Your bass playing style, captured/summarised in one single song!

NIB by Black Sabbath. Nasty pentatonic runs, power chordage, and pummeling the fretboard and strings. Good Clean Fun!

 

Earthquake by Graham Central Station

 

Won't Get Fooled Again - free form power

 

gimme de ting - lord kitchener.

not fancy, but still the fattest groove ever.

 

Message to love- Band of gypsies live at the filmore east.

In the pocket with excellent tone and a few fills thrown in.

 

^^ Excellent choice!! My fave version of my fave Hendrix song! LOVE billy Cox!

Mine was a toss-up between "Live at Leeds" version of "My Generation" or studio "...Fooled Again"

 

Pass the Biscuits by Spike Jones

 

"Kid Charlemagne"

 

Ace of Spades if Im feeling Metally

Otherwise as my name implies, imagine Malmsteen on a bass guitar.

 

Structural Damage - Steve Morse Band

...solid fingerstyle groove, nice fast unison lines, nasty but groovin' slap solo...

 

the people here with me unanimously say holy diver.

 

"Saturday In the Park", by Chicago, or "Rain", by the Beatles. High register melodic riffs, good groove, driving. Sorry, that's two. Pick one.

 

Can't Stop. Slow funk with a good mix of slap and fingering.

 

I tried long ago to make this exact same mental effort to myself, and never could size it down to one tune. So, it's somewhere between these:

Heart of the sunrise - Yes
Red - King Crimson
New Born - Muse

Tons more, but in between those three comes my style. Funny thing, I play 99.9999% of the time with my fingers instead of a pick, being that my "style influencing tunes" are mostly pick-based bass lines. Weird.

 

i honestly cant think of one song ...too many styles of playing and techniques.

i can say that the 2 bass players that made me want to play most when i was 12 and first got into it were meshell ndgeocello and bakithi kumalo, and both of them can absolutely be heard in my playing.

after thinking about it though...i might say that "djombwe" by richard bona is a pretty solid, single song answer.

 

The Mars Volta - Day of the Baphomets

Opens up with a ridiculous solo with a bunch of septuplet runs, proceeds into an 16th note semi-pentatonic ditty, then drops straight into a one-note groove. Half the song is played with a pick, the other half is played finger-style, the bass tone is dirty Ampeg goodness, and even when it gets ridiculously complicated, it never feels like he is losing the pocket or overplaying. He isn't just in the pocket, he IS the pocket.

Unfortunately, it's played by Juan Alderete, who is a million times the bass player that I will ever be. And it might be fretless, especially after the opening solo. I'm really not quite sure.

 

Dream Theater-Ytsejam

Bass in this song is very different and melodic,includes a wicked solo.

 

Little Walter Rides Again - Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood