Technical lines without going Slap

[Crash]

Ok, I've got some down time with my band and I'm looking for some fairly difficult technical bass lines to practice on, but I don't play slap and really have very little desire to learn it any time soon. Any recomendations?

[Crash]

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[i_finlayson37]

You could try some Smiths songs, they have some cool walking Bass Lines.

[Talent?!]

Iron Maiden, you may not like the music (though I love it!) but learning it will increase speed and finger strength:D

[jimbobass]

yea Iron Maiden That should do it for ya.

[Crash]

Any particular suggestions for Iron Maiden songs? I've never really listened to them.

[brighterstatic]

Look up any jazz band with an upright bass, while it may not be your cup of tea musically, if you learn to nail the lines of Charles Mingus, you can do anything (sans slaping) in the rock world.

[Crash]

Originally posted by brighterstatic
Look up any jazz band with an upright bass, while it may not be your cup of tea musically, if you learn to nail the lines of Charles Mingus, you can do anything (sans slaping) in the rock world.

Forgot all about him, have to dig out some of my Jazz albums and give that a shot. Thanks.

[flaw4perfection]

Try any type of classical music for upright bass. modern composers are good areas to work with. old school metallica is pretty good. cliff burton...hm...any music not ment to be played on bass aught to be pretty good to practice and well round your technique.

[GoatmAn]

you could just pop without the slaps! and play crazy octaves and then just play a minor key solo and wait you didnt say what kind of music...heres a classic technical metal bass riff!
D-------11------------------------------------p2p2
A----0------0--------0-----0------------------------
E00-------------000--000-0000sl0sl0sl0-----

[jimbobass]

Number of the beast, fear of the dark, or any other awsome maiden tune dude its all pretty fast and it will definatly help your one two finger playing.

[mayonaise]

try some punk, or jazz.... or some Muuuuuuuse ;)

[i_finlayson37]

I completely forgot this one but Exit Music by Radiohead is a good one. Not all that technical but still a cool sounding Bass Line, especially if you can add some fuzz to it.

[cephan]

Flea has some really great fingerstyle bass lines on all RHCP albums. Check out John Entwistle as well.

[Chizad]

Well, I would recommend Jaco Pastorius for ya.

And yes I know some of you might think us bass players keep talking about Jaco non-stop.:p
And that is partial true; some bass playing friends of mine are total Jaco devotees. Forgive me... I just have to mention him too.

But seriously, Jaco is the most influential bass player ever.
Start learning some Jaco songs! There's wisdom in every note.
If you learn some Jaco, you'll have alot of useful tecnique,
to adapt to your own style!:)

A few recommendations for starters (if Jaco's new to you):
The Chicken, Portrait of Tracy, River People, Come On Come Over...

[Talent?!]

How about some Billy Sheenan?:D

[god]

Theres some punk bands that have some real fast, semi-complicated bass lines. Anti-flag has some cool bass lines, I would check them out.

The chili peppers have by far the best bassist still playing music, learn some of their stuff, especally their older stuff.

[jimbobass]

Oh yes I forgot Rush's YYZ really fast and lost of differnt notes.

[Joe D. Stortion]

Whatever you do, don't try to play along with the John Entwistle master class video unless you are already an awesome bassist, John is blindingly fast.

I have it, I'd recommend it to anyone, but it's discouraging to play along with it, just watch it for the techniques he uses and try appling them to the enclosed tab and or other stuff.

-Joe

[metdeth85]

If you don't want to learn slap, Billy Sheehan is the way to go! His bass solos rival most guitar solos. I don't believe that you can learn his stuff over night or even over a year but maybe he will inspire you to step up from the backline.

Listen to his three bass solos and the song Chameleon, also he does an awsome bass solo in the middle of Birds of Prey.
http://www.billysheehan.com/main_audio.html

For Irom Maden try "The Trooper" and "Wasted Years"
For Rush try "YYZ" "Subdivisons" and "Tom Sawyer"
For Dream Theater try "Learning to Live" "Voices" and "The Great Debate"

Also check out Stu Hamm. He mixes slap with key riffing. It's all about the bass virtuoso's

Bassists to check out: Stu Hamm, Billy Sheehan, John Pattitucci, David LaRue, John Myung, and Tony Levin

I have more but that should do.

[avenger86]

For Dream Theater I'd rather suggest: Dance of Eternity (awesome bass solo); The Glass Prison
I'd suggest finding or downloading(WinMX or Kazaa) some bass instructional videos, such as: Progressive Bass Techniques(John Myung) and the Billy Sheehan and Stu Hamm videos( Stu shows quite a bit of slapping next to tapping)

[VillageIdiot]

The DOE bass solo rips.

[metdeth85]

The DOE solo is cool but it's not as hard as you would think. Alot is just octaves and chordal playing. I wish they would have done a better job of recording that. Still, check out thoes Billy Sheehan Songs I was talking about. Billy is GOD :D

[RandyRhoads]

Originally posted by god
The chili peppers have by far the best bassist still playing music, learn some of their stuff, especally their older stuff.

No they don't.

[j_stashko]

From what Ive been told from many, not sure if its true, But these people are proficiently good at bass, electric and stand up.
TOOL!

[metdeth85]

The chili peppers have by far the best bassist still playing music,

If you really think that, then you need to get out more.

[Aquatrotsky]

Rush's Geddy Lee and Yes's Chris Squire are the best, in my opinion.

[tommyboy27]

Beatles

Beatles

Beatles!!!!!!!!

damn, I'm the first to mention Sir Paul and at the end of the second page even! Shame on you geeks@!@@@!

and double shame for no John Paul Jones mention!!!!!! if it wasn't for JPJ, there would be no cliff burton or many others on this list!

[jimbobass]

I think the beatles suck dude just my opinion not bashin you man.
JPJ is cool to but I think that Zepplin is a little overated. I will stick with my choice Maiden and CLiff Stuff.

[metdeth85]

I gave you my pics already but as far as the Paul argument goes I think most people agree that he is more of a guitarist. He was talented as a writer but as a bassist, he played it just for fills. If you like JPJ then you can't forget Stanley Clark.

[bluntskull]

how 'bout les claypool? (he doesnt always slap..heh) .. the guy from mudvayne, awesome finger player,... faith no more? billy gould was way underrated...