Lilith Ballard The problem is that most bassists wouldn't ever have the determination and apply themselves as much as this one has. Unfortunately a lot of bassists do fit the category of "The bad guitar player"
0:04 to 0:43 Moonlight Sonata 0:44 to 1:23 Flow my tears (the policeman said) 1:24 to 1:51 Sexually active 1:52 to 3:27 Country music (a night in hell)
+Jessica Obrien I can't read maps and I am a male. So what? It's not important if you hide a penis or a vagina behind the bass. A penis is not required to play a bass like that. Calm down.
***** yah it's easy to do the tapping . But creating and doing it in different way is hard. You need to spend time to practice and think how to make it unique .
He literally plays the 1st movement of moonlight sonata for about a minute of this and I love it that's how you shred and show respect to music culture at the same time
Brooooo I love bass so much, that sinister hum you can get that buries itself into your limbs and makes you want to set the world ablaze! That sound is So damn cool!
This was amazing! I always saw bass quitar as important support instrument but never actually heard a solo before. Now I could listen to this whole day.
0:04 to 0:43 moonlight sonata 0:44 to 1:23 flow my tears (the policeman said) 1:24 to 1:51 sexually active 1:52 to 3:27 country music (a night in hell) yeahhh i know allll
Nice country solo for a change. Cool to hear "Orange Blossom Special" and "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" (Great BLUEGRASS standards) in that kind of a setting.
No other bass player ever blew my mind like Stu Hamm did. No one. He toured Australia with Satch in 1990(?) and did a clinic at the old Bass Player shop on Parramatta Road at Annandale. 20-30 people there, and I've never seen, or even heard of the guy. Best clinic I've ever seen. Played, spoke and and chatted for ages. The nicest, most humble musician I've ever come across. Played this exact solo amongst other things, but was perfect. No bum notes anywhere. Just perfection. I knew then I'd never get as close to a virtuosic as this in my life. Thanks Stu, your legacy lives. 🤘😝🤘
@@unfunnydave5485 Billy Sheehan and Les Claypool I'm very familiar with. Les is a favourite for sure, and they're both insane, entertaining, inspiring - but not mind blowing like Stu. Victor Wooten I only know by name, so sadly I can't comment.
@@stevebrickshitta870 I would check out some Wooten song like “classical thump” or “me and my bass guitar.” Billy Sheehan and Les Claypool are 2 of my bass heroes. I respectfully disagree, have a great day man.
I love Stu Hamm's work. He knows how to support the rest of the band 90% of the time, and do some seriously creative, jaw-droppingly virtuosic soloing when all eyes (and ears) are on him
Really bassists? This is Stu Hamm!!! If there is any real real bad player that questions this cats abilities isn't a knowledgeable bassist. I'm no fan of his or anything, it's just common knowledge as a 25+yr player that Stu has pocket. Check out his resume! & then for all you who still doubt his skills, check out his net worth... I didn't think this was the greatest thing to my ear's, it took skill's however but I'm no hater so when your good your just good that's all!!! No magic just hours of woodshedding!
Hahaha, I am a bassist player and actually I have learn trough the years this: "No matter how beautiful you play slap, don't do it" a lot of people hate slap tecnique, I m only use this tecnique rarely, when the song need some funk or kind of this.
Fantastic! I have seen this video thousands of times since it was uploaded. And I always enjoy it. At the beginning of 1990 I heard Kings of Sleep for the first time. I started playing bass a few years before and the impact that Stuart Hamm caused me was tremendous. In those years the access to the clinics was not very simple in my country. So to try to make the bass sound like him without having seen how was his tapping technique was, believe me, very ... entertaining so to speak . Years after the opportunity to see it live. The last time was a few years ago with Greg Howe and it was a delicious moment.
It's so encouraging to see the bass guitar evolving into more of a solo-friendly instrument. Back in the "stone age" the classicists were writing pieces for the bass viol, and they received no outcries of 'self-indulgence' or the like. I'm buying a new EADGC five-string just so I can better explore Bach, Beethoven and the like. In a few centuries Satriani, Hamm, Van HALEN, Claypool and Sumner (i.e., Sting) will be named among the classicists. But Stu did all this on a 4-string bass!
I saw Stu do a couple of the beat bass solos I have ever seen last week that waaaaay blew my mind like psychedlic-wise but stone cold sober!!! He IS the music!!!
Never tire of watching this. Stu Hamm is one of the most talented bassists I've ever seen or heard. He's capable of playing his techniques in so many genres.
Rowan Healy That's Chris Squire. He's Yes's bassist, and that song was recorded in 1971. Stu is much younger and didn't start getting gigs til he graduated college in the mid 80s
I saw Joe Satriani with Stu Hamm on bass, and it was around this time, like 1988 or so. It was at the Palace Theater in Albany NY, and when he did this solo, just Wow!!! I started to buy cassettes and CDs of them. Quaohogs anyone?
I saw this solo on this tour in ´88 when they visited Sweden. Stu was best in show, hands down! He even used an enormous fake thumb during the funk part 😅 Great thanx for sharing 😊
That was pretty bad-ass 25 years ago. Nowadays, everybody plays circles around it. But, you can never take away the fact that it's a classic. Definitely a Classic!!!
POV: You just got your first bass and searched "Bass Solo"
Going to pick it up tomorrow. lol.
POV: you come from tik tok
I think this just convinced me to go buy a bass...
@@BrownHarper1991 Do it.
Why you gotta do me like this bro ;-;
When you practiced piano 40 hours a day but the band wants you to play bass.
This deserves more likes
is this a ling ling reference?
-_-
40 hours a day 😂
When a day has 40 hours
People: “that was cool”
Bass players: “wtf just happened?”
Well, you say, as a beginner bass player, I have no fucking idea but my fingers had a stroke trying to recreate that
Its tapping, all good guitar and bass players do this
If you play the guitar it becomes easy to tap on bass, just requires more pressure
@@mrsynth2643 you can do tappibg but aint that fast lol
Yeah perhaps to new bassists but those of us who are experienced can see that he's just finger tapping and slapping.
They threw a bass guitar to their pianist and this happened.
Paolo Alamani hahahhahaha this is funnier cause i started as a pianist and mess around too much turning my pieces into bass lines
@@dulcietorrans same
I dont know if that's what happened, but these are bass techniques everyone uses
@@mrsynth2643 Hardly anyone does actually. Audiences in pubs prefer bass playing on a bass.
@@bryanleigh6497 no one uses tapping I'm sure
Bilbo Baggins playing bass guitar. Amazing
More like Samwise Gamgee
POJK his better than flea and les claypool?
How precious.
Now - I have to re-watch LOTR
More like dave mustaine gained some weight
Bassists are totally under-estimated
Lilith Ballard The problem is that most bassists wouldn't ever have the determination and apply themselves as much as this one has. Unfortunately a lot of bassists do fit the category of "The bad guitar player"
MUD_ very sad day for us all
Lilith Ballard and under-rated
Izzul Haslam underestimated and under-rated.
And under-appreciated.
This man just turned the bass into a banjo... wth
Underrated comment
I read this and thought of Reggie from Julie and the Phantoms
I've seen Stu Hamm with Joe and I've also seen Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, with Victor Wooten and this sort of reminds me.
A SLAP BANJO no less. 🤯🤯🤯
bassjo is more accurate in my way,yiiihh
0:04 to 0:43 Moonlight Sonata
0:44 to 1:23 Flow my tears (the policeman said)
1:24 to 1:51 Sexually active
1:52 to 3:27 Country music (a night in hell)
THANKYOU
Thx!
God bless hour soul ❤️
Exactly what I came to the comments for thanks
This needs more upvotes.
*It doesn't work on my bass.*
+Maxxxshop ...this...
I can do this it is easy and I'm a female
I'm a walking phone book and GPS as well it's probably because my dad taught me how to be that way
+Jessica Obrien I can't read maps and I am a male. So what? It's not important if you hide a penis or a vagina behind the bass. A penis is not required to play a bass like that. Calm down.
+Jessica Obrien what would you being female have to do with it?
The finger strength needed to do this is incredible.
I feel bad for his wife's private part .. 😂
+El Desconocido have mercy on them, they are ignorant
Brandon Walker ignorant on playing guitar ?
You think so ?
***** yah it's easy to do the tapping . But creating and doing it in different way is hard.
You need to spend time to practice and think how to make it unique .
+Bearista Bear Nope
Gandalf: Bilbo, don't understimate the power of the ring
Bilbo: *hold my bass*
You mean...the power of the *string*
C est trop BON
He slapp
He tapp
But most importantly
He plays the 🅱️ass
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DAVIE504 SLAPP BASS
But can he play smoke on the water
sesnaf faout no it's too hard
Djhats always the question
sesnaf faout xD or around the world?
sesnaf faout system of a down
sesnaf faout it's easy to play that you only need at least 4 strings xD
isnt it at the beginning moonlight sonata by beethoven ?
yes
Moonlight Sonata :)
can elden what is the one that he does after sonata with the deep cord
can elden yes
No it was called "sandstorm" by darude...
That segment at 0:44 was fucking beautiful, it gave me goosebumps.
Yeah, absolutely agree, is it a particular song?
@@metalfingerz4203 Flow My Tears by Stu Hamm
favorite part
And the guy goin “WOOOO”
Stuart Hamm is 100% the reason I play bass. Actually it was this very solo that inspired me. I eventually was able to play it back in the day as well.
You must have had hands shaped like claws by the end of it lol.
First time I've heard this. Insane
His pinky finger is probably stronger than my whole left arm.
Watch porn and go lefty. That outta fix that problem ;)
ESP_Guitarist Hahaha good one
@@SchecterMongoose
I can confirm
At first, I was like that is not too difficult then I was like Oh...
This dude looks like a living Greco-Roman sculpture slappin a da bass
He literally plays the 1st movement of moonlight sonata for about a minute of this and I love it that's how you shred and show respect to music culture at the same time
If his first and last names were reversed, his name would be Ham Stew.
jaco5187 haha substitute teachers probably butchered it a few times
Haha!
Bruh
Eww man
Holy shit hopefully that bass wasn't under 18!
Underated comment 😭
😂
FBI HAS HIM ON WATCHLIST
@@woodbcrazy It was not that funny.
I love guitar molesters
See people stay silent during great bass solos because of that feeling bass provides.
lol people actually take bathroom breaks.
@@tomd6704 losers maybe
Brooooo
I love bass so much, that sinister hum you can get that buries itself into your limbs and makes you want to set the world ablaze! That sound is So damn cool!
This was amazing! I always saw bass quitar as important support instrument but never actually heard a solo before. Now I could listen to this whole day.
Can't beat the sound of Bass, just starting to play at 54!!
Never too late as they say..
Go mark!
5 years later how is the progression 🤣
I'm curious to know if you stuck with it?
Howsa going Mark Abu
MOONLIGHT SONATA! There I said it.
In glad someone else knows about good music.
Tis the first movement :3
0:04 to 0:43 moonlight sonata
0:44 to 1:23 flow my tears (the policeman said)
1:24 to 1:51 sexually active
1:52 to 3:27 country music (a night in hell)
yeahhh i know allll
I thought everyone knew moonlight sonata?
***** same mack man hahaha
One of the best bass solos....EVER!!!!
He was doing that solo back in the late 80's when he was touring with Joe Satriani. That was an excellent show!
This guy is a legend and this solo is a masterpiece of its own.
The piece he plays starting at 0:45 is one of the coolest things I've ever heard played on a bass. Great solo.
Nice country solo for a change. Cool to hear "Orange Blossom Special" and "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" (Great BLUEGRASS standards) in that kind of a setting.
this is literally a slowed down, more monotoned version of Anesthesia Pulling Teeth
Steven Kourkoutis *citation needed*
Steven Kourkoutis um, no it's not, you're deaf.
the beginning was Beethovens' Fur Elise , my bass teacher gave me his instructional video tape back 1991
Just Another Fish No, that was Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14, better known as the "Moonlight Sonata"
No other bass player ever blew my mind like Stu Hamm did. No one.
He toured Australia with Satch in 1990(?) and did a clinic at the old Bass Player shop on Parramatta Road at Annandale.
20-30 people there, and I've never seen, or even heard of the guy. Best clinic I've ever seen. Played, spoke and and chatted for ages. The nicest, most humble musician I've ever come across.
Played this exact solo amongst other things, but was perfect. No bum notes anywhere. Just perfection.
I knew then I'd never get as close to a virtuosic as this in my life.
Thanks Stu, your legacy lives. 🤘😝🤘
Uh, Billy Sheehan, Victor Wooten, Les Claypool? Stu is great and I absolutely love him but the only person that blew your mind?
@@unfunnydave5485 Billy Sheehan and Les Claypool I'm very familiar with. Les is a favourite for sure, and they're both insane, entertaining, inspiring - but not mind blowing like Stu. Victor Wooten I only know by name, so sadly I can't comment.
@@stevebrickshitta870 I would check out some Wooten song like “classical thump” or “me and my bass guitar.” Billy Sheehan and Les Claypool are 2 of my bass heroes. I respectfully disagree, have a great day man.
@@unfunnydave5485 cheers, I will give a listen👍
Now I feel inspired to learn how to play the bass
do it. It has honestly changed my life.
you can do it!! ☀️💕
That’s nice I too was inspired but davie504 inspired me to play bass hehe now im 2 months in
Ive always loved bass solos, I wish more bands would give credit to them, especially the poppers!
I love Stu Hamm's work. He knows how to support the rest of the band 90% of the time, and do some seriously creative, jaw-droppingly virtuosic soloing when all eyes (and ears) are on him
my 13 year old daughter.. she love bass so i buy her a bass today and we search on you tube base solos and this guy show up amacing 😄
Now that’s a gifted musician!!
It's a regular sized ukulele,the guy is just tiny, I play bass so I SHOULD know
adam langdon underrated comment
Well, he is Bilbo Baggins after all
Is there a reference I am missing?
adam langdon I have experisence in playing the ukulele and quit good at it because me Hawaiian .-.
four stringed bass is ten times more easier wi5 ukulele experience it’s a ukulele but bigger
Great solo you know it was good because there is so much hate lmao
Oh I know right? Lol. Trolls love hating they don't understand. Is to bad people can't just be respectful and appreciate music as the art that it is
All the hate you say or troll comments are just because of davie504. Just check his comment section and you understand
I dont see any hate comment...
@@cutroquattrovero why do you think davie fans leave a hate comment on A BASS VIDEO?
watching this in 2022 and i'm blown away ...amazing!!!!
Stu Hamm has always been one of the top five bassists in the world.
Really bassists? This is Stu Hamm!!! If there is any real real bad player that questions this cats abilities isn't a knowledgeable bassist. I'm no fan of his or anything, it's just common knowledge as a 25+yr player that Stu has pocket. Check out his resume! & then for all you who still doubt his skills, check out his net worth... I didn't think this was the greatest thing to my ear's, it took skill's however but I'm no hater so when your good your just good that's all!!! No magic just hours of woodshedding!
Hahaha, I am a bassist player and actually I have learn trough the years this: "No matter how beautiful you play slap, don't do it" a lot of people hate slap tecnique, I m only use this tecnique rarely, when the song need some funk or kind of this.
Those weren't fingers, they were tiny Chuck Norrises
Yee haw!
@@conorthefivechickenedcockr9003 when chuck norris does a push up the whole world moves
Fingers of steel..... behind every bass player there's an happy wife.
Fantastic! I have seen this video thousands of times since it was uploaded. And I always enjoy it. At the beginning of 1990 I heard Kings of Sleep for the first time. I started playing bass a few years before and the impact that Stuart Hamm caused me was tremendous. In those years the access to the clinics was not very simple in my country. So to try to make the bass sound like him without having seen how was his tapping technique was, believe me, very ... entertaining so to speak . Years after the opportunity to see it live. The last time was a few years ago with Greg Howe and it was a delicious moment.
Just amazing! Inspirational. Thank you.
It's so encouraging to see the bass guitar evolving into more of a solo-friendly instrument. Back in the "stone age" the classicists were writing pieces for the bass viol, and they received no outcries of 'self-indulgence' or the like. I'm buying a new EADGC five-string just so I can better explore Bach, Beethoven and the like. In a few centuries Satriani, Hamm, Van HALEN, Claypool and Sumner (i.e., Sting) will be named among the classicists. But Stu did all this on a 4-string bass!
only in the right circles, but that circle is expanding
Hellborg does it all on a four string and personally I can't think of anyone I enjoy more on the bass as a solo instrument.
Harry, just listen to Collin Hodgkinson f you want to hear awesome classic bass.
Nice! I have a fender squire EADGB
Wow. This really is the best. I've seen him play other iterations of this set, but this one takes the cake!
I saw Stu do a couple of the beat bass solos I have ever seen last week that waaaaay blew my mind like psychedlic-wise but stone cold sober!!! He IS the music!!!
Never tire of watching this. Stu Hamm is one of the most talented bassists I've ever seen or heard. He's capable of playing his techniques in so many genres.
I thought he wastoohamm as well
Wow I had never heard Stu do anything at this level. Just when he did concerts with Joe. Amazing!
This sounds amazing, it feels good!
Sheerly amazing.
Mind blown!!
finally a video where the title isnt just there to get clicks.....
+Bro7Games Well kind of, it is more a bass song than a bass solo. But i like it a lot :)
+Syn het true, hard to call it a bass solo if it lasts the entire song :)
he looks like the undertaker in his early days.
ikr
+Timmy Lenni true lol
true
Timmy Lenni and with broken Matt hardy theme too at the start the wrestling connection is real
Timmy Lenni The undertaker was a bass player then!
this is amazing
🎵He played the first thing that came to his head just so happened to be The Best Solo in the world🎵
tenacious d lol
Who the fuck is this and why haven't I heard of him?!?!
His name is Stu Hamm and he's a BOSS. He's a solo artist and does bass for Joe Satriani. I know he's been with other projects too.
Jonathan Sefcik Nice, thanks.
He has also recorded with Al di Meola.
Checkout roundabout by Yes, pretty sure thats him playing, great song.
Rowan Healy That's Chris Squire. He's Yes's bassist, and that song was recorded in 1971. Stu is much younger and didn't start getting gigs til he graduated college in the mid 80s
Stu Hamm's soling had a huge influence on me as a kid...
me too
LanceCampeau same here brother. If you heard the music I write. Stu would be the first person to come to mind
Me too
Very well done!
Quarantine brings you back to awesome old videos
I need the tabs for this!😂
Good luck
That's pretty WOW, omg!
Well its alright :-)
My favorite instrument and my favorite song. Wow 💪
Absolutely fantastic. Just How I remember it.
Bass is much harder to play then a guitar
I'm a thin stringed peasant myself.
Im a thicc string boi, it goes both ways.
Ahh a man of culture
Not in a local pub rock band it isn't lol
wait how so ?
Not really
Great bass solo to jumpstart the weekend
I Love Love Love the bass & this is quite awesome!! Thnx for sharing (I'm trying to teach myself to play bass ;)
Awesome! ❤🎵🎶👏
Omfg yes! The very beginning was one of my fav orchestral songs
But can he djent?
Omg Jared Dines
Lol why do people think Jared is the OG of duhjent jokes? lol I like Jared but there are other metal comedy youtubers
Djared Lames cannot djent!!!!! he doesnt even know what djent is
Stevie T!
Or a couple of other guys
That's the dopest I ever!😳😲😮
I saw Stu preform right in front of me. It was great with a nice focus on classical solos
I saw Joe Satriani with Stu Hamm on bass, and it was around this time, like 1988 or so.
It was at the Palace Theater in Albany NY, and when he did this solo, just Wow!!!
I started to buy cassettes and CDs of them.
Quaohogs anyone?
He plays the bass like my girlfriend talks?
Damn 😂
Whole lotta smack? 😂
Too much to understand? 😆
I need a girlfriend like yours, bro.
I saw this solo on this tour in ´88 when they visited Sweden. Stu was best in show, hands down!
He even used an enormous fake thumb during the funk part 😅
Great thanx for sharing 😊
Oh my God, that was amazing
This is great ...
i got goosebumps when he played moonlight sonata on the bass 😭
Davie504: hold my beer
Maybe
I like him tho
Pretty good UA-camr
I'm willing to Bet that Stuart Hamm is better at Davie504 no offense to Davie he's amazing.
Aidan Jeanes but can he play 24 string bass
Thanks vargskelethor’s editor for putting this in the midi hell mario vid, you made me watch a masterpiece
Superb!! 🤩🤩
the world needs more bass solos
Couldn't imagine the foggy mountain breakdown could be part of a bass solo :D
Phenomenal!! 💥💥👍
Beautifuly done
You don't have to like it, but you gotta appreciate it!
That was pretty bad-ass 25 years ago. Nowadays, everybody plays circles around it. But, you can never take away the fact that it's a classic. Definitely a Classic!!!
One of my favorite pieces of music ever. (Piano sonata #14)
Percussive bass players never cease to amaze me.
Didn't know brian may played bass
in what dimension does he look like brian may lmao
@@Mehmet-ef7qc hair
bob bobby Brian play electric guitar not bass, the ex Queen’s bassist is John Deacon
@@Tipticklerrr but not face
Some one just got into queen cause of the movie and is just saying this to be funny.
the beginning of this was so close to the actual piece of music i was amazed. only a couple of tones missed but remarkable never the less
HAHAHA
This is so good
amazing.......❤
This man really hit a moonlight sonata
y dus his gitar only have 4 stribgs/.?
because its a bass guitar
huh?
it only has 4 strings because its a bass guitar
y would they make a guitar with only 4 strings? they already have one with 6 strings, so is a bass guitar just a guitar but worse?
NO ITS A BASS GUITAR
Loved it
OMG.....in tears..............amazing
Fucking BEETHOVEN?!?!?!?!
Him: starts playing bass solo
Me:no, that's not how you're supposed to play the game
Saw him live in Rome, some years ago,...a real virtuoso!
Very nice slap and bass tapping.🎸👍😷