Guess the Bass Line

[BreadBin]

3 hours ago, Jimothey said:

By any chance is it Prefab Sprout - When love breaks down??

Well done 👍

[BreadBin]

2 minutes ago, stewblack said:

 

No idea, but nicely played 🙂

[Ricky 4000]

3 hours ago, Jimothey said:

By any chance is it Prefab Sprout - When love breaks down??

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

[stewblack]

3 minutes ago, BreadBin said:

No idea, but nicely played 🙂

Thank you. 

[Johnny Wishbone]

8 hours ago, Ricky 4000 said:

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

Yep, me neither 😂

[SICbass]

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.

 

[Jimothey]

Here’s my offering????

There’s member on here that I really hope doesn’t hear this as they were a session Bassist on the original song!!!!!!!

[SICbass]

Sorry, no bells ringing here.

[Johnny Wishbone]

The last 10 secs or so do ring a bell, but I've got nothing 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Jimothey]

It was a big debut single for the artist in 2016............😀

Edited August 5, 2019 by Jimothey

[Jimothey]

I’ve just listened to the track again and I should have played some of the notes more staccato.............😳

[stewblack]

🤔

[stewblack]

🤷🏻‍♂️

[Jimothey]

Here’s another clue the fellas has the same name as a job made famous by Steptoe and Son!!..............😀

[ezbass]

Rag and bone man. Unfortunately, that’s as far as I’m able to go.

[Jimothey]

1 minute ago, ezbass said:

Rag and bone man. Unfortunately, that’s as far as I’m able to go.

That’s correct just the song name now.......😀

[Johnny Wishbone]

That would be "Human" then?

[Jimothey]

18 minutes ago, Johnny Wishbone said:

That would be "Human" then?

👏👏👏👏🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾👏👏👏👏 

 

[Johnny Wishbone]

Wouldn't have got anywhere near that without the clues. Don't have anything prepared and I'm at work so please continue...

[Stub Mandrel]

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.

[Jimothey]

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 😳

Edited August 5, 2019 by Jimothey

[SICbass]

@Jimothey don’t be so hard on yourself. The main defining factor is simply if the listener is familiar with the track in question.

[Stub Mandrel]

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.

[steantval]

9 hours ago, ezbass said:

Rag and bone man. Unfortunately, that’s as far as I’m able to go.

It’s either 

Bring out your rubbish

Gee up Hercules

You dirty ole man

 

Edited August 5, 2019 by steantval

[Jimothey]

This thread seems to have stalled a bit so I don’t know if people are interested in carrying but here’s a really easy one to kick start it again (maybe)???!