BassLard

Hi there low frequency fellas. I recently sat and put myself to make one more of this type of videos I actually shared here before.

This is some sort of compilation playing around some basslines for a couple of tunes from a band that despite not being so famous their bass work, was always amongst my favorites for various reasons: Pink Floyd.

It all started since sometime ago I got a pack of backing tracks that were pretty well done and couldn´t resist myself to give them a try, and in the process found out some of them were a bit more interesting than I expected to jam along. The only one I had to program drums myself was "Let There Be More Light" which is some sort of a deeper cut than the rest of the tunes which are pretty well known, but I wanted to include anyway. Probably the biggest miss here is "Hey You" which is originally played with a fretless bass and frankly couldn´t make it to sound decent enough with my regular Jazz Bass (I don´t have a fretless )

Well, that is about it. I hope you enjoy it and feel free to share your thoughts about anything related to the video.

Thanks for listening/watching!

On 13/02/2022 at 21:53, Jives said:

Hi, What Pedals and Wah are you using? 

 

Also when playing I'd try limiting Wah use as much as possible and keep your hand static as it may not seem like it but that will really help you sound more Cliff like.

Morley Classic Wah, the rest is plug-ins from the PC. If I am not wrong they are emulating a Fuzzface, a Tubescreamer and a JMP head/cabinet.

Hi there low frequency fellas. These last days I tried to get my hands at learning this famous bass solo piece, and since I am not so accostumed to play with this amount of distortion/pedals, etc. I thought it would be nice to share what came out of the recording so maybe I can get some feedback in the tone in particular... (Although overall feedback on other stuff like playing is welcome too, my doubts fall more on the tone side)

I kinda know this is meant to be played with a Fuzz pedal, maybe a Tubescreamer-live overdrive for mids-boost, a Marshall-like amp/cabinet and a Wah for the freq filtering, but am I missing something extra? Listening again at what I recorded I believe I put too much gain somewhere on the chain but I am not sure if it was on the amp or the pedals, so maybe if one of you tried once to get closer to this tone your advice might come handy.

Anyway, thanks for watching/listening. Any comments might be helpful.

Greetings!

Thanks for watching!

Hi there, low frequency colleagues.

I gave an attempt to a very old U2 tune, from their early era (their first album most precisely). Their first 2 albums are often overlooked by regular listeners but in my opinion Adam put a bunch of easy but yet fun/interesting lines to go along like this one (probably influenced by the so-called "New Wave Sound" of late 70s / early 80s).

As I´ve been doing for these cover videos I also included complete on-screen TABS of what I am playing on the video, for those interested to follow the video with instrument in hand.

Thanks a lot for watching, feel free to share any thoughts on the tune, the video or recommendations here.

Greetings!

Did Flea recorded this one with a pick? I didn´t know that.

Hi there guys, let me share with you my take on this jazz classic.

Yes, I know this one is not played with a regular electric bass but why not? (Or maybe I should say "So What", no pun intended)

I found a nice backing track for this tune so I decided to have some fun with it, and since a couple of guys following my YouTube channel ask for tabbed videos or explanatory stuff every now and then I thought this was the perfect occasion to try something with a genre I don´t usually post.

So I hope you enjoy it, thanks a lot for listening/watching!

Hi there guys, just sharing my cover of on the most interesting basslines Sting put in his days as The Police´s bassist (TABS included)

Other than the unusual timing (a long rest and the first notes accenting off-beats) is not a really complicated line to play, but it adds so much flavour to the tune, so I guess it deserves love when choosing songs to cover.

I hope you like how it came and don´t mind the little improvisations in the middle which are obviously not included in the original.

Greetings!

Hi there fellas, hope you are doing fine.

I´m here to share another bass backing track for a popular Funk classic: "Pick Up The Pieces" by Average White Band.

I assume most of you are familiar with the tune so you might want to skip the little 1:00 minute demonstration at the beggining, but in the rare case you don´t know the tune I included a little jam example before the actual backing track starts.

Hope this is useful for anybody. Have fun.

A while ago I made a video playing a compilation of basslines from The Cure, and since I left out of the video the song "Fascination Street", a lot of people who actually saw that first video asked me to play that tune too, since it´s a very iconic bassline amongst the band´s discography.

So in response to those comments (some of them included in the video) I grabbed my bass yesterday and recorded it too, including tabs of what I play as usual.

Hope you enjoy it,

Greetings!

A bass solo in a mainstream pop song is not something you see everyday so I guess it´s just right to pay respects to the few times that rare sighting happens.

One of the cases I can think of is this classic Sade tune, which I tried to give a go with my bass some time ago.

I tried to go with the flow in the 2nd part improvising a bit, but for those interested in a further listen there is a Live Version included in a DVD from a show in San Diego which actually has an extended solo that sounds even cooler than the studio version. I tried to find a longer backing track to play along to that longer solo version but couldn´t find one, so I sticked to the standard short version from the album.

I hope you enjoy it.

Greetings!

11 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Never really listened to Arctic Monkeys before, but like the bass style, reminds me slightly of Bruce Foxton/The Jam, though not quite so busy.

There might be some resemblance, although there is more variety if you go through their discogrpahy. I just picked up a bunch of basslines where the bass is definitely relavant to the soing doubling a guitar riff or going along with drum accents, etc.

Their last album (which I didn´t take a single tune from in this compilation) has a pretty different style, even the bass tone is different.

Recommended listen as a band, anyways. Or at that would be my opinion.

Thanks for watching!

Hi there low frequency fellas, hope you are doing fine. I had some free time last weekend and made use of that to record another video for my YouTube channel. I gave a quick run over some songs from this well known band I have been listening for quite a while, although I never sat myself to learn any of their songs before.

Arguably simple lines overall, but damn fun to jam around. The last time I did something similar to this with the basslines of other band I also included the tabs of what I am playing and some guys said they were thankful for that, so I took some extra time and did that again.

I hope you find this video enjoyable or useful. Of course, feel free to share any thoughts about it here.

Thanks a lot for watching!

Just sharing my take on the basslines Tim Commerford put on this one. Probably not the most remembered part of his work (RATM tunes get way more covers done than the Audioslave era), but there are still a lot of fun songs to have a go from these 3 albums he made with this band.

Leaving the tabs as well for those who are interested in checking out the notes played

Greetings and thanks for watching/listening!

On 03/04/2021 at 03:53, stewblack said:

Thanks for this. 

You are welcome! I have a bunch more of these, and though I´m very likely to share them here as well if I have some time to make them available in the forum, you can check them in my YouTube channel. In fact I have other Bass Backing tracks stored in my PC I should upload someday as well

Have fun practicing!