Tunes to write a bassline to

[JordanRLS]

As a recent beginner, i have moved into the territory of learning to improvise my own lines. this is, however, difficult to do without access to guitar and drum tracks of which i [i]know[/i] which chords are being played on the guitar.

Anybody know of any sources of tracks like this, which have the chords being played on display? or even an alternative solution?

thanks in advance

[Musky]

A few months back someone posed a similar question, or more specifically looking for source of online backing tracks which the user could put together themselves. There were a few decent suggestions, but I can't for the life of me remember what they were or find the thread!

In the the mean time you could checkout [url="http://www.freejamtracks.com"]http://www.freejamtracks.com[/url] or even some of the more illicit isolated track recordings of well known artists that are available if you search hard enough.

Edited March 7, 2010 by Musky

[MIJ-VI]

[quote name='JordanRLS' post='766473' date='Mar 6 2010, 04:07 PM']As a recent beginner, i have moved into the territory of learning to improvise my own lines. this is, however, difficult to do without access to guitar and drum tracks of which i [i]know[/i] which chords are being played on the guitar.

Anybody know of any sources of tracks like this, which have the chords being played on display? or even an alternative solution?

thanks in advance [/quote]

Hi JordanRLS.

Congratulations on realizing the value of being original in your playing.

There may be something useful [url="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Guitar+chord+charts%2C+popular+songs.&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq="]here[/url].

One approach to composing one's own bass lines is to orbit around, play counterpoint to, and otherwise underpin the vocal melody while following the chord roots.

[url="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=James+Jamerson&meta=&btnG=Google+Search"]James Jamerson[/url] was a master at this.