Sting's Best Basslines (Regatta de Blanc and Zenyatta Mondatta) 

This is a good summary of Stings bass lines. Well done.

Sting is a beast. How can a human being develop such independence? I will always love him!

Dope. You have some serious talent and skill. I love watching these!!

Just love the content on Sting and the Baselines!!! You're A badass Bass player man!!

Great video and great basslines from the master STING 💯❤️

Canary in a Coal Mine... awesome. I can't believe people think it's irritating. And Blown Away... never even realized it was on the album until you pointed it out. Once again, I can't believe you were able to figure out those lines. That's just outrageous. VOICES... How the hell did you ever figure that out, let alone play it. Crap man, that was awesome. I really need to revisit that album now, but I'm never going to try to play that Voices medley as long as I live. Not worth the personal anxiety. Great job!

Great stuff, I am back again to enjoy the bass sound..

You're the man. Paul McCartney and Sting are two of my favorite bass players. I hope you might get aroundabout to Chris Squire someday.

Hey, just came across this and well played mate. I've been playing bass for 30 years and luv The Police. U have missed a few times on some of these bass lines but over all well done, especially on the live parts, awesome stuff. People don't realise just how good Sting is on bass and his ability to sing and play. Many thanks and cheers to you. X

Stumbled across this series today, and spent most of my day watching almost all of them. Excellent work in deconstucting these bass lines I have been listening to for so many years.....I’m gonna throw Jack Casady out as one I’d love to see, but there’s so many greats, so I’m sure whomever you do will be cool.....thanks so much! And I will contribute to help keep you doing these...

Great video as always man, learned a lot, keep up the great work :)

Sting makes excellent use of negative space that helps create tension.

Love that you looked at that live recording bass line. I was blown away the first time I saw/ heard that.

Sting's bass lines were incredibly simple and tasteful.

sting is hands down my #1 influence! awesome video!

Again, really well done good sir. I just can't believe you don't have more subscribers for something such well made! Keep up the good work!

Great tone, solid!

Sting is king! Doing my best to be inspired by his playing into my prog/doom band. Really interesting to see and hear those lines!

Amazing accuracy. You are my teaches. Thanks!

Great review

The last cover (the mashup they did for the reunion tour) is just sick. THUMBS UP! ;)

Thanks for last song. I didn't know the Police performed When The World... in such version. Now this is my loved version

top class man, top class.

Voices/when the world is incredible. Sting doing a bit of thumping and popping?!

Beds to big without you. Great tune!

Bombs Away is a good example of Sting's talent. On the face of it, the bass line seems quite simple but actually difficult to pull off. The musicianship of all three guys is very high, all played with jazz artists throughout their career. Yes, indeed Stewart Copeland wrote Bombs Away. Contact on Regatta De Blanc is another good example.

You have inspired me!!

sting always rules

When i heard "Walking on the moon", i must play bass!

Bombs Away is Copeland's song, and he wrote bassline for it, actually

Dude/brother/Sir:) 21 mins four seconds (When the world...) your bass playing is mutha-f.! Branford Maralis line, right?) Thanks. I never really was interested in the song; bad slap bass; but that walking bass at the end of your video. awesome. I'm going to figure it out now. Peace and thanks again

hey!! Good job here, man! I recommend you to make a video on Zappa's bass players. Cheers!

THX for this Video. Can you tell me something about the Bass and Amp settings to get thas sound?

You didn’t cover “So Lonely” in the first video and I was really surprised considering the different sections contrasting, similar to “Roxanne”

As for the Voices/When The World medley, it is Sting's live medley from before Police reunion. He doesn't slap the bass, he only pops the upper strings - that's his signature sound since The Soul Cages tour. Instead of Voices, he often performs Bring On The Night as the first song, and then into the WTWIRD - just like on his live album from 1986

Perhaps you can do a compilation of journeymen bassist.

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I love how you break these bass lines in your series, I think it would be great if you did Kim Deal of the Pixies, I would love to see that.

You could do a part 3 with the Sting solo career,

No Man in a Suitcase? This is a bass show, no?

John Entwistle

2:33-2:38 Hat tip to Blitzkrieg Bop

Is there a video on how you set up that mute?

How’d you get such a sick tone, I love it.

wow. Great channel! Love the anecdotes and history leading into the lines that make the songs great in all the artists you cover. The thing that is making me comment however, is the remark that some interweb users (musicians..maybe?) made that Stings' bass work in Canary on Zenyetta is perhaps 'kinda annoying, and/or repetative'...? Well, unless these people are the likes of Chris Squire, Les Claypool, James Jamerson, Vic Wooten, Lee Sklar, Geddy, etc...then they should zip it, smile and say 'thank you'...unless they can DO BETTER... Thanks again and look forward to more vids. Cheers!

Just came across your series and wondered if you would be interested in the work of Jean-Jaques Burnel in the early Stranglers albums?

SHADOW IN THE RAIN,,,Has a semi fat funk bassline from all the entire Lp

Didn't Sting play fretless bass on Walking On The Moon to get the elongated notes?

I am a very big RUSH fan, and I want to raise this situation to you: So, I heard Walking on the Moon for the first time this week. When I heard the intro I immediately thought it was a RUSH song, because I was super certain they have a song with the exact same intro. Then I heard Sting start singing, and I wasn't sure how it was possible. So all week I have been digging for the RUSH song I was so certain shared the same intro, and I can't find it. The closest I could get was Digital Man. When I listen, the songs couldn't be different save for the techno reggae sounds. Do you have any thoughts?

De do do, being fussy and doesn't matter. On the verses Sting slides from B to C sharp I think and when it in the chorus it doesn't hit 2 d notes, it's 2 F sharps and 1 d quickly if u get what I mean lol. As it goes back to the A part. Luv Ur work.

Contact has the best bass line

Are you using flat wound or semi flat wound strings on your bass for both these videos?

What is de song in the first 10 seconds?

As someone who has loved The Police ever since they began and listened to their albums in their entirety I find it utterly bizarre that anyone who likes The Police wouldn't be familiar with their non-single album cuts. Weird.

Why Can't I see the video?

boooooring. you should have done Stuart Zender stuff.

Very odd bass playing . Fat fingers too

too much talking

are those flatwounds?