Practical and informative FREE bass lesson videos from ex Big Country and Animals bassist, Scott Whitley.
Scott's "If it sounds good, it IS good" philosophy strips away the fear of "doing it wrong" so many players have and dispels many of the myths surrounding seemingly "difficult" or "impossible" techniques.
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I am an experienced musician, played bass in a number of signed bands in the 80s (although bass was always my ‘other’ instrument, despite always loving the purity of it) and I’m enjoying going through these videos for ideas and concepts I might have missed or knew intuitively without knowing that idea as a ‘thing’. Thx.
Hey Scott. Great playing. I want to buy this both as a busking guitar and bass amp. Since this is not a strict bass amp is there a risk of blowing out the speakers with higher volume ?
Hi Scott, I was obsessed with the sound of this video, so I bought a short scale Ibanez and had a luthier put a fretless neck on it, and it sounds totally dead, nothing at all like the singing fretless sound you have here. Even without you adding any vibrato or sliding, we can immediately tell you're playing a fretless. Can you tell us what it is that gives that amazing effect? Thank you so much!
Nice! One of the best pick style players out there who is known more as an amazingly talented finger style player is Geezer Butler. He absolutely slays it with a pick as he does finger style.
Absolutely brilliant to make a tutorial of Tony’s bass line and actually go through each stage..priceless 😊😊and what a perfect song to demonstrate Tony’s brilliant arrangement..
Thank you Scott. I have heard of left hand slap, from YOUR videos ! I’ve been following your videos, and they are a breakthrough for me. This video just made me realize my left hand has been rigid. So I’m now training myself to be floppy !
Hello, thank you very much for the patterns. I am a beginner and it is very useful. I just cannot see rhe free pdf?! The website doesn't exist anymore...how can i get the pdf please? Txs
I’ve been working thru your slap videos, after trying to learn from several others. I’m actually starting to get it, and that’s a miracle ! Thank you !
Why is it that musicians seem to be a dying breed? Maybe too much short-cutting with lazy sampling on ‘hey I can make a tune’ software. It’ll never replace this knowledge of music theory and the ability to actually play an instrument. If it wasn’t for channels like this on RU-vid (and my own personal music collection) I don’t know where I’d get my fix. Cheers Scott 👍🏼
The best big country song! and more relevant today than ever before, due to the socio-political climate we are living in now being so similar to those depicted in the lyrics.
the pdf link doesn't work anymore. I know what the major scale is. Is it most helpful to just memorize the numbers for the scale? I know the notes of the fretboard as well. I have been playing reading chord charts for decades, but for some reason I am struggling with switching to nashville numbers charts.
hi I've been playing off and on for years now, but i could never figure out why my slap technique was poor, trying one of your lessons has lead me to one of the reasons, I'm muting with my right hand all the time! here's me trying to follow the lesson and it dawned on me that the was ive always muted was how i was taught with the fleshy part of my right hand thumb. now at 66 years old, im gonna find it hard to change but im gonna have a go, wish me luck😅 ive only just stumbled across you, Scott, but great vids, nicely laid out easy to follow(specially the slow bit) im looking forward to finding more
I have a CD you did a long time ago because ( Colin Jones ) gave it to me as a keen up/ slap on the backside. on it you comprehensively and totally accuratley did Mark Kings 1988( ?) live at wembly solo. is there any chance at all you could do an instuctional video of that? ( big ask but would love to know) love your stuff Scott. and follow it loads ( cant belive you depped for me once with Outer Limits!! absolutley blown away ( as were the band) good man Scott
Ron Carter played an upright piccolo bass tuned A1, D2, G2, C3. I'd be curious to try that tuning on an acoustic bass like an Ibanez AEGB24E - it's like a dreadnought or a bit bigger acoustic guitar with four strings, tuned as a regular bass, but I'd shift the A, D and G strings one position down and add a C on top. I've tried similar acoustic basses in standard tune, but the volume for the E string coming from the body has always sounded a bit thin to me. An interesting alternative might be to take a 4/4 (full size) cello, find the right strings and tune it down to A1 through C3, or if that sounds too thin, maybe try it with a 1/8 upright bass. All any of this would take is money and time ...
Only 6 years late to the party!! Just tried your #1 setting on my J5, sounds great!! It was on setting #4 and had way more top end than I needed. Treble roll off is so much more useful now too. Thank you!!!
I've been playing acoustic solo gigs on piccolo bass since 2011 and have written & recorded many albums since then with my 4-stringed little friends. People at my gigs usually ask if it's a big ukulele and I usually try not to be insulted, haha.
