5 Prince Basslines (and how to play them) 

Bro…. You’re extremely funky just because you chose Prince to study. I subscribed to your channel because of that subject choice. You’re pretty rare bro. I just started 3 weeks ago. Thank you for this.

I’ve been a Prince since 1980. This is the first time I really paid attention to the bass line from Sexy MF. Great tutorial bro 💜🤘🏿

I have been a Prince fan for over 35 years. I am learning how to play Bass. Thank you for the video.

Probably one of the best Prince tutorial videos that actually do justice to the real songs! Respect!!

WOW! I'M SO GLAD I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL!!!!!!!!!!!! I like to search for new websites to see how quickly I can learn different bass lines. The twist is that I play the bass line on tuba!!!! You teach bass lines so well that even with octaves, I get a good feel for how I should approach multiphonics on my horn. If you ever get to Atlanta, Georgia, USA... holler. Would love to host for the Jazz Festival or what have you. Really excellent work.

I liked just because of the incrustation of Bernard Purdie man, that was legendary 😄 But hey... Prince bass lines, you can't go wrong with that ! Nice one 🎸🎸🎸

Hey Huw, of all the bassists out there that I've heard play Prince basslines (not including his bassists), I think you're playing the grooves the most accurately. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

Nicely done, excellent choice of tracks - loving it!

Great choices. I also love the baseline to Poplife. Very easy to play, however it really drives the feel of that song.

Thank you for sharing this was awesome I am a fan of Prince’s music he is a talented one man band that can do no wrong

Nice one. Prince would play octaves with his thumb playing the low notes. This makes the vibrato on the high A much more effective for Stare

I have to admit, I never listened Prince song. You made me want to have look into this funky basslines ! Thank you ;-)

Great stuff, mate! Thank you for this...love your playing and choices of bass & music ;) Always wanted to get Sexy M.F. line...so cool.

Fantastic work man 😮

Great Job! 👏 Prince was really a unique artist and musical genius! 💜And great choice among the hundreds of his great bass lines!! 💫🤩

Please more bass lines from prince , he was an insane genius on da bass gat!

I’m a newbie but I just brought that identical fender jazz bass home !!! Must be a sign😀😀😀

Amazing vid thank you. Been following you since your early covers of Ain't No Stopping Us Now etc

Prince (& Larry) are the reason I picked up the bass. I'm also in the "Bald, Bearded Bass Players That Like Prince" Club. Excellent job Huw! Partyup & Uptown are also great.

I like the tongue-in-cheek way you played "Kiss" iconic guitar riff at the beginning...

I toured with a Prince tribute band for years and you’re spot on!!! 🤘🤩🤘

As long time Prince fan and bass player. FANTASTIC job.

That fender jazz tone is the nuts

Hi Huw, thanks so much for this!

Huw, I just subbed and I hope you'll do more Prince in the future. Alphabet Street is my favorite bass line next to the Time 7779311. Thanks for the lesson.

cheers huw love it smf

Very good tutorial man. I got to subscribe. Thanks

Beautiful SOLID bass lines!

Subbed! Glad you included "Sexy MF". That is a cool bassline, mostly syncopated. I think in the original recording, the bass has a little more of a run-up the E string during the chorus. Yours sounds like it's missing one note.

Completely forgot how Let's Work bass was awesome! Very nice video 👍

More Prince bass lines please, loved it.

merci beaucoup!!!

Do Me, Baby is the song that really made me want to learn bass, it never crossed my mind until just couldn’t stop playing that song on repeat. Definitely going to come back and learn once I have the equipment, thank you. Btw, to the untrained ear, that song seems like the easiest to play bass to 😂

I've watch a lot of video on how to play let's work and you play it almost like Brown Mark and he learned directly from Prince , the only difference is Brown uses dead notes throughout the song

Some great choices

Lady cab driver and irresistible is the funkiest basslines

Thank you!

Nice job Huw! - enjoyed that, gunna give some of them ago! Heres an idea for another video?! I'm really into dropping the E string to D on a 4 string, so would be cool to hear your top 5 tunes that suit drop D!? lol

Good stuff!!

Really slick playing. Regarding Stare I believe he did play it all the way through like he usually did being a James Brown fan. For instance the song "3 chains o'gold" were basically glued together by seperate pieces and played straight through in the studio. There is a great story about it in a 1994 interview, either in Q or Guitar World. I think Kravitz does that too, playing it all through. Just listen to "Life ain't never been better.." (2011), another Brown fan.

Great Stuff!! ;-)

Cool thing about Sexy mf; "mf" on the single is written as 'mf' in notesheets (meaning mezzo forte, which means the piece should be played in medium pace). And of course, the song Sexy mf is also in fact played in mf, so it actually says mf in the notesheet.

Excellent job! Especially Stare. Do you take request? If so, Do Me Live 1982 Detroit concert version. And Facedown! I saw him play it live in concert in 1998 and said I must learn how to play the bass!

Prince had the ability to play stuff that was groovy and slick and more impressive sounding than it actually is.

Fantastic vid !! Not sure if it’s legal, but I would pay money for those backing tracks!!

Sexy Dancer maxi single extended version is his funkiest track ever 😂

These are great bass lines, and it is wonderful hearing t hem without the other lines playing. Thank you. I have always wanted to hear a clear version of the bass line in "Another Lover Hole in My Head" Brown Mark places it but it is slow nice. Anyone know where I can hear that one?

you can that bass omg

Nice! There is a ghost note rather than a second B note in the "Let's Work" bassline. Check Brownmark's channel. Keep it Funky! 🤘🤘🤘

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You need to do prince song call (everywhere) from the rainbow children album

Omg you can play that bass can u do the bass from prince song from rainbow children called everywhere the bass on this song like I never heard prince play before

Guitar for Sexy MF is actually not traditional Chicken Grease-- he just strums the up and down strokes. Def Sonny T on bass.

Did this boy just touch a bass with a pick!? Davey would be so upset

I think for musicology you'll sometimes hear an F# below that B on the and of one and also and the F#BB at the end of the riff but it also sounds like a second bass track to me as that would be very hard to play. Also check out Rhonda's live version from the era, she adds a chromatic descending part in the first bar that is hella funky too (BBbA I think). That and John Blackwell's stellar drumming are in full effect here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b2YdLEIAL4E.html

My uncle said that you picked some funky ones & he can tell that you've been listening to a lot of his stuff....

1:35 He looks like if Michael Jackson and Rick James had a baby

Sexy M.F. - Master Funkateer

Also, She's Always in My Hair and Anotherloverholeinyohead.

This list is incomplete without 777-9311.

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 🤞

Sexy MF bass played by Sonny T

I'm not even able to make the simple thumb technique...

This is so strange. Prince doesn't have much songs with bass lines.