Yo buddies! So anyone here is a fan of japanese rock?

I am not really into this genre actually, but I like how this kind of bass playing style is able to bring the crowd into eargasm haha!



I know its just about looping the same set of chords, keep hitting the same key, but what I want to learn is the part where the bassist hits on the high notes and play around there. Something like this @ 1:05



Do we have a name for this kind of playing style?

I have been searching on youtube but couldnt find any. Help help

most japanese songs in general tend have more complicated basslines, which is why ,recently i prefer listening to japanese music rather than western..

btw i cant load the youtube links,
it says "error occured"

u don't know how to embed youtube video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akWuQzsob94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EDvabyo620

lol, looks like normal bass playing to me

my bandmate has been promoting Man on a Mission, a j-rock band.

asking me to play those kind of basslines.

I cry.

lol , most bassists i know would enjoy playing those kind of j rock basslines ,cos they bored already playing the typical western repeating same 4 notes basslines ..

True, tbh i am almost starting to get bored with the looping playing style.

I just wonder how these japanese bassist know when to play the right high key notes like what we can see from the videos.

ya , they are really good in composing basslines, heres a really good japanese female bassist, shes from a j rock band called dollbox,



though, u might wanna ignore her tacky outfit in this video .. lol


heres one of her bands songs ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2z4Uf9Tgc

these kinds of bands are really good , because literally almost every instrument shines, the drum pattern is technical, the bass has slapping , the vocalist has great vocals and not to mention scream also.

This post has been edited by shatehou: Mar 24 2015, 11:03 PM

surely any bassist will try to express him/herself with some slick bass lines.

But when it comes to recording, you'll be in a position whether you are overplaying the bass lines.

sometimes you have forgo the ego away and play that bass line that fits the song. even if it means repeating a single note.

I prefer Vocaloid Music