paul mccartney's bass playing

[sonidero]

Who is Paul Mc Cartney???

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/who-is-paul-mccartney

[Ghost Hip]

Probably one of the best pick techniques ever.
Listening to Come Together, it's difficult to tell that he isn't plucking with fingers.

He was the most skilled musician in the Beatles...but Lennon's my guy as far as style and songwriting goes.

I've literally never thought about McCartney using a pick before.

I dig the Beatles. I had a phase where I was certain that Revolver was my #1 "if the aliens need to hear one record, this is it" album.

GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LYFE. BAH DAPPA BUH BUH BUUUUUUH

On a side note complimenting all of them beatles, I still listen to "and your bird can sing" and have no idea what is going on musically. As in I have idea how a band writes something like that.

[rustywire]

Probably one of the best pick techniques ever.
Listening to Come Together, it's difficult to tell that he isn't plucking with fingers.

He was the most skilled musician in the Beatles...but Lennon's my guy as far as style and songwriting goes.

I've literally never thought about McCartney using a pick before.

I dig the Beatles. I had a phase where I was certain that Revolver was my #1 "if the aliens need to hear one record, this is it" album.

GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LYFE. BAH DAPPA BUH BUH BUUUUUUH

On a side note complimenting all of them beatles, I still listen to "and your bird can sing" and have no idea what is going on musically. As in I have idea how a band writes something like that.

You just name-dropped my fav Lennon song.
The one I put ahead of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Instant Karma, Come Together and I Want You (She's So Heavy).



Fully agreed at the factor.

[The4455]

Yes, McCartney used a pick for most of the beatles discography because he switched from guitar. When he switched to playing a rick he started playing with his fingers, solo stuff too.

[bigchiefbc]

Probably one of the best pick techniques ever.
Listening to Come Together, it's difficult to tell that he isn't plucking with fingers.

He was the most skilled musician in the Beatles...but Lennon's my guy as far as style and songwriting goes.

I've literally never thought about McCartney using a pick before.

I dig the Beatles. I had a phase where I was certain that Revolver was my #1 "if the aliens need to hear one record, this is it" album.

GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LYFE. BAH DAPPA BUH BUH BUUUUUUH

On a side note complimenting all of them beatles, I still listen to "and your bird can sing" and have no idea what is going on musically. As in I have idea how a band writes something like that.

You just name-dropped my fav Lennon song.
The one I put ahead of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Instant Karma, Come Together and I Want You (She's So Heavy).



Fully agreed at the factor.

Quoting because you just named my favorite Beatle song of all time, my favorite Lennon song, and quite possibly top 5 song of all time period. I fucking love that song. As a matter of fact, here's Macca's bassline for that song:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ88jTKdVH4[/youtube]

[rustywire]

GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LYFE. BAH DAPPA BUH BUH BUUUUUUH

On a side note complimenting all of them beatles, I still listen to "and your bird can sing" and have no idea what is going on musically. As in I have idea how a band writes something like that.

You just name-dropped my fav Lennon song.
The one I put ahead of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Instant Karma, Come Together and I Want You (She's So Heavy).



Fully agreed at the factor.

Quoting because you just named my favorite Beatle song of all time, my favorite Lennon song, and quite possibly top 5 song of all time period. I fucking love that song. As a matter of fact, here's Macca's bassline for that song:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ88jTKdVH4[/youtube]

I think you're neglecting the "Top 5 riffs" and "Top 5 chord progressions" lists. So haunting...and chill inducing no matter how many times I've heard it.

I only put the others ahead of [it] due to the outstanding song writing, vocal performances and because I'm a sucker for surrealism. Also cohesion.

thread derailed...and IDGAF. Sounding good always wins.

[Greenfuz]

I really didn't expect you guys to be such mccartney fans

[cheesecats]

just try singing while playing the bass part to i saw her standing there. paul is a rare musician.

[D.o.S.]

... and he wrote Eleanor Rigby, too.

even though it gets lost in all the platitudes, priase, and hyperbole, the Beatles really do have a staggeringly impressive body of work.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Like, I've never listened to the Beatles that much aside from hearing it from other people playing it and playing their songs in a band without listening to most of the originals, because how crazy people are about them totally turns me off (pathetic reason, I know) and I don't like the production on a lot of what I had heard, but because of this thread I've really listened to some tracks I'd never heard before they're pretty cool! Sweet bass playing, great composition, McCartney has a nice voice... So thanks for getting me to like the Beatles a bit more you guys, I really never thought that'd happen.

[myrrh]

Been watching the anthology dvds recently, and his bass playing is unreal. Both impossible to do while singing + really tasteful.
His early solostuff is great too.
He may seem like a controlling dick, but I dont really think that band could have functioned well without him driving it all.

[grege]

He's so good!

He played the guitar solo on Taxman as well, which is super killer.



From anything I've read, he used to punch in his bass parts (Revolver/Peppers/Magical Mystery Tour / Abbey Road) one phrase at a time to get the fills and the melodic bits to sit the best with everything else. Most of the time they did bass dead last, in the wee hours of the morning!

[Greenfuz]

being sleep deprived is the only way I can be at my best creatively