Thank you so much for this video, I just picked up my first bass, it’s day 3 for me and my wrist HURTS. Which I know is par for the course, but I have to say it was discouraging. I’m still going to practice the one finger per fret method for good measure and finger strength, but I’m glad to hear that it’s not the only way, since I was feeling much more comfortable with moving around the fret board more. All the tips were super valuable for me, thanks again!
I thought this video would be too beginner oriented for me but, as someone who's not great at keeping the tempo without a drummer, the tip on how to use the metronome effectively is so simple and sounds super useful.
Been "playing" and learning for two years. Realized I'm just having fun and not really laying down the foundation. Thanks for the video. Reminds me of paying the price prior to playing. Cheers.
Really great video Luke! Even as an experienced player, it's always good to be reminded of the things that can get in the way of your playing and how to fix them. I love the advice at around 9:30 when you talk about using theory as a map. I think some of my most creative bass lines were in my younger days when I "didn't know the rules". Once I learned some theory, I became conscious of "the rules" and making sure every note "fits". That's not always the case for a good bass line. And I love that quote how music theory is to explain music, not create it. I also love the advice of playing with others and also not comparing yourself to others, which is so common in today's social media age. All in all, some really great advice. And lessons to be learned at all levels. Thanks for sharing this Luke.
I think a LOT of players go through a similar thing with the theory @thomasfioriglio - know I did. I'm glad I got past it though. I see some musicians who actively avoid learning anything theory-related because they worry that it would affect their creativity precisely *because* they see music theory as a set of rules, which is a shame.
play without a metronome. fiddle around and dont let tempo discourage you from finding some weird new reach or chord pattern that sounds really cool! awesome video
I'm a fresh new bassist and just've stumble on this video that already helped me much so thank you! the 7th mistake made my heart glow a bit. when I was practising alone, I thought about the 4-fret thing all the time and almost called it quits cause I have very small fingers, especially the pinky one, and watching other bass videos and tutorials here on youtube I've always blame myself for not doing it. that was until I started getting proper lessons, my teacher explained that it's very okay to use the ring and pinky fingers at the larger frets all together. I think it kinda gave me the hope and fun I've always loved about the instrument since my teen years.
Thank you so much for mistake #3. Realizing that you are learning so much when things are challenging really helps to eliminate frustration. You begin to look at difficulty as a positive thing, and not a motivation killer.
I've watched a lot of these videos and lately gone through a long dry spell, but this is one of the best I've seen. The only thing missing was stretching. Thanks.
Thank you, thank you thank you for Mistake #7! I'm self-taught with a lot of bad habits, and recently trying to rid myself of them. One was the fretting with all fingers; but my tiny hand HATES doing this. It's so nice to hear that it's not a requirement to have to try to stretch & contort all my fingers when it's much more comfortable to just move my hand around the fretboard.
I'm a beginner bassist, and i had about 4 hour lessons, which was really helpful. Gave me written structures for minors and video to watch how to move all the fingers for it, was able to video string co-ordination exercises by playing the minors up and down the fret board with the same fingers. Got so much from them four lessons that i don't need to go back for month, so now i do structured 10-15mins following by free play watching other bassists play like Denis Pauna and copying what he's doing and discovering the instrument with my abilities. Doing the above each day really helps progress without it being too much and tiring with everything else that happens in daily life 👌
"Errors" make the perfection! Process is more important than the results itself! Really thank you for everything! Everything happens and exist for Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance!
as a beginner bassist i really appreciate your advice presentation (?) (sorry if it's a wrong word english is not my first language haha) because when you sometimes stumble on this kind of videos they're pretty jugdy and very self-esteem-lowing; and maybe this approach works for someone but definitely not for me; so thank you for this video, it was really helpful, already wanna check more of your content!
Thanks for the INPUT here Luke. I got me a Squier Jazz Bass by Fender four years ago and am still at "what spider exercises, warmups and scales to practice?" This video puts it all in place and is a wake-up call to re-approach my learning process. Yes, I've done all those mistakes and dropped it so many times. You've given me a new breath here.. Thank you for a great Beginners guide to mastering my bass playing, now I can focus on what to avoid whilst going for take 25.
This was good content, thanks. 've just started learning to play the bass. Very old guys with small hands here. What frustrates me is watching how effortlessly people's hands move up and down the frets. Getting the pinky on the right fret let alone with enough pressure to get a proper tone is a challenge. I am hopeful that with more consistent practice this will get better with time. But I'm looking for exercises that will aid in this progression. Attempting to play bass riffs at this point is frustrating.
I love your reality view on playing possibly the most important band uniting instrument ever - the bass. The glue that sticks lead guitaring and drums togerther. Been there and have played in various bands, but this is ultra important. Makes me wanna be a better bassist and musician. Also self taught and enjoy the instrument greatly (5 string), as well as strumming 6 strings, tickling the ivories and blowing some air into a clarinet or blues harp / mouth organ as we call it... thank you for your time and inspiration. Very much appreciated - as always.
Brilliant - all these mistakes are in my mind universal to any string instrument and convey very good advice. Very similar mistakes are made on the cello and guitar
Thanks for your common sense approach. I have only been learning to play the bass for a couple of months , but have given up on the one finger per fret exercises. I got fed up of the pain in my wrist and fingers as i tried to contort my left hand into a position it clearly did not want to be in. Now i micro shift , and keep my wrist nice and straight , hey presto no more pain ! I still try to one finger per fret on the D and G strings , but i am giving up on the E and A strings , i dont think that it is worth the pain and long term health risks.
17:55 for me it’s about playing awesome stuff with my friends and also to get the music I make in my hand, out into the real world so that others can hear it too.
I made nearly ALL these mistakes but with my Classical Singing journey, and most of it was resisting to my instructor's orientation. #11 in particular crushed me hard!
the whole "play with other musicians" thing where you said 1 hour with other people is equivalent to 10 hours practice alone... dead on. honestly. I had been playing bass for a year before i joined a band, played in the band for a year and grew exponentially during that time. now im circling back to solo stuff and trying to learn a lot of my favorite songs i heard that i previously thought were too difficult
Since I have slowed down and I don't jump around like a pogoing idjit anymore. I have realised one embarrassing thing... I don't know how to stand normally 😆 My back is a mess because I'm so awkward with it.
LOVE this course! Fills in a few missing pieces from my pre-historic playing days and Imimprovong at a nice pace. HOWEVER, I can play better overall with my plucking thumb than with my index and middle finger but my muting on E is "unreliable". Any ideas?
Being the _least_ experienced person in the band was always where I learned the most @xiaokang8692. The more experienced people helped me sound better and also let me see where I needed to up my own game.
@@BecomeABassistas perfect amateur I had a band over 30 years ago, paying hard indie rock (fast distorted noise). Today I play with good musicians, some of them music teachers, even if the music is not my favorite. Experience and development ;-)
Sort of @Creamy6oodness - A key can be built from a scale, but not every scale will form a key. A key usually just refers to the 'home base' that a song feels most at rest, and it's often the same as the 'main' scale of the song, but not always.
Some really good information here. Thanks. However, I really would have liked to see more about "bad angles" than just "don't do it". A couple of minutes on instrument position, posture, and even using the right kind of chair/stool could have really added some more value.
Any recommendations on headphones that plug into amp? Or even a different route? I have a fender rumble 15 amp and my bass plugged straight into it. So nothing fancy 😢. But i love playing, i wanna be able to play over tracks i love, and i wanna be able to record and play back, but Google ain't giving me any answers
Could someone tell me the name of the bassplayer/band/tune on 0.39-0.42 seconds of this video? That is the example of " solid, in-the-pocket groove" Luke is talking about ( and it certainly is!)
Learning to play with a light touch, that way you can dig in when necessary. Seen a lot of players hammer the bass, it doesn’t sound very good. John Entwhistle played with a low action and a light touch.
I'd say the one-finger-per-frett rule is generally more suited to short scale basses. I'm starting to think that's why I now exclusively play short scales. I remember that rule being kind of drummed into me so when I used to play long scale basses, I was put off them by the sheer amount of pain it caused in my fretting wrist. I'm still apprehensive to switch back despite actually wanting to own a Thunderbird (and I know how much of a stretch they are).
Hi I'm a bassist whose been playing for about 2 years at this point, recently been discovering pain in my right wrist (related to extreme wrist angles) and have had to take a break from playing for a little while now. I was just sort of wondering if you would have any tips relating to that sort of stuff. I have already talked with multiple doctors relating to the issue and most of the saying it's probably tendinitis or carpal tunnel. Since you've had first hand experience in the issue, I would really like some advice because I'm starting at a music school at the end of the week and I'm still sort of at a point where I cannot play a lot at a time. Been a while since I played, played with my band yesterday as theres a gig I can't miss. Thankfully our setlist is short, only containing 5 songs, but its still hard to play like this. Reason I'm not seeking out a teacher about this is because it's a sparsity in the area where I live in as I live in a small rural town in Norway, and travel times would be large for that sort of things. Maybe you could tell your story?
I suffered from number 5. The exact same way as you. I actually had to walk away from the instrument several times for months at a time. Eventually i discovered myself what the issue was.
Esp.when playing with others: learn the name of the notes and earn how to transpose. It often happens that the band decides to do the song a full or more tone lower ot higher. When everyone (except for the drummer) says, yeah let's do this one in D instead of C, don't let the rest wait for half an hour before you have figured out how that's done.
Playing while standing can be trickier, in the ergonomics department. When one shoulder is bearing the weight of the instrument for long periods, it can get painful, until the muscles just give up. Any advice for that? I've gained the endurance over time, but other than expensive, multi-point harnesses, I haven't found a solution. The only tip I can give for wrist ergonomics while standing, is adjust your strap so the bass hangs roughly where it does when you're sitting. Don't try to copy metal bands, with their knee-high strap lengths, unless that's the only music you want to play, and for some reason it's making you famous.
Extreme angles are never good. But playing with your wrist lower on you left hand *helps* with the spreading of your fingers. To little angle will make it hard to reach the notes. What is *important* here however is the position of the base on your body. If you trying to look "cool" by having the base very low, it becomes nearly impossible to play with a lowered wrist. I carry you based higher up however, it becomes easy to play with that lowered wrist, while still preventing the extreme angles.
I really can't get how a bassist would ever prefer playing alone by himself than together with other people. I would get it with the guitar or the piano, but the bass? I mean, I love playing bass, but 'm not particularly into solos or slap and I think that playing alone, apart from practicing something specific, takes away the fun of "taking the band where you want", leading the rhythm and steering the emphasis of the arrangement with your dynamics, and that's what I love about the bass
That’s cool, but not everyone wants to play like that. I sure don’t. Playing root notes or simple rhythm parts gets old real quick and I would much rather practice soloing than I would practice the same exact thing over and over.
Awesome tips, thanks!!!! Also.....was that a Portuguese dictionary or Spanish? Lol, I have ADHD brain, I focused on the video like a champ until the dictionary clip 😂
Man I was staring at that thumbnail trying to figure out what kind of fishing rod you were holding and what kind of mistake would kill my progress in Bass fishing.
I have to commend you on most of your advice-except for your rule #4. With 50 years of experience as a professional bass player, I must stress the importance of timing and precision. An exceptional way to develop timing is with a simple metronome, practiced at various tempos, ensuring you always land on the (1) ONE. In a recording situation, if a bassist doesn't land solidly on the ONE, the drummer might start throwing drumsticks your way! Continuously missing the downbeat can even get you fired from the session. Practice your bass patterns at a very slow tempo; it's the hardest but most beneficial. A solid bassist must mix up quarter, half, and sixteenth notes in any pattern they invent, but they must always land on a solid downbeat. Thank you for allowing me to share my two cents on your very useful lesson.
Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I could have been with that point @johnnyangel504. I wasn't suggesting that bassists shouldn't play with good timing or precision - I specifically say the opposite. I also say that playing with a metronome on all 4 beats is totally fine at the start. The point was that you don't want to become _reliant_ on the metronome (or drummer or anyone else in the band) as you get more experience. As a bassist, developing a solid sense of *internal* time is practically essential. That way, if there's some kind of breakdown in a song where it's just the bass - or if a song requires a bass intro that means playing alone - then you're not relying on anyone or anything else to give you to the time or feel. This is exactly the purpose of the famous Victor Wooten exercise where he plays with a drum machine for a while, then it drops out and comes back in. It's up to Victor (or whoever plays the exercise) to keep the time when the drums aren't playing. I hope this clarifies things a little.
But you should start learning theory if you want to make progress. And yes, you do need it to make music with other people. You just don’t need to learn it all at once.
I knew this guy so up himself playing bass cause he was self taught but no one told him how to mute it drove my up the wall when I saw him live he thinks being taught I was a lesser person muting was first thing I learnt
I have been playing bass for 3 ot 4 years and I have never and will never play Seven nation Army! 1st it isn't played on a bass and 2nd if you want to play a clean tone stick with Fleetwood or MJ!
i was self-taught and can relate to almost all of this, great video for beginners
Love the new background. Glad to see the content is back after silence for 6+ months
Thank you so much for this video, I just picked up my first bass, it’s day 3 for me and my wrist HURTS. Which I know is par for the course, but I have to say it was discouraging.
I’m still going to practice the one finger per fret method for good measure and finger strength, but I’m glad to hear that it’s not the only way, since I was feeling much more comfortable with moving around the fret board more.
All the tips were super valuable for me, thanks again!
Awesome to hear @StickyMaros - glad you got something out of it all!
I thought this video would be too beginner oriented for me but, as someone who's not great at keeping the tempo without a drummer, the tip on how to use the metronome effectively is so simple and sounds super useful.
Been "playing" and learning for two years. Realized I'm just having fun and not really laying down the foundation. Thanks for the video. Reminds me of paying the price prior to playing. Cheers.
Thank you. I put the bass down months ago-so frustrated. But this video makes me want to pick it up again.
Did you pick it up?!
Really great video Luke! Even as an experienced player, it's always good to be reminded of the things that can get in the way of your playing and how to fix them. I love the advice at around 9:30 when you talk about using theory as a map. I think some of my most creative bass lines were in my younger days when I "didn't know the rules". Once I learned some theory, I became conscious of "the rules" and making sure every note "fits". That's not always the case for a good bass line. And I love that quote how music theory is to explain music, not create it. I also love the advice of playing with others and also not comparing yourself to others, which is so common in today's social media age.
All in all, some really great advice. And lessons to be learned at all levels. Thanks for sharing this Luke.
I think a LOT of players go through a similar thing with the theory @thomasfioriglio - know I did. I'm glad I got past it though. I see some musicians who actively avoid learning anything theory-related because they worry that it would affect their creativity precisely *because* they see music theory as a set of rules, which is a shame.
play without a metronome. fiddle around and dont let tempo discourage you from finding some weird new reach or chord pattern that sounds really cool! awesome video
Play with a metronome too. Luke was exactly right about how to practice with a metronome.
I'm a fresh new bassist and just've stumble on this video that already helped me much so thank you! the 7th mistake made my heart glow a bit. when I was practising alone, I thought about the 4-fret thing all the time and almost called it quits cause I have very small fingers, especially the pinky one, and watching other bass videos and tutorials here on youtube I've always blame myself for not doing it. that was until I started getting proper lessons, my teacher explained that it's very okay to use the ring and pinky fingers at the larger frets all together. I think it kinda gave me the hope and fun I've always loved about the instrument since my teen years.
also I had a HUGE belly laugh seeing you read a brazilian-portuguese dictionary because I'm brazilian as well hahahahahaha
Thank you so much for mistake #3. Realizing that you are learning so much when things are challenging really helps to eliminate frustration. You begin to look at difficulty as a positive thing, and not a motivation killer.
I've watched a lot of these videos and lately gone through a long dry spell, but this is one of the best I've seen. The only thing missing was stretching. Thanks.
Thank you, thank you thank you for Mistake #7! I'm self-taught with a lot of bad habits, and recently trying to rid myself of them. One was the fretting with all fingers; but my tiny hand HATES doing this. It's so nice to hear that it's not a requirement to have to try to stretch & contort all my fingers when it's much more comfortable to just move my hand around the fretboard.
As a newbie to bass strap properly set up , try play standing up
This is great advice @michaelforde4373 - I have a (very old) video about that exact thing here: ua-cam.com/video/FXUYikKwYgQ/v-deo.html
Great advice for any musician !
I'm a beginner bassist, and i had about 4 hour lessons, which was really helpful. Gave me written structures for minors and video to watch how to move all the fingers for it, was able to video string co-ordination exercises by playing the minors up and down the fret board with the same fingers. Got so much from them four lessons that i don't need to go back for month, so now i do structured 10-15mins following by free play watching other bassists play like Denis Pauna and copying what he's doing and discovering the instrument with my abilities. Doing the above each day really helps progress without it being too much and tiring with everything else that happens in daily life 👌
Lol your editing is so hilarious. Thank you so much for this video. As a new bassist I need these fundamentals.
Excellent video, not only for bassist but pretty useful for guitarrists as well. Good Job Luke. All the best of luck..
"Errors" make the perfection! Process is more important than the results itself!
Really thank you for everything!
Everything happens and exist for Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance!
as a beginner bassist i really appreciate your advice presentation (?) (sorry if it's a wrong word english is not my first language haha) because when you sometimes stumble on this kind of videos they're pretty jugdy and very self-esteem-lowing; and maybe this approach works for someone but definitely not for me; so thank you for this video, it was really helpful, already wanna check more of your content!
Thanks for the INPUT here Luke.
I got me a Squier Jazz Bass by Fender four years ago and am still at "what spider exercises, warmups and scales to practice?"
This video puts it all in place and is a wake-up call to re-approach my learning process.
Yes, I've done all those mistakes and dropped it so many times.
You've given me a new breath here.. Thank you for a great Beginners guide to mastering my bass playing, now I can focus on what to avoid whilst going for take 25.
Bro made a thirst trap for the bass💀
This is a terrific video. Just started yesterday and I’m loving it!!! Thank you so much for the great tips
This was good content, thanks. 've just started learning to play the bass. Very old guys with small hands here. What frustrates me is watching how effortlessly people's hands move up and down the frets. Getting the pinky on the right fret let alone with enough pressure to get a proper tone is a challenge. I am hopeful that with more consistent practice this will get better with time. But I'm looking for exercises that will aid in this progression. Attempting to play bass riffs at this point is frustrating.
I love your reality view on playing possibly the most important band uniting instrument ever - the bass. The glue that sticks lead guitaring and drums togerther. Been there and have played in various bands, but this is ultra important. Makes me wanna be a better bassist and musician. Also self taught and enjoy the instrument greatly (5 string), as well as strumming 6 strings, tickling the ivories and blowing some air into a clarinet or blues harp / mouth organ as we call it... thank you for your time and inspiration. Very much appreciated - as always.
Brilliant - all these mistakes are in my mind universal to any string instrument and convey very good advice. Very similar mistakes are made on the cello and guitar
Thanks for your common sense approach. I have only been learning to play the bass for a couple of months , but have given up on the one finger per fret exercises. I got fed up of the pain in my wrist and fingers as i tried to contort my left hand into a position it clearly did not want to be in. Now i micro shift , and keep my wrist nice and straight , hey presto no more pain ! I still try to one finger per fret on the D and G strings , but i am giving up on the E and A strings , i dont think that it is worth the pain and long term health risks.
Very good advice. I like your approach!
I do a Bill Wyman position when playing the bass standing up. It's actually quite comfortable for me.
17:55 for me it’s about playing awesome stuff with my friends and also to get the music I make in my hand, out into the real world so that others can hear it too.
Great, helpful video! Thanks.
Great advice 👍
4:00 The bassist with the beaver teeth and slack jaw really impressed me. lol
Can you do a tutorial for boogie oggie oggie by taste of honey?
Beautiful Spector!
It better be for $3k
I made nearly ALL these mistakes but with my Classical Singing journey, and most of it was resisting to my instructor's orientation.
#11 in particular crushed me hard!
This video is the best video on you tube I have ever seen. I mean it! All the things this guy has said please take note (no pun intended)
the whole "play with other musicians" thing where you said 1 hour with other people is equivalent to 10 hours practice alone... dead on. honestly. I had been playing bass for a year before i joined a band, played in the band for a year and grew exponentially during that time. now im circling back to solo stuff and trying to learn a lot of my favorite songs i heard that i previously thought were too difficult
Don't forget poor posture can really mess up your back.
@@Zerpersande A ruptured disc is much harder to fix. Stay on topic. They teach that in school as well.
Agree I gotta focus on that more tbh
@@JonathanWhoeverapparently they dont teach comedy lmaooo
Since I have slowed down and I don't jump around like a pogoing idjit anymore. I have realised one embarrassing thing... I don't know how to stand normally 😆
My back is a mess because I'm so awkward with it.
was just sat like a shrimp with my bass - thanks for the reminder :D
Can you give us the names of the songs playing in the background? I really like theM😅
😂😂😂😂 I love your funny spin on things! Awesome.
LOVE this course! Fills in a few missing pieces from my pre-historic playing days and Imimprovong at a nice pace.
HOWEVER, I can play better overall with my plucking thumb than with my index and middle finger but my muting on E is "unreliable". Any ideas?
Whole fun is to play with others. Especially playing with better guys is great to "hide" your weaknesses ;-)
Being the _least_ experienced person in the band was always where I learned the most @xiaokang8692. The more experienced people helped me sound better and also let me see where I needed to up my own game.
@@BecomeABassistas perfect amateur I had a band over 30 years ago, paying hard indie rock (fast distorted noise). Today I play with good musicians, some of them music teachers, even if the music is not my favorite. Experience and development ;-)
10:10 "if you want to stick to the notes inside a key..."
What does this mean? The notes inside a scale?
Sort of @Creamy6oodness - A key can be built from a scale, but not every scale will form a key. A key usually just refers to the 'home base' that a song feels most at rest, and it's often the same as the 'main' scale of the song, but not always.
Some really good information here. Thanks. However, I really would have liked to see more about "bad angles" than just "don't do it". A couple of minutes on instrument position, posture, and even using the right kind of chair/stool could have really added some more value.
great video! Thanks for your tipps.
Very good pieces of advise....txs mate....
"How Long" by Ace (and Paul Carrack). Perfect example of how to be with the bass drum--but more.
Sharp angles and too much pressure can definitely screw up your plucking hand as well. Currently going through a golfers elbow kind of thing.
Any recommendations on headphones that plug into amp? Or even a different route? I have a fender rumble 15 amp and my bass plugged straight into it. So nothing fancy 😢. But i love playing, i wanna be able to play over tracks i love, and i wanna be able to record and play back, but Google ain't giving me any answers
I am jealous of how your left hand barely moves when playing. So damn smooth!
I’m a drummer, and often try to match the groove of my bassists on the kick drum. It makes us tighter, and the kicks more interesting.
Great video. Like how you’ve added more comedy
Thanks @MC-qe5qb - this was a fun one to make.
Could someone tell me the name of the bassplayer/band/tune on 0.39-0.42 seconds of this video? That is the example of " solid, in-the-pocket groove" Luke is talking about ( and it certainly is!)
@veli-pekkahaanmaki1351 - that's the one and only Joe Dart. I've actually got a full video about him here: ua-cam.com/video/0-VH6ZxINJk/v-deo.html
Thanks! Very informative video👍
Learning to play with a light touch, that way you can dig in when necessary. Seen a lot of players hammer the bass, it doesn’t sound very good. John Entwhistle played with a low action and a light touch.
Great addition @kbraker510 - I believe Steve Harris does the exact same thing.
I'd say the one-finger-per-frett rule is generally more suited to short scale basses. I'm starting to think that's why I now exclusively play short scales. I remember that rule being kind of drummed into me so when I used to play long scale basses, I was put off them by the sheer amount of pain it caused in my fretting wrist. I'm still apprehensive to switch back despite actually wanting to own a Thunderbird (and I know how much of a stretch they are).
Look into microshifting. Most professional players do it.
This is a great video
thank u sooooo much for the video
Hi I'm a bassist whose been playing for about 2 years at this point, recently been discovering pain in my right wrist (related to extreme wrist angles) and have had to take a break from playing for a little while now.
I was just sort of wondering if you would have any tips relating to that sort of stuff. I have already talked with multiple doctors relating to the issue and most of the saying it's probably tendinitis or carpal tunnel. Since you've had first hand experience in the issue, I would really like some advice because I'm starting at a music school at the end of the week and I'm still sort of at a point where I cannot play a lot at a time.
Been a while since I played, played with my band yesterday as theres a gig I can't miss. Thankfully our setlist is short, only containing 5 songs, but its still hard to play like this.
Reason I'm not seeking out a teacher about this is because it's a sparsity in the area where I live in as I live in a small rural town in Norway, and travel times would be large for that sort of things. Maybe you could tell your story?
I suffered from number 5. The exact same way as you. I actually had to walk away from the instrument several times for months at a time. Eventually i discovered myself what the issue was.
Great video brother
Glad you liked it @estebancarriozo9061!
Sexy muting bit was great 😂
The lick feature 🔥
Gotta have it!
Esp.when playing with others: learn the name of the notes and earn how to transpose. It often happens that the band decides to do the song a full or more tone lower ot higher. When everyone (except for the drummer) says, yeah let's do this one in D instead of C, don't let the rest wait for half an hour before you have figured out how that's done.
what song is playing at 0:57?
stand by me
I heard The Lick at around the 4:30 mark … and like a true master, you followed it up with A Look lol
Cheers!
Спасибо, очень полезное видео
Thank you .
Playing while standing can be trickier, in the ergonomics department. When one shoulder is bearing the weight of the instrument for long periods, it can get painful, until the muscles just give up. Any advice for that? I've gained the endurance over time, but other than expensive, multi-point harnesses, I haven't found a solution.
The only tip I can give for wrist ergonomics while standing, is adjust your strap so the bass hangs roughly where it does when you're sitting. Don't try to copy metal bands, with their knee-high strap lengths, unless that's the only music you want to play, and for some reason it's making you famous.
Hi Sir,
What model of Bass are you using?
In this video it's a Spector Euro LX
To late, i got to speak on that! That was funny as hell, " Ohhhh, yeahhhhhh."
exactly what i have been asking
Extreme angles are never good. But playing with your wrist lower on you left hand *helps* with the spreading of your fingers. To little angle will make it hard to reach the notes. What is *important* here however is the position of the base on your body. If you trying to look "cool" by having the base very low, it becomes nearly impossible to play with a lowered wrist. I carry you based higher up however, it becomes easy to play with that lowered wrist, while still preventing the extreme angles.
Can do 4 fingers but never feels natural to me and my hands are not very big and fingers not the longest...
I do it as an exercise, not as a rule.
I really can't get how a bassist would ever prefer playing alone by himself than together with other people. I would get it with the guitar or the piano, but the bass? I mean, I love playing bass, but 'm not particularly into solos or slap and I think that playing alone, apart from practicing something specific, takes away the fun of "taking the band where you want", leading the rhythm and steering the emphasis of the arrangement with your dynamics, and that's what I love about the bass
That’s cool, but not everyone wants to play like that. I sure don’t. Playing root notes or simple rhythm parts gets old real quick and I would much rather practice soloing than I would practice the same exact thing over and over.
Sometimes it's not by choice. I live in a fairly remote, small town and there isn't many people here who play.
Lately, I've been dealing with tendonitus in my right forearm and elbow.
Awesome tips, thanks!!!! Also.....was that a Portuguese dictionary or Spanish? Lol, I have ADHD brain, I focused on the video like a champ until the dictionary clip 😂
Funny you used a Brazillian Dictionary for Education on your video (where the meaning of english words are explained in brazillian portuguese).
Amazing 1st comment form sri lanka
Bass creator
Me: has never played bass in his enter life
UA-cam: Beginner bass mistakes that wil kill your progress
Man I was staring at that thumbnail trying to figure out what kind of fishing rod you were holding and what kind of mistake would kill my progress in Bass fishing.
What bass is that, its so nice
In this video, I'm playing a Spector Euro LX - great bass!
i loved this video
I have to commend you on most of your advice-except for your rule #4. With 50 years of experience as a professional bass player, I must stress the importance of timing and precision.
An exceptional way to develop timing is with a simple metronome, practiced at various tempos, ensuring you always land on the (1) ONE. In a recording situation, if a bassist doesn't land solidly on the ONE, the drummer might start throwing drumsticks your way! Continuously missing the downbeat can even get you fired from the session.
Practice your bass patterns at a very slow tempo; it's the hardest but most beneficial. A solid bassist must mix up quarter, half, and sixteenth notes in any pattern they invent, but they must always land on a solid downbeat.
Thank you for allowing me to share my two cents on your very useful lesson.
Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I could have been with that point @johnnyangel504. I wasn't suggesting that bassists shouldn't play with good timing or precision - I specifically say the opposite. I also say that playing with a metronome on all 4 beats is totally fine at the start.
The point was that you don't want to become _reliant_ on the metronome (or drummer or anyone else in the band) as you get more experience. As a bassist, developing a solid sense of *internal* time is practically essential. That way, if there's some kind of breakdown in a song where it's just the bass - or if a song requires a bass intro that means playing alone - then you're not relying on anyone or anything else to give you to the time or feel.
This is exactly the purpose of the famous Victor Wooten exercise where he plays with a drum machine for a while, then it drops out and comes back in. It's up to Victor (or whoever plays the exercise) to keep the time when the drums aren't playing.
I hope this clarifies things a little.
This guy is really smart.
Sympathetic string vibrations is what he means. If you own a six string bass, you know what’s up, it be like that
Lol that muting fever dream😂
But you should start learning theory if you want to make progress. And yes, you do need it to make music with other people. You just don’t need to learn it all at once.
I watch bass lessons every day but nothing sticks. Now thats becaues of my condistion . How do you teach someone who cant remember the next day?
1:39 WHAT
I knew this guy so up himself playing bass cause he was self taught but no one told him how to mute it drove my up the wall when I saw him live he thinks being taught I was a lesser person muting was first thing I learnt
If you are practicing without making any mistakes, you aren’t practicing - you’re rehearsing
Definitely had and have those injuries. Plus sore back. I really need to see an actual teacher to get this stuff ironed out
Having lessons with an experienced teacher could definitely help @kelbot84 - I'd highly recommend it.
I expected a pretentious guy on their high horse when I clicked on this video, glad to see its the exact opposite
Being a short king, I WISH I had a high horse. lol Glad you liked the video though @Victinitotodilepro
So laying on my back while being fed grapes from a Dame Edna look-a-like while playing bass is out of the question ??
I think I showed that something like that is VERY much in play @ExclusiveLM lol
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I had no clue Simon Pegg was a bass teacher.
This is an AMAZING compliment, although the nationality/accent is a little off. lol
@BecomeABassist I though so much, though it's nice to see that a big creator replies to their comments
Getting addicted to the instrument seems to help, even if you make everyone's ears bleed for a few months :L
Short finger team😭😭
I have been playing bass for 3 ot 4 years and I have never and will never play Seven nation Army! 1st it isn't played on a bass and 2nd if you want to play a clean tone stick with Fleetwood or MJ!
If that's what you want to do...sure...
The "making muting sexy", part,, made my Bass,, a little uncomfortable,,🤨 , 😊😅