Is there any point learning the bass guitar?

[vinegar hill]

This fella was probably the guvnor.

 

[fin]

 

[foggyballa]

Is the correct answer.

More or less everything they did was driven by JJ's "bass lead" lines.

Nice and sleazy. Epic

 

[JonMc]

One of the joys of being a bass player is playing the melody behind the main melody. It really is pleasurable, and I feel a bit sorry for people who can't appreciate it.

In rock music there's two kinds of bass player. Those who prefer to stick to the root notes and there are those who want to make it more interesting. At their best (The Ox) each bass part almost becomes a bass solo in its own right, and I hate bass solos, but some bass lines are utterly beautiful. I'm pleased that I was competent on the instrument.

 

[foggyballa]

Lemmy. Close the thread

 

[EcosseMackem]

Is the correct answer.

More or less everything they did was driven by JJ's "bass lead" lines.

And still makes it look easy at 70 years old
The bass in Genetix still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up 43 years after I first heard it

 

[vinegar hill]

Anyone/where in Sunderland that do bass lessons? I wouldn't mind learning, but failed trying to teach myself.

Does the bunker not do them?

 

[Oswald Ballbag]

This fella was probably the guvnor.

Was just about to post this. Anything by Chic’s Bernard Edwards is amazing. His bass lines were disco perfection

This is great as well how it underpins the whole track…

 

[Montys Cat]

and Peter Hook

Simon Gallup from The Cure a favourite also

 

[vinegar hill]

 

[Harry Gates]

Jean-Jaques Burnel

The last thirty seconds of Straighten Out.

 

[EchoMan]

 

[Harry Gates]

^^^Herbie Flowers, came up with the riff as well

 

[derum]

Bass makes this song:

 

[Kevj]

 

[EcosseMackem]

The last thirty seconds of Straighten Out.

Or the first 30 seconds of Goodbye Toulouse

 

[the dude]

My son has just started to learn. He enjoys it.

 

[Zimba]

Four pages and no-one has mentioned Peter Hook, one the best around imo. Class for New Order and they miss him badly imo.

One of the most important parts of a band imo, without them most decent songs would sound crap.

 

[Snaggletooth]

Four pages and no-one has mentioned Peter Hook, one the best around imo. Class for New Order and they miss him badly imo.

One of the most important parts of a band imo, without them most decent songs would sound crap.

Post #49.

 

[Zimba]

Post #49.

Ah missed that post, whoops.