WHO Played Bass? Bass Teacher REACTS: ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ – The Beatles
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Originally posted by UCazf7xBAiXehzMhsQBAXoWw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da1lLKuyAq0
Who do you think played it? Let me know! Either way, what an incredible bass line.
I want you (She's so heavy) is the ultimate Beatles bassline. Please react to it!
After seeing you playing along I'm convinced it's Paul. Helter Skelter is John and a much more simple bass line but aggressive.
I have to say, as someone who is a bassist and guitarist, I always thought those chords were played on the guitar, not the bass… and I'm almost embarrassed to say that I never really paid attention to the bass!!! In my defense, it must ONLY be because the bass player (whoever it was!!!) was doing EXACTLY what needed to be done with the bass so that, instead of standing out, it CONTRIBUTED to the whole of the song. Thanks for illuminating this feature of the song!!! If I had to guess, I think it's being played on the Fender 6 because of the "crunch" that it has; Fender, in particular, the Strat (my favourite) is chosen by many BECAUSE of that fret buzz, which adds a little bit of "punch and oomph" to the sound. THAT having been said, I also noticed that there are times where the tone of the bass sounds different than at others. So, I'm going to say, it's a mix of Paul with his Rickenbacker (and yeah, agree with your assessment that it's Paul on the chorus because that sounds like Paul's style), and someone doing something with that Fender 6 bass for the rest… and I think it's someone who's not ENTIRELY good with rhythm, so I'm thinking, John, stoned. ???????????????????? BY THE WAY: I WANT ONE OF THOSE "MINI-ANDREWS" that's in front of your Yoda!!! That should be in the merch!!! – BASS ON, EVERYONE!!! -Joe
Really good video. I remember listening to this in the early '70s when I was learning to play bass. It always blew me away with how cool it sounded. I'd do my best to play along with the record. It is my guess that Paul played bass on this.
It's so obviously Paul.
So cool
I love listening for Paul’s bass riffs, particularly from Rubber Soul on.
Don't trust Paul's memory.
I think John Lennon bass. Paul on piano. Ringo drums. George acoustic guitar, Eric lead guitar.
Paul.
Eric Clapton said in an interview that he was a bit overwhelmed being in there recording 'with Paul McCartney over there playing bass'…
I'm sure it must be Paul McCartney! Besides all mentioned features it is
typical for him to develop the bass line during the song. And we could see in the Get Back film how he plays chords on his Hoffner bass guitar.
I think Paul played it, but I think George “wrote” it. It’s just too “simple” to be a Paul creation.
Paul bass and drums
Definitely John with his primitive rhythmic, unpolished power base line, at its best. Paul never came close to this sound. John's hand is all over it. Also so original; has to be John. Paul would have had melodized it away. At the time I said it was the best base line I'd ever heard.The lead was supposed to have been George but nobody could believe he could be that good. It figured when it came out it was Clapton, probably his best too. But the lyrics man, the lyrics. George said what everyone was thinking, that this love revolution was going down a drug drain hole , everybody just stoned and lazy-ing around being subverted, perverted and inverted. Well yes, George, were all weeping while it was happening. The dream was ending. Can't have love and peace without righteousness and decent morality as it turns out.
Paul is an underrated Bass player… but he is Amazing
George Harrison: vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, Hammond organ
John Lennon: organ
Paul McCartney: backing vocals, bass guitar, piano, organ
Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine, castanets
Eric Clapton: lead guitar
There you have it.
Not a mystery, it's Paul 100% absolute solid rock FACT. It's the Jazz bass. The bridge bass line is likely to be a George idea, playing in unison with George's 12 string. On the basic track, John played organ (only) on the bridges, sharing track 3 with Paul's piano. That was the extent of his involvement with this song.
Andrew..parts of the bass line were recycled in Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4..Check it out.
The initial blocky chordage suggests John's style, especially given that Paul was also busy with the piano, and with images of the Fender 6 from Get Back fresh in our minds–but the incredible variations and elaborations that follow could only be Paul. Those slides are his trademark!
You lost me at very unique.
Overall, good analysis. The thing you miss (and most players do) are the spaces between.
I realise I'm probably talking out of my backside, and I know Paul overdubbed a second bass part using the Jazz (double tracked?), but I just can't help but hear the middly tones of the Hofner in there. Probably my imagination, but it sounds to me like a combination of Hofner/Jazz. When you play your Jazz to show the parts, the tone is very different. Great video. I'll go hide now! lol
I believe that the bass nelody on the verse is so very Paul! The rest I also think that he`s the one of the four Beatles capable of such creativity and run risks.
I think it was Paul.
Unless George told him to keep it straight and basic, the verse sounds really plain first and fifth thumping. The chorus is the one spot where I hear the melodic McCartney bass sound is the Chorus. Knowing their history, if George said Paul played bass, I’m going with Paul.
In film McCartney 3, 2, 1 Paul clearly says that it was he who played the bass
It sound like Paul to me. That’s all I can say.
it sounds like Fender 6 bass, so it must be typically George or John, to me it is John.
The electric guitar was played by Eric Clapton.Recorded 25.7. – 6.9.1968.
Good stuff > all I know, being 70 + – when the 'White Al' came out and the guys were back to playin guitars…… wooo hooo on steroids. and I don't think anyone knew at the time that Clapton played. didn't matter. lots of other bands back then were screaming. Steppenwolf. etc etc
Sorry to correct you, but a-minor to A-Major is NO key change (modulation), it' a change of mode … and A-Major is not the parallel key (that would be C-Major)! – but the same key (root) with a different scale (change of gender it's called in German) …
The quote from George himself saying that Paul overdubbed (as usual) the bassline seems definitive. Given the suggestion that John did some bass at some point a possible scenario is that he played a placeholder line when George (acoustic) Eric (electric) and Paul (piano) were laying down that first rhythm track, as described by George, and that Paul replaced it later as he was wont to do. I do agree that the invention, the agility and the slides point to Paul rather than John.
Paul played the bass, the piano and the organ. John didn’t bother to show up as usual on a George song.
Bass line for Something and Come Together. DO IT!
What a fabulous bass line by Paul. John couldn't play a bass line like that, George wouldn't. How cool hearing two masters of their instruments — Clapton on guitar and McCartney on bass — playing together. It seems like they motivated one another to come up with some of the very best examples of their work. Thanks for making this video. I always thought that bass line in this song was powerful, you video really brings it to life.
I've been a John devotee for a while, but hearing the slides in the chorus like this, I think it has to be Paul.
By the way, a descending bass over a minor chord is a lament. Appropriate eh?
Paul. The technical, the slides, the rhythm. The chorus on the bass suggests George directed the melody.
It sounds like John playing base. But when you said George is doubling the base with his guitar, that made me think of Old Brown Shoe, where George doubles the bass to his own guitar line, and so that confirms it for me. George is playing bass. Paul is on piano. And John is in the toilet smoking heroin.
It was obviously Billy Preston
Great vid, cheers! Can’t go wrong with Beatles content. Awesome, look forward to more. ????????????
If people actually really knew who played what on many studio recordings their heads would spin.
It’s so obviously Paul
I’m a huge fan of Paul and his “Melodic” bass lines.
But I put all my “chips” to George on the bass. He told Paul to do a simple bass line on Something and didn’t do it. Follow the bass line in Taxman, that’s George. Same style.
It’s too aggressive for being Paul’s creation.
This is an enigma. On most of these, we know who did what because, a lot of times, all four of them weren't there for recording on this album. All i.can say, for sure, is, it wasn't Ringo and, if it was a four-string, it wasn't John.
Edit: Yeah, that chorus part really does sound a lot more like Paul.