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On 14/11/2020 at 15:20, Clarky said:

Also, seeing this thread ... just a few posts above is one from Pete Academy, a very accomplished bassist who played tasteful slap in top tribute band Stealing Dan (correction: Nearly Dan, thanks bubinga5) who I had the pleasure of seeing live and meeting with former BCer Nigel (aka silddx/xibblx) and is tragically no longer with us. Reminder to me of how things change in a decade. RIP Pete

Whatever happened to Nigel? He was quite a prolific poster on here when I first joined up

39 minutes ago, Triumph_Rock said:

39 minutes ago, Triumph_Rock said:

Thanks for the great hints and tips guys, they are really helpful.

The issue I'm having, is not being dependant on the tab, and completely memorising the song to memory, and then playing it through with out making any mistakes.

I think the route for me to go down, is not to learn via tab, which isn't normally 100% correct anyway. So I think the route for me is to learn via ear. Being very green to learning bass, this may be a hard skill to pick up in the beginning, but I imagine will pay for itself in the future.

So I think I might try and find some audio software for my laptop, which can alter the tempo of the song to slow it down, and maybe if possible isolate the bass line. Anybody know any good software for this?

 

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Audacity is free and you can import an MP3 into that and adjust the tempo however you like.

Just now, fretmeister said:

I learn 1 bar at a time. Get that nailed and then move onto the next one. Nail that, then string the 2 together. Then do the 3rd etc etc.

 

Each time I add a new one I remove any clues of the first one so force me to remember it.

That's a good idea, it's too easy to rely on the notes to remember it for you

I'll listen to the song enough so I'm familiar with the structure and can "visualise(?)" how it might be played, then I'll figure out the chords and changes and play along as basically as possible until I'm comfortable with the order, then add the detail as I repeatedly play through it.

Personally I struggle to retain anything I've learned from a tab but remember songs easily if I've figured them out by ear. I do think some tabs are handy for a second opinion as I'm figuring something out though!

20 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

I kinda get where you're coming from but in my case it's soy boy bands and singists. If someone has the look of a soy boy my automatic assumption is the music they make is as soft as sh1t3. And it always is so my instinct is bang on 👌

As for acoustic music, for me the musicianship has got to be top notch otherwise any c@ck in the songs is laid bare. This is why musicians of modest skills (e.g. Nirvana) sound pants unplugged.

What the hell is a soy boy?😂

Just now, 40hz said:

I explicitly stated no offers. So naturally it was full of the very original and hilarious "I'll give you £1 type comments".

Another individual told me that my Flea Bass was worth under £1000.

Some other comments getting quite personal. Whatever happened to just moving on if you aren't interested for whatever reason?

I couldn't be bothered with it all.

Some people just get a little thrill out of being rude to strangers from the safety of their screen unfortunately, Facebook marketplace is an especially bizarre place though it really seems to attract the freaks doesn't it?

What kind of response was Facebook giving you?

What's the most complex U2 bassline I wonder?

10 minutes ago, PatrickJ said:

Not sure if it proves or disproves your point???

The drummer was the best thing about that, brilliant

She's also very mediocre sounding, musical cardboard breaking as much ground as a spade made from the same thing.

How come if you don't like Kanye you're automatically a "hater" and told you obviously have no taste in music? Seems a bit of a childish response to me, and if he really was as good as you say then you wouldn't feel the need to bury your heads up his arse and justify his clearly piss poor performance last night, because he wouldn't give a piss poor performance.

GOAT indeed.

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What ?

You seriously think that's good ?

Edit cos I had another listen, and wish I hadn't. When she goes high, it's very, very brief and clipped.

Frankly she's awful.
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Yeah I do

This is clearly not live, and I don't know if it's been messed about with after recording either but I think she's got a hell of a voice.
The last minute and a half of this song especially: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=jU9xIDVHpUw

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You weren't correcting me of anything.

I was referring to the fact that the bass lines was listed as White Lines by Grandmaster Flash on Spotify when that version is a sample of Cavern by Liquid Liquid. Perhaps you need to read my post again.

You apologised for your 'musical faux pas' and although your apology is accepted it wasn't by Grandmaster Melle Mel either.
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I understood what you meant, not sure you understood me though but to be fair my post was a bit confusing

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Had me fooled then. I thought you said it was by Grandmaster Melle Mel.
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I was correcting you for saying it was Grandmaster Flash while you were correcting me for thinking the bassline was from White Lines

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.....and the bass line is a sample from the song Cavern by Liquid Liquid.
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I gathered that

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Had to have a chuckle at White Lines by Grandmaster Flash on the list.

http://youtu.be/yGncWGLHdQw
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It's actually Grandmaster Melle Mel

I apologise profusely for my unforgiveable musical faux pas

I've got so many ideas but I'll leave it for now and give everyone else a chance

Cool idea, are we allowed to add to it since it's an open playlist?

Sorted, just used Internet Explorer in the end

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It is not worth worrying about.
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I'm not worried mate I'd just quite like to hear it

Dammit, I can't get this to play and I've tried on two computers and a phone, anybody got any ideas?

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Sounds like the bassist got to put his own thing down, maybe?

TBH I didn't think any of them had a bassline that I would remember, let alone want to learn.
I know they wanted to sound like the Beatles, but every member of the Beatles was a talented musician. Taxman is one of my fave songs of theirs & I struggle to play the bassline. It could have been a simple root note affair, but they settled for better.
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Oasis' first bass player Guigsy was so bad he didn't even play on their first album according to the original drummer's book, it was after he left around 2000 and replaced by Andy Bell (brilliant guitarist) that the bass started to move away from the root notes and get a bit more creative , probably due to Noel letting the others contribute a bit more to the songwriting around the same time as well.

Like you said though, their music was never focussed on the instrumental side of things!

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Oasis are like most singer songwriter acts, it's all about the vocals. The music is there to provide a canvas, it's not part of the artwork.
The bassline is there just to do a simple foundation. They could have easily have had better basslines on every oasis song.
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I wouldn't say every song, some of their later stuff and a few early B-sides had some decent non root note only basslines.

Go Let It Out
Listen Up
Soldier On
Hung In a Bad Place
To Be Where There's Life

The majority of their stuff is just root notes though.