Hey Scott. really liked this lesson. I was struggling with stings and couldnt understand why but i realize thanks to you're video that was trying to go back n forth to much. Thx
great work ,, but in the 1st part of the riff C# to B to C# ,, B to D ? has a less dominant value than the following >> C# to B to C# ,, ( A to D ) by using A TO D you get a harder tone on the chord change ,, but hey ,, only 12 weeks until LBGS ,, happy new year Scott : D
Lockdown + espresso martini + a medium scale EB-3 copy(ish) and I finally understand the 'squiggle'....whatever gets you there these days. Thanks, Scott. (We have met, but you won't remember...unless you're some sort of memory freak).
Many years ago I once attended a clinic about Ashdown bass amps by owner Mark Gooday. He said the bass player on this track used an Ashdown amp with the input gain or `valve drive' on 10, pushing the preamp into distortion, and the `sub-harmonics' effect on 10 as well. Are you sure it was played on a keyboard?
I used to play the drums ages ago. Started they keys a few years ago, got a guitar relative recently, and although I can't play either, I'm here, watching these videos, longing for a bass. :D
I’m sure it was a MiniMoog. I love playing this with a piccolo bass (I need to get a set of strings soon), into an Octave pedal and then a phaser. It’s such a fun little riff
So... I bought a bass earlier today after about 7 years of not playing. I've been playing all night recapping scales etc. What do you think the best way of getting back into it? Last time I think I went the wrong way about it by learning song riffs rather than actually understanding what I'm playing, and keeping time to backing tracks...if that makes sense?... what are your thoughts on this?
Scott I been watching your videos, youre incredible bro...thanks so much! Im a bass player still learning, how do you make those notes with your pinky finger?? im always using my other fingers to make notes....
Guys if i have blisters in my puckling hand fingers (index and 2nd) is it normal or something is wrong with my technique? i started 2 weeks ago. please tell me what should i check in case its wrong...
LOVE jamiroquai SOOO MUCH. hey scott can you also do a lesson on the drowning years by the Delgados. they are the reason i'm a bass player as well as Jamiroquai
I guess I’m really late commenting on this but how is nobody mentioning Stuart Zender?? I think that’s his playing on the track, maybe with a synth too, but that sounds like his playing. How could his name not come up, Stuart is tremendous and was a huge influence on a lot of players. He’s even got a custom Warwick model named after him. I’m a little heartbroken right now Scott.
Minor Pentatonic works over this, all of the runs are in it. There is just the flat 2 from Phrygian in the main riff. I don't think the minor 6th is used at all.
JackaL you play those by leaving your fretting hand on the strings without pushing down (so muting), and playing with your plucking hand. Because you're muting, you only hear those dead notes. Scott probably has a pastorius type 16th bass line lesson on here somewhere, this muting technique is typical for those bass lines.
Thanks a lot Robert, i have always understood what you do, i guess i just haven't built up the coordination to fit it in with the lines im playing, do you know of any exercises i could try out.
You could start off with playing a single note, let's say the C on the third fret of your A string, and alternate between playing a note and a muted note. True different patterns to gain control over it. Start with something simple like four notes followed by four muted notes, at a slow tempo, and build up to patterns like a drummers paradiddle (note mute note note mute note mute mute). When you've got that under control, move to a simple bassline, and make sure every time you're not playing a note, that you still play a muted one. So in your right hand, keep playing steady eighth notes, while your left hand is handling the notes, and mutes when you don't play a note.
Never thought i'd hear someone say check out a deep impact. I know its used by jamiroquia, muse and phish. However the thing goes for about £700, better of checking out the future impact.
oh scotty not even a fuzz sound will make you change your style. those little vibratos youve heard me do before. stings? yeah, we've heard em. you do them all the time. lol
