Imagine, as a young 9 year old kid...listening to this record with those huge 70's Panasonic headphones...on LOUD volume. Well, that was me. Is it any surprise that I'm a bass player today and have been for the last 30...???
I was hearing “a team.” A band of musical brothers making great sounds. Looking back now, I’m grateful that I have an older brother who listened to Aerosmith. It’s so different today. It’s more sad than anything else knowing that it’ll never be like that again.
Same! Used to swipe my older sisters vinyl when I was like 6 yrs old and spin them on my fisher price record player, so many awesome grooves found in mid/late 70's & early 80's tunes, I always blame that era for my having been a bass player 30+ yrs as well HahAhAHa 🎫🎸🎙🎸🎵
@@luvbasses5487 Me too I am a bass player, since 86, and I have a brother much older than me who since early 70s listened to Hard Rock/Prog and later Heavy Metal too, and he has put me on the Right Path! 😄 I do not envy kids today with the music of this ugly times...🙄 With a few exceptions... They do not know what they are missing! Greetings from Italy!
The genius of this line is the verses where instead of doubling that badass AC/DC flavoured riff, Tom stays true to the kick drum pattern. Makes it extra greasy.
I remember hearing this song for first time when Aerosmith made a video for this in 90s. I knew it was an older song from the 70s, but to me as a budding bassist myself in my teen years, I thought the bass was futuristic. Timeless, one of the all time great bass lines. The whole song from top to bottom (get it?) has killer bass licks. That's why rock is the greatest. Nothing gets old, only the players
As a musician myself if your going to teach it or play it, without the backing track, true musicianship when you can play without the track you can actually hear the notes Tom is playing.
Wow, who knew?! Now I know why when I play it, it doesn’t quite have the tone/sound as the original despite my best efforts. The bass marimba is the missing element! Thanks man.
Had this on 8track back in the late 70s, and this is the first time I’ve ever heard the actual bass track without all the other stuff to mask it…Man, we all played it wrong for so many years…
The only people I see using their thumb on this song are guitar players . It's funny but maybe learn proper bass technique and stop teaching bad habits to new players . Would I go to Jimmy Page for a bass lesson or John Paul Jones ? Use your thumb as an anchor you are not playing a banjo nor are you slapping . Tom Hamilton anchors his thumb. I once learned bass from a guitar player , big mistake .
Sweet emotion Sweet emotion You talk about things that nobody cares Wearing out things that nobody wears You're calling my name but I gotta make clear I can't say, baby, where I'll be in a year Some sweat hog mama with a face like a gent Said my get up and go, must've got up and went Well I got good news, she's a real good liar 'Cause the backstage boogie sets your pants on fire Sweet emotion Sweet emotion I pulled into town in a police car Your daddy said I took it just a little too far You're telling her things but your girlfriend lied You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died Yes it did Stand in the front just a shakin' your ass I'll take you backstage, you can drink from my glass I'll talk about something you can sure understand 'Cause a month on the road and I'll be eating from your hand
Luke117Xx From an interview with Rick Suchow: Tom: I love Fender Jazz basses. I did all our big albums in the 70′s with an old, early 60′s stacked-pot Jazz bass, which I have right here in my office. Rick: Would that be the one you used on “Sweet Emotion” by any chance? Tom: Yep, I wrote that riff on this bass. I’ve always liked the Jazz Bass vibe, I love the really narrow neck and that particular sound. Furthermore, Tom Hamilton can be seen playing a stacked knob Jazz Bass (presumably the one he mentions in the interview) in both Sweet Emotion music videos (from 1975 and 1991 respectively). www.ricksuchow.com/press-group-327.html/
Imagine, as a young 9 year old kid...listening to this record with those huge 70's Panasonic headphones...on LOUD volume. Well, that was me. Is it any surprise that I'm a bass player today and have been for the last 30...???
That had to be an amazing experience
I was hearing “a team.” A band of musical brothers making great sounds. Looking back now, I’m grateful that I have an older brother who listened to Aerosmith. It’s so different today. It’s more sad than anything else knowing that it’ll never be like that again.
Tom Hamilton is so overlooked it hurts.
Same! Used to swipe my older sisters vinyl when I was like 6 yrs old and spin them on my fisher price record player, so many awesome grooves found in mid/late 70's & early 80's tunes, I always blame that era for my having been a bass player 30+ yrs as well HahAhAHa 🎫🎸🎙🎸🎵
@@luvbasses5487 Me too I am a bass player, since 86, and I have a brother much older than me who since early 70s listened to Hard Rock/Prog and later Heavy Metal too, and he has put me on the Right Path! 😄
I do not envy kids today with the music of this ugly times...🙄
With a few exceptions...
They do not know what they are missing!
Greetings from Italy!
The genius of this line is the verses where instead of doubling that badass AC/DC flavoured riff, Tom stays true to the kick drum pattern. Makes it extra greasy.
Yes absolutely, and the double genius is when he doubles the AC/DC Style Riff in the Last Verse, to give it more drive
@@ThreeMiningHD quite right, like you wait for it the entire song, it just raises everything a notch when that line comes in the last verse
ahhh, except for the last verse. then he plays the guitar part
I remember hearing this song for first time when Aerosmith made a video for this in 90s. I knew it was an older song from the 70s, but to me as a budding bassist myself in my teen years, I thought the bass was futuristic. Timeless, one of the all time great bass lines. The whole song from top to bottom (get it?) has killer bass licks. That's why rock is the greatest. Nothing gets old, only the players
If you listen SUPER closely to this, you can hear the rest of the song.
This song is deceptively hard.
Yes it is.
I can play it pretty easy on bass, the only real hard part is the slidey E-string during the main parts of the song
And no one plays it right even people I admire in the region
killer tone...as usual bass players get screwed in this ranking...bass line here KILLS
Tom Hamilton has written some of Aerosmith's best stuff.
@@JLBurg I I did not know that! Wow talk about best kept secret.. the role of a bass player🤫
STRONG, in great shape hands made that delightful composition possible. Such an epochal bass line.
I don't know much about bass, but the sound/tone is incredible
Haha sounds like you know more about bass than you thought :)
Epic AF. I'm not even a bass player and I could listen to this all day.
Between this and the intro to Ozzy's No More Tears are the two best Bass intros ever🤘🏻
For Whom the Bell Tolls. Metallica. Cliff Burton is off the charts .
Always loved how the intro and outro utilize the same riff
thanks for this . It is better than 40 guys on yt trying to lay it.
Because this is the original
lmao
As a musician myself if your going to teach it or play it, without the backing track, true musicianship when you can play without the track you can actually hear the notes Tom is playing.
@@clucknorriz6683 thats just being able to have selective hearing
FUN FACT: The bass line was doubled by a Bass Marimba which gives it a bit of a "resonance" ua-cam.com/video/fpb3KpWVWKw/v-deo.html
I KNEW(!!!) that I was hearing something else in there! Damn dude thanks! I thought my technique was wrong.
Wow, who knew?! Now I know why when I play it, it doesn’t quite have the tone/sound as the original despite my best efforts. The bass marimba is the missing element! Thanks man.
Had this on 8track back in the late 70s, and this is the first time I’ve ever heard the actual bass track without all the other stuff to mask it…Man, we all played it wrong for so many years…
Learning this on the bass it's literally using my bass game so much it's surprisingly complicated this bass player is cool 😮
Mierda, lo estaba tocando mal !!! jajajaja Gracias donhill3rt !
Amazing Fender Jazz bass tone!
He played this with a thunderbird
@Owen 4602
You are right but... He actually recorded the track with a fender jazz bass . He talks about it in an interview
@@Owen-ne6pe From what I remember he said this was played on his early 60's stack knob Fender Jazz Bass with flatwounds.
@@Snandra66FLAAAAAAAAAATS?? WOOOAAH!! Sound's so crispy!!!
My best shot at this bass tab & video lesson: jeffrey-thomas.com/videos/bass/aerosmith/sweet-emotion/
Thanks for getting the 4th verse, most think "the rest is the same".
The only people I see using their thumb on this song are guitar players . It's funny but maybe learn proper bass technique and stop teaching bad habits to new players . Would I go to Jimmy Page for a bass lesson or John Paul Jones ? Use your thumb as an anchor you are not playing a banjo nor are you slapping . Tom Hamilton anchors his thumb. I once learned bass from a guitar player , big mistake .
Excellent!
Damn awesome!!!
Tom changed that riff over the years.
Anyone else still waiting for drums to come in lol
THANKS!!
Sweet emotion
Sweet emotion
You talk about things that nobody cares
Wearing out things that nobody wears
You're calling my name but I gotta make clear
I can't say, baby, where I'll be in a year
Some sweat hog mama with a face like a gent
Said my get up and go, must've got up and went
Well I got good news, she's a real good liar
'Cause the backstage boogie sets your pants on fire
Sweet emotion
Sweet emotion
I pulled into town in a police car
Your daddy said I took it just a little too far
You're telling her things but your girlfriend lied
You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died
Yes it did
Stand in the front just a shakin' your ass
I'll take you backstage, you can drink from my glass
I'll talk about something you can sure understand
'Cause a month on the road and I'll be eating from your hand
easy enough , much thanks
Hi. What Chorus pedal Tom is using ? Thanks
Hi what is the brand of strings that Tom is using ? Thanks
Fender Jazz Bass
Pretty sure it's a Telecaster bass. I played a '68 tele bass recently and it was really close to this.
Luke117Xx From an interview with Rick Suchow:
Tom: I love Fender Jazz basses. I did all our big albums in the 70′s with an old, early 60′s stacked-pot Jazz bass, which I have right here in my office.
Rick: Would that be the one you used on “Sweet Emotion” by any chance?
Tom: Yep, I wrote that riff on this bass. I’ve always liked the Jazz Bass vibe, I love the really narrow neck and that particular sound.
Furthermore, Tom Hamilton can be seen playing a stacked knob Jazz Bass (presumably the one he mentions in the interview) in both Sweet Emotion music videos (from 1975 and 1991 respectively).
www.ricksuchow.com/press-group-327.html/
@@ErrorsAndComputers That's cool dude, thanks for finding an article!
@@ErrorsAndComputers Yup. But the Tele bass is somewhere between the P and J. He does use more Tele-style basses these days, but they're P/Js.
Luke117Xx The Tele-style basses Tom plays now are G&L ASAT basses.
Gibson thunderbird gang
How many beats per minute?
0:57
How do you get these isolated tracks?
guitar hero
Rick Beato Track Isolator
@@youtert LMFAO, Beato is SUCH a know it all wanna be.....
@@youtert it is included in the Beato Club subscription. everyone knows that.
@@DavidRFIT what's with the Beato hate? I've found most of his videos helpful and informative
Sup❤
Home Depot commercial anyone?
Why would you ruin this for me @cmh aviation
@@clayton29 Didnt mean to. Didnt realize it till a co-worker pointed it out. Happy Holidays!!