Music and Songwriting/The Songwriter's Grooves Project - A Guide to Singing and Playing Guitar/The Double Bass Technique Song Series
This series is going to present songs that use a combination of two bass-boosting guitar techniques. One is the percussive wrist thump, and the other use the double-thumb. This series will probably involve a lot of special arrangements since at the creation of this series there are relatively few songs that were written with these techniques in use. They are, however, very useful techniques for transcribing songs with heavier beats or that involving combining drums into a guitar reduction.
Gareth Evans has created an excellent 2-part introduction to the Wrist Thump Technique
http://www.goliathguitartutorials.com/percussive-thump-part-1.html
http://www.goliathguitartutorials.com/percussive-thump-part-2.html
The planned song list for this series is here. Feel free to suggest other ideas on the list below!
Song List[edit | edit source]
Double Thumb/Wrist Bump | Original Artist | Arranger | Technique | Link 1 | Link 2 |
/Stolen Dance | Milky Chance | Jon Michael Swift | 2 part Alternating Thump Texture | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX-QaNzd-0Y | |
/Everyday People | Sly and the Family Stone | Jon Michael Swift | Basic Double Thumb Groove | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUUhDoCx8zc | |
Renegades | X Ambassador | Jon Michael Swift | Fingerpicking with thumping | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tu4wWSbnIs | |
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine | Jackson Brown and Bonnie Raitt | Jon Michael Swift | 3 part alternating thump texture | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYaqsviev9M | |
I knew you were trouble | Taylor Swift | Jon Michael Swift | Faster Double Thumbs | Music Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoKguSdy4Y | |
After an Afternoon | Jason Mraz | Jon Michael Swift | Drum reduction | Java Joes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9k3f-CQIvY | |
Hands to myself | Selena Gomez | Jon Michael Swift | Interlacing complex loop parts | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ipttfFoOdQ | |
That's What You Get | Paramore | Jon Michael Swift | Polyrhythms, complex bass riffs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kz6hNDlEEg | |
Magic! | Coldplay | Sungha Jung | Uneven Bass grooves | Sungha's arrangement – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CALrMuIfJu8 | Colplay original - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtb11P1FWnc |
Woman | Maroon 5 | Jon Michael Swift | Imterlacing complex loops | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pobG7mF-8ic | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coKi6dLmmdo |
One Minute | Krewella | Jon Michael Swift | Fast polyphonic texture | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a_UbXbhB3M | |
Spectrum | Zedd | Jon Michael Swift | rapid texture changes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEp9MCQlAa4 |