Mutant Bass: Fearless Flow

[StopTheMoti0n]

Awesome vid! what's the tension on your strings for stuff like this?

[posido24]

@StopTheMoti0n thanks for checking out my video... i have to use the lightest gauge strings i can in order to keep things as effortless as possible (40-60-80-100)....

[cbhead23]

Woo! Thanks for the video!!

I'm checking out your website for sure!!

[myusernameissocool]

Best lesson I've ever seen, please do a lot more! I love it!

[plusmin09]

Good video!

[ninjaassassin27]

i had to realize this on my own too. even though i'm a pianist as well as bassist\guitarist, the same rules apply. the rhythm is everything, just like the melody is. all the small things come together on their own when you craft it as your own, and understand what you're crafting. you have to feel it.

[88ways2listen]

im right handed but play left this just show me i need to go righthanded thanks

[Colerosity]

It's funny, this is a pretty basic concept for drums. If you're a drummer, get The Drummer's Complete Vocabulary As Taught By Alan Dawson.

[lajack07]

It didn't hit me until you said something about the open strings. I was trying to think of an example about what you could have possibly been talking about because the idea wasn't getting through.

This completely explains the thought process for Muse's "Hysteria."

[herchimer]

I owe you one, this just made my day.

[ricardorae]

Great video Big P!!! ;)

[hairlessdog101]

oh and i like the poly rythm vid i love poly rythms

[hairlessdog101]

I play guitar but i think this is more helpful than any guitar lesson ive ever had......my friend plays bass and trys explainging this stuff to me but the way he explains it is really complicated but you do i good job very very easy to understand and apply

[posido24]

@hairlessdog101 hi hailessdog101... thanks for the comment! sorry it took so long to reply. i never saw this appear on my comments :( anyway, it's good to hear the explanation made sense. teaching is a work in progress for me! hope music is going well for you!

[1rushboy]

with a drum backbeat a bassplayer can play so many variations of the same line it's scary

[posido24]

hey 1rushboy... i most agree.... hope ur music is going well!

[shanebieda]

YEA! Listen to the drummer! We are your masters! hahaha

[posido24]

haaha! drummers do rule... i aint to proud to admit;)

[shanebieda]

hahaha

The Bass gives the song so much more fullness and color.

[bigbigsound]

good video dude,nice style,slick and knda mystical haha,very zen,im gotta stop typing and go play bass....Stu Hamn that played with joe satch did a lot of that too,i seen him in '91 his unaccompanied solo was like a big dueling banjos multi rthytm tapping thing ..it was phat and got the crowd totally dancing and stamping along

nice work :-)

scotty

[posido24]

yeah Stu Ham got some nice linear bass grooves goin on! i remember the first time i heard a recording of him. it was a live recording of him playing the "Charlie Brown" theme song! i freaked out. i had just started playing the bass and had no idea that tapping was even a possibility. he do some goood stuff!

[bigbigsound]

thanks for the nice reply man,what a change,i must remeber to mak eoyur vid one of my faveourites :-)

all the best from Dundee,Scotland :-)

[changtue]

I've been playing for 5 months now. i don't even need a teacher thanks to you. thx for the vids :D

[posido24]

hey changtue! u've been playing 5mos!?!?... and ur already tackling "Classical Thump"! very nice! hope all is well for u and music!!!!

[anojansmart]

If you also have experience with drums of any nature, this lesson comes quickly.

[hufarted]

I agree. Everyone should start on drums. Rhythm is the foundation. If you have poor rhythm or don't keep time, you're as good as a leaky boat, on any instrument. I picked up slap very quickly after years as a drummer, and taught it to a fellow drummer very quickly as well.

[anojansmart]

I experienced the same thing, though it was with a trombone in my high school jazz band. once you get into the "overall groove" just feel the flow and flow naturally, and the rhythm falls neatly into place! thanks for the vid!

[posido24]

hey anojansmart! ur crazy nuts with that rubiks cube! i got one of those and tried to follow the instructions for solving it. everytime i am near close to solving it, i seem to always screw up one turn then the whole thing is messed up and i can't find myself! ... anyway.... thanks for checking out the vid!

[icedhermy]

dude, amazing lesson. so clear

[posido24]

thanks for checking out my vid icedhermy! hope this opens up some doors for bass players to take this concept to another level!! hope ur well!

[6eg]

great vid man!

[posido24]

hey 6eg! thanks! thanks for checkin out the vid! how's ur music going? hope ur well!

[polyshednj]

great vid...love the perception part. Wooten's book he wrote is totally on that same level of bass being an attachment to your reality. Kind of like meditation for some people. You might dig Eckartt Tolle - not musically related, but the concept of the "now" is what jamming is all about.

[posido24]

polyshednj! how r u? thanks for checking out my vid. i have checked out Eckart Tolle. i dig what you say about the "now"!

[youtobu]

WOW,Thanks you a lot for sharing this!!

Super easy to understand,you are the best teacher ever,it was crestal clear!!

[posido24]

Thanks for the kind words youtobu! i'm glad you found this video easy to understand! hope all is well!

[kingphilipx]

awesome thank you so much that's helped immesnely, the way you put it makes it sound so simple, thanks :)

[posido24]

hey Dan FTF! that's great that you are able to apply this immediately!

[Tuppington]

someone stole my bass amp from my friend's house!

[bassman533]

ive been playing bass for almost 3 years i always knew the scales and made bass lines but had trouble makinG diffrent rythms.

thankyou dude

[posido24]

hi bassman533! thanks for the comment! so how are things with your music? are you playing much these days?

[bassman533]

ya i play alot only been playin 3 years though

[bassman533]

most help ful video

[i4bruno]

UAU

thank you !!!!

great site an video edition and SOUND!!!

[posido24]

hey i4bruno! thanks! glad you dig! i'm just having some fun! what's going on with you? how's the music?

[luketa666]

that rythm you use as an example is called MURGA

[kingxofxsuede]

never heard of that. I always thought of it as a "generic syncopated(sp?) 4 rythem"

[resonantdoghouse]

Great Video!

I've known how to play stuff like "me and my bass guitar" but I've never thought about it this way before. Very insightful and actually motivating to work on some "open hammer pluck".

Also the video editing/story boarding really makes this work. A good narative which is intruiging.

[spukymyk]

tnx

[tehgummy]

i learned this technique really early on. i think if you improvise and create your own music, rather than emulate other pieces, creatively, you become a better player.

[posido24]

hey tehgummy! how's it goin? i most agree with your comment! the demonstration in the video is not intended to copy. once a concept is grasped, a musician should try to divorce themselves from that original source as soon as possible and create a new idea! i could have been more clear. how are things with you? hope ur well!

[KristofWynants]

Interesting, i discovered this technique myself, deriving it from rasta percussionists, but yr video gave me a couple of new insights and ideas to try out. Cheers mate!

[posido24]

hey kristofwynants! i'm glad to hear you got something out of my vid! hows your music goin?

[BassPlayerRene9]

nice!!

[smurfo129]

amazing lesson.. when i learned me and my bas guitar, i came to the same realization.. it was just hard to find that rythmic pulse, but once you find it its so natural. :D

[posido24]

hey smurfo129! once you find it, it is so natural! hows the music going for you?