Victor Bailey Jazz Bass: Lesson ( fast scale shifts ).

[officialhappybacon]

this is extremely helpful!

[blackscenegirl]

This very good and helpful. c:

p.s. I like your bruce lee poster. c:

[bassmanpatz]

dude you have my dream bass

[GrantSmithBass]

@bassmanpatz Hey !! It is a dream to play. Also, the thing with posting youtube clips is that while my clips sound great on my home computer mac, I was just listening to them on my laptop and the sound is awful. I encourage everyone to play these clips via a computer with good speakers, as it makes a world of difference in the sound quality. Rock !

[theporcuspine]

how much is that bass?

[GrantSmithBass]

@theporcuspine it varies with the USA dollar. But a great Australian bass website is: The Bass Centre in Melbourne. They have basically all fender bass-prices on their website. Check em out, they rock!

[jazzbluesshred]

Hey guys, I have a question. I'm a guitarist who's got together with my friend who plays bass to start playin jazz. We were going to do a version of fly me to the moon, with the guitars playing chord melody. But for the bass I was wondering what would be best, to play the root notes of the chord or the melody?:)

[funkeety]

wow, that's help much on how i should practice my fingering.. thx a lot.. i'll practice your lesson everyday, and let's see if i can beat you speed.. lol.. kidding..

[jazznfusion68]

Very good exercises !

[drazenradovanac]

thanks man it is great thing for me

[dzsingiszkan]

Really nice ;)

[TommyMondayz]

Very nice, man. A diff scalar approach that kinda neglected. Thanks for bringin' it out. Bottoms up!

[axelarvizu1]

let me guess.... Fender Victor Bailey Jazz Bass .... it's a sweet bass.....

[vtx1300dave]

I can't explain to you why this technique that you shared hadn't hit me yet, but I thank you profusely for sharing it with us. You have just broken down for me to its simple-ist form a really useful hand position technique. Many many thanks!

I am mostly self-taught (no disrespect to all the fantastic musicians on you tube that I've picked up valuable lessons from) but I feel that I will be "ready" for conventional lessons after a degree of skill is learned and mastered on my part first.

[diegoalohafm]

nice!!!!!!!!!!!

[GrantSmithBass]

Cool, I read soul bassist like Chuck Rainey/ Jamerson also used the fingernail back-stroke. I guess its all about what tone you are wanting etc. Cheers for the comment. Also, I have just added my bands film clip to my playlist. Rock On!

[BassPlayerRene9]

hey whats the name of the scale you use at the end?

[GrantSmithBass]

Hey mate, its all The Major scale etc using the modes and some chord tones. I think I was in the key of C major too. ..................rock !

[bannanapancake]

do you use 2 or 3 finger technique on your right hand? thanks for the exercise. cheers

[GrantSmithBass]

right hand is just two ...aka jaco etc. A good exercise is to practice leading with the index - middle , then reverse that , middle - index: esp across strings. thanks

[mushroomzagain]

very helpful thanks a lot

your a fair beast on bass!

[GrantSmithBass]

thanks mate...I hope it is helpful in seeing how the fretboard is designed and how in fact the same notes ( and pitch ) can be in more than one location, hence you can use this to navigate around the fretboard. Rock on...!!

[DavcomBass]

Nice, you are like a Bruce Lee of bass!

[GrantSmithBass]

...cheers and thanks for checkin out the video. Hope all is going well with you and your music...Bruce Lee rocks !

[tool772]

That was awesome!

[GrantSmithBass]

Cheers mate...thanks for the comments. More vidz due in the next month or so...