What Is Hip? The Fingerstyle Funk Bass Of Rocco Prestia (tabs and tutorial)

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Last week the bass world lost another all time great in the king of fingerstyle funk, Mr Francis Rocco Prestia Jr of the band Tower Of Power.
If you’re a bass player and have never heard Tower Of Power or any of Rocco’s lines then you’re missing out on one of the most influential funkateers out there and some of the coolest bass lines ever recorded.
Today, in this video I’ll be breaking down probably the most famous of his lines by way of the song What Is Hip? This is a great test of your stamina and technique and I’d recommend using this song as a study piece for developing bass players in any style.
Tab and tracks here: www.talkingbass.net/what-is-h...
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@talkingbasslessons 3 года назад

You can check out the tab and tracks here:

@rinaldiankingz 3 года назад

Me: literally wants to see and learn from Mark.

@robertdowler3347 3 года назад

Rocco was always kind to me through the years. His nickname was Thumper. God be with him.

@mathieufoley2339 3 года назад

RIP Rocco! My life changed for the better when I discovered T.O.P. in high school, and I finally got to see them live 2 years ago (I did get to meet the horn players in Boston back in 2001)

@Fungaricum

Awesome video. Super clear and straight to the point. Thank you!

@PushSueAside 3 года назад

So happy you’re doing this one. I just started looking up lessons on this song yesterday, I really like the way you teach, so thank you for reading my mind. Cheers

@MyCovertNarcissism 3 года назад

Fantastic video as always Mark, thank you for this one.

@fabrizioinzoli6011 3 года назад

A great lesson, as always from you. Best bass lessons on You tube!

@edwardprince1447 3 года назад

Thanks for this rich and timely tribute to a great and inspiring musician, I have had 'there's only so much oil' on my music stand for ages and am slowly mastering it. a lesson by you would be a major help on this really funky tune which

@Karlgolden 3 года назад

Amazing playing as always bro 🙌🎸🤘

@iansmith9125 3 года назад

Unbelievable stamina & consistency. Quality playing bud.

@ramonurchipia 3 года назад

Great lesson ! Thanks!

@davidcoffeysr6830 Год назад

Another component of TOP, which made their sound absolutely unique, undeniably and incomparable. Rocco’s playing was pure ear candy!

@schm4704 3 года назад

I remember hearing the T.O.P. album on the P.A. in a record store. I immediately went to the counter and bought what was playing without even knowing the band. Some fun Tower of Power songs to look at would be To Say the Least You're the Most, You've Got to Funkifize, or from the 90s era, Soul With a Capital S, or Believe It.

@roo5000 3 года назад

Thanks for the great lesson, Mark. Love Rocco’s line for ‘Come on With It’ from the T.O.P. Album.

@stevenmacintyre5912 3 года назад

I think I might have heard this song somewhere over the course of my life, but never noticed its greatness until now, so I thank you for that!

@diegovargas70 3 года назад

Excellent Lesson. I had worked on that tune the last weeks with the instructional video Fingerstyle Funk. Your tips are very usefull. The index finger is the key to not messed up the whole thing. The second line have a sort of variation, Rocco plays this line one time like you, the second time he go higher to the 11/12/13 frets in the G string. Another interesting lines of Rocco are Oakland Stroke (Simple but hard to play in time), Space for Bass from his solo album, or some others from TOP (So much oil in the ground for example). Thanks Mark and have a good weekend with your Baby and partner. PD: I gonna miss the old cat (Rocco)

@Crunkboy415 3 года назад

Rocco was so much in the pocket they had to brush the lint off of him 🤣 RIPRocco

@Loopspin 2 года назад

Always wanted to learn that bass line ! Thanks for the lesson and I mean lesson, you are a Taskmaster but I hung in there. Saw Rocco here in Toronto about 14 years age. The band killed ! RIP Rocco and thanks for being you!