Help me! I don't know how to describe this bass technique

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Hi everyone, I’m looking for some help to identify a type of bass line but I don’t know how to describe it. I’m new to bass and half way through the course but I would really like to know how a type of bass line is described and played.

The link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4CbfdWl0vY is to a you tube of a 70’s song Galaxy of Love. at around 1:06 of the track the bass line is fantastic, it sounds like it just goes up and down the neck but I have no idea how. I think I have heard this type of bass line in Jamiroquai songs but not sure.

Thanks in advance if you can help.

Chris

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Sounds like ascending octaves. Play the first base note, then the octave two frets higher and two strings higher. Then move your base note up a fret or two and do it again. And then repeat that whole process a couple more times.

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Thanks @fennario, I didn’t have the knowledge to describe it. That really helps.

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You are very welcome. Josh has lessons on playing octave patterns in the Bass Buzz BTB course, which of course I highly recommend!

This video might also help:

Cheers!

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I’m doing the course at the moment, I was just curious to know what this style was as it’s exactly the type of music I want to play.

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Perfect! The octaves come in Module 12. Cheers and have fun! :slight_smile:

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Yup, disco is full of octaves.

Sadly, they are trickier than you think but so much fun when you get them down.

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