How do you get THAT SOUND?! ???????? #tonylevin #kingcrimson #scottbasslessons #sbl #bass #basslife
Taken from the Three of a Perfect Pair album, Sleepless was released as a single in 1984. The track is best known for its deceptively simple opening bass line, with @tonylevin using a digital delay to turn his eighth-note thumps and pops into sixteenths.
“King Crimson is what progressive music is all about,” said Levin. “It’s not reproducing something that was radical 30 years ago, but the more difficult route of putting aside old ways of playing to try to come up with meaningful new music. It’s a noble quest, whether you achieve it or not.”
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Originally posted by UCWTj3vCqkQIsrTGSm4kM34g at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gvrt-uI5bA
I have two delay ibanez ad99 and digitech rp many digital i want to replique this petformance for auther song la camel cheb khaled 1987
That' s a beauty
I've been searching for this some time now, and this is the best explanation. I've always loved the bass riff but never figured out how he really got that going, besides using some kind of effect. Now I know I was right.
Digital and tape delay on bass is great, I've found that I can't get an analog delay to sound good with bass at all though because the repeats start to peak the low frequencies, so keep that in mind if you've got a multi-fx unit and you're picking what type of delay to try this with
“Sleepless” is such a driving baseline, yet the song itself has such an off-kilter feel as it progresses. Levin’s bass playing gels the whole caboodle together. Epic.
Brace for the bass ????. Uno dos single seis. You're in the right place.
This is awesome. As a guitarist I've seen this technique used before. Two that spring to mind:
Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee by Nuno Bettencourt
Cathedral by Edward Van Halen–also noteworthy † since his use of the volume knob made it so notes didn't sound "picked."
† no pun intended
My favorite part 0:19
My adolescence is a lie! I always tried to do a super fast slap.
I've listened to this bassline so many times and never thought about how it was done. I guess I just assumed Levin had eight fingers on his right hand.
AMAZING!!!????????????????????
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Sounds like cheating.
Kinda reminds me of dotted eighth delay stuff on guitar. Gotta love it!
Smart
RAGE!!!!
Wow! That bass! That groove! That delay! I've got a Sterling StingRay34 on order. I can't wait for it to come in. Now if only I could play like that… I guess that's why I went with Sterling and not Ernie Ball ????
It doesn't sound like a bass guitar it sounds like a video game from the 90's.
This is insane
delay
Yep….BUSTED!!!
With delay, king crimson….with out delay its just too much time on my hands
Slap back
Tosin Abasi does that shit without a delay. ????
Its bullshit hes talking
Thats no delay
you guys have to listen to johnny greenwood play guitar on songs like zero sum or thin thing by the smile. Takes this trick to a whole new level.
Soo cool