I want you to know that, @7:58 change my life. As a bass amateur with lots of dexterity from years of finger picking on a guitar, I always felt like I couldn't understand this. You explaining it (the ornaments) being on the other string entirely made all the difference in the world. My technique is forever changed!
Same here. I finally learned something new, important and which totally changes my playing, from a youtube video about bass. Not like those countless guys rehashing the same pseudo savoir-faire.
This is an extraordinarily under-viewed lesson. This information is so crucial to good bass playing and so poorly explained or completely left out in so many other lessons.
yes idd, when I heard a cassette recording a day after a gig I played back in the days, I noticed I played burps all over the place. I kinda only used them to transition from one note to another in certain circumstances, like when changing string on the same fret.
Thanks for concisely demonstrating how to teach on UA-cam. Probably the most instructive video I've found. I might respectfully suggest you consider briefly playing on screen at the beginning to help wet the appetite, and round out the tone a bit to move toward an upright sound.
Love the distinction between tertiary and binary muting duration, never thought of it that way-quarter notes really swing hard! Thank you Ariane, excellent lesson!
You are a fine teacher...I picked all this up by just playing for years...without any technical lessons....I have tons to learn....if I just sit down an now learn some techniques...it will improve my playing... scales scales scales...my weak point...
I was eating at a small NJ Italian restaurant with live music in the late 70's... One guy on Fender Jazz bass and the other guy on Fender Roads ..with a electronic drum machine.. Both guys in Tuxedos.. The bass player spent the entire evening in intense jazz bass runs with non-stop "burps" between every other note... I'll never forget , this guy had an Ampeg SVT with 8x10 cab turned up a bit loud in this small restaurant.. Every time the bass note "burped" the forks were jumping on the table.. I thought it was the coolest thing ever...1 hour of note "burps'...My father was getting annoyed with the volume as well as the restaurant owner was trying to yell over the bass to have him turn down but to no avail....After a few glasses of wine the whole thing became even funnier and I couldn't stop laughing..now the bass player starring at me pissed that I am laughing at him... When I went home I picked up my bass and tried to mimic this "burping" technique.. I always liked it... I just now see in this video how I can improve this technique and play it better...Many Thanks..
I've been a bassist for forty two years and I just learned something wonderful and valuable (I also learned that I already do some of this stuff!). Thank you, Ari.
I'm gonna use this lesson in reverse. Play completely legato for a while to remove default "burps" and bad habits! Thanks as always for a great lesson!
Nice! Another thing I do is to play the notes up on the frett board to get the upright sound. Thank you! Love your fingerings for Spain as well! Cheers.
I just bought my first 5-string for a contemporary worship gig that has some low stuff. Cool idea to brace your thumb on the B string. I've been playing 4 string so long, I get the wrong string on occasion. Thanks. CP
I have played bass for several decades and got burnt out watching bass all the video ego teachers out there, but recently stumbled onto yours and will say besides having excellent theory and technique, you are an incredible communicator and teacher explaining technique! You have an infectious personality and excellent in explaining lesson points! Keep those strings moving unless of course you're burping or muting strings!
I heard a guy play an octave root (I think) as an eighth note burp. You could play that octave against any of the notes in the walk on that particular chord.
Hello Ariane! I think your video's are great and very helpful, so thank you. One question about this one: isn't it possible to do a video on how exactly to DO the burps? Technique-wise? Because I understand the lesson, but i have no clue how to actually do the burps. Thanks again.
in essence you play a dead note (a muted note - left hand touches the string, but does not press down) on the string below the note on the beat you're playing (and let ring during the dead note). That's the approach Ariane shows here. Try slowing down the video and watch closely.
You missed an left hand "burp" that can be used when the principal note is an open string. Just as one can pull off to a note one could also hammer on to the "burped" note. Plus another exercise one could try is to cascade which beat of the bar gets the burp. In other words, bar one the burp is on beat one, bar two the burb in on beat two etc. It's kind of akin to removing metronome clicks as you play to make sure your time is solid.
No attempt to be complete in a video like this, there are many more options, including triplets and many others. I like that metronome removing business, too, randomly or at certain spots, and yes, come up with your own variations on where to place burps etc, that's always great!
It is very important to not play skips (not "burps" ) too much. That is true on upright, but ESPECIALLY on electric, where overuse becomes annoying very quickly.
Is that a modulus bass?it sure looks like Gerry Dorsch’s neck design? I ask, because I can sort of see the “1000 ladies” paint job? All my basses are from him, most are neck through.
Ive been seeing these wraps on the first fret on many player's basses now. Could you please explain exactly what this is (a mute im guessing) and where i can get one
Ari, did you intentionally learn (practice) this sometime or is it more something that you automatically picked up and now analyzed - with the underlying question: Why does one bassist groove and the other doesn't?
Isolating helps you master the more complex things. Many times we are overly focused on the right notes. But phrasing, feel, making it groove is at least equally important! We also often cheat ourselves by using burps or other embellishments to get to the right notes. That I think is more limiting than having all the choices under our nails as possibilities. By reducing our options and placing rhythmic variations on various pre-determined beats of the bar we open our ears to the feel more. Yes, practiced it, analyzed it and been teaching it with much success for many years. My own teacher Wolf Wein taught it to me many years ago. You can apply that principle to anything - beats of the bar or note choices (place the fifth on every second beat for example) or dynamics or range of the notes etc etc etc. The more you think about the options the more you will eventually have under your fingers!
Uh... what? You just gave away this awesome lesson WITH TABS for free? Dang! I'm embarassed... For real, I LOVED this lesson! I can't help going back to the comprehensive practice idea and the very nice way you present the divisions... thanks a lot, professor!
As an Austrian-American of sorts myself, I thought I recognized an ever so slight accent. So, I did my homework, et voilà: arisbassblog.com/about/ Anscheinend habe ich doch ein gutes Ohr für sowas ;-) Danke fürs tolle Video. Weiter so!
Am I only one that thinks walking jazz bass should only be played on upright? I mean nothing beats the feel, sound, and tone of an upright. But still great tips from No Treble.
looks like you ain't got many supporters. Although, sadly, I know that you're not the only one. state it as a personal preference - leave out the "should" - and the need to fight a world that has gone the wrong way falls away. I studied upright and electric - I can walk on both. I like it on both. I make the choice depending on context. It's just different instruments, different nuances in sound. As for groove/feel I don't care if it's bass, piano or a synth - if it grooves it grooves.
Maybe if you're going to talk about some weird new technique, show us the technique at the start of the video so we know if we want to keep watching. I got to six minutes in and you still haven't explained or demonstrated what a 'burp' is.
SuperEddietv it by starts sounding good to other rhythm section players; using these techniques to create momentum, invert the pulse, push the groove, surprise etc. in a musically intelligent way. They get energized and like your playing. They look up and smile and start nodding their heads. Bills will start getting paid!! Trust that.
You said it yourself... it's arbitrary! But also, if you want to practice a specific technique, it helps to isolate it. If you are comfortable playing in any given time signature, transferring this technique to that count should be no problem.
I liked and found very interesting your lesson, but I also loved your earrings, perfectly working with glasses, the "young thug" beret and your will to show just an elegant shoulder, against a vulgar, in-yo-face cleavage. You are elegant.
3:31 What you are calling "legato" is not a legato at all... Please don't use this kind of terms improperly, otherwise people willing to learn music might get confused
from the dictionary: "in a smooth flowing manner, without breaks between notes". so what Ariane plays before 3:31 is very much legato. Maybe you're mixing the term up with slurred as when playing with a bow, which is sometimes imitated on bass or guitar by using hammer ons and pull offs.
Yes maybe the original use in Italy, when applied to bowed instruments can be debated, but, darn it, there Ariane is playing electric bass and you try to apply upright bowing terminology to it. I studied upright as well - very close to Italy actually. The term legato makes good sense in this context. :Slurred" would be confusing. I'd maybe would use it for sliding or hammer ons/pull offs - but we already got these terms for that which adequately describe the desired sound. Good luck on your crusade against the now ubiquitous use of the term legato in the way presented here.
ough, ough the lower strings are ringing so noticeably while you're playing. For example at 7:50. I had been considering your lesson before I heard this. Muting the strings while playing 5 or 6 strings is a basical issue. There are two common techinques how to do this. You don't use one.
Konstantin Ksensow "This lady has forgotten more music theory than I can ever hope to know, quick, better come up with criticism to make myself feel better!" Her thumb trails down the B and E strings as she plays the higher strings, handling the muting. Got anything else to prop up your bruised ego?
Konstantin Ksensow notice the floating thumb for muting. If you’re so great that you’d “consider” her lesson, why are you looking for UA-cam tutorials? Please be respectful, be the change you want to see in the world. I’m sure you’re a good person, perhaps having a bad day, we all have them, but that’s no excuse. How much did you pay for this lesson? Right, please glean from this what you can, as she intended when making this tutorial, or click on any other number of UA-cam’s entertaining videos that you may “consider”.
Hello Adam. I'm not having a bad day and I'm not being personal or rude, but you are making it only worse by unraving this discussion and resisting the facts. It's not a big problem, so why do you feel so offended? It was a practical hint, and it was not adressed to you or Andy. Ariane can deside by herself, if she wants to make a notice of it or not. To the facts: the thumb is floating, but not muting and I don't want to explain it for the second time. Have a good day!
Perhaps it was I who was having a bad day, however, your first message sounded elitist and condescending, there’s no need for that, in my opinion, you came here for her help, then felt “gracious” enough to “learn her good” about her technique. It wasn’t as much the message with which I took issue, but more so the package in which it was delivered. Have a great day, we both still have a lot to learn, I’ll do my best to learn from this
This is one of the BEST jazz bass lessons in the history of youtube.
I want you to know that, @7:58 change my life. As a bass amateur with lots of dexterity from years of finger picking on a guitar, I always felt like I couldn't understand this. You explaining it (the ornaments) being on the other string entirely made all the difference in the world. My technique is forever changed!
Same here. I finally learned something new, important and which totally changes my playing, from a youtube video about bass. Not like those countless guys rehashing the same pseudo savoir-faire.
Me too.
This is an extraordinarily under-viewed lesson. This information is so crucial to good bass playing and so poorly explained or completely left out in so many other lessons.
yes idd, when I heard a cassette recording a day after a gig I played back in the days, I noticed I played burps all over the place. I kinda only used them to transition from one note to another in certain circumstances, like when changing string on the same fret.
Thanks for concisely demonstrating how to teach on UA-cam. Probably the most instructive video I've found. I might respectfully suggest you consider briefly playing on screen at the beginning to help wet the appetite, and round out the tone a bit to move toward an upright sound.
Love the distinction between tertiary and binary muting duration, never thought of it that way-quarter notes really swing hard! Thank you Ariane, excellent lesson!
You are a fine teacher...I picked all this up by just playing for years...without any technical lessons....I have tons to learn....if I just sit down an now learn some techniques...it will improve my playing... scales scales scales...my weak point...
I was eating at a small NJ Italian restaurant with live music in the late 70's... One guy on Fender Jazz bass and the other guy on Fender Roads ..with a electronic drum machine.. Both guys in Tuxedos.. The bass player spent the entire evening in intense jazz bass runs with non-stop "burps" between every other note... I'll never forget , this guy had an Ampeg SVT with 8x10 cab turned up a bit loud in this small restaurant.. Every time the bass note "burped" the forks were jumping on the table.. I thought it was the coolest thing ever...1 hour of note "burps'...My father was getting annoyed with the volume as well as the restaurant owner was trying to yell over the bass to have him turn down but to no avail....After a few glasses of wine the whole thing became even funnier and I couldn't stop laughing..now the bass player starring at me pissed that I am laughing at him... When I went home I picked up my bass and tried to mimic this "burping" technique.. I always liked it... I just now see in this video how I can improve this technique and play it better...Many Thanks..
love this story :-)
:D That is hilarious!
Wine, pussy.
What a great great musician - thanks for making the effort to share your knowledge.
I've been a bassist for forty two years and I just learned something wonderful and valuable (I also learned that I already do some of this stuff!). Thank you, Ari.
Just got hip to you and I must say, Great Info and awesome delivery! Nicely done!
I'm gonna use this lesson in reverse. Play completely legato for a while to remove default "burps" and bad habits! Thanks as always for a great lesson!
great strategy! All the best and thanks for watching!
Nice! Another thing I do is to play the notes up on the frett board to get the upright sound. Thank you! Love your fingerings for Spain as well! Cheers.
I just bought my first 5-string for a contemporary worship gig that has some low stuff. Cool idea to brace your thumb on the B string. I've been playing 4 string so long, I get the wrong string on occasion. Thanks. CP
Woooooo go ari this video puts so much importance on articulation and groove and I appreciate it immensely!
Excellent lesson. Just what I was looking for. Thank you Ariane
You are an excellent teacher!
Ariane; Take it from a drummer...you are the Ace of Bass! Keep smiling love!
"...how to Liven up the groove.....with Dead notes....."
Džiugas Jasukaitis can you show me how to play the Nashville shift .
I have played bass for several decades and got burnt out watching bass all the video ego teachers out there, but recently stumbled onto yours and will say besides having excellent theory and technique, you are an incredible communicator and teacher explaining technique! You have an infectious personality and excellent in explaining lesson points! Keep those strings moving unless of course you're burping or muting strings!
Best explanation of swing feel. Many other instructors haven't been able to explain it
I heard a guy play an octave root (I think) as an eighth note burp. You could play that octave against any of the notes in the walk on that particular chord.
Oh a Bass from my Hometown :) I know Gerald and his Basses are great. Have Fun with your Marleaux Basses :)
Amazing lesson
Wenn auch neben der Sache: Ari's Outfit, Top und Brillenfassung, passen perfekt zum Marleaux Bass.
Thank You for sharing!
You can still get Michael's book from him directly. He teaches at NYU.
Really clear lesson
excellent lesson on this technique, thank you.
Best explanation ever...thanks I will not only apply but.try to explain the tech. to my guitarist!! thanks
That's an excellent lesson. Thank you.
Hello Ariane! I think your video's are great and very helpful, so thank you. One question about this one: isn't it possible to do a video on how exactly to DO the burps? Technique-wise? Because I understand the lesson, but i have no clue how to actually do the burps. Thanks again.
in essence you play a dead note (a muted note - left hand touches the string, but does not press down) on the string below the note on the beat you're playing (and let ring during the dead note). That's the approach Ariane shows here. Try slowing down the video and watch closely.
i am transposing these to guitar (cheating) and lowering in software. great lesson.
You missed an left hand "burp" that can be used when the principal note is an open string. Just as one can pull off to a note one could also hammer on to the "burped" note.
Plus another exercise one could try is to cascade which beat of the bar gets the burp. In other words, bar one the burp is on beat one, bar two the burb in on beat two etc. It's kind of akin to removing metronome clicks as you play to make sure your time is solid.
P.S. THAT is a gorgous Bass!!! I just wish my multi-scale bass had that gorgeous blue finish!
Brett Marlar nice suggestions!
No attempt to be complete in a video like this, there are many more options, including triplets and many others. I like that metronome removing business, too, randomly or at certain spots, and yes, come up with your own variations on where to place burps etc, that's always great!
That's what she did two different times demonstrating how to use on each division of the measure!
Excellent lesson. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I don't even play bass, but I find this fascinating
How cool are you? Thank you for an awesome lesson. You sure have groove a well as teaching skills. Thank you.
I play by ear self taught. My strong point is getting different sounds through mechanical effects.
10 thumbs down?... I don't get it... this lesson is great!
It is very important to not play skips (not "burps" ) too much. That is true on upright, but ESPECIALLY on electric, where overuse becomes annoying very quickly.
I apologize, call them whatever you want! Just don't overplay them!
Charles Coleman so it is. Use them wisely.
Her saying "burps" was also just because the email question didn't know what to call them and wrote it like that, in quote marks
Less is more!
really enjoyed thanks so much
Is that a modulus bass?it sure looks like Gerry Dorsch’s neck design? I ask, because I can sort of see the “1000 ladies” paint job?
All my basses are from him, most are neck through.
It's a Marleaux Consat by Gerald Marleaux :)
Ive been seeing these wraps on the first fret on many player's basses now. Could you please explain exactly what this is (a mute im guessing) and where i can get one
brilliant thank you
I randomly found this video. I bought the book immediately after.
How can i write grooved out metal riffs with a bassist Thats a jazzz bassist?
Ari, did you intentionally learn (practice) this sometime or is it more something that you automatically picked up and now analyzed - with the underlying question: Why does one bassist groove and the other doesn't?
Isolating helps you master the more complex things. Many times we are overly focused on the right notes. But phrasing, feel, making it groove is at least equally important! We also often cheat ourselves by using burps or other embellishments to get to the right notes. That I think is more limiting than having all the choices under our nails as possibilities. By reducing our options and placing rhythmic variations on various pre-determined beats of the bar we open our ears to the feel more. Yes, practiced it, analyzed it and been teaching it with much success for many years. My own teacher Wolf Wein taught it to me many years ago. You can apply that principle to anything - beats of the bar or note choices (place the fifth on every second beat for example) or dynamics or range of the notes etc etc etc. The more you think about the options the more you will eventually have under your fingers!
you love bass, this is clear,
subbo
Man you have it in spades,you go girl!
Oh man I think that broke my brain. But it's an amazing lesson.
Você é ótima, tenho aprendido muito com você. Muito obrigado (thank´s)
I do what I call a hammer on, which is first hitting a open string then a finger on a note. Is this what your talking about
no, it is the opposite. she is sometimes using pull-offs, where you finger a note then pull it off to the open string. which she explains.
You should play the Seinfeld theme in every one of your videos.
Ary, the pdfs are no more available...
Sorry about that. Fixed!
@@notreblecom Thanks very much!
You remind me of my 6th grade science teacher... fitting, lol.
may i offer you a bicarbonate of soda? 😂😂 subscribed.
such a pleasure to watch you play and teach.
Great lesson! Thank you! Your channel is "No Treble", yet your bas sound lacks any deep EQ; is that intentional?
Uh... what? You just gave away this awesome lesson WITH TABS for free? Dang! I'm embarassed...
For real, I LOVED this lesson! I can't help going back to the comprehensive practice idea and the very nice way you present the divisions... thanks a lot, professor!
Thank you, great to hear! Find even more at arisbassblog.com!
Ari, do you know Patrick Pfeiffer?
Thanks !
your hat needs another tuning peg
LOL. very astute observation!
good stuff
As an Austrian-American of sorts myself, I thought I recognized an ever so slight accent. So, I did my homework, et voilà: arisbassblog.com/about/ Anscheinend habe ich doch ein gutes Ohr für sowas ;-) Danke fürs tolle Video. Weiter so!
Bitte gerne. Servus :D
For a lot of drummers turned bassists this happens automatically.
I can't hear any differences. 😕
Am I only one that thinks walking jazz bass should only be played on upright? I mean nothing beats the feel, sound, and tone of an upright. But still great tips from No Treble.
looks like you ain't got many supporters. Although, sadly, I know that you're not the only one. state it as a personal preference - leave out the "should" - and the need to fight a world that has gone the wrong way falls away. I studied upright and electric - I can walk on both. I like it on both. I make the choice depending on context. It's just different instruments, different nuances in sound. As for groove/feel I don't care if it's bass, piano or a synth - if it grooves it grooves.
I agree. I also prefer those cats walking on B3 organ to generic walking on electric bass. Just swings much better IMO
Burping with taste ... OK, teacher! :D
Sensacional! 😍😍😍
At last the bass tone is without buzzing, even the intro changed to normal.
And not even an aeon passed =)))
Cause has get more n more showy and tho hes great he does allot of small jazz rhythms. Like lagato!!!!! Ahhhhhhh
You got some mean piano chops too.
Maybe if you're going to talk about some weird new technique, show us the technique at the start of the video so we know if we want to keep watching.
I got to six minutes in and you still haven't explained or demonstrated what a 'burp' is.
Exceptional talent,... cute hat !! :)
Hehe. 2:16 wasn't just an altered VI, it was f*cked up :) i.imgur.com/1AVMTdg.png
seheyt 😂 now I know what to say when I fuck up a chord lol
:D it's an altered chord alright, just voiced a little on the low side. Hey it's notreble, what can I say, haha.
Electric bassist tend towards over 'burping' and it's really annoying. Too much flatulence!
3:15
4:10
4:35
6:50
7:25
What a lovely woman.
😍😍😍😍😍
🤤
Now if this only paid some bills.
SuperEddietv it by starts sounding good to other rhythm section players; using these techniques to create momentum, invert the pulse, push the
groove, surprise etc. in a musically intelligent way.
They get energized and like your playing. They look up and smile and start nodding their heads. Bills will start getting paid!! Trust that.
Why dont you just use a 4 string for this exercise,
why the arbitrary rule of 4 beats per bar? Creativity is thinking differently
You said it yourself... it's arbitrary! But also, if you want to practice a specific technique, it helps to isolate it. If you are comfortable playing in any given time signature, transferring this technique to that count should be no problem.
I gave the video a thumbs up but please don't refer to these things as 'burps' anymore. It sounds horrible. Thank you!
"llögådoü"
t-shirt, glasses and bass in the same color....eh, woman :) great lesson as usual.
cute
I liked and found very interesting your lesson, but I also loved your earrings, perfectly working with glasses, the "young thug" beret and your will to show just an elegant shoulder, against a vulgar, in-yo-face cleavage. You are elegant.
3:31 What you are calling "legato" is not a legato at all...
Please don't use this kind of terms improperly, otherwise people willing to learn music might get confused
from the dictionary: "in a smooth flowing manner, without breaks between notes". so what Ariane plays before 3:31 is very much legato. Maybe you're mixing the term up with slurred as when playing with a bow, which is sometimes imitated on bass or guitar by using hammer ons and pull offs.
Yes maybe the original use in Italy, when applied to bowed instruments can be debated, but, darn it, there Ariane is playing electric bass and you try to apply upright bowing terminology to it. I studied upright as well - very close to Italy actually. The term legato makes good sense in this context. :Slurred" would be confusing. I'd maybe would use it for sliding or hammer ons/pull offs - but we already got these terms for that which adequately describe the desired sound. Good luck on your crusade against the now ubiquitous use of the term legato in the way presented here.
I know... Mine is a lost cause, but i still think it doesn't hurt to rember this kind of things every now and then
I never took no advice from a girl before.
over 3 minutes of talking before you played anything..cut the waffle a little!
ough, ough the lower strings are ringing so noticeably while you're playing. For example at 7:50. I had been considering your lesson before I heard this. Muting the strings while playing 5 or 6 strings is a basical issue. There are two common techinques how to do this. You don't use one.
Konstantin Ksensow "This lady has forgotten more music theory than I can ever hope to know, quick, better come up with criticism to make myself feel better!"
Her thumb trails down the B and E strings as she plays the higher strings, handling the muting. Got anything else to prop up your bruised ego?
Konstantin Ksensow notice the floating thumb for muting. If you’re so great that you’d “consider” her lesson, why are you looking for UA-cam tutorials? Please be respectful, be the change you want to see in the world. I’m sure you’re a good person, perhaps having a bad day, we all have them, but that’s no excuse. How much did you pay for this lesson? Right, please glean from this what you can, as she intended when making this tutorial, or click on any other number of UA-cam’s entertaining videos that you may “consider”.
Hello Adam. I'm not having a bad day and I'm not being personal or rude, but you are making it only worse by unraving this discussion and resisting the facts. It's not a big problem, so why do you feel so offended? It was a practical hint, and it was not adressed to you or Andy. Ariane can deside by herself, if she wants to make a notice of it or not. To the facts: the thumb is floating, but not muting and I don't want to explain it for the second time. Have a good day!
Perhaps it was I who was having a bad day, however, your first message sounded elitist and condescending, there’s no need for that, in my opinion, you came here for her help, then felt “gracious” enough to “learn her good” about her technique. It wasn’t as much the message with which I took issue, but more so the package in which it was delivered. Have a great day, we both still have a lot to learn, I’ll do my best to learn from this
Not everything is for everyone. However, the majority of people appreciate this video for what it is, a great piece of education.
How dull
to the point! Awesome!