Isn't slow and Simple good too .......... ?
 

Last night I was playing most of the tunes from U2s “The Joshua Tree”. Simple but, ......... sounded great and was fun to play.

It seem that most of you guys are into the the vary fast and technical playing (that’s great too) but do any of you like the slow and simple stuff as well ?

Yes, slow playing can be great as well. They're easier to tab because I can actually hear all the notes clearly, and fun to play. Great Album as well, by the way.

Theres some very nice slower stuff i like to play, purple rain by prince is one of them... very nice.

of course slow, steady riffs are awesome! look at Rooster by Alice In Chains. GREAT bassline.

On contary, I'd rather play melodic slow tunes than fast shreading :D

Why does everybody think we're only into speed? :upset:

Speed and complexity is impressive, yes, but as we've stated numerous time, often times it's as fun or more fun and interesting to play a simple and slow groove.

Absolutely, Bmundy. The simpler the better- there's nothing like grooving to Message in a Bottle - not hard to play, but to get the right feel, not easy!


Clayton is a great player. Very tasteful. Used an Ibanez Musician, dontcha know!

I find that playing slower songs challenges me to put more feeling into the song. Emphasis of notes, the occasional bend or trill, a tasty fill, I like it.

Bmundy, you should learn some lines John Entwhistle, of the Who. Very nice.

[QUOTE=Foxfire]Why does everybody think we're only into speed? :upset:

Speed and complexity is impressive, yes, but as we've stated numerous time, often times it's as fun or more fun and interesting to play a simple and slow groove.[/QUOTE]

Foxfire, didn't mean to get you :upset: "Speed and complexity is impressive" I love John Myung and I think will be trying to play his stuff for the rest of my life :D

But ..... I have seen some guys get a little flamed for bringing up something slow and simple.

Like : "Man I learned to play that my first week"

[QUOTE=Noushi]I find that playing slower songs challenges me to put more feeling into the song. Emphasis of notes, the occasional bend or trill, a tasty fill, I like it.

Bmundy, you should learn some lines John Entwhistle, of the Who. Very nice.[/QUOTE]

I'm the Prog Rock man ....... the Who is great .......... Quadrophenia :thumb:

Yeah, I hate that.

It's quite bad, but sometimes, based on that, unfair assumptions are made. I know you didn't mean to overgeneralize but there have been some HUGE overgeneralizations that are quite offensive. :p

[QUOTE=Foxfire]Yeah, I hate that.

It's quite bad, but sometimes, based on that, unfair assumptions are made. I know you didn't mean to overgeneralize but there have been some HUGE overgeneralizations that are quite offensive. :p[/QUOTE]

I got it "A good slow tune with a great groove is awesome to play" :thumb: :thumb: :D

Testify, testify

Not to forget good old walking bass. Its so fun to play them in the jazz band, and it can also get challenging when you have to walk at 200+ bps and still need to give that shuffle feel and accent notes etc

[QUOTE=Foxfire]Why does everybody think we're only into speed? :upset:[/QUOTE]

because they appear threads like "speed = talent?" and "who is the fastest bassist?" and "badass solos", and in all "favorite bassist" threads appear all those prog-rockers that play lightning fast... :D

[QUOTE=Ezeh]because they appear threads like "speed = talent?" and "who is the fastest bassist?" and "badass solos", and in all "favorite bassist" threads appear all those prog-rockers that play lightning fast... :D[/QUOTE]

Yeah...... good point

i loooove slow groovey blues type stuff. the bass isnt complicated in that genre (mostly), but its doing its job well.

there are limits either way for me. if someone is unnecisarily buisy with thier bass i wont listen to them, but if someone is a root noter i wont listen to them either. the best players achieve a good balance (mike gordon comes to mind).

Adam Clayton rocks, I personnally think he's one of the best players. Simple, groovy lines ussually make up pretty good songs, and they let everybody express themselves much easier.

BMundy: If you want to check out other good basslines like those, listen to U2 POP, it has awesome bass playing.

Slow is not bad.

You just have to make it expressive.

Slow and boring is bad, slow and emotional/expressive is great.

:thumb:

meh.. my music style dont accept it :p but ofcourse.. its perfectly good yes..

Noone here appreciates a slow good groove.
we're only BASSISTS!
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what crawled up your @ss?

he raised a perfectly valid point as there does seem to be a lot of talk of Myung and the like. people always talk about lerning Teen Town, Classical Thump or some Dream Theatre stuff but you rarely hear such things as:
"Ah man, i learned such a cool blues groove. Its slow, but it works!"

loves slow and simple ... most likely love songs, gets ya the girls

[QUOTE=ElKapitan]what crawled up your @ss?

he raised a perfectly valid point as there does seem to be a lot of talk of Myung and the like. people always talk about lerning Teen Town, Classical Thump or some Dream Theatre stuff but you rarely hear such things as:
"Ah man, i learned such a cool blues groove. Its slow, but it works!"[/QUOTE]
Yeah I know but we have these threads all the time.
think about it..
We are a BASS forum and.... "does anyone here like slow and simple..."
The over exagerration is what pisses me off. Making up threads that don't exist for the examples of how tehcnically minded we are and ****.
When people make threads on technical ability theres usually a lot of flaiming the threadstarter because of it ie-"Whos the fastest bassist" thread.

Then EVERYONE agreed with the starter of this, making the thread make literally no sense at all. "I agreee with you, noone here likes slow and simple stuff"
Bmundy knew that everyone here loves slow and simple s[size=2]h[/size]it and he still made the thread.
think about it :p

i do understand what u mean, i saw his question more as "why" isn't there so much talk about the slower, more emotional stuff
and, to be fair, most ppl here are technically minded. i personally feel that there's too much talk of tapping, slapping, popping and using some new fangled technique when, most often, there isn't really that much room for it in music. sure, there's going to be the exception such as DT, Primus, Wooten etc etc but most of the time its just nice and simple stuff but with FEELING that gets bass players through

Quote from Willie Dixon ......"The blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song,
inspiration, feeling and understanding."

the same can be said for bass ... bass is usualy inspired by feeling and understanding

Well if your slow like me, what other choices do you have besides slow basslines? :(

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooold thread :p

Yeah, try playing Fallen - Julee Cruise.. It has 2 notes (and one passing note of C) through most of it, then occassionaly holds on Bb for a few bars.. Its incredibly slow but hard to play!


It has no groove though.. we're playing it for the college gig unfortunately and no one enjoys it.


There is alot of slow groove songs we love to play though :)

2004?? Why was this brought up from the dead??!