This week we’re looking at the band Faith No More and the 8 best bass lines by the amazing Billy Gould!
Faith No More’s Billy Gould
Bill Gould is a great bass player with an incredible driving feel. He uses a variety of techniques from fingerstyle to slap to pick playing on his awesome Zon basses.
Conviction is an important part of Bill’s sound and feel and his pick playing can be so aggressive it’s easily mistaken for slapping – Epic is a perfect example of this.
When practicing these riffs be sure to focus on locking with the drums and the note duration. The length of each note plays a huge part in the feel of the riffs and the songs.
We Care A Lot
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Land Of Sunshine
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Epic
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Falling To Pieces Intro
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Falling To Pieces Solo
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Everything’s Ruined
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Crack Hitler
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Anne’s Song
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Underwater Love
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Thank you for doing this one. I feel he is very under rated and should be a very talked about bass player when talking about greats.
Thanks Mark, this is a very interesting technique focus that came just in time for me trying to find interesting songs for my band. I am happy that underwater love is among the selection, not many speak about this song but it has a very nice bass line, even apart from the cool outro highlighted here.
do you have complete tabs of faith no more ? I want to dive into some faith no more songs like from out of nowhere and some you already posted partly above.
Grtz,
Bart
great lesson great band
Hey, Mark! Great work, tahnk you so much for this lesson. I would like to know what technique you use to mute the 4th string while playing 3rd and 1st in “Crack Hitler”. Thank you for your help!