Which other bass players would you like to see ‘decoded’ like this? Where you get to see *underneath* their playing and how you can sound more like them for yourself?

@marcussokolowski3994

3 жыл бұрын

Geezer Butler, John Entwistle, and Chris Squire.

@me4Jesus178

3 жыл бұрын

Stefan Lessard

@stevieffs

3 жыл бұрын

Pino Palladino please! Though the great thing about what you do, Luke, is the enthusiasm.

@trianglerecords

3 жыл бұрын

A good idea to decode is the John Entwistle style. Thank you for you sharing. I can add James Jameson and Donald Duck Dunn.

@dereksimon5396

3 жыл бұрын

Jamerson, Entwistle, Sting, Rick Danko! You rock btw

This dude explaining all this technical stuff, we all know the funk comes from that signature Joe Dart neck.

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

The neck and the shades - it's deadly combo...

@Bhangshot

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I thought you were talking about the bass neck for a second 🤣

@shuruff904

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bhangshot I thought they were too wtf lol

@howdyyuvraj

8 ай бұрын

I thought you were talking about the one with the "what does it do" volume control 😂

Thank you for doing such a great job sharing the Joe Dart sound! (I shared it with Joe as well)

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

Woah - for real? Thanks so much @Abby Dart - I can't tell you how much I appreciate it!

@AuntieClimaxx

3 жыл бұрын

Mama Dart is in the building!!

@alisoncole3211

3 жыл бұрын

❤️

@dylanhenson7146

Жыл бұрын

This has to be the greatest interaction in KZread comment section history

@blended_beans

6 ай бұрын

so heartwarming lol

Vulfpeck always get me motivated to pick up my bass and practice.

@halaman9500

3 жыл бұрын

Then you accidentally watch a Jaco Pastorius solo! *Sells the bass guitar*

@kodykindhart5644

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@kodykindhart5644

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly jaco doesn’t play as fast to busy as lots of new players he was super musical with his ability and it is the reason he is memorable

Saw a guy say that Joe plays the bass almost like it's a joke. For instance, if there's an easier way to play any of his lines in terms of fretboard positioning and hand placement, Joe will always pick the harder way to do it. And he does it effortlessly too. He's too damn good.

@iPig

Жыл бұрын

I noticed this learning Dean Town. I realized his hand is not where mine is on the neck during certain lines. I tried matching up hand positions and playing it like him, but it was definitely the harder way!

@aaronpetri6224

Жыл бұрын

I would disagree. Joe does play out of the norm, e.g. breaking standard pentatonic patterns, but I would always say that from an ergonomic perspective it actually the smarter way...

@ewetoo

Жыл бұрын

He plays like that because he's self-taught. He finds his own way of playing certain lines, its not a deliberate way of playing "hard", it's just what feels natural to him. It just won't work for anyone else. Learn from his style and definitely check out his influences and learn them and avoid trying to emulate the specifics too much. I saw a recent interview with Marcus Miller and he noticed that people used to come up with more original techniques when they couldn't see what people were actually doing before youtube came along. Might have a point there.

@AzuriteCoast

10 ай бұрын

@@ewetoo I'm not sure that's true, he went to University of Michigan and studied Jazz - pretty sure that's where he met the other band mates.

@ewetoo

10 ай бұрын

@@AzuriteCoast I saw an interview with him and while that's true he also taught himself a lot and maybe he made it sound like that was most of what he did and not the Jazz studies at the U of M, I'm just going on the impression I got from what he said.

What a fucking gift this video is. Man's done some serious legwork obsessing over these lines for us.

@thedukeparty

7 ай бұрын

He really Joe Darted it for sure

@Jimd905

Ай бұрын

...and here I thought i was a little too obsessed w Joe's sound... While the theory explained here is 🤏 over my head, this vid is still GOLD for anyone trying to get better at the bass. I've already learned so much the first time thru! Nice work mate.

The MSG live concert is a right of passage for all musicians

@alisoncole3211

3 жыл бұрын

That show was awesome!!

@MrClassicmetal

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, Madison Square Garden. Not Michael Schenker Group...😁

The real spice hearing Joe play in Vulfpeck is his sense of rhythm and the way he plays in the pocket with the drums. He's a bit spoilt playing with Jack and Theo who are not only fantastic drummers but versatile multi-instrumentalists and composers themselves. That groove really comes together playing with people who truly understand all parts of a song. And add Cory and Woody in the mix and you have an absolutely stonking rhythm section - and that's the root of Vulf, inspired by the legendary Motown rhythm players and solely focussed on the groove.

JoE DaRt..... oN... ThE.. JoE.. DaRt

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

Bah da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da BOOM.

It dawned on me a few weeks ago that the "Quintessential Joe Dart Lick" is probably from the shout chorus on Sir Duke. Joe has said before that Songs in the Key of Life is one of his favorite albums of all time and it's so cool to hear that language in his playing!

@ziphrox

Жыл бұрын

it's also a very typical bluegrass/country motif. you hear it all the time in Nashville recordings!

@manracmolactrac

Жыл бұрын

For a well known modern example, "Dust In a Baggie" starts with this lick basically every time.

Actually almost every Joe Dart lick is based on James Jamerson, like the chromatic line from 9th to 10th through #9, or the 'quintessential lick', which is technically a scale run on the 3rd mode of the blues scale (yeah, blues scale has modes too). His whole approach is the same, and also his midrangy, flatwound, kinda muted sound is very much like Jamerson. But after all, I love Jamerson, so I love Joe's playing too.

Not being familiar with his music, I Googled him and learned not only he’s a great bassist, but he’s from a tiny town not far from where I live.

@grizelda4526

3 жыл бұрын

Learning about Joe Dart for the first time you can really go down a rabbit hole!

@zr2700

3 жыл бұрын

Dean Town

@alisoncole3211

3 жыл бұрын

Love Joe! He’s a great dude too

That must be the quickest i've ever clicked on a link hahah. Thanks for that..

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. Happy to help

Awesome. Julia taught Bootsy stuff and you’re teaching Joe Dart! It’s a great Friday. Thank you for the lessons, you’re a great teacher.

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

It's always a good day to learn some Joe! Glad you're enjoying the lessons.

@american-professor

3 жыл бұрын

Who is Julia?

@grizelda4526

3 жыл бұрын

@@american-professor Julia Hofer from Thomann’s channel. She usually gives a lesson on Fridays. She and Luke dropped one the same day so it’s a good day to have the morning off to practice!

@american-professor

3 жыл бұрын

@@grizelda4526 awesome

9:48 That's the Barney Miller lick. Joe is playing the Barney Miller lick. As a middle-aged man, I grew up watching Barney Miller, so I'm quite familiar with the Barney Miller theme. If you're not familiar with the Barney Miller theme, just look for it here on KZread: Barney Miller Theme.

Great analysis of Joe's style and sound ! 👍👍 Thank you Luke for a such amazing job !

Amazing work, can't believe you're sharing this with us. This is the next step to those how to improvise videos

Great job, man. Thanks for all your hard work!

Thanks a million Luke, That was brilliant .

I don't even play bass, i'm a drummer. But Joe Dart is life.

Hey Luke, it has to said: GREAT WORK!!!! Thanks a lot for the incredible anlysis of the most oldschool modern player who is really reviving bass playing for large audiances!!! all the bass-t from kayo

This is great man. And you put up the PDF for free. Get that man a beer. Cheers from across the ditch.

Extremely detailed! Excited to rewatch MSG with this PDF!!

Super glad to hear you talk about the quintessential lick at 10:00 , out of all Vulfpeck’s songs this is definitely the lick that stands out to me the most, and is so simple yet so unique to Joe

Excellent work Luke! Been pretty stagnant as player since college. Looking forward to hitting these transcriptions with a drum machine. Bass love runs deep my man

You're a genius sir. The way you were able to explain it in such a simple manner just blows my mind. Amazing work!

Thanks Luke. I don't know much about Joe Dart or am particularly interested in this type of bass playing, but fantastic lesson. I am always open to learning something new.

their recorded performance in Belgium at the Ancienne Belgique is killer . . if anyone is loooking for Joe live to practice ty

Great analysis, and original content. If every video was like this, KZread would be an amazing place.

Thanks for this, your insights are great. Love Joe.

Love Joe's playing and enthusiasm and that he (and Vulfpeck) have brought new eyes and ears into old school funky town (big props to them)...but it's nothing new tbh; all roads lead back to the funk machine himself: James Jamerson. Anyone who has studied or remotely listened to Jamerson, Chuck Rainey, Jaco, Bernard Edwards, Nate Watts, Stevie's left hand, Pino Palladino and just about half the gospel bassists in the U.S. over the last 40 years...has heard most of these licks before in some variation. Again, not taking away from Joe's brilliance as I'm a fan as well, just hoping people know he didn't invent this particular wheel, but he's keeping it spinning and it's all good :-)

@BecomeABassist

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree @johndough247, although 50 years ago, people would have said the same thing about Jamerson. Jamerson distilled a whole ton of musical language that came before him from bassists like Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Blanton etc. In the same way Joe was likely influenced by Jamerson, Jamerson himself was influenced by others. That's not to take away from his importance in the continuum of musical language though - he's a super influential figure. Musical language isn't 'invented' in a vacuum though - it's always built on what came before. Jamerson built on the work of the bassists before him, Joe is doing that today, and there'll be people in the future who build on the language that both of them have distilled.

@andrewholland21

2 жыл бұрын

@@BecomeABassist one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.

@ewetoo

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad someone said this, I was about to myself. Everyone develops their tonal language from their influences, and there's a bunch that Joe isn't using that might suit your ear better.

@garrettlowell7637

Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget Rocco from Tower of Power.

@ewetoo

Жыл бұрын

@@garrettlowell7637 I understood Dart's power 16ths on learning that, what a monster.

Super great job on this video. Thanks so much for taking the time to do it. I passed it on to my son who is a budding new Bass Player.

Excellent style breakdown - thanks

Lots of new (to me) and good bass channels I'm discovering lately - subscribed :)

You are an absolute legend. Thank you so much this is so incredibly helpful thank you omg

The "Quintessential" Lick looks a lot like the beginning of Sir Duke "bridge" :)

@TimLumsdaine

3 жыл бұрын

No doubt about it. Joe picked it up from the Master and ran with it.

Great work, Luke! One of the best KZread instructors around...

Great job!! I'm having loads of fun with these tricks/tips... whatever you call it

I like how you broke this down. Well done 👍🏾

Awesome job Luke superb, great video love joe Dart 🎯

This is super awesome dude, awesome lesson

20 minutes and 25 seconds of very educational entertainment. Thanks Luke and Joe!

This is so egregious :) The internet is stoked with this premium content

Bah yes that MSG concert. I could listen to that daily. If that was my heaven to be stuck there for eternity, I’d be totally fine with it

Great video my man!! Enjoyed every second 😊

That's a lot of work! Great job and thanks for sharing 👍

great, thanks for the tabs! exercise sessions for a long time.

This is incredible, I’m so happy I found this on reddit. Could you do the same about other bass players? Some ideas I’d love to see: Flea, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller

Superbly helpful! Thank you so much❣️

That run you showed that he does in deantown is ferocious.. high energy brilliance

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

High energy and low volume!

69. Nice.

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

It's a good amount of licks...

@fenderfetish

3 жыл бұрын

@@BecomeABassist lol

@snehalkundu4529

3 жыл бұрын

@@fenderfetish XD

@FuriousImp

3 жыл бұрын

@@BecomeABassist Oh I see what you did there!

@EtoDemerzelSpaceBurial

3 жыл бұрын

Next video- 420 Joe Dart licks?

I only just found your channel, it's well done your tips are easy to follow so I'll be using it plenty.

You can definitively tell that there is a huge Francis Rocco Prestia influence in the ghost + 16th notes and some of the James Jamerson licks. Dart has amazing precision and feel. Amazing bassist.

Exactly the video I’ve been wanting! Awesome job Luke. Although kinda typical I’d love to see some of Flea’s licks

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

Nice! Thanks for the suggestion!

you legend, thanks for the tabs!!!!

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

No worries! Use them wisely. Haha!

Thanks Luke, great presentation! Subbed. Kudos to Stevie Wonder for the genesis of Joe’s ‘signature’ lick in Sir Duke. Greetings from across the harbour... I’ve got an ‘86 red NS2. Love the natural finish on yours. How much fun are they to play, eh?!

Thanks Nice tone on your bass

Thank you very kindly for sharing!

Nice one, cheers from Sweden. Subscribed 💜

Brilliant. Reverse engineering stuff and listening to Joe Dart are two of my favourite things

Awesome! Thank you man!!

great summary, can't agree more with the analysis from what my hears tell me

This is an amazing birthday gift, thank you sir!

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday!

Great video man. I'm about to buy my first bass, and as a long time guitar player I already know a fair bit about technique/theory, but I wanted study some great bass players. This info is very telling, and I'm gonna be learning that whole MSG concert as soon as I get good enough to!

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man - learn even a little bit and you’ll be well on the way! It’s such a cool album

I love the random dog right at the beginning

killer vid my man

Great lesson! Thank you!

Much obliged Luke~~~

dude, thanks for the joe dart licks! Woody Goss (Woody and Jeremy) has a song, "Too Hot in LA" and Joes on the bass. Man, that bass line is so catchy. Simple and elegant

Regarding the "constant streams of single subdivision", one should always mention Francis Rocco Prestia (Tower of Power): Songs like What is Hip, Come On With It, A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing, etc... The constant flow of 16th notes controlled with left hand muting was his signature style after all. Joe has lot of influence from Rocco (RIP). Rocco's old lessons can also be found from KZread.

@danielbe6698

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was surprised to hear nothing about those facets as well. I haven't got to know Joe's playing enough, but I would bet he uses quite a bit of left hand muting! I love that technique, Rocco really inspired me to embrace it in my own playing.

outstanding work luke! so interesting and useful! thank you! maybe george porter? jim mcvie? chris wood? mononeon?

Thank you for all the work it took to break all of this down! What a great resource! The 1 2 b3 3 5 6 pattern is the standard major blues scale. Not as popular as the minor blues but much cooler imo

Wow, that's fantastic, congratulations! Great job!

@lucasguida43

3 жыл бұрын

"The gear is not gonna give the Joe Dart sound" exactly! In fact, Joe got most of his sound out of Jaco Pastorius, many of his technique and groove sound like Jaco

Very well done! You’re absolutely right that the most important part of Joe’s sound is his immaculate pocket! I need to get my How to Sound Like Joe Dart video done soon...

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

For sure - I have no doubt Joe would still sound like Joe even on a cheap starter bass just because of the sheer weight of his groove and depth of his pocket. Let me know when you make that video too - I'd love to check it out.

Great video bud, thank you!

It'd be amazing if you could do one on Leon Sylvers, I love his basslines and hes so underrated. Be really cool to see a breakdown of his style!

Well done!

I wish there were a way to triple-quadruple-like a video. This is seriously such a great tutorial. 👏🏻 👏🏻

This is great, thanks

Great video mate!

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much @Carlo R.

Thanks for the lesson and turning me on to joe dart!

Great vid! Thx

#4 = Sir Duke, a great tune to learn for bass players =) thanks for your great insights!

This is a great lesson. It's so rare these days for youtube lessons to be this comprehensive nice one : )

Wow I absolutely love this

Don't want to be unfair, I mean this is an amazing work and video you made, just to remember that this distinctive "Dart" lick , is nothing else that the beginning of "Sir Duke" lick ... Stevie Wonder genius !!! There's nothing new in music, everything already played and listened, but that s the great thing...you can steal around ideas and mix them in different situation, making it "your" way of playing.... At least thats what I think... Bye and thank you

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

You can trace that lick back even further than Stevie. I mention in another comment that it's essentially the melody to the song Sister Sadie (about 20 years before Sir Duke), but I'm sure it can be traced back even further than that. I also mentioned in another comment that I don't say this is the quintessential Joe lick because it's unique to Joe - just that he plays it almost every chance he gets, and it sounds phenomenal when he does.

Joe is my favorite bass player because the crazy licks I have in my head but don't know the names of the notes or notation, he just does. His rhythm, I have the same bits in my head. If I could just translate it to an instrument I bet I could do some cool stuff too

dude, your tone is great

This video is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

Thanks!

Awesome video

This video was so interesting and well made! Can you please do the same thing but with the bassist for the band «men i trust»?

First off, thank you so much for all the great lessons, Luke! I've learned a lot from you and you have a very nice attitude. Funny you don't mention that what you call "The Quintessential Joe Dart Lick" is *very* similar to bars 4 & 5 of Teen Town... I can't believe you haven't noticed! :)

@BecomeABassist

3 жыл бұрын

It’s also super similar to the melody to Sister Sadie or the lick I talk about in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKKWupikcpDgcqQ.html I don’t say it’s the quintessential Joe Dart lick because it’s unique to Joe or that he created it - it’s just that he uses it all the time.

Before I learned about Vulfpeck and Joe Dart, some of my biggest influences were Jaco Pastorius and Rocco Prestia, and I was doing a lot of the stuff that Joe does for a long time already: Small subdivisions, lots of ghost notes, attention to articulation, muting and tone length, and approaching harmonies in a similar way. Then one day, maybe 10 years ago, I saw a KZread video demoing an Aria RSB Standard, kind of like a P bass with the pickup further to the bridge, almost in StingRay position. I love the sound, and looking back, it really sounded similar to Joe. I bought one and put flats on it, still not knowing about Vulfpeck. Now I have the perfect finger funk machine that can just nail the Joe Dart sound, by accident! But you're totally right: Gear is the smallest part of the equation, and the things you talked about absolutely nail it, and they are not only a great example of how to get the Joe Dart sound, but also what the many different aspects are that make someone's sound. This helps a lot in finding _your own_ sound. In my case for example, in contrast to Joe, I tend to play a lot less licks, play more laid-back, leave a lot of room for the other instruments and try to fill the room they leave with something complementing. Something I learned from other awesome bass players like e. g. Pino Palladino and Nathan East.

Ahhh pero vos sos un capo capo capo de la vida ! Gracias por este laburazo

Would love something similar for MonoNeon... or KNOWER basslines, even for those Louis Cole keyboard bass riffs

that #4 concept reminds me of Sir Duke iconic lick

Great video

Very cool video. If I may add to this from a drummers perspective: Something that Joe does all the time is use 16th note syncopation. He really likes to start or end a lot of his lines or note groupings on the "e" or on the "a" of the beat. He also uses a lot of accents in these places. A really good example of that would be on "Daddy, he got a Tesla" after the drumsolo (18:51 on live on madison square garden if you want to check it out) where he plays 16th notes on one note and then plays Octaves only on the "e" of each beat. But the concept of accentuating the "e"s and "a"s is found all throughout his playing.

A fun coincidence: I've just got a drum machine. Like unboxed literally one hour ago. Don't really think I'll be ever able to sustain four bars of 16'th at that speed but whatever, I can certainly try...