Your own basslines that you think flick people's switches

[alexclaber]

That other thread got me thinking about this. Don't just give us the name of the song, we need to hear it - post a recording!

Alex

[MythSte]

Ooo, ill do this tonight when i get back from the studio, ive recently written a riff for one of our new songs that i simply love!

[john_the_bass]

probably love twist the gift - that can be found on our myspace - [url="http://www.myspace.com/27brigade"]www.myspace.com/27brigade[/url]
Mirrors For Eyes and Kings Of New Walk are alright too and you can find them [url="http://www.last.fm/music/27brigade"]here[/url] on last.fm - might have to listen to a few. I always think the drumming is about the best thing on most of our stuff

edit: and chelsea boy - oh f*ck it, i think they're all good!!!! hahahahah
another edit: they're not on bloody last.fm either, i'll have to do some looking into that

Edited September 25, 2007 by john_the_bass

[alexclaber]

This is definitely one of my favourites:

[url="http://www.thehumanzoo.com/alex/Demo%20EP%20Session%20Cuts/01%20Funeral%20Song%20Pt.1.m4a"]http://www.thehumanzoo.com/alex/Demo%20EP%...Song%20Pt.1.m4a[/url]

(Note, this is a pre-release mix, ignore the rough edges and lack of mastering!)

Alex

[theosd]

I'm sure the bass line for 'That Guy' at the beginning and somewhere in the middle is one of my best, just wish I'd have seen it then I woulda made it more of a feature of a different song! The rest of that song is pretty embarassing, though, in terms of the singing. The music's all good though!:

[url="http://www.myspace.com/ukunderthethumb"]http://www.myspace.com/ukunderthethumb[/url]

The line I'm most happy with in my current band is probably the one for Around For - simplicity always wins through, and people tend to dance to this song more than any other, a true sign of bass success!:

[url="http://www.myspace.com/aliquotflow"]http://www.myspace.com/aliquotflow[/url]

Hope you liiike.

Edited September 25, 2007 by theosd

[ped]

Brilliant stuff, realy good fun listening to everyones clips. I guess my fave so far is enjoyable because of its simplicity. I origionally hacked it out on Piano but it worked on the fretless so well that we wrote a track around it. Check it out [url="http://www.frozencloudmusic.com/~chrishiscocks/Carter%20Hiscox%20Hiscocks/Torrential.mp3"]here[/url] or at my [url="http://www.myspace.com/pedshome"]Myspace[/url]

Cheers
ped

[ped]

John_the_bass - really enjoyed your tunes, they have a really 'up for it' mix! I agree the bassline is really good - the linchpin under some fairly psychedelic noises from the 6 stringer. It gives the song a real drive.

Alex - nice anticipated but laid back feel to that one. The bass sounds great also, nice and tight. It is the kind of bassline one can shuffle down the street to ;0)

theosd - 'That Guy' - Another tidy and driving bassline! It has kind of a disco groove to it which is pretty tasty. It sounds like the bass mixes in well with the guitar and drum sounds. I found the bass harder to pick out from the other tune because it was, like you say, nice and simple, it fills the space well. I should imagine in a non compressed non - myspace format it really warms things up. Tasty.

[theosd]

[quote name='ped' post='65394' date='Sep 25 2007, 03:40 PM']theosd - 'That Guy' - Another tidy and driving bassline! It has kind of a disco groove to it which is pretty tasty. It sounds like the bass mixes in well with the guitar and drum sounds. I found the bass harder to pick out from the other tune because it was, like you say, nice and simple, it fills the space well. I should imagine in a non compressed non - myspace format it really warms things up. Tasty.[/quote]

Yeah, it's a Harley Benton fretless 5 string acoustic I'm using for 'Around For', which has a tuba-like sound. It's no lie that the myspace player does it no favours as an individual channel, but the richness of the overall sound is good too. I've come a long way since the Under The Thumb stuff, most of that is just funky noodling compared to the more crafted stuff I'm doing now with Aliquot Flow.

Nice tone on the torrential song (is that a fretless?). Not sure if it's the myspace player, but at times the track seems to go out of synch with itself? Or is that intentional?

[Merton]

Some nice playing on here, I'm not posting links of anything I've done coz I always get the final mix back and hate everything I've done, mostly coz it's awful (in my opinion). Hopefully the new EP will fix that coz I've calmed down a lot of lines. But you'll have to wait for that coz we're nowhere near having it finished!!

Actually, with my old band InSoFar, I am happy with the basslines in "The Fall" and "Drowning". But you can't find em easily online, sigh.

[bassbloke]

[url="http://myspace.com/hansstiles"]Without Cause[/url]

My Myspace has a couple of tracks by my old band Without Cause. The band was a total departure from anything I'd done previously and have done since. Just a good fun alt rock/metal trio and I had a blast writing basslines for it all and gigging.

[SJA]

I'm quite proud of the bassline on "equilibrium" here-
[url="http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=502278"]http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=502278[/url]

although I had trouble with the drummer's sloppiness.

[gypsymoth]

I don't know if it'll flick anybody's switch, but it's a monster. poorly played and recorded anarchy on bass, about the L.A. riots.

track 4 below, when dreamland burned.

[john_the_bass]

[quote name='ped' post='65389' date='Sep 25 2007, 03:29 PM']Brilliant stuff, realy good fun listening to everyones clips. I guess my fave so far is enjoyable because of its simplicity. I origionally hacked it out on Piano but it worked on the fretless so well that we wrote a track around it. Check it out [url="http://www.frozencloudmusic.com/~chrishiscocks/Carter%20Hiscox%20Hiscocks/Torrential.mp3"]here[/url] or at my [url="http://www.myspace.com/pedshome"]Myspace[/url]

Cheers
ped[/quote]

ooh get you - two bass lines! It sounds like two bass lines anyway.
I'd also like to hear it on piano as well, sounds good fella

[Dood]

There's some cool basslines here! nice one!

I'm going to be a bit lazy actually and just tell you about just 2 on my Website. (Yes, I should upload something new.. sorry!)

go here [b]http://www.danveall.co.uk/media.htm[/b]

But I like these. The first is called [b]'I Want The World'[/b]. Pretty much the whole bass line is tapped. Especially the intro as you can hear. I think the bassline is actually more visually interesting than what you hear in the mix. The verses feature a rolling three note motif, but is tapped in octaves. (thats not an octaver, thats 6 finger tapping baybee! lol lol) (you can hear the motif briefly at the end of the intro too)
The breakdown also features a typical Sheehan/Myung octave tapped pedal too.

The second I'd like to share is '[b]Psycho'[/b].
More chops than a butchers shop!! We sat there in a very 'blurred' state (lol) dropping notes off of bars and making things difficult for ourselves!

Look out for the bass, guitars and keyboards all sweeping in unison after the keyboard solo.

Other tracks I really like are 'No Solution' with a cool 5/4 groove that later modulates to 4/4 but still has the same groove and 'Broken Dreams' which I think has my favourite all time guitar / keyboard solo, over more time changes than I care to mention, in about 30 seconds! check it out!

I really hope you like them!

[ped]

[quote name='theosd' post='65400' date='Sep 25 2007, 03:49 PM']Yeah, it's a Harley Benton fretless 5 string acoustic I'm using for 'Around For', which has a tuba-like sound. It's no lie that the myspace player does it no favours as an individual channel, but the richness of the overall sound is good too. I've come a long way since the Under The Thumb stuff, most of that is just funky noodling compared to the more crafted stuff I'm doing now with Aliquot Flow.

Nice tone on the torrential song (is that a fretless?). Not sure if it's the myspace player, but at times the track seems to go out of synch with itself? Or is that intentional? [/quote]

Hi mate,

It is indeed my fretless - played quite subtly though without too much cheese ;0)

Not sure what you mean with the tripping over itself thang - might be myspace fudging things up!

[ped]

[quote name='john_the_bass' post='65670' date='Sep 26 2007, 07:00 AM']ooh get you - two bass lines! It sounds like two bass lines anyway.
I'd also like to hear it on piano as well, sounds good fella[/quote]

Cheers matey, just the one bassline though - the keys are quite a large part of the choon though. It sounds nice kranked right up. Hopefully it will be in a movie one day!!

ped

[john_the_bass]

it sounded like there were two to me Ped - one down at the bottom and then one playing a melody

[ped]

Nah i ent klevver enuff ;0)

[ped]

[url="http://www.frozencloudmusic.com/~chrishiscocks/Crap%20-%20Absolute%20Crap%202002-2004/Coasting%20Down%20Vesuvius.mp3"]This one[/url] always went down a treat - completely over the top and off the cuff but great fun! The Oxford music magazine 'Nightshift' (which is toss anyway) said it was aggravating elevator muzak!!! Brilliant ;0)

(By the way this was recorded some time ago and didn't sound especially pro then!)

[Cantdosleepy]

[quote name='dood' post='65837' date='Sep 26 2007, 12:30 PM']There's some cool basslines here! nice one!

I'm going to be a bit lazy actually and just tell you about just 2 on my Website. (Yes, I should upload something new.. sorry!)

go here [b]http://www.danveall.co.uk/media.htm[/b]

But I like these. The first is called [b]'I Want The World'[/b]. Pretty much the whole bass line is tapped. Especially the intro as you can hear. I think the bassline is actually more visually interesting than what you hear in the mix. The verses feature a rolling three note motif, but is tapped in octaves. (thats not an octaver, thats 6 finger tapping baybee! lol lol) (you can hear the motif briefly at the end of the intro too)
The breakdown also features a typical Sheehan/Myung octave tapped pedal too.

The second I'd like to share is '[b]Psycho'[/b].
More chops than a butchers shop!! We sat there in a very 'blurred' state (lol) dropping notes off of bars and making things difficult for ourselves!

Look out for the bass, guitars and keyboards all sweeping in unison after the keyboard solo.

Other tracks I really like are 'No Solution' with a cool 5/4 groove that later modulates to 4/4 but still has the same groove and 'Broken Dreams' which I think has my favourite all time guitar / keyboard solo, over more time changes than I care to mention, in about 30 seconds! check it out!

I really hope you like them![/quote]

Cool music!

The links on that page flash on and off! They're so hard to read and click! Please change them!

[mr pablo]

Hmmm for me it would have to be either mortal wound, or fallen children from my bands stuff but we'll have a few more songs up on myspace in a few weeks time.

[url="http://www.myspace.com/johnwysetheprophecy"]http://www.myspace.com/johnwysetheprophecy[/url]

[Dood]

[quote name='Cantdosleepy' post='65889' date='Sep 26 2007, 02:22 PM']Cool music!

The links on that page flash on and off! They're so hard to read and click! Please change them![/quote]


Thank you!

oh, you must be using firefox or something.. works fine in IE. Someone figure that out for me.. nowt wrong with the code, so a bit confusing!

[wotnwhy]

my favorite bassline is the song Soul/Testify. the line in the verse is very very simple, but it's the way me and the guitarist Q&A that makes it for me. and i just love playing the chorus!

the other one is Part Time Lover. we wanted a slow, soulfull number, but something a bit out of the ordinary. so decided the game plan was to have very melodic music, yet keep the overall sound quite empty and sparse (much harder than it sounds!). and because it's quite a busy and melodic line. yet isn't [i]too[/i] overpowering, i really dig it.

the pieces can be check out here:

[url="http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=176145"]http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=176145[/url]

[deksawyer]

The one that comes to me is around 17 years old at least, when I was thin, had hair and was in an indie pop outfit......

Westone Thunder 1A and a Fender BXR300 combo. Bloody fantastic.

Simple stuff, but effective imo.

[url="http://www.kirkcaldybands.com/Music/22%20Blossom.mp3"]my bass lines[/url]

If you want to hear more, we were called the twist - the better stuff is nearer the bottom; skip the live stuff.

D.

[bottomfeed]

well.... you know how it is... sometimes there's no choice but to 'flick ur own switch' ....of an evening

I like the chorus in 'Beautiful monster' ..it ended up so off the wall!
[url="http://www.myspace.com/tornondesire"]http://www.myspace.com/tornondesire[/url]

& maybe I'll stick 'Pilgrim' up there, great fun to play live...

What I don't like is punters coming up & banging on about the slap in 'Good foundation' ..."great playing man, really reminds me of mark king, man... ooh I do love mark king!"....

It has nothing in common with Mark King!... whatsoever... other than it's struck with a thumb..... but I say "thanx man!"... coz I wanna be polite... & not throw it back in their faces.... rant, rant!

just listening to Ped's '2006'.... very cool!!

Edited September 27, 2007 by bottomfeed