The real bassists know that both picks and fingers are valid. Just depends on what you’re going for.

Love the hard cut at the end! Ahhh. Humor is funny.

@siemekkisiel8963

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@markej4801

2 жыл бұрын

It made me laugh out loud!!!

@xMTLKx

2 жыл бұрын

I almost cut before it ahah really funny

When I was a teenager, about 17 years old or so. I had been playing in various bands, fronting most of them, as I had been playing guitar and writing since very early childhood and music just sort of took over my life. Anyways. A friend of mine had a bass. I began learning to play it. I used a pick. Because that was what I was used to. So. One day I see an open audition to play bass for an up and coming local band that I just happened to really dig. I went to the audition. First question they asked me was “What do you wear on stage?” I thought it was weird. But my answer seemed to make them happy. After introductions, I picked up my friends bass (He let me borrow it) and I ran through two or three of their songs with them. Everything was fine. I didn’t screw anything up. Rhythm was good. After that was done, the drummer looks at me. Looks at my hand and says “So…do you always play with a pick?” I replied something like “No, not always. Mostly? I’m just used to playing with a pick”. They didn’t seem to dig me after that. This was a punk/alternative band, for context. I didn’t get the gig. That was 14 years ago. And from that day on, I played with my fingers. Regardless of the instrument. I think it scarred me! The guy who ended up getting the gig, left. And the band dissolved. So that’s my random story! I now play pick-less. Every now and then I use a jazz pick. But I’m a weirdo who grows out my fingernails. So the jazz pick only enters the equation if I’ve lost too much nail. Take care!

@gebbo221

2 жыл бұрын

That's actually a really cool story

@BassPlayer9000

2 жыл бұрын

I've honestly never understood the big deal with using a pick or your fingers. Sound is sound and if it sounds good with a pick or your fingers then I think that's awesome! Also it might be more comfortable for people to play with a pick. As long as it sounds like you or the band wants to sound that's the only thing that should matter 👍 bassist like Jason Newstead sounded great with a pick

@parkerhatcher224

2 жыл бұрын

@@gebbo221 Thank you! Yeah I’ve had a weird life. Lots of cool stories 😄

@mv9787

2 жыл бұрын

It totally depends on a song. Some songs sound bette with a pick, others with fingers, so i use both

@parkerhatcher224

2 жыл бұрын

@@mv9787 Exactly! Lots of Blink 182 songs sound really strange if you’re not using a pick. And punk rock songs, etc.

That bass is gorgeous

@ephraimluwemba1392

2 жыл бұрын

It's absolutely stunning

@JT-si6bl

2 жыл бұрын

Telecaster with quaterpounder pickups i bet.

@akihikotojo188

2 жыл бұрын

@@JT-si6bl It's a Fender Jazz Bass Special, specifically the PJ555, from the 80s when Fender was doing their Contemporary Series. Duff McKagan of Guns and Roses uses one, but my personal favorites are Zia Geelani and Brandi Wynne of Ozric Tentacles (kzread.info/dash/bejne/k2GolsSpac-odrA.html the song that starts 11 minutes in is a really good demo of the bass and Zia). They have pickups that Fender only ever used in the Contemporary Series, so they sound pretty unique. I would love to get my hands on one sometime.

@camillemaquillage

2 жыл бұрын

@@akihikotojo188 wow thanks for the info

@NullVoidgone

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah she is gorgeous 😍 the bass ain't bad either... I am here all week

Truth he told this guy annoyed the hell out of me when he first came on, but I’ve grown to love his infectious enthusiasm. And he can shred 🙏🏼

I play almost exclusively with a pick. I love the attack and control I have with it. I don't really care what anyone has to say about it.

This guy is very nice, a great teacher

Bass Jail sounds awesome!

@IanMartinAllison

2 жыл бұрын

Total party

@aikensrus

2 жыл бұрын

@@IanMartinAllison Unless Bass Jail is actually a room full of recorders and triangles. Cheers, and thanks for the tips!

@marcf2895

9 ай бұрын

Not so awesome for the families that grow up only knowing their dad from visiting hours at bass jail. Ask me how I know.

Lots of great bassists over the years have used picks, there’s really no shame in it. Carol Kaye, Duff McKagan, Chris Squire, Lemmy, Gene Simmons, Roger Glover, Glenn Hughes. Nothing wrong with using a pick.

@forksknivesstudios513

2 жыл бұрын

I’d like to add Sir Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic, and (as demonstrated in the video) Mike Dirnt to the list.

@Uubbfippk

2 жыл бұрын

@@forksknivesstudios513 I'd like to add the best pick bass player David Ellefson

@13_cmi

2 жыл бұрын

People still say pick is horrible for bass. Doesn’t matter what you do there’s still gonna be snobs who think plucking with your fingers is all you should do

@franksaldana6570

2 жыл бұрын

Andy Rourke too

@TardyMoments

2 жыл бұрын

Justin Chancellor

The door knockin' cracked me up! Great video and info in a concise format.

Do they play bass all day in bass jail? I can do that!!!!

@IanMartinAllison

2 жыл бұрын

Join me!

@HowardTheDork

2 жыл бұрын

yeah but all the strings are dead and out of tune.

@zubrhero5270

2 жыл бұрын

@@HowardTheDork ahhh, just like home!

@ratofthecity6351

Жыл бұрын

no, they force you to learn TREBLE CLEF 🙀

The first tone is the one I use a pick for. I learned a long time ago to not hate on playing styles and I got Bobby Vega to thank for that. His groove with a pick is amazing.

I love your tone ! gritty, mean, perfect for that kind of punk vibe

Hahaha don't you just love Ian. He's great 👍

Yeah the pick thing pisses me off. Most of my biggest influences as a bassist (Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Krist Novoselic, Chris Squire) use picks. Yes, my other biggest influence Geddy Lee uses his fingers but he uses his nails too so it sort of counts right? What I mean is some of the most iconic and influential albums (Abbey Road, Sgt. Peppers, Dark Side Of The Moon, Nevermind) are filled with picked basslines, and the most iconic bass tones (McCartney’s woody Höfner, Squire’s grinding Rick (which Geddy Lee chased) and Waters’s smooth yet woody P-Bass) were achieved with picks. You can’t call picks blasphemous when some of the most famous bassists use them.

Another classic clip….keep ‘em coming….please

No one expects the Jazz Police!

Great demo! HILARIOUS ending!

I'm gonna plug a bass into a guitar amp and you can't stop me

@samlewis3477

2 жыл бұрын

Mike from Royal Blood plays through 3 and has the coolest bass tone I've ever heard. There are no rules for sounding good, just the way it should be

@Sir-Thrash

2 жыл бұрын

Fine then I'll play 0-3-5 on the E string

@3van660

Жыл бұрын

It humbles me knowing I am completely powerless to prevent this man from plugging his bass into a guitar amp

I’ve been using felt and leather picks lately…. So much fun!!!

😂 the end 😂🔥👏-🙏

Classic punk rock is all downstrokes which was displayed well but when i think of classic punk rock i think of 80s band FEAR with Flea playing bass all downstroke fast af

@M2Mil7er

8 ай бұрын

We're into the 3rd decade of the 21st century. Anything before the millennium can legitimately be called classic punk now, especially if you're a gen x person. In horror terms, black and white Universal movies, Hammer horror of the '70s, and even the stuff coming out of the '80s can all be considered classic, despite having different aesthetics and sensibilities.

wait there's a different way to hold the pick on a bass?

I never understand the pick police - we're supposed to be playing for the song right? Pick, fingerstyle, slap, thumb-pluck, whatever works. The only thing I don't do is double-thumbing but that's only because I've failed to master it (yet).

@swim_ad

2 жыл бұрын

This guy gets it.

@arch92

2 жыл бұрын

For the most part I think it's just a joke. I personally do not use a pick but I know a few bass players irl way better than me who do... though to be fair they still mainly use finger picking and only switch to pick to match the feel of the song being played. But it is not some sacrilegious object a lot of people say it is I feel like that is just a joke maybe gone too far. Either way I just do not like it. I like playing with my fingers. I tried pick before. Only use I could see it having for me is very fast tremolo since it is much easier to do with a pick.

@unclemick-synths

2 жыл бұрын

@@arch92 yep, it's like the "forbidden riff" - a joke now but in the seventies through to early eighties it really was tedious going into music stores with all the wannabes hooked on Stairway To Heaven and House Of The Rising Sun.

I'm pretty sure Justin chancellor plays with a pick, and he's a pretty wicked bass player. Twiggy Ramirez or jeordie Osborne white is another really good pick bass player to, that guy has jammed with everyone.

Whoa! whoa! whoa!!!!! What kind of BASS guitar is that??? I picked up the exact same guitar..in that exact color, in a second hand shop! The Brand Name is completely rubbed off of the "Fender" type/shaped headstock!

Killer tones..

Longview has been my go to warm up song for 20yrs. Never have been able to play with a pick.

You are absolutely right about this and it needs to filter down to some hard headed bassist. I do a lot of cover songs and the pick is essential and to add please consider playing with a pick when you ride an open string

Love it, love it loooooove it!

Not that I would ever play with a pick, but what gauge would you recommend? ... asking, for a friend.

@IanMartinAllison

2 жыл бұрын

I love Dunlop Gator Grips .96

@captainclingerman5158

2 жыл бұрын

Ernie ball .88mm the lime green ones

@ghosttownreview1531

2 жыл бұрын

Ultra Cool .80s work for me. Tried many different types and always come back to these.

@PunkIsDead...LikeMe

2 жыл бұрын

I'll have to tell my "friend" about those. I hope nobody narcs. I don't wanna end up in bass jail. I mean, I don't want my friend to go to to bass jail

@devlintaylor9520

2 жыл бұрын

@@PunkIsDead...LikeMe get a combo pack for your friend

Hahaha jazz police got him at the end!!!

I'm still a new bassist , but I decided to use a thumb pick like a weirdo 🤣

What’s that last song called. Been stuck in my head for a looooonnnnnggg time.

@IanMartinAllison

2 жыл бұрын

Longview by Green Day

"and this is that classic pubk rock sound!" *plays walking bassline*

@M2Mil7er

8 ай бұрын

From a classic punk rock song.

Great pick exercises ie played in 3 different ways esp on damping I have played a while and that damping technique was very helpful

Nothing wrong with a pick if it sounds best for you. If one is stuck on judging a musician because of the gear they use then that’s fine. I think most people, including bass players, wouldn’t mind as long as it sounded good. Definitely a great vid though and a funny ending.

❤ the best instrument ever I love playing with the pick awesome video ❤

I love the intensity, he is talkin about tha bass. Thanks for the vid.

Love it! Great video

@devinebass

Жыл бұрын

👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

Loyal to the 4 stringer, I love it

@ZodiacEntertainment2

2 жыл бұрын

If it's good enough for Jaco it's good enough for me.

Great vid. Does anyone know what the #1 tune was? Thanks.

Oh, so THAT'S what a pick can do on bass. I'm going to the music store

Or you can use the pick and pluck with your middle and ring finger, like Clay Gober from Polyphia

The first was fire

Crazy, but that's how it goes...

Different sounds all sound great

Thanks for checking in brother

I managed to get my dis- functional family to get me a bass guitar for my 13th birthday. I was a huge KISS fan and Gene was the best and I wanted to play bass. I got a music book, a strap, some picks and cord and amp and that was it. I taught myself and watched Ace more than Gene. Anyway I play with a pick, never knew your weren't' supposed to. Yea big whatever there, Gene plays with a pick and so do others. I later developed a style I've seen called hybrid picking, pick in thumb and index finger, plucking with 2nd and 3rd finger and that's how I roll.

For the love of money is just so good

OMG! I should've known if anyone owned my dream bass, it would be Ian! LOL! I've got a Boxer re-issue in Sherwood Green but the Jazz Bass Special has never looked better than that Burgundy Mist!

If one knows how to play Bass in the first place they would know this is actually a trick question!!

Yeah that’s what I’m talking about get funky that’s sit there we go😎

Can anyone name all 3 songs? (Not a challenge but I just really wanna know lol)

@dadaf374

2 жыл бұрын

For the Love of Money by The O’Jays, Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne, and Longview by Green Day.

Interesting! Thank you, Scott 👍👍

But but but... Jaco! 😂

I think i have the same bass in fretless Version, this should be a 1984-87 Jazz bass special from Japan, sadly i cant find almost nothing about it online

I've got that exact bass!!!

I love your way to teach things 🤩 ... and the end ... 😅

There’s no rules, play it however the fuck you want as long as it sounds good

Man, you're a god at this

That bass sounds incredible

Good job 👏

@devinebass

Жыл бұрын

👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

I'm a very new guitar player and I've been playing just fingerstyle for a while and now I'm forcing myself to use a pick, and now I realized I'm holding the pic wrong

did u have some overdrive going on there in the last 2 examples? or did the sound change only by changing the grip on the pick?

All great! I do love #1 for that Bobby Vega vibe

I'm a simple man, longview riff, like

Love that color

no endless talk - that's how it has to be

bass jail sounds fun

Davie: I WILL CALL THE POLICE. SBL: (the POLICE has arrived😱).

I'm a guitarist, i've never jammed with a bassist, so I am f'd for life. But I have always had my ears on great bassists. And the 3 times i've picked up a bass at the guitar I just slam that ho with my pick and I slap through the string as best as a this boy can. I barre all my chords on guitar like an animal, i really grip that boi on bass. I like bass what can i say. I'm fast I jam. I'm like Flea but with psoriasis

@M2Mil7er

8 ай бұрын

Sir, we don't call basses by that name round here. We slap them with respect.

Bwa haha that ending!! 😂

What bass is that?

@IanMartinAllison

2 жыл бұрын

1985 Fender Jazz bass special

I'm pretty sure the jazz police will sue you.

@IanMartinAllison

2 жыл бұрын

En route

I done all these before, being a bass player which must be for 2 years now

My life is littered with irony because I swore to never use a pick but my favorite bassist is Paul McCartney

Song Schism by tool Long view by Green Day

@joaopedroborgesathome7850

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.infoQCOvMZor49c?feature=share ..........

Love it!

Correct. It's not the Jazz Police that come. It's Davie504 with the holy slapp

i recognised the greenday bassline remin,ds me my teenage

I have just reported you to the jazz police

Now combine all three together

Let‘s gooo puck rock tech number 1

This really changed my opinion on playing a bass with a pick

Classic punk rock

Paul McCartney and gene Simmons use picks so idk why anyone would be embarrassed

Simply great！

I always thought that Green Day's bassist slapped the bassline for Longview

@devinebass

Жыл бұрын

It's a pick and it sounds killer!

@chadthegiga6235

Жыл бұрын

@@devinebass Yeah, it does

Green Day being classic punk rock is just weird to me.

@M2Mil7er

8 ай бұрын

I guess for Gen X, punk from the 70s through to the millennium is all pretty old now and can count as classic eras. Think of it like horror movies, the old B&W Universal movies, Hammer horror of the '70s and even Wes Craven, or John Carpenter's '80s stuff can legitimately be called classic now.

Lemmy Approves😊

@devinebass

Жыл бұрын

🧡🧡🧡

80s Japanese Fender PJ in Copper 😁

Real awsome!!!!!!

Whoa!!! It's the jazz police........ruuuuunnnn

Ay question! You probably won't see it, but I got one question to ask I've seen this one bass technique from Nate Navarro that is labelled ''scratch'' in his video, did you ever see any other source of this technique or straight up made a video of it? It sounds cool as hell but I don't know how to obtain such notes

I guess if playing only that much pick is a jail able offence then I public enemy#1

The sound is good with the fingers or with the pick, this depends on the musician. I have recorded bass for many musicians in my life and myself in other projects and I can assure you that basses like the Gibson Thubderbird sound amazing using good picking technique. Normally I learned first and I usually play by finger but in recordings of Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore or extreme Metal the play that the pick gives is incredible! These videos are not the truth, they are points of the artist that the author shares and people see them and give their opinion, in fact he does not even have a good technique with the pick since it is played by moving the wrist and in a relaxed position and he moves all the way arm, that is something very elementary that makes the difference among those of us who bet on paying, investing in bass classes when we were young, just like alternating fingers, today the possibility of exposing the whole world as it touches is positive or what it does but these performance issues are more important when it comes to live music or recording, in a video with edited sound the criteria is not very objective. I constantly watch videos on how to achieve a better fingerstyle sound but the sound of the video is not natural it takes high pass filter, eq, compression, noise gate, reverb and delay In this sense, I am returning to the conservative part when what is shown is instrumental because if the tied notes sound at the same level of dynamics as a low pedal note, it is cause for suspicion! Más información sobre este texto de origenPara obtener más información sobre la traducción, se necesita el texto de origen Enviar comentarios Paneles laterales

I believe Mike Dirnt (Green Day) deserves an episode of his own

@punman5392

2 жыл бұрын

He’s a really good bass player and is hella underrated. Same with Tre Cool on the drums

Tone is in the Hands!

I'm a fan of stainless steel picks