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Guess the Bass Line


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8 hours ago, Ricky 4000 said:

Nice. Seems I didn't know it all along! 🙂

 

30 minutes ago, Johnny Wishbone said:

Yep, me neither 😂

That surprises me. Johnny W. and I seem to generally know a lot of the same stuff.

Here it is, if you’re interested. One of my top 5 songs. One of those ones that makes me tearful and I’ve no idea why.

 

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3 hours ago, Johnny Wishbone said:

That would be "Human" then?

Totally failed to recognise that despite having the album.

One thing that strikes me about this thread is that you can divide bass lines into two camps:

1 Those that really define a song and stand out a mile even without accompaniment - like Space Trucking or London's Calling.

2 Those that sound thin and incomplete without the rest of the song.

Without any judgement on how they are played or what they are played on.

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24 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Totally failed to recognise that despite having the album.

One thing that strikes me about this thread is that you can divide bass lines into two camps:

1 Those that really define a song and stand out a mile even without accompaniment - like Space Trucking or London's Calling.

2 Those that sound thin and incomplete without the rest of the song.

Without any judgement on how they are played or what they are played on.

The problem I’m finding is trying to do a bass line that

1. Isn’t instantly recognisable because that makes it far too easy

2. Try and do one that is recognisable but not too obvious

But 2 I’ve done recently have fallen flat on their face because they don't fall under either and also my playing isn’t great so that makes it even more challenging 😳

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3 hours ago, Jimothey said:

But 2 I’ve done recently have fallen flat on their face because they don't fall under either and also my playing isn’t great so that makes it even more challenging 😳

I tink it's because many songs don't have basslines that are recognisable in isolation, even if you know the song.

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