Flea - Funk Slap Bass Lesson

[RHCPFemaleFlea]

And THIS is why no one will ever be as good as Flea.

[UtahBraten]

John Frusciante behind the camera

[SteveWrightNZ]

Evol!!!

[TheHarryVegas]

true musical gennius

[tl44753]

Oranges are a good source of vitamin c.

[cursedswordsman]

@tl44753 cool story bro

[a2r1v1i2s]

flea seems like such a nice dude. :-)

[ghouliath]

@ arafhyasxn1 dude I have a spider iv and a just got a bass. Do NOT use ur bass with ur guitar amp. Way too much low end on a bass. I have a seven string I play on it and that's as low as it needs to go. Flea is the man!!!

[a2r1v1i2s]

@ghouliath good luck playing sir! Merry Christmas.

[utubedestroysmytime]

i like the mesa boogie tone more than the GK tone he has now....it was sooooooooooooo full.

[Bushwakitty3]

@CCLVII

Its an ernie ball I forgot which one exactly but its easy to find.

[Ascendancy08]

Im impressed by the left hand... well actually both hands... but that left hand can move. lol

[CCLVII]

what's this bass he's using?

[GutarDude2]

@CCLVII Musicman StingRay

:D

[a2r1v1i2s]

@CCLVII music man.... their the shizzz. I'm to poor to get one ;-(

[cursedswordsman]

Whoa, I just learned something from this. The last D pop on Skinny Sweaty Man is on an open string. Thanks for the hint Flea!

[blacklight0304]

FUNKY TIME!

[Gantrey]

i don't want to play bass anymore

[TheAfterglowe]

@quikSilverSX since he was 16

[aliyhijazi]

this is the kind of shit the chili's need to incorporate into their new songs. funky peppers are happy peppers.

[cursedswordsman]

God. What a beautiful tone and technique.

[smoophproductions]

hes a little high

[GirtopolisArashiki]

He is god...a musical god

[MuseFromGallifrey]

Flea is using a Mesa Boogie? Wierd/.

[StefanS117MC]

omg he iz completly clothed!!

and its normal clothing

[REACTNOW1]

flea once fingered a woman. Next day she was found dead!

[S0u11ess]

@REACTNOW1 wow that's original...

[cursedswordsman]

@S0u11ess Irk? I hate faggots like him and their copied jokes.

[randomguy508]

what's that slow funk riff flea plays?

[Cornbrosia]

How can people dislike this?!?!?! Fuckin losers.

[musicmillar]

i love it when hes playing get up and jump slow he's like 'fuck this im playing it fast again, slows boring' :P

[roberthemsley2]

*saying song names followed by fast slap riffs*

[ditoarch06]

how come he can get clean slapping voice with that thumb position??

\m/_

[Notaleafsfan]

@ditoarch06 because he's Flea -.-

[musicmillar]

@ditoarch06 hell have a compressor like with full drive on :)

[ThePhantomTerror]

His hand is so fast.

[MrBlakeRunyon]

Love those musicmans man!



[falloftheelite]

Just came back to this video trying to play Get Up And Jump and realised I had 68 likes, fucking buzzing my cock off.

[superflyaaron]

Does anybody know what kind of Bass that is?? Kind of looks like a Musicman Sting Ray, but I'm not sure

[drigerlily]

@superflyaaron Yeah, It's a Musicman StingRay

[bassharmonica1]

@757jdmguru they are both gods of slap!

[bassharmonica1]

damn, Flea is a god of slap.

[757jdmguru]

@bassharmonica1 wrong bootsy collins is

[manrayer88]

Stop watching this and start playing bass!

[LucianoBongiovi]

They are both baked for sure.

[superamnon]

Who is the interviewer on this video?

[MissingStrings]

@superamnon

River Phoenix

[zatoichiMiyamoto]

D:! MONSTER!

[jluzin]

Flea's thumb is like a god damn minigun. Hell yeah!

[InushiToo]

He doesn't write music.

[Chayse88Black]

It must be fun to tab those bass lines. Good job Flea you have a lot of patience to tab all that shit.

[jluzin]

Aybody else notice that the whole "contrived" comment was directed at the interviewer?

[muddiedknees00]

The interviewer does not even know Get Up and Jump. =P

[cestoiber117]

God, this makes my thumb tingle just watching it.

[Devilsblood]

I wonder how flea fucks? lol. You think he's good with his hands in the sack? lol

[FanOfThings96]

@Devilsblood Its funny, cuz its sexual

[oweenacow]

i can't see his hands... all his fingers must have six packs

[septianyusuf]

i like this ..thank u

[Rafaelsw1]

otimo bassist, in my opinion, is best Victor Wooten!

[andreasmariosetiawan]

hey this video is not for beginner.;. Flea is way too fast.. He is master of slap bass in the world

[EnricoBrickoHendro]

fucking awesome....

[MynamesNOTDevon]

dam

[SebaChannel]

i hate flea because he is the greatest bassist in the world

i cant move my fingers like that even if im not playing bass

[BassOutcast]

Dammit , every time when I pick up my bass , I remember Flea and get a little bummed out because I know I'm WAYYYY out of his league ....

[MichealRyanPrichard9]

Get up and jump... I thought I saw him using his thumb on the G note.

[lobloki]

Flea turns the bass into more of a percussion instrument than anything... Haha! Awesome vid.

[pistonsfan2010]

play that funky music white boy

[sfranklin0440]

Flea is a totally underrated bass player! He ranks up there with bootsy collens and all the rest of the greats!

[jazzalex22]

By the way Flea was Donnie in the Wild Thornberrys. Flea rocks.

[southbaybums]

What kind of bass is that

[kreepyguitarhippie]

@southbaybums musicman stingray

[punchfloor]

@southbaybums a MUSICMAN STINGRAY

[southbaybums]

What kind of bass is that

[BullHOnkey347]

4 strings 4 life; rock on flea.

[himrawkz]

effortless...

[MrChico787]

fleas a beassttttt!!!

[m0llym0nSTAR]

THATS RIVER PHOENIX!

[everlyredhot]

I will never play bass again :(

[RATMfan92]

@everlyredhot Dude, you feel the exact opposite of what you should! This video doesn't say "Look, i'm Flea, i'm awesome bassist and you can never be half as good as i am"

It says "Look what you can do with a bass guitar if you practise hard enough, look how much fun it can be"

[everlyredhot]

@RATMfan92 haha right ! ;)

[facebag666]

les claypool beats flea, Primus sucks!!!!!!!!!!!

[asdewqasdfgh]

greatest of all time

[Pradzel]

he doesnt look happy about playing it slow :)

[SaintUdnitz]

@Pradzel he's just very very stoned *___*

[zipan111]

This is on the set of 21 Jump Street and I think thats young Johnny Depp with Flea?

[tml1019]

@zipan111 It's a young River phoenix actually

[zipan111]

@tml1019 Good call. I missed that.

[deaTh07543]

You could be playing bass for 30 years and you'll never be as good as him

[chirbin0nidhogg623]

i love it

even slow its impossible to learn those riffs

and he knows it too :P



[sublime88sublime]

@chirbin0nidhogg623 i learned all of them on my fretless

[chirbin0nidhogg623]

@sublime88sublime thats awesome, i definetly gotta see that,

wuts the name of the vids?

[sublime88sublime]

@chirbin0nidhogg623 lol, i dont have vids of me playing it, i am a busy fellow these days, maybe some day i will post it, who knows?

[chirbin0nidhogg623]

@chirbin0nidhogg623 understandable

but u kno if u find the time

i seriously want to see those

pllleeeeaaasseee

[ohsuckitup2]

Happy Birthday, Flea!!!!

Love Flea, Always will!!!

[Afrotastik]

anyone know what the first riff he showed is called? or a tab for it?? please, help would be much appreciated :)

[marstuber96]

very hard

[VinceMarkey]

flea's tuned a half step down in this...just noticed

[xXNiTeBriGAdEXx]

@VinceMarkey I bought this dvd the other day, i thought the e sounded really low

[VinceMarkey]

@xXNiTeBriGAdEXx haha yeah. i started playing along with him and was like "what am i doing wrong?!?!" lol

[Mortalmutilation]

@skizmsucks23 no it is the bass all the way in funk with the drums of course guitar is just along to for the ride to fill a couple gaps

[joshiehanson]

im a punk. I like the sound of bass. I freely admit that funk bass sounds so much better than any other kind,

[waliver15]

flea makes me feel sad as a bassist.............. HE IS TOO FREAKIN GOOOOOOOD FOR THIS WORLD!

[TheDuling]

Flea is awesome! :D

[BeezleBoy]

I'm surprised his right index and middle finger skin isn't torn up from popping so hard all the time.

[hy42]

Which george clinton song is that?! please someon tell me:)

[JD101PRO]

his hands are like a blur when he plays

[Quantumbeast]

great, but nothig compared to gianni serino...

[JaCkThEdRuMmEr73]

get up and jump sounds an awful lot like shes got looks to kill

[cfiore88]

@JaCkThEdRuMmEr73 I suppose, but not enough where I'd see any legal action being taken.

[WolfpikaNetworks]

It's like every time Flea begins to play, it looks like they sped up the camera speed during editing, but it's him actually playing!

[tomuchcoffeeman]

balls to the wall, one of the greatest bassists of all time and the only one i know by name

[AndrewGee69]

hands down, best bassist of all time.

[ClappingSnakes]

That interviewer kinda seems like a coke head.

[jnadeau28]

@ClappingSnakes

probably because that's river phoenix...

[faen5863]

The only problem with flea is his shitty toy-like kids bass :S

[musicmaan96]

@faen5863 u mean his new custom musicman basses or the one he's using in this vid

[faen5863]

@musicmaan96 no his junior fleabass or w/e the one that looks like a toy...

[ThatGuyLewis]

I swear i am in love with that booming sound of his bass, is that because its a Stingray? Or maybe an octave pedal? (never had an experience with either but always wanted too) because I just cannot seem to reproduce that really booming sound that you can hear especially on skinny sweaty man.

[Dangonopwnyou]

Fucking, hell.

[falloftheelite]

Hes the worst interviewer ever. Fleas interviewing himself xD

[KeyOfStrife]

@falloftheelite Well it's more of a friend to friend talk then an interview really, taken that River was a good friend of Flea ;)

[towsa]

@falloftheelite Isn't the interviewer River Phoenix?

[falloftheelite]

@towsa I think so, or a twin brother, who knows?

[12345l6789]

@falloftheelite HOW DARE you disrespect River Phoenix. RIP

[MissingStrings]

@falloftheelite

That's River Phoenix motherfucker, he was badass

[serkija]

flea rules!!!!!

[lpris]

And that is why Flea drives me insane... even slow, it is gonna take me a while to pick up those bass lines.

[achusters1]

is he talking to johnny depp lol

[DBCochrann96]

Flea you give me a headache. But I WILL learn

[janouy1234]

I give up!!!!!

[Hijjax]

Go Flea! Flea #1

[MadddSkillzzz]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­amnnnnn!

[crazddrifterr]

fucking flea is the slap master and just all round (in my opinion) best bass player......im lucky enough to know someone who is mates with him so i got a signed vip pass for my birthday XD!!!!

[Rinneganpein389295]

He kinda looks like STING in this video XD

[arey1995]

this is beast

[ToothMusic]

oh i get it now

[Sakapukaman]

I think that part is from "flea rare bass solo"(from 1:11 to 1:17)

It's incredible how he plays, it's so fast!

[2fat2die]

no, it is the bass line from "skinny shorty man". Playing this line isn´t very hard but the speed is pretty fast ;)

[soccerik04]

man it looks like its sped its so mean wen he plays fast

[VaultMusic105]

sorry to be a jackass but, this isnt the best he can do, look up some vids, flea is prob the best player ive seen, dont talk till uve put up vids and see if people say ur better than flea.

[Zykor669]

flea is officially the best bass player (by the rolling stones mag)

[PortalsEdge]

@Zykor669

dude just listen 3 seconds of victor wooten and you will know that magazine is all bullocks

[Zykor669]

@PortalsEdge actually i have listened a lot to victor wooten, i just like flea's funky style, it's only a matter of personal taste

[PortalsEdge]

yeah i guess

[wontacceptthis]

Your videos don't back your skills up. And neither do mine, but i never claimed to be better than flea.

[LeadedMockery]

@myhouseisyourpants Wow, you can play some of his songs. Whoopdee shit.

Now try writing better basslines, jackass.

[Rubbafingaz1]

I have to say mate that generally I agree with you but saying you can out gun Flea is retarded, you're 17 and after watching your vid's you're a guitar player first and bass player second. To give credit to you 'Beautiful Eyes' is a good tune and you should be proud at 17 to compose a song like this yourself.

[censurabass]

I don't know why people hate your comment so much, flea is amazing, but he was a starting point for me aswell, just to get me into it. His stuff sounds awesome, but it just isn't that hard. And just for the record, you forgot Mark King =D Level42 in my opinion are a crap band, but King is insane.

[tttooommm111222333]

@myhouseisyourpants His choice of notes is pretty simple. He just has speed, and good rhythm

[bullsnake70]

myhouseisyourpants I'm not hatin, I'm just saying show us a video of yourself playing what flea does and then we can see if what he does is so simple.

[MetallicaRules805]

@Deworke212 i love metallica and love cliff burtons style of playing, but there is no doubt that burton played the bass more as if he was playing a guitar than a bass, now im not saying he sucks because that was his thing and he did it very well but he was not the best ever.

[manukakarot23]

madre mia por k este marika sabe acer eso i yo no? XD

[rebogb]

tuu eri mariiica xd

[manukakarot23]

por k defiendes a este te da dinero te da algo en la vida? no, por lo tanto eres tu el marika

[newfighter20]

la pelea weona xd

[pumpkinheadmetal]

@manukakarot23 Marika é vc

[s138339]

flea mi barlicca il pirillo

[emayano]

Make me laght when you compare Flea to Wooten....Flex invented a style, Wooten take one....I don't care who's most technical but Flex as a 10 time bigger importance in the history of bass guitar then Vic.

[gl0gg]

i think flea is a lot faster than wooten. people say he's good but i think wooten kinda sucks.

[TheMusicRockstar]

True that. Flea is the very best.

[Vania131313]

what does he says at the beginning? punk rock or what?

[Gonzaga78]

be4 we got in red hot he was in some punk rock band i think

[Dii1993]

watch the rest of the videos. bass master collections... this is just a part.

[dissensionmusic]

Dude I have such a respect for Flea. He's freaking insane but he pretty much doesn't give a crap what anyone thinks and he seems like a nice dude, which is rare in famous people.

[Mellorine22]

hes good well all pros are good =D theyre all the same

[oneofamillionfranky]

maybe best funk bassist but not best at all wtf people use your brain,

I like his skill too very muc but he s just not the best

[dissensionmusic]

DEFINITELY not the best by any means. He's amazing but doesn't measure up to someone like Victor Wooten.

[jburd999]

lol thats a fuckin joke right????