10 ICONIC Police Bass Lines (that PROVE Sting is underrated)

Everyone knows Sting for something. In bass world, we know him as Gordon Sumner, who formed the Police in 1977, playing great bass parts and being a massive rock star. Fretted, fretless, double bass, eight-string - the man was unstoppable, filling up the empty spaces within the trio format with a variety of lines, from the simple to the finger-threateningly complex.

In this video, we’ve made you a top ten list of Sting’s must-know bass lines with The Police. PLUS you'll have a link to the tab and notation to see exactly what he played.