Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Can a bassline be melodic?
You bet. John Entwhistle was very melodic on his bass. Les Claypool, bass player of Primus, almost always carried the main melody, though calling Primus' music "melodic" is very subjective, to be sure.
Chris Squire, occasional bassist for Yes, would regularly play Amazing Grace solo on his bass, and you can't get much more melodic than that.
Why not Beat Girl or Optical Sound?
Beat Girl starts with the lead (on one of the lower strings, probably), with the bass line coming in a couple of measures later.
For Optical Sound, the bass line and lead line start simultaneously.
Can a bassline be melodic?
Sometimes. Hec mentioned Entwistle, and Graham Maby, who played with Joe Jackson, did on occasion. Dave Edmunds occasionally plays his leads on a six-string bass, although you probably wouldn't call them bass lines.
In every reggae song, the bassist is playing a counter-melody.
On the 1 and 3 off-beats, moreover.
::head spins dizzily round::
::head spins dizzily round::
Like a record?
Right 'round, baby. Right 'round.
Serial:
So music theory is Theo's math?
Much like one with an off-center hole.
Does Beat Girl even have a lead guitar? It sounds more like a bass to me, because I thought the horns were carrying the melody? (Granted, it's not what I'd term terribly melodic.)
Maybe I'm being fooled because that "dim dim dim" sound seems played in a basslike manner.
Another stupid question: are bass guitars picked or plucked or strummed, generally? I'm realizing that I don't know. My areas of ignorance are vaster than even I suspected.
Quick, have her write 500 words on the differences between discordance, dissonance and cacaphony.