Exile252 Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Does anyone have either a tab or sheet music for bass for this song. It's got such an awsome bass line. Thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 I have a feeling this might be a sampled bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exile252 Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 I'm not sure, sounds like a bass in a synth, but if it is sampled, then I sure the notes are out there somewhere to be played hehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 (edited) yep, Trevor Horn programmed this on a Fairlight sampler. Mark O'Toole was actually a pretty good bass player though (he wrote the bassline plus his original lead bass parts were used as string/horn parts)- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wIHrLci6Fw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wIHrLci6Fw[/url] closeup at 3.40 drop-D tuning (DADG), frets 3 and 5 on the A string, open low D string. and use the open A string. Welcome to the pleasuredome has a great bassline too. Edited September 13, 2008 by SJA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnt Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 I thought it was both: Fairlight-sequenced samples during the choruses, real bass during the bridges. There are two different sounds there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 [quote name='SJA' post='283437' date='Sep 13 2008, 11:55 PM']yep, Trevor Horn programmed this on a Fairlight sampler. Mark O'Toole was actually a pretty good bass player though (he wrote the bassline plus his original lead bass parts were used as string/horn parts)- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wIHrLci6Fw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wIHrLci6Fw[/url] closeup at 3.40 drop-D tuning (DADG), frets 3 and 5 on the A string, open low D string. and use the open A string. Welcome to the pleasuredome has a great bassline too.[/quote] Right on brother we are a long way from home "WELCOME". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exile252 Posted September 14, 2008 Author Share Posted September 14, 2008 Thanks for the help hehe. Still having abit of trouble with it hehe. Also, what is the bass during the bridge, is it just playing around with a simple scale? Most of the songs on the album have brilliant basslines. War has a cracking line. I wish there were more tabs/sheet music around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 Mate if you can pull it off live and still sound as slap choppy! RELAX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouMa Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 (edited) Very proud to be a north east man ala Trev Horn,this man is a god of production he can make mouldy bread sound fresh as a mountain stream.Numero one on my list when im a star!hahahahha Edited September 14, 2008 by YouMa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 [quote name='bnt' post='283446' date='Sep 14 2008, 12:15 AM']I thought it was both: Fairlight-sequenced samples during the choruses, real bass during the bridges. There are two different sounds there.[/quote] yeah, there are 2 sounds, but I think they're both from a Fairlight- in the Radio2 Producers programme on Trevor Horn he explained how Relax was done using a bass guitar low E note sample and a piano E note sample in unison- I suspect that's how 2 Tribes and 'Pleasuredome were done too. notes in the bridge; G (5th fret in drop-D tuning), (open) A, C, D, F. G, A, C, G, F ,D ,E. ending with low E, and low D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exile252 Posted September 14, 2008 Author Share Posted September 14, 2008 Thanks for the help, now time, to learn it all hehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 They say, "You can't polish a turd". Well, thanks to the Wizardry of Trevor Horn, that turd was well and truly polished. He turned, what was, a pretty banal song into a great record. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exile252 Posted September 14, 2008 Author Share Posted September 14, 2008 (edited) So this is the bassline: [font="Courier New"] ---------------------------- ---------------------------- -3333-2----3-33-2----------- ---------------------------- ---------3----------3-------[/font] And: [font="Courier New"] ----------------------------------- -------------------5--------------- --------5-8----------8-5-7--------- ---5-8---------5------------------- -8-----------8---------------------[/font] (I'm using a 5 string hehe) Edited September 14, 2008 by Exile252 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 (edited) bridge part is fine, but the verse should be- ---------------------------- ---------------------------- -3-555----3-3-555---------- ---------------------------- ---------3-----------3------- ---------------------------- ---------------------------- -333555----3-3-5555303- ---------------------------- -----------3----------------- Edited September 14, 2008 by SJA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete.young Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 [quote name='SJA' post='283555' date='Sep 14 2008, 10:38 AM']yeah, there are 2 sounds, but I think they're both from a Fairlight- in the Radio2 Producers programme on Trevor Horn he explained how Relax was done using a bass guitar low E note sample and a piano E note sample in unison[/quote] I thought Norm Watt Roy played the original bass line for Relax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 [quote name='pete.young' post='293993' date='Sep 28 2008, 04:56 PM']I thought Norm Watt Roy played the original bass line for Relax[/quote] I recall an interview with Norman in Guitarist many years ago, where he said that "many of the Blockheads played on the FGTH sessions" but I dont think he actually said that he played [i]that one [/i] specifically. I still have the mag somewhere, I'll look it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_of_the_bass Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 [quote name='Geek99' post='296559' date='Oct 1 2008, 01:27 PM']I recall an interview with Norman in Guitarist many years ago, where he said that "many of the Blockheads played on the FGTH sessions" but I dont think he actually said that he played [i]that one [/i] specifically. I still have the mag somewhere, I'll look it up.[/quote] Folklore hath said that Norman went into the studio with his Alembic Series I (bought off of Luis Jardim who had two at the time!) played the relevant riffs (which Trevor sampled!) and got paid £500 for less than an hour's work! Nice one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 there was just a documentary on 6music, enititled "the look of love", charting 80's pop productions, and Trevor Horn described recording Two tribes- it took over a month to programme the bassline alone..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 [quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='298978' date='Oct 3 2008, 10:17 PM']Folklore hath said that Norman went into the studio with his Alembic Series I (bought off of Luis Jardim who had two at the time!) played the relevant riffs (which Trevor sampled!) and got paid £500 for less than an hour's work! Nice one![/quote] [quote]there was just a documentary on 6music, enititled "the look of love", charting 80's pop productions, and Trevor Horn described recording Two tribes- it took over a month to programme the bassline alone.....[/quote] So which is true? I'd heard that it was Norman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 (edited) Trevor Horn used a Fairlight to sample NWR playing, chopped up individual notes and sequenced them to make up the basslines. the documentary (part 5) is up on listen again on here - [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/6music_aod.shtml?6music/6m_evedoc_tue"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/6music_aod....c/6m_evedoc_tue[/url] 22.10 in. Edited October 21, 2008 by SJA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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