We are family - Sister Sledge - bass playalong.mov

[Milestones01]

You are King ....Sir...this hit the spot ... I cant stop smiling ...thank you ..my head moves like yours and you look like my best friend ..who also plays bass...amazing!!!

[WDZDirrty]

This is some shit I can get down to!

[rmberry7]

Lovely this funky sound...thanks dude...:-)

[gwalj]

This guy makes it look so easy, a real master. This is HARD to play!

[brettskie07]

Dude I love your vid! Man you rule I like the look and the groove you give! Love the energy

[Pgeko]

One person is an orphan

[Pudsy440]

the funkiness made your nostrils flare in spots ... nice >>> :)

[brettskie07]

Dude o my lord!!!!

WOW

[bassworship50]

Marlowe, man you're soooooo kra-z...I really love your vids because you know how to groove. Your head is outta control because of the groove! Keep jammin brother, we love ya down in So. Fl.

[LtGhOsTaac]

look look! an idiot got confused and clicked the "thumb down" button... xD

this guy is a crack.. Awesome!!

[cgord37]

i like that fonky stingray!

[funkyswede62]

hey Marlowe, love this one, Bernard would be proud. Respect.

[trombonepenguin]

Hahaha! Your eyes after you missed that note, hilarious. Awesome playing, great groove, thanks for posting!

[pinchaa64]

Bernard Edwards, felicitaciones por su talento y claro en esta música se nota mas todavia, gracias por todo, gran valor!!!!

[ballstomonty]

Thanks great bass line. Played great clear sound and helped me learn this bass line for a gig in 5 minutes flat cheers.

[WelcomeHomeMrCobb]

One person is not part of our family.

[Hatejews1]

SAME EDWARD BASS, SAME SOUND, IN A WORD, PERFECT.

[djlcruze]

Excellent playing, as usual! MarloweDK!

[Posthoornstraat]

Nifty swifty!

Is it possible that your bass is slightly out of tune?

[Fjord76]

Bernard Edwards is one of the few musicians with so much style that anybody can recognize him within hearing only 3 or 4 notes. The sad thing is that everybody's misstaking him (and Chic) for a disco musician...it's FUNK, 80's electro-funk but still FUNK.

Thanks for posting,peace out

[tbcass]

@Fjord76 Yes, Disco was commercialized and sanitized corporate music that used Funk style beats but had none of it's Soul.

[Fjord76]

@tbcass right on ;) i'm currently reading Peter Shapiro's Turn The beat Around which explains all that

btw i've already read 4 other books from Allia editions and they're all absolute dope: Peter Guralnick's Sweet Soul Music, Lloyd Bradley's Bass Culture, Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't Stop and Nick Tosches' Unsung Heroes of Rock N' Roll...i can't recommend these books enough if you interrested in music and sociology, besides, the writing is usually very enjoyable and accurate.

[Bumptiously]

@Fjord76 ....thank you ! I very much appreciate the tip off on these books. And may I just say as an aside, that this bass player up here has put a giant smile on my face. Natural groove. I appreciate it more than words can say.

[BassByTheBay]

@Fjord76 First, I checked out some of your vids, and really nice playing!

You're right about Bernard; he was one of a kind. He's the reason I play bass. But Chic most certainly was disco. They were, of course, *funky* disco, but still disco. Some record stores actually had disco sections which was where Chic records were. They marketed themselves as disco, and rightly so since they didn't have the "nastiness" of funk.

Whatever you call 'em, I'm sure we'd agree their importance is undeniable.

[Fjord76]

@BassByTheBay yeah you're right; that's what i learnt in the book i'm talking about below: the whole disco movement got fucked up by all this "stayin' alive and village people" crap, when mainstream talentless producers tried, and succeeded, to make money with that...as usual :/

Bernard is so good, allways the right notes at the right places...i guess it's right to say he (they) changed the world cause absolutely everybody knows good times, le freak, upside down or this one for instance...

[gruad999]

@BassByTheBay read le freak by Nile and you will realise that Nile and Nard were cid heads which I always thought from the word go. The fact that it was a commercial success does not mean that those 2 boys were absolute geniuses.

Beautiful rendition by bassplayalong - can you do Disco Inferno for us some time?

[paolomad66]

complimenti !!!

[georgeharter]

Maybe some playalongs spicing u[p '60s and '70s tunes???  Please!

[AstroAnt]

a Stingray?

[tyrrath]

Awesome, Marlowe! What kind of bass is that you're playing?!

[fbascarin]

Hi Marlove, I'm proud to said you that just some hundreds views of this are mine :-)

[MultiDio88]

suona benissimo sto basso

[swankrecords]

I love it

[Liurix945]

Cool, so chill

[123ZEBRAZEBRA]

Músico de qualidade, baixista de primeira qualidade!

Te desejo Sucesso!

[planetrockford]

Quality bass and knitwear. Supreme combo.

[alexmc69]

You kinda look like Marlowe DK... hmm. Great playing and tone!

[EoinLfc09]

@alexmc69 that is MarloweDK...

[SirOctavious]

Nice sweater. :)

[BillieJean900]

very nice playing i love the bass sounding

[Evansmyman]

I love your videos, I'm a drummer and my husband's a bass-player. We watch you all the time and have learned so much, and we love your nonchalant expression, lol

[Margem1000]

Thanks Newkindofcrazy.

[Margem1000]

I'm trying to learn this and I've pretty much got it now except for the hammer ons at 0.21. I can't quite see where his fingers are and all the tabs I've found on the internet don't sound right. Can any one help??

[newkindofcrazy]

@Margem1000 Hammer ons are C to D, then G to A, then Gb to Ab

[aceluptop]

I don't hav any words man, I would like to meet u. u r the greatest. I am book marking this spot.

[sarah01234567890100]

wow wow wow !!! spot on!!! what a player you are!!! im now a big fan.. ill keep watchin ..sarahxx

[newborn1o1]

Nice MarloweDK, Love your playin' !

[garbeaj]

What amp are you using?

[01tnql]

KILLER TONE....DAMN!!!!

[DJ80TOMTOM]

So Funk ! Great style, funny Bass !!!

[garbeaj]

Fantastic! Bernard is gone but never forgotten! Is that an original pre-Ernie Ball Musicman Stingray? I just got a '77 in the same finish!

[dillikins]

Whenever I want to double check a line or gain some insight into possible fingering/technique I know I can come here. Marlowe has a great ear and pays attention to all the details in a given song's bass line. Thanks, man - you're a diamond in the rough when it comes to Youtube bass demonstrations.

[ciciberlogea]

the greatest disco bass ever God Bless him

[kafcin]

Fill at 2:34 was nice... But this song, really needs more fills in between :D Would be cool

[Basseroni1]

@kafcin MarloweDK is paying respects to Bernard's original part on this tune. To add more licks would take away from the tune and most importantly, the groove. Great job MarloweDK.

[mocus1]

it's the 70's mon.....it afffected everyone

[henry14000]

How do you make it look soo easy? No effort lol

[maxf130]

its so good you just cant stop

[kafcin]

oooo.... awesome bassline..... in the pocket man...

[mocus1]

dude, you have a gift......

[metallaro5]

@mocus1 I think that it's all about hard work. He's a talent, but I'm pretty sure that behind that there's a lot of study and perseveration.

[69erthx1138]

Every time I get frustrated with playing bass, I just fire up one of your videos...

[zs473l1]

Flawless bass playin!!!! Awesome!!!!

[fishfan67]

sounds just like the record....Awesome playing once again!

[MTIVS]

Nice! 

[RageicaNiels]

best cover on Youtube of this song!

[MrFruityGerry]

geezer ,, ur such a genius

[mikeb37167]

Thanks for the video! Sounds good.

[wordreet]

This era had some of the most laid back bass lines. B¬)