Five Bass Patterns Any Producer Should Know (For House & Techno)
- The Call and Response Bassline
- Drum Machine is playing Cymbals bass notes are on those hits (1, 3, 7, 10, 13: bah-bah bah–bah-bah)
- Octave up note is added for Bar 8 (out of 8), all just the root note
- The 3 Note Accent Bass
- Rule of thumb, if you have busy beats keep your Bassline simple
- Plays 1, 1, 3#, Rest, 1, 1, 3#, 1^ (bah bah bum, bah bah bum) in scale as it goes with the cymbals
- Adds an LFO on the envelope to give it a little bit of movement
- Feeds the notes into a Reverb
- The bass should fit in between the Toms and the Kick, use compression to make it fit into its own little universe
- The Roundabout Bass
- Just three notes in a pattern: 1, 2, 3#, Rest
- Kept simple as drum line is complex, very minimalist
- Glide so the beat takes a while to shift to the next note
- The Electric Boogie Bass
- The basic two-bar pattern goes: Root-3-5-6, b7-6-5-3. NOTE: Not sure of the actual Bass pattern used, i’m not on Patreon
- 80’s sound, so can add a lot of reverb to the Bass
- The Detuned Reese Hoover Bass
- Three Long played notes: 2b (2 bars), 5 (2 bars), 2 (4 bars)
- Detune the Oscillators (Saw and Square Wave, High and Low Octave)
- Want it to be lower octaves as the differences between the waves moves slower
- Lot of reverb on the notes
- Focus should be on the Drums, with the bass filling the rest in
