The 10 Greatest Bass Solos (You've Probably NEVER Heard)
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2024
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- Pino Palladino: • Pino Palladino bass so...
- Gary Willis: • Gary Willis fretless b...
- Jaco Pastorius: • Jaco Pastorius - Trilo...
- Jeff Andrews: • Steps Ahead - Young & ...
- John Patitucci: • John Patitucci - Got a...
- Hadrien Feraud: • Hadrien Feraud w/ Bubb...
- Dane Alderson: • 'The Red Cat' - Troy R...
- Michael Pipoquinha: • Michael Pipoquinha Bas...
I was wondering if you could help me out with something?
I’ve just released this brand new lesson, with a completely new format. ‘I’ think it’s great (and it was a heap of fun putting it together).
But let’s face it… I’m probably a bit biased ;)
I wanna know whether YOU dig it or not. In a nutshell, I’ve pulled together 10 of the greatest bass solos - that you’ve probably never heard before...
(Unless you’re ‘next level bass nerd’ like me… and in that case, I salute you) But I’ve gone one stage further.
In this new lesson I’m also going to break down key areas of the solos too, so you can start to see (and understand) exactly what’s going on, why they sound soooo damn good, and how to get these techniques in your own playing.
(... Shout out to my fav bit of the video and something to look out for… Pino Palladino getting his jazz vocab chops out and showing us how it’s done!).
Anywho… I’d love for you to check out the lesson, and lemme know what you think of this new format in the comments.
If you love it, I’ll do MORE like this…
If you hate it, I won’t ;)
As always, see you in the shed…
Scott :)
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The Michael Pipoquinha solo almost feels like flamenco guitar. The precision and the tone and the energy is just... gorgeous.
Richard Bona-Majestically the best of all of them. Precise and very beautiful ❤️
I love you because you’re a true bass geek Scott. Never change.
FX Turk don’t worry - never will ;)
I agree with this sentiment completely, I absolutely LOVE every bass solo on here.
@@devinebass so glad to have this in writing, lol. We love you Scott!
@@devinebass thank you for teaching us!
I love how every bass player takes from other bass players and creates their own style of solos. Solos are an expression of what’s in your heart and what you’re feeling as a musician. It’s an opportunity for you to express through your instrument the joy and love you feel as a musician.
I played drums with him in Tommy Strand and the upper hand back in early 70’ s. Played all summer at the Hurricane lounge in ocean City Md.
Laugh out loud at the joy it brings to you, Scott! It gets me, too, and I'm not even a bass player!
Saw Pipoquinha live... he was everything and a little more, I was absolutely blown away.
Andrews sounds exactly like a tenor sax bop player. Incredible, what a talent.
Great video!!!! I'm from Brazil and tks for showing Michael Pipoquinha, he's an amazing musician.
Tudo bem!!
Thank you for giving Jeff Andrews some shine. Definitely one of my favorite players that, I agree, needs more credit and notoriety.
Dear Scott, you always brighten up my day. Thank you so much for all your beautiful energy! Greetings from Holland, André
love this format! keep doing these
Great choises. Thank you for your explanation
stunning compilation. could watch that all day.
Mate, I love that you are straight to content (and good content). Good analysis and no bs.
Great video, thanks for breaking down the music theory behind those solos! So helpful.
I love how excited you get about this stuff, keep it up Scott!
Sad to hear about Jeff Andrews' passing. I knew him at Berklee, he lived in the room above mine. I even subbed for him on a rehearsal once. Mike Stern was playing guitar!
Fantastic selection of bass players,everyone who ranks among my favorites including 2 of whom I was not aware. You can tell alot about a musician by his influences. Incidentally, beautiful bass, great tone and killer playing, Scott.
Awesome thanks for the cool clips
Jeff Berlin and Percy Jones are two of my favourites
GREAT JOB Scott !!! thanks a lot !!!
Let me send this to Richard Bona. 👌🏿
Pino 🔥
All these are incredible Bassists.
Another superb video. IMO you saved the best till last!
If I'd foreseen any of this in April 1970 [when I took up the bass], I.... don't know what I'd have thought.
My personal favorite bass solo on record is Oteil's solo on "Davey Crockett", with Col Bruce Hampton and the ARU live from 1991 (I think it was '91). Great video Scott. Those guys are all monsters!
Go to 15:13 in this: ua-cam.com/video/t_RCe1HtIqI/v-deo.html
That is Oteils best work, he sounds way better with a 4-string
That was right around the first time I saw him live. I did not know who he was, but that first experience seeing him wearing long Egyptian garb, barefoot, eyes closed.....as a young bass player then (about 5 years in), it completely changed everything for me. He dropped every jaw in that room. I will never forget that. At first I couldn’t handle playing for a couple of days, and then I couldn’t stop. Oteil remains one of my favorite bassists of all time
All great players. All have amazing chops....and I can listen to soloing like that....1 minute, tops.
When I started to play the goal was to play with the touch and technique of the violinist. These greats have realized it. Great video.
That video, your skill, ear, and playing blew me away. Asa drummer just starting to make covers musicians like yourself let me know where i stand. The drummer in those videos were insane! I’m now hoping there’s some video of some of your performances. Your on that next level I’ll never achieve . Brilliant!
Scott, what a good player and teacher you are!!
Love your channel! Keep it up!
I wish I could like this video more than once! Thank you Scott!
Rob Kelman ahhh cheers Rob! :)
You just did Rob 👍
It`s very cool format! More and more analize music!!!
Pipoquinha is a monster, as well all the other bassists in this video. I'm glad to hear you saying that Jeff Andrews deserve much more credit, I totally agree. I love his solo on Mike Stern's "Bait Tone Blues", music from Play album. it's a mind blowing solo.
Thanks for another great video Scott! Just like every single one of them, when it's finished, I gotta grab my axe and lay down some grooves!
just incredible! thanks
Jaco was soooo the best of his time, and now the technical level is really much more higher, and...impossible to reach for most of us ! I wouldn't have thought that 40 years ago when I started playing..
But Jaco still sounds better. Honestly this all sounds a bit pointless trying to do stuff for the sake of doing it.
Yep, the technical level went up a notch. However, there’s still no cat around who has all parameters on that ‘Jaco level’. I mean, I still haven’t heard compositions of all those technical guys reaching the musical level of ‘Three Views of A Secret’. Also, Jaco’s arranging skills were very high. And not much players had that level of impact like Jaco did. He’s still audible in every (technical or even non-technical) bass player.
But then again, there are lots of bass players who have their own thing going, despite of the obvious Jaco influence. There are numerous of great players out there, still so much great music for us to enjoy.
@@charlesnagtzaam1658 Right. Still love Jaco too.
Jaco was on the level of Mozart.
As much as I respect all these technically brilliant ultra fast-playing bassists - nothing comes close to folks like Pino, who can create a solo which stands out simply by its recognisable melody and tasteful phrasing.
I could probably learn to play this solo in a day, but I would never be able to come up with something pure like this myself. This is what makes a great solo in my opinion.
Michael League played an equally impressive solo last year in Nuremberg. I can listen to the recording of this show over and over again, just for that bass solo.
Completely agree, I also found the Pino solo best in this video's selection of solos. Pino made me "woooo" just by his groovy licks and choice of notes. The other solos are technically very impressive, but mostly not interesting to listen to. Exceptions for me are Gary Willis and Hadrien Feraud though, because they got the chops, but I know they also do great solos with more melodic approaches.
Personally for me the best bass solo is still Victor Wooten's live solo on Dave Matthew Band's #41: ua-cam.com/video/LQPrb5c-TnU/v-deo.html
It combines groove, melody and technique together and there are only a few bass solos that come close to this for me.
Edit: I just remembered since I brought Victor Wooten into the conversation. I heard some clinic a while ago where Victor said some of the most important aspects of solos or music in general is space, meaning the notes you don't play. And as I watch this video more, I notice a lot of these technical solos very much lack space.
Totally agree with you. I think the best solo (no matter on a bass or guitar) is that continues the main theme of the composition. My favorite bass solo for many years is from Cosmosquad's "Jam for Jason". Anyway thanks to Scott for the video, it has many interesting things to learn and practice.
drums stop. very bad. drums stop...
bass solo
lw48wp4 what tune was Michael League soloing over? I’ve always liked his solo on Skate U from Tell Your Friends.
Agree 100%! No more details necessary. :-)
Thanks so much, this is incredible! I got to see and meet Skuli at a Holdsworth gig. I'd never heard him before, and he stunned us. I told him that Iceland must be a source of geniuses! :) 🎻
I do enjoy watching you but sometimes you make my head hurt with info overload.
Keep up the great work. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Scott, I can’t understand most of what is happening, but I really enjoyed your passionate explanation and will share your video. Brilliant.
Thanks for all the great content! -amateur bassist from a small town
Great compilation! Loved watching this and learning from it. Pino all the way.
David Raath cheers, David! :)
Great video! Some of these guys I've never heard of. I must look them up.
Miguel Fair cheers, Miguel :)
I think I appreciate all kinds of bass solos, both technically complex and also more melodic and soulful. But the ones that touch me emotionally are usually the simpler, more tasteful ones. I'd love to hear your thoughts Scott on something like the one Jaco does in Midwestern Nights Dream by Pat Metheny. A blizzard of notes is for sure impressive and easy to be wowed by, but it's really nice to be able to connect with the music on a deeper level sometimes ...
It's the same with drummers - those internet arguments about who the 'best drummer ever' is so often revolve around who's the most technically proficient or who can solo with the most fireworks. But I'll very happily take Vinnie's playing on something relatively simple like Fields of Gold or Seven Days as it's the restraint and tastefulness which come to the fore rather than the display of chops! Just listen to Pino's playing on the Don Henley track New York Minute and you'll see what I mean :)
Agree. Chuck Rainey said there's "melody notes" and "theory notes". I like the melody notes
Wow, didn't know that was Pino! You're absolutely right, incredible Bass work!!
JAMES BEARD I LOVE YOUR COMMENT IT,S VERY TRUE .
I think Alain Caron and Percy Jones should be mentioned. But you have a great list here that made me discover new bassists.
Flaming good video Scott, I'd like more like this personally.
Anthony Tydd - Child Of Troubled Times- the whole album.
Steve Colmen and Five Elements - Flint , Reggie Washington on Bass
Wonderful content - love it
top notch... absolutely amazing
Great post Scott!
That Gary Willis solo on Self Defense has always and will always be the best bass solo I've ever heard. The only thing that comes close for me (if not another Willis solo) is Jaco on Havona. Never has something inspired me so much. 👍🏼
Great video again, Scott.
really cool selection, love it
My favourite video of yours. Whatever it is in this thing, keep it up. You had me laughing of joy and geekiness at 3:36 at Pino's unharmonic bit.
Thanks Scott! Your enthusiasm for great bassists mirrors my own. This is a great selection of players/solos. I saw Jeff Andrews with Mike Stern. He made a 4 string sound like a 5 string, huge vocabulary. He is missed. I would consider adding two of my favorite fretless players: Jeff Berlin, and Percy Jones of Brand X, to this group.
Great stuff, thanks!
Check out Willie Weeks' solo on the live recording with Donny Hathaway around '73 - tasteful and in the pocket... different from the rest
Etienne Mbappe ? One of the best things about your video is watching you watching the solos .. lol. It has a kind of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" quality to it :-) Thanks, Scott. Great stuff.
Wow! Great bass solo
Scott, you are terrific.
muchas gracuias! este video valio cada segundo de su tiempo , adhiero a cada uno de los bajistas que nombraste los que conocia y aun los que no.
creo que deberias escuchar a Federico Heliodoro de brasil , Marco mendoza,, guillermo vadala en cada uno de sus solos , ´pero particularmente en willie. gracias
Oh hell yeah, Steps Ahead. Man this video was great, going to have to watch at least three times.
KiraPlaysGuitar cheers! :)
Wow! The best video Scott!
I know all the bass players, but your video is TOP!👌🏾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Humberto Oliveira ahhh cheers Humberto! :)
Great video!
Dear Scott, you should check out Nico Assunção. He died in 2001 but still is the best bass player from Brazil. His solos are amazing.
I wish I could have listened to all of your favorite bass solos and then had you break them down.
Unreal!!! Mind blown...
Great bassists. Dedicated to learning and performing music.
Really cool video! So happy to see a brazilian bass player featuring! The pronunciation of Pipoquinha is way different, but I can't imagine how to ahow the right way without audio... 🤣
The pronunciation is "pee-po-keen-ña" ("nha" in portuguese sounds like the spanish "ña").
It is a nickname, meaning "tiny popcorn".
Scott , u are a gentleman, i love u bro! Cheers from Brazil!
An unknown bass solo is featured on Fleetwood Mac Live 1970, on my UA-cam channel, go to 24 mins 44 secs and you'll hear a bass solo followed by a Conga solo and then back to bass solo, bass is a Fender VI, it's not John Mcvie, it's Peter Green, yes the well known guitarist, who also plays the Conga solo
Love your stuff Scott, and so chuffed to be a prt of the advanced technique accelerator program! You top it off by wearing a Panerai
Michael Pipoquinha.... 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
@Scott, you can try saying Michael's name like "Pipokiña". 😉
@@marcuslacerda618 Si, legal! Glad to see Michael again!
Marcos Perrone Tudo bem!!
Man that was so clean every note people have a tendency to muffle notes when they play fast but this was like someone speed up a regular recording, really good.
BR BR BR !!!!!! Pipoquinha !!!!
❤️❤️❤️❤️I love what you do man
Hey props for shouting out Dane! Cool guy and never fails to drop quite a few jaws.
When you were trying to break down some of Pino's licks about sliding in, and out of the main harmony it stands to reason he, like Jaco listened to a lot of sax players' phrasing. Working around chords by circling them in half step increments....like a roundabout in a roadway...takes you any direction you want to resolve to...
I loved this channel ❤❤
Jazz is the best music for bass players !! yes !!
Great analogy about soloing with those monsters bass players
Beautiful upload nice work that takes time you are sharing your heart your commentary is engaging and educational. I am a guitar player but love introduction to virtuosos. This is my religion, therapy and spiritual energy ( music) source I consume at high doses. I love when people get wigged out emotionally, gestulations and feeling that shit down to the toes. The universal language. Quality post . Life enriching. Thx bro
Even these complex, shredding bass solos can put me to sleep. And I'm a bass player!
Good stuff! Jeff Andrews had the ability to make an electric bass sound like an acoustic on some songs. Very underrated bass player.
So awesome to see the "Great Dane" Alderson on here, with Andy Finsenden on drums, Perth represent!
Thanks for the video it was great from start to finish. speaking of technique, The kid from Asterism is doing some cool things on the bass and i wouldn't mind seeing some of them decoded by you. his bass solo's are really cool melodic pieces.
I don't know Bass like you do. But man I loved watching this as much as you loved presenting it. I thought Stu Hamm would be in there. But that is likely because of my lack of Bass player knowledge. Great vid, keep it up!
Bruce H thanks Bruce! I REALLY enjoyed making this vid - hearing feedback like this make me wanna make more :)
Hey , Scott! Greetings from Brazil. Very nice video. You must be a very good teatcher. Thanks for share your view about this greats bassists. About the brazilian bass player, the las name is PEE-POH-KI-NEEA-AH (it´s a dimintutive to pop corn. Something that jumps out from the pan - like in his case). Best warms. Congratulations.
Great video, how about Colin Hodgkinson of Back Door, or Stu Hamm, I saw Back Door in the ICA on the Mall in the early seventies, and this convinced me it's ok for a bassist to solo. Colin is a Lefty and I'm right handed, so working out what he was playing was, shall we say, challenging. He also had what I can only assume was a custom twin neck bass, one fretted, the other fretless.
I'll still go with Skuli on Low Levels, High Stakes as one of the best - incredibly musical
Wowwww! Pipoquinha is unbelievable! And you are one of the most complet bassists that I ever know.
I'm not an expert, but Scott is the best bass player I've seen among the youtube musicians.
Great lines with even greater tone.
nice! I haven't seen any of these. They are all great!
Man! Singing that part in the Gary Willis solo, you're a real bass player! xD
Great video Scott. I know there's no way you can include every amazing finger bass solo (or solo technique), but I really think Tom Kennedy's crazy solo technique should've been included, whereby he incorporates fast 16th chromatic notes along with open strings while moving his hand along the neck, and THEN almost doubling the speed into a triplet feel while still playing that same technique. Especially since a lot of bass players don't even know Tom. Hope you explain that technique in one of your future videos. Thanks and appreciate the great work you and the team are doing for the bass community.
Ahmed 'AQ' AlQasim Tom is THE MAN! 💪... did an interview with him a few weeks back for SBL... keep a look out for it ;)
When i improvise on a minor pentatonic i like to add the major 3rd but pino likes to add the major 7th according the video. Thanks scott i try this when i m back home.
hey scott, before even checking the video, the title made me remember when i had a band, we played some nirvana, as you know the bass lines are mostly easy. the guitar guy asked us to try love buzz, i said ok, i will learn it... basically nirvana one can learn in one sit, i thought love buzz would be the same. for my great surprise it has a hell of an amazing bass solo in the end! it took me a quite time to achieve it and it cracks! after learning it, i started giving more attention and respect to Chris novoselic as bassist.
Dude awesome video u got a lot of bass players I listen awesome bro...
Scott,
Can you make the top 10 solos you transcribed for bass? (any instrument)
Because this video is FIRE!!!
Gonçalo Marques absolutely- great idea man :)
your passion for what you doing, it's brillant! Greatings from Brazil! And Pipoquinha means a diminutive for popcorn, it's like call
him "Little popcorn".
Okay, this will be a much listened to and practiced video!!
Lincoln Adams cheers, Lincoln! 🙌
@@devinebass Actually, I'm in deep need of carving out the time to be in the shed with Scott's bass lessons!
I'm curious how Tal Wilkenfeld never seems to get mentioned in stuff like this. She's unreal.
Oh she is mate , just check more of Scott's lessons ;D
How could he miss Because We’ve Ended as Lovers with Jeff Beck?
I made this comment a month ago and like two weeks ago he makes a video featuring Tal...
Hmm.
Not really anywhere near these guys level though.
Jens Clarberg I’d disagree with your statement. Her playing is actually musical and to me (opinion) more emotive than simply fast fretting and other intonations. Sure, there’s always some one that can shred in a guitar or bass but is it a fit for that piece or just a solo to show how fast you can play?
Great video! I studied with Jeff Andrews in NYC; he was totally brilliant! What a loss for the electric bass world; luckily Jeff's legacy is totally intact via amazing records and videos! Thanks Scott!
Billy Likitsakos music awesome Billy! I spent time with Jeff (and his cats, lol) in NYC too - great guy!
@@devinebass yeah! I wrote a paper about Jeff when I was at NYU taking a class in Jazz history... I totally gave it to Jeff before I handed it in for my final to make sure I had gotten all my facts right; he liked it so much he asked me if he could publish it on his web site as his bio. Of course, I said "yes please!"... He was a total master bass player and really nice person too. R.I.P. Jeff Andrews.