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Songs with fun fills
- Thread starter Drop1
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- Mar 19, 2013
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- If only I were that good....
Beatles- Don’t Let Me Down is relatively simple and fun to play around with some of the fills. You can experiment with it and no one is the wiser if it’s not perfect
Very simple bassline's that have lots of fill's, this is just a few songs, RL Burnside live songs too have a lot of this style of playing, check out T-Model Ford live albums his bassist does some nice simple ones. Freddie King's bassist on this session does some calm tasteful fills.
My drummer is steady but basic. I'm not a lead bass player but, It allows me to "fill" pretty much when I want to. Some of the songs we do need to stay basic with minimal fills or none at all. I don't over do it but, it's at my discretion.
listening to for whom the bell tolls- wait is there bass on this song?
Ha! About 6 months ago I was subbing and the bandleader called "Don't Let Me Down" which I've never played before, but I've heard enough times to know the basic gist of that bassline. So I winged it, and afterwards the bandleader and the guitarist were both like "Dude, you really nailed McCartney's bass part note-for-note, that was awesome!" and I just thanked them...but then when I got home I listened to The Beatles' original recording
...man, I wasn't even close!!!
What's our definition of "fill"? This thread is quickly becoming "fun songs to play on the bass".
In the meantime, I nominate "Good Times / Bad Times".
Riis
In the meantime, I nominate "Good Times / Bad Times".
Riis
Don't Stop til you get enough - MJ
Has some incredible fills that consistantly blow my mind whenever it comes on the radio
Has some incredible fills that consistantly blow my mind whenever it comes on the radio
I was going to say anything that Anthony Jackson played but then I read ‘rather simple’ and thought no.
You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon.
Fun fretless bass line all the way through. And lthough you could make the case that it’s mostly fills throughout , the slap fill at the 3:45 mark is what it’s most famous for.
On the recording South Afrikan bassist Bakathi Kumalo only played half the fill part you hear. But Simon played it backwards and spliced it to the actual part to become what’s on the album. It can be tricky to play. But Bakithi and many other players have since managed to do the whole thing live.
Consider it a challenge.
Fun fretless bass line all the way through. And lthough you could make the case that it’s mostly fills throughout , the slap fill at the 3:45 mark is what it’s most famous for.
On the recording South Afrikan bassist Bakathi Kumalo only played half the fill part you hear. But Simon played it backwards and spliced it to the actual part to become what’s on the album. It can be tricky to play. But Bakithi and many other players have since managed to do the whole thing live.
Consider it a challenge.
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This song was way easier than I thought it would be.
The fills sound super fancy at times, but they are pretty straight forward.
