Songs for Drums, Bass, and Keys

[Shawnstunner]

Ok so may band at the moment only has 3 people, a drummer, a keyboardist, and me a singer/bass/guitar player. I start out playing bass for most songs but now I'm slowly playing more songs with the guitar. I want to reverse this and go play more on bass.
So, anyway, does anyone know of any good alternative, classic, progressive like style music with just Drums Bass and Keys?
We're also open to any funk, jazz, oldies, ect. What ever you can think of.
btw: we play a lot of coldplay, so try to stay away from that, lol.

 

[JimK]

Funk & Jazz? Medeski, Martin, & Wood.

Classic & Progressive? The Nice

 

[nutso42]

The British pop band Keane has only a keyboard, drums, vocalist, and bass. Somewhere Only We Know is a great one if the keys aren't too hard for the piano player.

 

[nutso42]

Also the song Shattered by O.A.R is good. While there IS a guitar, it simply doubles what the bass plays. The bass:
G:
D:
A: 22222222 11111111
E: ---------- ---------44444444 22222222 00000000 22222222

and the guitar:
E:
B:
G:
D: 44444444 44444444
A: 22222222 11111111 66666666 44444444 22222222 44444444
E: --------- ---------- 44444444 22222222 00000000 22222222

and the solo in it hardly even qualifies as a solo. When our band plays it, you can simply leave out the guitar and play the bass line, or vice versa.

 

[Shawnstunner]

sounds good... Ill check these out a.s.a.p.
keep them coming!
Anyone else play in a band with the same setup as me?

 

[Richland123]

Here is a good one for you.

Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson

 

[electracoyote]

Take a listen to Elton John's 11-17-70 CD. Long before "Crocodile Rock" Elton was a hard-driving blues rocker with his bass player and drummer filling it up nicely with tasty overplaying and tight vocal harmonies. I'd love to hear a three piece doing something like that again.

 

[JSK5String]

You can do a lot of Ray Charles songs with that arrangement. We play Tell Me What'd I Say and it kills every time.

 

[John Bassist]

Stay away from Coldplay, and still keep on keyboards, drums and bass?

Have you ever thought about jazzy classics? Like Stevie Wonder, Wooten and even Jaco?

Yeah, influences here are really different, but at least you would keep some great contact with the "gods" []

 

[Richland123]

Does your keyboardist play just piano or also, organ synthesizer, etc? If so, you can also do some Emerson, Lake, & Palmer

 

[Shawnstunner]

YES! once JSK5String said Ray he reopened my eyes to Ray and Stevie (fun fact... me and Stevie share the same birthday, May 13th) But I love that style of music and I think we're gunna to play a lot more of that. But idk if i'm worthy of doing wooten or jaco... I idolize them man, lol

yeah he's got an awesome 3 grand Yahmaha keyboard (i dont know the model name, sorry)... but it's got every sound imaginable.

but the only reason i said stay away from coldplay is because we do 2 or 3 of there songs and it's getting a little stale for me, lol.