@@politicaloutsider413 He will be 80 years old in juni. Most of us reasonable people who got enough breatmilk and empaty during our childhood do not demand the same from a 80 years old that we would demand from the same person when they where 25.
This is what you get when you have perhaps the best creative melodicist in pop/rock as your bass player. So incredibly important for the Beatles story that Macca stepped up to play the 'uncool' bass, post-Sutcliffe.
well, John and Paul already got most of the song-writing down before George and Ringo joined later on. Times were hard because they were born when the war was just getting started, then grew up when it ended.
I remember when I started playing bass years ago and would grumble seeing Paul on best bassists lists without listening to his work and assumed he was only on them because he was a Beatle. Boy was I wrong. He's absolutely brilliant. Melodic and creative. Beautiful sense of groove. He really is one of the best.
Play along with the records, and you will feel how great Ringo is, solid, huge pocket, behind the beat kind of drummer and realize very quickly, the Beatles may not be virtuous players on their instruments, however they wrote some GREAT SONGS, and playing along with them is SUPER FUN!
I was literally just having that thought about myself. While I’ve long since seen how brilliant he is as a songwriter, it sadly took this video for me to allow myself to be exposed to his brilliance in this way, as a player.
The best thing about this bassline is it follows a continuous and coherent progression like: Nice ordinary bassline ==> elaborate bassline underlying endless solo ==> almost jazz ==> utter mindfuck
Same. I was sitting in my room home alone with my window open and my dog on my bed. I had been practicing guitar and then i decided to look for more music. That’s when it found this and listened to it. Boy I’m glad i did that too. It was soo good
My life is divided between 19.9.1977 before and afterwards. The Purchase of this album, I know it's insane. Abbey Road was my last Beatles album, I was 14 years old. Paul is genius. But the song. Even Paul couldn't touch John.
Brian Wilson does a lot of those picked slides - which I think is what you're talking about - on "Pet Sounds" that undoubtedly inspired Paul. He's talked about Brian and "Pet Sounds" enough. But Paul is more of a rocker than Brian, which is why it's impossible to compare (or rank) the two geniuses.
@Tim Chadwick So she says. But Brian didn't end up using a lot of her tracks - e.g. on "Good Vibrations". On further research, it turns out that Ray Pohlman, another member of the Wrecking Crew, played the electric bass on "Here Today" on Pet Sounds. The picked, muted slides it features were probably inspired by Bill Wyman's runs on "19the Nervous Breakdown". But I'm pretty sure that Brian, especially as the original bass player in the Beach Boys, would have told Carol or Ray or whomever exactly what to play.
It's called a glissando. There's a famous surf rock rule of thumb: "when in doubt, gliss". If you put into that context: Link Wray etc, you'll realize you've heard it a million times.
@@jeffkahl Yeah. You listen to surf rock, you're gonna hear a gliss or three. It's the law. I'm sorry but I've got to say two things: 1) You can't argue with The Beatles and this is an incredible bassline, and 2) Some people just take it way overboard, particularly McCartney fans. Like "Those picked slides: they're just unheard of and genius". Come ON. Musical illiteracy is no joke.
I’ve always been fascinated by this bassline as a bassist. The way he composed it was just flawlessly genius. I like how some notes tend to sound flat now that I’ve heard it more clearly. Very good
@@thomaspappalardo7589 that would be more likely to affect the tuning, the intonation issues would have been down to the floating bridge not being placed correctly.
The scales at the last build up in the song caught my attention very quickly in my first listlen. This is one of the best Paul McCartney bass lines in my opinion.
The last time the four Beatles were in a studio together was during the "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" recording sessions. Definitely was an amazing way to end it all, althought I wish that they did just one more record.
That’s correct. And in the pictures we can see Paul holding his Höfner! when I always thought this was recorded on the Rickenbacker… the engineer on the day did an outstanding work capturing the bassline, as the Höfner fell out of favour in the studios recordings as it came notoriously poor in the mix. This is extraordinary.
No one to my face has ever denied or downplayed Paul Mccartney’s bass playing abilities. But if they did this is the first video to go to. McCartney was an absolute MONSTRO. I knew he was a bass God 20 years ago when I was a kid. An absolute master of grooves and melodies.
Just think about it : between Love Me Do and THIS absolute monster masterpiece of bassline prodigy and creative virtuosity and outstanding display of musical genius and musicianship it’s only 6 years. (By the way, I’m delighted reading the comments section!)
What is amazing about this bassline is ok John comes up with the basic guitar riff and idea BUT Paul came with this ingenious bassline that went perfectly with John’s and George’s guitars playing thus their participation. Not forgetting Ringo that made the drum track that predicted the way the others would play their parts. Paul though would have made those octave falls that he could obviously hear in his mind whilst composing this masterpiece 😎
Could you imagine him doing this on a lead guitar during the 3 minute reprise? I suspect it'd be hailed as one of the greatest guitar solos ever, but instead it's just another bassline.
I met Pete Steele in Leeds in the late 90’s in a small indie/alternative club night. I must have been about 18 at the time and stood next to this towering guy at the bar, and turned out to be Pete Steele. He was a really nice guy, had just done a gig in Leeds. Always remember how nice he was
@@timmg3139 he was a gem indeed. Met him many times here in NYC! Was the biggest Beatles fan you ever met and sir Paul was the biggest influence on him. Really nice humble gentle “giant” type!
That's a great description of how he approached his bass lines.. in every Beatles track you'll notice he never played the same thing twice! Check it out and you'll see what I'm saying.
This is very well played. Great control and musicality. Many supposedly “great” bass players of the Classic Rock era come nowhere close to this level of musical execution.
Abbey Road is Macca’s most complete work… his lines are melodic, creative and serve the songs so well… and his sound was big… like nothing I’d heard at the time… I know there were contemporaries of his who were also really pushing new melodic directions on bass (eg James Jamerson) and the influenced each other… but Abbey Road was it for me… and I heard that Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) was heavily inspired by the sound Paul got in that album… interesting… He may not be the best, but Paul has probably been the most influential bassist in rock/pop music! 😊
I think this is the Hofner, it sounds like a short scale bass. You can tell when he first hits the notes on some notes it goes sharp. It doesn't sound like the Ric to me, not enough bottom. I'm 68 McCartney inspired me to play bass the first time I heard I Wanna Hold Your Hand in early 1964 when I was 10 years old, I didn't get a bass until a few years later but I still play.
All my life-up till this afternoon in the car full blast on the stereo-I’ve wondered what the heck Paul is doing. I always heard it was elaborate, but 😮. Also, following the bass line you have no trouble sensing the end note coming. Paul is music through and through, born composing.
@@hubertignatowicz1138but I don’t think most understand why he’s such a good bassist. Most accept the fact that he is a good bassist but don’t really pay attention to his basslines enough to come to that conclusion themself
this sounded so good i almost considered bassists to be people for a second edit: guys you will never guess what instrument i started playing like 5 months after saying this
on peut aimer ou pas les beatles, mais il faut reconnaitre que Mc Cartney est quand meme un genie de la basse et sais offrir une musicalité qui fait que bien des chansons des beatles n'aurait pas la meme aura si la basse etait jouer de façon "plus simple". J'écoute les beatles depuis plus de 49 ans et c'est toujours un plaisir d'entendre cette basse envoutante et hypnotique d'i want you.A ecouter encore et toujours.....😉
Another great aspect of Paul's bass playing on this masterpiece, as well as many others is that Paul never plays the same lines twice! From verse to verse, bridges, and choruses. If you don't believe me, do some research and you'll be amazed! His bass lines are songs themselves! What an incredible bass player!
Gene Simmons of Kiss said that his bass playing was influenced by Sir Paul. When I was a kid I would always tell myself Gene “ sounds like McCartney” but never made the connection until one day I read an article where Simmons says Macca is the guy
I own a Hofner Club bass (From Germany) and a C64 in Mapleglo. I struggle to countenance the notion that PM used the BRIDGE PICKUP to record every latter Beatle tune. The bottom is really found via the neck Toaster.
Paul never, or at least, rarely used the bridge pickup on his Ricky. I've read that when he got it fixed, they found out that the bridge pickup didn't even work(I've never verified thatut take that with a grain of salt)! He only really used the bridge pickup on the Hofner or his fender jazz bass.
@@you_tubeslonelyheartsclubband The Rick Resource Forum has an ancient thread from 2002 from a Mark Arnquist, former RIC employee, who stated he worked on Paul's 4001S, and that indeed the cobalt magnets were stone dead, and that they had just shut down manufacture of that pickup. Thay had to punt and shoehorn a Hi-Gain into that space. Shortly after the White Album's release, Paul had his Rick back in time for Abbey Road. I do also understand that "Think for Yourself" may be the only use of the bridge pickup. It sounds like that with no effects.
Incredible how out of tune the guitar is, I think the intonation is off too. But when you mix it together it just does the job so well! Thanks for posting
@@stupidyoutube7463 actually, the one who doesn't get it, is you. the entire point of my first sentence, was to add weight and validity to the 2nd one. maybe reading comprehension just isn't your thing?
@@cheezyridr no that other person is right. You’re being an ass and giving a backhanded compliment. You could have just said you like the bassline or just left it at not liking the Beatles, but you had to point out that you like Paul even less than you like the Beatles. It was just unnecessary
GRAN BAJO DE PAUL. 4:38 Empieza el Riff o Melodía de la línea de bajo. La repite 15 veces. Pero , el genio de McCartney introduce notas o escalas de adorno dentro de cada una de las 15 repeticiones. Creativity le mandé a Paul "You'll be rocking 4ever."..
That’s a really great Abbey Road sessions pick of Paul with the Ric, but what we’re hearing here is his famous Höfner!! It has this lower mid “growl” to it that the Ric doesn’t have. They are hard to tell apart in Paul’s hands because of his pick hand palm muting technique. 2 other indicators that it’s the Höfner: you can hear how poorly intonated the bass is when he plays octaves together. You can also hear this on I’ve Got a Feeling as well, that the bass is in tune, but not quite in tune with itself. And lastly it’s the Höfner because of the string bends he’s doing. You can see clearly in the Get Back doc that Paul had a different kind of string set on his Höfner that were all black. These strings have much less tension than standard short scale bass strings and are easily bendable. If you’ve ever played one of those tiny acoustic ukulele bass’s at Guitar Center that have those floppy fat black strings on it, you know what I’m talking about!
this is the final boss of beatles basslines
also "Something"
There's a few tbh
There is so many nuances and improv phrases that makes it very hard to tackle at first try compared to other of his iconic bass lines.
nah. The most crazy one is hey bulldog
@@downhill7432 Lovely Rita
Sometimes we forget what an amazing bass player Paul was and is.
I'll forget 9/11 before I forget how good Mccartney's playing is
WAS, not "is"
...he sucks nowadays.
@@politicaloutsider413
He will be 80 years old in juni. Most of us reasonable people who got enough breatmilk and empaty during our childhood do not demand the same from a 80 years old that we would demand from the same person when they where 25.
@@roargull that's true, homeboy...
...that's why l said Paul McCartney sucks nowadays.
singing at same time .puts an extra genius edge to it eh
This is what you get when you have perhaps the best creative melodicist in pop/rock as your bass player. So incredibly important for the Beatles story that Macca stepped up to play the 'uncool' bass, post-Sutcliffe.
I think we could all do without “perhaps”. Not needed…
Macca - Mozart of our time!…
No lie. No Beatles as the world knows without Paul
That being said, Sutcliffe dying as young as he did, and leaving behind friends and family who cared for him so much, was still a tragedy.
The Beatles were thebest of their time because John and Paul, and the best of all time because George and ringo !
well, John and Paul already got most of the song-writing down before George and Ringo joined later on. Times were hard because they were born when the war was just getting started, then grew up when it ended.
I remember when I started playing bass years ago and would grumble seeing Paul on best bassists lists without listening to his work and assumed he was only on them because he was a Beatle. Boy was I wrong. He's absolutely brilliant. Melodic and creative. Beautiful sense of groove. He really is one of the best.
I had no idea how talented he was on bass until much later as a fan.
Well now we have youtube and better mixes
Play along with the records, and you will feel how great Ringo is, solid, huge pocket, behind the beat kind of drummer and realize very quickly, the Beatles may not be virtuous players on their instruments, however they wrote some GREAT SONGS, and playing along with them is SUPER FUN!
I was literally just having that thought about myself. While I’ve long since seen how brilliant he is as a songwriter, it sadly took this video for me to allow myself to be exposed to his brilliance in this way, as a player.
This is no joke one of the greatest baselines ever recorded
I never noticed how much he buzzed, never hearing him isolated like this, I always try to play so clean I'm going to lighten up on myself.
That sounds just like my Rickenbacker. So I guess it doesn't need work!
This bassline literally makes me cry
Such a masterpiece
metoo
Macca the master
It’s not that deep 💀
@@amazingkid4904 It is.
😂😂
He's having so much fun with this, especially the long outro stuff. There's McCartney and then there's everybody else.
I love all the little hiccups that happen, that’s how you know they played the whole song straight through.
The best thing about this bassline is it follows a continuous and coherent progression like:
Nice ordinary bassline ==> elaborate bassline underlying endless solo ==> almost jazz ==> utter mindfuck
Totally agree.
Saw McCartney in concert a few years back. It was a highlight of my life. He is a living musical legend.
. . . with Wings in '76 in Munich.
On top of his game.
Agreed. Macca is indeed a legend.
My life has changed after I listened to this at the first time.
Feel you bro
Same. I was sitting in my room home alone with my window open and my dog on my bed. I had been practicing guitar and then i decided to look for more music. That’s when it found this and listened to it. Boy I’m glad i did that too. It was soo good
My life is divided between 19.9.1977 before and afterwards. The Purchase of this album, I know it's insane. Abbey Road was my last Beatles album, I was 14 years old. Paul is genius. But the song. Even Paul couldn't touch John.
The isolated bass or the track itself?
@@animalgeo both for me
Those fills he throws in (those note flurries) - where did he get that idea - thats just unheard of and genius
Brian Wilson does a lot of those picked slides - which I think is what you're talking about - on "Pet Sounds" that undoubtedly inspired Paul. He's talked about Brian and "Pet Sounds" enough. But Paul is more of a rocker than Brian, which is why it's impossible to compare (or rank) the two geniuses.
@Tim Chadwick So she says. But Brian didn't end up using a lot of her tracks - e.g. on "Good Vibrations". On further research, it turns out that Ray Pohlman, another member of the Wrecking Crew, played the electric bass on "Here Today" on Pet Sounds. The picked, muted slides it features were probably inspired by Bill Wyman's runs on "19the Nervous Breakdown". But I'm pretty sure that Brian, especially as the original bass player in the Beach Boys, would have told Carol or Ray or whomever exactly what to play.
It's called a glissando. There's a famous surf rock rule of thumb: "when in doubt, gliss". If you put into that context: Link Wray etc, you'll realize you've heard it a million times.
Dick Dale too
@@jeffkahl Yeah. You listen to surf rock, you're gonna hear a gliss or three. It's the law.
I'm sorry but I've got to say two things: 1) You can't argue with The Beatles and this is an incredible bassline, and 2) Some people just take it way overboard, particularly McCartney fans.
Like "Those picked slides: they're just unheard of and genius". Come ON. Musical illiteracy is no joke.
I’ve always been fascinated by this bassline as a bassist. The way he composed it was just flawlessly genius. I like how some notes tend to sound flat now that I’ve heard it more clearly. Very good
I think his hofner had a string that was not intonated cuz the rooftop performance I think his A was always out
@@debomb721Some recently said the way he hooked his strap directly to the tailpiece might have caused his intonation problems.
@@thomaspappalardo7589 that would be more likely to affect the tuning, the intonation issues would have been down to the floating bridge not being placed correctly.
The scales at the last build up in the song caught my attention very quickly in my first listlen. This is one of the best Paul McCartney bass lines in my opinion.
iconic bass line... genius
"She's So Heavy" may be my favorite Beatles song and it's because of Paul's outstanding bass.
The last time the four Beatles were in a studio together was during the "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" recording sessions. Definitely was an amazing way to end it all, althought I wish that they did just one more record.
That’s correct.
And in the pictures we can see Paul holding his Höfner! when I always thought this was recorded on the Rickenbacker… the engineer on the day did an outstanding work capturing the bassline, as the Höfner fell out of favour in the studios recordings as it came notoriously poor in the mix. This is extraordinary.
@@BassicVIC But that is a Rickenbacker , the Hofner is a lot more different than that. 😅
@@marcosandre00196I think he mean in the pictures of the recording not in the video picture
No one to my face has ever denied or downplayed Paul Mccartney’s bass playing abilities. But if they did this is the first video to go to. McCartney was an absolute MONSTRO. I knew he was a bass God 20 years ago when I was a kid. An absolute master of grooves and melodies.
Listen to how he never plays the same thing twice in ANY Beatles track. No verse is the same.. incredible bass player.
paul did his greatest job on this album .Amazing bass lines .
I agree
Chris Squire certainly learned a lot from him. Heart of the Sunrise especially, great compliment to this playing.
This is the best tone i’ve heard wtf
Just think about it : between Love Me Do and THIS absolute monster masterpiece of bassline prodigy and creative virtuosity and outstanding display of musical genius and musicianship it’s only 6 years.
(By the way, I’m delighted reading the comments section!)
I love that song so much and hearing the bass alone is amazing and Pauls picture perfection.
What is amazing about this bassline is ok John comes up with the basic guitar riff and idea BUT Paul came with this ingenious bassline that went perfectly with John’s and George’s guitars playing thus their participation. Not forgetting Ringo that made the drum track that predicted the way the others would play their parts. Paul though would have made those octave falls that he could obviously hear in his mind whilst composing this masterpiece 😎
Could you imagine him doing this on a lead guitar during the 3 minute reprise? I suspect it'd be hailed as one of the greatest guitar solos ever, but instead it's just another bassline.
Type O and Pete Steele based their entire career on this bass line. I say that as the biggest Type O Negative fan in existence. Amazing.
I met Pete Steele in Leeds in the late 90’s in a small indie/alternative club night. I must have been about 18 at the time and stood next to this towering guy at the bar, and turned out to be Pete Steele. He was a really nice guy, had just done a gig in Leeds. Always remember how nice he was
@@timmg3139 he was a gem indeed. Met him many times here in NYC! Was the biggest Beatles fan you ever met and sir Paul was the biggest influence on him. Really nice humble gentle “giant” type!
En que si no se parecen en nada?
It's amazing how creative McCartney is! Every supposed to be a repetition of a bassline, something new is add or changed!!
I'm absolutely beside myself right now. Like this man is just too much. I've never heard it isolated like this. Thank you so much 💕
I have always loved the bass playing on this track. Paul's divebombs are the best.
Only Paul could make a such a simple bass line sound so groovy
Simple? Ojalá
That bass line is anything but simple
Simple??? What ranks as complex then…?
@@Okaolaajbout as simple as it gets, that’s what makes it so good
Best Beatles song ever
I agree
Waltuh
Kid named finga
It's like Paul was just spamming what was in his in mind mid-song
That's a great description of how he approached his bass lines.. in every Beatles track you'll notice he never played the same thing twice! Check it out and you'll see what I'm saying.
this song is pure genius! everything about it!!!! the way the bass talks so much in this song is SUBLIME
This is very well played. Great control and musicality. Many supposedly “great” bass players of the Classic Rock era come nowhere close to this level of musical execution.
Those little slides are hilarious without the rest of the tracks. 😂
my favotire paul´s bass line including beatles and solo era. paul is incredible
en mí opinión, la mejor línea de bajo de la historia. estamos hablando del año 1969, es una locura
Abbey Road is Macca’s most complete work… his lines are melodic, creative and serve the songs so well… and his sound was big… like nothing I’d heard at the time…
I know there were contemporaries of his who were also really pushing new melodic directions on bass (eg James Jamerson) and the influenced each other… but Abbey Road was it for me… and I heard that Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) was heavily inspired by the sound Paul got in that album… interesting…
He may not be the best, but Paul has probably been the most influential bassist in rock/pop music! 😊
I think this is the Hofner, it sounds like a short scale bass. You can tell when he first hits the notes on some notes it goes sharp. It doesn't sound like the Ric to me, not enough bottom.
I'm 68 McCartney inspired me to play bass the first time I heard I Wanna Hold Your Hand in early 1964 when I was 10 years old, I didn't get a bass until a few years later but I still play.
Sounds like a hofner w nylon bass strings
@@JoaoVictor-il9et Tape wounds?
Sounds like a flatwound to me
It's definitely the hofner. They were all playing together live for this one. He almost always used the hofner in situations like that.
Some notes are sharp because he bends them on purpose I believe
All my life-up till this afternoon in the car full blast on the stereo-I’ve wondered what the heck Paul is doing. I always heard it was elaborate, but 😮.
Also, following the bass line you have no trouble sensing the end note coming. Paul is music through and through, born composing.
Amazing bass
It's unreal. So creative
While my bass gently weeps
The bass alone is a fantastic listen. Macca is STILL underrated
I don't think he is. Everybody knows he's a great bassist. That's a well supported fact.
@@hubertignatowicz1138but I don’t think most understand why he’s such a good bassist. Most accept the fact that he is a good bassist but don’t really pay attention to his basslines enough to come to that conclusion themself
@@jonathanrehm7 Bassists already know and that’s enough.
@@hubertignatowicz1138no they dont, most people hate the beatles nowadays
What? Uh, no. Lol
Don’t even recognize the song but watched the whole video. Just staring at the picture and listening. Very cool
You should listen to the song. It’s so amazing and honestly mind blowing
Paul is very good player bass and great musician
the guy was born gifted
The little shuffle that happens at the very end! I need to listen to the whole song now and see what I hear...
fun fact: this is the only song on abbey road where Paul used his Hofner bass
The whole of Abbey Road is his Hofner using Rotosound 88's black nylon coated strings, as seen on the rooftop gig👍
@@mickeylove9666 you're thinking of let it be
I disagree, Paul definitely uses the Hofner on Something and She's So heavy. The rest of the album is Ric or Jazz for sure.
@@hamueramusic Rotosound Tru Bass 88 Black Nylon Flatwound strings can be most famously heard on the Beatles album 'Abbey Road'. Research it🤷♂️
@@mickeylove9666 yes i know that
Sounds ragged in isolation.
Sounds perfect in the Beatles.
One of the most fun basslines I've ever played. And so twisted.
Ragged? Please explain.
@@michaelorenstein9165 Wooly? Imperfect?
I love it beyond words
At about 2:40 he makes a mistake, and that fills me with a lot of confidence that even though it’s a tiny little mistake even my idols make mistakes
And leave them on tape
this sounded so good i almost considered bassists to be people for a second
edit: guys you will never guess what instrument i started playing like 5 months after saying this
Sting should slay your existence❤
6:50 blows my mind
Had never heard this song before and am not familiar with the Beatles catalogue, but I love this isolated bass track!
you should listen to the entire song
Listen to the original!! It's so good! And if you want something even heavier, go to the love album version
You should listen to whole Abby Road
The simultaneous octave notes. I hadn't noticed that before.
Paul should be arrested for this. This bassline is highly illegal
It makes some addicts
Masterpiece ❤️🙌
El mejor multiinstrumentista de todos los tiempos Paul Mc Cartney , Genio
It feels like this was his letter to people who say bass picks are stupid, because he cranks the upsides of it to the max.
on peut aimer ou pas les beatles, mais il faut reconnaitre que Mc Cartney est quand meme un genie de la basse et sais offrir une musicalité qui fait que bien des chansons des beatles n'aurait pas la meme aura si la basse etait jouer de façon "plus simple".
J'écoute les beatles depuis plus de 49 ans et c'est toujours un plaisir d'entendre cette basse envoutante et hypnotique d'i want you.A ecouter encore et toujours.....😉
En effet. Je suis ZERO fan des Beatles et je reconnais tous les talents que vous attribués à Mister Paul !!!
From the "Rain / Paperback Writer" single forward my favorite part of Beatles arrangements were Paul's basslines.
0:55 sooooo gooood
Paul was a very melodic bass player and maybe the best musician in the Beatles.
Another great aspect of Paul's bass playing on this masterpiece, as well as many others is that Paul never plays the same lines twice! From verse to verse, bridges, and choruses. If you don't believe me, do some research and you'll be amazed! His bass lines are songs themselves! What an incredible bass player!
I’ve been learning this one and it’s truly amazing. It defies all logic as a bassist.
Master of the bass no doubt, now let's get him a belt for his trousers.
I think he can afford one
I think he has his pants unbuttoned so he doesn’t scrape the wood with the button (commonly referred to as belt or buckle rash).
Gene Simmons of Kiss said that his bass playing was influenced by Sir Paul. When I was a kid I would always tell myself Gene “ sounds like McCartney” but never made the connection until one day I read an article where Simmons says Macca is the guy
Sounds amazing
I own a Hofner Club bass (From Germany) and a C64 in Mapleglo.
I struggle to countenance the notion that PM used the BRIDGE PICKUP to record every latter Beatle tune. The bottom is really found via the neck Toaster.
Paul never, or at least, rarely used the bridge pickup on his Ricky. I've read that when he got it fixed, they found out that the bridge pickup didn't even work(I've never verified thatut take that with a grain of salt)! He only really used the bridge pickup on the Hofner or his fender jazz bass.
@@you_tubeslonelyheartsclubband The Rick Resource Forum has an ancient thread from 2002 from a Mark Arnquist, former RIC employee, who stated he worked on Paul's 4001S, and that indeed the cobalt magnets were stone dead, and that they had just shut down manufacture of that pickup. Thay had to punt and shoehorn a Hi-Gain into that space.
Shortly after the White Album's release, Paul had his Rick back in time for Abbey Road.
I do also understand that "Think for Yourself" may be the only use of the bridge pickup. It sounds like that with no effects.
Genius
Genius.🎉
It’s like when someone does a bass cover and their headphones are too loud
Incredible how out of tune the guitar is, I think the intonation is off too. But when you mix it together it just does the job so well! Thanks for posting
Outwordly. Sounds like the bassline is dancing
There you have it folks....perfect fat bass,and Billy Preston on Hammond B3 as well!
2:39 Paul's hand died
What does that mean
@@mediumsame que la mano de Paulo se murió :v:v
@@mikiestudios7364 Xd
@@mikiestudios7364 Paulo Macario
@@mikiestudios7364 Paul Mccarton
Making history, far more than frenetic virtuosi Jaco Marcus Victor and co…
i'm not a giant beatles fan, even less so mcartney. but in context, this bass track is genius.
Nice to know what u don't like. Who cares what u don't like. McCartney is amazing on sonmany levels. It's pretentious asses like u that don't "get" it
@@stupidyoutube7463 actually, the one who doesn't get it, is you. the entire point of my first sentence, was to add weight and validity to the 2nd one. maybe reading comprehension just isn't your thing?
@@cheezyridr no that other person is right. You’re being an ass and giving a backhanded compliment. You could have just said you like the bassline or just left it at not liking the Beatles, but you had to point out that you like Paul even less than you like the Beatles. It was just unnecessary
jeez, what did maccartney do to you?
You would be
4:38
Paul is the greatest in the world on bass✌
Amazing ❤
we can't blame him for being a sheriff on Beatles, he really could be it.
I love those glissandos on the high string.
Nice musicological theoretical term there, nailed it
6:18
6:31
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Um dos meus favoritos. Fantástico!!
every time i hear this bass line im just.....................wow
GRAN BAJO DE PAUL. 4:38 Empieza el Riff o Melodía de la línea de bajo. La repite 15 veces. Pero , el genio de McCartney introduce notas o escalas de adorno dentro de cada una de las 15 repeticiones. Creativity le mandé a Paul "You'll be rocking 4ever."..
We all came here for 3:07
Damn straight!
Yep
Blows my mind
Paul McCartney is my fav bassist.
The bass IS the song
That’s a really great Abbey Road sessions pick of Paul with the Ric, but what we’re hearing here is his famous Höfner!!
It has this lower mid “growl” to it that the Ric doesn’t have. They are hard to tell apart in Paul’s hands because of his pick hand palm muting technique.
2 other indicators that it’s the Höfner: you can hear how poorly intonated the bass is when he plays octaves together. You can also hear this on I’ve Got a Feeling as well, that the bass is in tune, but not quite in tune with itself.
And lastly it’s the Höfner because of the string bends he’s doing. You can see clearly in the Get Back doc that Paul had a different kind of string set on his Höfner that were all black. These strings have much less tension than standard short scale bass strings and are easily bendable.
If you’ve ever played one of those tiny acoustic ukulele bass’s at Guitar Center that have those floppy fat black strings on it, you know what I’m talking about!
Thank you for this! 👏
His trousers are open to prevent the top button making a clicking/tapping noise on the guitar body and caught on the nearby pickup ?
McCartney + Rickenbacker = awesome!
But it's not his Rickenbacker...?
Sheer brilliance!
2:26 Black Magic Woman
Amazing to hear this!
The bass is fundamental to the song.
He made the bass talk.
This is unbelievable