Bass guitar
Electric bass guitar.
Analysis
Every song on this page, across all of them: paul, george and john.
By Year
Song count per year
By Songwriter
% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)
By Era
The instruments that played it
Every model the catalogue names for this part, counted by the year of the session.
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Songs(173 of 197)
Love Me Do
P.S. I Love You
Ask Me Why
Please Please Me
Do You Want to Know a Secret
I Saw Her Standing There
Misery
There's a Place
From Me to You
Thank You Girl
I'll Get You
She Loves You
All I've Got to Do
Plays chords as structural part
All My Loving
McCartney walking bass
Don't Bother Me
Hold Me Tight
I Wanna Be Your Man
It Won't Be Long
Little Child
Not a Second Time
I Want to Hold Your Hand
This Boy
Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
Sie Liebt Dich
Can't Buy Me Love
I Call Your Name
You Can't Do That
A Hard Day's Night
And I Love Her
Any Time at All
I Should Have Known Better
I'll Be Back
I'll Cry Instead
I'm Happy Just to Dance with You
If I Fell
Tell Me Why
Things We Said Today
When I Get Home
I Feel Fine
She's a Woman
Baby's in Black
Eight Days a Week
Every Little Thing
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
I'll Follow the Sun
I'm a Loser
No Reply
What You're Doing
Ticket to Ride
Yes It Is
I'm Down
Help!
Another Girl
I Need You
It's Only Love
Tell Me What You See
The Night Before
You Like Me Too Much
You're Going to Lose That Girl
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Day Tripper
Doubles the opening riff
Drive My Car
Girl
I'm Looking Through You
If I Needed Someone
In My Life
Michelle
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Nowhere Man
Run for Your Life
The Word
Think for Yourself
Two parts: clean + fuzz
Wait
We Can Work It Out
What Goes On
You Won't See Me
Rain
Prominent melodic line throughout
Paperback Writer
Boosted via loudspeaker-as-microphone
And Your Bird Can Sing
Doctor Robert
For No One
Good Day Sunshine
Got to Get You into My Life
Here, There and Everywhere
Paul McCartney, Rickenbacker 4001S
I Want to Tell You
Overdubbed late - McCartney recorded bass last so he could double Harrison's vocal line
I'm Only Sleeping
Walking-bass passing notes in the bridges
She Said She Said
Played by Harrison - McCartney walked out of session
Taxman
McCartney's Rickenbacker, prominent and melodic
Tomorrow Never Knows
McCartney sustains C drone with melodic fills
Yellow Submarine
Penny Lane
Strawberry Fields Forever
A Day in the Life
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Fixing a Hole
Getting Better
Good Morning Good Morning
Lovely Rita
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
When I'm Sixty-Four
With a Little Help from My Friends
All You Need Is Love
McCartney overdubbed bass guitar at EMI Studios
Baby, You're a Rich Man
Hello, Goodbye
I Am the Walrus
Blue Jay Way
Flying
Magical Mystery Tour
The Fool on the Hill
Your Mother Should Know
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Revolution
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Birthday
Cry Baby Cry
Dear Prudence
Don't Pass Me By
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Two bass parts overdubbed by McCartney
Glass Onion
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Helter Skelter
Paul
Honey Pie
I'm So Tired
Long, Long, Long
Martha My Dear
Overdubbed by McCartney
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Piggies
Revolution 1
Rocky Raccoon
Savoy Truffle
Sexy Sadie
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Yer Blues
All Together Now
Hey Bulldog
It's All Too Much
Only a Northern Song
Don't Let Me Down
Get Back
Old Brown Shoe
The bass is heavily distorted, doubled by the lead guitar through the bridges
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Because
Carry That Weight
Golden Slumbers
Here Comes the Sun
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Mean Mr. Mustard
Fuzz bass
Octopus's Garden
Oh! Darling
Polythene Pam
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Something
Sun King
The End
You Never Give Me Your Money
Come Together
Iconic riff
Let It Be
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Dig a Pony
Dig It
I Me Mine
I've Got a Feeling
One After 909
The Long and Winding Road
Free as a Bird
Real Love
Now and Then
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