⭐ Don't forget to follow me on instagram: 👉 instagram.com/pauldelbello_/ ⭐ Support my work with a PayPal donation: 👉 www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5FBW9J5CWRNUQ&source=url ⭐ Support my work checking out my band: 👉 kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJ2iptaLk9jeZdY.html

@nathaneilpeet1530

3 жыл бұрын

Hey man, could you do a video based on Bob Daisley of the Blizzard of Ozz and Ozzy Osbourne band, please?

@alexiezante3663

3 жыл бұрын

I’m his mailman in Seattle. He’s very modest, down to earth, and likes to stay busy.

very underrated bassist. His bass licks really helped the songs

@hbjshowslopper

3 жыл бұрын

Not just the playing, but the tone he has too. Very distinctive, especially songs like Coma, You Could Be Mine and Double Talkin Jive

@drake8168

3 жыл бұрын

Double Talking Jive has a great bass sound.

@gqfiend

3 жыл бұрын

Idk. I think he’s quite rated.

@lucianogoyenechea8704

3 жыл бұрын

he is definitely not underrated, stop saying that

@boytino2646

3 жыл бұрын

Rocket queen my men also

Duff and Steve helped me move a sheet of plywood into my room (by putting it on top of milk crates to support my bed) when we all lived at 1750 N. Sycamore Ave. (2nd floor) in Hollywood.

You missed one important thing: use a chorus pedal all the time

@BoomChockolaca

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Take TC Electronics Corona pedal and install his preset Every GNR song sounds better with it

@alekp6822

3 жыл бұрын

@@BoomChockolaca FLanger

@jonsirola

3 жыл бұрын

Not really all the time I think 🤔 Also add some drive! Fresh strings help too (steel will give you more bite) and most definitely a pick! 👌🏼

@kensurrency2564

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, all the time! 😉

@MC2RD

3 жыл бұрын

and a pick

I enjoyed this program.

@anyoneelsebutme5757

3 жыл бұрын

A wild Adam appeared

@richarddresden6869

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Adam let's start a band.

@ethanyoung1697

3 жыл бұрын

Watch the lemmy one

@fcknrad

3 жыл бұрын

Sir. You make Ramsay's cooking look like posh dog shit

@rafetizer

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't expect to see you here

Saw GNR at the Marquee Club in 1986. What a band. Managed to get right in front of Duff. Watching him play with the sweat just running off him. In my top five best gigs. They were something else.

Tip #1: Have Steve Adler on drums

@gvfo

3 жыл бұрын

He’s probably available, btw

Theory lingo alert! Duff tip: Always use a perfect fourth even if the chord change requires you to use the lydian sound (#11)!! That's how his lines give many GNR songs a bluesy and rebellious feel. Paradise City, Sweet Child of mine, Knocking on heaven's Doors are a great example of this.

@PaulDelBelloYT

3 жыл бұрын

Spot on!

@johnnatelli3841

Жыл бұрын

I’m curious what you mean. I understand Lydian, P4, etc… give me a specific example though…

@jonsirola

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnatelli3841 uhm for instance, in sweet child of mine, bass lines run like a major scale for every major chord. Even if what Axl sings follows the D flat major scale diatonically. The vocal line goes for a sharp 11 during B major but not the bass. The bass avoids F#

@johnnatelli3841

Жыл бұрын

Oh, I got you. He does do that all the time. Sure, it makes sense that he would have no knowledge of chord scales and just treat every chord like a new tonic. That’s kind of funny to think about. Really good observation.

The way he locked in with Adler is a huge part of the way they sounded and it’s massively underrated. When Adler got the heave and Sorum came in, while Sorum was technically better, they lost that and the band was much worse as a result.

@Leo_nbd

3 жыл бұрын

100% Agree. (Sorum is a great drummer, just not the one for GnR, honestly).

@mrdm3966

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely and well said. You just have to listen to Mr Brownstone to hear that connection.

@frankkkbard0n315

10 ай бұрын

You could be mine??? the bass and drums go really tight together

(guitar player here) If only for the unbelievably brilliant bass intro to Sweet Child O' Mine, which to me is the BEST melodic bass line ever recorded, he deserves a special place in rock history. Awesome team player, and a huge part of the GnR sound. He's up there with Tom Hamilton, Roger Glover, Geezer Butler and Bob Daisley.

Started playing bass last year, now that I am listening more to the Bass in songs duff quickly stood out to me. a very unique tone and some tasty licks.

That VHS is the reason why I picked up playing guitar great concert!

Before I saw Duff's list at the end, my initial thought was that his bass playing, really does serve the song. Melodic, creative and sets the mood of the songs perfectly.

He is the reason I started playing bass I had the pleasure of shaking his hand and telling him that myself really talented nice guy

Duff rocks. I love love love his work on Sweet Child 0 Mine.

How you showed the flashing ghost notes with the audio was excellent.

The more I study your lessons, the more I realize that playing bass is not simple as it could seem to be. Bass is the simplest instrument to play badly, while playing it seriously is quite hard even for the simplest basslines. It's a hard work of precision, ears and groove, melted with the difficulty of playing on a big, long neck and a heavy instrument. Thank you man, your work is superb.

I never think about it, as I have never seriously analyzed GNR in this way, but his bass lines really are a crucial part of their sound. Now that I think about it I was always hearing it and "feeling" it and liking it but not paying attention. To me thats part of what the true greatest bass players and drummers do, and they usually don't get the recognition for this exact reason. The older I get the more I respect bass players and feel its the trickiest instrument. There are plenty of Guitar players I can't touch but know exactly what they are doing and how and why they did it, but bass, especially good bass, somehow eludes me. Not the playing but the decisions, the composition choices. It's just not what I'd do for whatever reason. Traditional bass lines make no damn sense to me and its hard to keep it up but on guitar I can "glide" over the top and make mistakes and bend my way out of them and stuff.

He's always been a very good bassist. Pretty groovy too.

Easily one of the most underrated bass guitarists ever

@oxval9614

3 жыл бұрын

*one of the most rated bassist, and he earned it. under rated would mean that no one ever gives him his attention but he is actually one of the most popular, well known and well recognized bassist in the world. he is great and everyone knows it :)

@BenjiH23

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like every bass player is underrated!

@arturoacosta6583

3 жыл бұрын

He knows his work.

@aarondoodles3380

3 жыл бұрын

No he's not, he's very recognized

@lucianogoyenechea8704

3 жыл бұрын

he is not underrated man

I always loved hearing Duff's bass in the music whereas many bands you can barely hear the bass

My first intrument was bass, on early 90's, also played drums and nowadays I consider myself a bass player whose plays guitar, Duff McKagan, Mike Starr and Jason Newsted with their massive sound and huge stage presence inspired me in the beggining, because of them I started on bass.

I just started playing bass a month or two back. Your videos are contributing to my becoming of a great bass player.

Listening to Duff's isolated bass lines will change your life! Great video,you nailed it!

*Perfect is* *Play like Les* *Arms like Martinie* *Charismatic like Cliff* *Handsome like Kagan*

One of my favorite bass tones

El mejor sonido de bajo de la historia!! Grande Duff!!🤘🤘🤘👍😁🔒

The best of best hard rock bass player. Mr Duff

Duffs bass sound is so perfect for guns. The Precision and jazz pickup combo mixed with a pick makes it warm but also biting

He is an excellent bass player. His bass lines are awesome, interesting, and fun to play. Another one is the dude from Creed.

Duff and Slash! What a pair 🔥🔥

Was always one of my favorites; great sound, style, and definitely one of the coolest!

Yep. Duff's parts on Appetite are why I wanted to learn bass too. Now I have 4 of these MIJ Jazz Specials that I love so much.

Thats one of the things that always stood out for me in of most of Use Your Illusions songs is duffs sound/tone

Great video Paul! I really like the bass playing in "Rocket Queen" especially. Duff's a great bass player with a great sound that also managed to have excellent music production. Eric Stacy of the original Fasterpussycat band was really good too, especially on "Whipped". Thanks again!

Duff Mckagan and John Tailor of Duran Duran. Best of the best for Me...❤

Awesome, thank you so much! Duff is the reason I started playing bass, definitely has led an interesting life. His story is so inspiring. Definitely my favorite bass player. I always bring him up when I get crap for playing with a pick.

@scot4191

3 жыл бұрын

I've always played with a pick with my bass down to my knee for 25 years. Don't take crap from anyone.

“Always end on a high note”

@markdavis4754

2 ай бұрын

If you end on a low note it sound like Lynyrd Skynyrd

Very interresting and well made . Thanxs

This tutorial was analytic and methodical. Very well done man.

Please do Jason Newsted as well 🙏

@bloodycaramelcream

3 жыл бұрын

Yes please!!✌💜

@junkhead_92

3 жыл бұрын

*insert joke about AJFA having no bass.

@fxexpert4541

3 жыл бұрын

@@junkhead_92 sounds terrible

Love him! One of all time influencies.

Great observations, make a lot of sense! Thanks for that video.

Yo sick video! Those quotes by duff at the end took my breath away.

The song that REALLY got me hooked was perfect crime he REALLY rips on that one

Great vid. As always.

Duff is the reason I picked up a bass too. In my teens, I used to have a GNR poster, adorning the door of my room. The live photo of Duff was the coolest, I've ever seen a rock musician. A young, pre-bloated Duff, leather jacket, wide stance, bleached blonde hair on his face, cigarette hanging between the lips, with his black P Bass. That combined with the punky, nasty bass tone, and awesome riffs. The whole band had a perfect bad boy image, for a kid living in the early 90s but Duff was hands down the coolest of them all! You pointed out a lot of obvious things, that make his playing really stand out. Things I've never thought about but now explain, the uniqueness of his sound.

My favorite bassist. Thank you.

Duff is my fav too

He has a Fender deluxe Precision Bass with signature Seymour Duncan pickups and a special circuit switch. Fresh strings and pick if you want to start somewhere.

This is great. Thank you so much!!

When I started playing post hardcore, I started using the high strings to get a more crispy sound and I haven’t stopped doing it since

Love his style, my fav bassline is the one from "Locomotive". Enjoyed this video

Thanks for this. Very well done.

You've made a really nice analysis. Congrats.

Loved it. Duff is my favorite also.

He's by far the most inspiring Bassist to me, he inspired me to pick up a bass for the first time, like his sound is really nice his riffs are great and hes just fucking badass 🤘🤘🤘

Duff is a tasty player. During the appetite days Duff played a Fender Jazz Special. I have one and out of all my basses it's my favorite.

Gran análisis muchas gracias paul !

I always liked how he played octaves with Adler's drums. Big part of my playing. Finding a good drummer is easier said than done.

i think this might be interesting even for duff himself. because most of the stuff someone does, happens unconsciously. this is a good analyse of what he does, when he plays bass.

Great rock bass player!!....i love his melodic bass solo,in the intro to "sweet child of mine" by G&R.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Great work! Very informative. I'd like to see a video for Eddie Jackson of Queensryche.

muy buena info!!! muchas gracias

I started playing bass becuz of that live in Tokyo too! Nice video man.

Great video, I love this series of videos!=) I think Duff McKagan is one of the great rock bass players, I am not the biggest Guns N Roses fan but I have always liked Duff

Duff has an unique cool style to play bass guitar.

Great overview of a great bassist! Great playing too! You do a great "duff"!

AMAZING!!! AMAZING video!! unique!

Love..LOVE DUFF❤❤❤

Very good video! Could you make a How to sound like Geezer Butler? This would be awesome 🙌

As someone who used to play in TWO GNR tribute bands, I find this video truly eye opening. About his picking: seems to me it had changed throughout the years: The AFD picking style sounds to me like a heavier pick playing near the bridge pickup, as it get more of a 'thump' sound, While the more recognizable "Illusion" picking style is a thinner pick playing little 'north' of the neck pickup, which gives more of a 'zing' sound (if those terms make any sense) It also helps to pick at an angle which is not parallel to the strings (try and see what you get). Also - He doesn't boost a lot of highs in his sound, just a little bit. Nor boosting the heck out the lows. Gallien Krueger is THE amp for the job, for having rock-solid mids, while not being too "bassy". NOTE: The chorus effect is not used as much as people think, only in key parts, that's why everyone thinks he uses it all the time. Overall, yeah, Duff is the finest example of a modern rock bass player.

The reason why I play the bass is because of him, and I agree with everything you said great video

Great video, I love Duff! Have you done one of these for Mike Starr? If not, would love for you to do one!

I’m reaching waaaaay back but my point correlates to exactly Duff’s choice of notes. The song: Sure Gonna Miss Her by Gary Lewis & The Playboys. Throughout the song and just when you think the bassist will land on the low note, you’re immediately surprised that the high note is accentuated instead. I often wonder if it’s a “guitar player who’s playing bass” thing or not. Not sure….but it sure sounds good! The great Carl Radle played in this band but I’m not certain it’s him here on this track. Speaking of Carl, you may want to consider looking into his life and career. It’ll speak for itself…trust me.

Geddy has a very similar playing profile, lots of high notes, lots of following or leading guitar, ending bars with high notes ect, but he does do a lot of other strange techniques. I'm not a fan of G&R, but I do appreciate their sound in general. The bassist from Iron Maiden is also freaking amazing.

I love this series. There is something to learn from every bass player, whether you play their style of music or not. And loved how you mentioned he was the reason you began to play bass. We all have our inspirations, mine is Adam Clayton of U2. Not the flashiest, but he serves the song.

@57precision

2 жыл бұрын

I used to think U2 songs were easy until I tried to learn "Where the Streets Have No Name". If your pick playing is deficient, this song will reveal it.

@thomasfioriglio

2 жыл бұрын

@@57precision Yep! I know a few bass players who can only play with their fingers. Knowing how to play with a pick as well is so important and opens up so many more doors in terms of tone.

I got like 9 guitars and i watch bass videos on youtube 😅

obrigado! thanks for this analysis. I began as a guitar player (for about 10 years) and switched to bass until now (15 years ago). when I made the transition, it was almost as if I had never heard many of the songs I love, because I started to really "listen" to the bass And that's when I discovered the duff. He'd always been there, but I'd never really heard him. this also happens in my band, because we play some gnr covers and i make a point of playing them some Duff bass lines for them to see how they helped sculpt the sound of the Guns and Roses.

Duff McKagan is also my favourite bassist

It would be nice if you do one about Kelly Nickels from L.A. Guns. I think his playing style is kinda similar to Duff's and I really enjoy it. Cheers! :)

Love this one!!! Duff is incredible. Next up..... Mike Inez? 🎸🎸🎸🎸

GOAT- this is killer🤘🤘🤘🤘

Duff is the reason I played bass too!!!! Chorus. Set your action down so the strings rattle a little on the frets I have a Jackson 4 string that with effects set right clones his tone pretty well

seen that concert dvd so many times in my basement

Dude you gotta do Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith, he is an absolute MONSTER on the bass. A real "bass player's bass player", he plays exactly the right line for the songs, both complex and simple when needed. He's effective with both fingers and pick, really just a fantastic bass player. Duff McKagan and him are my absolute favorites.

@smeagolmazurenko5238

3 жыл бұрын

I was gonna mention Tom as well. Really similar surroundings: blaring guitars, high register frontman taking up a lot of space, rhythm section very much in "know your role" territory. Both of them were excellent at supporting the song, picking their spots for fills, and exercising a lot of discernment as to how to be creative with the context of the song. Two of the best rock bassists, both really knew what they were doing.

@shayh.3556

3 жыл бұрын

Tom is one of the most underrated bassist out there. I never see anyone talking about him even when mentioning his peers. People talk about Steve Harris, Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones, etc but never mention Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith. The bass line to “Sweet Emotion” is legendary and can be a bit tricky to actually get the timing right and that’s just one of many Aerosmith songs.

@afrobassist

2 жыл бұрын

If you guys like Duff I uploaded Its So Easy Bass Lesson

Nice

Duff is the perfect example of play what serves the song. Everything broken down In here is second nature playing from years of experience.

Duff's tips are incredibly wise. If you think on him as boy doing this stuff back then, you'll realize how Guns 'n' roses was a dream team. In reality, all this big bands were.

su forma de tocar el bajo siempre me pareció idéntica a la de paul mccartney. por eso son mis bajistas favoritos

he love to use the b3 in major chords too!

Good video

Duff.❤

Duff is an brilliant musician.

Could yo do a video of mike starr?.. Also You do a great job teaching how works any bassist thanks man🤘🤘

Plz could u do locomotive cover/tab. Would be much appreciated

Can you please do an It's So Easy bass tab/cover

Duff is my 2nd fave bass player; Dee Dee Ramone being my very fave (I'll admit; he is known more for his songwriting than his playing).

Our man is the partner of that great Slash.

Diff is awesome.. great bassist imo.