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Easy Funk basslines


Reggaebass

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I’d encourage anyone who wanted to learn a bit about funky bass playing to listen to The Meters.

The bass player, George Porter Jr, lays down some terrifically funky lines. Generally not too taxing to play, (and brilliant to play along to) George’s feel for the bass, and his brilliant use of space (i.e. every note counts, and there’s often tons of space between them), for me, make them essential listening.

I wish someone had steered me towards them earlier in my bass playing years!

 

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8 minutes ago, Old Man Riva said:

I’d encourage anyone who wanted to learn a bit about funky bass playing to listen to The Meters.

The bass player, George Porter Jr, lays down some terrifically funky lines. Generally not too taxing to play, (and brilliant to play along to) George’s feel for the bass, and his brilliant use of space (i.e. every note counts, and there’s often tons of space between them), for me, make them essential listening.

I wish someone had steered me towards them earlier in my bass playing years!

 

Yeah nice one 👍, I’ve just added that to my, to play list 

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2 hours ago, Cato said:

The verse and chorus sections of Chic's 'Good Times' are pretty straightforwards.

 

Oooh, I struggle with this one - the short notes, the little spaces, the offbeatness of the whole track.  I need to chop each bar into (I guess) 16th notes, and work out on what subdivision of the beat (1, e, and, a) the notes fall on.  

When I play funk, I play all the right rests, but not necessarily of the right length . . . 

 

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9 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Ooh great ones bassfan, especially Chic, that takes me back, thanks for that 👍

No worries.... I’ll come to you for some easy reggae 😉

Flashlight - parliament/funkadelic 

Then  progress to never too much - Luther /Marcus Miller 

Get on the Floor - MJ

then straight into ‘somebody else’s guy’ ... 

gone straight to advanced! Doh... I can’t play the last 2 properly. 😂 

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39 minutes ago, bassfan said:

SHG sampled good times for rappers delight. I think. 

Chip Shearin says that Chip Shearin played the bassline. 
 

Nile Rogers says it isn't Chic - 6'44" - 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkjJx6rYrOo
 

So, both Chip and Niles say that the Rapper's Delight bassline is a little different to the original.   

I have seen a video of Nile Rogers saying that "they got some 17 year old kid to play the bassline in the studio", but I can't find it now. 

 

 

Edited by bass_dinger
The bassline was not sampled, but the string section probably was.
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10 hours ago, bassfan said:

No worries.... I’ll come to you for some easy reggae 😉

10 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

Anytime ☝️

Sounds like a great sister thread for you gents to be starting! 

Edited by Al Krow
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