Chords for Chic Good Times Bass Guitar Lesson Phil Williams | Funk Bass Lessons Licklibrary

Right, let's look at good times now this of all the bass lines is probably one of the best known bass lines
Not by bass players, but by everybody
I think it's been sampled to death on different things and it's been you know used on
countless rap tunes I think
_ John Deakins another one bites the dust was probably based on on this ID probably heard this and thought well mind doing something a bit
like that so
Great bass line one of those bass lines that if you are a bass player you may not
Know the detail and I think sometimes with some of these things the details the important part
Just the way the bass line works at the end and how it turns round
There's a couple of little bits in there that would be interesting for you to know if you don't already know them
So I'll play the bass line.
This is it. _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ [C#m] _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ [F#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ [D#] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ [D] _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [G] _ [E] _ Well, I've a slice you just keep on playing.
I could just keep going _ _
Nice simple memorable bass line
Great fun to play I'll show you how it goes.
Here's how here's how it goes.
We starting on open a
_ Okay, so you've got _ _ three of those open ease
Then _ we've got [F#] this
[G] So _ we're going to play two notes on your e
[F#] Followed by an F sharp [G] and a G [F#m] which is fret two and [G] fret three of your e string
_ _ [A]
Then we're going to go and play an open a
We get this _
_ _ [B] then a B
_ Second fret a [E] string [F#] _ [A] _ [B] _ [C#] _ _
C sharp
fourth fret a string
[F#] _ [A] _
[B] _ [C#] _ [D] _ _ _ _ open D _ [E] _ and an E
_ Second fret on your D string so you get this [F#] _ [A] _ [B] _ [D] _
_ [E] and then [A] we're going to play an open a underneath that _
[E] In fact, we're to play three of them.
_ So that's got us virtually all the way through it
_ _ _ _ [G] _
[A] _ [B] _ [D] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
Okay.
Now this is a nice little
Kind of turnaround section at the end of the riff
_ _ [F#] _ [A] _ So what we got here is two open a's
_ [F#] _ _
[A] To an F sharp, which is fourth fret on your D string
[F#] Back [A] _ [F#] _ [A] _ to an open a so we get this and _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
then a G
[G] _ [F#] to an F sharp [G] for
Thrift five to four [F#] on your [A] D [F#m] [G] and [F#] _ [A] then another a at the end
_ So what we got is this
So [G] _ [F#] _ [A] _ that's a vital little bit to the riff that often gets missed out
Then [F#] _ [A] _ _ _ [B] [A] we're going to play another row a
[B] _ Hammer on to the B second fret [A] a string
[B] _ [A] _
another a
[G] and a G
fret three of your E [A] string [N] and _ [E] then we're back into the three E's to
replay the riff again _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ [A] _ [B] _ [D] _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
[A] _ [B] _ [E] _ _ okay, _ and
Really that makes up the main body of the song
It does go into a verse section and that's just basically based
Around an E and an [A] A.
[Gm] I'll let you work out that bit for yourself
_ But have fun playing this bass line _
It's one of probably one of the best known bass lines around _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ [G#] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [A#] _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ [Cm]
Top 20 funk bass lines is DVD _
Which covers what I would consider a lot of bass players would consider be some of the best bass playing
_ Funk tracks well-known fun tracks around
_ _ There _ _ might be a few [F] new ones [A#] that you've never heard of in there
[F] _ _
That you know [Gm] really well worth [Cm] learning and well worth having to listen to
And once you've heard the new the new tracks maybe the ones that you haven't heard you can go and check out the albums and have
A listen to them because there's some fantastic stuff on there _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [A#] _ _