Chords for The Bass Sound of Tina Weymouth | Reverb Bass Tricks

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Hey, this is Jeremy from [G] Reverb.com, and today we're going to talk Tina Weymouth [C] of Talking
Heads and TomTom Club fame.
Tina was a super [F] creative bass player [G] who really had a knack for finding the perfect
part for [A] a song, a part that was hummable, _ danceable, [F] grooved like crazy, [G] and are super
fun to play.
Unlike a lot of [C] players, Tina used all sorts of different basses.
So maybe there's [F] not one that really [G] says Tina, but she did use a [E] Mustang bass early
on in her career.
_ She's used all sorts of custom basses.
We've seen her playing Hofner's, jazz basses.
She really used whatever she needed to fit the part and the sound for the tune.
Not to mention that Talking Heads and TomTom Club both have long careers and a lot of different
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_ [C#] _ _ _ [E] What struck me [B] when learning some of Tina's lines is how simple they [E] were, but how they
really seemed to make the song.
This reminded me a lot of [B] Duck Dunn and [E] James Jamerson.
So it was no [Em] surprise to me when looking through some of her interviews that she mentioned
both of [D#] those players as big [A] influences on her. _ _ _ _ _
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[C] _ [Cm] So this line is a great example [F] of her Motown influences.
So when she plays, _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ [F] that's classic Motown stuff right there.
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[G] Here's Found a Job off of more songs about buildings and [A] food.
This album Brian Eno produced, and you can really hear their art rock, angular aspects come out.
This is a super weird, great, funky bass line that reminds me of 80s electro James Brown
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[A] Found a job, line up a bad [B] picture, _ _ [D] it's been six generations, _
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Yeah, so Found [B] a Job is a super [Em] cool line.
It's [D] highly melodic and it's [G] kind of strange, especially against the guitar parts, which
are super 16th heavy.
She's playing this very bouncy, melodic, kind of James Brown-esque parts with crazy slides
like this part.
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_ So that's this great slide from the root to the third, and then this _ kind of [F#m] big pull-offs,
which are super cool.
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So it's sort of like an odd number and _ loops back around to the other part in a great way.
I just love this line.
I could play along to it kind of all day.
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_ So in addition to Talking Heads, Tina also had a side project with her husband, Chris,
called Tom Tom Club.
Tom Tom Club was way dancey and way cool.
This is a song Genius of Love off their debut record.
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_ _ _ _ _ Part of what makes this bass line great is the wild slide that is really part [A] of the line.
It's not just like an accent or a fill.
You know, it's part of the whole thing.
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Tina's lines are super fun to play and very inspiring.
They're really accessible.
You know, they're not a lot of notes.
They're easy to learn.
Put on Talking Heads [G] or Tom Tom Club record and play along and have fun. _
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