"Eleutheria" (Lenny Kravitz, yes, amazing tune and the vibe is totally roots! And he keeps changing the bassline almost every bar...), "Weeping Pirates" (Groundation, and this one has even a bass solo ;) ), "Pressure Drop" (Toots and the Maytals - I know this is more rocksteady, but who cares), "Bush Doctor" (Peter Tosh)
Inner Circle - Bad Boys ( Cops theme song ) Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse Gregory Isaacs- Soon Forward Peter Tosh - Reggaemylitis - Maga Dog Johnny B Goode Don't Look Back Culture. - Legalization Black Uhuru- Most of there first few albums Ini Kamoze , Yellowman , Mighty Diamonds , Heptones etc.
Wonderful lesson Luke! And what a surprise to open your email and see my question! Thanks so much for following up and offering this reggae intro. Nice selection of songs and bass lines. Fantastic and looking forward to more of these. Hmmm, maybe next focus on top bass lines by different bassists or bands, like The Police or U2. Cheers!
Playing reggae bass has a lot to having the discipline to play the same thing for a whole song without deviating from it for a single note. I understand the urge to do more, but understand that for the listener, there is more than bass happening - and having the bass as an anchor, always playing the same thing, is often one of the things that makes reggae so pleasurable.
Listening to the recording of one love, More of the time, the low Bb is played at the end. Also, I think main riff in the 3rd measure is played in a different rhythm. (Dotted 8th, 16th, Dotted 8th, 16th, 8th.) Also, there’s a really amazing but easy bridge part with a climb up then an octave drop and a cool rhythmic part. To me, the song’s bass line can’t be mentioned without mentioning the bridge.
That might end up being a pretty short video @Alex Bull. When I record these lessons, I just plug straight into my audio interface. No pedalboard or effects. When I gig, I just plug straight into my amp as well. I have used multi-effects boards in the past (a Boss ME-50B and a Line 6 one at one point), but I just run everything straight in these days.
Great lesson. one thing anoyes me but it is not your fault. i wonder why in so many GTR or bass lessons the Tutors tend to mention the Tabs where the notes are.... It is very anoying because it disrupt the flow of the Lesson.... My understanding is that every student have to know on whitch fret the notes are. it is not your Job to explain this.
If I were to *only* use the note names though @Sebaz!, it would likely alienate the students who _don't_ yet know where all the notes are. Then they would stop watching and think the lesson is 'too advanced' for them - and it kind of would be, but it wouldn't be their 'fault' either.
To me, THE most famous (and my favorite) reggae bass line is often considered the first reggae song: Desmond Dekker's Israelites. One of my favorites, and it's not melodically hard, but it's great for rhythm training: Sophia George's Girlie Girlie. It starts more staccato in a traditional reggae style, but over the course of the song, the bass line is partly legato. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Aql5ywVRMyk.html Fantastic song. Overall, I got more into ska revival, which also has some great ones, e.g., Madness Wings of a Dove, Selecter's On My Radio, Specials Free Nelson Mandela and the flip side Break Down the Door (a heartbreaking story behind that one, a song about mental illness).
Israelites I think is the first, and maybe only, reggae song to make the top 10in the US. Before that there was a ska song that was a huge crossover hit:My Boy Lollipop by Millie Small.
Bob Marley never played the Bass guitar, it was Aston Barrett, Also called '' Family man '' Aston Family Man Barrett was the bandleader of the Bob Marley backing band,
OK, haven't watched the video yet and I'd be soooo disappointed if I didn't hear a Leroy Sibbles bassline... That's not Damion Marley's bassline, it's World a Reggae by the boss Ini Kamoze.
