I wantes a lefty bass, my dad got me a righty acoustic guitar. Had to make due lol. I play lefty instruments, but it always blows ppl away when I can play righties upside down lol.
@@shpep8553 Props to him for maintaining playing like that for so long. I did for two years as a left handed guitarist, but ended up going normal lefty due to playing complications.
I’m a Chicago bluesman and occasionally sit in with these guys. This is at a blues club called Kingston Mines. Larry is an absolute treasure! Not only as a stellar musician, but a great human being. This is the Mike Wheeler Band in case anybody is wondering. Lead singer/guitarist - Mike Wheeler Funky Bass - Larry Williams Keys - Brian James Drums - Cleo Cole
I absolutely *loved* the blues (& jazz) scene in Chicago. Was a favorite 'discovery' ... just wasn't familiar with Chicago as a city with a serious blues 'bent' when I was younger - always thought Memphis, NoLA ... maybe St. Louis, Nashville ... other cities in Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana ... Such a pleasant surprise!!! The blues scene in Chicago is fantastic ... a fair bit was, IIRC, kind of 'produced' ... polished ... but that's great in its way ... and there were some deeper acts and venues I saw / visited. One of the best experiences / aspects of certain cities - finding out there's a serious musical life to a place that, perhaps otherwise, may seem too ... tourist-oriented (if you're not familiar / hanging out with locals / etc.) or "cookie-cutter" or imbued w/ more materialistic aspects of life etc. Musicians are a great 'tribe' in some sense ... such a great way to connect with people and sometimes immediately get much more of a sense of a place ... of 'actual life' there, so-to-speak. Wasn't really thinking about visiting Chicago again any time soon, but just stumbling on this kindles some thought of that, again! _Edit: of course, as soon as I finished typing the above, immediately thought "Blues Brothers". Vaguely recall finding the blues scene there, being surprised, and then thinking ... "you dope, of course..." ... haha... good times..._
@@user-qx4vs7ne8w Yes. Reflected into the camera lens off of the guitar. We wouldn't be able to see them if they weren't reflected off of something in the frame. It was implied that the lights were being reflected by the guitar.
I love how when you’re playing bass you’re either the least noticeable instrument in the entire band or the most prominent and up front one in the group.
Bass has so much potential. It hurts to see some bassists gets relegated to just hitting root notes. Even adding fills would make any song fun for a bassist
@@zeta1960 which is why i love japanese bass, they really make the bass pop by due to how they make it more oriented to jazz adding fills and even scaling.
I have a friend that’s a left handed guitar player that just plays on an upside down regular guitar, it’s the way he learned so that’s probably what this bassist did
Drums: Rhythm, everyone stay in tempo from drums Keyboard: Smoothness, keeps things simple Guitar: Melody, enhancers to the song Bass: GROOVE AND SLAP, dats the stuff
Most people don't realize : his bass is intended for right-handed people, he's playing left-handed and the strings are in the wrong order. This man is absolutely crazy.
I mean, you don't "play chords" on bass the same way you do guitar, but bass still arpeggiates chords. You could say he's doing that, but he's also just playing a short pentatonic run. I dunno. Having it flipped upside down throws me off, I can't really tell what he's doing. But yeah, i'm gonna say he's soloing in the key of K Pentatonic Minor.
This is a video I always come back to when I feel like I'm not improving at bass. Been playing since 2017 and I like looking back on how much I improve.
Ain't no way this guy HELD THE GUITAR BY STRICKING THE STRINGS THAT FAST, STILL MAKING IT SOUND GOOD!! And he left handed... brother, this man from another world.
