I have ordered an acoustic electric bass. It is made by Taylor and is a marvel of engineering. They have managed to make a bass guitar that is the size of it’s six string counterpart, the GS-mini. In fact it is called the GS-mini bass. They also had to work with string manufacturer D’Addario to build a string that would work both acoustically and mechanically as bass strings on a neck that was substantially shorter than usual.<\/p>\n
I am so excited. I have always loved playing other people’s basses. It is going to be great to have one that fits my apartment lifestyle. Since I placed my down payment on the bass, I have found myself paying closer attention to the bass lines of songs that I an listening to. I have always loved Paul McCartney’s bass lines but they often fade into the background behind the guitars and vocals.<\/p>\n
I love walking bass lines. The song\u00a0Step Right Up<\/em> by Tom Waits that I blogged about the other day is a good example of walking bass. There are a number of Joni Mitchell’s songs from the era when Jaco Pastorius was playing bass with her that are worthy of study. Jaco used to call frets speed bumps. I think I probably need to learn to play bass with speed bumps before I give it a try without them. I love the glissandos that you can do on a fretless bass though.<\/p>\n A good bass line provides a foundation upon which great songs can be built. It is often overlooked but is conspicuous by its absence when it is not present in a song. It is said to provide the backbone of the music. Listen for the base line the next time you listen to music. I bet you’ll be surprised at how much it adds to the song.<\/p>\n Sweet dreams, don\u2019t forget to tell the ones you love that you love them, and most important of all, be kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have ordered an acoustic electric bass. It is made by Taylor and is a marvel of engineering. They have managed to make a bass guitar that is the size of it’s six string counterpart, the GS-mini. In fact it is called the GS-mini bass. They also had to work with string manufacturer D’Addario to … Continue reading “It’s Got a Backbeat”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[234,233,236,235],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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