How to play like Geddy Lee of RUSH - Bass Habits - Ep 40 

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Rush is one of the few bands I know where all the members are acclaimed as top-of-their-field instrumentalists.

I'm not very prog but I gotta admit that nobody's ever gotten a better tone out of a Fender Jazz than Geddy Lee.

Peter Steele last week and Geddy this one...you're on a roll!

May I suggest 'The First lady of the Bass' Carol Kaye

Singer AND Bassist AND Synth player AND rotisserie chicken aficionado?! Mighty is Geddy, indeed! As is your skill and insight! Thank you!

Shaped my whole playing world.

I think an episode on Billy Gould of Faith no more could be quite interesting, people don't bring him up nearly enough when talking about all time great bass players despite his lines being really varied and creative.

I NEVER cease to be fascinated by Rush....... Miss them incredibly....

It's clear you have a great deal of respect for Geddy and I can see why. It's hard to keep a band glued together the way he does. You're doing God's work, Paul!

I was not expecting the intro to be so magnificent.

One of the first songs I tried to learn on bass was limelight. I can’t wait to watch this.

I love his Rickenbacker sound so badass, but when I heard his 72 Jazz Bass, it blows my mind that how similar the sound was, that 70s bite of the Jazz Bass really nailed the Rick's sound.

My favorite bassist of all time

I'd like to see an episode on Rob Wright of nomeansno. Massively underrated bassist

Very good breakdown of Geddy's playing . Rush has long been my favorite band . As amazing as his playing is it would be nothing without Neil and Alex.

I've been trying to sound like Geddy since I started playing bass 6 years ago and it's nice to see his skill finally be recognized by people who aren't necessarily hardcore Rush fans. I think it's also worth mentioning that with his flamenco technique also came an extensive use of chords to essentially fill the role of a rythm guitarist, he really went nuts with it on Vapor Trails and continued to use it on several songs on Snakes and Arrows and Clockwork Angels. The speed and ferocity with which he does this using at most two fingers on his right hand took me a great many practice hours to wrap my head around.

Would definitely love a video on Audie Pitre of Acid Bath. Dude was a great bassist too.

Definitive Lee bass summary here, nice work.

Fantastic, enjoyed this immensely. Geddy and Rush forever for me.

I’d love to a video on Frank Bello.

Another one of my Requests , my Bass hero Geddy Lee. Thank you Man! More Power.

Can you please include Tom Araya on this series next?

YESSSS

The intro for this video it so awesome! A god was sent for sure.

You do a absolutely fantastic job of cover the mighty Geddy Lee! Not just him, all of them. I am an all or nothing person and you seems definitely dedicated to what you do!! Respect.

Geddy is amazing And he said he used his Jazz Bass on “Tom Sawyer”

A fantastic video, it really helps explain why Geddy is so damn good.

Liked before the vid started

Another great video. Ronnie Lane someday please?

Such a excellent work, perfect video. So much information, i suck it right in. Geddy is a Monster indeed! Keep on being great 👍

After a couple decades of playing flute and reading sheet music from the popular classic composers, I went back to bass guitar and bought a book of Geddy Lees tabs. And I start learning a few of my favorites and after a while I'm looking at this music, and compared to Bach say to myself, there's really not much here. And then I try playing along with Alex on one tempo, doing back beats across Neil's wizardry and not even trying to sing and realize that I just couldn't handle it if I were playing all of Lees parts in a cover band. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. And that's why live rock music is so special.

Really interesting introduction man 😂

Best intro EVER!

Love the video. Also, that little comic intro, priceless! LOL

The Man!!!!!

I love your "Bass Habits" Series. Fantastic work, sooo inspiring! Thanks a lot!

The Mikes from Alice In Chains or Ben Shepherd from soundgarden

Could you make an episode of Carlos D, from Interpol please?

One of my favourite bands of all time and definitely one of my greatest bass heroes. Thank you so much for this video! BTW, it was weird to hear an Italian mispronouncing "barchetta" ;-) You have no idea how many times I had to correct my fellow Poles mispronouncing Lamborghini! :D

Beautiful Intro...wow

Awesome Paul!!! Great videos!!

Thanks Paul this is one of the greatest videos among many of your greats! Awesome intro

Cool vid. Massive Rush fan. Always something more to learn. Cheers, John.

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!! Finally. I love the vid. Thanks🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Rush, la mejor banda de rock de la galaxia.

Thanks so much for this series. It's cool to figure out why these guys sound so different from a music theory perspective as well as technique. Any chance you'll be doing a breakdown of Robert DeLeo?

FINALLY!! Someone is analyzing the ged meister!

John Mayung next pls!

awesome Paul :)

Make one video about Les Claypool

Freewill changed my life. His tone reminds me of a jet engine.

Please do a video about John Myung

Sorry but the gear was a big part of Geddy's tone. From what I can tell his tone has changed about three times in the bands career and that was due to the basses he was playing at the time. His tone has that growly mid-range fuzz sound of his Rickenbacker or that Jazz bass with just the neck pickup on from the "self-title album" all the way up to "Signals." On "Grace Under Pressure" he switched to a Steinberger and a Wal bass, where his tone got more funky sounding. Then in the early 90's he switched back to a Jazz bass, but turned both the neck and bridge pickups on full, so that his tone was a good balance between the low end while still having that brighter funky sharpness to it.

Sayyyyyyyyy Geddy Lee

Ron Royce of CORONER !

5:13 When your song suggestion makes it into the video

nice! do sting next.there s lot of material there.groove on brother!

Good video

You should do Jason newsted next.

I already can play like Dirk. 52 years I've been playing Bass & Dirk is my favorite Bass player. It took almost that same timeframe to learn every epic from fly by night to signals. Every song note for note perfectly every lick every nuance right off the top of my head but I know the first album too but rutsey ain't Pratt. So I'm not too excited learning the first album. I can't lie only one piece is my unicorn tune from them natural science. What a friggin excerise. I know the notes can play them but it's a mover & your fret hand gets tired when I was young no problem but at 62 it gets tiring. Getting old sucks.

Yassssssss!!!!!

Can you maybe do a bass cover ,,Shandi" from KISS ?

Mike Inez!!!

I pretty sure Ged used a '72 jazz bass on MP

Is it possible you can play motorhead damage case.. with tabs .... Thank you

When a review of frank bello from anthrax?? Jaja

Bruce foxton please

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Chris Squire please

Jaco Pastorius please!

Hey, Paul. Would you mind doing an episode on Muffi Puffi of Hevisaurus? Underneath the dinosaur costume, he’s a really good bassist. Songs like Louhikäärme ja ritari and Räyh are good examples.

Eric Avery please

MIke Gordon from Phish please

His Jazz was a '72

Finally

Do Fat Mike from NOFX

Not to take anything away from people like Weinrib or Sting, but the fact is that these guys write the songs they play and sing so their bass parts are written to accommodate vocals. It is more of a challenge for a bassist to sing and play a song not written by a bassist, like a jazz standard.

How do you play like Geddy? Study him for decades. :D

not inverted power chords. they are called double stops.

Wasn't a '78 Jazz on Moving Pics - it was his "No.1" as it turned it out on later tours / records and was a '72 and I know that cos I have his book and he said so. Do your research dude.

I really dislike prog metal and rock. But damn do I love Rush. Geddy is definitely one of the best bass players (if not the best)

72 jazz not 78

Matt freeman would be a great bass player to conver

Carlos Dengler.

And he's a hell of a lot nicer to his band mates than Roger Waters.

If you want to sound like him on vocals you can just clamp your balls together and start singing.

How to learn that much of theoretical shit?

Talk all you want, but Rush are like Yes for tasteless teenagers. Instead of Yes's complex passages elaborating fine songs, Rush are about aimless instrumental workouts that impress kids in between dull, unmelodic songs. There's not one good memorable song anywhere on the 20 albums.