Wordplay

This is another tune from my girlfriend’s ipod moment. It’s a great pop song with a nice swung semiquaver feel in the verses and just enough variation in the bassline to keep it interesting. There are some nice fills in the chorus that follow the vocal (one of my favourite tricks too) and tasty melodic playing in the breakdown before the final chorus with some cool inversions. Make sure to hit all the ghost notes as they are important to the feel and keep this semiquaver pushes swung!

This was recorded on my custom built 5 String with Aguilar DCB pickups and an Aguilar OBP-3 preamp. I had both pickups on full and a slight boost on both the treble and mids. I went into my Markbass Compressore with my standard settings (see pic) and then into my Diamond BCP-1 with a little more compression and a slight EQ bump in the 900 mode. I boosted around 1k by 4db in Logic.

Thanks for reading. If you like the song, make your own video and tag me on social media, @jproudbass on twitter and instagram.

Till next week.

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