20 FLABBA HOLT BASS LINES
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- When it comes to Reggae Bass, Flabba Holt is the master of simplicity and groove. Flabba Holt and the Roots Radics band ruled the airwaves between 80 and 83. Here's 20 bass lines to keep you Riddim uppers busy. Who can name the tracks?
Backing Track and PDF available to download here
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That Al Campbell song though. Never heard it before. What an amazing bassline
@@mLnskiIt’s a killah bass line and the dub mixed by Professor is even more dangerous.
I'm just starting to realize it's not just the notes but it is also the timing that gives it the reggae feel, i gotta experiment with this.
The rhythm is more important than the notes.
Had the honor of seeing Flabba play this weekend. Roots Radics was backing Israel Vibration. Looked like Flabba was playing a Steinberger bass (no headstock, square body). What a beast! A true living legend.
U R A GREAT TEACHER OF DA RIDDUM DON!!!!!!!
I like Flabba Holt in Israël vibration🙏👊💪🔥🔥🔥⚡⚡⚡💥💥💥💯🇸🇷
Oh my god this is a mine of gold and ganja!
Apologies to anyone who downloaded the file and didn't get the PDF. It's there now.
This is phenomenal brother! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for sharing mi breda. My band Lightcode opened for the Roots Radics band here in Eugene Oregon last Friday. It was such a pleasure to see them live for the first time. Flabba was wonderful.
Watched a video on youtube about Flabba. He used his thumb on all his lines. It was fun trying to work out what he was saying. Good job it was subtitled. Loved every minute of it.
Flabba was such a wonderful Legend to meet, within minutes we were singing riddims and just reasoning at Juicy's Jamaican restaurant inA and at shows around town where I played in the opening band.
Thank you, Don! These are riddims are gems! 🙏🏿😊🇯🇲
There's a lot to chew on for such a short video. Thanks Don, good stuff as always.
Love Flabba Hold and Ashton ''familyman'' Barret.
Amazing! This is my study material for the next year...I appreciate so much what you have shared with us!
I love Flabba and Style Scott. Some classic dancehall riddims there ..Johnny Osbourne and Wailing Souls in there to of my faves !! Yes, Don all these are "must knows!"
Thanks for those master pieces of reggae bass line, Flabba is definitly a master of bass, and one of my fav now (thanks to you Don) , has his own creative , such a great pleasure to better discover all the subtleties , Don you rocks !
Ten thousand thanks for the flood of recent videos Don! I will be studying these basslines for weeks.
1. Hugh Mondell- Jaqueline
2. Freddie McGregor- Big Ship
3.
4. Sammy Dread- Rainy Days
5.
6. Johnny Osbourne- Love is Universal
7. Eek a Mouse- Noahs Ark
8. Freddie McKay- Another Weekend
9.
10.
11. John Holt- Police in Helicopter
12. Anthony Johnson- Gun Shot
13. Wayne Jarrett- Love in a mi heart
14. Cultural Roots- Thieves Liars Criminals
15.
16. Wailing Souls- Fire House Rock
17. Frankie Paul- Worries in the dance
18.
19.
20.
That’s all I can figure out. Man help me out with 3,10,20 I can’t put my figure on the names of those ones… flabba number 1
I'll drip feed you, 3. Raving - Triston Palmer
I was looking through Triston Palmer for 20 ha thanks
Hint- do any artist repeat on this list?
And how is there no Gregory?
@@andybowlin YES
Those riddims sound wicked!
Bassline 20 is really something! Looked up and down for it, but haven't had any luck.
Not complaining though. Also found some great music along the way
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What a treasure! You just gave me enough to practice on the upcoming ugly wheather weekend!
That was fantastic. Thank you for sharing. Not only was it hugely educational , but it was super chilling to listen to. Thats my workout for the weekend.
Subscribed!
Peace ❤
Well done Sir , great.
Oh Yes! Thanks for another fantastic video! I think I have nearly all of them in my record collection but still I could only name a handful... (1) Hugh Mundell - Jacqueline / (4) John Holt - Sweety Come Brush Me / (6) Johnny Osbourne - Love is Universal / (9) John Holt - Police In Helicopter / (16) Wailing Souls - Fire House Rock / (17) Frankie Paul - Worries In The Dance
2 is def big ship 🚢
8 Freddie McKay - another weekend?
11 sounds more like police in helicopter
14- cultural roots - thieves, liars criminals
12 - Anthony Johnson- Gun shot
Thumb up before watching the video 😊 keep up !
I'll grab 11 - Police In Helicopter - John Holt .. Great video, Donstrumental. Flabba also a big inspiration for myself as well.
Obrigado meu irmão 🇧🇷✌️
As linhas do Flabba são pra sempre ✌️
Yes Don! Flabba in the best ❤️
Thank you brother, you rock! Keep the good stuff coming!🙏🏽
Dude, Great Sounding Bass, The Riddims always stay in the pocket
Wonderful playing Don and a great idea , Roots Radics must be one of my favourite bands, to get it started
Number 2 Big Ship-Freddie McGregor
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Excellent. Nice to meet you today Don, small world 😊 great videos & very helpful tuition.
How funny was that meeting today.
@@donstrumental8905 Yes it was , Positive Vibrations Don :-)
Awesome, you are a great player. Keep it up, and thank you!
Oh man #6 got me. That super high to ultra low. Coulda been lower....
#12 made me move my shoulders.
#16 is SO melodic.
WTF IS EVEN #19!?!!? Dayum.
Another good stuff ! thx man !
Great channel
IM not even joking. I thought about asking for this and its here
Flabba Holt is up there with Robbie Shakespeare.. Where would Gregory Issacs Nite Nurse classic album be without Roots Radics backing?
Congratulations!
20 could be Settle Down
Fantastic compilation! Would be great to have a complete list!
I’ll pin the list up soon, giving a people a chance to work them out. If you look through the comments you will see that some are worked out already.
@@donstrumental8905 thank you, Don!
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Thanks, great stuff for a great bass workout
Appreciate!!!!
laying it down 😊
Riddim Up Sir 🔥🔥🔥🔥 💯
Great Fun!!! Gonna
Have some homework figuring out ‘name that tune’ with each!!😅
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Jah Bless
Yo Don, where's the Antroid phone cases???????
Love that i found this channel.
Any way you can show us how to play Bits and Pieces by Gregory Isaacs? My ear sucks, i can't seem to pin down the line.
Send me an email donstrumental@gmail.com
Muchas gracias!!!!
Thanks!
Very cool, thanks for this video Don! I recognized about 8 of them...some I'd never heard before! I had the honor of backing Nicodemus about 30 years ago and recognized that line. Flabba's been such a creative bassie! I love what he did on Barrington Levy's version of "Moonlight Lover"; he switched around the two halves of the original bassline to give it a more 'modern' feel. Check out the Joya Landis original and compare it to the B. Levy version, it gives a hint of what a brilliant bass player Flabba can be!
If I remember correctly you mentioned that on my first Flabba video which did make me go and check out the two versions. Geeky bass stuff. I love it. Wowzer... you played with Nicodemus.
@@donstrumental8905 Thanks Don, sorry, at my age the memory's the second thing to go LOL...yes I had the honor of backing Demus and several other singers on a western USA tour in the early to mid 90s. Despite his gangsta persona he was a true genklemon and a pleasure to work with. btw I worked for a while with Tippa Irie, who you probably know and have worked with.
And yes, I'm somewhat of a reggae bass geek...I mean, I've been called a "reggae nazi" (and worse) by those fans of the whitewashed subgenre called "cali reggae," which has taken over in popularity from Jamaican reggae out here. Its practitioners could learn a lot from you.
@@bassiehd Yes i've worked with Tippa quite a lot. The Cali reggae is what it is. we don't get to hear it over this side of the pond so I couldn't tell you anything about any of the bands.
@@donstrumental8905 You're not missing much, believe me Don. When you next see Tips hail him up from Herbie in California! I hope you've found him as pleasant and fun to work with as I did.
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I don't know any bass line but this is a great foundation to do some dubs :)
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2 - Big Ship
11 - Police in Helicopter
Thats all I could tell lol
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2 - Big Ship, Freddie McGregor
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Is it Flabba who plays bass on I-Roy's Camp Road Skank?
Fully Fullwood
Yes I!!!
worries in the dance Frankie Paul
this is fire!
You really just played 20 bass lines one after the other ....without a hitch.....impressive Don..........or were you reading😊?.....Let us know
I did this 4 years ago, I wrote the notation the day I posted this for RUclips.
Ok I give up….. here’s the final list so far….When will you post the real list so I can make a playlist. Please do this same video again with another Flabba 20. 🙏
1. Hugh Mondell- Jaqueline
2. Freddie McGregor- Big Ship
3. Triston Palmer - Raving
4. Sammy Dread- Rainy Days
5. Sammy Dread- Follow Fashon
6. Johnny Osbourne- Love is Universal
7. Eek a Mouse- Noahs Ark / Wayne Jarrett -Saturday night jamboree
8. Freddie McKay- Another Weekend / Johnny Osbourne - kiss somebody
9. Michael Palmer- I’m still dancing
10.
11. John Holt- Police in Helicopter
12. Anthony Johnson- Gun Shot
13. Wayne Jarrett- Love in a mi heart
14. Cultural Roots- Thieves Liars Criminals / Michael Prophet - just talking
15.
16. Wailing Souls- Fire House Rock
17. Frankie Paul- Worries in the dance
18.
19.
20.
You were only 5 short, You would have to be a proper Roots Radics nerd to get 10. Thief, Liars and criminals not correct though.
13- dangerous match 9 (my favorite)
Love in mi heart-Wayne jarrett
Love it, but where's the PDF and Backing-Track? 😅
sorry, it's there now.
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4 - Scientist - Beam Down / Sammy Dread - Rainy Days
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I'll start with bassline 1: Hugh Mundell - Jacqueline
Gold Medal
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What can I do on the high ends to get my sound more crisp because I can sound like old dub but I wanna sound like Studio One. I currently use a Music Man Stingray double humbucker with D’Addario flatwound strings and a Boss GT-10B Effects Processor. All plugged into a Fender 100W bass amp.
I think you're over thinking it. It looks like you have good gear. There is no difference between Studio One and "old dub" from a bass perspective. Good technique will make any bass sound good. A bit of a boring answer but that's all you need.
@@donstrumental8905 “Old dub” was poor wording by me. But I couldn’t pick out the notes as clearly as recorded bass from a professional
1 Jacqueline by Hugh Mundell :)
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Whats the name of bass line 6 2:26
Johnny Osbourne “Love Is Universal”👍🏼🙌🏼
7=Noahs ark EEKA mouse.
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14?
Sounds like Cultural Roots- thieves, liars and criminals.. hell a go pop album is 🔥
Tell me about 14.
@donstrumental8905 ah man, I am hearing the lyrics, "gunshot it nuh respect no notch." I haven't heard the track in at least 15 years. Was on a mix CD, the DJ from a thing called "Dub at the pub" every Tuesday back in the day, made for me.
Cultural Roots- Thieves liars criminals
Cultural roots - thrives liars criminals
pdf missing in your mail
thanks
Thank you. pdf is there now.
I’m sure I saw you playing in a band backing Barrington Levy. It was a decent show and the bassy was outstanding. However, the chemistry and energy with Barrington Levy was off. The Canary was definitely not at his best, even his audience interaction was off.
No wasn’t me backing Barrington. I would guess it’s his long time Bassie Blunt.
These are all Scientist dubs of course 😂
maybe 95% are Scientist
oww sheet bhai i heard that wailin souls line from fire house
i def hear that JANET SINCLAIR!!