9 Killer Tips for Writing Better Bass Lines
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Today, Connor goes through his 9 killer tips for writing better bass lines. These tips work in any genre and can help you turn boring basslines into catchy, infectious, and awesome ones.
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0:00 Introduction
0:47 Demo Preview
1:07 Play with the Rhythm
2:26 Add Syncopation
4:14 Play Notes other than the Root
6:14 Add Octave Jumps
7:00 Rhythm and Timing
9:12 Amp + Filter Envelopes
10:41 Note Length
12:33 Introduce Melodic Fills
13:47 Subtle Development + Variation - Jak na to + styl
As a self taught producer, I am happy to say that i discovered these tips by myself. It took me 5 years, you should listen to this man to save your time!
Iâm on/off about 2 years in, and so far with how oversaturated the amount of tutorials there are, damn I have had to sift through a lot of Bs. I can say I appreciate this channel for staying objective, even if itâs not My DAW
this taught me more than my music teacher taught me in 4 years
sad
Should've taken art
In school at least in my case they teach you to play other peopleâs music when they should give you the tools and knowledge to make your own
only reason i chose music is cos i genuinely like music and wanted gear to start making it but my parents only let me buy school stuff now so i figured if I chose music I'd have an excuse to buy ableton live
lol
Short resume.
Tip 1. Add some rhythm to your bass notes.
Tip 2. Add Syncopation (means, set your some of your note offbeat)
Tip 3. Play notes other than the root.
Tip 4. Add octave jump to you bass line
Tip 5. Rhythm and Timing (Move your notes a little to add some movements)
Tip 6. Amp + Filter envelope. ( Change Amp and filter envelope knobs to get some interesting effects)
Tip 7. Play with note lengths. (combine short and long notes. Don't do them all same length)
Tip 8. Introduce melodic Fills (Like drum fills, but bass fills. Add some fill at the end of your melodic phrase)
Tip 9. Variation (instead of just repeat you 2 or 4 bar loop, add some variation on your second half part )
Thanks mate!
Thank you friend.
Love the simplicity and the easy way the ideas are explained. Great job
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL....Answered my long time questions on bassline writing.... Thanks a lot Connor!
and this beat is so simple yet so fire swangg ayy
Update: Connor finished this track and it's out now on Spotify! Link in description.
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This was extremely helpful and well made. This literally explained years worth of bass knowlege in 16 minutes.
Excellent tutorial. Showing the before and after is very effective!
This is wonderful, wonderful knowledge. Thanks for your efforts in sharing this
Thank you for this video! Super helpful and just what I needed. Keep it up! :)
Amazing video, super tips! Thanks!
this is reaaaallly helps for me as a bass player in my band... Some tips here are very useful to arrange my bassline for more expressive
Man this is great. Well organized and super well explained. Thank you!
Awsome! Great tips! Thanks a lot.
My bass techniques improved drastically. Thank you so much!
Great systematic case distinction. I love it and it helps me a lot! Thank you very much!
Whoa, thanks a lot man, this helps not only with bass lines, but with everything
Great info !!,really well explained
This REALLY helped me, man
Great video! Thanks for sharing this stuff with us
No problem :)
These are all great tips. Next level is learning to write your drums & bass first and structure your track around them. Works for any genre that features those instruments. Before I started doing that, all of my tracks were extremely boring even with solid bass lines.
really good video , made a lot of new sense, thanks alot, easy to understand , i will apply on my tracks !
Very helpful and unique tips, thank you so much!
great video thanks for the tips!
Your tutorial was very helpful thanks a lot !
Very clear tutorial, good job!
hell yeah, thank you for the knowledge!
Excellent, useful information thank you!
This video................ omg im in love with the creator.
Thank you! Very helpfulâ€
Great video! Focusing an practical basics and very well presented. You made an immediate subscriber. One area where I struggle is working with effectively with glide/slide/pitch bending in basslines. If you'd included that, you'd probably have the best "basics" bass tutorial on the internet! Well done. ;-)
this was very helpful, and you have a good voice to do voice overs
Good stuff, learned a lot, thank you!
this is the tutorial I was looking for! well explained and it helped me A LOT
Awesome to hear Cecilia :)
this is great. thank you âĄïž
The most appropriate video.....Loved it Keep up the good work!!!!
what
Very nice tips!!
This really helped out my bass playing!
AMAZING!!!
Thank you for sharing this Knowledge.
Keep Up the Good Work.
Cheers
Glad you liked it!
Really helpful video! Thanks. Would be great to know how you created the bass preset too.
Will use these tips asap.
Fantastic vid, thanks!
A very helpful video.. .and thanks for posting. It's well on the way to being a go-to 'cheat sheet' on developing interesting basslines. Suggestions: The syncopation & variations in note duration might be consolidated into one tip about 'variations'... and it would be helpful to mention something about using velocity on individual notes, which would model an electric bassist's attack on the strings (opening the filter according to velocity, for example). Another useful idea would be how to use glide/portamento between notes, as the bassist' s fingers may not directly hit the note 'directly' on-pitch.
How do you feel about keeping the bass note 'fills' away from drum fills - is it too much happening all at the one time? Would the music be better served by playing a 'simpler' bass fill and let the drum fill be the focus?
Thanks again for the very helpful.. and inspirational video.
super helpful! thank you! :)
This was a great video; real straight forward. There are a few vids on this topic but I preferred yours. You covered pretty much all the basses for that genre of music too.
The only thing I want to know is how can you use a "synth bass roll up/down" .
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis used it in 99% of their slow songs back in the days.
all killer, no filler. great video
a great and simple tutorial
as a complete noob it looks quite simple. i will have to see how things will develop with me...
I am sure this will help
i love this.. its so helpful
great vid, keep it up!
Great tut đ„đ„
So good. This is great.
Best i've ever seeing here. Thanks
Learnt a lot in this one! thank's :)
No problem :)
This must be the most easiest but useful tutorial... Thank you so much
totally by coincidence I was using this bass line yesterday (the original) and decided I needed to spice it up and came here on accident (sic) eg looking for sample manipulation and then just picking titles that interested me - so thanks - oh, and the instrument you have is a million times better than mine !
Learned a ton - thanks!
Glad we could help!
you dropped this đ help so muchđ„ ( specially for beginners like me )
thank u for including the late note swag
Very helpful videođđŒ
Omg thank you so much for this! Every bassline tutorial I ever come across with are exactly just like 1:24 lol tnx!
exatamente o que eu tava precisandoooo
that was a good introđ made me watch the whole videoâ€
Great video!
Great video. Can you do more videos similar to these on other topics? Perhaps on delays, reverb, etc? Great stuff.
Absolutely! Much more coming :)
Very good tips
Nice thanks
Cool stuffđŻ
awesome video maaaan!
an actual good beat tutorial video
Thank you
Thank you!â€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž
No worries :)
bless y9ur heart for this video
where did u get those drum sounds from? they sound so crisp
great, thx
This is the sauuuuucee thanks
killer tips!!!!!
Fantastic video.
i think my problem with basses is getting good source sounds/patches . any tips in sound selection/design ??
Thanks bro!
You're welcome!
thanks a lot
After watching 5 useless / filler videos... I found this one! Thanks man.
Very gozzo and helpful
Not an easy art to master especially nowadays with the one man band. Back in the days you got a guy on bass and all he does is think about only bass 24/7 and he masters the bass. Thats why I think bands make much better music. You can make decent basslines programming the way you do but I think masterful basslines gotta be played live w no quantization perhaps on an actual bass instrument, but at least played live.
Amazing tutorial and love this groove have you released this track where can i hear the full version
Check the pinned comment!
@@EDMProd thanks
is it necessary that our bass must follow lead rhythm 1 or 2 octave down?
thx fam
unrelated, you sound like upcoming and amazing youtuber "Crispy Concords"
Great video, i have learned a lot in this one.
The video and audio doesn't seem to be in sync though.
Glad you like it! Unfortunately recording the screen, mic and audio from Ableton is heavy on the CPU, so the buffer size has to be turned up high which introduces a little latency :(
Thank you sir! love from Pakistan!
What program do you use?
Which software area you using?
Yes!
What app did you use?
This is tight
Hi, I wanna ask something. Does the velocity matter on the bass line? Or just set the same velocity for each notes?
Depends on the synth patch. Certain synths might have the velocity mapped to the note volume by default, but often it could be filter cutoff, envelope, or sometimes nothing at all.
great video & I dont even use ableton
awesome
Awesome Vid, What kind of bass is that?
Sounds like wobble
ever tried to put a LP Filter with ADSR ENV on a square and/or sawtooth OSC?
Good đ
top tutorial tnx f real
man what are those hotkey to move and manipulate the notes like that?