bassline
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bassline (plural basslines)
(music) The low-pitched instrumental part of a piece of popular music.
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A typical early performance featured Lowe in the background playing the bassline on a Fairlight synthesiser keyboard and Tennant singing, but otherwise passive, in the foreground.
He eschewed a bass player, and played all the bass parts himself using the pedals,sfn generally using a walking bassline on the pedals in combination with percussive left hand chords.
Every part of Adamski’s production is perfectly designed: the sad chords, the funkily interrupted alien transmission of the synths, the prodding bassline with its edges almost imperceptibly corroded by acid.
He cut it directly off the tape, so that the song is basically "just bassline and hiss".
For Typical boogie woogie bassline on 12 bar blues progression in C, chord roots in red.
Starting off on an introspective note, before coming a more upbeat rock track through its stunning bassline and guitar riffs, the tune offers a brilliant reflection on the vocalist’s former life in Tuscon, Arizona.