I am listening to
famous bass intros and
famous rock bassists.
I was looking at my J Bass today and realized I had forgotten why I purchased a Jazz Bass instead of a Precision Bass. After reading again about basses, I saw my reason: the J Bass has a slenderer neck and allows for a wider variety of tone variations since it has two single-coil pickups with individual tone controls, rather than just the single P Bass pickup unique to P Basses.
Then I realized that I'd never really listened to bass lines of songs very much, and I thought I should, because I like strong bass lines in music. So I decided to do a little crash auditory course in bass playing:
^ I liked Jason Newsted's bass sound in Metallica the best.
Next, I listened to
Geddy Lee's bass line track from the studio recording of Rush's "Tom Sawyer" so I could better hear what is going on in the song:
I thought that was such fun, that I listened to
Geddy Lee's isolated vocals for "Tom Sawyer":
I finished up with
Neil Peart's isolated drums from the same song so I could hear the sound quality and panning used in the recording:
^ I like musical surgery that lets me tease apart the sinews and inspect each one carefully.
