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I recently ran across this old email that Cliff from
The Vibrocounts sent me back when I first started out
playing bass and found The Fender Forum. It seems
like a fairly comprehensive break-down of "how to" for
surf bass playing.
Now I'm assuming that these are usable formulas within
songs played using any type of scale? The seven notes
of any given scale being numbered 1-8 (8 being all the
way back to the root) you can play around with these
intervals to come up with surfy bass lines. On the
couple of instro tunes that we play (which are mostly
chord-based, since I wrote them and I'm not a lead
guitar player), I tend to throw in a lot of fifths and
do simple scale runs. Any of the resident players
here got any comments?
Richard
"I use four or five basic bass patterns & then ad lib
from them...
I - V - VIII - V (A - E - A' - E) (Endless Summer,
Apache, The
Cruel
Sea) (A - E - A' - E)
I - V - III (usually minor) - V (E - G - B - G)
(Pipeline)
I - III - IV/V/IV/III (A - C - D/E/D/C) (Diamond
Head, Walk Don't
Run
'64)
I - VIII - VII - V (jazzier)
Etc.
You will never go wrong playing the root of the chord
on the 1, and
played
the fifth, either up or down, on off beats.
All else is stay out of the way of drum fills."
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