Chas Chandler’s Bass Line From Dimples

[greghagger]

Last week I shared a YouTube lesson about walking bass which featured some of Chas Chandler's lines from the Animals song, 'Dimples'. 

 

I've now made a play-through video of the whole of the Dimples bass line so you can see and hear more of Chas Chandler's ideas, straight from the source.

 

You can view the video where I play Chas's bass line note-for-note along with the original song and you can also download a full transcription of the bass line by clicking on the PDF Booklet button below.

 

This was a fun bass line to record and it was also challenging to sightread my transcription and get it down in one take as it covers a lot of the fretboard and keeps moving for the whole song. But it's really worth looking at as you can learn a lot about how to construct Blues walking bass lines from it.

 

You’ll find a link to the transcription under the video.