Every musician should listen to this and learn. Who else would have had the taste and discipline to give that song exactly what it needed and no more? She was brilliant.
The real genius behind this bass line is that for as simple as it is, all of its propulsive energy comes from where in the bar it's played. If I'm not mistaken Tina starts it on the & of 1 avoiding the downbeat, and when the first variation comes around she plays a note on the downbeat but it resolves down on the & of 1 so it doesn't have that fully resolved feeling.
the producer and the band had different counts of the measure, the producer believed it started on the pause before the beat, the band thought it started on the beat this is what causes the funky out of sync sound that alienates and grooves this song
Funny thing is, if you max out the volume with headphones, you can hear the music behind. But... how did this guy lowered the volume of all the music... except for the bass?
There’s some tool in music programs that allows you isolate sounds, if you go to the feel good inc with without bass video you’ll find a lot of people talking about it.
It's the original multitrack recordings, probably used in Rock Band the game. There's no tool that would actually allow you to isolate specific instruments out of a raw mix because the instruments all contain overlapping frequencies. Even if you lowered everything but the bass, you'd still hear the other instruments every time the bass played. As for the sound in the background, that's coming from the bands headphones, in this case Tina Weymouth on bass. This is how music is recorded, everybody plays their instruments wearing headphones, and then they hear themselves over each other's headphones, but it's still recorded in relatively clean separation.
My bass instructor asked me to find the baseline in this song that had 4 variations by listening to it. He specifically said that he thinks I’m reading to get this type of stuff down. The problem is there is one (maybe 2 if I make so stuff up) variation. Any idea what I should do?
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
This bass line is:
Same as it ever was.
Every musician should listen to this and learn. Who else would have had the taste and discipline to give that song exactly what it needed and no more? She was brilliant.
The real genius behind this bass line is that for as simple as it is, all of its propulsive energy comes from where in the bar it's played. If I'm not mistaken Tina starts it on the & of 1 avoiding the downbeat, and when the first variation comes around she plays a note on the downbeat but it resolves down on the & of 1 so it doesn't have that fully resolved feeling.
the producer and the band had different counts of the measure, the producer believed it started on the pause before the beat, the band thought it started on the beat
this is what causes the funky out of sync sound that alienates and grooves this song
Funny thing is, if you max out the volume with headphones, you can hear the music behind. But... how did this guy lowered the volume of all the music... except for the bass?
There’s some tool in music programs that allows you isolate sounds, if you go to the feel good inc with without bass video you’ll find a lot of people talking about it.
It's the original multitrack recordings, probably used in Rock Band the game. There's no tool that would actually allow you to isolate specific instruments out of a raw mix because the instruments all contain overlapping frequencies. Even if you lowered everything but the bass, you'd still hear the other instruments every time the bass played. As for the sound in the background, that's coming from the bands headphones, in this case Tina Weymouth on bass. This is how music is recorded, everybody plays their instruments wearing headphones, and then they hear themselves over each other's headphones, but it's still recorded in relatively clean separation.
Indeed
@@AdamBorseti one fascinating thing is that you can hear synths and solos and stuff that aren’t in the final song
Feels like a heartbeat. 💓
This song sounds like an existential crisis and I love it
Simple yet perfect!
Pretty impressive considering she apparently had to keep re-tuning the bass starting part way through the song!
Reminded me a bit of the Muppets Tonight version at first.
My bass instructor asked me to find the baseline in this song that had 4 variations by listening to it. He specifically said that he thinks I’m reading to get this type of stuff down. The problem is there is one (maybe 2 if I make so stuff up) variation. Any idea what I should do?
Tell him to listen to This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
I wonder if Tina did her sideways shuffle while playing this lol.
Man! I love the bass, thanks for the vid
Has the wage-labor monotony feel to a T