Beethovens Fifth- Solo bass guitar (funky)

[Scharfschutze1972]

I can see Ludwig throwing some Shuffle moves on this......

[Prinzieboy9]

awesome!!! :D

[MrUninsi]

Good work for a disco cover, try it with the original, it will work good for you to. Beethoven can still kick some ass.

[Kazz3lrath]

Is that a Dean acoustic bass? Also, what type of strings are you using?

[veganzombieism]

@Kazz3lrath That's a Takamine G Series EGB2S, bro.

[mnhhsbuffboyy]

awesome job man!

[frhepburn]

that was awesome!

[breakkfastman1573]

Where can I learn this

[CowboyFromHell092]

tabs please !!! <3

[97MarcWallach]

OMG! That's f***ing Flea!

[FoXxRockStar]

TABS!!!!

[GreenThemed]

please be tabs?

[FoXxRockStar]

God this is amazing!

[MrDrewseph]

Clever bastard! =P Love it.

[plangentmusic]

Really, really, cool. Bravo! I especially like the ostinato bass that then ascends at 2:00. The only critique I'd give is the timing is a little shaky in spots. With a more solid feel (perhaps a notch slower) it would sound a thousand times stronger. And honestly, I think it's sound better on an electric. Nice job though.

[GayRhinoTurds]

This is funcken amazing

[dudeimcooi999]

You gotta put out the tabs, this is crazy amazing

[88Sublime96]

Hey what kinda acoustic bass is that? I'm looking to get one, any suggestions?

[Qupva]

When I hear this the first thing I think of is Little Big Planet 2, since it is a soundtrack that sounds somewhat like this

[AluminaProductions]

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!

[SkateoverSchool247]

Man that is very cool, you bass sounds great! what is it? I cant get over your sound. Well done, cheers!

[cocoalump]

Damn that was really amazing...great technique on the guitar...PEACE

[panteralover23]

Beethoven just changed music all over again! Step aside Bootsy Collins, Larry Graham, and James Brown!

[HIPPIDIM]

Ho yeah ! very good !

[sonickage]

i have an acoustic that looks just like that. is it a Jasmine?

[NERDICLETASTIC]

WOW! thisis amazing! I am just starting bass guitar... one day I want to be able to play like you..... omg you are amazing!!!!! xx

[carakenio]

This is awesome dude !!!

Beethoven is break dancing right now in his grave !!!!

[ninjawannabe44]

Is that a Martin bass?

[sourmelee]

Nice!

[nothingfingworks]

Absolutely amazing. I've been trying to learn this for like a week.. I just can't get the rhythm of the first fast part.

[LeilaMeat]

you are a hero.

[Kombucha]

The song he's playing:

/watch?v=hLUiNAdP-v4

[hungryfordreams]

20 people missed the like button.

[212Juan1]

awesome! great job!

[MRARMAGEDDON120]

who is stupid enough to not like it

[PplRwIerd123456]

@MRARMAGEDDON120 jelous ppl

[MRARMAGEDDON120]

@PplRwIerd123456 that doesn't make any sense i am complimenting him

[T00Lology100]

Brilliant!

[cherylsmith75]

Two words: COOL. NESS

[Trixxxor94]

How long you needed for this? *__*

[abc123gpl]

Nice !

[namestable]

That is f--------g beautiful !!!!!!!!!

[grunthunter44]

dats some funky shit right there

[KillKenny09]

fuck yeah

[Maevicus]

Great playing. Are you playing a Takamine G-Series EGB2S? Are you playing it unplugged for this video? I was interested in purchasing one and your videos seem to be the only ones that demonstrate the full range of the instrument. Please let me know if I am incorrect in the instrument brand or model. Thanks for posting.

[cagluss]

Hey amigo... eso esta muy bien... me gsta

[Bassisbeastiful]

dude you kick

[kakametallicas]

Muito bom

[CrazyComedy111]

awesome

[jbasscrew]

wow! amazing! i would like to learn this ass wel.. haha.. youre very good man! respects!

[fatplumber2]

That is epic :)

[7xrepiv]

i think i am gonna go play my bass guitar now.

[elmaiquillol]

Good! Have you tried it on a double bass?

[kale61]

17 ppl need to buy new speakers.

[rubanpwnage]

tabs please this is amazing

[Tatyanapianista]

Sei bravissimo!!!!!!!!!!Tatyana

[aimstheotter]

i would like to marry you!

[portraitartistdamour]

I really enjoy your creativity and mastery of the bass guitar. In a world of excessive slapping, you really bring out the musical depth and range of the instrument. Thanks for sharing your talent with others. Gary Silber, Mississippi

[claudioOMG]

your a great bass player

5 stars

[NAVAN1995]

hey i live in india.. can u tel me whr can i find this guitar........ i want 2 learn bass...

[tdub694201]

i gotta get that tab bro

[Aceofbucketandspades]

Isn't this just Walter Murphy's A Fifth of Beethoven?

[ArgTincho]

i hate you man. i want you to know that. im gonna enter your house , rip your arms off while you sleep so i can play like that.

contratulations man you are awesome. thumb up.keep the good stuff coming.

[beyondhairy]

yea, how about that tab? lol

[CaRLoEcO13]

that was good.

[whitenight400]

i like this... a lot

[punkr0ckrules]

so so good!

[KenzieDawn1996]

wow ur really good any tips of an electrica bass player?

[Gameaddict16]

this reminds me of henry mancinis "a fifth of beethoven"

[Aceofbucketandspades]

@Gameaddict16 Hmmm no, Walter Murphy.

[stevemodeen]

write a tab for this way to play it

[Driesmeeus8]

nice !

[ScrewtheLaws]

awesome dude..!

[bossofyou3]

Where could i get some tabs for this?

[yeebeascurvydawg]

fucking faggots ask for tabs. Musicians use their goddamn ears and figure it out. fuck you and your tabs. SUCK my funking tab

[lotsoftrouble101]

LOOL

[the150poundtrumpet]

@yeebeascurvydawg REAL musicians would ask for the music or like you said work it out for themselves

[Myystical1]

You're an idiot...a lot of great musicians start by learning tabs. Having a good ear doesn't give you the right to act all high and mighty.

[yeebeascurvydawg]

@Myystical1

lol no, im an ASSHOLE, not an idiot! get it right fuckstick or ill kick your teeths out

[Hoopermazing]

@Myystical1 Tabs are alright for rock idiots, but if you want to be a real musician, you need to learn to sight-read standard musical notation. UNLESS... you are a musical genius, e.g. B.B. King, Wes Montgomery or Paul McCartney. Other musicians will put up with a genius being a musical illiterate, but that's it.

[ham109]

very cool. if there is a tab floating around send me a om, tasty stuff anyway

[rexspecter]

Omg dude you´re awesome!

[keepthefunk]

Funky playing style! I love acoustic basses and you certainly know hot to play them.

Check out my bass vids if you like

[Guitarmanharris]

Isn't that a Harley Benton HBB30NT?? Great playing man (:

[rafaelvasquex]

Le Falta el ritmo no mas al blanquito....

[frenchie72292]

tab this man its sounds great

[joesteed7]

is that an ibanez?

[BrandenForever]

where do you get the tab for this?

[wanakarhys]

I worked this out by ear and arranged it to suit. sorry but I didn't tab it. Maybe I should, there has been plenty of interest.

[BrandenForever]

that would be great if you did ive been watching this video for months and all i have is the intro to the song and im dieing to learn the rest

[BogMyster]

@wanakarhys please tab this!!!!!!

[872463051]

@wanakarhys Count me as one more person interested at least in a partial tab!

[darkblader1005]

@wanakarhys Man, that was awesome. I would defeinitely love to play it if you ever post a tab =).

[TravisApablaza]

awesome !!!

[panbimboconchocolate]

INCREIBLE

[mauileqwerty]

Dude this is awesome. What bass is that man? I need to buy an acoustic bass, I've been searching for months, and still haven't find the one, especially because I can't even play them (suggestions accepted). Anyway I fucking love this, done by ear?

[getzata96]

Rhys,man,can you tab it?

Nice job,mate ;)

[j0c0b]

Brill !

[brikiss77]

NIIIIICE

[thehondarebel]

hi that was great -- but what guitar is that it looks massive

[Garradouken]

It's an acoustic bass... It's about 6 frets longer, and has a much bigger body for a deeper sound.

[nicolas7910]

thats no easy , you are the man, walter murphy would shit in his pants if he sees this.

[69erthx1138]

Man it's hard as hell to even sound good on an acoustic bass to start with, Rhys you are talented.

[master466]

awesome (^.^)=b

[Haricow41]

omg frifrafrey you're right !

[tasha5579]

Hi Rhys

whats up man I can't belive my guitar teacher is playing double bass saw you today at Music.

Love ya

Gina

[mydlands]

I liked it. Very fun, indeed. And I can read notation, so I'm not going to ask for tabs. :D

Actually, I play in the percussion section of an orchestra, and we played 2 movements from the 5th in our most recent concert. It's pretty trippy with the theme being thrown all over the orchestra.

ANYHow... good stuff here. Cheers.

[anno9876]

not just playing.BASS playing

[Carlko26]

awesome :D

[618carlos618]

whoou you're perfect ;-)

[ginja546]

funking nice!

[frifrafrey]

=O omg! is Charlie of Lost!

[paulorphan]

ot even close

[bakersman12]

I woudl be surprised if you had tabs written down. Well, not surprised, but it seems like it would be...a hassle to write them down. You played so much stuff. (No offense to anyone who asked for tabs).

[Thetallywhacker0]

Never knew Beethoven would sound good funky.

[Hoopermazing]

@Thetallywhacker0 - You must be a kid. He's playing a disco-y version of LvB's 5th Symphony that was a radio hit in the late 1970s.

[Aceofbucketandspades]

@Hoopermazing You mean A Fifth of Beethoven by Walter Murphy? And I'm only 17. Age doesn't necessarily bring taste. Plenty of young people love this stuff.

[Hoopermazing]

@Aceofbucketandspades - Yep. That's it. Personally, I was always much more of a Wendy Carlos man myself.

[denh0006]

nice :)

[nicolas7910]

so good. i play a bass like yours, only i took off the frets, check my vids, they suck bad.

[pampMarkkus]

I think its a J&D...isn´t it?

[Sunshineandshadows]

what brand is the bass? is it an Alvarez?

[bustazibit]

yeah i thinks its an alverez looking at the overall sound and appearence might be a j&d hard to tell

[knightsiradam]

so bad ass dude :)

[mcquestion]

Very nice! And on acoustic bass, too!

[IGuitarHeroRealHard]

i love classic rock, but funk is my favorite genre. it's so good! it's make me feel so good inside. like i want to dance. i can't help but tap my feet and bob my head!

[pampMarkkus]

WOW!!! VERY NICE! Congratulations! Keep it going!

[chubbeebubba]

Damn dude.. What the hell is wrong with people.. every time I see some decent bass work... more than half the comments are asking for tabs!?!? WTF... learn your instrument.. and figure it out.. ask for the chords and the key signature. Sheesh.. take some pride in being a musician.

[joshuamichael]

Sorry to be a pain...but...do you have the tabs for what you just wrote?

[beardedisbeautiful]

Ahahaha! I'm laughing SO hardcore right now.

There's nothin' wrong with askin' for tabs. There IS something wrong with being a jerk, though, chubbeebubba.

[TonsofFun777]

Dont be such a nazi

[fatplumber2]

@chubbeebubba I admit that many of the more accomplished bass players should be able to figure it out from the vid or do their own. But there are many players out there that aren't quite up to that level and might just want to learn it for experience. And tabs do just that give you experience and strength.

[dajiaoma77777]

@chubbeebubba Or ask for sheet music and work from there. I'm tired of people learning from tab. Why can't they just use their ears as you said, or at least make an attempt to read PROPER sheet music

[872463051]

I hate asking this, man, but this just sounded too good and I just couldn't figure it out, but do you have tabs for this at all?

[lilythelizard]

I wish i had this on cd or my ipod so i could listen to it!

[ironwolf806]

where did you get your tabs from

[BIgMANNey]

did anybody else notice this is like the walter murphy style of playing and your good

[hamsteryte]

UBER!!!

[NaughtyDog45]

Amazing. You are my hero.

[bryandlarock]

Solide.

[DancingClams]

haha. good stuff

[russcarljohnson]

neat

[EdWaRdThe1stZTQ]

wow u changed boring fifth symphony to a hot sound while kepping the original song in it. good job

[MKocisak]

Boring Fifth symphony? Beethoven's Fifth is an ingenious mixing of two contradicting themes, which was revolutionary in his time. In my opinion, it's one of the most interesting pieces of music out there. But I definitely agree with you on this version; great job on taking an awesome song and bringing it into a style people actually listen to now! It was fun to hear your take on it.

[bruuutal]

totally agree, MKocisak. One of the best pieces of music ever composed.

[Momcilo93]

i agree

[simon12332]

boring haha?

[friscobartnder]

Any chance of an instructional video of the main parts???

[blackNwhite2008]

niceee man yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaa

[gijseke]

please tell me you got this on tabs written down?

I'd love to have this, could you give me the honor of using your tabs?

[felcapo]

it sounds great. Lot of rhythm

[ImaBadAssDruid]

Hell yeah dude! Head bobbing ! :P

[Mountamei]

Damn...

You have to put up the tab for this. This sounded so cool. ^_^

[colbyismybitch]

amen

[D4athPanda]

Some bits sounded a bit like a certain songs from Mario 64... anyone else recognize it?

[boobster2000]

the underground theme (kinda)

[D4athPanda]

Why thumb me down? I didn't mean it in a bad way.

[slliks67]

killed it !!! we dont expect you to be perfect great rendition dude rock on!!

[frostyboibusta]

Hey Rhys its buster from waiheke howzit down south? Check out me ben and julz on youtube just type in buster julion and ben

[Oriothetis]

amazing!!

[rockpop1]

can you send me the tabs for this?

[CounselMePretty]

my god i liked this. i need to get this tab.

[Kaktusiechanizigama]

it is right in front of you :P

[reysosa23]

is your bass connected or it sounds that loud?

[TheRealShadoninja]

It's an acoustic bass, and by the looks of it it's not an acoustic/electric. however acoustic instruments can get pretty loud given the right environment.

[Mrcowasdf]

t's an acoustic bass, and by the looks of it it's not an acoustic

wat

[TheRealShadoninja]

acoustic/electric, basically an acoustic instrument with pickups like the electric version.

[Mrcowasdf]

how about Semi-acoustic? ;)

[TheCallMeCrazy]

Actually both are recognized terms.

And I doubt that it's not an A/E, because acoustic basses are usually too quiet to be played without an amp in anything other than bedroom settings like this. I could be wrong, though...can anyone identify the bass? I was thinking Ibanez, but I can't find a matching model on their site...