A lot of bass players feel they have to double the melody the guitar or keyboard may be playing…that suck big time….some act like wanna be solo guitar players…terrible practice…
It's not that they alter it. They just fill it out more. Edit: OK it's both, it can alter or it could fill it out more. I was being specific to this example
@@mo-em1keplay an E chord with an open E on the sixth string, then play the same E chord but fret the F on the sixth string. It absolutely alters the chord
Bass is actually the base, the foundation to build on. Harmony is beautiful, that's why I love creating them the most. Both melodies can be beautiful separately, but together they create a very special dance of different quality. ✨ You made a great example of this!
@@DanielMartin-nm2ch The song is "My Favourite Things" from the musical 'The Sound of Music'. This is an acoustic cover of an otherwise predominantly vocal perforamnce.
its really impressive when the bass is melodic enough to be its own song but still compliments and supports the melody. John Paul Jones did a lot of bass work like that in Zeplin
The bass is one of the main reasons for me why the Red Hot Chili Peppers's music is interesting, especially their older stuff. Give the album "Blood sugar sex magik" a listen. Tremendous.
I play bass for my worship team at church. The only time people notice me is when I’m not there. They will say “the music sounded down today… I can’t put my finger on it…” when I come in, I have the power to make people start clapping along with the song. I can make them sway and tap their feet. As a bassist, my power of subliminal mind control is scary. The lead guitar has the flash, the drums have the boom - but the bass has the power!
As a bassist, this is a great video! It’s fascinating that the lowest note carries the most influence on a chord, and playing different notes in the bass gives the same chord a completely different feel.
For some reason a lot of people separate bass and melody when talking about songs. Sure they are separate notes but just like a choir sings 5 notes that form a chord, they are not independent from each other. The bass defines the tonal context of the chord that is formed by the melody on top of the bass note. You can try it out by choosing bass lines that would imply a completely different tonality and see how the song's mood changes.
In this case, you need the bass to give enough context for us to understand the chords. Sometimes, the bass is even kind of a part of the melody. When I make music, sometimes I can replace a note of the main melody with a note that's one or two octaves below, and it still feels complete even though the "lead" part of the melody goes silent sometimes for some lower notes, and it feels broader idk like wider. In this case, bass is not just there playing around the root notes just to fill that lower space with something cool, but it's also giving the context for the chords, and it feels like part of the melody (sometimes more, sometimes less). In this case, removing the bass removes context, structure, not just the bass part, so it's not what you think.
This song in particular really highlights how the bass can add musical context. Most of us are familiar with the song, so even when it's played the first time through without the bass, we take for granted that the first four bars of the melody are repeated note for note, but with completely different musical context. If we were listening to this brand new, without knowing this song at all, we'd be missing out on the fact that the repeated melody is not intended to be interpreted of a carbon copy. Unless we have that bassline. Another fun thing happening here is that because we're familiar with the song, we know that this song is in a minor key. We don't have to know what that means to "get" it. Music theory is all about explaining what we "get". The getting is always first, and then people develop vocabulary and taxonomy to sciencize it. And in this composition, neither the melody nor the bassline in the first four measures gives us "hints" as to major or minor, because the relative notes used are present in both. You could play an A major cord at the beginning and hold it for four bars, and it would still make sense musically. But since we're familiar with the song already, it sounds wrong.
That's so beautiful!💖 This is why I like bass, it adds depth to music and without it, it just sounds.... flat? But yeah it totally adds more feelings into the song❤🎵
It isn’t a “chord” in any definition until it has been defined by the bass note, whether it’s the root, an inversion, or a “slash” chord over something. The bass note defines the nature of the harmonic structure
This is a great way to show someone who is learning guitar the phrasing of chords. I like how you demonstrated the chord structure! Well, I mean you can hear it, lol!
Tuners and pedals and capos and picksets Synchronized solos played perfect, no regrets Stickered up bodies and new, flat-wound strings Bass guitar's one of my favorite things When the string twangs When E detunes When my tone's just sad I simply remember my favorite riff And then I don't feel so bad
Im just starting the earliest point t you can while learning the guitar in learning to play two and three note chords on Rocksmith and legit it’s the best feeling playing a chord and just feeling the insane twang a guitar can give with the low e.
My band director always described bass as the bowl, and the tenors and altos as the soup, and the high woodwinds as seasoning and whatever else you’d like in the soup lol. Without bass you’d just have messy soup, without soup you’d just have a bowl. But together you make something great
It's awesome! It's so interesting how the regular listener went from not caring about bass to still not caring but pretending they do (but at least acknowledging its obvious importance) using some very creative and magical explanations. You can show a regular listener a song with a cool bassline and they won't remember a thing about what the bass is doing, yet they know it is important. This is up for some philosophical debate lol. Thanks for sharing!
I’m new to guitar, and just that looks so simple but it’s quite hard… both remembering the notes and not hitting the wrong one, plus being fast with the other hand to press down on the right place on the right string, this alone would take lots of practice.
Though you didn’t say it outright, isolating the melody and the bass as you did is also a great way to learn how to play a fingerstyle song, as the most difficult part, at least to me, is smoothly combining the bass thumb and melodic fingers.
Really nice. What took me by surprise is that at some points, it kinda sounds like Undertale. Don't know if it's a coincidence or not, as Toby Fox likes jazz.
Worked it out sans bass, and also sans treble!! Possibly because as a muso I was once known as , according to my music teacher as having made a fabulous Friedrich.....
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It gives the lighter notes something to sit on. ❤
I'll give you something to sit on ;)
(gives you regular plastic chair)
@@Gooey27 :\
A lot of bass players feel they have to double the melody the guitar or keyboard may be playing…that suck big time….some act like wanna be solo guitar players…terrible practice…
@@Gooey27 I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
@@Samuel-yv1ig Damn, I better sit this one out.
Bass is one of my … favourite things
I recognized the melody, but could not place the song. It wasn’t until both were played together before I realized it.
One of my ... 7 rings too
Hahaha you’re awesome, great joke 👏🏻
Hah! 😆
@@Josh-yr7gdsame
The bass notes can completely alter the chord you’re playing
It's not that they alter it. They just fill it out more.
Edit: OK it's both, it can alter or it could fill it out more.
I was being specific to this example
@@mo-em1ke i mean they could also alter it no? like E and G, over a B, is an E minor chord but if they're over a C then it's C major
@@retrqceExactly. The chords are literally built on the bass note.
@@mo-em1keplay an E chord with an open E on the sixth string, then play the same E chord but fret the F on the sixth string. It absolutely alters the chord
@@mo-em1keYou play a D on 6 string, and I play a G on my bass, it's a G! Play an E and I play an A, it's an A. 😁
kind of like piano with one hand vs two hands
True
Actually, it's *exactly* like that
Zelensky took that to a whole new level.
It’s literally the exact same thing.
major & minor being friends lol
In this song, the light notes alone are like words without emotion. The bass gives them emotional context
This is a really good description
It’s generally like that. As soon as bass is added, chords form and chords are what creates emotion and determine what the notes “feel like”
Bass makes the song fuller and adds more life, depth and feel to it. I just love the sound and feel of bass.
it sounds better without it. even made it worse cuz the solo makes it stand out more
Light means nothing without darkness to compare it to
Awesome
This song is one one of my favourite things.
What’s the name of the song?
lol
@@timschoneberger6634kinda sound like 7 rings
@@timschoneberger6634 ‘My favorite things’
@@timschoneberger6634Who’s on first
Bass is actually the base, the foundation to build on. Harmony is beautiful, that's why I love creating them the most. Both melodies can be beautiful separately, but together they create a very special dance of different quality. ✨ You made a great example of this!
Hey you know the name of the song?
@@DanielMartin-nm2ch Sorry, I don't know 🤔
@@DanielMartin-nm2ch The song is "My Favourite Things" from the musical 'The Sound of Music'. This is an acoustic cover of an otherwise predominantly vocal perforamnce.
@@DanielMartin-nm2ch it's in the description dude
i was like "this song sounds familiar" before i realised it was favourite things 😭
This more effectively shows the role of harmony rather than just bass
thank you
its really impressive when the bass is melodic enough to be its own song but still compliments and supports the melody. John Paul Jones did a lot of bass work like that in Zeplin
This is definitely not one of those bass lines
@@neoneherefrom5836 no for sure not. This is really just chugging root notes but that’s also important
The bass is one of the main reasons for me why the Red Hot Chili Peppers's music is interesting, especially their older stuff. Give the album "Blood sugar sex magik" a listen. Tremendous.
Yeah same with Paul McCartney too.
My first experience with that kinda of bass (more like the realisation) was with another bites the dust bass line
1:03 runny nose sniff really adds to the vibe
It’s like every guitar recording in my phone lol
ew
Bass adds another dimension to a piece, the minors and majors to feel more prominent as per the emotional shifts in the song.
I play bass for my worship team at church. The only time people notice me is when I’m not there. They will say “the music sounded down today… I can’t put my finger on it…” when I come in, I have the power to make people start clapping along with the song. I can make them sway and tap their feet. As a bassist, my power of subliminal mind control is scary. The lead guitar has the flash, the drums have the boom - but the bass has the power!
I’m gonna join the church band for bass when I’m a bit better
Good luck man @@GraingsGuitar
@@GraingsGuitaryou're gonna have a great time
@@GraingsGuitar God bless! How's it going, brother?
Lmao this guy goes to church
Whenever I hear a melody it always makes me think "that's just begging for a bassline"
it's like a dance between the melody and bass
Blackbird by beatles is also a great example of this! Nice work
Every house needs a foundation, and every song needs one too.
I realized what this song is at the end of the video.
i knew what it was after hearing 6 notes
i bet you realized it's 7 rings
what it is?
@@נועםדוד-י8ד Bro what is that?
@@zarahnator7764favourite things
This song reminds me of JR ads. Specifically the ones the そうだ京都、行こう one
It’s “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music!
Bass and Drums are often overlooked, but without them the song feels empty
the best bass-lines are the ones that go unnoticed cause they are carrying the whole track
No. Listen to red hot chilli peppers. Bass doesnt have to and shouldnt be a slave to other instruments
i’ve always said that bass is my favorite part of any song❤️❤️
I've always been curious precisely about what bass does to a song! And, great example.
sounds beautiful
exactly what I wanted to write
It provides context. Bass and/or chords that accompany the melody can give it a completely different feel.
As a bassist, this is a great video! It’s fascinating that the lowest note carries the most influence on a chord, and playing different notes in the bass gives the same chord a completely different feel.
What a beautiful cover of my favorite things!
Okay wow, that was the best way I've ever seen to explain "why bass". Well done.
i love this version, it sounds very baroque! nice job :)
Beautifully demonstrated!
Can't imagine a life without basss
Great work! Remindes me of tho ost for the game Sword & Sworceryby Jim Guthrie :)
Oh, the ost is amazing
brown paper packages tied up with stringsss these are a few of my favorite thingss!!!
I hate i didn't realize it was "My favorite things" until you put it all together, lol
Bass is the proper lighting to a scene
For some reason a lot of people separate bass and melody when talking about songs. Sure they are separate notes but just like a choir sings 5 notes that form a chord, they are not independent from each other. The bass defines the tonal context of the chord that is formed by the melody on top of the bass note. You can try it out by choosing bass lines that would imply a completely different tonality and see how the song's mood changes.
This is such a beautiful song.
In this case, you need the bass to give enough context for us to understand the chords. Sometimes, the bass is even kind of a part of the melody. When I make music, sometimes I can replace a note of the main melody with a note that's one or two octaves below, and it still feels complete even though the "lead" part of the melody goes silent sometimes for some lower notes, and it feels broader idk like wider. In this case, bass is not just there playing around the root notes just to fill that lower space with something cool, but it's also giving the context for the chords, and it feels like part of the melody (sometimes more, sometimes less). In this case, removing the bass removes context, structure, not just the bass part, so it's not what you think.
It’s like adding black to an image with color. Really makes the colors pop more having something to contrast off of
I didn’t even recognize the song until I heard both parts together.
It’s a dance… dance of tones.. they support eachother.
Bass is one of my favourite thing
This song in particular really highlights how the bass can add musical context. Most of us are familiar with the song, so even when it's played the first time through without the bass, we take for granted that the first four bars of the melody are repeated note for note, but with completely different musical context.
If we were listening to this brand new, without knowing this song at all, we'd be missing out on the fact that the repeated melody is not intended to be interpreted of a carbon copy. Unless we have that bassline.
Another fun thing happening here is that because we're familiar with the song, we know that this song is in a minor key. We don't have to know what that means to "get" it. Music theory is all about explaining what we "get". The getting is always first, and then people develop vocabulary and taxonomy to sciencize it. And in this composition, neither the melody nor the bassline in the first four measures gives us "hints" as to major or minor, because the relative notes used are present in both. You could play an A major cord at the beginning and hold it for four bars, and it would still make sense musically. But since we're familiar with the song already, it sounds wrong.
this sounds way better than when my whole grade sang it in elementary
Nice depth, makes it richer.😊
I guess you can say that was very....GRANDE of you. *I'll see myself out*
0:17 please resolve than last note or i wont be able to sleep
True sorry
😭I grabbed my guitar and resolved it just so I can sleep
The very next note played at the beginning of the bass section is what it would resolve to, an octave lower
@@plain_simple_garak holy shit you're right! thank you!
glad this popped up on my recommended fr
At first i didnt recognize the song but the bass helped me remember it
That's so beautiful!💖 This is why I like bass, it adds depth to music and without it, it just sounds.... flat? But yeah it totally adds more feelings into the song❤🎵
It isn’t a “chord” in any definition until it has been defined by the bass note, whether it’s the root, an inversion, or a “slash” chord over something. The bass note defines the nature of the harmonic structure
Basically just left hand and right hand in piano
This is a great way to show someone who is learning guitar the phrasing of chords. I like how you demonstrated the chord structure! Well, I mean you can hear it, lol!
It went from dur to mol and now I love it even more! Would you consider making a whole mol cover of this song?
Bird knows his scales. Holy ship!!!😮😮😮
I didnt recognise the song until you played both parts together
how did you not? 😭 literally playing the melody on the high strings
@@rosiesimppit sounds like remember me melody only
Tuners and pedals and capos and picksets
Synchronized solos played perfect, no regrets
Stickered up bodies and new, flat-wound strings
Bass guitar's one of my favorite things
When the string twangs
When E detunes
When my tone's just sad
I simply remember my favorite riff
And then I don't feel so bad
This has inspired some enlightening comments. Always good to know what other people think and feel.
Piano player here, it completely alters the chord you are playing in high end - it changes the chord overall, but it's still separate.
Im just starting the earliest point t you can while learning the guitar in learning to play two and three note chords on Rocksmith and legit it’s the best feeling playing a chord and just feeling the insane twang a guitar can give with the low e.
Learn 20th century boy
My band director always described bass as the bowl, and the tenors and altos as the soup, and the high woodwinds as seasoning and whatever else you’d like in the soup lol. Without bass you’d just have messy soup, without soup you’d just have a bowl. But together you make something great
It's awesome! It's so interesting how the regular listener went from not caring about bass to still not caring but pretending they do (but at least acknowledging its obvious importance) using some very creative and magical explanations. You can show a regular listener a song with a cool bassline and they won't remember a thing about what the bass is doing, yet they know it is important. This is up for some philosophical debate lol. Thanks for sharing!
I’m new to guitar, and just that looks so simple but it’s quite hard… both remembering the notes and not hitting the wrong one, plus being fast with the other hand to press down on the right place on the right string, this alone would take lots of practice.
Though you didn’t say it outright, isolating the melody and the bass as you did is also a great way to learn how to play a fingerstyle song, as the most difficult part, at least to me, is smoothly combining the bass thumb and melodic fingers.
The sound of music😊
Wow, It's as if the bass section fills out the bass section of the arrangement!
Makes the melody sound deeper, idk how to explain it
Maybe you mean depth? I think I get what you mean tho lol
You don't hear the bass until you don't hear the bass.
This is how it feels to listen to American Football LP1 after American Footbal EP
Reminds me of Skyrim music genuinely
Thannanam thannanam thalathil aadi...🎶
God this is so fire. Did you write this??
Is that ironic?
Wonderful song choice and playing!
I couldn’t even tell it was that song until the bass was added
How dare I took a minute to figure this song, this is my favourite thing! 🙈
no bass is like playing the piano without a left hand.
I want it, I got it, I want it, I got it, he likes my hair, gee thanks, just love it, I see it, I want it, I want it, I got it.
Nicely done sir! Going to learn myself to help my skill in this area.
Gen alpha discovers how music works
Lmao
essentially contrast makes them more stand out?
i should make a parody of this video with an obscenely loud 808
Example unclear; I am now playing a C -1 tuned bass (minus)
Nice song choice
Makes me wonder what Tuna does to a song
Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen can tell you a little about that
Could you share the tabs, this sounds great and i want to learn it
Yes I'd love to but I'll need to work out how to turn photos of music into pdfs
@@Guitor972 You can put a photograph into a Microsoft word document and then export it as a PDF from the File tab.
@@Guitor972scanning apps on your phone work well
Work it out yourself, so lazy ...
@bawseeeee602
Why are you offended, the creator is happy to share
my favorite bass
plot twist: one note was melody and bass
John Coltrane would be proud.
nice video GUITORguy
cheers
Nicely done and well demonstrated🤘
Excellent work 👏
I didn’t recognize the song until the bass was plyed
Great. I liked it!
Really nice.
What took me by surprise is that at some points, it kinda sounds like Undertale. Don't know if it's a coincidence or not, as Toby Fox likes jazz.
A whole new layer
friend, what transcription of this song are you playing from?
The technical term is harmony.
Worked it out sans bass, and also sans treble!! Possibly because as a muso I was once known as , according to my music teacher as having made a fabulous Friedrich.....