{"id":8141,"date":"2015-12-16T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2015-12-16T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T18:21:03","slug":"jackson-5-i-want-you-back-wilton-felder-isolated-bass-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/jackson-5-i-want-you-back-wilton-felder-isolated-bass-line.html","title":{"rendered":"Jackson 5 &quot;I Want You Back&quot; Wilton Felder isolated bass line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilton Felder was both a sax and bass player (hence the reason you see the photo above of him with a saxophone,) and one of the &#8220;holy grail&#8221; songs of all time when it comes to bass lines is when he put his talent to work on the Jackson 5 track <em>I Want You Back<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the original studio release:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s3Q80mk7bxE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the isolated bass track Felder played:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z91l_lPz1oc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll hear, Wilton&#8217;s bass is very &#8220;thumpy&#8221; and just outright beautiful-sounding. Yes, technically the low E string is warbling a bit, but it still sounds amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Not only can you brush up and use this as a guide to learn one of the best bass lines ever, but now you know that Wilton&#8217;s sound on this track, while not sonically perfect, still sounded <em>right<\/em>. And that&#8217;s all that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilton Felder was both a sax and bass player (hence the reason you see the photo above of him with a saxophone,) and one of the &#8220;holy grail&#8221; songs of all time when it comes to bass lines is when he put his talent to work on the Jackson 5 track I Want You Back. &#8230; <a title=\"Jackson 5 &quot;I Want You Back&quot; Wilton Felder isolated bass line\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/jackson-5-i-want-you-back-wilton-felder-isolated-bass-line.html\" aria-label=\"More on Jackson 5 &quot;I Want You Back&quot; Wilton Felder isolated bass line\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}