Jeff Schmidt -SOLO BASS- Seeing is Freeing

[TheLexiV]

*sigh* *throws bass in a fire*

[andbru11]

This one person that doesn't like the video... actually he like the video, but Jeff's solo was so badass that he clik "deslike" ^^

[JuiceforBruce]

This is incredible. The lack of wanky expressions, and just pure focus makes it that much better.

[ALLdenes]

Alguém sabe me dizer qual o encordoamento que ele esta usando?qual a numeração e a marca do baixo?

[Meshuggahfication]

my god

[AggieTreed]

I think someone accidentally pressed the dislike button

[qfbass]

amazing...

[wooten740]

本間にわけわからん

[Carlos15ag]

To all haters saying “stick to your four strings bassist, you‘re not a guitarist“ well this pretty much shows you how wrong you are. Bassists can have this much potential, EXPLOIT IT

[Zopiate]

1:40 (I came) Update: I came again at 2:20

[Zopiate]

1:40 (I came)

[serazac25]

piccolo strings , i'm guessing

[StrawberryJungle]

Mind, utterly blown.

[SergiodBass]

wow



[TheGreaterLionTurtle]

whoa i have to give my mind time to process this one

[BIGeSTRING]

This is playing The Bass!!!!!!!!

[michaelbraunbass]

You see lots of people that do this kind of stuff, but you can tell who actually learned how to play bass first rather than all of the frilly shit... and this guy is definitely one of those who actually learned how to play first

[MrBassflute]

@michaelbraunbass Actually, he learned to play guitar first...and he has guitar strings on here...retuned, open string tuning, reversed and upside down, so he is bound to get some unique sounds out of the thing. I have never actually seen or heard him play bass (bass parts) in a band. This is effectively baritone guitar playing. He's good at it, if you like this sort of thing. I do, sort of, for about 3 minutes....

[rexasul]

@MrBassflute I don't think piccolo strings would accommodate a guitar neck very well, if at all. My guess is the latter. Would like to see someone get anything close to this kind of sound on a baritone guitar.

[feedyoursoul01]

@rexasul yeah the important is fingerstyle playing we dont care about the numbers of strings

[volcomscooter29]

is this a piccolo bass?

[StrawberryJungle]

@volcomscooter29 Yes :) with inverted stringing!

[cpthobby]

unearthly

[rockin982]

It's a left-handed bass with inverted stringing.

[KurtSandford]

HOLY SCHMIDT!!!!

[KaslarProductions]

I would rape my fucking mom for tone like his...

[holytiamat777]

@KaslarProductions oh god !!!! O_O

[CorvetteCoonass]

While many praise him for his technique, I think compositional skills are far more impressive and that's saying a lot considering how great his technique is.

[speratic1984]

so you officially created acid trip classical and it's one of the sickest styles of music ever, amazing technique ty for the music.

[rexasul]

I didn't know Julian from TPB played bass... cool.

[RONYSLA]

va tomano cú toca pra Kct

[Rodillanator]

Eres un bizarrooooo D: ojala fueras venezolano me enseñarias a tocar bn @.@

[RaptorTeak]

So much elegance in this left hand :) . Love the way you pop out the note with your thumb at 0:08.. I know it's just a detail but it's just so hard to do :D.

[fingerboy18]

That first chord is insanely haunting. I love it!

[thecoolestdad]

I am also a left handed bass player,actually still learning.I am drummer of 35+ yrs.I learned on a right handed bass and I bought a left handed violin bass and had the nut changed out and the strings reversed.In the second Eddie and the Cruisers movie,Eddie(aka Joe West),told a young hot-shot kid,it's not how flashy you are,but can you play with feeling,from the heart?Eddie showed him how it was done.Some guys are exceptionally good and flashy.Music is creating from the heart.Contentment is all.

[lacerta5]

o.O

[BassDude50000]

wow! lefty on a righty bass. thats pretty insane

[knegolf666]

@BassDude50000

i dont think it is a right handed bass. just look at the cutaways, it looks like he might have strung it "upside down" maybe learned to play on a right hand bass, and kept it strung that way.

[ambidextrosity]

@knegolf666 Indeed. You can tell that it is a left handed bass by looking at where the neck meets the base of the bass. If a right hander were to flip it over, and reverse the strings again, his hand would snag on the base of the bass when attempting to hit the highest notes.

[wanwanwaver]

How the hell does he get such a clean sound out of his bass?

[danielexr]

@wanwanwaver piccolo bass method

[dgafcoffee]

@wanwanwaver It takes lots and lots of money. get a job. lol. Because to try and reproduce the kind of sound this guy is playing with its gonna cost you.

[tblog2100]

どうしたらそんな風に弾けるんだ?

尊敬します。

[jacosmith86]

Imagine Jeff Schmidt and Tosin Abasi doing an Animals as Leaders project together! Of course drums by Tomas Haake of Meshuggah. That would be the best band ever.

[irontheater77]

@jacosmith86 YES!

[kylecuppett]

nice way to mechanically make the instrument work for you,i wonder how this would work in a live situation without the ability to change tuning and strings etc.....

[DiFFicult0CURE]

@kylecuppett  you can check his channel, he has plenty live videos for us to see.

[scarsymmetry1989]

why is it so easy on the ears and so hard on the bass?

[paragshah2112]

he makes it seem so effortless

[panhead1219]

He's like a fretless bass flemenco from Mars!

[claireandjoryshow]

i know a right handed guy that strung his awesome right handed bass lefthanded and plays it right handed

[claireandjoryshow]

playing the bass upside down

[WondrousBurrito]

@claireandjoryshow

I really really hope you aren't that retarded...

[Poonard]

GAHH! Schmitt, you are my favorite bassist of all time. Im nothing special but in my book you are even better than Mr. Claypool and he's the god damn COLNOL!@ Keep it up dude!

[sywannab]

it seems thin strings are up there and thick strings are down there.

[bassist12345]

they are. seems like he learned on a right handed bass, and just flipped it around, then when he finally got a lefty bass he was already used to tuning it in a way that would be upside down to the rest of us.

[Masamuneblader]

Pretty much exactly the case lol

[dgafcoffee]

@sywannab I knew a guy that learned to play guitar upside down like that. pretty cool. he was left handed and didn't have enough money for an expensive ass left handed guitar so thats how he played. upside down.

[Poonard]

this is SO beautiful its hard to listen to. all of his songs are this way. I love music like this..so good it's painful! <3 <3 *ungay hug to Mr. Schmidt :)

[BenZeneProject]

Amazing. I wonder if that is in an altered tuning.

[Childinfaith]

Altered tuning, lefthanded, backwards strings. This guy is sweet.

[meatflowers]

correct me if i'm wrong, but since it's strung reversed that helps with his 'different' style a little because his rolling off the strings goes in the opposite direction to most (from low to high, rather than high to low) which i suppose means if he did the samew motion as done on a regular strung bass it would naturally sound unusual. right? i probably didn't explain that well sorry.

[MCgoogles1000]

I understand, all downstrokes would sound like upstrokes because it's a left-handed bass, which gives the chords a unique sound.

[quadpod]

... no

[00Dakka]

this guy and manring -__-

...

[bassman1992UK]

one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard

[Zombbg4]

I wouldn't really call him a bass player, he's a musician.

[gexv8]

He plays bass. Therefore he is a a bass player. A bass player is a musician.

[graff302420]

Bass players CAN be musicians... not everyone who plays an instrument is a musician. True musicians are conduits for the creator and are not bound by any instrument. Their very life is a grand symphony... case in point: Michael Hedges. nuff said

[BossBassist]

good words

[meatflowers]

i think you're going a bit over-board. i can see why some shit roots bassist playing dull rock riffs might not be considered worthy of the tag if you ascribe any great meaning to what a musician has to be, but there are a lot of 'musician' bassists who make great basslines who don't need an over-blown symphony orchestra metaphor applied to to be granted that tag. normally great music is great with or without a 'personality' creating it

[Drazy25]

hearing something like this really makes you just have to put the guitar down for 20 minutes or so.... unreal...

[deeno666]

Alright. Well I officially give up on bass now. Thanks alot, Jeff Schmidt... Asshole.

[Gitarroxiss]

hahaha

[boggie91]

hahaha, nice!

[gr00veN1k1]

Allright..:) One bass player less. Anyway you're not good..i'm sure:) So don't waste your time!

[deeno666]

Great! Now am I not only indirectly put down by the awesome abilities of Jeff Schmidt... But random YouTubers don't like me either! :'(

[gr00veN1k1]

Bad joke:) I'm sorry mate. Cheers!

[deeno666]

Haha, no. It was a good one haha.

[dgafcoffee]

@deeno666

It's not technically a bass guitar. Its more like an electric guitar as defined by it's role. His technique is a very loose flamenco style. It could still use a bass guitar behind it and sound even better.

[Muaguana]

@dgafcoffee So would a tenor bass be considered a baritone guitar tuned down a whole step?

[dgafcoffee]

@Muaguana What I meant was it doesn't matter what you call it. Its a piece of wood with strings. Pretty simple contraption. Its the feeling, the dedication, and time you put into learning different techniques and meshing them all together that turns that piece of wood into a piece of gold. If that makes any sense.

[lloydaphelion]

you oughta hook up with Odds Bodkin!

[1Frustr8dMusician]

COuld you be any more insane dude? :-)

[DeanFromHell1993]

ever took a look at michael manring? :D

[wackiirahki]

wow...i can't look at my bass the same way anymore....

[derplookatme]

that part at 1:34 is absolutely fantastic.

[JTPhoebe9]

The whole thing is absolutely fantastic.

[andrez1199]

insanity

[mufasamusic]

This is so damn cool. I'm playing a concert with you soon, you definitely set the bar and got me back into the woodshed. Thank you

[totoisspecial]

noice youre on talkbass?

[Lasdferret]

Yes, he is on talk bass. If that was your question.

[grayfang]

he is a leftee.. he is so good

[sidwho123]

he's actually a righty, but he's playing the bass backwards and upside down

[totoisspecial]

no he's a lefty player he has the strings strung backwards. no1's ever herd of this technique? it helps a lot with the style of solo bass music. you can let harmonics on the treble strings ring easier, rather than when its normal strung you have to put your hand in an awkward position

[sidwho123]

thats what i meant by playing backwards (stringing). but he is a righty playing a left handed bass. i think i read that somewhere on talkbass

[mackjhonson]

there is no way a righty could have that kind of left-hand technique

but i guess you never know

[sidwho123]

ya, he's crazy

[Feuerfrei715]

Actually, he's a lefty using a lefty bass strung upside-down. Notice the shape of the bass and position of the tone knobs, he's playing the bass in its intended POSITION but just has the strings reversed

[colburg]

Absolutely Amazing. I am glad I found your videos. Can't wait to get your CD.

Keep it up.

[gerardoh85]

sorry, but you are fucking amazing

you are the best bass player than I have seen in long time...

hails from chile

[nomadicjazz23]

wow !!! you learned how to play great upside down. or maybe we all play upside down. ah forget it. it dosen't matter. you are awesome!!!!

[blinky333]

i love the little sections from 2:45

[juanarab]

BEST SOLO BASS PLAYER OF ALL TIME

[KurtSandford]

1:35 actually made me say out loud, "what the fuck was that, that's awesome!'

[wdinc01]

Seriously! It's like one of the coolest things I've ever heard someone produce from a bass.

[KurtSandford]

2:10 is equally as awesome i would say.

I like him on a fretted bass, he's great as being percussive.

[pleaselistenclosely]

No doubt, that was awesome!

[JimbobJones42]

I think It sounds beautiful, but (please don't flame me for this) I think it lacks structure a little, I'm currently composing for music at college, and (even though of course what I did wasn't even close to being this good musically) my teacher kept telling me that my structure wasn't strong enough, and he was right. I dunno, just my $0.02

[ruinerseverhead]

the structure is as follows

INTRO, A,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,­L,M,A,B,C, END

progressive - but very structured.

[Jsingles589]

yea that might be true if you examine things with theory, but I like to examine the product with my ears first.

his songs are very nice. whatever works works

[meev991]

the high strings are on the top? If it is, that's a nice touch. Works for the music.

[Muaguana]

Absolutely beautiful.

[eyemran]

Always been one of my favorite pieces of yours Mr. Schmidt! Question about technique: when you're doing the strumming (looks more like a rake) stuff, are you using just the index and middle or are you incorporating more? Is there a Jeff Schmidt instructional DVD (or youtube vid)sometime in the near future?

Imran

[mackjhonson]

it looks like he uses the weight of his hand to drive the index down, hence the free thumb - but i really couldnt tell ya. ditto on the instructional dvd

[xdux]

sweet tune!!! awesome mood!! great stuff.

[psychedelicboat]

wooten status right there.

[BCKBCK]

Can we trade basses Jeff?

[Lasdferret]

Can we trade brains Jeff?

[freezegelman]

can we trade skills jeff?

[ZombeastFX]

Can we trade hands Jeff?