Doubling Bassline with Guitar

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  • Andyjr1515Andyjr1515 Frets: 3127
    It's also done on Lazaretto.

    LOVE that!
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  • thegummy said:
    @richardhomer ;; (hi!) is right. Some 3-piece blues-based outfits did it. Maybe the guitar would start a riff, then the drums join in next time round, and the bass piles in after that. Possible examples include The Groundhogs.

    PS you will find instances in George Handel's music where the double basses play what the cellos play only an octave lower. I'm not sure it is new ;)
    I think that when the instrument was first introduced in classical, it would always play the bass line (played by cello or other instrument) an octave lower rather than having its own part and that's why it's called the double bass.
    Possible. Wikipaedia suggests there were separate parts written for it quite early in its development but doen't say that was exclusively the case
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30824
    The Cure’s entire back catalogue is based on this.

    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • Doubling the guitar line with a bass is fairly normal, doubling the bassline with a guitar less so. If you have to ask if its a bass line or a guitar line then its a guitar line.
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  • jdgmjdgm Frets: 850
    edited October 2018
    Slightly off-topic but Joe Zawinul always used to double the bass lines with synth on Weather Report albums, which reportedly really pissed Jaco Pastorius off on "Teen Town"..... B 
    Sounds really good though, also on tracks like "Domino Theory" and "Procession" with Victor Bailey on bass.
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  • thegummythegummy Frets: 4389
    jdgm said:
    Slightly off-topic but Joe Zawinul always used to double the bass lines with synth on Weather Report albums, which reportedly really pissed Jaco Pastorius off on "Teen Town"..... B 
    Sounds really good though, also on tracks like "Domino Theory" and "Procession" with Victor Bailey on bass.
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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24793
    Gassage said:
    The Cure’s entire back catalogue is based on this.
    Even ‘Love Cats’?
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  • mburekengemburekenge Frets: 1054
    loads of soul does this as well. I love the sound.
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