Wilton Felder's isolated bass on "I Want You Back"

The great saxophonist/bassist's input on the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back"

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[HendrixPrinceFlea89]

It's in the style of Jamerson, but this is Felder.

[MikeOnBassGuitar]

i'm sure it's the original, you can hear the guitar leaking into the mix.

[Mattmann3]

@Stevieboy130664 Sounds like flatwounds with a pick to me

[zxcadw123]

Best bassline to a song ever, full stop!

[STONEMAKERCANADA]

:)

[Pop3y3Cahn]

@1987raaf

Troll!

[Stevieboy130664]

Is he playing with a pick?

[born2groove422]

brilliant

[TheCubetap]

@thumzupp Try this: start a Protools session, drop the orignal on to one track, drop the audio from this vid into another track. You'll have to drag one of the tracks along the timeline to get them to sync up. When they do, it's pretty obvious. Loop any suspect parts, fade the iso track in and out. Every last articulation is the same.

[TheCubetap]

@thumzupp Youtube won't let me put links here, so Google Rick Suchow. There is an archive of isolated bass tracks pulled directly from motown 8 track masters, this is one of them. There is also a version of this tune with a rough mix bass + all tracks except the drums. He has permission from Universal Music Group, owner of the Motown catalog, to make them available on his site.