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BigRedX Grand Master

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"Astrotrash From Alkatraz"

Not yet recorded but it goes something like this:

The verse is all stop-start accents.
The bridge is a faux walking bassline.
The chorus is more faux walking 1/4 notes but it's played at roughly 250BPM.
The middle is like the verse but it speeds up from one accent per bar to 1/8 notes.

shizznit Collaborator

shizznit

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I have been sessioning for an artist over the past 8 months and I have been laying down some funk lines and gospel chops for his forthcoming album that will be released in April 2012. It hasn't been mastered yet so I can't upload anything yet, but we had a giggle remixing I Wish/Stevie Wonder with my lead singer when we had a couple of hours to burn at his studio. The bass tone is a bit raw as I am sure I was direct into the desk to cut time. I am pretty sure I used my MTD 535 on this session (sounds like it!).

Enjoy!

[url="http://soundcloud.com/andrew-hartley/nation-stack-i-wish-andrew"]http://soundcloud.com/andrew-hartley/nation-stack-i-wish-andrew[/url]

thisnameistaken Mentor

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I doubt many of us will have recordings of the last bass line we wrote.

Mine was on a slower number that doesn't have a name yet, currently I play a walking part during the female singer's verses and then a dub style line during the MC's verses, but the arrangement needs a lot more work (which it will receive tomorrow).

Dave Vader Proficient

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I did some counterpoint stuff on the verses, and during the middle breakdown, and at the end there were some maracas, so i had a bit of an afro-beat freak out. Sadly the album version does not have this, as I am in the live band put together after the album was done. We have agreed that what i have done is better.
Which is nice....

paul_c2 Mentor

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[quote name='leftyhook' timestamp='1330044143' post='1552070']
without examples........how do we explain?!! :D good luck with this one!

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You could write it out as musical notation, scan it and post it as a picture.

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shizznit Collaborator

shizznit

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[quote name='musophilr' timestamp='1330089515' post='1552533'] [url="http://soundcloud.com/phil-aka-pip/alt_carol"]http://soundcloud.com/phil-aka-pip/alt_carol[/url] [/quote]

Nice one Phil! Love the phrasing in the verses!

bottomfeed Proficient

bottomfeed

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This, I guess...[i].( albeit rough & unfinished)[/i] [url="https://soundcloud.com/deepworm/untitled-waiting"]https://soundcloud.com/deepworm/untitled-waiting[/url]

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neepheid Grand Master

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This is the first thing that popped into my head when presented with lyrics about birds and rabbits, a melody and a click track. Pretty cheesy, will probably change it completely once the rest of the band wade in with contributions, but you did ask :)

[url="http://soundcloud.com/neepheid/bouncy-bass"]http://soundcloud.com/neepheid/bouncy-bass[/url]

bottomfeed Proficient

bottomfeed

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[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1330092586' post='1552608']
This is the first thing that popped into my head when presented with lyrics about birds and rabbits, a melody and a click track. Pretty cheesy, will probably change it completely once the rest of the band wade in with contributions, but you did ask :)

[url="http://soundcloud.com/neepheid/bouncy-bass"]http://soundcloud.co...eid/bouncy-bass[/url]
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Infectious little ditty!.... quite like the simplicity of the arrangement too... but what it needs is[b][i] ....more cowbell![/i][/b][b][i] :)[/i][/b]

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musophilr Enthusiast

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[quote name='shizznit' timestamp='1330089726' post='1552546']
Nice one Phil! Love the phrasing in the verses!
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You're too kind! I was wondering what bassline to put to it when on Radio4 there came a program about how reggae gained a presence in British pop culture during the 1960s after people from the Carribean came to live here. Thoughts of their music helped. I think I owe them ;)

Linus27 Grand Master

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Mine is an album for the band Cow who I play bass for. The album will be out in March but one of the tracks, "Black Harvest" is going to be on the cover CD of next months edition of Mojo which is out on Tue or Wed next week. The song was hand picked by Paul Weller who picked all the songs on the cover CD. The funny thing is, of all the songs on the album, its the one song I struggled the most to write a bass line for. Its a very open spacious song and any bass line I played sounded in the way. So I decided to not play on the first verse, single root notes on the chorus, then some melodicish lines for the two verses and then build from there. Then the last chorus i just make it all up :) In the end, its simple but effective and I am really happy how it turned out.

shizznit Collaborator

shizznit

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[quote name='bottomfeed' timestamp='1330093132' post='1552616']
Infectious little ditty!.... quite like the simplicity of the arrangement too... but what it needs is[b][i] ....more cowbell![/i][/b][b][i] :)[/i][/b]
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I have a fever. A fever that can only be cured with more cowbell! :P

mcnach Grand Master

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A simple one, but I love this song regardless:

[media]http://www.mcnach.com/MISC/Forum_various/sound/How_The_Hell_roughtempmix.mp3[/media]

it's only a rough mix meant to serve as a guide during recording. It has only drums, bass, rhythm guitar and one voice.

[i]edit: for those of you interested in gear, that was recorded with the MM SUB.[/i]

There are two other guitars in the band adding bits and pieces, 2-3 backing vocals and a trumpet. It sounds naked without them, but I can hear it all in my head ;)

It's our latest song (for Sea Bass Kid) for the 10-track CD we are recording.

If you are looking for fancy virtuoso playing, look elsewhere. :lol: but it's one of my top 3 favourite tracks of ours.

If you like it and know of a drummer around Edinburgh who'd like to play with us... let me know! Our Canadian drummer is leaving for Canada, for good, and we need to find someone else as we are having to decline gigs, and that's really making us very sad. We are a 7-piece: 3 guitars, one of them being main vocals and teh other two doing backing vocals, bass, drums and trumpet. Perhaps a saxophone player will join soon. You never feel alone in this band! :lol:

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xilddx Veteran

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[quote name='shizznit' timestamp='1330075221' post='1552207']
I have been sessioning for an artist over the past 8 months and I have been laying down some funk lines and gospel chops for his forthcoming album that will be released in April 2012. It hasn't been mastered yet so I can't upload anything yet, but we had a giggle remixing I Wish/Stevie Wonder with my lead singer when we had a couple of hours to burn at his studio. The bass tone is a bit raw as I am sure I was direct into the desk to cut time. I am pretty sure I used my MTD 535 on this session (sounds like it!).

Enjoy!

[url="http://soundcloud.com/andrew-hartley/nation-stack-i-wish-andrew"]http://soundcloud.co...k-i-wish-andrew[/url]
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I don't dig on this kind of music, but I enjoyed it. You have really great feel, I really like your tone, lovely sense of timing too. You just sound confident and completely at ease, I can almost see you smiling while you recorded it.

The only thing I don't like is that little funk major/minor 3rd trill lick, almost every funk player does it and I simply can't hear it as being musical, it's like a great big dollop of tomato sauce on your juicy and perfectly cooked organic rib-eye. Other than that, superb!

Conan Mentor

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[quote name='bottomfeed' timestamp='1330092435' post='1552602']
This, I guess...[i].( albeit rough & unfinished)[/i] [url="http://snd.sc/AB6eMW"]http://snd.sc/AB6eMW[/url]
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I LIKE that!! A bit "Squarepusher-esque" if you don't mind me saying so... B)

bottomfeed Proficient

bottomfeed

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[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1330113364' post='1553060']
I LIKE that!! A bit "Squarepusher-esque" if you don't mind me saying so... B)
[/quote] ...I'll take that as a massive compliment, sir!... Thank you kindly... :)

xgsjx Grand Master

xgsjx

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Been ages since I actually wrote a full bassline start to finish for one of our songs. This is possibly the most recent & still a work in progress & need to sort out the mandolinist's timing.

http://soundcloud.com/bassg/my-old-friends

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