Primus "Lacquer Head" Bass Lesson

[lowdownbasschick]

You explained it well! Nice!

[Tetsuo964Pinocchio]

You are probably my favorite person on youtube. Every Primus song I know i've learned from you. Keep up the good work, man.

[bakersman12]

@Tetsuo964Pinocchio

THank you, seriously. That means a lot to me. I'l try and make more when I get home in a week.

[ratmforthewin]

missing wynonas big brown beaver :(

[Conbryvas]

Thanks so much. This video helped me with the bass solo/bridge.

Thanks alot! ^_^

[KillTrinityOfficial]

what kind of bass is that?

[TottoXzip]

it's normal triplets in the begining right ?

[floydforest]

thanks man this video was really helpful.

[seventeenthree]

this is hott. i am breaking character one time to say you are actually a sweet teacher, keep it up dawg. xoxo

[bakersman12]

@seventeenthree

Wow, thank you. I really appreciate that man!

[AxCanadianxAirsofter]

@bakersman12 yo man you are really goodat teaching that and when i was a jazz band i got this stuck in everyones head yay hahahaha you should do a lesson on defy the laws of tradition if you know it.

[bakersman12]

@AxCanadianxAirsofter

Haha nice! I originally started to learn Primus to tick everyone off. But then I started to love them. I haven't tried learning that song yet, but I'll try it and see how it goes.

[ReadyAimDuck]

Really nice work there. After programming myself to play machine gun triplets for the past few months, I must admitt this new technique was pretty tricky to grasp at first!

[bakersman12]

@ReadyAimDuck

Hah, yeah both this an My Name Is Mud were hard to grasp at first. I've been trying to do the machine gun myself. Trying.

[1upShroomGuy]

my problem is that i try to keep my index on e but sometimes comes up when my other fingers come up too

[bakersman12]

@1upShroomGuy

That's understandable. Just practice slowly. And don't get frustrated! It takes time, but you can get it. Just practice slowww until you get it. Then speed up just a little more and more.

[xpier0]

i cant figure this out...are you mutting the string all of the strings with your left index finger? and how r u getting that tapping sound without making a note come out?

[bakersman12]

@xpier0

I'm using my index, middle, and ring fingers on my left hand mostly when I hit it. When you hit with your left hand it makes a thump sound.

When I mute the strings with my left hand, I use my index finger, or all of my fingers. Do whatever is most comfortable. As long as something is touching the string to mute it, it will be muted.

[YoSoyQueso1812]

Thanks for your videos. Always thought Primus songs might be to hard for me to play, but with your videos I learned how to play this and "Jerry was a Racecar Driver" in a half an hour. They were both a lot easier than they sound...

[bakersman12]

@YoSoyQueso1812

Thank you. And yeah, some of them are pretty easy to play once you actually know how to play them. A lot of songs are like that really. It's just getting to that point of figuring it out/knowing how to play it that's the hard part.

[Wick3dSIC]

what tuning is this played in

[bakersman12]

@Wick3dSIC

Standard.

[MysteriousDrF]

that's brilliant! I've been struggling with that intro/verse riff for month and was able to do it within 5 minutes of seeing this... thanks man (Y) :)

[bakersman12]

@MysteriousDrF Welcome!

[bigdaddytorr1]

wrong

[xeror]

Pretty helpful since you can't tell wtf Les is actually doing from the concert footatge. He's a stealth bassist lol.

[bakersman12]

@xeror hahaha a stealth bassist

[wyotechisgay]

nice can't wait to try it out!

[Claypool62]

Thanks for the lesson! Very helpful!

[DFA1972]

great lesson, this one will take me a bit of practice to get down...... Thanks again for posting.

[sunnyjim98]

nice lesson thanks alot!