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Really enjoying Déjà Vue by George Duke at the moment and some of the Citrus Sun albums with the excellent Francis Hylton on bass.

This guy can certainly play. I can testify that the way this bass sounds on the video is pretty much true to real life. My bass really is a super versatile instrument, with a killer sound!

@funkgod thank you. Out of the three the Down to the Bone track is my favourite.

Thank you, I haven’t heard of Emperor’s New Clothes, will give them a try. Cheers.

This band is super funky and their bass player Frans Vollink is an absolute monster.

@alibabu thanks, enjoy your holiday. Stay safe!

100% agree. Sorry don’t want to appear a smart derrière but I have been listening to Sixun, Ultramarine ,Stephane Huchard, etc etc for more than 20 years. They are incredible players, shame they are very ‘underground’. By the way if you are aware of a site where I can listen to a track called Karawak Sream by Sakesho, (written by Michel Alibo) I would be grateful. It doesn’t appear on YT. Cheers. Thanks again, the video is fabulous. Pretty sure he is playing in Karim Ziad’s band at this juncture. Mark.

@steve-bbb thanks. I love Byron Miller’s playing on tracks like Brazilian Love Affair, and some of his later tunes with Larry Kimpel, (Life and Times being a great example).

@Dad3353, you were definitely closer than me. It’s in 3/4. I managed to find a link to the score if you’re interested. My reading is pretty rubbish but it might help me work through the bass part which is tricky to say the least. https://www.nguyen-le.com/Site_Nu/Scores_files/Yhadik.pdf

I don’t know if you would call it that, it’s the section that follows the opening which I count in 6. The opening salvo which I class as the verse I seem to be able to count in 4 if that makes sense.

You may well be right. I count the verse as 4/4 and the chorus as a very fast 6, seems to work. Cheers, Mark.

Sorry for the slight digression. Again this isn’t a rock tune but it is interesting in the sense of the ‘time feel’. I don’t know if anyone is familiar with an Algerian drummer called Karim Ziad? He played with Zawinul and is very highly rated. Being from Algeria he has a completely different type of feel. Most of the musicians on the attached track are of different ethnic origins and I find it fascinating to listen to their approach to time. Please let me know what you think the time sig is. The bass playing is pretty fantastic on this ,as is everything else I might add. For those who are interested the bass player is Michel Alibo, one of THE most incredible players I have ever come across. He plays in a French fusion band called Sixun.

Nice one @Japhet made me chuckle.

Manic depression is just 3/4, it has a waltz feel.

Strictly speaking Kashmir is an example of a Hemiola where the drums are in 4/4 and other instrumentation is in 3/4 which creates a weird odd time feel as the instrumental cycles of three line up with the drums every 4 bars. Hope this makes sense.

I saw The Headhunters in Leeds some years ago (minus HH) with TM Stevens on bass. He was ridiculous. One of the funkiest players I have ever come across. A total monster.

Pretty cool, I don’t mind the jazz warblings. The rhythm section is definitely cooking! Nice one! Cheers.

Great recommendations thank you. I have been studying and playing along to Kid Charlemagne for a few months now. I have got the nuts and bolts notes wise, but the feel is what you really have to work at. It’s very much Jameson inspired according to Chuck himself. Being primarily a groove drummer myself I love the concept of funk, the syncopation, the note choices, the repetition (sometimes), the ghosting etc etc. Cheers.

If you like Vulfpeck, try Scary Pockets, Pomplamoose and Knower. (Sam Wilkes is just as monstrous as Joe Dart).

I’m with you, been checking them our recently, thank you.

Strangely this has a hint a Mick Karn.

Trey Anastasio - Paper Wheels. Fabulous.

Thanks, I know these albums I used to play along to them as practice when drumming. Great grooves. Thanks !

Hello All, I wonder if anyone can recommend some nice funky albums to check out please? As a reference I really love listening to Willie Weeks, earlier Herbie Hancock (Spiralling Prisms etc) Abe Laboriel, Nathan East,Marcus,Meshell, Motown, Chuck Rainey, etc basically I listen and have listened to a lot of funk,fusion, jazz and popular music over the years. I am looking for something new and unusual that I haven’t already come across. I would welcome any suggestions so I can use this music to listen to on my daily walks. Many thanks in advance.

Firstly it’s great to read a post which sums up a lot of where I am in my own playing. I have only played bass as a side line up to last year when I decided to stop playing drums owing to escalating rsi issues in my arm, which I had been battling for six years. As a part time bassist I seemed to develop a reasonable facility on the instrument without really knowing what I was doing. This has continued over the last year but I have improved my fingerboard knowledge a little. I have also wrestled with SBL and whilst there is no doubting the educational content and sheer enormity of what Scott has achieved, the immersive format isn’t right for me as I simply can’t devote enough time to sitting in front of my computer. I work long hours in my own business and find that maybe an hour a day is the most I can manage during the week, (more at the week end although I have to watch my arm!). The point of the post is to really just say hello as I haven’t been on here too long and to say thanks for posting your stories as it’s encouraging to see more seasoned bass players getting ‘stuck’ in the same areas as myself. I sincerely hope you all find your own way of navigating through these issues as I will attempt to do. As a slight digression, to prevent the problem of being hounded by ads why don’t you try the new browser called Brave. It’s great. I use it in conjunction with the search engine ‘Duck,Duck,Go with none of the problems you describe. Plus it’s nice to get away from the big corporations who just seem to want to spy on us and relieve us of as much money as possible, whilst at the same time supporting smaller more ethical businesses. Cheers, Mark.