[iiipopes]

Ha - I have played Stars and Stripes forever on the alto sax, tenor sax, tuba and French horn. Tuba was just down beat quarter notes if I remember correctly. Been a while, but the french horn part sucked. I don't think Souza like them.

Oh, the tuba parts are anything but just quarter notes:

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

What is it called If you play a bass line with the root on beat 1 (and holding the Notes for beat 2) and the fifth on beat 3 (holding it over beat 4 as well) ?

In Swedish it is called ”växelbas”

Does this type of bass line have any name or term?

We call it country

Or, alternating fifths.

 

[wazzel]

Oh, the tuba parts are anything but just quarter notes:
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last time I played it on tuba was in the mid 80's. On alto was about 3 years ago.

 

[dreamadream99]

What is it called If you play a bass line with the root on beat 1 (and holding the Notes for beat 2) and the fifth on beat 3 (holding it over beat 4 as well) ?

2-beat. In English we call that a 2-beat.

 

[Koshchei]

What is it called If you play a bass line with the root on beat 1 (and holding the Notes for beat 2) and the fifth on beat 3 (holding it over beat 4 as well) ?

In Swedish it is called ”växelbas”

Does this type of bass line have any name or term?

"Boring". Seriously though, it's a Two beat.

 

[iiipopes]

How many Branson bass players does it take to change a light bulb?
One.
No, five.
No, one, no, five, no...one five one five one five one da da da da....

 

[JW56789]

Time Out of Mind.

 

[themickster]

Interesting. In German we have the term "Wechselbass", which means the same thing. But I can't say if there's a similar word in English.

English before the Norman invasion had 'wixelan'. Scots dialect has wissel.

 

[Paul New]

i call it 90% of all bluegrass bass.

 

[flatrat]

Some of us, who can barely play the root in time, call it a challenging bass line.

 

[HotelX]

Sounds like a really crap bossa nova line to me

Bossa nova is and1 and2. So the first note is on the and and the second is on the beat.

OP is describing something more kinda like county or bluegrass

 

[Rip Van Dan]

What is it called If you play a bass line with the root on beat 1 (and holding the Notes for beat 2) and the fifth on beat 3 (holding it over beat 4 as well) ?

In Swedish it is called ”växelbas”

Does this type of bass line have any name or term?

Don't know if there's a real name for this technique but I used to call it "thumping". Back in the early 70's I toured for 3-years with a Nightclub group in the Mid-West and Western US. There were a lot of 3-chord wonder Country-Western songs that used that thumping technique and it used to bore me to death. So much so that I would pass my bass off to another member of the group and play piano or organ, whichever one the keys player wasn't already using.

 

[CoffeeLove]

What is it called If you play a bass line with the root on beat 1 (and holding the Notes for beat 2) and the fifth on beat 3 (holding it over beat 4 as well) ?

In Swedish it is called ”växelbas”

Does this type of bass line have any name or term?

Boring, and the bass line found in most well-known Country songs. I am going to get some crap for that, but true.

 

[LBS-bass]

Time Out of Mind.

Don'tcha be chasin' no dragons around here.

 

[2F/2F]

It's called the first thing one should learn to play on the bass.

 

[JohnnyPustular]

It's called "all you need to play bass".

 

[PJ Muzikmansky]

Bossa nova is and1 and2. So the first note is on the and and the second is on the beat.

OP is describing something more kinda like county or bluegrass

yep...

AND ONE and two AND THREE and four AND ONE and two AND THREE and four AND ONE...