I really struggled doing this one by ear. I love how the bass sits in the mix, but it's hard to discern what is being played. That's never an issue with a Warwick Thumb. Great playing, and thanks for the tab. I've been checking RU-vid for a while hoping someone would lend a hand!
First... neither Jeff or Victor are so called first tier bass players ? James Jameson , Lee Sklar , and Marcus Miller Paul McCartney... have played on hit records ! Big hits ! Some of the biggest! Those are the guys that count ! And that's how you get paid! Not in magazines or utube ? But when it counts... not using your bass for a hula hoop? Not playing a 100 notes in a 3 note song ? And can bring something else to the recording. Sting can do this, Mark King, Larry Graham they can sing and write! So what is technical or feel? The records speak for themselves .
Victor has great things to teach us but he was basically born and raised to play bass from the time he was able to walk because of his brothers. Music is intuitive to him and that isn’t the case for most of us
I think this must be the best version of all the Some Like It Hot bass lines I've seen. Popping and the ghost notes. I played ??? this song on a Steinberger copy at a New's Eve party in 1986. Thanks for the video. Really well done.
The way I see it is, what would you rather listen to and/or play? The super technical theory driven stuff but not very fun in any way, though it may be impressive skill wise, or the less theory based stuff that may be simpler but has a groove that makes you dance and has you coming back, even if it’s super simple? Like I love technical death metal and the players are crazy good, but it doesn’t make me want to move like songs like Just The Two Of Us. I remember those bass lines. Idc how technical it is and how much theory there is, if the bass doesn’t make you want to move your body, it’s pointless and is just showing off to pretentious theory nerds. Now if you can do both simultaneously, that’s different. But if your bass playing cant be felt through my whole body, it’s not really playing bass, it’s playing notes.
I prefer musicality to circus movements. Victor Wooten is great at doing acrobatics with his instrument, I hate that. I prefer good music. Jeff Berlin shows musicality much more, how he accompanies, without demonstrating skills outside of music.... obviously music and the instrument are studied, one must prepare and educate oneself. Jeff Berlin 100% Victor Wooten 10%
Both are RIGHT! Jeff's ego which informs his 'sense of duty' is whats WRONG here. Hes a great player, but he is no Victor Wooten. He would have so much more success if he adjusted his attitude and relinquish his sense of 'entitlement'. Because at the core of everything Berlin has said in old interviews and on-line, Jeff is a man who is hurting because he feels he didnt get the accolades he deserved... And I get that. He is truly underrated. So now he feels the only way to get them is to go at the methods of whoever is in the spotlight. Which is passive-aggressive, to say the least. He says he has nothing against wooten, but he does - I've been following him since he was with Bruford. Hes hard to get along with. But thats okay - Bach and Mozart were very hard to get along with as well. Hell, Bach drew a knife on a bassoonist for playing his part incorrectly. I get it, man. Trust me. But this limits Jeff greatly. Vic has done so much for the community of bass-players than Jeff. When your arguing with guys like Victor Wooten ( who literally is about making learning fun and is a teddy-bear ) something is WRONG with you. This whole thing is giving me Zappa flashbacks. I thought he would have learned something about himself from that experience - but, no..... ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING! And Jeff, if you're reading this, brother -- Dont hate the PLAYERS, hate the game. Its not the players and their teaching methods that are the problem - its the game. Attack the game. The players are only doing what they can to keep their wives and children fed.
It is up to the consumer to decide this: do you pay for an academic education? Should you pay for someone to encourage you to teach yourself? If you are already self teaching, academic will expand your horizons. And, if you had a start as a self taught player, ill bet you didnt pay for it. Flip side: in a free market, Victor, and those like him, are permitted to market whatever they want. So i go back to my first statement: its up to the consumer to make an informed decision.
@@MarkMarxonsBassChannel I advise you that when you say the tuning that the bass will have, you tune each of the strings so that it is easier to continue with the tutorial and thus tune it according to the tuning it should have.
