Now attempting to start learning how to play and observing you is totally encouraging and want to learn a lot!!!!!!! Starting on the fretboard with the notes!!!!! I have five degrees but I am a complete infant in this new musical world :-) I am beginning to study the notes and have purchased a couple of basses/ I am intimidated at this point!!!
Thanks for watching and for your comment! I hope my videos can help in any way - remember to keep things really simple especially early on in the process. I spent a lot of time just focusing on feel and touch in the beginning - if you ever get frustrated learning notes, scales and songs try to pull things back and focus on feel.
well Rudolph, great question! But like all good questions, it depends on the context. When in context of say, a minor 7th chord, you create a sort of tragically beautiful chord, oftentimes referred to as a "half diminished" chord - which really is kind of funny, is anything ever really half diminished? When played in context of a dominant 7th chord, well let me just say, aint nothing really halfway sounding about that. I like to call the flat 5 - God's interval - because it helps add a layer of spirituality to some harmonic instances - good question. @@playlikerudy
Great video I'm a beginner bassist that played to a high level in highschool on different things including voice. It's interesting starting from the basics and knowing nothing ans becoming a humble student again. I appreciate the clear teaching style and lack of condescension to those who already know something. I'm enjoying this process and your videos are super helpful. Keep it up ❤
Thank you so much!! That really means a lot - I am trying to deliver the info in a balanced way that beginners and experts can use so I’m so happy to hear that - if you have any ideas or requests for a video you’d like to see feel free to let me know!
Great content, I am more comfortable playing with my thumb than my middle and index fingers and thinking it is a bit unorthodox but then I saw your video, gives me more confidence..thanks
Thats great! Thanks so much for watching - I’ve played whole shows before just with my thumb - it’s great to know good technique but feel is top priority in my opinion - Appreciate you stopping by
Great info presented here. I'm a guitarist who wants to play Bass and your advise is spot on. Bass is there to Hold down the bottom-end, Lock-in the groove and ultimately to support the Song & vocal. Your Bass Sounds Great. oNe LoVe from NYC
Thanks so much for checking this out! I too started with guitar and for a while was told I sounded like "A guitarist playing bass" - but over time I have found the experience with years of guitar playing to be so helpful - really appreciate the kind words!
I’ve been playing bass for about seven years now and I am a pretty good low intermediate. I know the keys of songs. And how to follow for said scale but I don’t know scales, but I do know it by instinct if that makes sense. I never learned covers, so that’s probably why my skills are actually lacking as much as they are. But surprisingly the anime bocchi the rock. Has got me learning (the Street performance baseline) It’s super complex at least for my level but I’m getting through it and complete pretty solidly at a slower tempo. 150bpm vs the 186 The runs are murder lmao but slick as hell. I do have a church playing background, so I understand most things in a band context. Tabs irritate me because I prefer notes So I generally transcribe tabs as it hurts my brain less. I also generally learn songs by ear.
Yeah I agree with you on that - learning by ear and by instinct is my favorite as well - I’d like to try and get this info packaged in a way that leads to that style of learning more so than making it sterile ya know - and I also agree that tabs are annoying af lol idk why they hurt my brain as well - thanks for stopping by here, I appreciate it
Learning everything on paper but not actually using it happened to me on keyboard. Now i got a bass and i actually use alot more of the stuff i learned. Nice Video!
That’s great - I think there is something a bit more intuitive and practical about the guitar/bass guitar from an invention standpoint - maybe because it’s a bit younger idk - thanks for watching I appreciate you!!
Hey, Great subby sound your getting. Are you using flats on that jazz with the neck pickup? I've been bringing this into my own playing more lately and particularly like the muted slap sound you can get with an aggressive thumb pluck and pop while muted like you did. I actually just used that in the outro of a reggae-ish tune we just recorded.
Hey thanks very much for watching! Yes I am using flatwounds and in this whole video using both pickups - getting a nice mix of some muddy low end tone and a little bit of cut from the bridge pickup.
Hey lesson, words of wisdom. What year is that Fender Jazz Bass? It sounds killer! I am a guitar player also, who would like to get into playing the bass. Would you recommend that bass for a beginner. Also, what amp are you using? Are you using an Amp Modeler? Thank you. Sorry for the many questions.
Thanks so much! No worries on the questions that is exactly what this is for. 1. This Bass on paper is nothing special, from 2012 I think I bought it for $600 but it has such a great character to it, diamond in the rough kind of thing. 2. I would definitely recommend this bass - standard Fender Jazz Bass (made in Mexico) at the price point, build quality and playable neck it is a great option as an every day bass. 3. In this video I am going DI into my Apollo Twin interface, using an Ampeg Legacy plugin and some light compression. 4. A big part of the sound I go for comes from the super heavy flatwound strings, I swear by flats for a more mellow sound, I am not sure what gauge specifically but I buy the heaviest I can find, I wouldn't recommend going that heavy to start but definitely experiment with flatwounds when you get the chance. I started as a guitar player as well so I can relate.
@@carmeenojust on the strings, different strings make a different tone do they? Does the tone depend more heavily on the instrument itself or the strings? I know you alluded to it I just wanna clarify for my own nerdy brain 🤓 lol thanks ❤
hard to say concretely what has more implication on the tone - I think of strings as having a big effect on your feel or touch while playing, and the sound of the instrument "acoustically" - so flatwounds could lead to you playing a bit more laid back and come off a bit more chill and muted, warm - where steel/nickel strings will be a bit more reactive to your fingers and brighter - as far as the instrument, the kind of pickups, pickup orientation (jazz bass, P bass, humbucker etc.) will definitely have the biggest influence on how your tone sounds coming through an amp or while recording. Then there are the whole topics of preamp, wood, style of body, solid or semi hollow etc. which could take many hours to explore LOL lmk if that helps. @@bellemusecore
