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Claire
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Joined: Sun May 20, 2012 3:56 pm Posts: 391 Location: Boston, MA
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Bass line visualization
Saw this thanks to a friend of mine, found this visualization interesting. Here’s the article. And the embedded video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAT3aVj-A_E[/youtube]
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Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:23 am |
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Gusset
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Joined: Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:38 pm Posts: 818 Location: SW Washington (state)
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Re: Bass line visualization
Thanks for posting this, Claire, that's really neat! Not only for the sake of highlighting the bass line, but for the silly grin it put on my face...
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Per Boysen
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Joined: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:05 am Posts: 2268 Location: Stockholm/Sweden
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Re: Bass line visualization
How cool to follow how the bass moves through the harmonies! BTW, I heard James Jamerson never cleaned or changed the strings on his bass. I think this kind of visuals is a good way to imagine the music you are playing, especially if you want to add some improvisational flavour but keep a steady pop groove.
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Alain
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Joined: Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:02 am Posts: 2583 Location: Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
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Re: Bass line visualization
A real moving bass line...cool stuff. I'd like to see the "normal" written line on an F key...
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Claire
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Joined: Sun May 20, 2012 3:56 pm Posts: 391 Location: Boston, MA
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Re: Bass line visualization
There's a transcription here. It's a fun bass line. There's something about the visual that offers a different perspective from reading music. Seems like it should be fairly simple to play along, maybe with a few reference points. I guess it might be more like the music video games then, but I never got used to the notes coming towards you, rather than across in those games. This visualization makes more sense to me. This one is similar but for piano music. I like how you can clearly see the different voices within the piece and the shape of the different parts. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s49OKp6aE[/youtube]
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Tatsu
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Joined: Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:35 am Posts: 1210 Location: Indonesia
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Re: Bass line visualization
I was going to mention this one for Debussy but you already put it.
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Stickrad
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Re: Bass line visualization
"Ain't no bass riff high enough"
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Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:35 pm |
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randy
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Joined: Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:28 am Posts: 802
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Re: Bass line visualization
Claire wrote: Saw this thanks to a friend of mine, found this visualization interesting. Here’s the article. And the embedded video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAT3aVj-A_E[/youtube] that's really interesting. it's funny - watching that I realized that is pretty much how I see music (especially bass lines) in my head...and there it was being seen by me eyes! Very cool And the piano one is even better...need to check out that article
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Mon Feb 02, 2015 8:07 am |
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Navigator
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Joined: Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:05 am Posts: 67
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Re: Bass line visualization
Per Boysen wrote: BTW, I heard James Jamerson never cleaned or changed the strings on his bass. I think no good recording studio would ever allow this.
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rwkeating
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Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:27 pm Posts: 552
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Re: Bass line visualization
It depends on what bass sound is "in fashion". Back then, brand new zingy sounding strings were not the sound people wanted on a bass.
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