Free Speech, By Your Moderator part2

[IkaruShizzlemah]

Ha, ha, ha, just kidding. Got you didn't I? (Sorry, bovinehost)

Okay, I have a real question.

I was watching the Dixie Chicks (Evening with-)DVD and I was like ya know I should write a country/bluegrass song. So I have a few chords and stuff on my gee-tar, but I can't even imagine how to create a authentic bass line for my song.

How do you make a country/bluegrass bassline?

I know thats kind of a big question, but for example alot of R&B lines are similar to the Jamerson Motown stuff. Jazz has walking basslines.

Is there a method for country/bluegrass?

If you help me, I'll thank you on stage when my song wins a CMA award.

Also, I noticed some of you name your basses, so I decided to name my Stingray...

Julie Andrews. Cause it's the freakin' sound of music.

Ikaru

 

[Big Poppa]

How to write a country bass part. WEll first off it would be helpful if your dog died while your grandmother was having a seizure with grandpa passed out from moonshine on top of the neighbor girl who is your second cousin but you dont know this because your pickup rear ended your lying cheating no good wife who is in the car with the boss of the steel mill that just went out of business


root 5 root5 2beat 4 beat walk to the four root 5 rooot 5 2 and 4 walk back to the one
repeat until subject is denied welfare.

 

[GWDavis28]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

BP that was beautiful man, made my morning.

Glenn |B)

 

[Psycho Ward]

For country bass lines try to think of the simplest possible bass line, and then play half of that!

For country, one of the Nashville bass concepts all thru the 60’s till now is the standard alternating root to fifth on 1 and 3 with the root repeated before any chord change. Diatonic is a country boy’s best friend, very important.

The “outlaw” movement thru the 70’s allowed more use of chromatics and avoided the root before chord change rule.


Now, get to pick'n and grinning.

 

[IkaruShizzlemah]

How to write a country bass part. WEll first off it would be helpful if your dog died while your grandmother was having a seizure with grandpa passed out from moonshine on top of the neighbor girl who is your second cousin but you dont know this because your pickup rear ended your lying cheating no good wife who is in the car with the boss of the steel mill that just went out of business


root 5 root5 2beat 4 beat walk to the four root 5 rooot 5 2 and 4 walk back to the one
repeat until subject is denied welfare.

Thanks B.P.

I have my dog running back and forth across the street, he hasn't been hit yet.
As far as everyone else, I'll have to see what I can do. Oh, I need a pickup truck, crap.

Ikaru

 

[Big Poppa]

psycho way too complicated stop using big words....stick with Liar....cheater...and my personal favorite Nogood

 

[IkaruShizzlemah]

For country bass lines try to think of the simplest possible bass line, and then play half of that!

For country, one of the Nashville bass concepts all thru the 60’s till now is the standard alternating root to fifth on 1 and 3 with the root repeated before any chord change. Diatonic is a country boy’s best friend, very important.

The “outlaw” movement thru the 70’s allowed more use of chromatics and avoided the root before chord change rule.


Now, get to pick'n and grinning.

And thank you also, Psycho Ward.

Yee-haw. I think I got it now... I think.

One of my prime motivations for "learning" country is all the hot girls around here really like country. If hotties like country, I like country. If hotties like Weird Al, I like Weird Al. If hotties jump off a bridge, I jump off a bridge.

Is this starting to sound like a cult?

Ikaru

 

[Psycho Ward]

psycho way too complicated stop using big words....stick with Liar....cheater...and my personal favorite Nogood

You're right and I'll try to use one of my favorites... "two timing trailer trash".

 

[Big Poppa]

delete the spaces

Ikaru you have the first verse

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

How to write a country bass part. WEll first off it would be helpful if your dog died while your grandmother was having a seizure with grandpa passed out from moonshine on top of the neighbor girl who is your second cousin but you dont know this because your pickup rear ended your lying cheating no good wife who is in the car with the boss of the steel mill that just went out of business


root 5 root5 2beat 4 beat walk to the four root 5 rooot 5 2 and 4 walk back to the one
repeat until subject is denied welfare.

Classic! I still have stomach cramps from laughing

 

[IkaruShizzlemah]

delete the spaces

Ikaru you have the first verse

Yeah, I guess I pretty much live country songs.

I haven't got to White Trash Wedding yet though.

Ikaru

 

[nashman]

What happens when you play a Country album backwards? .....





you get your dog back, your job back, your pickup truck back ....

 

[bovinehost]

I must try this root-five business someday.

 

[Oldtoe]

Just don't wrangle the root.

 

[IkaruShizzlemah]

I remember before I gave country a chance, I used to tease a friend of mine that listened to country. Hillbilly jokes and stuff.

Then I listened to some country. Some I liked , some I didn't. It was all kind of, too mellow. So I asked my friend "Isn't there any rockin' country?" He said if it rocked, it wouldn't be country it would be rock. I felt kind of stupid after that.

Oh, he also told me something else of value. If you're travelling on a greyhound bus, and you don't see a weirdo... you are the weirdo.

Ikaru

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

...

Oh, he also told me something else of value. If you're travelling on a greyhound bus, and you don't see a weirdo... you are the weirdo.

Ikaru

I like it

 

[bassmonkeee]

I like it

Hell, I live it.

 

[IkaruShizzlemah]

You know how when you meet new people sometimes it takes a little while before you can tell if they're crazy, or not?

Well, another friend told me always check out their socks (if you can see them), if they are strange colors, mismatched, or ect., watch out.

It has yet to let me down. There was a new guy at work, he was telling all kinds of stories. I won't get into what all he said, it would take two hours to type it. When the guy sat down, I glanced down at his socks. They were PURPLE! Screwball!!!

Another time, I was driving to my EBMM dealer, passing though the city. There was a guy goose stepping down the sidewalk, waving his arm in a pointing motion violently. Screaming something. I looked down... one white shoe, and on his other foot just a red sock!

I have to find another dealer. First It's monkeys, now it's crazy homeless people...
I'm freakin' out man!! I'm freakin' out!!!!

Ikaru

 

[bovinehost]

There was a guy goose stepping down the sidewalk, waving his arm in a pointing motion violently.

He may have been in the latter stages of syphilis.

I'm told that such things were not an uncommon sight before treatment was developed. Apparently, the little spiral bad guys short-circuit your neural wiring and cause all manner of physical ups and downs.

Or, you know, he could have been crazy.

 

[adouglas]

OT, but I have to chime in with one of my favorite country lyrics ever, from George Jones:

Last night I broke the seal on a Jim Beam decanter that looks like Elvis
I soaked the label off a Flintstone Jelly Bean jar

I cleared us off a place on that one little table that you left us
And pulled me up a big ole piece of floor

I pulled the head off Elvis
Filled Fred up to his pelvis
Yabba Dabba Doo, the King is gone
And so are you