14 Peter Hook Bass Riffs (Joy Division/New Order)

If you were disappointed at not getting Oasis tickets, another Manchester music legend is touring right now and tickets are available at a fraction of the price! In this video I'm playing 14 bass riffs and bass lines from the bands Joy Division and New Order, as played by Peter Hook. There are mostly Joy Division riffs here. There were a couple of New Order riffs I wanted to play but you need a 6 string bass guitar for.
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TRACKS
0:02 Disorder
0:24 Insight
1:02 She's Lost Control
1:28 Shadowplay
2:11 From Safety To Where
2:43 Transmission
3:20 Dead Souls
3:55 Love Will Tear Us Apart
4:35 A Means To An End
5:04 Twenty Four Hours
5:50 Ceremony
6:26 Age Of Consent
7:07 Leave Me Alone
8:02 Sunrise

[@project17revived]

Dunno if that sounds controversial, but Peter Hook is kind of a post-punk version of Lemmy. Both play their bass like a rhythm guitar just with different effects

[@bloxsy_]

I don't think that's controversial at all. There are similarities.

[@mywhitenoise_]

Hooky plays more like a lead than a rhythm guitarist. New Order is all about his iconic bass lines. I wish more songs beyond their first two albums were represented here like The Perfect Kiss, True Faith, Love Vigilantes, Bizarre Love Triangle, Touched by the Hand of God, Regret, Crystal etc.

[@vv247]

@@project17revived not controversial, Hooky plays high .. not high lol just high.

[@ryplay08]

Not even close to controversial, that’s a great comparison

[@allantucker4972]

Cliff Burton rated him highly

[@TheSomethingWheel]

The Age of Consent bassline is probably the most life-affirming sound in the world to me, this side of She Bangs The Drums. Makes my heart burst every single time.

[@BB-se9bl]

That whole song is just pure bliss.

[@Sporkonafork1]

Those two songs encapsulate teenage bliss so very well for me tbh, could be a similar feeling.

[@robertpetre9378]

I love the way that Joy Division always put their bass really high in the mix so you could hear it clearly with the guitars

[@FreezerKing]

The thing about Joy Division's music is that it's very simple to play but very very effective. None of these riffs are particularly complicated but they hit like a Mack truck

[@gutsypath9]

Exactly you said it all

[@BobsBand]

They don't look nor sound simple to me!

[@wide_awake]

I know exactly what you mean

[@elpenguino100]

Totally, and the riff's are also very distinctive. I wonder if this happens when musicians aren't taught how to play 'normally' and they therefore don't sound like everyone else.

[@omegajrz1269]

The simplicity comes from the minimalist influence of experimental rock of the 60s (Zappa, VU...) and German krautrock.

[@ZatSoul]

Transmission and shadowplay bass lines are so groovy

[@tiki_trash]

14 Peter Riff bass hooks

[@ollysmoviesandmusic2047]

he has some of my favourite basslines ever. Hook has such a melancholy, slow, cathartic and rhythmic approach to his playing 👍

[@kevburke]

I love that Peter Hook actually bought his bass back to the shop and asked why it didn't have 6 strings. Literally didn't know the difference between a bass and a 6 string. I think that's what makes him so influential. He doesn't think like most bass players. Great video, by the way!

[@GVike]

Also of note: Hooky plays a 21-fret Yamaha. He uses that 21st fret a few times. Fenders usually only have 20 frets.

[@bloxsy_]

That would explain why I couldn't play The Perfect Kiss

[@themidnightinator]

Meanwhile me who can barely play She’s Lost Control with my 19 fret Fender Mustang with tragic upper fret access

[@jaumesupersonic]

Cause in the past he uses to play and record with the Eccleshall hollow body 22 frets 34” bass tuned in 2 semitones down.

[@Blank_Frank]

Nice one ! My favourites are "She's Lost Control", "Twenty Four Hours", "ICB", "The Perfect Kiss", "Sunrise", "Let's Go", "Paradise", "Dream Attack", "Regret" and "60MPH An Hour"

[@bigchief8493]

great work! I’m traveling outside of my hometown in the US for the first time in my life to see Peter Hook play in Manchester next year; he’s an absolute GOAT fr

[@BobsBand]

that's not the real manchester though right? in the UK?

[@xosenogueira6259]

Fair play to you for including 'Sunrise', so massively underrated a song. Hook's bassline is actually the leading guitar-ish riff in the song. Genius.

[@DarkPlace1980]

From Safety to Where easily my favourite Hooky bass line. Great video by the way 👍

[@jamesmadejski]

Perfect as always! Encore of “Regret” please!

[@caospasajeroable]

He plays the bass as a guitar. That's his distinction

[@mftmss7086]

f him for that

[@themidnightinator]

Why I love him and others like Lemmy and Cliff Burton tbh

[@billballoon]

​@@themidnightinatorJohn Entwistle too

[@deusvmachina]

Can't get enough of your JD content!

[@SquirrelSeb84]

I was 19 when I found a copy of New Order's Brotherhood in a "sale bin" in a record shop. Wasn't really familiar with the band beyond Blue Monday and Bizarre Love Triangle and that song made me buy the cd (and the price, like $1.50 back then). I played it as soon as I got home and it made me want to pick up a bass. From there I found Joy Division and my music tastes were forever bettered and widened.

[@mooseyard]

Such a brilliant, innovative musician. One of my all-time heroes. Hand me a bass and I’ll soon find myself picking out a few of these riffs. Thanks for showing them so clearly so I can practice more!

[@bloxsy_]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@mareskroba4893]

Very simple which is all the beauty, nice

[@nrjdohhg5]

I love that style of playing a bass like a guitar, we see Paul M. doing it in Get Back as well.

[@dimitreze]

I love Joy Division so much New Order is still an uncharted territory for me, but I'll get there

[@bloxsy_]

I’m more of a Joy Division fan too, but New Order has some good tunes.

[@dziwic]

Everything boils down to the fact nobody told them bass isn't supposed to be leading, especially in punk

[@aziziabdrahman7756]

Fantastic as always! Peter Hook is one spectacular bass player.

[@bloxsy_]

Thank you!

[@Saturn-gv9ru]

You are the only person I've seen who actually plays Age of Consent the right way with the droning open strings during the verses.

[@bloxsy_]

I watched the man himself do it in a KZbin video just to be sure. Still couldn’t get the tone right though

[@Saturn-gv9ru]

@@bloxsy_ I've tone chased that song myself, I never quite got it either. I'm pretty sure the studio version of the song is double tracked, one track with the open strings, the other without. I've noticed live when he plays it with his band they seem to replicate the double tracked bassline thing by having only one bass play the open strings when they double up while Hooky isn't singing.

[@marcosl.8217]

@@Saturn-gv9rucould be, he double tracked on a lot of songs, LWTUA, Your Silent Face, Doubts Even Here, Every Little Counts, Procession…

[@bigred4592]

I'm a huge NO/JD fan...during COVID I tried to pick up as many Hooky riffs as i could...love the vid

[@bloxsy_]

Thank you. Yeah they are always fun to play. Makes you think differently about the bass.

[@Sr19769p]

Great post, man. 'New Dawn Fades', the one song Hooky buggers up on on bass, and it was kept in 👍. Jah Wobble, Simon Gallop are my fave bassists.

[@classicalteacher]

Did Simon Gallop write the bass lines or was it Robert Smith? I always assumed it was Smith. Either way, I'm mad crazy for how The Cure build and layers all the melodic lines on top of the bass. Brilliant.

[@Sr19769p]

@classicalteacher Hello there. Not entirely sure as the songs tend be credited to just 'The Cure', so a joint effort, I'm guessing? Yes, I love that about them, too. The albums 'Faith' and 'Disintegration' are the best examples of that, for me.

[@hugo_slug1194]

from safety to where mentioned 🔥🔥🔥

[@h.p.brownsaucecraft7966]

As always, perfect Bloxsy

[@bloxsy_]

Thank you

[@mx_untitled2376]

Twenty-Four Hours 🖤

[@aclockworkreview]

Sweet and I'm seeing Peter Hook in October so seeing this makes me excited

[@vv247]

Thx so much , that was awesome ! I just saw Hooky 2 weeks ago, it was a great show.

[@bloxsy_]

Thank you!

[@TotoDG]

Got to stand right in front of him when I saw his band in Adelaide earlier this year! Well worth the admission price if you get the chance.

[@CAPHARNAÜM2622]

I like .... I like ... I never miss an occasion to see Peter when he plays in my country ( Belgium ) ... It's always a mass ! I also play some music and it's one of my mean influences ! wel done !!! Thank you ! And then ..... ( Killing Joke ? The Cure ... ? Siouxsie ? Sisters of Mercy ? Echo and ... ? Simple Minds ? Bauhaus ... ? )

[@edbrito-swdev]

Clicked this notification as fast as I could!

[@zann3788]

🔥🔥🔥same

[@bloxsy_]

Thank you so much.

[@LautaHern]

Wilderness Candidate Digital Colony Dreams never end Everything's gone green Thieves like us Blue Monday The Perfect Kiss

[@sk84lafs]

Leaders of Men No Love Lost Failures These Days New Dawn Fades DREAMS NEVER END Love the content

[@64CRUNCH64]

i am glad you put Sunrise in your list. one of my fav bass riffs from NO

[@jaredconnaughton4194]

I just saw Peter Hook and the Light on Saturday in Dallas. It was terrific

[@xero_2003]

I know the sound of a Clone Theory when I hear one. I recently got one and it’s my favorite pedal

[@DeadSi1ence]

Thank you! Peter Hook is unique bass player.

[@anapaulacarneiro4175]

I love your vídeos but I love much more when I see one like this: a new (to me) about the legendary Peter Hook which August gig here in São Paulo, Brazil I lost... Well...back to the vid: it would be so cool a encore with Hook's New Order bass lines.

[@bloxsy_]

Hi Ana. Thank you so much. Peter Hook seems to tour a lot so I’m sure you will get another chance soon enough. A New Order dedicated vid would be fun to do.

[@edgardocas91]

Age of consent é muito marcante, lembro de vezes que essa intro era minha trilha sonora pras segundas feiras ir pro trabalho.

[@bruxist]

Great playing. Nice looking bass too.

[@bloxsy_]

Thanks!

[@patsaucisson2734]

Vidéo superbe, merci !

[@TheVioletBunny]

one of my favorite bassists of all time

[@alicemilton8756]

I love bass guitar so much. Thanks 💛

[@bloxsy_]

Thank you!

[@corbz273]

Blue Monday and 60 Miles an Hour I think are some of his best basslines

[@1234drums]

Nice tone ✨

[@bradpittiful7288]

awesome man...i had a ibanez bass like that in 79/80...wish i kept it...went guitar after that

[@bloxsy_]

Sounds cool man. This is a squier classic vibe and I just swapped the pick guard

[@bradpittiful7288]

@@bloxsy_ classic vibes are great instruments...thinking of a classic vibe jaguar

[@bloxsy_]

Good choice. Think that’s a medium scale too. Could be wrong

[@Sam-jj3wn]

The lack of Perfect Kiss in this list is criminal, he fucking destroys that song, it's unfathomably awesome.

[@sawittchen]

Twenty-four Hours ❤❤❤ Love it!

[@frankponeil]

Hell yeah dude. So good.

[@Sean_thompson_bass]

Great video!

[@albinobangz9182]

BLOXSY UPLOAD 🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@Allison_Chaynes]

Nice bass tone

[@Jesus_H._Tap-DancingChrist]

Superb. I hope there's a Bernard counterpart video to come.

[@alanbrito5239]

Insight is just an amazing line straight from heaven. Martin was right about that.

[@martinflavell3045]

sick. Your too fkin cool Bloxsy

[@johnhogan8504]

Obviously, there is only one Peter Hook, but this has been very educational to see how these great sings are played.

[@NickEasterby]

Great

[@United_sandglass]

I love bassist like Hook and Lemmy who play the bass like a guitar

[@brazilnostalgia2]

Peter Hook The king of Post-punk BEHS❤ (P.s. They are gonna play 2day on Rock in Rio / I can't go there,but i can Watch :) )

[@neillaika]

THANK YOU

[@raphaelfp]

Absolute legend

[@guitaristslair]

ngl, style of this videos (no editing, backing track, one camera angle) gives them asmr vibe and i like it also 3:20 JOHN KIWAMI REFERENCE

[@heisenberg6785]

Been waiting for this video, Hook's my favourite bassist! You know, when i was playing on my bass over disorder and she's lost control in order to learn lines by ear, i noticed, that my bass on E standard was not in harmony with the song, i heard dissonances. So, i was thinking why was it dissonancing and i come up with the idea that songs were written not in E standard tune, i tuned all of my strings (for disorder i tuned only first three of them, because when i was picking a tune for 4th string note it was standard E) on quarter step up and played again. Dissoncance have gone and i was in harmony with the songs. Try to play Disorder and She's Lost Control again with these tunes over the songs. For Disorder it's E(standard) A(quarter step up) D(quarter step up) G(quarter step up) For She's lost control you wanna tune all of them quarter step up.

[@bloxsy_]

Dead Souls is slightly up too

[@heisenberg6785]

@@bloxsy_ it is

[@heisenberg6785]

@@bloxsy_ i was shocked when i found out, that nobody on youtube played these songs in this tuning. They all were playing them and making cover videos of these songs (with original audio on backing), with the wrong tuning, i could hear disharmony while watching their videos

[@heisenberg6785]

However, these disharmonies kinda make Disorder Disorderer

[@heisenberg6785]

Anyway, have a great day pal, love watching your videos!

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

Sunrise for me is his best

[@neilwhitaker6284]

I like how he uses open strings while playing other riffs. Its guitar like.

[@chupiconverge6034]

Amazing 🤘🎸🎸

[@kendavis385]

So awesome. I’m building a music playlist for when I run in KZbin music and I added this. For some reason in KZbin music your video is disabled. I’m wondering if there is a setting you can turn on to make it available. I would put your video on repeat and it would probably get me through a whole 10k

[@bloxsy_]

Thank you! That's interesting. I don't know about putting it on KZbin music. Maybe it needs to be registered as a music channel or something. I'll look into it.

[@hohyperanthropos]

Hooky's like the Orpheus of the bass, mate.

[@franckrobert1076]

Sunrise ❤

[@theshibalover]

Awesome

[@srPy43]

I LOVE AGE OF CONSENT, UNDERRATED NEW ORDER SONG

[@JKENWORTH1]

Missed out Isolation...tremendous (and melodic) riff

[@samharradence5689]

Appropriately moody music to welcome in the autumn season.

[@wobzbluez]

would love a smiths guitar riffs one

[@bloxsy_]

Thinking of doing this. Which would you include?

[@wobzbluez]

@@bloxsy_ definitely go with what resonates with you man, but I guess it'd be cool to see: hand in glove, last night i dreamt that somebody loved me, stretch out and wait, William it was really nothing, how soon is now, please please please let me get what I want

[@Usselino]

dope!

[@ttttjuuj]

i think a video of Brazilian rock or punk riffs video would be cool, like the bands from the 70s,80s,90s

[@dusty987]

Can do you do Helmet guitar riffs? 🙏

[@bloxsy_]

Which ones? I’ll give them a listen.

[@dusty987]

@@bloxsy_ Unsung Ironhead In The Meantime FBLAII Role Model Give It Wilma’s Rainbow Milquetoast Biscuits For Smut Rollo Broadcast Emotion Crashing Foreign Cars

[@SLW93]

I 2nd that! Their riffs are very fun to play

[@bloxsy_]

Thanks. Cool. I’ll check them out

[@daniel6105]

Echo and The Bunnymen Riffs

[@iidpack1865]

Please can you showcase JJ Burnels basslines. JJ was one of Hookys heroes and thats where he get his tone from. 😁

[@Adam_mulcahy]

Hey man whats tone did you have for this video, it sounds awesome

[@bloxsy_]

I'm using a free version of amplitube for this video.

[@dangrel]

Hooky loves him some droning huh

[@MidnightLightMusic]

She's Lost Control is the first one I think of.

[@julianwass]

"You wear it very well, now play it like a f*cking musician!"

[@scaramouche49]

Peter Hook is to bass playing what Keith Richards is to guitar playing

[@danielcastillo5525]

Now make The Cure Bass Riffs please 🙏

[@RC-fi8nn]

Fascination Street 🤩

[@ingasparrow]

Dear Bloxsy, Please do Babes in Toyland riffs next. Kat Bjelland has always been criminally underrated as a guitarist. Michelle Leon and Maureen Herman's basslines were pretty cool, too. Thanks. ❤

[@bloxsy_]

Which ones do you recommend? I’m not really familiar with them

[@ingasparrow]

@bloxsy_ Really? With the bands you've covered so far, I'm a little surprised they haven't come up. Well, I hope you like them! Songs I recommend: Bruise Violet Blue Bell Handsome and Gretel Catatonic Laugh My Head Off Boto (W)rap Arriba Mad Pilot Right Now Laredo Angel Hair Honestly, their songs are like a basket of kittens to me. I want to recommend, like, ALL of them!

[@bloxsy_]

Yeah I mean they're a band I know of and I've covered a lot of stuff from that era but never got round to giving them a proper listen I guess. I'll check those out though, thanks!

[@ingasparrow]

@@bloxsy_ Thanks for considering. Have a wonderful day!

[@djsangre]

In “Love will tear us apart” he always drones all three strings. He showed that in an interview.

[@kellymemphi]

❤lindo ver você tocando baixo😊

[@omegajrz1269]

Joy Division inspired one of the best rock bands in Argentina. Sumo. The vocalist lived in London during the 70s.

[@membear]

Ceremony base is so great, it just sounds like a lead guitar instead.

[@Sean_thompson_bass]

I gotta ask, what were your eq settings? And are you using nickel or steel strings? Your tone here is absolutely killer.

[@bloxsy_]

Not sure what settings I had. I rolled off a lot of bass. Strings were Ernie Ball standard so whatever they’re made of

[@efficiencygaming3494]

Peter Hook has a very unique playing style. I like how some of the more famous riffs seem to sound dark and upbeat at the same time. The riff for "Ceremony" is particularly haunting. That song marked the moment when Joy Division ended and New Order began, I think.

[@eddiefredgoose7695]

Very similar to Simon Gallup of the cure using the high numbered frets

[@mmeshutoz]

отлично!!!👍👍👍

[@andyb1037]

Hookie is da man.

[@pocojoyo]

sounds great ! what bass is that ?

[@bloxsy_]

It's a Squier P Bass

[@pocojoyo]

@@bloxsy_ Is that the amp Affinity bass combo ?

[@bloxsy_]

I'm using a free version of amplitube for the bass sounds.

[@sintax6581]

I love Peter Hook! Seen him live more times than I can count. If you haven't heard of him, check out Derek Forbes (Simple Minds ... from well before that sickening travesty of a track from that crappy Hughes movie) on anything up to and including New Gold Dream. (Edit LoL Ironically (maybe, maybe not) his band is Derek Forbes & The Dark. A nod to Peter Hook & The Light, maybe?)

[@painapple6949]

How did you get that bass tone?

[@bloxsy_]

I'm using a free version of amplitube for this video. The effect I'm using on some of the songs is a 'chorus' effect if that's what you mean. On Love Will Tear Us Apart.

[@johnmchugh8049]

I love the story behind hooky’s style - the bass and amp he first bought sounded like garbage and was difficult to hear when he played in a lowered register so he played the higher pitched strings to cut through