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The SBL Podcast

186- Rating 10 GREATEST Bass Lines of ALL TIME (according to WatchMojo)

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Scott's Bass Lessons, Bass Guitar, Bass, Online Bass Lessons, Education, Music Interviews, Electric Bass, Music, Sbl

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Ian take on WatchMojo’s list of the 10 Greatest Bass Lines of All Time—do they live up to the hype or fall flat? From feel and pocket to creativity, tone, and those unforgettable hooks, they’re rating what really makes a bass line legendary (and which ones get a “meh”). If you’ve ever wanted to level up and find out what skills might be holding you back, click here for the bonus quiz!

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0:00.0

One of the best rock and roll bass tones of all time, wouldn't you agree, Scott Devine?

0:12.6

I wouldn't exactly say I'm like a huge fan of that bass tone.

0:18.7

Dude, we are going to go to the mat on this one. We are here today to

0:23.6

celebrate or potentially burn down. I don't know which way you're looking at. It's a celebration

0:29.1

of the baseline. We've actually got 10 incredible baselines or maybe not. We're going to, you know,

0:35.6

we're going to rate them. We're going to choose, but we want you to join in as well. Watch Mojo actually came up with this list. So who knows what we're going to be getting ourselves into? They did this sort of like top 10 baselines of all time. We're going to take those baselines. We're going to rate them. Hopefully you'll join in as well. We're going to go 10 through to one. And we've got categories. Shall I read you the categories, Mr. Allison? Yeah, read us the categories. Let's go. Okay. So here are the categories. And we're going to go through the baselines and rate each one of them based on these categories. We've got great feel and pocket. We've got use of space. Oh. We've got creativity, risk and individuality. They are all,

1:15.2

that's all one category there. Yeah. We've got sound and tone. Yes. We've got harmonic outlining.

1:21.2

Yes. And then finally, is it memorable and is it singable? So we've got six categories.

1:29.5

What are the scoring criteria, Ian?

1:30.9

You came up with this, didn't you? So we've just got a three-point system.

1:33.2

You get two points.

1:34.3

If it's an enthusiastic yes for the category,

1:37.8

if it's a me, if it's a, ah, yeah, I guess, me.

1:41.7

You get one point and if it's a, nah, no. You get zero points. Hey, and listen, if you are trying to up-level your base playing, right? Like, we've been there. Ian and I, we've been in that exact situation. We know how freaking confusing it can be. Yeah. We've been talking about over the last few weeks, looking at all of the different things that you could be trying to level up yourself in.

2:02.0

I've got a list here. Check it out. So you might be trying to level yourself up in fretboard or theory knowledge, right?

2:07.6

Or groove and time feel or baseline creation. That's what we're going to be doing today.

2:13.7

Or maybe technique and physical control on the actual instrument. And then finally,

2:19.5

practice structure and focus. And the really crucial thing is that you want to be focusing on

2:26.0

whichever one is blocking you right now. And the reality of those, of all of the things that we

2:31.1

just spoke about, the reality is it's incredibly hard to find

2:34.7

what is actually blocking you right now because it's hard to figure out what to focus on

2:39.9

at the right time, at the right, you know, all of that stuff is incredibly confused. And in my

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