The coolest synth bass lines ever!

[gleneg61]

Ok, guilty as charged your honor, I'm a 70's/80s tragic who loves synth basslines but refuses to play them on keys; it's bass in hand & pedal underfoot. With my Korg G5, Zoom B1on & MS60B at the ready, I'm only missing an Akai Deep Impact so educate me more & recommend some of your all time favorite synth bass lines. Simple or intricate, slow, groovy or ridiculously fast, anything will work. I'll kick off with: Boogie on Reggae Woman, All I Do & Rocket Love by Stevie, Jive Talkin by BeeGees, What is Love & Like to Get to Know You Well by Howard Jones, Hyperactive & She Blinded Me with Science by Thomas Dolby. Your ideas?

 

[Phagor]

We Can Work It Out - Chaka Khan
Flashlight - Parliament
Pretty Young Thing - Michael Jackson
Boogie Down - Al Jarreau
You Dropped a Bomb On Me - Gap Band
Let's Hear It For The Boy - Deniece Williams
Automatic - Pointer Sisters

 

[yaksonator]

I like these.
The Knife-Heartbeats
Kavinsky-Nightcall

 

[halfjackson]

Man, there's many. Here's a couple:

Chaka Khan -- Ain't Nobody
Level 42 -- Something About You

 

[48thStreetCustom]

Flashlight - Parliament

 

[Adamixoye]

Anybody know how to get the sound on "Let's Groove" by Earth, Wind, and Fire?

 

[adamaarts]

Outkast - roses
Muse - time is running out

 

[bolophonic]

Seinfeld.

 

[Adamixoye]

Seinfeld.

???

It's just a slap line, isn't it? By Claypool no less?

 

[bolophonic]

???

It's just a slap line, isn't it? By Claypool no less?

What's your point?

 

[signboy]

Hella Good - No Doubt

 

[Adamixoye]

What's your point?

Read the title of the thread again.

 

[Adamixoye]

Deeper Underground - Jamiroquai
Anything by Muse

 

[FilterFunk]

"Flashlight" - Parliament
"Theme From The Black Hole" - Parliament
"Aqua Boogie" - Parliament
"The Big Bang Theory" - Parliament
"Boogie On Reggae Woman" - Stevie Wonder
"Chameleon" - Herbie Hancock
"Burn Rubber" - Gap Band
"More Bounce to the Ounce" - Zapp
"So Ruff, So Tuff" - Zapp
"Doo Wa Ditty" - Zapp

...and SOOOO many more!!!

 

[CfoScoop]

I'm going to have to go with Chameleon by Herbie Hancock as well. It's not super complicated but it's got some great rhythm and space.

 

[Lo6man]

Cutie Pie-one way
Atomic Dog- George Clinton
Forbidden lover- Tapps
Boogie on reggae woman- Steve wonder is particularly stellar...

 

[Lo6man]

Another great one by Herbie is
Rocket

 

[nshuman]

???

It's just a slap line, isn't it? By Claypool no less?

Claypool did not play the Seinfeld line, that is just a myth. It was played on a synth by the guy who composed it. He's said it in many interviews.

 

[Adamixoye]

Claypool did not play the Seinfeld line, that is just a myth. It was played on a synth by the guy who composed it. He's said it in many interviews.

It's really a synth? It doesn't sound like one. I've always heard the Claypool thing.

But if I'm wrong I'm wrong.

 

[nshuman]

It's really a synth? It doesn't sound like one. I've always heard the Claypool thing.

But if I'm wrong I'm wrong.

"A signature of Seinfeld is its theme music. Composed by Jonathan Wolff, it consists of distinct solo sampled bass synthesizer riffs (played on a Korg M1 synthesizer)[citation needed] which open the show and connect the scenes, often accompanied by a "percussion track" composed of mouth noises, such as pops and clicks. The bass synthesizer music eventually replaced the original music by Jep Epstein when it was played again after the first broadcast "The Seinfeld Chronicles". The show lacked a traditional title track and the riffs were played over the first moments of dialogue or action. They vary throughout each episode and are played in an improvised funk style. An additional musical theme with an ensemble, led by a synthesized mid-range brass instrument, ends each episode."

Here is a youtube vid of someone recreating it on an M1: