ped Posted March 21, 2008 Posted March 21, 2008 Hi folks, Playing a lot of fretless at the moment. When I practice I like to play along with a tune with a groovy line that repeats itself through the tune a fair bit, so I can elaborate and play around with it. Anyone got any ideas? Simple, groovy lines. Cheers ped Quote
ped Posted March 21, 2008 Author Posted March 21, 2008 The fretless has the duck, bear and panther at the moment - the frog fell out with the duck and the panther chased him - the monkey just hangs around, he is at that sort of age. Quote
ped Posted March 21, 2008 Author Posted March 21, 2008 OK - not really a jaco fan but I will check it out, cheers mate. Quote
bremen Posted March 21, 2008 Posted March 21, 2008 [quote name='ped' post='161455' date='Mar 21 2008, 03:11 PM']Hi folks, Playing a lot of fretless at the moment. When I practice I like to play along with a tune with a groovy line that repeats itself through the tune a fair bit, so I can elaborate and play around with it. Anyone got any ideas? Simple, groovy lines. Cheers ped[/quote] DJ Food, Coldcut, they use a lot of fun double-bass grooves. [url="http://www.ninjatune.net/home/"]http://www.ninjatune.net/home/[/url] Quote
crez5150 Posted March 21, 2008 Posted March 21, 2008 Get back to your 80's roots with some Go-west and Paul young...... some great fretless grooves going on there... Quote
Bay Splayer Posted March 21, 2008 Posted March 21, 2008 paul young early stuff especially the two albums no parlez secret of association pino palladino.... fretless god Quote
chardbass Posted March 21, 2008 Posted March 21, 2008 [quote name='uptonmark' post='161514' date='Mar 21 2008, 06:00 PM']paul young early stuff especially the two albums no parlez secret of association pino palladino.... fretless god[/quote] I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down. If you can bear it, loop the end of Earth Song by Michael Jackson and whack an octaver on! Quote
chris_b Posted March 21, 2008 Posted March 21, 2008 [quote name='ped' post='161455' date='Mar 21 2008, 03:11 PM']Playing a lot of fretless at the moment. When I practice I like to play along with a tune with a groovy line that repeats itself through the tune a fair bit, so I can elaborate and play around with it. Anyone got any ideas? Simple, groovy lines.[/quote] Try Jeff Golub, Soul Sessions and Do It Again. Quote
ped Posted March 21, 2008 Author Posted March 21, 2008 Thanks so far guys. I know lots of those tunes - Tear Your Playhouse Down in particular as he is using a Vigier Aprege fretless in the video. I have lots of Jeff Golub albums, why didn't I think of that! Cheers... Quote
foal30 Posted March 21, 2008 Posted March 21, 2008 not fretless recordings but I often use "Soulpower" set from James Brown to improvise or solidify ideas over. Harmonically it's pretty straight but the groove goes forever. "Cold Sweat" for a starter, maybe "I can't stand myself", "I got a feeling".... Quote
ironside1966 Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 Hi Try any Japan or Garry Numan Shes got Claws Quote
dr.funk Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 Diamonds on the soles of her shoes - Paul Simon is pretty tasty Quote
Tait Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 soul to squeeze by the red hot chillis, not played on a fretless but I think it should be. Quote
Shaggy Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 Wasn't there a thread on this recently? +1 on Pino; great playing on "No Parlez" album (Paul Young) & "Music for chameleons" (Gary Numan, as immortalised by Alan Partidge on air bass, but still v cool) also; Bad Company ("Feel like makin' love" a great repetitive groove to improvise over) "Sledgehammer" - Peter Gabriel (Tony Levin) "Black Velvet" - Alannah Myles early '80's era Simple Minds Some of the less esoteric Japan stuff, eg; "Quiet Life" & "Gentlemen take polaroids" albums (Mick Karn of course) Many funk / disco grooves work even better on fretless; eg any Chic/Sister Sledge, "Ain't no stopping us now" (McFadden & Whitehead), "Boogie Oogie Oogie" (Taste of Honey), "Boogie Nights" (Heatwave - nice intro) "Boogie on Reggae Woman" (Stevie Wonder) etc etc Quote
Johnzy Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 "dont give up" by Peter Gabriel is a nice little ditty. end groove is rather tasty!! mr levin at his finest i thinks!! Quote
ped Posted March 22, 2008 Author Posted March 22, 2008 Great stuff thanks guys - lots of this I know about and have already, but you know the feeling when you are looking for something and your mind just goes blank... Like every time I go into HMV I totally forget what DVDs I want! Quote
JoeS Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 Either Vermicide or The Widow by The Mars Volta. Great grooves and lots of room for improvisation. Quote
bassmandan Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 obviously 'Music For Chameleons' don't even technically need to use a real fretless for it!... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlhQ3iC54QM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlhQ3iC54QM[/url] ....why oh why can I never sus out how to prperly embed these things?!? Quote
Tait Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 [quote name='Shaggy' post='161814' date='Mar 22 2008, 03:23 PM']Wasn't there a thread on this recently?[/quote] you could be thinking of mine which was a while ago, i dont think ive seen one more recently...[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6322&hl=fretless+songs+lwtait"]here's[/url] the link to my thread Quote
Viajero Posted March 22, 2008 Posted March 22, 2008 Wherever I lay my Hat by Paul Young. Smooth fretless action in a classic 80s tune. Quote
Golchen Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 I love the groove on Jaco Pastorius' 'come on, come over'. Great track! Quote
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