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The easiest ever set list, for bass.


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21 minutes ago, White Cloud said:

...yes, and paradoxically one of the greatest ever bassline (imo).

I quite agree. 

From all these 'simple bassline' songs you could compile a cracker of a setlist. 

It's not so much what you play as how you play it. 

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9 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

Possibly subtlety has been my undoing, and therefore the point of the thread has been missed .

In the OP the song examples given feature NO BASS!

Why let that get in the way of a good thread 😂

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It's surprising how many of the songs listed I've heard bands play very very unconvincingly, and a lot of the time it's the bass that's at fault. We play Elbow's One Day Like This which is basically E/octave on the bass all the way through, but to make it sound good it's all about the dynamics of those two notes. As someone has already said, it's not about what you play, it's about how you play it...

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16 hours ago, Maude said:

Simple Minds - Waterfront

Again are you sure?

From what I can see from the various live videos of the Simple Minds playing the song the repeating D is a sequenced synth part. The bass guitar plays something else that appears to follow the guitar part.

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3 hours ago, Bassfinger said:

Anything by The Doors.  Their bassist is very easy to emulate 🤣

Pedant alert - LA Woman (album) has bass guitar and I think that quite a few of their other tracks have bass as well (you can't get rid of us that easily :))

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5 hours ago, Jimothey said:

I think we need to start a new thread ‘BEST LYRICS YOU'VE HEARD ON AN INSTRUMENTAL TRACK’ .........😀

A joke of former rubber faced TV mimic Phil Cool, back in the day:

Who has the easiest job in the world?

The person who does the laundry for Motorhead.

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4 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Again are you sure?

From what I can see from the various live videos of the Simple Minds playing the song the repeating D is a sequenced synth part. The bass guitar plays something else that appears to follow the guitar part.

I played a gig with a band Derek Forbes was in a few years ago. He played the D on a looper then played over the top of it.

 

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