GonzoBass

Please let me know if these are any use in helping to answer your question-

[url="http://wheatsbassbook.org/chapter_select.php?chapter=009"]http://wheatsbassbook.org/chapter_select.php?chapter=009[/url]

[url="http://rockbass-beginnertoproinfourweeks.com/LESSONS/7.HTM"]http://rockbass-beginnertoproinfourweeks.com/LESSONS/7.HTM[/url]



...or are you looking for licks, riffs and ideas?

If that's the case,
John Paul Jones of Led Zep was a master
both at fills and constructing lines
with the pentatonic scales.

His catalog of work is a great text book.


Also, I can recommend a YouTube search for:

"The Real Me"
(either the original done by The Who or the later WASP version)

"Mr. Big"
(either the original done by Free or the later Mr. Big version)

*Check out where the bass goes at about 3:50 here-
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FhCilozomo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FhCilozomo[/url]

Both of these bass lines are classics
but contain amazing examples of the pentatonic scale being put to good use.

Havona off Heavy Weather was transcribed a little while back in Bass Player Magazine.

This might help you too-

[url="http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/t/twain_shania/from_this_moment_on-crd.shtml"]http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/t/twain_shani...nt_on-crd.shtml[/url]

You could grab it from one of these-

[url="http://www.musicrobot.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?terms=from+this+moment&class=name&mode=diffnames"]http://www.musicrobot.com/cgi-bin/search.p...;mode=diffnames[/url]

If you download it,
it should play on your media player.

You might want to check the list [url="http://www.activebass.com/lessons/lsubdir.asp?vb=0&i=19&n=Classical"]HERE[/url].

Not always [i]entirely[/i] accurate
(due to being user posted)
but you can sort them out.

Ignore the bass solo?



Blasphemy!!!

Thanks for the link!
Tons of good stuff here.

Awesome!
Congratulations!!!

I've always taught my students that the first rule of music is-
There are no rules.


...but XB's two feel explanation is spot on!
Keep in mind that the first bassists were playing lines written for
(and were sometimes expected to double on)
tuba.

Can you imagine lugging your tuba [i][u]and[/u][/i] your upright to a gig?



PS-
I'd also like to highly recommend Ed Friedland's book "Building Walking Bass Lines" here.

May I suggest a tune for you that might fit with that list?
Chuck Berry's "No Particular Place to Go" is very singer/player friendly.
(verses occur between the riffs and no difficult vocal notes)

[url="http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/No-Particular-Place-To-Go-lyrics-Chuck-Berry/09DE2BCA4792CCDF48256BCA0023692F"]Lyrics Here[/url]

You could grab the mp3 or midi file easy enough...

The first rule of music applies here.

You do know the first rule of music... right?

Regarding country bass,
I believe it was Dave Pomeroy who said,
"Think of the simplest thing you can play
and play half of that."

Care to post the list of tunes you're working on?

It was quoted in Bass Player magazine a little while back.
The Andy Frazier interview I believe...

You might remember it better if you made your own.
Here's a blank I made for teaching-

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While I'm at it,
here's a few others-

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[attachment=18294:Neck_Chart.jpeg]
This one's good to write out and see scales or modes on the neck.


...and speaking of the modes-

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I use this one to have the student write out the eight note pattern each mode creates.
Then we transfer them to the previous sheet in individual keys.


I hope you find these useful!

Thanks Bilbo!

[u]Dynamics[/u]-

The loudness or softness of a composition.
The term piano (p) is used to indicate softness and forte (f) to indicate loudness.

Each of these is augmented if the letter symbolizing it is doubled or tripled
(e.g. "pp" - "pianissimo", "very soft"; "ppp" - "pianississimo", "very, very soft").

Each is also lessened if proceeded by mezzo (m)
(e.g. "mf" - "mezzo forte", "somewhat loud").

Also included in dynamics are the crescendo ("slowly growing louder"),
decrescendo ("slowly growing softer")
and the sforzando ("sudden loudness").

Dynamic marks further explained [url="http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/dynamics/dynamics.html"]HERE[/url].



[u]Rubato[/u]-

A practice common in Romantic compositions of taking part of the duration from one note and giving it to another.

It involves the performer tastefully stretching, slowing, or hurrying the tempo as she/he sees fit,
thus imparting flexibility and emotion to the performance.

If I understand the question correctly,
you are looking for ways to create dynamics
other than just playing louder/softer.

A properly placed effect can help with this.


It's always nice to drop dynamically at the beginning of a solo spot
and help to build it up as it progresses.

Sometimes this inspires guitarists to "take it to the next level" as they solo.
Suddenly dropping back down to "verse dynamic" afterward is cool too.

I helps to take the tune someplace
and back.
Hopefully...

Thanks again Bilbo!

"Virtual Insanity" was transcribed
(notation and TAB)
in the August issue of Bass Player magazine.

[quote name='phil_the_bassist' post='332596' date='Nov 19 2008, 10:04 AM']or (for those of us who loath the growing number of artists that sample killer funk basslines with no implied recognition to the original) Good Times by Chic, and Super Freak by Rick James


/pedantic outburst

[/quote]
Amen!!!

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...but seriously?


[url="http://songwriting.songstuff.com/articles.php?selected=82"]HERE'S[/url] an article I wrote for SongStuff.com on the topic of song writing.
I hope this helps!

[quote name='OldGit' post='305210' date='Oct 12 2008, 10:02 PM']Also, learn to play the (vocal or other) melody of the tune as that will give you some ideas and pieces that work with the chords[/quote]
I've found midi files to be very useful for this,
since the vocal melody is already translated to an instrument.

[url="http://www.musicrobot.com/"]HERE[/url] is one of many midi search engines out there.

[quote name='The Funk' post='304755' date='Oct 12 2008, 01:20 AM']...bluesy minor 3rd - Major 3rd slides.[/quote]
VERY funky indeed!
:brow:

[quote name='Rasta' post='304198' date='Oct 10 2008, 11:04 AM']I'm jammin some funky stuff with another band and we got this groove based around G pentatonic (G7)[/quote]

If the rhythm chord is G7,
which uses the [u]major[/u] third ( B ) and [u]minor[/u] seventh ( F ) intervals relative to the G root,
then your Mixolydian will sound fine.


However, you also say-

[quote name='Rasta' post='304198' date='Oct 10 2008, 11:04 AM']the groove is repetitive holding on the G and C notes of the pentatonic minor scale.[/quote]

If the rhythm chord is Gm7,
which uses the [u]minor[/u] third ( Bb ) and [u]minor[/u] seventh ( F ) intervals relative to the G root,
I would suggest Dorian Mode.

(Dorian can sound very funky by popping the octaves of the major 6 to the minor 7!)


As always though, The First Rule of Music applies to all of this...



Please, let me know if this makes sense to you.
We could go much deeper if it does!