The "disco bassline" origins?
mannybolone
Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
I'm helping crowd source the answer to this on behalf of a friend of mine who teaches music up in Oregon.
"[we] are searching for the earliest source of that cliched bass turnaround--the part where it drops down and then works it's way back up by half-steps."
In other words, they want to know the origins of this bassline style?
Anyone have any idea of where this standard bassline convention began?
"[we] are searching for the earliest source of that cliched bass turnaround--the part where it drops down and then works it's way back up by half-steps."
In other words, they want to know the origins of this bassline style?
Anyone have any idea of where this standard bassline convention began?
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Where/when did the "Disco" bassline originate?
Batmon: you didn't see the sound clip above?
Here it is again: http://soul-sides.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/disco-lines.mp3
This was going to be my answer. Graham w/ Sly in the late 60's.
Didnt Bootsy join J.B. in the like 72/73? OOPS.....1970.
Sly & Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay
Rolling Stones - Miss You
quango & sparky - 'do the boogaloo'
Well, therein lies the question here. When did we first start hearing this become "a thing" for bass lines? Like others, it's definitely a sound I associate with Larry Graham but my friend was wondering if there might have been antecedents with Motown arrangements or other singles going back to the '60s.
Not quite there. What the OP is referring to is the steady octave rhytmn part and the drop down a minor third down, and then a chromatic walk up to the first note in ex : C .... C A Bb B C .... etc....
i consider "girl, you need a change of mind" to be firmly in the disco genre but it's like 1970, so i'm not too sure..
I dont think there is a such thing.
Folks danced to various shit in the the late 60's into the early 70's.
I doubt there was ONE joint that separates itself from.
Dudes talk about Soul Makossa or Kay-Gee or whatever.
I agree that "Girl" is Disco. By '72 shit was rolling already.
I know a few older gay dudes who consider Law Of The Land to be disco's ground zero, and that's roughly contemporaneous with Girl... (which was '72 rather than '70), but that might be something to do with it having been a single in the UK.
http://www.discomusic.com/forums/showthread.php/7092-First-disco-song-ever-released
I think black skin blue eyed boys from 1972 seems to deliver the bassline.
Only just noticed that this b-line sounds very similar to It's Just Begun by The Jimmy Castor Bunch (also 1972)