You are so right. Interestingly I heard an interview with the sax player and he said they have had the same studio engineer on every album and he is just as big a part of their sound and tightness as the band.

Stuart Matthewman is a monster too!

Agree 100%.

So true!!!

Very underrated indeed.

Kathleen Dupre was amazing.

"Ego free" is the perfect way to put it!

Was?

@@jadegreen1554 They haven't released an album in more than a decade, unless I've missed it. Denmon has been with Sweetback, and this was a thread about him.

Well said.

Well said.

Sade had a sublime singing voice & a deeeep East London speaking voice.

Coudn't agree with you more, i have a couple of old albums never play anymore as they are just masterpieces and classic, and as a bassplayer the baselines are out of this world, infact the whole band is .

Aaaaaabsolutely 🙏

True facts!

And she is beautiful!

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Check out Paradise and War of Hearts

I compare this to practicing combos in a fighting game. Even if it’s a simple combo pattern, as I start doing it too many times in a row, it feels like my brain wants to break free of the “loop” it’s in and I start messing up until I take a small mental refresher(like trying a different combo). Same when practicing a bar over and over, after a while my fingers just jump around the fretboard out of nowhere, so that patience and mental fortitude is something I’m working on.

I also started playing bass because of prog - specifically, Rush. It took me quite a long time to understand that a bass line didn't have to be complex to be "cool". I think it was Ian Hill's bass on the 1982 Judas Priest song, "You've Got Another Thing Coming". Ian just lives on an F# for such a long time, and when he finally changes notes, as another KZfaq commenter put it, "it's an *event*". My other "learning moment" was actually listening closely to AC/DC. Back in high school, my prog-fan friends and I used to mock AC/DC because the drums and bass were so freaking simple. I was much older when I finally paid attention to what was going on, and realized just how much Phil Rudd and Cliff Williams GROOVE, and how hard it is to actually do that.

Simple=\=easy

Simple is a better way to describe it. Plenty of simple things are also hard to do. In construction, jobs like painting, or masonry are simple jobs, but they are in no way easy.

Simple may be easy but turning less into more is very difficult. ZZ Top is a good example of this. Sounds simple and loose on the surface, until you look deeper.

He is also the reason i stared playing bass many years ago as well!

Who are you A

I played some guitar previously... but I moved to bass after listening to this song... many years ago... Great bass player, great band.

@@laurus677 For sure!

Jeff Seamans,well said bro.

I wish more musicians *regardless of instrument* would grasp this concept.

@@retread1083 itd take more ppl telling'em which notes specifically to play in which scenarios... nonspecific info isnt guidance.

@@lighterwaves5659 Give it a rest. 😉

@@retread1083 make another brainless comment

Loved sade since i was a tennager

Sade’s music is timeless. Listening to the originals from back in the day, this song in particular never gets old.

The whole album

I'm not a bass player, actually I'm a tenor sax player and always thought the same. We're not alone.

Fully agree - it transcends genres and is just bliss. She and her band are phenomenal.

The most powerful notes are the notes not played.

I can rip up and down the fret board on a guitar...with AMAZING ease and most would be impressed, but the hardest thing I find is to slow down. I find the FEEL/EMOTION is the hardest thing to do in music....ripping notes is easy....CONTROL and SPACE is HARD.

Allowing for space and restraint is all so powerful and when the bass engages after resting it’s hypnotic.

Yes, but it still doesn't make it the perfect bass line if it utilizes the other instrumental elements. The bass line is not much without the rest.

@@squatch570 The point is not perfect baseline by itself. It’s the musicality of everything together. The band is tight and if you’ve seen Sade live you will appreciate them even more. Their groove is timeless.

Very true not only for bassists. Pauses are one of the more important elements of music.

Music is the space between the notes Igor Stravinsky

@@Rouwiinator Count Basie knew that.

dude... my weddings band boss always tells me, that quints in 1/1/1/1 are the best, cause siplier is better. no pulse, just straight quints. i'm tired of this, and i've really backed up with technique, and musicallity to on bass... good job, that you're on boss for this.

Leaving space (In many senses) can be important for any instrument, but constant bass using all sorts of notes in particular can seriously limit the intervals and rhythms you can play on top, and makes the lower ranges pretty much off-limits if you don't wanna sound muddy. Sometimes I write my music around the bassline, and I'm just left wondering what the other parts can do, plenty of options but the tricky part is I gotta like it. The bass also often doesn't have as much room to stray away from the main groove without losing it too much, but of course these are all just generalizations, and the bass's huge effects on a track has it's positive flipside too.

Yeah, it was amazing, he didn't say or do one annoying thing. That's rare, man, and like you I learned things.

Agree 💯

Saw them live on TV-a full concert! I was blown away! Hypnotic is a great explanation !!!

Oh I understand you so much. I love "mermaid" and "punch drunk" as well, which proves that the band in the whole is TERRIFIC

I love Paradise. It gets tough playing that perfect, repetitive groove for me a couple minutes in though. It sure requires some left hand endurance.

@@Evanderj true. It requires a lot of experience and stamina. It has to be consistent all the way through. A tiny little sloppy moment becomes hugely noticeable, so it has to be perfect, all notes with consistent accents, volumes...etc

Yeah, so groovy, but "Kiss of Life" bassline is one of the best ever IMO

How about bass line in "turn my back on you"? Loved the song from the first second just because of the bass line

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YES! I think about silence complementing sound all the time.

I was thinking of Saxon, for a “Metal”, group, they can make the greatest songs with so few notes. By doing those things exactly, space, and note length, expert rhythm! Two or three notes, and they’ve got a metal masterpiece.

Awesome, thank you!

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Thanks for reminding me my favorite section as well!

I am a bassist and have always loved Sade. The bass is usually “ out front” in the mix, just fantastic. No ordinary love is kind of hypnotic, I never tire of it.

That Bass Drop is EXQUISITE!

Just trying to keep up with you, Jason! Thank you. Watching this happen is crazy! I'll have to sacrifice a calf to the algorithm now!!

Sade was the one starting the 9th disease in pop vocals? It is the single most annoying musical phenomenon in music over the last 10 years!

Amazing observation and insight, thank you!

Now, I need to go look up "Cherish the Day".