How to play like Duff McKagan - Bass Habits Ep. 3
Вставка
- Опубліковано 22 чер 2024
- 👉 Duff's 5 tips for bass players: www.musicradar.com/news/duff-...
⭐ GTHIC JEWELRY - gthic.com?aff=212
⭐ USE DISCOUNT CODE 'PAUL' TO GET 20% OFF
⭐ If you like what you see please support
__________________________________________
👉 INSTAGRAM: / pauldelbello_
👉 FB: / pauldelbello
👉 TWITTER: / pdb979
👉 WEB: www.pauldelbello.com
👉 MY BAND: • Dobermann - "Pure Bre...
👉 MY TOP 50 BASSLINES PLAYLIST: open.spotify.com/playlist/1vI...
👉 MAKE A PAYPAL DONATION: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...
👉 WHAT GEAR I USE: • Video
![Duff McKagan: Decoded [Punk-King Of The Bass Melody]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SrEcFNtPmCA/mqdefault.jpg)
⭐ Don't forget to follow me on instagram: 👉 instagram.com/pauldelbello_/
⭐ Support my work with a PayPal donation: 👉 www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5FBW9J5CWRNUQ&source=url
⭐ Support my work checking out my band: 👉 ua-cam.com/video/2inDtRcux5s/v-deo.html
Hey man, could you do a video based on Bob Daisley of the Blizzard of Ozz and Ozzy Osbourne band, please?
I’m his mailman in Seattle. He’s very modest, down to earth, and likes to stay busy.
very underrated bassist. His bass licks really helped the songs
Not just the playing, but the tone he has too. Very distinctive, especially songs like Coma, You Could Be Mine and Double Talkin Jive
Double Talking Jive has a great bass sound.
Idk. I think he’s quite rated.
he is definitely not underrated, stop saying that
Rocket queen my men also
Duff and Steve helped me move a sheet of plywood into my room (by putting it on top of milk crates to support my bed) when we all lived at 1750 N. Sycamore Ave. (2nd floor) in Hollywood.
You missed one important thing: use a chorus pedal all the time
Exactly. Take TC Electronics Corona pedal and install his preset
Every GNR song sounds better with it
@@BoomChockolaca FLanger
Not really all the time I think 🤔 Also add some drive! Fresh strings help too (steel will give you more bite) and most definitely a pick! 👌🏼
Yes, all the time! 😉
and a pick
I enjoyed this program.
A wild Adam appeared
Hey Adam let's start a band.
Watch the lemmy one
Sir. You make Ramsay's cooking look like posh dog shit
Didn't expect to see you here
Saw GNR at the Marquee Club in 1986. What a band.
Managed to get right in front of Duff.
Watching him play with the sweat just running off him. In my top five best gigs.
They were something else.
Theory lingo alert! Duff tip: Always use a perfect fourth even if the chord change requires you to use the lydian sound (#11)!! That's how his lines give many GNR songs a bluesy and rebellious feel.
Paradise City, Sweet Child of mine, Knocking on heaven's Doors are a great example of this.
Spot on!
I’m curious what you mean. I understand Lydian, P4, etc… give me a specific example though…
@@johnnatelli3841 uhm for instance, in sweet child of mine, bass lines run like a major scale for every major chord. Even if what Axl sings follows the D flat major scale diatonically. The vocal line goes for a sharp 11 during B major but not the bass. The bass avoids F#
Oh, I got you. He does do that all the time. Sure, it makes sense that he would have no knowledge of chord scales and just treat every chord like a new tonic. That’s kind of funny to think about. Really good observation.
Tip #1: Have Steve Adler on drums
He’s probably available, btw
The way he locked in with Adler is a huge part of the way they sounded and it’s massively underrated. When Adler got the heave and Sorum came in, while Sorum was technically better, they lost that and the band was much worse as a result.
100% Agree. (Sorum is a great drummer, just not the one for GnR, honestly).
Absolutely and well said. You just have to listen to Mr Brownstone to hear that connection.
You could be mine??? the bass and drums go really tight together
(guitar player here) If only for the unbelievably brilliant bass intro to Sweet Child O' Mine, which to me is the BEST melodic bass line ever recorded, he deserves a special place in rock history.
Awesome team player, and a huge part of the GnR sound. He's up there with Tom Hamilton, Roger Glover, Geezer Butler and Bob Daisley.
Duff rocks. I love love love his work on Sweet Child 0 Mine.
Before I saw Duff's list at the end, my initial thought was that his bass playing, really does serve the song. Melodic, creative and sets the mood of the songs perfectly.
That VHS is the reason why I picked up playing guitar great concert!
I never think about it, as I have never seriously analyzed GNR in this way, but his bass lines really are a crucial part of their sound. Now that I think about it I was always hearing it and "feeling" it and liking it but not paying attention. To me thats part of what the true greatest bass players and drummers do, and they usually don't get the recognition for this exact reason. The older I get the more I respect bass players and feel its the trickiest instrument. There are plenty of Guitar players I can't touch but know exactly what they are doing and how and why they did it, but bass, especially good bass, somehow eludes me. Not the playing but the decisions, the composition choices. It's just not what I'd do for whatever reason. Traditional bass lines make no damn sense to me and its hard to keep it up but on guitar I can "glide" over the top and make mistakes and bend my way out of them and stuff.
Easily one of the most underrated bass guitarists ever
*one of the most rated bassist, and he earned it. under rated would mean that no one ever gives him his attention but he is actually one of the most popular, well known and well recognized bassist in the world. he is great and everyone knows it :)
I feel like every bass player is underrated!
He knows his work.
No he's not, he's very recognized
he is not underrated man
He is the reason I started playing bass I had the pleasure of shaking his hand and telling him that myself really talented nice guy
Started playing bass last year, now that I am listening more to the Bass in songs duff quickly stood out to me. a very unique tone and some tasty licks.
How you showed the flashing ghost notes with the audio was excellent.
He's always been a very good bassist. Pretty groovy too.
El mejor sonido de bajo de la historia!! Grande Duff!!🤘🤘🤘👍😁🔒
The more I study your lessons, the more I realize that playing bass is not simple as it could seem to be.
Bass is the simplest instrument to play badly, while playing it seriously is quite hard even for the simplest basslines.
It's a hard work of precision, ears and groove, melted with the difficulty of playing on a big, long neck and a heavy instrument.
Thank you man, your work is superb.
Listening to Duff's isolated bass lines will change your life! Great video,you nailed it!
I just started playing bass a month or two back. Your videos are contributing to my becoming of a great bass player.
My first intrument was bass, on early 90's, also played drums and nowadays I consider myself a bass player whose plays guitar, Duff McKagan, Mike Starr and Jason Newsted with their massive sound and huge stage presence inspired me in the beggining, because of them I started on bass.
*Perfect is*
*Play like Les*
*Arms like Martinie*
*Charismatic like Cliff*
*Handsome like Kagan*
Great video Paul! I really like the bass playing in "Rocket Queen" especially. Duff's a great bass player with a great sound that also managed to have excellent music production. Eric Stacy of the original Fasterpussycat band was really good too, especially on "Whipped". Thanks again!
The best of best hard rock bass player. Mr Duff
He is an excellent bass player. His bass lines are awesome, interesting, and fun to play. Another one is the dude from Creed.
Was always one of my favorites; great sound, style, and definitely one of the coolest!
Duffs bass sound is so perfect for guns. The Precision and jazz pickup combo mixed with a pick makes it warm but also biting
I always loved hearing Duff's bass in the music whereas many bands you can barely hear the bass
Duff and Slash! What a pair 🔥🔥
Great observations, make a lot of sense! Thanks for that video.
One of my favorite bass tones
Thats one of the things that always stood out for me in of most of Use Your Illusions songs is duffs sound/tone
Awesome, thank you so much! Duff is the reason I started playing bass, definitely has led an interesting life. His story is so inspiring. Definitely my favorite bass player. I always bring him up when I get crap for playing with a pick.
I've always played with a pick with my bass down to my knee for 25 years. Don't take crap from anyone.
Great vid. As always.
This is great. Thank you so much!!
Very interresting and well made . Thanxs
Yep. Duff's parts on Appetite are why I wanted to learn bass too. Now I have 4 of these MIJ Jazz Specials that I love so much.
Love him! One of all time influencies.
Please do Jason Newsted as well 🙏
Yes please!!✌💜
*insert joke about AJFA having no bass.
@@junkhead_92 sounds terrible
My favorite bassist. Thank you.
This tutorial was analytic and methodical. Very well done man.
Gran análisis muchas gracias paul !
Thanks for this. Very well done.
“Always end on a high note”
If you end on a low note it sound like Lynyrd Skynyrd
Loved it. Duff is my favorite also.
He's by far the most inspiring Bassist to me, he inspired me to pick up a bass for the first time, like his sound is really nice his riffs are great and hes just fucking badass 🤘🤘🤘
Yo sick video! Those quotes by duff at the end took my breath away.
Duff is the reason I picked up a bass too. In my teens, I used to have a GNR poster, adorning the door of my room. The live photo of Duff was the coolest, I've ever seen a rock musician. A young, pre-bloated Duff, leather jacket, wide stance, bleached blonde hair on his face, cigarette hanging between the lips, with his black P Bass. That combined with the punky, nasty bass tone, and awesome riffs. The whole band had a perfect bad boy image, for a kid living in the early 90s but Duff was hands down the coolest of them all! You pointed out a lot of obvious things, that make his playing really stand out. Things I've never thought about but now explain, the uniqueness of his sound.
Love his style, my fav bassline is the one from "Locomotive". Enjoyed this video
You've made a really nice analysis. Congrats.
i think this might be interesting even for duff himself. because most of the stuff someone does, happens unconsciously. this is a good analyse of what he does, when he plays bass.
Great video, I love this series of videos!=) I think Duff McKagan is one of the great rock bass players, I am not the biggest Guns N Roses fan but I have always liked Duff
AMAZING!!! AMAZING video!! unique!
muy buena info!!!
muchas gracias
When I started playing post hardcore, I started using the high strings to get a more crispy sound and I haven’t stopped doing it since
He has a Fender deluxe Precision Bass with signature Seymour Duncan pickups and a special circuit switch. Fresh strings and pick if you want to start somewhere.
Duff is a tasty player. During the appetite days Duff played a Fender Jazz Special. I have one and out of all my basses it's my favorite.
Love..LOVE DUFF❤❤❤
I started playing bass becuz of that live in Tokyo too! Nice video man.
I always liked how he played octaves with Adler's drums. Big part of my playing. Finding a good drummer is easier said than done.
Great overview of a great bassist! Great playing too! You do a great "duff"!
Dude you gotta do Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith, he is an absolute MONSTER on the bass. A real "bass player's bass player", he plays exactly the right line for the songs, both complex and simple when needed. He's effective with both fingers and pick, really just a fantastic bass player. Duff McKagan and him are my absolute favorites.
I was gonna mention Tom as well. Really similar surroundings: blaring guitars, high register frontman taking up a lot of space, rhythm section very much in "know your role" territory. Both of them were excellent at supporting the song, picking their spots for fills, and exercising a lot of discernment as to how to be creative with the context of the song. Two of the best rock bassists, both really knew what they were doing.
Tom is one of the most underrated bassist out there. I never see anyone talking about him even when mentioning his peers. People talk about Steve Harris, Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones, etc but never mention Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith. The bass line to “Sweet Emotion” is legendary and can be a bit tricky to actually get the timing right and that’s just one of many Aerosmith songs.
If you guys like Duff I uploaded Its So Easy Bass Lesson
Great rock bass player!!....i love his melodic bass solo,in the intro to "sweet child of mine" by G&R.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great work! Very informative. I'd like to see a video for Eddie Jackson of Queensryche.
GOAT- this is killer🤘🤘🤘🤘
It would be nice if you do one about Kelly Nickels from L.A. Guns. I think his playing style is kinda similar to Duff's and I really enjoy it. Cheers! :)
I love this series. There is something to learn from every bass player, whether you play their style of music or not. And loved how you mentioned he was the reason you began to play bass. We all have our inspirations, mine is Adam Clayton of U2. Not the flashiest, but he serves the song.
I used to think U2 songs were easy until I tried to learn "Where the Streets Have No Name". If your pick playing is deficient, this song will reveal it.
@@57precision Yep! I know a few bass players who can only play with their fingers. Knowing how to play with a pick as well is so important and opens up so many more doors in terms of tone.
Very good video! Could you make a How to sound like Geezer Butler? This would be awesome 🙌
Duff Mckagan and John Tailor of Duran Duran. Best of the best for Me...❤
Duff is my fav too
Great video, I love Duff! Have you done one of these for Mike Starr? If not, would love for you to do one!
The reason why I play the bass is because of him, and I agree with everything you said great video
I got like 9 guitars and i watch bass videos on youtube 😅
Geddy has a very similar playing profile, lots of high notes, lots of following or leading guitar, ending bars with high notes ect, but he does do a lot of other strange techniques.
I'm not a fan of G&R, but I do appreciate their sound in general.
The bassist from Iron Maiden is also freaking amazing.
obrigado! thanks for this analysis. I began as a guitar player (for about 10 years) and switched to bass until now (15 years ago). when I made the transition, it was almost as if I had never heard many of the songs I love, because I started to really "listen" to the bass And that's when I discovered the duff. He'd always been there, but I'd never really heard him. this also happens in my band, because we play some gnr covers and i make a point of playing them some Duff bass lines for them to see how they helped sculpt the sound of the Guns and Roses.
Love this one!!! Duff is incredible. Next up.....
Mike Inez? 🎸🎸🎸🎸
The song that REALLY got me hooked was perfect crime he REALLY rips on that one
Duff has an unique cool style to play bass guitar.
Nice
I’m reaching waaaaay back but my point correlates to exactly Duff’s choice of notes. The song: Sure Gonna Miss Her by Gary Lewis & The Playboys. Throughout the song and just when you think the bassist will land on the low note, you’re immediately surprised that the high note is accentuated instead. I often wonder if it’s a “guitar player who’s playing bass” thing or not. Not sure….but it sure sounds good! The great Carl Radle played in this band but I’m not certain it’s him here on this track. Speaking of Carl, you may want to consider looking into his life and career. It’ll speak for itself…trust me.
Good video
Duff is the reason I played bass too!!!!
Chorus. Set your action down so the strings rattle a little on the frets
I have a Jackson 4 string that with effects set right clones his tone pretty well
Duff.❤
Duff's tips are incredibly wise. If you think on him as boy doing this stuff back then, you'll realize how Guns 'n' roses was a dream team. In reality, all this big bands were.
Could yo do a video of mike starr?..
Also You do a great job teaching how works any bassist thanks man🤘🤘
Duff is the perfect example of play what serves the song. Everything broken down In here is second nature playing from years of experience.
Duff is an brilliant musician.
As someone who used to play in TWO GNR tribute bands, I find this video truly eye opening.
About his picking: seems to me it had changed throughout the years:
The AFD picking style sounds to me like a heavier pick playing near the bridge pickup, as it get more of a 'thump' sound,
While the more recognizable "Illusion" picking style is a thinner pick playing little 'north' of the neck pickup, which gives more of a 'zing' sound (if those terms make any sense)
It also helps to pick at an angle which is not parallel to the strings (try and see what you get).
Also - He doesn't boost a lot of highs in his sound, just a little bit. Nor boosting the heck out the lows. Gallien Krueger is THE amp for the job, for having rock-solid mids, while not being too "bassy".
NOTE: The chorus effect is not used as much as people think, only in key parts, that's why everyone thinks he uses it all the time.
Overall, yeah, Duff is the finest example of a modern rock bass player.
There’s a couple of bass tracks from the Appetite album on youtube that I believe to be legit. You can definitely hear the ghost notes which add more umph.
Strum it like Lemmy
he love to use the b3 in major chords too!
Plz could u do locomotive cover/tab. Would be much appreciated
Duff is my 2nd fave bass player; Dee Dee Ramone being my very fave (I'll admit; he is known more for his songwriting than his playing).
Diff is awesome.. great bassist imo.
Nice video. I am fans the Argentina.. plis subtitle.🤘🇦🇷
Can you please do an It's So Easy bass tab/cover
su forma de tocar el bajo siempre me pareció idéntica a la de paul mccartney. por eso son mis bajistas favoritos
Con los años ha perfeccionado su técnica y sonido. Hay líneas de bajo no tan conocidas como Into the Truth (Walking Papers), Freedom Song (Levee Walkers), Eat me (Ozzy Osbourne) que lo demuestran. Recomiendo escucharlas para notar su evolución.