Advanced Bass Soloing made Easy with Gary Willis

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Ever get in a rut soloing?
Ever wonder how to make your solo lines more...modern? Interesting? Dare I say, sexy? Even over something as basic as a minor chord?
(Ever wonder what makes Gary sound like...Gary?)
Today’s video is the cure for what ails you.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
- A “magic trick” using pentatonics to add dimension to your solos instantly
- Which pentatonics to use in a key to sound fresh, instead of repetitive
- How to incorporate the blues, and sound soulful and modern at the same time
- A simple fretting exercise that will keep this musical, so you never sound like you’re playing a pattern
- And much more
And, once again, that’s all taken from just a tiny bit of The Gary Willis Masterclass.
If you want to get the complete canon - everything I learned from Gary that transformed my playing, plus 3 live seminars with Gary, just follow this link:
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@bryanperez4505 4 года назад

Title should be: Soloing over Porn Music made Easy with Gary Willis :)

@markaspinall1619 4 года назад

next album huge wands and deep holes lol

@darrenclark9776 4 года назад

😂😂😂

@throwingbacktheapple 3 года назад

lol take a shot every time he hits the space bar.

@rodrigodepierola 4 года назад

"Soloing made easy" and then he shows blazing 32nds, yup, easy peasy lemon squeezy

@iantruax17 4 года назад

Rodrigo de Piérola more like difficult difficult lemon difficult 😂

@shaespringer5824 4 года назад

@MomoTheBellyDancer so true ..gotta try to start slow and then gradually increase the speed

@noblehillministerprophet8689 4 года назад

Dezy cheesy weezy

@noblehillministerprophet8689 4 года назад

New English = dictionary ,slimy chimy yummy tummy

@johngill8851 4 года назад

yeah pre chill dog

@gallollibre2657 4 года назад

First time I heard Gary Willis was with Tribal tech. one of my favorite bands. WOW!

@IndigoBass 4 года назад

Just now was the first time I’ve heard Gary Willis 👀

@lt_johnmcclane 4 года назад

Indigo Bass check out his solo album Bent and his work with Tribal Tech

@ts4gv 4 года назад

welcome to the ibanez crew :)

@czarpaul01 4 года назад

Listen to a nomad from Tribal Tech. You won’t be sorry

@monkeybusiness673 4 года назад

@@czarpaul01 Hooo boy. Thanks for that!

@leonlau5470 4 года назад

Brain:"Yeah, I got it" Hand:"Go away"

@hugocox4995 4 года назад

Tone is fucking stunning and wealth of knowledge whattttt my lord I mean I’ve had some good jazz teachers but these little tricks and ‘simple ‘ ideas are so genius 🥶😃💪🏽💪🏽🔥

@jeradjenkins2110 4 года назад

I love how every music youtuber asks, “So when you do that, are you thinking of notes?”. And then the answer is always “No.”

@AndyGoodstuff 4 года назад

My dad has the album Illicit by Tribal Tech. I remember being a kid and hearing him listening to mad jazz fusion music on his hi-fi and had no idea what it was until I came back to it as a teenager when I started playing guitar. The Big Wave will always be the absolute definition of that genre in my head. Absolutely incredible musicianship. That was my first time hearing Gary Willis.

@lt_johnmcclane 4 года назад

AndyGoodstuff your dad sounds like a cool guy

@pneumatic00 4 года назад

You'd enjoy the next 3-4 albums by Tribal Tech just as much.

@antonchizhov4419 4 года назад

But the maddest composition from Illicit is definitely "Babylon". You can hear the biblical motive of formation of languages out of a singular one and the motion, dynamics are crazy. The first time I heard this album, was the moment I fell in love with Tribal Tech.

@AislanSousa 3 года назад

Gary Wiilis sem duvidas é um dos melhores baixistas do planeta !! Parabéns pelo canal Scott´s.. Saudações aqui do Brasil

@daniels4742 4 года назад

He's such a monster, love his playing, love his tone, love the way he thinks.

@seangeist9495 4 года назад

First time I saw Gary Willis was at Bass Day, when it was still in NYC. I believe it was 1998. Of all the phenomenal bassists featured throughout the day (and hanging in the booths), I thought he was the most mind-blowing. He was the most unpredictable; that sound and technique are quite unique. If you're not ready for it, it'll kick your ass! In a very good way. Never forgot that, never will.

@Pladderkasse 4 года назад

Thanks for this, man is a monster. I would like to see a video on Jimmy Johnson (Holdsworth).

@WTHFX 4 года назад

Getting to have a private lesson with Gary was one of the great honors of my life. Not because I learned so much, which I did, but because I got to meet such a generous and kind grandmaster of his art. Genius is an overused word but I can think of no other that better describes him.

@flynnaugustbassist8523 2 года назад

Love how this so different from how most people teach jazz soloing. Usually there’s an emphasis on having a complicated knowledge of a million scales and when to use them and, though knowing whole half diminished scales and altered scales and bebop stuff, having just the pentatonic moved around playing different modes of the chords is very refreshing and pretty sounding. Love Gary Willis first heard him in a recording in 1979 with Pat Methany, Lyle Mays and a drummer who I can’t name. I loved his fretless sound and how he swung and accompanied the soloists and how he played his own solos.

@jorgevasquez4917 3 года назад

8:25 after Gary Willis says “the blue note” you can hear a whisper say “Devil”

@W.O.P.R 9 месяцев назад

Gary had a website back in the early 2000’s and responded to my story about my dog Chance and posted it on his website. That was my intimate connection with Gary. Love this man

@henrikbay 4 года назад

in 1987 he was my ear training-teacher at MI in Hollywood. I loved and admired him so much. He made us sing minor 2-5-1's to earn a donut. So cool. He just quit Shorters band at that time to focus om Tribal Tech. Scott Henderson taut at MI at that time, so we heard a lot of Tribal Tech. He never bothered to pronounce my name (which is impossible anyway to Americans. :) Hi Gary :)

@AdityaPurwanegaraBass Год назад

My head got dizzy just trying to learn his lick in dminor. Yeah easy

@donaldbest7621 3 года назад

You turned me on to Gary. He is my favorite now...over Jaco

@johnreilly9748 4 года назад

Scott I purchased a fretless and fretted directly from Gary 1999 and met him in 2000 also took a 2 hour lesson with him! He is a super good guy and of course killer bassist and educator! First became aware of him in the Tribal Tech era. Check him live with Wayne Shorter live for a little different insight into what he has done. Check his solo albums and Triphasic etc.. His voice on the bass is unique and distinguished! Thanks Scott for bringing him to the bass community and all your great work, really enjoy it!

@mediumvibesonly7974 11 месяцев назад

Under rated comment:((

@madbuzz90 4 года назад

First heard Willis back in the 90’s on a compilation CD which, amongst various other artists, had a Tribal Tech tune called ‘Canine’......still one of my all time favourite bass solos, un-fkn-real!

@trichards109 4 года назад

Gary Willis is insane! I can’t wait for the Masterclass!

@remedy-1879 4 года назад

First time I’ve ever heard of Gary Willis? Just now but he’s amazing. *Edited to add his last name.

@zzzyzzzyzzzyxxx 4 года назад

The first time I heard Gary Willis was at a workshop during a bass conference in Vancouver BC - either in 2000 or 2001. I bought a Willis bass within six months of that and still have it. I remember sitting there slack jawed at his right hand technique.

@Purpleskyshorizon 4 года назад

I heard about Gary Willis from YOU Scott many, many years ago when you're channel was only about few years old. Haha! And thank you!

@benjaminfeddersen7937 4 года назад

So THIS is how you use ii v i in soloing.

@madhatter7862 Год назад

Geez heard Tribal Tech about 10 years ago and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The Alan Holdsworth of bass. Which is a huge compliment. I am doing fretboard accelerator and zoom lessons from a pro, and will probably never understand what is going on with his playing. I still watch his videos from the early 90’s and right hand muting technique. The master!

@garysanders3193 9 дней назад

It was back in 1992, when I saw him at a bass clinic in Colorado springs at Grainer Music. I had just started playing bass, and it was incredible! I can't thank my friend Ryan for taking me with him.

@bryonhankins7374 4 года назад

I first saw him in the late 80's playing with Hubert Laws in NYC at the Blue Note. Mind blown!!

@infernicide666 4 года назад

That Jazz song he keeps playing along to reminds me of a 24 hour drugstore where you can sail plastic sailboats and eat soft serve ice cream cones and drink different flavors of yoo hoo AND Nestle Quick.

@kneejo-tube 4 года назад

I played on his bass once, when he was giving a masterclass. His tone really comes from his technique, not his instrument. He's got this high gain, soft touch going on that's hard to copy.

@kneejo-tube 2 года назад

I have to add something to this comment from a year ago. Since then I got the GWB205 and played it for half a year. The sound does indeed come from the bass as well. And this bass allows for this particular playing technique very well. It's humbling to have the sound of Gary under my fingers. The bass has a character that I have not heard in other fretless basses. I think I found my dream bass.

@DampRabbitVideo Год назад

My first time was about '85 at NAMM. He was in a sound booth playing with guitarist Wayne Johnson and I remember he had two Tobias Basics in ash, one fretted one fretless.

@sonusancti 2 месяца назад

Hi. When I first listened to Got Tuh B, I was hooked. Gary had that Jaco vibe with stellar ad libs. Only You Tube made this possible. My playlists are in the thousands now.

@czarpaul01 4 года назад

Man heard Gary late 80s, saw him in concert multiple times. Best one was at the Bottom Line in NY. My table was right up against the stage, right in front of him. Heaven! Lol

@raynefaded Год назад

People liked to trash disco because of some weird tribalistic "I'm a punk, I'm a metalhead, I'm into prog..." etc. etc. But at the end of the day this stuff was REALLY good, was VERY well-written, and grooved hard. And that's all that matters. How deep is your love? Amazingly beautiful song. People need to not attach themselves to labels and genres (and the identities/"tribes" that go along with them) and just truly enjoy music that sounds good and feels good.

4 года назад

I'm a guitar player, but every thing that Gary Willis does facinates me, i heard a lot of his project, including Tribal Tech, Uncle Moes Space Ranch, Triphasic with Holdsworth and so on. But the first time that i heard him was listening The Big Wave of Tribal Tech, absolutely mind blowing...

@SimonDelgadoSimusik 4 года назад

I’ve been also a Gary Willis student, only for a brief period of time while I lived in Barcelona. Huge inspiration, and when he spoke to you, the words he chooses to make you understand are invaluable. In my 40s still my number 1 musical artist.

@justinhart8744 4 месяца назад

This is the first I’ve ever heard of Gary Willis this video. I’m buying an Ibanez srf706 been playing 6 string bass many years time for fretless…

@daverobbins6527 Год назад

End of 82' -- I played in a band with Gary - Billy Rogers - and Land Richards -- amazing -

@devinebass Год назад

That's awesome dude, what a player!

@PeacefulThinker1010 2 года назад

Thank you for the video. I am a keyboard player who attended M.I in the 90's. Mr. Willis is by far my favorite player. I had the pleasure to watch him play live (Tribal Tech) and it was an eye opening experience. After watching Tribal Tech's live concert, my guitar playing friend ripped the G3 poster on the wall in his apartment. Gary Willis, Scott Henderson, Kirk Covington, and Scott Kinsey are way ahead of their time. True visionaries! Please get together and play again!

@JakeAikens 3 года назад

Whenever I try this it just sounds like disjointed garbage. Not like Gary at all. Sigh, guess I’ll go learn some more AC/DC covers. Damnit. He is a monster, though.

@anthonymcfarland8977 4 года назад

I first heard The Willis around 2000. A buddy of my had taken lessons from him in Colorado and was introducing me to some of his Tribal Tech albums. He's so good.

@pullmanator89 4 года назад

Scott!!! Where can we get that backing track?

@MishMuzic Год назад

First time that I saw Gary was with Phil Upchurch at the Hollywood Bowl in the 80’s. Maybe even earlier. I instantly heard his brilliance.

@mikemorrison281 4 года назад

I first heard Gary and Covington playing in Houston with Condor at Cody’s in the early 80’s. They were both great then. Saw him with Wayne Shorter 2-3 years later and took he and Tommy Brechtlein to the old Allen Parkway Inn for dinner after the show. Gary is nice, funny, VERY smart, and a monster musician!!!!!!!

@noone-kb5if 11 месяцев назад

easy, learn a scale and just do less than more when you jam over a track/band. JUST GROOVE

@franklineno8616 4 года назад

Hey Scott,love all the videos you provide on RU-vid, but no matter how many emails I've sent over 3yrs regarding information about your courses,you have never once replied,I have desire to speak to your secretary because she ain't the one talking and teaching, so on that front I can't sign up to your classes if the most basic thing called communication you can't manage, worst of all I have now found out im not alone,what does it take?Gary willis course looks great but here is a question I'd like you to answer, how do we as players know if we are eligible to take the course?everyone is at different levels,your secretary can't answer that, your the one we're watching.....

@ApakukiNayacakalou 2 года назад

First heard of Gary TODAY!!!! LOL! Freakin legend!!

@mackmilne8155 4 года назад

First time I heard Gary was one of your videos a few years back. Now I am studying with him at Berklee in Valencia

@joshuawiredu574 Месяц назад

Wow same thing he taught me with the same backing track😅. I need to go to Barcelona ❤

@don4denise 2 года назад

First time I heard Gary Willis is when a workmate said to me if I like “ Brand X” you will like “ Tribal Tech “ . And I was Hooked 😀

@azombiestool 3 года назад

One of the most helpful vids yet for sure. So on the last one, he played Em over Dm? But starting with the 5th like he mentioned in the beginning of the lesson?

@Flying_turnip187 3 года назад

Nice! That was a great lesson. More gary!!

@mr.t382 3 года назад

I’d like to get that practice trac! Any ideas?? never done that but it would sure help I’m thinkin :)

@FredGuits 3 года назад

I don't think Gary (thinks) anymore it's all musical Kung Fu to him at this stage... He's done his Katas, earned his belts and is trodding the sender trod!

@Mrflippyfloop 4 года назад

Got into Gary in the late 90’s. I rinsed the ‘ No Sweat ‘ album. Bought a fretless 5 as soon as possible. Back on 4’s now mainly. Gary is a huge influence, my favourite fretless player without doubt. His tone is just phenomenal. I remember learning some of his approach in this video from one of his books, you know, before the internet.

@Decedo 3 года назад

Gary is a monster. Actually met Gary at BIT in 89. Learned a lot from him. Most went over my head at the time, but some stuck :D

@cagedoctaves 4 года назад

Using the three pentatonic minor scales for each key (e.g. Dm, Em and Am for the Key of A minor) is what I call Poor Man's Modes. The same thing can be done for the major keys too (e.g. C, F and G for the Key of C major). Also note that they are the relative majors and minors of one another i.e. C pentatonic major is equivalent to A pentatonic minor; ditto F=Dm and G=Em) the corresponding shapes are also the same in each case.

@ScrapPalletMan 4 года назад

I think yesterday was the first time I've heard Gary from your Instagram I believe. I opening

@ada8189 4 года назад

I heard him first in the "best fearless bass ever" video. He plays from within 😣😭😭 oh my God 💕❤

@SendilSelvan 4 года назад

Sometimes it is indescribable with words to convey just how indescribable a soul that dwells within certain musicians. With someone like Sri Sri Gary Willis it’s hard to tell whether his soul encapsulates music or vice versa. It is a blessing to be born in this day and age of Internet to listen and learn from the greatest greats of our time. Thank you is a feeble attempt to convey the deepest sense of admiration and adoration 🙏🏽😌❤️

@questube45 4 года назад

My very first time 09/13/20!!!!! Freaking Siiiiiick!!!!! Love it!!!!!

@KarlKarsnark 4 года назад

I'm a guitar guy, but I love watching all the bass gods and how they conceptualize the same, but different instrument.

@blakebass1 Месяц назад

Wonderful! I just learned some new concepts, thank you! I also saw Gary with Tribal Tech in Denver several years ago, mind-blowing performance. Hillary Jones was on drums for that show.

@devinebass Месяц назад

🧡🧡🧡

@zfenty 4 года назад

When was the first time you heard Gary Wills? I think right now, very impressed.

@LawrenceJenner 4 года назад

The Big Wave - Tribal Tech... First encounter!!

@ivanmateobeltran5121 2 года назад

Why he said D minor but the backing track is playing F Major ?

@chosen_ones777 Год назад

Tribal Tech, Spears from 1985 or 1986.

@Belman5 3 месяца назад

Just WOW......Garry Willis is such an incredible musician. So advanced.

@devinebass 3 месяца назад

💯💯💯

@danielelise7348 Год назад

I love the way he looks like your mate's Dad,but is this Bass monster, it's awesome.

@MrPrincebass99 4 года назад

Tribal Tech live in Paris, I believe. Just sick playing.

@niramchristian3385 3 года назад

Nice lesson😚 He is out of tune every second note he play 🤭 anyway fenomenal bass player

@DynamicMarketingOTC 3 года назад

Whoa Man! I don't know what to even say. This is so advanced that i really can't even relate. Woe is me.

@eric-vm3oz 3 года назад

henderson has a a video where he does the same thing with pentatonics. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j211hPwOJmo.html&ab_channel=ConnieHan of course!

@johnrodriquez5908 Год назад

I first heard Gary Willis in 1985, I was aware of him with Wayne Shorter Groupe Then with Tribal Tech. I was playing sax with a cheese reggae band in Colorado Springs 1990. I was dating ayoung lady who told me her brother in law played bass and she showed me current Bass Player magazine and Gary was on cover. I told her i was aware of him. She had T shirt of Wayne Shorter Group, She gave me T shirt, I still have it, all musicians name on it,Salmon colered shirt. Her name was Rhonda Nichols, Pam Willi's sister.

@johnrodriquez5908 Год назад

Silver Ibanez was current Tribal Tech did 4 shows in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Denver Colorado as well during that time

@stephplanec 3 года назад

The guys who are saying ther's nothing after Pastorius are liars!!!

@bay4west 4 года назад

This is the first time I've heard of him. 37 year old bass noob, right here. He's awesome!

@maxmarvelsworld5074 3 года назад

Which program he's using for play bass guitar?

@Mortagus 4 года назад

I can't remember when it was exactly, but the first I heard about Gary Willis, it was on this channel ^^

@nathanielmabis5803 4 года назад

Man, ive been doing stuff like this the last couple weeks, i just dont know the keys.

@earlycuyler2295 4 года назад

The compressor in the opening is doing work!

@dancoventry4174 3 года назад

What programme is Gary using to play grooves to freestyle over?

@laszloszaniszlo9662 Месяц назад

Amazing, awesome bass player. Heard him on Face First at the first time (Tribal Tech).

@devinebass Месяц назад

Face First is such a fun groove (and an awesome record!)

@lt_johnmcclane 2 года назад

Now combine it with his insane economy of motion and you’re getting somewhere

@KevinJohnson-tw9ip 2 года назад

thanks Scott this rocked. I first heard Gary on a Tribal Tech cassette

@NiteOwlBread 4 года назад

He's got a flat D string, right? Killing me here

@MarkoWarko 4 года назад

This helps with my lead parts immensely on lead guitar

@curtisunit 7 месяцев назад

High school ‘86. Saw Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea. My drummer buddy and I were freaked out. Gary sounded like a freight train. Chick is always great but this was the show that hooked me. Later I almost got a nerf football to the head after the show. It was movin! He was aiming for Scott Henderson and I was in the crosshairs. When I was real young I played in a fusion band with one of Scott’s students and we used to go see them. We opened a couple times. When TT played and things started going into 12th gear we’d be like “aaa there goes the right leg, yep there’s the frown.”Sometimes when the music was just punching us in the face I’d seen him get all happy 😂 for a moment. Later in the 90s I took a lesson at a little shop in LA. There was NO way I was going to be able to do any of that right hand mojo he does. He explained it really well. The Ibanez he was using felt like balsa wood, zero shellac and resonated like an angry bee unplugged. He’s like an encyclopaedia. I learned a ton. After the lesson Gary said that I needed some decent tuners because mine were not so nice. Couple weeks out I got a fat envelope from somewhere in Colorado with WILLIS written in the top left. Out spilled some proper working class tuners. Gary’s a gem.

@noblehillministerprophet8689 4 года назад

I love playing fast! Playing slow puts me to sleep!

@johnmedina9199 4 года назад

Okay Stan Lee? I didn't notice you. Sorry.

@johnmedina9199 4 года назад

Okay Stan Lee? I didn't notice you. Sorry.

@georocks_ 4 года назад

Where can i download Gary's backing track that was played here in this video.. anyone?

@DanFuzz2009 3 года назад

What bass amp is that? I don't know aguilar!

@ZuraGagnidze Год назад

Gary is just fantastic! 🍷

@och70 4 года назад

Gary Willis' right hand technique is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Makes you think about your own playing in a totally different way.

@sansocie 4 года назад

Truth

@mikebassy 4 года назад

Saw Gary live with Wayne Shorter at the festival hall in 1986 Keith Jarrett trio was on first with Gary Peacock ! I kept wondering why Keith was making noises during his own performance ha ha

@philipbrown2225 Год назад

I saw Gary at least 6x live from the period of 1988-1993. There is none better imo

@devinebass Год назад

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

@pneumatic00 4 года назад

Heard Willis first time with a completely crap cover band I was in circa 1983. We were auditioning bassists. He came in....you sang three notes and BAM he immediately captured a whomping bass line. It was pretty obvious he was waaaaaaay beyond us and would never join the band. I didn;t know who he was at the time, of course. Then...Tribal Tech and the rest is history. Just a flaming monster player.

@michaelanthony9068 3 года назад

What is it about being with Gary Willis that makes Scott say “Yea-yea-yea, yea-yea-yea” so much? Lol ! I love this video. I could hear everything Gary said this time in spite of it tho ! Thank you Scott ! Great lesson !