OT: Low notes you love

[TommyRude]

There are some low notes that are cool.   Mostly bass players adding that extra string down below.  I think there were some low bass notes in Phil Collins songs? Whilst I attempt to track those down, here's a singer 

 

[harmonizer]

Love the low bass line which starts the song and continues throughout (I am NOT talking about the faster bass line which starts a few bars later):

 

[drawback]

Brian Wilson was one of the best in pop at using alternate roots.

[Delaware Dave]

Under Pressure - Bowie...

[KuruPrionz]

Not sure if they will have it this year, video is pre-Covid from 2018.

Tuba Christmas!!! You'll have to turn the volume up, it is all the way down by default, at least on my screen.

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/latest-news/article48224275.html

[JamPro]

The Brown Note......

[Justin Havu]

There are a few here to choose from.

 

 

[HSS]

Damn!  

 

 

[jazzpiano88]

On 11/2/2022 at 12:56 PM, KuruPrionz said:

Not sure if they will have it this year, video is pre-Covid from 2018.

Tuba Christmas!!! You'll have to turn the volume up, it is all the way down by default, at least on my screen.

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/latest-news/article48224275.html

 

Second this.  My daughter played with them last Christmas.

[16251]

 

[mate stubb]

Anytime Steve turned down his bass and reached for the Taurus.

[wd8dky]

Pretty much anytime Geddy Lee or Chris Squire stepped on their pedals. 

[Tusker]

in these days of sub-bass it sounds like a tenor. But Jan Hammer's Earth in Search of a Sun still strikes a pretty delicious low note to me ....

 

 

[jazzpiano88]

Keyboard bass doubling Will Lee IIRC.

(not to mention a great organ solo by DF)

 

 

[Finale]

One of the most original use of extremely low end bass (down to Bb0). The original studio version of this piece was actually played on the Stick by Emmett Chapman himself.

 

https://youtu.be/ueCwOoKZ_DE?t=125

[jazzpiano88]

Pattitucci goes waaaay down.   Pretty much a 15 minute masterclass on bass accompaniment and soloing.

 

 

[KuruPrionz]

On 11/2/2022 at 2:38 PM, HSS said:

Damn!  

 

 

Wow!!

[GRollins]

16251 beat me to it. Zarathustra was a pretty cool piece of music on its own, but with the associations from 2001, it got even more profound.

 

I will also give a nod to Chris Squire and his Moog Taurus pedals, as mentioned above. As fate would have it, I spent a few minutes this afternoon fiddling with one of my Behringer Model Ds, recreating the Taurus Tuba setting, which I believe was what Squire used during his bass solos. At the 32' setting on the D, it hits the low C from Zarathustra an octave below middle C (C3?), leaving over two octaves of keys beneath to shake the dust off your woofer cones.

 

Which I did. (Tinnitus? What tinnitus?)

 

I've got some pipe organ records from my audiophile days that have some VERY impressive low notes, but they aren't the kind of thing that the average person would be familiar with--or for that matter, be able to find in a record shop, new or used.

 

Some of the Stanley Clarke solo albums had fun bass lines. Yes, they were "just" 4-string basses, but they're recorded well and Stanley is always high on my list of purveyors of low notes.

 

Honestly, I kinda feel that synths don't count...or shouldn't (even if they're Moogs, alas). I mean, you can hit any arbitrary frequency you want with an electronic circuit. It's almost like cheating. I lean towards non-electronic low frequency things: organs (of course), tubas, contrabassoons, and the like.

 

Grey

[GRollins]

I'm not sure I'm buying into the Joy Chapman thing--that's vocal fry, not an honest clean note.

 

Grey

[KuruPrionz]

I don't have a recording of it but long ago, I brought a "Saxxy" electronic kazoo with a pitch shifter over to a friend's house. It was a $50 Sharper Image product and I still have it. Still works too. 

He had a huge bass guitar rig with a 1600 watt amp head and two cabinets with front loaded 18", 2-10", 2-6" and 2 tweeters. 

 

I had an adapter from the headphone jack on the Saxxy hooked up to the amp with both speakers plugged in and my friend switched to the Tuba setting and then down an octave. He hummed the lowest note he could. You could see the 18" woofers moving slowly back and forth. The dog ran out into the back yard and cowered in the farthest corner. Neither of us could hear it at all, that's a LOW note!!! 🤣

[MushMusic]

I used to love working on the organs of 1st Congo LA.  Eight 32 foot pipe ranks with a 64 foot digital stop is such a great sound.   When you play them all together, the spotlights mounted on the bars in between the Skinner 32s up front and the Walker subs for the digital 64s in the transept shake, moving the projected light beams where they shine up and down quite a bit.   First 5 rows of seats near the middle aisle, is over the middle of the basement, and in between the Walker subs right below the Skinner 32s, that is the sweet spot.  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1PA3seWoTk

 

Number 3 in this list

http://theatreorgans.com/laird/top.pipe.organs.html

 

[jazzpiano88]

26 minutes ago, GRollins said:

I'm not sure I'm buying into the Joy Chapman thing--that's vocal fry, not an honest clean note.

 

Grey

 

No that was clearly a clean note demonstrated by the downward progression.  Human notes that low have a limited timbre due to the vocal chords, unlike an organ pipe.

[16251]

 

[TommyRude]

Anything producing a note is OK to go! Human, bass, synth, horn, dog - all good.  While we're at it - how could I forget the greatest-of-all-time low note song.. for shame!

 

[TommyRude]

some good low bass notes here

 

[ksoper]

On 11/3/2022 at 11:05 PM, TommyRude said:

Anything producing a note is OK to go! Human, bass, synth, horn, dog - all good.  While we're at it - how could I forget the greatest-of-all-time low note song.. for shame!

 

 

I was waiting for this.  It was my ear worm yesterday.

[Mark Zeger]

 

I’ve heard Scott Robinson play this with Maria Schneider’s group.

 

[o0Ampy0o]

There have been many coming from Paul McCartney and Mike Rutherford. I know Daryl Steurmer played the bass pedal parts live, did Steve Hackett do all the bass pedal parts?

[Tusker]

1 hour ago, o0Ampy0o said:

There have been many coming from Paul McCartney and Mike Rutherford. I know Daryl Steurmer played the bass pedal parts live, did Steve Hackett do all the bass pedal parts?

 

I don't recall a time when Hackett played pedals live with Genesis (Rutherford played them). In the Steve Hackett live show, his bass player played the pedals. However I know of at least one Hackett studio song (Clocks) where Hackett used the the Taurus pedals.

[GovernorSilver]

Throat singing