How to play Post-Punk bass in 1 minute

How to play Post-Punk bass in 1 minute by Desmond Doom.
Feel free to argue about what "Post-Punk" means in the comments.
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Gear used:
Fender Player Jaguar Bass
Focusrite Scarlett solo interface
Ableton Live stock effects ( thank you for existing @Ableton)

[@Diftonez]

And remember you have to play this pattern for 5-7 minutes straight.

[@a.dudeman7715]

The Cure's "Disintegration" comes to mind.

[@mecrac]

Lol, the only reason I consider letting the band use an electronic bass part and let me leave the stage instead

[@zebrapringlez3141]

Nice profile picture

[@TheVioletBunny]

this guy mastered the peter hook

[@fuckamericanidiot]

​@@eboethrasher100% Peter Hook very often uses an open string for that drone while switching notes. This is the Cure, whatever his name was xd

[@cecilioromo7587]

sounds nothing like a peter hook riff.

[@ThumpingThromnambular]

he really didn't

[@kadeshaderow]

"For even more spice you can just play like Peter Hook from Joy Division playing Disorder"

[@Happyradio1234]

yes

[@edwardcamp3376]

Andy Rourke! RIP

[@danielsos9824]

gotta be

[@chilloutconny]

i was about to say that

[@benjaminsilverman1723]

Except he didn’t really use tones like this

[@imsorryforarguingbut4555]

i don’t think he was very post-punk…!

[@thai2go]

@@imsorryforarguingbut4555 no The Smiths were "jangle pop"

[@Skaxarrat]

I am boring and unimaginative, but I'm going to say Peter Hook.

[@richsackett3423]

Saved me the embarrassment. Thanks.

[@jennyl309]

May be an obvious choice, but he's really good to be fair

[@RegebroRepairs]

He's on a completely different level, to be fair.

[@Skaxarrat]

@@jennyl309 He's one of the first bassists that show me that a bass can do more than root notes.

[@colehenry5915]

Only boring because its true - especially with a last name like 'Hook'

[@cronaaukerman6422]

This is one of the most effective KZbin tutorials I have ever seen

[@zugzugthezuggernaut4533]

Dude just spilled the beans on the secret for the whole genre - everything else is spice in the mix. Insane!

[@michaelwilson2340]

Hooky is getting closer to 70 (unbelievable) and he's still relevant with his sound and technique. And he was never in the background in New Order. Look how boring they are without him.

[@inphatmoi]

Barry Adamson (Magazine) never gets enough love. The bass lines to Song from Under the Floorboards and The Light Pours Out of Me are personal highlights

[@pauliuspaskevicius6600]

and the Bad Seeds. He is just generally underrated as musician, great solo stuff

[@virtualobject]

My new favourite post Punk bassist? Mr D Doom

[@Fil_Mo]

not sure if it counts (maybe modern post-post-punk?) but Carlos D from the OG Interpol era was a true badass

[@blunderless]

it counts as post punk revival and i was looking for this comment... his bass playing trumps everyone elses. obstacle 1, obstacle 2, stella, pda? absolute genius.

[@ThePenguinG]

@@blunderless the new has interpol's best bass line imo. it's just so clean and groovy, throughout the song it's just doin its own thing but it is so amazing

[@blunderless]

@@ThePenguinG yes, the new's bass is insane. that part after the bass guitar interlude between paul and carlos is insanely groovy, so is the whole breakdown really. but i think the groove and development of obstacle 2's bass is underrated. i also love obstacle 1 for how simple and uncanny it is. special mention to pda. love the part where the bass starts to change course from the guitars, right before "you're so cute when you're frustrated". the syncopation between the bass and everything else is so interconnected yet so unpredictable... carlos is my favorite bass player *was

[@ThePenguinG]

@@blunderless slow hands' bass line is really good at the instrumental too

[@blunderless]

@@ThePenguinG honestly, the bass breakdown is just a simplified version of the bassline he plays throughout the song, just higher on the frets. you should listen to a bass cover, as the bass in slow hands too quiet in the mix to hear. perhaps the best interpol bassline...

[@wagnerribeiro4061]

Simon Gallup, Peter Hook, and Andy Rourke are the Holy Trinity to my taste. But there are other guys that make me being in love with post-punk style: Mark Burgess (The Chameleons), Thierry Sobézyk (Asylum Party), Helen Carter (Do Ré Mi), Shmoo Ritchie (The Organ), João Pavanelli (Finis Africae), Frank van den Nieuwenhof (World According To / W.A.T.), and Desmond Doom :) Cheers!

[@LANGI902]

Asylum Party were INCREDIBLE

[@wagnerribeiro4061]

​@@LANGI902I totally agree with you.

[@HeroinChrist]

@@wagnerribeiro4061I totally agree with you agreeing

[@tmage23]

Add David J of Bauhaus and the holy trinity becomes Mt Rushmore

[@wagnerribeiro4061]

​@@tmage23Hahaha - great! I can see clearly that place in my mind. It would be a perfect spot for a big festival.

[@Malum09]

Steven Severin is so underrated!

[@andrewpearson1903]

Haven’t seen Jah Wobble in the first few comments, so here’s some love for “Metal Box”

[@leosierras9643]

Jah Wobble is fantastic, but also a completely different style of bass. To get the Jah Wobble sound, boost lows as loud as possible and play Dub Reggae, but darker and moody.

[@rapha2028]

this is absolutely a bassline on some random obscure band's song on one of their practically unknown albums or eps that I'm not a particularly big fan of but still like to death regardless; love the video

[@kadnaz]

Dave Allen (Gang of Four), Steve Hanley (The Fall), and the very obvious Peter Hook pick.

[@billybonk7673]

Graham Bailey from The Sound is an underrated bassist.

[@aria_chatt]

David J Haskins of Bauhaus, super underrated, great at the simple yet effective lines

[@SR-ic4sf]

Fucking a, love his dub style bass lines

[@ShikiKiryu]

Gallup, Severin and David J, also Mark Burgess for me personally.

[@miniyodadude6604]

This is just a good lesson in making your bass lines more interesting. Next step is harmonic influence (not a real term to my knowledge, just the idea that you can emphasize different degrees of the chord as the bassist and influence the sound of the chord)

[@TooDarkPuppy]

Les Pattison, Mark Burgess, Simon Gallup and Graham Bailey are probably my favorite post-punk bassists.

[@igorbarbosa6130]

Hook, Gallup and Sting.

[@edwardcamp3376]

That's a hell of a trio!

[@tedHaun]

Gallup obviously!

[@joachimpeiper8076]

Derek Forbes also, Simple Minds.

[@erikjleiken]

1. Peter Hook 2. Simon Gallup 3. Andy Rourke 4. David J. Haskins 5. Tina Weymouth

[@swissarmyknight4306]

Tasty

[@Cycluing]

Carlos D from Interpol. They're post punk in my book

[@djaxupjazz]

Thierry Sobézyk of the band Asylum Party. His bass riffs are so cool... the "Borderline" album has many cool bass riffs.

[@frivolo2892]

Peter Principle of Tuxedomoon, love all their early eighties stuff

[@oalsaker]

Derek Forbes from Simple Minds!

[@user-yh3rm6yq2b]

His baselines made early Simple Minds what they were.... Simple Minds today is a sorry tribute act, with Kerr and Burchill out front. Sorely lacking the chops of the likes of Forbes + MacNeill + Gaynor.

[@jjosefsson69]

If this excellent video were like three minutes, it would have proceeded into Derek Forbes lines.

[@danielo174]

Brilliant. More of this sort of stuff. Love your album as well. REally great work.

[@hubertwerding]

best post punk bassist of the 2000s has to be interpol's carlos d. unbelievable bass lines. so dark

[@2112jonr]

If you like Interpol, you should check out IST IST. Brilliant live band. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5mbZmCbe7uNn5o

[@wandregisel6385]

Post-punk bassist I really like who doesn't get mentioned much is Will Heggie, Cocteau Twins first bassist. I love the basslines on Garlands, and he also did some great work with his next band, Lowlife

[@greed7304]

What a great video! Love it

[@kunaikai]

Steven Severin is my favorite post punk bassist. Although idk if he entirely counts.

[@celiacasanovas4164]

Why not? It doesn't get more postpunk than Siouxsie and the Banshees does it?

[@carlosg8108]

I call this fooling around while I'm watching a movie, never realized how much potential it has lol

[@skylarjon3464]

Also an easy way to make a cheap and easy post-punk bass line is to never pluck the string at the same time as snare hits. Instant groove

[@sanakassara]

When I first picked up a bass couple of years ago, I noticed that all you needed effect wise was a detune and light reverb on P-bass to get the old Post-Punk vibes.

[@melissavance1023]

@desmonddoom also, humbly requesting more bass content :) picked it up recently after not learning to play guitar for 30+ years and loving it. Soaking up all the content i can and super stoked you have your other tutorial up as well, going to be one of the ten ive decided i will focus on (have 8 picked now)

[@TompkinsAnimation]

Oh dang these are the same settings I used for the bass and amp unknowingly before watching this 💀💀💀

[@IlSinistero]

Your new EP is really nice 👍

[@stoney1004]

just bought my first bass, awesome timing - thank you desmond!

[@sychro_1122]

gl remember to do what you enjoy not whats "best" for learning bc commitment beats everything

[@stephen3511]

Great vid. Andy Rourke and Steve Hanley amongst mY favourite PP bass players.

[@deanaf]

You, sir. Are brilliant.

[@mr.champlinssciencechannel906]

Thank you. Super helpful!

[@ArythNeon]

bro makes great music and now is teaching me how to play bass

[@spezifisch4468]

1:14 me at 2 am who already played bass the last 2 hours: ok if you say so *grabs bass again*

[@christiananderson6761]

ive not once regretted picking up my instrument and playing a little more

[@YJD23]

Great video man good job

[@optomix3988]

Playing some Bass now thanks to you.

[@jackcrook4435]

Les Pattinson, hope to see him walking around melbourne one day as apparently he lives here now

[@stevehill8657]

Yes. Les Pattinson. King of the upstroke groove!

[@Waktrax2]

Best bass guitar player video ever!

[@technicolorgiallo1111]

As usual, everyone loved this. Thank you. :)

[@sciexp]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

[@matthewbotha7845]

Carlos Dengler/Peter Hook

[@Gmabonoski]

Stuart Morrow from NWA, one of the best to do it, still sounding unique and fresh

[@kolper6799]

I forgot the name but Red zebra had really nice and subtle bass. At those rare times when its not mess of guitar and vocal it just sends powerful shivers down your spine.

[@collette3428]

My boy Simon

[@jaides8424]

nice thanks fot this moment.

[@liljoeyA123]

so much love.

[@Sammyandbobsdad]

I was listening to your EP today.

[@fleetadmiralsidiqi1941]

Cooking with that tribute thumbnail 🤘

[@OneHandedBassist]

this is actually a perfect guide.

[@pzignani]

Simon Gallup

[@Szejski]

Galuppin on his behs

[@mrmikev1]

Peter Hook like others have said, really like these types of lesson vids please do more, also what about a top 5 or 10 post punk /goth bands albums videos

[@brodyratboy7596]

Baseline of the year!!!

[@MyNameIsBob397]

Super!❤❤❤

[@pwhite102]

The white pickup covers look cool. The bass has gotta look cool

[@lyshutov]

The video lesson is awesome. I want to learn to play bass in the future. And my favorite post-punk bands (except super popular post-punk bands): Abwärts!

[@arthurdiniz7469]

Great

[@TarulMan]

Sean Yeaton of Parquet Courts has some really cool grooves! Awesome tutorial: funny and to the point

[@remusblaque8207]

you got it!

[@1234drums]

Accurate and effective ❤❤❤❤

[@enricomontovanelli2535]

1:02 literally became addicted to this moment its so good to hear

[@s-c5377]

Цой жив!

[@jaca-k]

i'm in love with the sound of early Belgrado bassists - Tete Martin and Renzo Narvaez - the former was a total punk with his aggressive basslines, and the latter had this beatiful post-punk coldness in his sound and another favourite of mine is a fella named Desmond Doom, dunno if u know him

[@Luckymagician]

that was nice

[@Sidus666]

Playing small chords or diads higher up the neck, eslecially in harmony with ringing open strings is an amazing technique as well! Think she's lost control or twenty four hours for example

[@aaronvicente5028]

*YES*

[@Happyradio1234]

yes

[@jessejordache1869]

Post-punk is a total bassist's genre. The drums are so 1,2,3,4 that the bassist's rhythm duties are nil, but the at the same time the guitar is usually so sparse that you have to pick up the lead. So we bassists get to have all the fun.

[@marlonandre7789]

So cool dude, and now lesson to us a Bass Darkwave! Depeche mode style is so good!

[@FiftyShadesOfDave6603]

Controversial opinion, but my fave bass player is Sting

[@LANGI902]

That's not controversial. Sting is a great musician.

[@zardportugal]

Great.

[@RHOMBLE]

Hell yeah

[@PeterByker]

Desmond Doom is my favourite Post-Punk bassist.

[@valintime2313]

Good ep 🫡

[@wallface4793]

It's any The Cure song bass line :)

[@kimmolaine8069]

This was not boring.

[@thomasglas3613]

I was Hooked from the very start!

[@pabloruggiero1752]

Listen to the band Sumo from Argentina. More specifically, the tune called Estallando desde el océano. (Bursting out of the Ocean)

[@zebra1327]

I totally understood everything😀👍

[@zanenorman05]

Simon Gallup! Also I love this song and the new album!

[@erikwellerweller8623]

Sounds cool whatever one chooses to call it.

[@yannickpage2333]

Carlos D (ex-Interpol)

[@foxyforest4550]

Gallup, Hook and Rourke of course

[@sasarasasarasa]

Steven Severin and David Jay, in that order.

[@melissavance1023]

🖤🖤🖤

[@MarianoDk]

jaja nice mini tutorial 👌

[@matttorrence2900]

Nice

[@rekindle]

Derek Forbes of Simple Minds working in the post punk era with a big funk influence as well as the influence from Can, Neu etc - Forbes had great, cyclical Escher-like bass lines

[@enparticular]

68 Comments and surprised nobody mentioned my favorite post punk bassist - Jah Wobble (from the first 3 public image ltd albums with john lydon). He is completely Post Punk but the sound is completely different, grabbing mostly from reggae and dub but playing in a very violent way. what he does in 'annalisa' is fantastic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHS3oqJtm5Z_oJI

[@francescooriglio2426]

Thankyou. Mi favorite ever as well

[@intheTRAFFIC]

Was my first comment. But I’m glad I found this after scrolling for a bit. Ty. He’s my personal fave of these. Hello. Hello. Hello.

[@jeorgewatson]

Peter Hook, Simon Gallup, Steve Severin, Andy O’Rourke, are the 1st that come to mind…but also don’t forget Kevin Mooney,(Adam & Ants).

[@stemartin6671]

Really need to get me a new bass

[@fido8667]

My favourite post punk bassist is Diego Arnedo from Sumo and Divididos, both bands are argentinian.