Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Hey gang,
I am looking for some musical inspiration. I just bought a fretless bass and I love it. Please post some videos of songs that you really like that have a fretless in them..........any genre is fair game.
Thanks.
I am looking for some musical inspiration. I just bought a fretless bass and I love it. Please post some videos of songs that you really like that have a fretless in them..........any genre is fair game.
Thanks.
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Clapton's "Blow Wind Blow"..... it's probably an upright bass in the track but that makes it fretless!!!
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Don't get me started! But to keep the list to something manageable, anything on Joni Mitchell's Hejira, especially, "Coyote" and "Refuge Of The Road".
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Just about anything on Paul Simon's Graceland, but particularly "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes".
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another clapton tune,"tears in heaven",features a nice fl solo. glad you're getting into that bass,brian!
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"Until it Sleeps" by Metallica.
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Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Any of several by Rick Danko of The Band.
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Thanks guys. I will hunt down videos for some of these. I want to properly learn various techniques that I am already emulating as a result of listening to sound bytes alone.
Keep 'em coming. I watched some of The Firm's videos last night courtesy of a suggestion by Joey. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting their body of work.
Thanks for the bass Woody. I have not been able to put it down. Joey warned me that would happen. Ultimately I want to use this bass on a few jazz recordings. Songs that I will finally finish, now that I have the instrument to play the part that I have heard in my head.
Keep 'em coming. I watched some of The Firm's videos last night courtesy of a suggestion by Joey. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting their body of work.
Thanks for the bass Woody. I have not been able to put it down. Joey warned me that would happen. Ultimately I want to use this bass on a few jazz recordings. Songs that I will finally finish, now that I have the instrument to play the part that I have heard in my head.
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Anything by Jaco I believe is fretless.
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I'll echo most of what has been said already, but more specifically - "Strawberry Wine" by The Band (Danko on bass) and "Coyote" by Joni Mitchell (Jaco on bass).
For a completely different fretless experience, listen to the Primus album "Sailing The Seas Of Cheese".
For a completely different fretless experience, listen to the Primus album "Sailing The Seas Of Cheese".
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The Firm
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
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Lady in Red - Chris De Burgh
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Just to mention a few slow numbers.. I love the way fretless sounds in a ballad.
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Just to mention a few slow numbers.. I love the way fretless sounds in a ballad.
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Jaco with Joni, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat":
Jaco with Thielmans and the Word Of Mouth band, "Sophisticated Lady":
Jaco with WOM band, "The Chicken":
Jaco solo, "Portrait Of Tracy":
Jaco, Modern Electric Bass:
Jeff Berlin with Bruford, "Forever Until Sunday":
Jeff Berlin with Bruford, "The Sahara Of Snow":
Jeff Berlin plays an old British drinking song:
Jaco with Thielmans and the Word Of Mouth band, "Sophisticated Lady":
Jaco with WOM band, "The Chicken":
Jaco solo, "Portrait Of Tracy":
Jaco, Modern Electric Bass:
Jeff Berlin with Bruford, "Forever Until Sunday":
Jeff Berlin with Bruford, "The Sahara Of Snow":
Jeff Berlin plays an old British drinking song:
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Yeah, that would be different, fer sher!sloop_john_b wrote:For a completely different fretless experience, listen to the Primus album "Sailing The Seas Of Cheese".
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I saw this tour, one of the best bands ever put together!
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