Ive been playing db for bit over 40 years. Done my conservatorium studies and I strongly and highly recommend people wanting to learn to play upright to pay very close attention to Matt and his lessons. I check out all tutorials and Matt is one of the most easy to follow. To teach is a special art form. Matt has it all.
Those black strings sound sweet Matt. I have been using Spiro's (mittels) and sometimes gut but at the moment I live in a tropical climate. Wonder how those black strings would work for me. Are they the same as Ron Carter uses?
Hey again! Thanks for asking about the strings. They’re actually the “CORAX” model from Gerold Genssler in Germany. His strings are often called Sonores. Unfortunately he doesn’t make the CORAX anymore. But he makes a lot of other really really good ones! Google “Sonores bass strings” or whatever. He does great work
As a relatively newcoming on DB and jazz I couldn’t agree more. There’s an annoyingly vaste amount of knowledge on RU-vid, and the quality is hard to spot at times. This channel is a solid anchor for everyone who’s approaching the bass, due to this great, no-nonsense approach!
It's a great honor to subscribe to your Channel, because I love Bass and Jazz, but I didn't have the financial conditions to have the instrument and study. I'm glad I practically took your classes from the beginning, at the beginning of your Channel. I want it to grow a lot, because its content is of great quality. Too bad I just read the notes and didn't play because I didn't have an instrument. Thank you very much.
Thanks for simplifying the walking bass line. For a few years I have watched many tutorial videos that have confused me, a tornado of notes. Your teaching has allowed me to move forward. 👍
Thank you very much. See you now in Germany and I try to understand your wonderful lessons. Thank you for preparing some pdfs for the study offline. Please give us more to understand the trials. Thank you
On the topic of notes vs feel, I saw an interview with Danny Thompson, talking about when he first started playing in jazz bands. Tubby Hayes told him "Some of those notes you play hurt my eyes. But you got a great sound and great time, and that's good enough".
@@MatthewRybicki Seeing how important knowing our triads are over those 4 chord types, what are some of the best ways to practice that material so it gets tattooed into our memory?
@@jazzbrew68 Good questions. I'm developing a full online course that will address this as part of it, but in short there's no easy answers. Basically repetition, but doing them for every root (every triad type for every root), in every inversion, and singing them too. Also as you practice or learn actual songs, this is really helpful to both learn the song and give something interesting to direct your practice. So if you are learning a tune like "Alone Together," you'd play all the triads in succession and in time (well, that's what you'd be working toward). And then play them up and down, and in inversions, etc. (starting the triad from the 3rd (1st inversion) and then the 5th (2nd inversion)
Don't call it sucker, Matt -- it's football. I'm an ex-bass player and an ex-footballer from London. I once saw Dexter Gordon play at Ronnie Scott's, and the bass player may have been Ray Drummond, but he was superb. I also liked Roy Husky Jr and a bloke from New York who came over with Tony Trishka in about the 1990s. USA will never win anything at football (except perhaps the championship of North America) while they think of it as sucker. Soccer was a slang contraction of 'Association', introduced at a time when rules and organisation of football games was emerging in the mid-C19, and distinguished Association football from Rugby football (which was not developed in the town of Rugby in Warwickshire, but in Rugby School . . . which is . . . OK, in the town of Rugby in Warwickshire. There are similar games in Australia, called Australian rules football, Ireland, called Gaelic football, America, called American football, and two main sorts of Rugby, but the one in which most ball playing is actually done with the feet, is football.
Thanks for sharing all that. It seems like it didn’t come across that I would already know it’s called football but was “playing dumb” for a character of sorts. So in short yes I’m aware it’s called football 👍🏻
I really enjoyed this video, a lot of good, bassic (ahem) info. A good sports analogy for walking bass is the "domestique" (servant) in bicycle races like The Tour De France. They support the team. Just a thought.
Good stuff man. I just started on double bass to augment my electric bass playing. It's been a fun journey. Played trombone as a kid, so the double bass notations look exactly like the range I learned playing trombone. Now if I can just find all! the notes!
@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki So, what do you really think about those LaBella 7710 Jazz strings? Thinking of replacing my Spirocore orchestral strings on my Thompson laminate bass with a set. Do they require any permanent modification to the bridge or nut? Thx!👍🏿
They’re actually Gerold Gennsler strings. Not sure if you heard of him. He make strings called Sonores and then there’s a bunch of “models” of Sonores. My strings are called Corax, but he doesn’t make them any more.
I like this, but please don't make the sheet music extend all the way to the bottom of the frame. The RU-vid progress bar goes right through the last line and it makes it really hard to read! Thanks.
Thanks for watching and your message. I’ve been thinking about what you wrote - I’ll try to accommodate that where I can. Sometimes it’s not really possible to place it elsewhere and have it be logical. That said, you did give me something to consider, thanks
@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki Thanks for considering my suggestion :) I've been just downloading the video to a file and opening it in VLC and that has worked fine for me. Now I need to get better at reading the bass clef!
Hi Matt, thank you for you lessons... I don't have a lot of knowledge in English and this video is not subtitled, it's a shame because the first two were really good
I do agree and I wanna add my observation.All instruments are having nice solos, clearly audible, but when it comes to a bass solo, everything quiets down to minimum and and in 98,5 % cases, bass playing is very quiet too. Why not treat this instrument as equal and just raise the bloody volume...?
Hi, i'm quite new around here, thank you for your lessons and greatly appreciate it. I got 1 question for you and I hope you don't mind. Does the bass player when it comes to volume is it suppose to be much lesser than the ride cymbal or louder than the ride cymbal. i'm quite confused with that. Your opinion is appreciated but of course others are welcome to chime in. thank you so much.
Hi and thanks for watching and welcome! With the ride cymbal, it's not usually a question about volume, if it's JUST that cymbal. Generally the frequencies of the ride won't overtake the bass. BUT - of course if the drummer is not sensitive enough, it is possible for the drums to play too loud. In an ideal world, everyone is playing quietly enough to hear unamplified bass (But we also have to try and be loud unamplified.) But back to the question - it's usually not an issue...so maybe I'm misunderstanding the question. Is there more that you want to say about it?
@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki Hi thanks for the reply, OK on recordings I notice that the "ride" cymbal is above almost everything as per volume which gives the other musicians the time itself. I have to understand where the placement of my volume is when playing live as a 3 piece or 4 piece band. Thank you so much for the reply I greatly appreciate it
Hmmmm OK - it’s interesting because I don’t hear records in the way that you describe, but that of course doesn’t mean that you’re wrong or anything. I’m not sure how best to respond other than to say that in performance the ride cymbal *should* be quieter than the bass. Good luck!
Thanks man! I do private lessons yeah. I’m in the process of setting up an online studio too. You can write me at my website if you want. Thanks for watching
They're not LaBella they are Gerold Genssler Corax strings - I talk about them in my video here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-atGi5V70NQY.htmlsi=VGz8qtTK7p-4FBnc
...timing. Timing IS the feel. You need strength. No matter the tempo. Some players timing is exquisitely sharp... Some (most) are blunt. To play sharp and stay relaxed you must be strong. Be honest.
The center back of a soccer team will only be remarked in case things go wrong...not much credit and big responsabilities. Many times you need to MAKE IT EASY though It IS not.
In soccer the main workhorse is the mid field player similar to quarterback directing the game .Explain American Football and l explain to the real game of Football lol
