Bass Patterns

• 5/4 Ballad 108 BPM upright bass, brushed trio
• 7/4 Drive 175 BPM punchy electric, driving
• Acid Rock Groove 88 BPM bass with octave fuzz, warm chaos
• Apostrophe Bass 158 BPM fuzz into studio, fast and mean
• Autumn Leaves Walk 145 BPM upright bass, dry room, natural
• Bakersfield Drive 136 BPM P-bass, dry country studio
• Balkan Nine-Eight 155 BPM upright, Balkan fire
• Ballad Walk 60 BPM upright, plush room, no attack
• Basinski Loop 38 BPM degraded tape bass, crumbling
• Bernadette Groove 128 BPM P-bass Motown, punchy and fast
• Big Eyed Beans 104 BPM bass with wrong notes on purpose
• Black Page Groove 140 BPM Jazz Bass, chromatic nightmare, clean
• Blue Cheer Overload 116 BPM bass into stack, maximum fuzz and feedback
• Blue Rondo à la Turk 200 BPM upright, driving bebop
• Bob Wills Jump 174 BPM upright bass, western swing club
• Boogie Bass 138 BPM P-bass, boogie feel, forward lean
• Bossa Lento 118 BPM fretless electric, smooth DI
• Brickbats 112 BPM stumbling funk, irregular accents
• Brown Shoes Don't Make It 142 BPM P-bass, slightly corny, very wrong
• Burning Spear Roots 82 BPM warm P-bass, roots tone
• Buzzcocks Drive 158 BPM P-bass, fast and melodic, live room
• Canterbury Soft Machine 116 BPM fretless bass, Canterbury cool
• Chicago South Side 112 BPM P-bass, Chess Records Chicago
• Clear Spot Bass 115 BPM more accessible but still angular
• Cool Blue 116 BPM upright, modal, open space
• Cosmic Fuzz Groove 104 BPM bass with fuzz, live room, percussion
• Crimson Walk 100 BPM Jazz Bass, jazz-rock tension
• Cumbia Bass 104 BPM direct bass, cumbia feel, rhythmic
• Cure Gothic 108 BPM chorus bass, gothic echo, cold
• Delta Deep 78 BPM upright, sparse and deep
• Digital Riddim 90 BPM digital bass synth, hard dancehall
• Disraeli Gears Fuzz 96 BPM EB-0 into Fuzz Face, raging
• Dropout Boogie 138 BPM P-bass, raw tape
• Eberhard Weber 88 BPM custom fretless electric upright, ECM reverb
• Electric Mud 78 BPM EB-0 fuzz, heavy amp
• Electricity 148 BPM raw electric, stumbling fast
• Eleven-Eight Groove 152 BPM upright, complex time
• Eno Oblique 40 BPM fretless, heavily treated, shimmer
• Entwistle Runs 112 BPM Alembic, bright midrange, no mercy
• Fela Afrobeat Bass 112 BPM bass in the mix, West African pocket
• Feldman Field 35 BPM fretless, infinite reverb, one gesture per bar
• Fifth Drone 42 BPM fretless, long decay
• Flamenco Phrygian Bass 135 BPM classical nylon-adjacent, percussive
• Floating World 48 BPM fretless, watery reverb
• Free Groove 90 BPM Jazz Bass, light touch, warm
• Fun House Drone 122 BPM P-bass, fuzz, overloaded tape
• Fuzz Ballad 66 BPM fuzz bass, large room, slow and heavy
• Gamelan-Inspired Bass 92 BPM fretless, resonant, gamelan tuning
• Gang of Four Angular 150 BPM P-bass, dry and angular, scratchy
• Gentle Giant 7/4 128 BPM upright electric hybrid, academic prog
• Giant Steps Walk 178 BPM upright, fast and accurate
• Grand Ole Opry Walk 124 BPM upright, slap, Grand Ole Opry stage
• Gypsy Jazz Bass 185 BPM acoustic archtop-style, hot club
• Hank Shuffle 132 BPM upright, honky-tonk bar
• Harold Budd Float 44 BPM fretless bass, piano-register, room
• Hawkwind Motorik 112 BPM bass into fuzz into PA, cosmic
• High Hook Bass 116 BPM Jazz Bass, treble boosted, chorus, high register
• Inca Roads 126 BPM Jazz Bass, clean but agile
• Industrial Pulse Drone 52 BPM bass into delay, mechanical repetition
• Jamerson A – Funky 112 BPM P-bass, mono, dead strings, Motown Studio A
• Jamerson B – Flowing 104 BPM P-bass dead strings, Studio A, classic
• Jazz Waltz 168 BPM upright, jazz trio
• Karn Evil 9 Bass 118 BPM bass into mellotron stack, ELP power
• King Tubby Echo Bass 68 BPM bass with echo and reverb, dubbed out
• Kinks Walk 130 BPM Precision, bright singles
• Klezmer Bass 145 BPM upright, plaintive Jewish roots
• La Monte Young Drone 30 BPM bowed bass, infinite hall, one note forever
• Low Album Bass 55 BPM treated electric bass, Berlin studio
• Magazine Devoto 128 BPM melodic bass, post-punk sophistication
• Marvin Groove 96 BPM lush Motown bass, melodic
• MC5 Raw 158 BPM P-bass, distorted Detroit grit
• Midnight Train 88 BPM P-bass, Stax feel, Memphis groove
• Minor Blues 90 BPM upright or fretless, dark and moody
• Misty Walk 92 BPM upright, brushes trio
• Moby Dick Bass 148 BPM Jazz Bass, mid scooped, room reverb
• Modal Drone Groove 76 BPM fuzz bass, drone, very slowly moving
• Montana Bass 132 BPM P-bass, almost country, not quite
• Moonlight on Vermont 80 BPM upright feel, deep and lurching
• Motörhead Grind 188 BPM Rickenbacker, Marshall stack, full distortion
• Motorik Bass 118 BPM dry minimal bass, German highway
• Muscle Shoals Bass 94 BPM Jazz Bass, southern soul tone
• New Order Synth Bass 132 BPM synth bass, high register, chorus and delay
• Night Song 110 BPM upright, breathy, intimate
• Nine Four Feel 126 BPM cool jazz upright
• Nordic Folk Bass 140 BPM light upright, Nordic folk trio
• One Drop Feel 72 BPM deep reggae bass, one-drop pocket
• Peaches en Regalia 148 BPM Jazz Bass clean, studio
• Philadelphia Groove 100 BPM fretless bass, lush Philly strings
• Psychedelic Wah 95 BPM bass with wah, lysergic
• Purple Machine 145 BPM Precision, Marshall cranked
• Robbie Shakespeare Roots 76 BPM P-bass, deep dub tone, long decay
• Rockers International 78 BPM warm melodica-adjacent bass, roots
• Sabbath Riff 68 BPM Gibson EB-0, cranked fuzz, heavy room
• Safe as Milk Bass 108 BPM blues feel, pre-madness
• Scientist Lab Bass 70 BPM bass with heavy dub FX, Treasure Isle echo
• Seven Eight Bass 144 BPM punchy acoustic bass
• Slow Blues in A 68 BPM P-bass, warm and slow, deep pocket
• So What Modal Bass 136 BPM upright, very warm, modal
• Soca Bass 128 BPM bass in the road march, Trinidad groove
• Squire Rickenbacker 155 BPM Rickenbacker 4001, Marshall, distorted but clean
• Stax Walk 108 BPM P-bass, Memphis room, punchy
• Steppers Bass 96 BPM punchy reggae bass, fast steppers
• Stevie Wonder Groove 110 BPM Jazz Bass, synth bass blend, electric
• Stonehenge Doom Fuzz 56 BPM bass amp on fire, sludge reverb
• Stones Drive 118 BPM Framus Star Bass, dry studio
• Straight No Chaser Walk 195 BPM upright, bebop articulation
• Sunn O))) Low Tone 28 BPM 8-string bass, amp stack, bowel-resonating
• Sweet Home Swing 100 BPM warm acoustic upright, porch feel
• Swing Low Country 108 BPM archtop upright, warm
• Take Five 172 BPM upright bass, cool jazz tone
• Talking Heads Groove 130 BPM Jazz Bass, clean and precise
• Tango Bass 120 BPM upright, Argentine edge, attack
• Texas Playboys Swing 158 BPM slap upright, Texas room
• Texas Shuffle Bass 110 BPM Jazz Bass, Texas swagger, hot amp
• Thin Lizzy Gallop 148 BPM Jazz Bass, warm pick, pub reverb
• Thirteen-Eight Maze 138 BPM upright, medium room
• Tony Levin Chapman Stick 126 BPM Chapman Stick, melodic bass register
• Train Rhythm 148 BPM upright, boom-chicka-boom feel
• Trout Mask 95 BPM flat-wound bass, angular and wrong
• Turkish Aksak 7/8 142 BPM Turkish style, phrygian dominant
• Twelve Bar E 120 BPM P-bass or upright, South Side Chicago
• Unsquare Dance 160 BPM dry upright, pure time feel
• Waiting for the Man Drone 130 BPM P-bass, direct, no reverb, flat
• Watermelon in Easter Hay 118 BPM fretless bass, warm jazz tone
• Weasels Ripped My Flesh 168 BPM bass into chaos, aggressive
• West Coast Walk 145 BPM upright, tight room, cool tone
• Western Bop 164 BPM slap upright, echo, Sun Records feel
• Wetton Crimson 140 BPM Fender Jazz, aggressive, heavy
• Who Counterpoint 126 BPM Precision, bright and mid-heavy
• Wire Minimal 140 BPM bass direct, minimal EQ, almost nothing
• Yes Starship Troopers 130 BPM Rickenbacker overdriven, Yes sound
• Zeppelin Walk 104 BPM P-bass, warm studio room
• Anjuna Riff 148 BPM hard synth bass, heavy compression, Goa trance
• Anti-Quantize 116 BPM dirty synth bass, bit-crushed, no sustain
• Chill Plate 82 BPM smooth fretless bass, warm DI
• Cowpoke Two-Feel 100 BPM P-bass, light pick, slightly dirty amp
• Dead Drop Walk 132 BPM upright bass, light room, tight articulation
• Dorian Jig Bass 136 BPM fretless bass or upright, warm room, folk feel
• Filtered Lush 90 BPM synth bass, low-pass filtered, soft attack
• Gravity Well 50 BPM sub bass synth, infinite reverb, no attack transient
• Poolside Walk 118 BPM upright bass, cocktail room, bossa feel
• Root Access 138 BPM hard synth bass, EBM, cold and aggressive
• Root Drone 45 BPM fretless bass, huge hall reverb, infinite sustain
• Scanner Bass 108 BPM distorted bass, industrial grit, no warmth