From ABBA's seventh studio album "Super Trouper". Bass is played by Rutger Gunnarsson. "Lay All Your Love On Me" was also featured in the musical and the movie "Mamma Mia!".
The musicianship of ABBA (which includes their regular session musicians) is one of the main reasons why their music continues to attract new audiences over generations. They were ahead of their time AND so much more creative and disciplined than most of their then contemporaries.
Thanks for sharing! I've been playing only upright bass in a bluegrass band for the last few years and finally bought my first electric bass a couple months ago. This is the very first song I tried to play on it! Cheers from Philadelphia!
Congrats on your new electric! And happy to hear that this song happens to be the same as the first one you tried with that. Thank you for the comment.
I have never noticed how good ABBA's bass line are. the vocal harmonies always sounded great to me. I would like to point out a spelling mistake in one chord. A7/Db is a mistake. should be A7\C#- that is the correct inversion of this chord. apart from that- a great track for bass fun
Just shows how complex ABBA songs were. You need headphones to listen to them really, or my favourite, on a jukebox, where you hear every little sound recorded. You'll be amazed at all you normally miss...
It's been a long time since I looked at a music chart and actuallly tried to read it. Bass clef, obviously, and in the key of B flat. I like that you added not only the original music, but also the TAB as well. Fantastic job, Impressive Bass cover. I followed every beat and note, and you my friend had a flawless victory.
Thank you so much for doing, and posting, this! I have always wished the record producers of the day had brought out Rutger's amazing bass lines just a bit more. I am sure someone figured out that record sales were linked to the girls' vocals but you have finally given us the song the way it should have been recorded. Well done!
Great stuff- have a sub!😁👍 Have been spellbound by Rutger Gunnarsson (perhaps unexpectedly intricate) bass parts on those studio recordings from a very early age (my mother had them on vinyl back in the day); I hear tell that they were, for the most part, semi-improvised on the day, and that no written music was ever placed in front of him--- was just pretty much left to devise his own parts after hearing a couple of takes. Always found the verse part to be intriguing: it's barely a "bassline" here, is it- an "anti-bassline" perhaps? 🤷😄 (If I'm not mistaken it's also doubled an octave higher on the recording itself.) Really liked your rendition of "That’s Me" as well- love how the bass doesn't enter until the end of bar 8 on that track, when my intuition would expect it to have come in at the start of bar 5... Ingenious. Best wishes 🙂✌️
Thank you so much for your comment. Yes, his play is intricate and I realized it when I started analysing ABBA basslines. Regarding That's Me, I thought bass comes in at 5th bar too. And the bass lines seem to be what you call "anti-bassline", or may be "bass dotted lines" :-) Knowing Me too. So distinctive.
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