Free Form Slow Funk in B (Needs guitar keys, etc)

mpointon
Spain
Drums:
mpointon 793 jams
Remix step I
Ernie440
Canada
Bass:
Ernie440 4,839 jams

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May 19, 2016
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1,977
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2
Listened to Martin's great funky old track, got a couple ideas and decided to play a riff and see where it went and what I could come up with as it went along. Good fun! Love to hear some free form funk guitar, keys, etc.
Girard
Damn you're the master of those little runaway mid-tickling riffs +1
May 19, 2016 at 8:07 PM
Ernie440
Ernie440 runaway mid-tickling .. guess that's a good thing!! :) thanks G! +1
Girard
Are you playing with a scale in particular, or using specific shapes to mess with? I'm so curious how people "create" bass lines. My simple understanding results in my starting on the root note, then doing a pentatonic shape maybe, or a triad, or just doing 4 consecutive frets for a "creepy feel or maybe root 5th, root 5th etc.

How do you think of it when you just go to jam? Do you put a root note in your mind and work off of that? Or do you have some crazy scheme where you're all over the fretboard with no plan?
+1
May 19, 2016 at 8:06 PM
Ernie440
Ernie440 Basically just get an idea for a little root note riff/s and then play whatever I feel as connecting riffs and hopefully something cool will come of it. Sometimes I surprise myself, sometimes, I'm very disappointed .. haha +1
May 19, 2016 at 8:09 PM
Girard
Girard If you don't go to the 5th from the root. Where else might you be tempted to go in a jam? The fret right below it? 3 frets up? Sometimes I feel limited in where to go after that first root note. I mean there's the 3rd, the octave..I feel like i'm missing something. Maybe I need some new scales. +0
May 19, 2016 at 8:16 PM
Ernie440
Ernie440 I don't think about it that much, I'm not a theory person, I learned by initially learning lots of songs off of albums as close as I could get and then playing in different bands over the years ... eventually you get an ear for what to play .. I dunno man .. practice practice practice!!! :) +2
May 19, 2016 at 10:47 PM
Girard
Girard I love how all these great musicians have no idea what they are doing and can't describe where their fingers go lol Oh well +1
May 19, 2016 at 10:48 PM
Girard
Girard It's like a chef saying they have no idea what they put in the dinner they just served you. lol +0
May 20, 2016 at 1:41 AM
Ernie440
Ernie440 It's pointless to talk about where my fingers go ... use your ears and find the spots on the neck where it sounds like that. That's really how music is done. Describing how your lips move to make words is another pointless thing. +1
May 20, 2016 at 3:17 AM
Girard
Girard ok +0
OliVBee
nice bass line :) +1
May 19, 2016 at 8:13 PM
Ernie440
Ernie440 Thanks Oli! :) +1
mpointon
Very tidy jam, Pudsy! No idea how you come up with this stuff from nothing! Absolutely on the groove though. Very well played! 😊 +1
May 19, 2016 at 9:09 PM
Ernie440
Ernie440 Oh I've got a bunch of little bass noodles that I've gathered over the years rattling around my old brain pan. Thanks Martin, a pleasure to jam on your drum groove, so precise as usual! +1
ivax
Fantastic Pudsy ,Great bass-melody :) +1
May 19, 2016 at 10:08 PM
Ernie440
Ernie440 hey thanks Xavi .. feel free to throw some chords and notes at it anytime! :D +1
May 19, 2016 at 10:17 PM
ivax
ivax :D +1
Guadaña
Great ride mate!! +1
May 19, 2016 at 10:07 PM
Ernie440
Ernie440 Guadaña .. thank you! Welcome to jam on it my friend. :) +1
May 19, 2016 at 10:12 PM
Guadaña
Guadaña It's on the list ;) +1
May 19, 2016 at 10:17 PM
Ernie440
Ernie440 Very cool! +1
garymcmill
Tasty! +1
May 19, 2016 at 11:22 PM
Ernie440
Ernie440 Thanks Gary! :) +0
frenzie
Nice one puds! Top notch bass track! :) so cool! +1
May 20, 2016 at 12:57 AM
Ernie440
Ernie440 Thanks Frenz! ;) +0
May 20, 2016 at 1:36 AM
Ernie440
Ernie440 Give it a shot when you have the time :) +0
KellsBells
Dude! Seriously awesome bass playing here Pudsy! :D +1
May 21, 2016 at 2:12 AM
Ernie440
Ernie440 hey thanks Kells, appreciate you coming by!! :) +2
akethesnaker
Love it! +1
May 21, 2016 at 2:49 AM
Ernie440
Ernie440 Cool Ake .. your turn to jam on it buddy! :) hehe +1
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