What a great lesson! There are plenty of lessons that show you how to play scales, but leave you confused about what to do with them. And there are also plenty of lessons that show you cool riffs and licks, but leave you confused about where all the notes came from. This lesson addresses these typical problems perfectly. Great stuff Mark, - thank you.
scott does too much fancy crap his own stuff isnt even groovey. right when you think hes about to get funky he does all this weird fancy stuff. this dude is the best it feels like i won the lotto getting all this free info w/no ads and opinions
So many music tutorials on youtube beat around the bush or arnt good at introducing the subject. But youre straight to the point and make sure to explain everything you're showing and not leaving us to guess or imply. Most of what I'm learning about music only makes sense because of you.
Picked up a bass and amp 3 days ago after not touching one for over 40 years, since high school. This lesson will really help me a lot, thanks for this!
Hey there, just writing to say, "Rock on, brother!" I'm 60 and haven't stopped playing for more than a few years here and there. Rock (and Funk!) are always - and will always BE - there, waiting patiently for your return. Hope you're still playing and, if not, what are you waiting for, the Second Coming? Jesus, I am sure, will have a bass strapped 'round His neck, and His almighty amp turned to eleven. 😆 But seriously, get back to "work". Later, mon. JD, Canada
Questions regarding dealing with clicking sound and buzzing on notes above the 12th fret on many basses. Most luthiers suggest raising your action to resolve which affects the slap sound and some say the frets are uneven needing to be leveled $$. I have several basses and having this issue on most of the them. Would love your opinion Mark. Appreciate you sharing this wonderful knowledge with us. Blessings 😊 🎶 🎸 👍
What a fantastic lesson once again, your lessons always seem to have much much more than the title implies, which is always a nice surprise. However you might get more views if your titles really show how wide the lesson material is. Great work, I'm benefiting a lot from your lessons I even made a playlist of them.
THANK YOU! i try to pick out the scales while im listeming to music,you pointing out Paranoid,and whole lotta love,just improved my understanding of scale so much,i cant thank you enough Mark Also you people watching this video havent signed up for Talking Bass yet,your missing out on a plethora of bass knowledge 🤘
I know I'm a few years too late to comment, but I'm gonna say it anyway! Your lessons really helped me and I just started practicing yesterday and let me tell you, I learned fast So yeah thanks for this awesome lesson 😁😊
Hi Mark. Thanks for these informative lessons. I've been playing bass for many years and my major problem is that i have very small hands so i really battle to stretch say from G(e string) to Bb fret, with the result I move my hands up and down to where I must be, and have adjusted my playing this way. Your one finger per fret makes sense , but some of them I just cannot do. Thanks again , great lessons and tips. Edwin
Yep, like everyone else, I busted out laughing at, "....helps convey the most popular emotions in modern life...depression, angst, and murderous rage"!!!! I will be quoting that in the near future (with full credit given, naturally). Anyway, keep up the great work, I've saved and repeatedly poured over several of your most excellent videos, you and Luke are my favorite bass tutorializers here. I may figure this damn thing out yet !!!
hay talking you are the top of bass learning ,you are the only one that i know of, that will say the number on the frerets very valueuable. your the best thank you.
Yeah the fill around the 11 minute mark does sound a lot like A Geddy Lee riff, it’s called What Your Doing and it’s on the first album. Very similar to Nazerths Hair of the dog as well. Like your version though cool riff to make a song out of.
"depression, angst, and murderous rage" Oh my god I'm dying laughing at the face you make at this part of the video, Mark. Excellent video. You have single handedly helped me "solve" modes. Big fan. Thanks for all of this amazing free content you put out there for people like me.
+TalkingBass - Online Bass Lessons Nice, How much have you paid for such a big improvement? (if not a secret😊). I also plan to replace pickups on my vintage Ibanez RS824 for some passive DiMarzios . Now it has some 80's DiMarzio replicas by Maxon. They look and sound great but I think that is not the limit. Is there a particular PJ set you can recommend for such a bass, that would keep the character of the instrument the same?
i loved the video. i cant stop making solos with that scale haha. is there anyway you could go higher with that scale? also, how can you play that same scale with other note, lets say Bm and have the same result if theres not an open B unless you have a 5 string bass.
Fab lesson 'As usual'! I was just to comment as well . . . looks like you had your Ibanez modified and added new pickups and switches - are they 'Enfield's? Sounds really good!
+Shawn Huff That's right. There are many, many ways to play any scale and to be comfortable all over the fretboard and you have to practice all of them. However, that's not the point of this lesson. This is just focussing on one particular common fingering that you can use to move up through two octaves very easily and that also gives you access to that 5th/7th fret. Open strings are very different to fretted notes in terms of tone and your ability to control them so even though they are good for some things, they are a bad idea for others. The key is to have choices.
Apart from the tonal differences of open strings, I always find that learning things without using open strings makes them much easier to shift into other keys.
No. It's not a triplet. A triplet is 3 evenly spaced notes in the beat (or across several beats). The rhythm I'm playing here is two 16th notes and an 8th note. Completely different rhythm.
+Shawn Huff Both me and Scott Devine have made conscious decisions to avoid 5 strings for general bass lessons because 4 strings are so much more common and it can be confusing for beginner to intermediate players when trying to follow what's going on. I'm going to be doing some specific 5 string lessons soon that deal with the differences. The main issue is with muting. Once you've memorized the notes on the B string (or C string if using a high 5th), they are essentially the same instrument but muting and string skips can take a while to adapt to. Most teachers you see on RU-vid use 5 strings on gigs, especially theater shows and other reading gigs. Scott even has a signature 5 string by Overwater he used a lot on his early vids. It just doesn't work so well for teaching the basics and the majority of people watching the vids are beginner to intermediate level.
