How to Get the Geddy Lee Sound
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2023
- In this video, Ian explains Geddy Lee's aggressive plucking technique and demonstrates how it can be used to achieve a similar sound.
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why do so many bassists play like they’re scared of the strings 😭
If one them snaps it could take your hand off.
@@SameAsAnyOtherStranger ...No?
Economy of motion, and it fits differently in the mix
@@adamswing6115 yeah it fits like a wet sock usually
They hurt!!
“I hit the bass so damn hard that you can hear the frets whack and the string hitting the pickup. I’m a bit of an animal!” ~Geddy
He beats his strings like they owe him money
He’s right,it’s the right hand attack. The subtle trick to it is he uses his nails for the bite. Hits the finger,then the nail, all with muting. Gives the pick sound with out a pick. I learned it from Geddy in a radio interview in the early 80’s.
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Ill stick to rubbing ky fingertips with 60 grit sandpaper
@@zieher- Doesn’t the KY counteract the sandpaper?!
Geddy was the influence that got me playing bass.
Now that I've watched this short video, I now sound exactly like geddy lee. Only downside is eveytime I try and speak all that comes out is "his mind is not for rent"
to any god or government.
That’s how I naturally started playing bass. Much closer to the neck and heavier handed… then you hear all this about “buzzing” or making the note out of tune by playing too hard… it’s nice to get that reminder of the way you initially approached the instrument before people influence you into other sounds .
The craziest part of this video is the women standing front & center @ a Rush concert and ENJOYING it!! I thought they only existed in legends
Hahaha well… I’m a lady and Rush is my favorite rock band of all time. And I’ve seen them in concert 3 times 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
in the 80s/90s there wasnt a woman to be found at a Rush show... i saw them in 2014 and happened to see a woman at the beer stand and her boyfriend made her go, she didnt know the band. as far as im concerned women dont go to rush shows. 10K dudes air jamming
I wish I knew that your action needs to be pretty low to achieve that iconic growl/bite months and months ago. I started playing Bass about 1 year ago, and I thought I was doomed from ever getting that sound from my attack. Turns out all I needed was lower action... that may be silly to vets, but I finally got it:)
You're also moving your positioning, by playing behind the neck pickup first then switching to the front of the neck pickup which is giving a different tone also.
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Cool jazz bass Ian.
I'm so in love with how this guys being amazed by what they doing
That is such an insightful comment. Great energy
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You gotta try to imitate a bass saxaphone to sound like Geddy.
You wanna play the viomalin?
How about the obamoboe...?
*I know... the saxamaphone!*
Homer Simpson
When I started playing bass years ago I naturally learned a bunch of songs from my two favorite bands, rush and Iron Maiden. It took me years to learn that I don’t have to actually play that hard. Sounds great when you do though.
My bass can’t achieve this tone😢 the pick up’s aren’t responsive enough. One day baby when I’m not broke ✊
Keep the faith!
It's more about the strings and right hand technique than the pickups. I use the Geddy tone as a base part of my sound all the time. Get yourself a pair of new strings, turn up the treble in your signal chain and hit the strings HARD
Lower your action more! That should get you the snap sound
I doubt that. Either straighten your neck or lower your action (or both) and you should get it. Isolating the neck pickup also helps.
Change your strings. New strings always sound punchy and clear.
Dang! You're absolutely right!
He abuses the strings like Tim Commerford.
thank ypu for sharing!
How to get the Geddy Lee sound? Be Geddy Lee!
This is way misleading. Notice the cut in the video between techniques. He clearly activated a preamp of some kind. Geddy Lee is skilled… not a magician or holder of black magic powers
Geddy also sends his signal through at least 3 separate channels. The sansamp rackmounts he uses are actually just one third of the total product yielded.
You never hear him discuss the Avalon U5 DI rackmount or the Palmer PDI-03 rackmounts. Those manufacturers also don’t market through endorsements like Tech 21 does. Think about it
I also believe wholeheartedly that all of his entire band of signals are then fed to to a MIDI interface where the signals are combined into 1 and then converted to digital. He also very likely uses software amplifier simulators on top of the Palmer
I know Ampeg makes that very software. And no, Geddy will never discuss using MIDI for his bass, just like how Neil would never admit that much if his drum sound I believe was MIDI. Not just the Roland Vs
Almost like a mix of slap bass and picking
Is it just the power / force he hits the strings?
Yeah you dig in so hard you make the string ricochet off the frets, it's kind of similar to what happens when you're slapping. You might need to lower the action a bit depending on your setup and your finger strength.
Yea, with low action and light gauge strings you can do it pretty easily though
I think it's also just the way his hands sound. People used to think he played a Rickenbacker bass on tom Sawyer, for example, but he actually used the jazz bass. His hands just make it sound similar cause that's how he sounds
@@greyklopstock7155 he doesnt have unique hands. Its just low action/ lots of force
Yeah, it's kind of a pluck
Super Cool
You should do Paul McCartney Sargent peppers tone
You missed the part where you tell us how
Well both geddy and thunderfingers played closer to the neck, or even on the neck for entwistle where they had the most elasticity and enough attack to launch a rock off their strings like a slingshot haha but they dug in to where theyre able to get that punch and not playing over the pick ups or by the bridge where you're tone maybe more consistent, but limited as well. And just my experience and opinion, is get a pj setup to get that fatter rounded tone in the front and the higher glistens on the back end by the bridge when playing like geddy, just sounds nice
Geddy plays super heavy handed. I didn't realize for a long time after getting a lot of the same gear he had and still sounding nothing like him how much technique plays into sounding like someone else. You don't always want to play like that though depending on the music/band/song there's a time and place for everything.
Fire fire fire
His playing inspired me so much that I can only play like this now. I do not like soft picking for the life of me
to snap off the string is how i learned it lol
And Geddy plays it with one hook finger and hammer-ons that sound like my slap notes.
Also literally plug into a sansamp
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I have to know where you got the sweatshirt with the number 4 on it please! Great right hand technique demonstration. All about that right hand!
Because teddy is the man
Be Geddy Lee
This is way misleading. Notice the cut in the video between techniques. He clearly activated a preamp of some kind. Geddy Lee is skilled… not a magician or holder of black magic powers
Geddy also sends his signal through at least 3 separate channels. The sansamp rackmounts he uses are actually just one third of the total product yielded.
You never hear him discuss the Avalon U5 DI rackmount or the Palmer PDI-03 rackmounts. Those manufacturers also don’t market through endorsements like Tech 21 does. Think about it
I also believe wholeheartedly that all of his entire band of signals are then fed to to a MIDI interface where the signals are combined into 1 and then converted to digital. He also very likely uses software amplifier simulators on top of the Palmer
I know Ampeg makes that very software. And no, Geddy will never discuss using MIDI for his bass, just like how Neil would never admit that much if his drum sound I believe was MIDI. Not just the Roland Vs
When I heard about slapping the first time, I thought he'd be using the slap technique. There are quite a few bassist where I had the same wrong impression that they were slapping their strings when they actually just had this aggressive playing style (e.g. Faith No More's Billy Gould in "Epic").
Sometimes it's just about digging in!
Ppl don’t know it’s not the gear, I mean it helps but it’s the musician
I can’t play any other way. I learned my heavy finger style from Geddy bass lines when I started learning.
Glad to see someone else like me!
Me to, but try doing it for 3 times 45 minutes straight!
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he also plays more flamenco style and with typically only one finger lol
People don't believe me when I say the same thing about my right hand attack. Very close tone to Geddy's and they insist it's my amp settings or soundman. Nope. Hit the strings like you're trying to break them.
I don't like Rush much but I respect the hell out of him as a bassist
*RUSH* is the best band in the universe 😊
Tone is the hands
Sounds like the neck pickup only plus that strong attack.
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Wow
Yes, R&B guys, you need to dig in if you want to play prog rock in a power trio. This isn't Sunday church where everyone is hungover.
This is so true, some players did EBERYDING different.
Was there an 8 string bass, having 4 guitar strings an octave higher? Just like the 12 string western guitars are? It is pretty easy to add guitar strings 6543 to a 4 string bass. Playing gets more difficult, not beginners stuff, but I bet the great players can play 2 strings a note, and avoid hitting the neighbour strings, which is the hardest part, less spacing. Getty could have loved that double strings sound. It is different from the usual basses. Do you own such an 8 string bass? Buy a cheap Fazley like bass, and convert it, or have it done, later you can have this surgery on a more expensive bass. If you like it.
It probably cause he so used to hearing the percussiveness of the Rickenbacker
The way I play finger style it often sounds like slap when I'm putting bass at the center of the music instead of doing rhythm with it. I hit very hard and in a very specific way.
The Geddy Lee style!
How are the pickups and tone set?
If you finger pick the same way he does just a bit harder you start getting pinch harmonics
Anyone know what Jazz bass dude is playing? No, not Geddy, but the dude in the video. Thank you.
I've broken quite a few E strings on my bass. Every time the core snapped and the winding held. I still have both hands. (I also don't pull nearly as hard as I use to.)
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I grew up playing like this. Never understood why everyone plays so soft. Much better tone by hitting hard. Unless you're going for a warm tone obv.
I don’t think a lot of people truly appreciate what it takes to continually dig in to those strings the way Ged does. Very taxing to the plucking hand.
PICK HARD
Geddy uses mainly his thumb and index, most bass players never realize how much more they could do if they stuck more with just thumb and index, insecurity leads bass players thinking they need to use index and middle cause it looks more technical, index and middle will never go as fast as thumb and index
Ask Tim from YYNOT about geddy’s tone…!
what song is this
Tom Sawyer
You might wanna get those notes right as well
Yes you pluck the strings
What you guys setting your amp to for that ideal Geddy tone?
Just use roundwounds with lowaction or a light gauge to let the strings bounce off the frets, like slapping
Bump up the treble, lower mids slightly, bump up bass but not as much as treble. You also want new roundwound strings, low action, and hit the strings really hard! If you have a jazz bass, play above the neck pickup
The amp in this example isn't really part of the "sound" They were probably just using a small amp in the studio at a low volume for this. The tone is all in the right hand popping the string and some of it is because he's using a J Bass of some sort.
Make sure you use a compressor.
Geddy doesn't use it any longer.
@@kaganozdemir4332 when did he. Use one?
@@johnsmith7140 up until the 2000s afaik. He doesn't even use an amp now, directly plugs into the monitor
Thinner strings can help…
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I do that all the time, it’s not slapping. It’s popping the strings
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Congrats you found out most hardware doesnt matter
Who the hell plays their Bass so softly?
I’ve got to ask…if you can play it the way Greedy would play it, why the hell would you ever play it any other way??
The Fender sound was his worst. The best tone for clarity, articulation, and punch was between the Steinberger and the Wal. The Fender was muddy trash
Ya think? 🙄
This is way misleading. Notice the cut in the video between techniques. He clearly activated a preamp of some kind. Geddy Lee is skilled… not a magician or holder of black magic powers
Geddy also sends his signal through at least 3 separate channels. The sansamp rackmounts he uses are actually just one third of the total product yielded.
You never hear him discuss the Avalon U5 DI rackmount or the Palmer PDI-03 rackmounts. Those manufacturers also don’t market through endorsements like Tech 21 does. Think about it
I also believe wholeheartedly that all of his entire band of signals are then fed to to a MIDI interface where the signals are combined into 1 and then converted to digital. He also very likely uses software amplifier simulators on top of the Palmer
I know Ampeg makes that very software. And no, Geddy will never discuss using MIDI for his bass, just like how Neil would never admit that much if his drum sound I believe was MIDI. Not just the Roland Vs
Fuck what song is that
Rush - Tom Sawyer 🔥
you played that better than him! slick as can be
Play the actual part that you feature…
Great explanation of how to get that sound...not
But clip doesn't really explain how... Other than Geddy is bass god!
When u have twin but the second one live in other country..
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