Your favourite bass lines to play?

[Baloney Balderdash]

I never played covers, always having played in original bands/projects, at the moment working on solo projects, so the basslines I primarily play are self composed, hence me listing them not making much sense for you.

 

I do occasionally play parts, melodies or riffs/bass lines from other people's songs though, but I find it must more fun to write/compose my own original lines.

 

Beside that I practice a lot of improvisation, simply to get better at improvising and coming up with consistent stuff on the spot, so again no predetermined basslines as such involved.

 

One of my favorites though is one of my composition that basically consists of an identical folky intro and outro riff in C Dorian, and then a long folky improvisation in between in C Dorian, though building around certain riffs/licks that I have developed as I have played it quite a few times by now, so that the improvisation is just not mindless noodling in C Dorian but kind of got this sort of fluent form, that while being different every time I play it still have certain blocks of melodic lines and riffs that it, while those also varying slightly from time to time, kind of builds around.

 

I call that composition "Dorian OdysC" (originally it was titled "A Dorian Odyssey" and was played in A Dorian, but with the tuning that I have found works best for me, C Dorian happens to work best for this composition).

 

 

Edited April 8, 2024 by Baloney Balderdash

[Gasman]

My current favourite is the line from Echo Beach, main riff with and without arpeggios, thunderous descents, stops, all played at warp speed...

[Japhet]

Used to really enjoy playing You Oughta Know - Alanis Morrisette when I played in a band with a girl singer. Great stuff from Flea on that one and nice dynamics in the song too.

[tinyd]

I haven't had a chance to play this at a gig yet, but this one is always fun: