"Riders on the Storm" by The Doors has an incredible bassline which is indeed played by a bassist, but... It came from the mind of the keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, who initially got it on the keyboard. Also, he used to play most of the band basslines on a bass synth, with his left hand, while playing whatever else on his right hand. Supposedly, this is where his high-sounding organ came from.
@@Scorhos not right, some Are with bass, some Are not, when the music over, unhappy girl and love me two times is only with Rays left hand on fender rhodes bass, some songs only have real bass like, peace frog and road house blues, but some have both on the track, like, light My fire, take it as it comes and la woman, im a huge doors fan and plays organ and bass like ray, so is funny to see People always think is Only real bass on studio albums, is easy to hear the difference
@@Pistoletjes yes and that is not a real bass, is only ray himself with left hand on fender rhodes bass, is easy to hear the difference between that and real bass. Light My fire and riders on the storm is with ray and real bass together
"Billie Jean" is a real bass and a synth bass doubled. They're played an octave apart. But technically there is a real bass in there. It's played by Louis Johnson.
By the way Davie504, Louis Johnson at least deserves an honorable mention after being left out of your top bassist video. An insult to slapping to neglect this...
Came here to say this exact same thing. I had a right hand technique video that he was a part of where he went over how he played on that track and many others.
I never thought the Seinfeld bass line was an actual bass. It always sounded synth to me. However, "Thriller" and "Billie Jean" surprised me a bit. Good video!
Synth bass hadn't been invented yet. The iconic melody is a clavinet, which is like a cross between a harpsichord and an electric guitar. There is also bass in the song, but it's not playing the part everyone associates with bass.
@@michealpersicko9531 A clavinet is not a synth. Modern synths have a clavinet setting that emulates the sound of an actual clavinet, much like how they have a setting that emulates the tone of the piano. But Stevie Wonder played an actual clavinet on "Superstition." Synth clavinets didn't exist until the mid-late 1980's. The real clavinet produces sound by plucking a string, just like a harpsichord (or clavichord, thus the name), but instead of mechanically amplifying the sound with an acoustic soundboard, the clavinet uses a pickup, just like an electric guitar or electric bass. It's definitely not a synthesizer.
@@spastickitchen Synthesizers had been widely available in 1972 when "Superstition" was recorded. Stevie Wonder used a Moog synthesizer (not sure if modular or a MiniMoog). The Moog modular synthesizers were first available in the 1960s and can be heard on The Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" (1969) and Wendy Carlos' "Switched On Bach" (1968). The MiniMoog was first available in 1970 and took the primary modules from a modular cabinet and put it into a portable keyboard instrument.
it is worth noting that after the White Stripes Jack has had a bassist in his various bands and in my opinion those bands have a better sound (not necessarily better songs)
Some other songs with bass lines not played on bass guitar include Take on Me by a-ha and Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins. They were played with the slap bass (BASS 1) preset on the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer.
I think you should do a video now about bass lines that everyone thinks are guitars lines. I know several riffs I took the time to learn on guitar turned out to be bass lines played with distortion or fuzz. Tool does this a lot- not sure what effect they use on the bass but- it sounds like a guitar a lot of the time. Awesome video man- I had no idea any of these weren't a real bass but, I think the Seinfeld thing surprised me the most. I used to play in a jazz band and we turned the Seinfeld intro into a head- it was about 5 minutes long, and fun as hell to play. We incorporated several Television theme songs into it but the Seinfeld piece was the backbone of what we were doing. Damn- I had forgotten all about that- that was when I was 19-20 years old- I'm 50 now. Time flies... actually it speeds up, not sure why but as you get older it just goes faster and faster and faster. A year goes by so fast now it's crazy- I'm always shocked. This one is half over- almost- doesn't seem possible.
Seeing the Attention bass line played on keyboard hurt sooo much. Ive never been assassinated by a close friend in the mob, but I think I know what it FEELS like now.
The basslines in almost every song The Doors played were actually played on an analog synth Ray Manzarek had sitting on top of his Rhodes Piano when they played live concerts. They only recorded using an actual bass for the studio albums. Crazy thing is, Manzarek was so good at mimicking bass on keyboard, you couldn't tell the difference. Also, Kurzweil makes some of the best keyboards around, so the fact that the composer of the Seinfeld theme used a Kurzweil to mimic bass is very unsurprising. (I did the same thing with my Kurzweil SP-88.)
The knowledge that the sweet, slappy Seinfeld theme was played on keyboard has left a bass shaped hole in my bass shaped heart. My world was built on pillars of sand, each grain a lie. I have no where to go, no one to look up to, except Davie504, the true lord and savior of BASS.
Really surprised Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" isn't in this list. I was a little sad when I learned that was not actually played on a bass. So funky!
@@Hyrdar No, it's played on a synth. You're thinking about the hook, the hook is not really a bass line. But there's an actual bass line in the song as well as the clavinet part. The hook is played really deep on the clav though.
@@axelmagnusgaaso - Yes! 'Superstition' actually has *two* bass lines most people don't know are not played on a bass guitar! 😀 I had known forever that the higher hook line was a Clavinet, but it was only recently when I heard the isolated lower bass line in a Rick Beato video that I learnt it was a Moog synth! Played by Stevie himself, just like all other instruments except for the brass; Mind-blowing talent! 😀
Ray Manzarek was the king of keyboard bass grooves. Break on Through and Riders on the Storm are the best known ones. Personally I like the Peace Frog the best. It's crazy how bass was front and center in a lot of Doors songs.
@@bill903 True. There's a story Manzarek tells where he's teaching the bass line for Riders on the Storm to the bass player. The bass player tells him it might be easy on a keyboard, but it's really, really hard to play on bass. Manzarek was, like, well, that's how it goes.
I saw a Doors cover band once and the keyboardist played doubled up on the Fender bass piano and the keyboard for the whole show. 10/10 for authenticity.
Jim Morrison’s Dad was the Admiral in charge of the Gulf of Tompkin incident, a false flag sinking a U.S. ship and blaming the Vietcong, that started the Vietnam war…
Back in the day, (1980s) my full time job was playing bass in a Top 40 cover band. Probably at least half of the songs we did that were popular then had bass parts that were not played on a bass guitar on the original recordings. I did eventually get a keyboard to play those synth bass parts. You'd be surprised if you listen closely to the songs of that era to find that many songs you thought were played on bass were not
A pitch-shifter. Another example of pitch shifter in use- the bassist of Mad Capsule Markets uses a pitch shifter to great effect in the song 'Tribe' to perform the 'guitar' solo.
The Charlie Puth one definitely sounded pretty real to me, though I've never heard it before now. Jack White didn't tune the guitar down an octave, he used a pitch shift pedal.
Yes, he did it. But the effect is actually (almost) the same Almost because it would be (a lot) harder to play in a guitar an octave lower than to simply use a pedal
"Smoke on the Water" is not only not played on a bass, it's not even a bass line. It's played by the guitarist and the keyboardist of the band, but never as the bassline.
the seven nations army was the one that shocked me the most. that bass line haunted my dreams for a decade. every night, a faceless bass player tormented me with that simple yet eloquent melody.... and then the war came. so many senseless deaths...
Motorhead, Dinosuar Jr, and Boris all have that going on too. Rickenbacker basses played through overdriven marshall amps with lots of double stops and power chords. Good shit. I love it when a bass kinda just becomes a real grungy rhythm guitar.
I’ve NO idea how you play bass so well with those long, spidery fingers. I could see it on guitar or piano, but how the heck do you have enough strength in those toothpicks? I’m just amazed.
False. "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" features bass guitar by Nathan East. Also, Davie is wrong about "Billie Jean". Louis Johnson also played the riff on bass guitar along with a synth.
Thanks Stefan Herbest. I was about to point that out to Davie that Louis Johnson played Bass on Billie Jean. You can tell the difference between the record & the keyboard he showed
There’s a low bass note an octave below the first note of the riff from a synth that helps create a pulse feel. Bassist Louis Johnson played his part on every bass guitar he owned, before Jackson settled for a Yamaha bass.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge that the bassline from Seven Nation Army was played on a downtuned guitar with an octave pedal. Also, in 24k Magic, it definitely sounds like a synth bass patch in the recording.
Davie thank you for this vid and I tip my cap to your own skills on the "low strings" Seinfeld is the one that catches me by surprise I'm almost 50 and grew up learning and playing these "snipets" that were actually from a synth (this is very sad). I knew 7 nation was actually a guitar but I thought he was playing into a effect processor that put the notes into a lower octave to find per you that he is actually detuned
6:50 OMG! It's ME on the @Davie504 channel 🤩🤩🤩 THANK YOU MASTER! Of course I am not the best synth bass player, I am just keyboardist. But I really like exploring analog and digital synths with the ability to reproduce the mythical synth basses of the 80s.
Yeah there is no way you can tune a guitar down a whole octave and still be playable, otherwise a bass guitar wouldn't exist. Guitarists already push it to the limit going down to C and B on 7/8 strings
@@dragons_red I tune my 6 strings down to C and I'm always in Drop D. You can tune down max to drop B on a 6 string and it dint sounds great. Nobody tines down an Octive you tune down Steps half step, full step
Davie is so goddamn talented that he can make a simple bassline (or in this case a "guitar/synthline", lmao) sound amazing. I don't play the bass, but you inspire me, Davie.
As a guitarist who always wanted to have a bass as well, he inspires me the double, as I study more my guitars (electric and nylon accoustic) and I'm this close 🤏🏼 to start saving for a bass hahahahaha he's such a hard worker musician and efficient in his technique.
I can just imagine Cliff like "Hey, you know that thing I played on the accordion, I think I can do this on bass" and all the band members are like "whatever dude".
Well Dave i remember back in the late 70’s and into the 80’s strings were being replaced by synths. Record labels were too happy to accomodate synth keyboardists in lieu of hiring orchestral strings and other session players. So this is no different.
Seinfield' theme not being a bass hit me like Luke Skywalker being told by Darth Vader that he is his son. My brother heard me crying "Nooo, that's not true" and came to see what I was caterwauling about.
As an aficionado of 80's keyboard music I knew and recognized those as being keyboard sounds. The distorted sound from 7NA gave away that it was guitar since I used to do the same thing on my Fender before I switched to bass and bought my Washburn fretless.
Billie Jean? That was Louis Johnson on bass I'm pretty sure. There is a documentary somewhere where he mentions no bass players play the octave F# like he did on the recording...
David Gilmour recorded some of the more iconic bass lines on the Pink Floyd recordings for Roger Waters such as the the Pigs bass intro. That could be the next video, "Bass lines played by guitarists in bands with a bass player." Slap
Or drummers - such as The Clash's Rock The Casbah which was played by Topper Headon and not Paul Simonon. (Gilmour also doubled the bass in One Of These Days. And I think he played fretless on Hey You).
Spinal Tap"s "Big Bottom', Vocals, Percussion, Bass, Bass and more Bass. And a live performance featured '...every Bass player in the known universe' 😄🎵
It is and it is real bass, played by Louis Johnson. Commenters above added info on the recorded song that 2 bass lines are combined, Louis's real bass and a synth bass too.
I wondered why the Seinfeld bassline always sounded better live. That one really surprised me, but it makes sense. But ya just don't get that special sound unless it's with a bass
Phil Collins' Sussudio could be on this list. The baseline was originally created electronically and they had to bring in Lee Sklar to learn it retroactively so they had someone to play it live.
it's a great bass line. As an old man, I have no idea who Charlie Puth is - went and listened to the original and was like "what the f*** is this s***?". Sounded fantastic when Davie played it
This one goes way back! Any song from, "The Doors", the bassline in the studio was played on a real bass. At least every song has a version with real bass. But, the band never had a bass player in it. The keyboardist always played the bassline, especially live!
One of my all time favorite bass lines was in 'Flashlight' by Parliament. Years later I figured out it was likely to be done on a synth. Still an epic line...
Or "I Will" always by the Beatles where the bass is actually Paul himself singing low notes, when I noticed it while listening the song I laughed way to hard but that's kinda cool
With a synthesizer, it's someone playing one bass note and then someone else records it, puts it into the synthesizer which plays the sound at different pitches on the keys.
You're hilarious, thank you! Really enjoyed this. Also, I am LOLing at your shirt. To combine your quote with the t-shirt's logo: "OMG I thought this was SPACE but actually it is NOT!" :)
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after this video I'm living in Spain without the S
SLAP
Hi davie
bass
Not epico
F
As a drummer I feel the pain of having all your parts turn out to be computerised
That must happen a lot
Probably was happening before you were alive
Music producers kill music while making it
Add 4 strings to your drums and I will agree
same
"Riders on the Storm" by The Doors has an incredible bassline which is indeed played by a bassist, but... It came from the mind of the keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, who initially got it on the keyboard. Also, he used to play most of the band basslines on a bass synth, with his left hand, while playing whatever else on his right hand. Supposedly, this is where his high-sounding organ came from.
All the studio stuff of the doors was recorded with a bass player , but on tours ray played all the lines in the fender piano-bass .
* from The Doors to be exactly.... When the music's over also has a very catching bassline.
@@Scorhos not right, some Are with bass, some Are not, when the music over, unhappy girl and love me two times is only with Rays left hand on fender rhodes bass, some songs only have real bass like, peace frog and road house blues, but some have both on the track, like, light My fire, take it as it comes and la woman, im a huge doors fan and plays organ and bass like ray, so is funny to see People always think is Only real bass on studio albums, is easy to hear the difference
@@Pistoletjes yes and that is not a real bass, is only ray himself with left hand on fender rhodes bass, is easy to hear the difference between that and real bass. Light My fire and riders on the storm is with ray and real bass together
I believe it was Carole Kaye that played the doubled bass lines on the recordings? Then again she says she played every bass line ever.
For years I thought that Stevie Wonder's Superstition was the coolest bassline ever, until I saw Stevie play it on a keyboard.
It’s Called a clav
Davie is so humble.
He created all these baselines but he never mentioned.
all thanks to my teacher: Davide Biale
@@Davie504 lol 😆
DAMN you've got a point bro
Ok
@@Davie504 very epic
"Billie Jean" is a real bass and a synth bass doubled. They're played an octave apart. But technically there is a real bass in there. It's played by Louis Johnson.
By the way Davie504, Louis Johnson at least deserves an honorable mention after being left out of your top bassist video. An insult to slapping to neglect this...
I can confirm. I heard the isolated bass track for "Billie Jean" before the channel uploading it got deleted.
This
Yes louis Johnson played billie Jean 🙏❤️
Came here to say this exact same thing. I had a right hand technique video that he was a part of where he went over how he played on that track and many others.
Charlie Puth- Attention
He should name it "Attention, there's no bass"
SHOCK
It was pretty obvious that the bassline was not played on a real bass, just like Dua Lipa's Dont start now
I started Bass because of this song. 😶😢
It's not Attention, it's you just want to touch it. Duuh. 🤣😂
@@HarptoHeart69 you mean Slapp D bass.
- I’m head out 😶
@@jothamsian5137 it’s okay, you did the right thing for the wrong reason. You still ended up on the bass, which is always right 👍
First time I've seen this guy. His delivery makes me smile and I just can't stop.
Davie504 is awesome SUB scribe and slap like
Me too
I never thought the Seinfeld bass line was an actual bass. It always sounded synth to me. However, "Thriller" and "Billie Jean" surprised me a bit. Good video!
Billie Jean is real bass mixed with synth, Davie got it wrong.
Thriller surprised you?
@@pepesilvia429 I mean, Thriller is a synth bass. I think it was played on a Moog
I never thought the Seinfeld bass line was actually played on bass either
I never thought Thriller was played on bass
"Superstition", Stevie Wonder. Sythn bass played by Stevie himself. He also plays the drums on that track. A monster
Synth bass hadn't been invented yet. The iconic melody is a clavinet, which is like a cross between a harpsichord and an electric guitar. There is also bass in the song, but it's not playing the part everyone associates with bass.
@@spastickitchen the clavinet is a synth clavichord hence the name *CLAVInet*
@@michealpersicko9531 A clavinet is not a synth. Modern synths have a clavinet setting that emulates the sound of an actual clavinet, much like how they have a setting that emulates the tone of the piano. But Stevie Wonder played an actual clavinet on "Superstition." Synth clavinets didn't exist until the mid-late 1980's. The real clavinet produces sound by plucking a string, just like a harpsichord (or clavichord, thus the name), but instead of mechanically amplifying the sound with an acoustic soundboard, the clavinet uses a pickup, just like an electric guitar or electric bass. It's definitely not a synthesizer.
I heard he’s not really blind, called out to Shack in a lobby.
@@spastickitchen Synthesizers had been widely available in 1972 when "Superstition" was recorded. Stevie Wonder used a Moog synthesizer (not sure if modular or a MiniMoog). The Moog modular synthesizers were first available in the 1960s and can be heard on The Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" (1969) and Wendy Carlos' "Switched On Bach" (1968).
The MiniMoog was first available in 1970 and took the primary modules from a modular cabinet and put it into a portable keyboard instrument.
At least Jack White was actually playing a stringed instrument.
it is worth noting that after the White Stripes Jack has had a bassist in his various bands and in my opinion those bands have a better sound (not necessarily better songs)
It's still cheating!!!!!!!!!!
@@therealmomo8033 Pianos are stringed instruments.
@@therealmomo8033 Lol, no. They are not.
@@therealmomo8033 No, they're not. They are machines that electronically generate sounds.
Some other songs with bass lines not played on bass guitar include Take on Me by a-ha and Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins. They were played with the slap bass (BASS 1) preset on the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer.
Danger Zone, yes. I hadn't heard about Take On Me.
Another good one is Broken Wings by Mr Mister.
Src: I own a DX7-II FD
The "guitar" solo in Queen's I Want to Break Free is a synth if that makes you feel better.
Check out the trombone version, it's hilarious
Whaaat?
Kkkk
@Eddie Hitler Brian may is an arrogant prick?
@Eddie Hitler how fucking dare you. What did he ever do to make him an arrogant prick?
Davie: I live in Spain, without the S
Me: Norway, without the R
True
Me: I live in Poland, but with double O
Me: Britain without the EU :'(
@@fokeyjo you're better off
USA without the S or A.
Everything should be played on bass. No exceptions.
All of and just for all
Ikr
What about violin for example
Wise word
@@Gabi-xt2gi NO EXCEPTIONS!
I think you should do a video now about bass lines that everyone thinks are guitars lines. I know several riffs I took the time to learn on guitar turned out to be bass lines played with distortion or fuzz. Tool does this a lot- not sure what effect they use on the bass but- it sounds like a guitar a lot of the time. Awesome video man- I had no idea any of these weren't a real bass but, I think the Seinfeld thing surprised me the most. I used to play in a jazz band and we turned the Seinfeld intro into a head- it was about 5 minutes long, and fun as hell to play. We incorporated several Television theme songs into it but the Seinfeld piece was the backbone of what we were doing. Damn- I had forgotten all about that- that was when I was 19-20 years old- I'm 50 now. Time flies... actually it speeds up, not sure why but as you get older it just goes faster and faster and faster. A year goes by so fast now it's crazy- I'm always shocked. This one is half over- almost- doesn't seem possible.
Should call this series "I can't believe it's not BASS" lol
Haha like that butter thingy!
YES!
Hes the bass musiciswin
You were labouring under the impression that this was BASS
@@gazebo9730 that’s what i thought
BASS GOD IS BACK WITH HIS HEADPHONES *THE LEGENDARY HEADPHONES*
Come on thats low there is very many good bass players with out all of this show headphones lmao not funny
@@ramshaar2597 dude, wtf is wrong with u?
Epic
Nope, his old headphones were peeling off bits of fabric like an old man with sunburn
@@-danR That's shitty Beyerdynamic Ear-pads for ya, but they are replaceable.
The Seinfeld “bass line” sounds really sampled, but for the time it sounded pretty real.
tell-tale is probably they're all plucked, no slap.
Nah, it was obvious even back then. For me anyway.
Watch the video how it's made it's good
Jip, this shocked me too...
It always sounded like a synth to me.
Seeing the Attention bass line played on keyboard hurt sooo much. Ive never been assassinated by a close friend in the mob, but I think I know what it FEELS like now.
You described the feeling perfectly
The And Justice For All album must bring a tear to your eye…
The basslines in almost every song The Doors played were actually played on an analog synth Ray Manzarek had sitting on top of his Rhodes Piano when they played live concerts. They only recorded using an actual bass for the studio albums. Crazy thing is, Manzarek was so good at mimicking bass on keyboard, you couldn't tell the difference.
Also, Kurzweil makes some of the best keyboards around, so the fact that the composer of the Seinfeld theme used a Kurzweil to mimic bass is very unsurprising. (I did the same thing with my Kurzweil SP-88.)
yea but they still has a bass player on all their albums for a reason
Kurzweil is a genius... keyboards were his side thing..
Actually...No...It was a Fender Rhodes Bass sitting on top of a Vox Continental Organ or Gibson G-101 Organ later ...
I could hear Davie504 playing BASS all night long. Only one bassist surpass him, the legendary Davide Biale. EPICO
He needs to stop running from Davie 503 and face the challenge. Then we'll really know who's the best.
This deserves so many more likes
Same guy bruh
@@punt3rplays I imagine you're fun at parties, right?
@@luisfelipeoliveira8144 cuál es tu record en 3x3
1:51 to 2:41 it’s all about that!
I’m no fan of the song, but the way he plays that bass line here is heavenly.
Somewhere out there, there must be a song that has a bassline that's actually just a pitch shifted kick drum.
i hate that thought so much
A lot
There is. Most Hip-Hop and a lot of modern music uses 808s, which nowadays refers to a pitch-shifted kick drum.
Isn't that what an 808 is?
techno uses kicks and toms for some of their basses, i wouldnt be surprise if some pop music layered a kick for the bass to give it more punch
The knowledge that the sweet, slappy Seinfeld theme was played on keyboard has left a bass shaped hole in my bass shaped heart. My world was built on pillars of sand, each grain a lie. I have no where to go, no one to look up to, except Davie504, the true lord and savior of BASS.
Really surprised Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" isn't in this list. I was a little sad when I learned that was not actually played on a bass. So funky!
Do you knou the song : for stevie wonder's eyes only?
@@Hyrdar No, it's played on a synth. You're thinking about the hook, the hook is not really a bass line. But there's an actual bass line in the song as well as the clavinet part. The hook is played really deep on the clav though.
@@axelmagnusgaaso - Yes! 'Superstition' actually has *two* bass lines most people don't know are not played on a bass guitar! 😀 I had known forever that the higher hook line was a Clavinet, but it was only recently when I heard the isolated lower bass line in a Rick Beato video that I learnt it was a Moog synth! Played by Stevie himself, just like all other instruments except for the brass; Mind-blowing talent! 😀
don't be sad, I'm glad that you dropped this info, thanks for letting us all know
@@mightyV444 Rick Beato.. the fount of all knowledge...
Ray Manzarek was the king of keyboard bass grooves. Break on Through and Riders on the Storm are the best known ones. Personally I like the Peace Frog the best. It's crazy how bass was front and center in a lot of Doors songs.
Davie's fav sport: BASS
Or even bassket
Wanna play tennis, Davie?
"Let me get my _BASS_ "
@@-danR 🤣
Almost all The Doors' classic basslines are Ray Manzarek's left hand on his Fender Rhodes Bass Piano.
not actually
manzarek played them in live shows but the most of the studio versions were recorded with a bass
@@bill903 True. There's a story Manzarek tells where he's teaching the bass line for Riders on the Storm to the bass player. The bass player tells him it might be easy on a keyboard, but it's really, really hard to play on bass. Manzarek was, like, well, that's how it goes.
I saw a Doors cover band once and the keyboardist played doubled up on the Fender bass piano and the keyboard for the whole show. 10/10 for authenticity.
"Mist-mist-mist Mr. Banks! Fender Rhodes is, is, is... I'm a got damn American icon!"
😁
🇺🇸
Jim Morrison’s Dad was the Admiral in charge of the Gulf of Tompkin incident, a false flag sinking a U.S. ship and blaming the Vietcong, that started the Vietnam war…
Plot twist: "Davie503 real main instrument is keyboard"
69 string bass is actually a 69 key keyboard
Who's davie503???
hahhahaha
@@h1dr1x93 you must watch the video again or get slapped 👋
and it was indeed
"The less I know the better" bass line was originally recorded by Kevin Parker on guitar with octave pedal
Yeah that’s definitely why I can’t play it right haha
attention bassline is so hypnotizing it plays in my head again and again
Whatever location Davie is located in he always needs BASS, even when traveling
but without a B
Back in the day, (1980s) my full time job was playing bass in a Top 40 cover band. Probably at least half of the songs we did that were popular then had bass parts that were not played on a bass guitar on the original recordings. I did eventually get a keyboard to play those synth bass parts. You'd be surprised if you listen closely to the songs of that era to find that many songs you thought were played on bass were not
Danger Zone from Top Gun is another one that uses a synth rather than an actual bass (in this case the legendary Yamaha DX7)
And i blame the Minimoog for that...lol...
I ruined 69 likes lol
The 80s were keytarded
The subtle octave effect you use on your bass in this vid sounds killer you should use it more often
The seven nation army "bassline" the guitar wasn't tuned down, he used a pedal to make his guitar an Octave down
169% chance Davie knows this but said tuned down for audience members who may not have heard of a pedal
A pitch-shifter. Another example of pitch shifter in use- the bassist of Mad Capsule Markets uses a pitch shifter to great effect in the song 'Tribe' to perform the 'guitar' solo.
Shut up
@@davidliu323 yeah like you'd have a borderline unplayable instrument if you tried to tune your guitar down a whole octave
You can hear him say tuned down an octave which is correct cause that's what the pedal does
The Charlie Puth one definitely sounded pretty real to me, though I've never heard it before now.
Jack White didn't tune the guitar down an octave, he used a pitch shift pedal.
No. He had spaghetti strings
@@IcarusofSillyBoys No, he used a pitch shifter. He even explains and demonstrates it in the film 'It Might Get Loud'.
🤦🏻♂️ does humor always fly past your head
@@marknpatterson No, his strings were hanging down lower than shawty
I think that kinda goes without saying. He probably should've mentioned the pedal, though for those who aren't familiar with such things.
Didn't jack white use an octaver pedal instead of tuning his guitar down?
Digitech whammy 🙏
Yes he did. I've seen him live a bunch of times and that is exactly how he does it.
Yes, he did it. But the effect is actually (almost) the same
Almost because it would be (a lot) harder to play in a guitar an octave lower than to simply use a pedal
yeah he did
@@pauloviniciosappelt9789 idk you must use a thicker gauge for the E string to tune that low and produce a sound.
It's the same for the theme of "impossible misions" which is played on piano. It's even very impressive to see how fast the left hand play.
It's played by the famous bass player carol kaye!!!
"Smoke on the Water" is not only not played on a bass, it's not even a bass line. It's played by the guitarist and the keyboardist of the band, but never as the bassline.
Nobody thinks that part is played on bass
Seven Nation Army is actually a regularly tuned guitar played through an Electro-Harmonix Octave Multiplexer pedal
he used a digitech whammy as a drop tuna fx, Jack himself explains it on the "It might get loud" documentary
How’d you get verified with 1 sub?
Davie is the legendary bassist we don't deserve
True dat
Why da fck are you everywhere
totally, he's a bass master and the finest comedian
(he doesnt ever mock people)
@@0000song0000 joe dart is better.
@@awllypollyas8292 nope
the seven nations army was the one that shocked me the most. that bass line haunted my dreams for a decade. every night, a faceless bass player tormented me with that simple yet eloquent melody.... and then the war came. so many senseless deaths...
People recording bass on keyboards:
Bass players: they took our jobs!
They took our studio jobs. They still want us for the live shows. :)
@@justinkey4895 because is so much cooller
They terk er jerbs!!
Terk yer jerb!!
They terkerjerb!
"Top 6 anime betrayal"
My disappointment is immeasurable & my day is ruined
Anime basstrayal
Never seen anyone who threw 2 memes in one comment section at the same time
You should do "guitar" riffs that are actually played on bass to cheer yourself up. Check out any song by Royal Blood!
Motorhead, Dinosuar Jr, and Boris all have that going on too. Rickenbacker basses played through overdriven marshall amps with lots of double stops and power chords. Good shit. I love it when a bass kinda just becomes a real grungy rhythm guitar.
Damn, I just wrote the same comment. Almost verbatim. Sorry about being unoriginal. I'll step back, now.
Also, "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Metallica. Cliff Burton...
Lots of Kasabian songs too, Club Foot most notably
We creating content for Davie! Hope he sees it and puts together a vid!
I’ve NO idea how you play bass so well with those long, spidery fingers. I could see it on guitar or piano, but how the heck do you have enough strength in those toothpicks? I’m just amazed.
my brother has toothpick fingers and his grip is scary strong. He's not even athletic. My sausage hands can't compete.
your comment makes me laugh cause I had the same thought a few times. I play and thought my small strong hands were an advantage..
Strength in the hands comes from the arm, not the hand itself
@@ryanoceros9382 Indeed. And tall people hide their muscle well, so he could have incredibly strong hands without popeye's forearms.
check out the legendary Tony Levin.
Michael Jackson’s “Bad” album was 100% synth bass in 1987 by Quincy Jones.
False. "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" features bass guitar by Nathan East. Also, Davie is wrong about "Billie Jean". Louis Johnson also played the riff on bass guitar along with a synth.
@@kennet7837 siq facts
I need a therapy session after watching this one, Davie.
Hey Dave504, the Billie Jean Bassline was definitly played by Louis Johnson in the Thriller Record. Greets from Germany
Thanks Stefan Herbest. I was about to point that out to Davie that Louis Johnson played Bass on Billie Jean. You can tell the difference between the record & the keyboard he showed
There’s a low bass note an octave below the first note of the riff from a synth that helps create a pulse feel. Bassist Louis Johnson played his part on every bass guitar he owned, before Jackson settled for a Yamaha bass.
Didn't Steve lukather from toto play bass on a few tracks as well?
The point is that original was not a base, isn't it?
@@pedrorq Not sure about this. Eddie Van Halen played bass on Beat It.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge that the bassline from Seven Nation Army was played on a downtuned guitar with an octave pedal. Also, in 24k Magic, it definitely sounds like a synth bass patch in the recording.
It proves that ALL the other instruments came from BASS.
It proves bass is not necessary
@@SpiritualSpark108 f and a u b***h
and hollow logs
@@SpiritualSpark108 stfu
BURN THE INFIDEL !!!
I have an idea for a new series: "I thought this was Bass but actually it is"
Davie: keyboards are stealing our jobs
Me who plays a keyboard: *sweats nervously*
the perks of being able to change your instrument sounds
u gonna get slapped !
There you go 100 like :)
@Hapedise Divide19
Until keyboards can play palm-muted chugs guitar players are safe.
This feels like a caricature of your original personality.
However, your performance on bass is a excellent as ever.
I thought I caught a bass, but turns out it wasn’t a bass. So I threw it back in the water.
Fan suggestion: start series OMG I thought this was guitar But actually it is BASS
Bloody haters, how can they dislike so god-damned fast.
exactly lmao, there’s no point
Sadly, there are some people who subscribe to get notifications just so they can dislike
@@micah_wong that’s so stupid, why would someone go out of their way to do that ughhh, makes me upset but whatever
Subscribers to dislikeee lol
If it makes you feel better, the ratio now is 4300/19, so.. 😂
Davie thank you for this vid and I tip my cap to your own skills on the "low strings" Seinfeld is the one that catches me by surprise I'm almost 50 and grew up learning and playing these "snipets" that were actually from a synth (this is very sad). I knew 7 nation was actually a guitar but I thought he was playing into a effect processor that put the notes into a lower octave to find per you that he is actually detuned
6:50 OMG! It's ME on the @Davie504 channel 🤩🤩🤩 THANK YOU MASTER! Of course I am not the best synth bass player, I am just keyboardist. But I really like exploring analog and digital synths with the ability to reproduce the mythical synth basses of the 80s.
Seven nation army isn’t played on a downtuned guitar, Jack Whites guitar is in a slide tuning. He uses a pitch shifter pedal with chorus effect.
That is my understanding also.
Yeah I thought it was something like that or drop D with a octive pedal is how I used to jam on it
Interesting, I had been guessing that Jack White used a baritone guitar (which is uncommon, but not unheard of).
Yeah there is no way you can tune a guitar down a whole octave and still be playable, otherwise a bass guitar wouldn't exist. Guitarists already push it to the limit going down to C and B on 7/8 strings
@@dragons_red I tune my 6 strings down to C and I'm always in Drop D. You can tune down max to drop B on a 6 string and it dint sounds great. Nobody tines down an Octive you tune down Steps half step, full step
I think, I always knew Michael Jackson’s songs were 100% synth, because like… it’s got that ’80s synth feel to it, right?
Louis Johnson played with him and he's a real bassist tho :)
Same with the drums, they sound like a machine, but that's because they are played by a *machine*: Jonathan Moffett
Louis Johnson played on billie Jean
I heard the bass in Billie Jean has been played by Louis Johnson on Yamaha BB2000 - BASS guitar.
Davie is so goddamn talented that he can make a simple bassline (or in this case a "guitar/synthline", lmao) sound amazing.
I don't play the bass, but you inspire me, Davie.
I became a bassist thank to him😁😁
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As a guitarist who always wanted to have a bass as well, he inspires me the double, as I study more my guitars (electric and nylon accoustic) and I'm this close 🤏🏼 to start saving for a bass hahahahaha he's such a hard worker musician and efficient in his technique.
@@michaelthem3
Hope you get enough money for a bass! And furthermore, I hope you get really good at it! 😊👍
Billie Jean’s bass line was actually recorded on the bass, they just overdubbed a low keys part as well
Little known fact: Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) by Cliff Burton was actually played on an accordion… tuned down of course
I can just imagine Cliff like "Hey, you know that thing I played on the accordion, I think I can do this on bass" and all the band members are like "whatever dude".
Bass solo, take one.
source of this?
Yeah sources!? Because it sounds just like BASS with some distortion pedal...
@@dr.feelg00d40 You need a source just listen to the damn metallica everyone knows its accordion
Well Dave i remember back in the late 70’s and into the 80’s strings were being replaced by synths. Record labels were too happy to accomodate synth keyboardists in lieu of hiring orchestral strings and other session players. So this is no different.
Seinfield' theme not being a bass hit me like Luke Skywalker being told by Darth Vader that he is his son. My brother heard me crying "Nooo, that's not true" and came to see what I was caterwauling about.
(Hugs) sorry my friend.. the world is a cruel place for the bass.. 😢
Waiting for Davie to play Sephiroth's theme on bass. We need that cover
One winged angel? That would be sick
@@owenpark8991 of course. Just how badass that would be
omg i need this now
As an aficionado of 80's keyboard music I knew and recognized those as being keyboard sounds. The distorted sound from 7NA gave away that it was guitar since I used to do the same thing on my Fender before I switched to bass and bought my Washburn fretless.
I am a new follower of yours Davie, and have only seen a handful of your videos. But now you have scarred me for life you sick bastard !!!!!!
Billie Jean? That was Louis Johnson on bass I'm pretty sure. There is a documentary somewhere where he mentions no bass players play the octave F# like he did on the recording...
Davie’s video: *starts*
Nobody:
The hello kitty guitar behind davie: *why am I here*
It's actually the same thedooo's guitar
He btraied us
davie had a one night stand with the doo
Just to suffer
David Gilmour recorded some of the more iconic bass lines on the Pink Floyd recordings for Roger Waters such as the the Pigs bass intro. That could be the next video, "Bass lines played by guitarists in bands with a bass player." Slap
Or drummers - such as The Clash's Rock The Casbah which was played by Topper Headon and not Paul Simonon.
(Gilmour also doubled the bass in One Of These Days. And I think he played fretless on Hey You).
That would just be a video of Smashing Pumpkins songs.
basically any beatles song where paul is on piano
@@unhelpfulrevelations7989 When John would play bass.
Slap !!!...lol...
Spinal Tap"s "Big Bottom', Vocals, Percussion, Bass, Bass and more Bass. And a live performance featured '...every Bass player in the known universe' 😄🎵
Billie Jean is such a powerful bass line, this one is killing me.
It is and it is real bass, played by Louis Johnson. Commenters above added info on the recorded song that 2 bass lines are combined, Louis's real bass and a synth bass too.
Ahaha I was waiting for attention 💯💯
ayyyyy you should make a davie remix !!!!, your songs are pretty awesome
Your subscriber here
Didn't expected you hear
if you really wanted attention that bad you should've just made a comment and have a checkmark :troll:
Me too😅
Billie Jean WAS played on bass by Louis Johnson, Thriller was a keyboard.
It's both. I heard the isolated tracks just the other day. There's a synth bass in the higher octave and a real bass down an octave.
Dude destroys that Attention baseline! Nice chops
Everyone: wait seven nation army isn't played on a bass
Guitar players: you guys are just finding out about this
I wondered why the Seinfeld bassline always sounded better live. That one really surprised me, but it makes sense. But ya just don't get that special sound unless it's with a bass
Yeah the harmonic snaps aren't overly emphasized.
When I first found out Seinfeld was not played on bass it ruined my childhood.
And has ever ruined it since
Phil Collins' Sussudio could be on this list. The baseline was originally created electronically and they had to bring in Lee Sklar to learn it retroactively so they had someone to play it live.
Davie, Lucas Inutilismo from BRASIL is challenging you to an bass duel!
@Tuck Wyatt I mean, in portuguese is called Brasil, so he's half correct :)
No
epic
Inutilismo senza limitismo.
@Tuck Wyatt in "Brazil" we brazilians write Brasil in this form
when davie played the vocals of attention on his bass it sounded so good
Yes, I need a full cover of this.
it's a great bass line. As an old man, I have no idea who Charlie Puth is - went and listened to the original and was like "what the f*** is this s***?". Sounded fantastic when Davie played it
When davie says he wont battle someone, he’s gonna eventually end up battling that someone
Really?
I thought all the collaboration and continued storyline will just end without a battle.
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Shhh... it's really Davie504 trolling us!🤣
He didnt tune the guitar down for seven nation army, he used a pitch shifting pedal for it.
This one goes way back! Any song from, "The Doors", the bassline in the studio was played on a real bass. At least every song has a version with real bass. But, the band never had a bass player in it. The keyboardist always played the bassline, especially live!
One of my all time favorite bass lines was in 'Flashlight' by Parliament. Years later I figured out it was likely to be done on a synth. Still an epic line...
Maybe Helter Skelter by Beatles can be on the list too...
The "bassline" was actually played by Lennon on a Fender VI witch is a guitar/bass hybrid.
Fender VI Bass is A BASS. 6 string, but a bass. Hence the name. Yes, I used ''bass'' 4 times in this comment.
@@karfan2290 you did
Fender VI is totally a bass though....
Or "I Will" always by the Beatles where the bass is actually Paul himself singing low notes, when I noticed it while listening the song I laughed way to hard but that's kinda cool
I think a few Blink-182 songs do that too, like Always
We need a Bass Revenge! Lead and solo lines that are actually played on the bass.
You know you want it.
All baselines from RHCP was played on a ukulele choked me most.
Only someone who never experienced the 80's would be surprised by this news.
HAH!!!!
Some Brazilians on the channel coisa nossa are challenging you if you say no they will find you
With a synthesizer, it's someone playing one bass note and then someone else records it, puts it into the synthesizer which plays the sound at different pitches on the keys.
The baseline in Flashlight by Parliament is actually synth bass played by Bernie Worrell
Should go back in time to stop Bernie. ;)
I'm surprised about Seinfeld more than the rest. They should have hired Davie. He could have played it from the womb. Lol
Everyone always knew Seinfeld was on a keyboard, the pitch wheel is so obvious!
Not just bass....but almost all instruments is now replaced by synth keyboard
Sad but true
They don't just stop at replacing the instruments, either. These days, they also replace the performer. (e.g. "Hatsune Miku")
@@shayanmoosavi9139 you know it is
@@panossyngounis6902 You're my mask,
you're my cover, my shelter
@@hectorevans4940 im yours
You're hilarious, thank you! Really enjoyed this.
Also, I am LOLing at your shirt. To combine your quote with the t-shirt's logo: "OMG I thought this was SPACE but actually it is NOT!" :)