The Beatles Bible - Topic: The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 Toppermost-of-the-Poppermost:) on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56705 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56705 HEY BULLDOG!!! a-hard-days-night-paul-9ahdn_paul_01

]]> Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:51:10 +0100 Duke_of_Kirkaldy on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56698 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56698 I nominate "Helter Skelter" as the best bass line not performed by Paul.

]]> Sun, 26 Aug 2012 01:55:05 +0100 Ben Ramon on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56282 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56282

SatanHimself said

Ben Ramon said

SatanHimself said
I sat down tonight to play along with "A Day In The Life", and while it's all just Paul messing around in the key of E for the most part, I never noticed how fast it's played.  When you just listen to the song, his playing feels casual and relaxed.  But when you try to play what he was really doing, it's a flurry of notes that's hard as hell to keep up with.

Another bass player! Hail fellow well met.

I play guitar, bass and drums in decreasing order of "talent".

I've never ...]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:00:36 +0100 SatanHimself on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56280 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56280

Ben Ramon said

SatanHimself said
I sat down tonight to play along with "A Day In The Life", and while it's all just Paul messing around in the key of E for the most part, I never noticed how fast it's played.  When you just listen to the song, his playing feels casual and relaxed.  But when you try to play what he was really doing, it's a flurry of notes that's hard as hell to keep up with.

Another bass player! Hail fellow well met.

I play guitar, bass and drums in decreasing order of "talent".

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:54:44 +0100 Ben Ramon on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56278 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56278

SatanHimself said
I sat down tonight to play along with "A Day In The Life", and while it's all just Paul messing around in the key of E for the most part, I never noticed how fast it's played.  When you just listen to the song, his playing feels casual and relaxed.  But when you try to play what he was really doing, it's a flurry of notes that's hard as hell to keep up with.

Another bass player! Hail fellow well met.

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:30:22 +0100 paulsbass on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56254 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56254

Zig said
"Hey Bulldog" is in my Beatles Top 5. Just found this on You Tube.

Sounds cool, especially when my favourite Beatles snare sets in ("You can talk to me...").

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:35:18 +0100 SatanHimself on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56250 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56250 I sat down tonight to play along with "A Day In The Life", and while it's all just Paul messing around in the key of E for the most part, I never noticed how fast it's played.  When you just listen to the song, his playing feels casual and relaxed.  But when you try to play what he was really doing, it's a flurry of notes that's hard as hell to keep up with.

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:15:29 +0100 mithveaen on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56213 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56213 Something and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

]]> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:53:17 +0100 Another One on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56167 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p56167 First :I Saw Here Standing There

And then : When I'm Sixty Four

And Also ; Hey Bulldog , Though I don't like song.

]]> Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:50:48 +0100 Into the Sky with Diamonds on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p55562 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p55562 Hey Bulldog, Nowhere Man.

With a Little Help FMF, Something, Lucy

(in "Into the Sky," the main character witnesses the laying down of the Lucy bass track)

Honorable mention to many, many more bass lines. I never noticed the bass in "Old Brown Shoe" - I didn't buy the "Ballad of J & Y"single and hardly ever played the "Blue" Best of the Beatles). I'll give it another listen.

No one has mentioned "Ticket to Ride" (or "She's A Woman")

 

   

]]> Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:54:38 +0100 Zig on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p55550 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p55550 "Hey Bulldog" is in my Beatles Top 5. Just found this on You Tube.

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]]> Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:25:46 +0100 Ben Ramon on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p52482 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p52482 I'd have to give the most creative award to Something or possibly Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, both of which are extraordinarily meticulous and inventive basslines. The most technically difficult to play is probably Old Brown Shoe. I'm often hesitant to call Rain and I Want You (She's So Heavy) "basslines" as such because they are heavily improvisatory rather than pre-tailored for the song, although excellently played.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 11:21:35 +0100 The Beatles bassist on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p52471 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p52471 Well, about "I Will", it's a bit special, because it's not a real bass line or I would've included it in my list. It's Paul singing deep bass harmonies in different keys. John has referred to it as "vocal bass". "And You Bird Can Sing", I know it's good too, maybe I should have included it myself, but I didn't have so much time left since I was going to watch a program on TV :p After all it's an amazlingly simple bass line to deal with. "Drive My Car", not pretty much to say about it, it's based on the guitar ...]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 20:30:35 +0100 LennonCloset on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p52462 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p52462 Rain, Come Together, Old Brown Shoe, And Your Bird Can Sing, Drive My Car, I Will, When I'm Sixty-Four, and Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Just to name a few :)

]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 04:16:48 +0100 The Beatles bassist on The best Beatles bass lines? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p52453 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/the-best-beatles-bass-lines/#p52453 What's your favorite Beatles bass lines?

Here are some of mine (with no special order):

- Something

- Old Brown Shoe

- Don't Let Me Down

- Paperback Writer

- Do You Want to Know a Secret

- You Never Give Me Your Money

- Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard

- Polythene Pam/She Came In Through the Bathroom Window

- Think For Yourself (*fuzz lead part)

- Maxwell's Silver Hammer

- Come Together

- The Ballad of John and Yoko

- I Saw Her Standing There (*it's not Paul's riff, but it workes very well into this song)

- Nowhere Man

- Penny Lane

- With a Little Help from My Friends

- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

- Helter ...]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 20:35:29 +0100