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Bass guitar, double bass, and the general low end of sound.

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What's your favorite bass line ever? (lemmy.world)
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Ok, this is mainly just to see if there's anyone else here. But what's your favorite bass line to play?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll necropost here. I love the Motown bass lines, stuff like

  • "What's Going On"
  • "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
  • "Bernadette"
  • "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"

Other songs I have enjoyed playing are:

  • Hysteria by Muse
  • Runaway by Jamiroquai (but also Runaway by Bruno Mars)
  • Can't Feel My Face by The Weeknd
  • everything by Stevie Wonder really, though "Jammin" is one of my comfort songs to play

But I just started playing fretless so now I'm learning:

  • "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush
  • "Wherever I Lay My Hat", Paul Young's cover of the Motown classic
  • "Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down" by Paul Young

Not ready yet for Kate Bush' Babooshka and Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" though I suppose I could get started with some other songs from the Graceland album if I want to eat the fingerboard.

Any other suggestions for a fretless beginner who loves the "mwah" sound?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Getting my first bass tomorrow, lessons start on Thursday... if I could pull any one song out of the ether and play it perfectly it would be Higher Ground.

Either version :)

https://youtu.be/X3mRasO5bvo

https://youtu.be/1esf0efHbjM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I never get tired of Jaco's bass on 'I Can Dig It Baby', by Little Beaver. I like a lot of those 16th note lines, so anything by Rocco Prestia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Zeppelin - How Many More Times