Learn to play bass guitar and have fun doing it! Lessons range from beginning scales and techniques to advanced slap bass and sweep arpeggios. I'll also post solo bass and other performance videos occasionally, as well as videos about cruise ship gigs for musicians.
If you're a beginner, I can't recommend highly enough my complete 30-hour step-by-step course, Beginner to Badass, check it out here: joshfossgreen.com/b2b
at 4 mins on video.. what if my fingers dont stretch even that much? like they barely can be on four frets which are next to eachother and my pointer and middle finger gap stretches so much already, is there any solutions for non stretchy ?
Cruise ship musician speaking, 10 years in the business. You are such an ungrateful so-and-so. You are working in one of the few really honestly well paid ways to make a living from music, and you piss all over it by posting a video on RU-vid where you show your crew cabin and openly complain about it, even namechecking the ship and cruise line. That's a one way ticket to getting fired: it is forbidden to disclose pictures and videos of crew areas, regardless of your level of satisfaction with them. Being a musician on a cruise ship means plenty of time to spend OUTSIDE that cabin, and plenty of time to visit the ports. And, we musicians get paid incredible sums, especially compared to what we have to go through in some of our home countries: I come from Italy and when I gig there, I have to pray venue owners on my knees to get paid 50 euros for two hours of performance...I'm not going to disclose how much I get paid on cruise ships, but it's waaaaaaaay more than that!!! Besides, it's perfectly normal to get a small, shared cabin if it's your first contract, usually as time goes on and you get more contracts, you get to have your own, roomier single cabin. So, if you want those contracts and a better cabin, please, stop complaining and be more grateful for all of the other tons of positive sides of your job...there are so many musicians who can only dream of being in your place!
I have the Reflex...it's like the MOOG MP-201. Both are discontinued, both are rather expensive on the used market. I think the functionality was too ahead of its time. Source Audio should reprise it. To build upon your "make it sound like a synth" analogy, this is your LFO and Mod Matrix....for anything that accepts MIDI or CV. Great video.
Probably obvious for most people, because this is the FIRST lesson I learned at my very first gig. After the gig is over... My bass in in the case, cable in the bag, I'm done, right?? Time to chat with friends! Wrong! HELP others pack up! Boy oh boy did I get scolded after that, and the lesson was never forgotten. This hits 10X harder if there's another act after you.
Hi. I’m just seeing this: June 2024. If you haven’t already done it, I’d like the 5-string book on the beast scale, and these other practice scales. I haven’t heard of this method before. Thanks.
Terribile. Questa Suite è poesia, è commozione, è Grandiosa....NON È una gara di velocità senza sentimento senza feeling senza arte. Uno strazio insomma
A short story: I'm finishing up your B2B course and, for a treat, I always let myself either noodle around or (more frequently) take some time to learn at least *part* of a cool song. As much as I *love* this song, it just didn't come up in my repertoire until today. Anyhow, I looked for tabs and found so many conflicting versions (none of them sounding *quite* right) until I said to myself "man, I'd love to get Josh's take on this" and now here I am after googling "Josh Fossgreen Rick James Give" - THANK YOU!!!!
honestly when you continue your lick to the very end of the break, I find its like apples and oranges. My taste would be more to the end the phrase with space so it stands out like a complete idea. Unlike all the extra notes that tend to sound like a run on sentence if you were speaking.IMO
Saludos!! Quiero proponerte algo mucho mejor que interpretar música de Bach "a" bajo, es interpretar música de Bach "con" bajo. Desarrolla armonía, crear belleza, sencillo pero no menos complejo... Deseo ver una orquesta siendo armonizada debidamente con un buen bajo que no es una guitarra o un piano... La función del bajo pienso no ha sido explotada en la música clásica... No soy experto, sé que quizá eso requiere mucho trabajo, un sueño de un idealista jj saludos
A local pub band on many occasions started without the bass player who was often late, commuting back from London on his motorcycle. Towards the third number his bike would arrive in the car park and he would run into the gig, place his helmet and gloves on the amp, light a cigarette, plug in and immediately dig into the groove -still wearing Barbour jacket, silk scarf and heavy motorcycle boots. Quite dramatic. You certainly noticed the bass when it kicked in!
Hi Josh, awesome tutorial, I can tell you watched live performances and listened closely to the song because you might be the only guy on youtube that play the "pop", the hammer-on and the ghost notes in the right way.
Hey, this is a great cover! I just finished transcribing this one myself and I'm quite confused about something and maybe you can help me out. In the verse, where you're hitting that G#, right before the open E, I've been hearing it as an A. Even when I listened to the isolated bass track, that G# sounded like an A to me. I've been racking my brain about it. Would love to hear your thoughts on this!
