some good fretless bass lines to learn

[umph]

i've recently got myself a fretless neck and i've feel i'm starting to get technique down so could anyone recomend me some good songs to learn now to push my playing along a bit with it?

[Bilbo]

A Remark You Made - Weather Report

[Rich]

Sorry, I just had to edit the topic title... it would have bugged the hell out of me otherwise...

[Tait]

[quote name='Rich' post='274381' date='Sep 1 2008, 12:16 PM']Sorry, I just had to edit the topic title... it would have bugged the hell out of me otherwise... [/quote]

why, what was it before?

back on topic - i like learning slower chili songs, soul to squees and scar tissue are good ones. i know flea doesn't use a fretless, but he should lol.

[BigRedX]

Anything with Mick Karn on it.

Start with Japan's "Quiet Life" album

[phil_the_bassist]

Love cats!!


admittedly, it's easy as sin but its the only fretless line I've learned and I FREAKIN LOVE IT!


and yeah, wtf was the thread title?

[Merton]

Lots of Pearl Jam tunes:

Even Flow
Alive
Black

all quite straightforward "starter" fretless songs. Especially like hte double stopped harmonic slides in Even Flow

[ironside1966]

Anything from the first 2 Paul Young albums
No Parlez,
The Secret of association,

Oleta Adams Get here
All great Pino palladino lines

Or Garry Numan’s albums
I Assassin
Warriors
All full of great fretless bass playing.

there is always good old Jaco

[BassBus]

Get hold of Joni Mitchel's Hejira and listen to Jaco's work on that, esp. Refuge of the Roads.

Edited September 1, 2008 by BassBus

[dr.funk]

Diamonds on the soles of her shoes - Paul Simon
Prototype - Outkast

[Merton]

[quote name='ironside1966' post='274508' date='Sep 1 2008, 01:48 PM']Anything from the first 2 Paul Young albums
No Parlez,[/quote]
Oooh yeah. Had the pleasure of seeing Phil Mulford play this one with PY in York about 5/6 years ago. He did an awesome solo in it too

[Pentode]

[size=4]Hey! Are you gonna tell us all what the origional topic title was????!!!!!

We're all going crazy out here!!![/size] :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

[Bay Splayer]

cant go wrong with pino stuff

you [u]have to learn [/u]where ever i lay my hat, easy to play and sounds the dog gonads

[Jase]

Jack Bruce: Rope ladder to the moon.

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[jay249]

Anything by Japan

[Toasted]

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='274376' date='Sep 1 2008, 12:13 PM']A Remark You Made - Weather Report[/quote]

Incidently my favourite bassline ever.

[marcus bell]

continuum: jaco pastorius
potrait of tracy: jaco pastorius


brill!

[Jase]

All American Alien Boy, Ian Hunter and Jaco.

[Alastair]

Study Paul Simon's Graceland album.

Khumalo is an amazing fretless player.

[umph]

ahh thanks i'll have a look into these gonna be alot of mwahing going on later. i've no idea what i put as the title but i'm guessing it was a really grammatically incorrect version of the one there is atm

[Faithless]

Dunno much about others, but, Jaco stuff for STARTING?

Relax, dudes...

[martthebass]

I fave of mine - 'It's my life' Talk Talk.

And a bit more soulful to help develop expression - 'Will you?' - Hazell O'Connor

[lonestar]

[quote name='BassBus' post='274699' date='Sep 1 2008, 04:17 PM']Get hold of Joni Mitchel's Hejira and listen to Jaco's work on that, esp. Refuge of the Roads.[/quote]


I'd second that. Fantastic stuff

Mike

[franzbassist]

Early Nick Heyward, especially "Take that Situation", "Whistle Down the Wind" by Nick Heyward......... trust me on this.

Also, Julia Fordham's earlier albums have great fretless playing on them.

I think Pino is responsible for a lot of the above sessions.

Gareth