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[@lamborghinimiura7625]

Thanks for making this. I didn't realize how much I like octave basslines until one jumped out at me by contrast.

[@BaconFire]

So much 80s goodness here. Great video demo Espen :)

[@wrmusic8736]

Octave bass is how that rising tension is achieved in "Docking" tune of Interstellar in fact.

[@OriginalRaveParty]

One of your most helpful videos. So good I watched twice. Thanks 👍

[@AW-kr9fl]

The bass line in Into The Groove is awesome. 5:56 very New Order

[@LFOVCF]

I'm always grateful if a fast part is played slowly in plain view ie. Into the groove. I've never tried that one before. Another great subject and video.

[@lundsweden]

Superb tutorial Mr. Kraft! Great funky 80s style baselines.

[@joglou7247]

Making it all sound so easy...a good teacher

[@dougsypeck7962]

One reason I like your videos so much it they always give me great ideas and send me running up to my 80s attic to play some music. Thanks as always

[@EspenKraft]

Awesome!

[@baigmusic]

Inspirational video Espen, cant wait to implement more of these styles and variations in my basslines after watching this.. greatly appreciate all your work, salute from Canada!

[@желибаславик]

I use your video tutorials on songwriting. very useful class. I try to write italo disco.

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

The first piece of music that enters my mind regarding the pedaling technique is the intro to “You Belong to the City”.

[@CoopMusic247]

Very nice. I love to see how traditional bass like walking influences synth and then synth stuff moves forward again and influences live traditional bass with synth pedals and then back again.

[@timweinheimer1]

Thank Mr Kraft I am good at my 3 note Techno Bass lines with my 909 for 90's tracks , but got stuck on my 80's synth pop always loved all of those bands 🎉The Pet Shop Boys are so underrated 🎉 I thought I heard some Propganda in there

[@marknhopgood]

You truly are the 80's Mr Kraft.

[@cortical1]

Love it! Great tutorial. Simple but effective.

[@robertsteinberger5667]

Tutorial? I still have no idea how to create these bass sounds....

[@cortical1]

@@robertsteinberger5667 Bass lines, not bass sounds. This tutorial shows, note by note, how to play lots of killer bass lines. Great tutorial! 🌞

[@davidryle]

I remember the challenges of going from playing the bass lines on a bass guitar to the synth. It took me a while but the music inspiration helped. Your "Kraft"smanship makes me envious. Years of dedication, no doubt.

[@tonymasson]

Fantastic ideas! Thanks for sparking creativity during a dry spell!

[@trollingisasport]

Love videos like this. More!

[@deanbuckwell7208]

Sounds like I'm walking back into a night club back in the day. Of every thing you have done this for me captures the sound of the 80s. ❤️

[@StargateMax]

Awesome! Thank you for dissecting this. The 80s synth music still sounds real nice, and I also like it because of nostalgic feelings.

[@FFrrEEddRRiiKK1]

As I watch this I still don’t understand why The Pet Shop Boys haven’t contacted you to produce their next album “redux”.

[@marcom.]

Because The Pet Shop Boys are thr role model of Espen, not vice versa. 😄

[@PetraKann]

@@marcom. I find your little fanciful fable very hard to believe my friend

[@EspenKraft]

I doubt they'd be interested in working old school again. ;-)

[@thomasjrgensen355]

@@EspenKraft you could send them a remix of one of their newer songs. You never know what might happen 🤔

[@EspenKraft]

I'd never do that. Not my way of operating.

[@papabravo21]

Thanks for slowing down that Madonna baseline - love your videos, please keep them coming! 😸

[@Mute67]

Interesting to see how "simple" but effective it is with those bass lines!

[@williamgraham8761]

Love that bass sound, I particularly like the static bass with the chords making the changes. Inspiring.😊

[@lesterrr12312]

beautiful! so inspiring.. especially that "single note trick", I didn't realize it was "allowed" to play anything outside the chord, but then I remember hearing that same thing on PSB's Love Comes Quickly and it sure was effective in that track! I think it's the idea of not being afraid to do things wrong and experiment that's so liberating..

[@BassFunMusic]

These beats are so smooth, they're perfect for chillin' and relaxing 🍹😎♥☺Love

[@starhavven]

Great masterclass Espen! btw I hadn't realised how similar the bassline from Broken Wings is to "The Human League - Don't You Want Me". cheers!

[@EspenKraft]

Mr.Mister took inspiration from the League. ;-)

[@levenfeld]

Awesome tutorial. Thanks for that!

[@threedaymonk]

Short, to the point, and easy to apply. And inspiring! This is a perfect tutorial.

[@EspenKraft]

Awesome!

[@pbl6888]

Simple, but effective. Thanks for that tutorial!

[@Sonikbytes]

Famous basslines... we need more content like this pt2. I like some of early Madonna's ones. "Who's that girl" is another one.

[@KRsix]

Very nice, thanks and please more of these kind of videos! Maybe with drum patterns?

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! I have many videos showing that.

[@spino.urchin]

Thank you, great tutorial.

[@drumster27]

Awesome video Epsen! Very interesting to see you break down each bass line. I'm excited to experiment with some of these ideas.

[@blenderbuch]

Hey thanks! I suck at music and usually play more with patches and sound. However I sat in the sun and was able to recreate almost all patterns on my Po 33 sampler!

[@EspenKraft]

Sweet!

[@alan93]

Those are great examples. I would recommend using the walking bass in Billie Jean, one of the best riffs ever for bass.

[@johnmclaughlin2392]

Thank you for this incredibly valuable info🙏. I’ve always wanted to understand the bass line to Get into the Groove.

[@pizzagogo6151]

That was awesome!, bass lines is probably what I have most trouble with really great tips here! Thanks 🙏 ( .....aside from that big thanks for into the groove ...as it’s one of my favourite synth bass lines of all time, anytime it makes an appearance it makes me very happy man 😅)

[@aceamadeus]

totally 120% awesome! thanks 4 making these info-torials 😎🎹🎹🎹

[@pauldown8621]

Awesome lesson Espen! Thank you! I’m bored playing Piano, I’m off to dig my Synth out of the loft right now. You inspire us Espen

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks!

[@Observe-n-Learn]

I like inspiration from bass guitar lines for synth bass lines. Single and multiple triggering and legato glide make for some great slap and fretless variations.

[@Gimrison]

Thank you for your work Espen !

[@rjbush7955]

Love this. Don't know why, but it is in my nature to track the bassline first on any track I listen to for the first couple of times. Then the chord progression. Perhaps I should've learnt bass guitar instead of synths.

[@irife2771]

I would consider myself to be pretty good at synth basslines and I think the important thing is having a DEEP understanding of basslines other than synth. The best tip I can give is to try to understand basslines in a lot of different genres and then translate it over. Or just get to a point where you can play disco and funk basslines 😂... If you can do those then you can do anything

[@irradix213]

In Industrial the tradition is to do what James Brown had Bootsie Collins do

[@markkusmierz3756]

Awesome! Thanks for the Great lesson!

[@80ssynthfan48]

Definitely interesting. I'm not brilliant at writing basslines, but I enjoy trying. If in doubt, I just keep it simple and unremarkable.

[@ionianblue31]

Fascinating! I’m going to try some of these later. I liked that you mentioned Pet Shop Boys at the top of the video. I’m reminded of someone that said that a musical cue from Inspector Gadget, “Penny’s Theme” or “Look Out” sounded an awful lot like “Domino Dancing”. I listened to them back to back and saw their point. Of course, for “Penny’s Theme”, I could only get that sound by using a Jupiter 8 bass type patch with a little overdrive and a tremolo. Seems to work. The stabs on the upbeats gives it a bounciness to it. That cue happens when Penny and Brain solve the case. I enjoy videos like this. Keep up the good stuff. 👍👍

[@McTroyd]

Cool observation. I'm going to have to bust out Inspector Gadget again just to listen for that.

[@dewulfe9913]

great video, love this sort of thing

[@budgetkeyboardist]

Great old tunes!

[@ebeyslough]

You are so inspiring. Thank you as always

[@ericBcreator]

Nice video, Into the groove is one of my favorite bass lines ever, as well as Nights on broadway. Other simple but great ones are Like a virgin (the story behind it is great as well), Take my breath away, Somebody's watching me, Billy Jean... In fact, there are many cool bass lines 🙂

[@GrischaEkart]

Are you applying some kind of video-based quantization? Unbelievable timing. More of the synth bass videos pls.

[@audiostudiocreativo4981]

This guy has it❤

[@Havanacuba1985]

That was ace , get into the groove is a handful

[@bontempo1271]

Love it :) I'm always inspired to jam after watching your music vids ;)

[@nawletorre7136]

what a talent Espen

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers!

[@johnpaulpatton9786]

Super useful video, thank you!

[@danielgyllenbreider]

Thank you!

[@M1k1haus]

I'm Forever Blue Swing Out Sister isn't more well known. Excellent tutorial.

[@krudler406]

great stuff Espen, sköl!

[@b3ch113]

Gonna use these for sure! ADN now you inspired me to dig for Baselines :)

[@russellnashsynth]

Good video! Always on the lookout for new ideas to change up my writing. Going to try a few of these 😁

[@xXxGamingaddictxXx]

Please show some more. I have learned so much of this one. Thank you very much

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! I have several videos planned.

[@xXxGamingaddictxXx]

@@EspenKraft Can`t wait ;)

[@redhouse994]

Great Video man! I will def take this Video into consideration for my nect track

[@AllanGildea]

Great stuff, thank you Espen.

[@texacomann]

Thx for this tutorial! This is usally nothin for me, but I have now checked my compositions and, yes there are some weak parts in my bass playing. So I will have now the idea to improve it again for the future Thx a lot!!!!

[@CourtWatchAu]

sounds great man ! cool explanations too

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks!

[@Lets-Drone-With-Bone]

Awesome, absolutely loved this :-)

[@IvarFritjofHansen]

instructive video good examples of simplicity of playing bass:) good video:)

[@longdongsilver4719]

Good job!

[@Mike2NightBeatz]

Cool! THANKS!

[@samsonstrike]

THX Sir! 😎

[@fabioabilio]

great video!!!

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers!

[@subetharadio]

One of my favourite synth bass lines is to be found in the long version of Propaganda's "Dr. Mabuse" after 7 minutes.

[@delscoville]

Thanks, good tips here.

[@SirMillz]

Sweet, thanx!

[@alandomoney2888]

Hey Espen,I enjoy your clips. I hope budding musicians get some knowledge from you.

[@donkeyadaml.]

Nice performance and video 👍👍👍 Have a great day 😉 Greetings Adam 😎

[@maschinenbeats]

Great! Thank you 🙏

[@McTroyd]

When you highlight the bass line like that, I'm suddenly realizing how many of those things translate to the 90s as well. Especially that octave bass at the end. Why re-invent the wheel, I suppose?

[@retro-dademusic6403]

Awesome! 😎

[@gilo7171]

Hey - lets make an epizode about spacesynth ala Laserdance , KOTO, Syntech.... There you'll find GREAT basses ;)

[@DarkSideofSynth]

Great. Awesome tips.

[@j8577798yt]

Superb explanation (as usual) !!! Please tell me where do you get these long and powerful snare samples from ?

[@EspenKraft]

Thanks! I layer and make my own drums, from samples I make of old drum machines. I have all the necessary samples (to make this) in my sample pack "The Ultimate Italo Disco / Synth-Pop Sample Pack".

[@cortical1]

I've missed seeing you this past week, dude! Are you at the arcade every night playing Q*Bert and Robotron? ;)

[@EspenKraft]

The arcades closed down over 35 years ago around here. :/

[@cortical1]

​@@EspenKraft Yeah, here too. :(

[@MikeA0110]

They have a retro arcade by my son- $20 entry and play all you want. The place is epic. Even has an original Tron game!

[@markkilley2683]

Real nice.

[@danielortizdecaracas]

plz more bass lines riff videos

[@unclemick-synths]

This was fun 👍

[@abydos-musique]

Thx !!!

[@babangidasegun2400]

Hi Espen. Are you connected by midi to the original hardware synths that produced these sounds or is this a soft synth setup? Thanks!

[@EspenKraft]

Prophet X used as a master keyboard. Drum are from the Isla S2400 and the rest is my TAL sampler libraries of hardware synths yes.

[@babangidasegun2400]

@@EspenKraft 🙏🏽 thanks.

[@mickmcfadden]

❤ brilliant 👍 👏

[@tommy2nes]

Hi Espen Kraft, thanks for this insightful video. I would much prefer synth heads make more videos like this about how to play the keyboards rather than the endless vintage synth reviews. Guitarists have so much content on how to actually play the dang thing but there's barely anything like that for us keyboard players. I would love more videos about melodies scales chords, chord progressions etc. Thanks

[@EspenKraft]

Many thanks! I hope to do much more like this in the near future. I'm tired of "gear worship videos" myself and I want to focus more on the creative side on the channel moving forward. Cheers

[@tommy2nes]

@@EspenKraft What would be awesome is a Lick Library for keyboards! Thanks Espen Kraft

[@FelixPatek]

great video

[@EspenKraft]

Cheers!

[@hans-jurgenlukasch7568]

Fantastic !!! Like in the 80ties...... Only Prophet is Prophet ..... X is a Fantastic Tool ... Long live the Vintage Sound

[@ErtywekPL]

He proven the skills :]

[@ioan7670]

Good

[@NewIllusion99]

Great video ! Have you heard the Song LA by Boy Harsher I was wondering if they took inspiration by any 80s song . I feel Like I heard that Synth bass line but not sure where .

[@EspenKraft]

Never heard of it. Cheers :)

[@peterpalagyi5710]

Tha galopping bass! A little boring if used too much but really great at times.

[@tomrobinson4781]

Aye! Lovely.