Is This The Easiest Bass Line In A Pop Song?

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So is 2-4-6-8 Motorway (Tom Robinson Band) the easiest bass line to play??

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No. Try this one … one note, a G, all the way through!

Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People bass cover

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There are lots of songs like this. They are good practice. They are really good about teaching timing and hitting pockets

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It’s so easy @chris.childs even I can do it and it’s part of our set list now :wink: Most Canadians don’t know it (wasn’t a hit over here) so it’s a fun one to throw in.

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Try “Dead Meadow” by Black Label Society.

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Love it! :heart:

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How do you tell people you’re a Brit, without telling them you’re a Brit? :wink:

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I see you, and raise you Prince - When Doves Cry.

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I just smile and they see my teeth.

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I could mumble ‘I’ll see you’ and throw Seven Nation Army on to the table, ‘cos technically it’s a guitar with an octave pedal, so not really a bass line :wink:. But then I’d have to fold as we play this song in my band and it’s my freakin’ line! :rofl:

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Then he dared to do it again a couple of years later with Kiss.

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And if you look at his other songs that actually do have bass in them, they’re fairly simple. I haven’t done an exhaustive search, though. But it seems like the more of his songs I look at, the more he seemed to worry someone might outplay him.

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His earlier bass lines with The Revolution were simpler, but things got quite funky with the NPG line-up (Sonny T, Rhonda Smith, Andrew Gouche, etc.).

Sonny T here:

Rhonda Smith:

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Does anyone know who made the custom bass that Prince starts playing around 8:15 into the video and that’s shown in the title card?

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I thought maybe it was this, upside down, but maybe not…

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It is an Auerswald Cleo custom bass, with a sustain bow bar (sustain!!! )

He had a white guitar like that, and later got a matching bass.

PS: Doesn’t it kind of look like a Klingon instrument? :grin: Qapla’!

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I think Auerswald stole the design from the Klingons. :rofl:

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Looks like he used it to record the Batman soundtrack. It certainly looks the part!

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