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Easy Motown Basslines


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Following on from my easy funk basslines thread ,which btw I’ve picked up some really good songs to play thanks to your suggestions , I’m looking for some relatively easy Motown grooves to play to widen my bass vocabulary, I know some of you here play some so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated 

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Not Motown specific but a lot of Stax basslines by Duck Dunn are great fun to play, some of them are easier and more groove orientated than Jamerson style stuff. 
 

A few personal favourites I play regularly for practice are…

 

Sitting on the dock of the bay

Tramp

Born under a bad sign

 

Some of the easier Motown tracks could be…

 

What becomes of the broken hearted

Ain't too proud to beg

You’ve really got a hold on me

Shotgun

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8 minutes ago, Skin Lewis said:

Stax, not Motown, but this is a good one for stamina. Both David Hood's bassline and the intro shamelessly stolen from Harry J's The Liquidator (with no credit ☹️)

 

 

Thanks for that skin, I’ve actually played the Harry J Allstars one but I’ll give this one a go 

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