I love this format introduced by Drumeo coming over to SBL! What a cool insight into individual creative process, in real time no less.🙌

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

we can't let Drumeo have all the fun! ;-)

@AstromarineCorpse

6 ай бұрын

@@devinebass pretty sure nothing good comes out of letting drummers have fun.

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

lol - true! @@AstromarineCorpse

@andrewcooper7813

6 ай бұрын

Love the format, would also love to isolation of original and new parts. Most of us are watching on our little phonesneed bass turNt UP 👆🤘👆

@LSHamilton_Songwriter

6 ай бұрын

​@@devinebassPerhaps both channels could do something together?

Watching pros play songs by ear will teach you more than any lesson ever could. This is good stuff

@devinebass

5 ай бұрын

🧡🧡🧡

@LionAndALamb

5 ай бұрын

Their process is always enlightening.

@ryanjd93

5 ай бұрын

So insightful. The way he can follow in and out of the melody after hearing it once. Awesome.

@jerryg2757

5 ай бұрын

@@ryanjd93 I seriously doubt he had never heard the song before but that doesn’t mean he was in any way familiar with the intricacies of it. He did not disappoint

@grantwalkersound

5 ай бұрын

I had the pleasure of recording Joey Castillo on drums (Queens of the Stone Age) for about a week at Rancho De La Luna back in 2018. It was a master class in professionalism... When the band would take breaks, he would be sitting with his earbuds in taking notes on the next track we would be working on or on changes the band just made to the current song. He was laser focused the entire time, never complained, was always courteous, and never missed a beat.

1:08 ... with a freaking pencil in the right hand ... you're kidding me!!!!! 😱 😍

@dcthegreatest24

3 ай бұрын

That run was SICK, and especially because of the pencil

Sean has such a good taste in the musical decisions, what notes, how long they are, the placement of the notes. Real bass player man, RESPECT!

@flaviosan3020

6 ай бұрын

Yessss

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

He's an absolute monster musician!

@abacquias

5 ай бұрын

Exactly! I also like a lot his recent collaborations with ScaryPockets.

The craziest thing to me about that first take is when he plays that little fill HE DOES IT WITH A PENCIL IN HIS RIGHT HAND

Twice through, at full tempo, without the bass track, and he had the skeleton of the song completely locked. Truly amazing. That is why they get this guy in the studio, folks.

@mrbuttons1243

3 ай бұрын

They're on a different level. Then there's the guys who sight read something for the first time and nail it.

What a freakin pro, he just absolutely crushed that. Huge respect Edit: i do hope that the next time this is done, the guest's line is a little louder in the mix, it was a little hard on my untrained ears to hear him

@SteveWeltman

6 ай бұрын

I started listening on my iphone (and the bass sucks on tiny speakers), and used my headphones on my Macbook and his bass was very prominent.

@xXBiShOXx

6 ай бұрын

@@SteveWeltman seconded, I listened to this with a PC speaker setup with a sub and his bass track was definitely loud enough but his bass tone is very low-end focussed with very little top-end and wouldn't be very audible on phone or laptop speakers.

@rydoggsc2

6 ай бұрын

Very easy to hear with decent headphones. I think it was mixed extremely well.

@Jason-kv7cm

5 ай бұрын

Always use headphones when hearing anything bass related.

@spinxz_314

5 ай бұрын

I can hear it on my phone just fine but yes headphones always!!

I love that at 1:08 he shreds like there's no tomorrow, showing how sharp his technique is, but still, when it comes the time to do THE take, he plays 100% for the song. That's a pro right there, no wonder he plays with all the big cats.

@broskimedula5300

2 ай бұрын

He has pocket for days, this is why I love Sean Hurley.

his name should be in the title of the , not John Mayer bassist

@sykode

2 ай бұрын

maybe the addition of the name so we can later identify him.

@Wordsareprayers

Ай бұрын

Maybe U should upload Ur own page so U can do it how U want.🤓

@joshualogan7345

Ай бұрын

Who, John Mayer’s bassist?

@NativeNewMexican

Ай бұрын

@@Wordsareprayers Maybe you shouldn't bark at people when they offer constructive criticism.

@enzolumare5680

12 күн бұрын

@@sykodeIt’s in the description

Wouldn't it be nice to feature the musician's name in the title?

Make one with Lee Sklar, he is also one of the first call session guys, it would be nice to see that!🙌

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

We would LOVE to get Lee on to do one of these, he would absolutely destroy it!!

@SteveMaturo

5 ай бұрын

Lee was the first one I thought of for this. I'd love see his process.

@jgilmer

5 ай бұрын

Yes!! hes a GOAT!

@larrychaz6511

5 ай бұрын

The only problem is that Lee Sklar has already played and recorded all the songs of the world. 😂

@jimmymack9440

5 ай бұрын

😂​@@larrychaz6511

Always amazes me that such incredibly experienced musicians haven't heard some of the most iconic from huge bands like Foo Fighters, but yet they absolutely nail it.

@martinlowe1457

4 ай бұрын

I assume it’s because their job makes them so focused on what they need to do that they don’t get the opportunity to spend time listening to as much other stuff as we do.

@Call_Me_Chewie85

4 ай бұрын

I call bs on it. No way the guy never heard the song before being asked to make this video. Impossible.

@biorythmicshifter

3 ай бұрын

@@Call_Me_Chewie85I call this comment bs, just because you aren’t capable of doing it doesn’t mean others can’t…another negative keyboard warrior…it’s a very simple song.

@Call_Me_Chewie85

3 ай бұрын

@@biorythmicshifter you clearly don’t know how to comprehend what you read. My comment was about calling bs on the video stating John Mayer’s bassist had never heard the song before making this video. Perhaps you should look up the definition of comprehend. And the definition of the word definition, in case you don’t comprehend what that means either.

@guyziecrue

3 ай бұрын

I have this same thought with a lot of the drumeo videos

I was smiling the whole time watching this....The Pretender is top tier Foo Fighters and Sean's playing was spectacular

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

I've loved Nate Mendel's bass parts since back when he played with Sunny Day Real Estate. I've never heard a Nate Mendel bass track that was a wrong fit for the song. Not once. He does right by the songs, which is an incredibly important skill for a bassist.

@rome8180

6 ай бұрын

His parts in Foo Fighters are too basic for my tastes. It's funny how whenever someone says "he does right by the song," they're talking about playing simply. Just reinforcing the false idea that parts are right if they're simple and wrong if they're busy. There's no one approach that will work for a song. I can imagine a bass line that is completely different than Nate's or Sean's that would work just as well. It's a matter of taste, not some platonic ideal of what "serves the song."

@Lobsterdeth

6 ай бұрын

If you told me Nate Mendel lost all of his left-hand fingers in a machining accident the moment he joined the Foo Fighters, I would believe you.

@thejohnofsteel

6 ай бұрын

@@rome8180The point is the he exercises massive restraint which is the perfect decision for the majority of Foo Fighters songs.

@masterobio616

6 ай бұрын

always thought that he plays too simple, too. On Color and the shape there are some great bass lines, bit after that..

@CARG00L

5 ай бұрын

He plays simple lines because most of the FF songs are simple. So playing complicated parts wouldn't fit those simple songs.

I always wanted someone to apply Drumeo’s idea to bass playing. Great move guys!

Dude nailed the song around 97%. Astounding. Of course, Nate being a jazzy-punk kind of player, the pick makes the whole difference in the arrangement.

That little fill going into the 2nd verse and in the final chorus at 7:13 🔥 so simple yet so good.

I love the idea of having players in one genre take on a tune that's in a genre that's completely different to what they're usually listening to/known for. You get a real sense of the process of how these top session dudes do there thing.

@ccampau

6 ай бұрын

Let him try a Primus song

Sean Hurley did a phenomenal job on this classic Foo Fighters’ rock song! Scott, if you could get Nathan East to be a part of this great series; I would finally find true bass nirvana.

This might be the coolest game I've ever seen. I need WAY more of these! I love you guys!

3:34 Sean is actually so good that he deducts the name of the guitar player just from hearing the song!

@craig7810

4 ай бұрын

I was looking for this comment. There's absolutely no way a professional touring musician has not heard this song before.

@Kasino80

4 ай бұрын

Also he probably do know the band members, so guessing it's Dave Grohl isn't much of a stretch.

@akmadsen

4 ай бұрын

@@Kasino80 I was being sarcastic because they're heavily implying throughout the video that he doesn't know the song or who plays it. Sean even goes "aaaah" when they reveal it near the end of the video. They just forgot to cut the part where he drops the lead guitarist's name way before the reveal.

@DerekWrites

9 күн бұрын

I think it was more that Dave's voice is recognizable, he was talking about the vocals

@akmadsen

9 күн бұрын

@@DerekWrites I was referring to when Sean says he'll late Dave take the intro (which is only guitar).

Please make more of these videos. It really gives us more ideas that we could come up with. For me whenever I listen to a song with its original bass lines, it is difficult for me to come up with my own bass lines. Thanks Scott and Ian to inspire us to play THE BASS!!!❤❤❤

When i see videos like this, i don't get how they don't know the song. This was a huge hit and this guy works in music in the genre

@pizzicato16

6 ай бұрын

Just because he plays in the genre doesn't mean he listens to that genre. Maybe he likes Celtic folk music or zydeco in his free time.

@Stackimo

6 ай бұрын

Correct, and then he says, "I'm going to let Dave have the beginning." Not sure you call him by his name but, haven't heard this song.

@MartinPeterTV

6 ай бұрын

@@StackimoI mean, Foo Fighters are massive, so even if he hasn’t listened to their music there’s a good chance he knows who Dave Grohl is and knows who the foo fighters are. I only know this song from Rock Band/Guitar Hero, but I’ve definitely heard about Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters all over

@rudolphvehemicj8935

6 ай бұрын

I assume the same with reaction videos. In videos like this, I don't care if he worked on the song for a week. It's just really cool to hear another person's take.

@swissarmyknight4306

6 ай бұрын

@@Stackimo I'm sure Dave insists that everyone refer to him as "Monsieur David Grohl Esquire" or "Milord".

To watch Ian‘s and Scott‘s childlike joy and excitement really made my day. The world would be a better place if we were all as enthusiastic about what we do. Thanks so much for this! ….and Sean….he‘s just the man…

Amazing to see how quick he can learn a song, I had sean play bass on some songs of mine i was producing, and he nailed every one of them first take! With solid tone that fit in the mix really good!

This is mind blowing. Hard to believe he hadn't heard this song before tho? It's so popular

@masterobio616

6 ай бұрын

thought the same. Also worth a lot of the drumeo videos. Hard to believe those pro bassists/drummers haven’t heard these songs before

@LorenzoDeLeon

6 ай бұрын

@@masterobio616believe me : it is not that hard when you’ve been trained your whole life to do just this - late notice replacement gigs and unprepared studio sessions are basically what you do for a living…

@iwillnevergetone5

6 ай бұрын

just like all those Drumeo vids, i think it’s a case of: content over everything. we’re talking about singles that had a ton of promotion behind them. they’ve def heard these songs before- it’s not like they’re the deep cuts. every Target, Starbucks, Dental office, etc is playing them 24/7

@jasonvegan5761

5 ай бұрын

@@iwillnevergetone5Yup, “pretending” he hasn’t heard the song before makes for great content as well as allows him to perform it better with some previous knowledge of how it goes

@kennet7837

5 ай бұрын

@@jasonvegan5761 I've never heard "The Pretender" before either until I actively decided to check out their music, so it's not unconceivable that Hurley didn't know it either. The only Foo Fighters songs I recognized were "Everlong" and "Learn to Fly".

Wow! What the sound! This precision sounds insane 🤯

Yes!!! Finally, we get a bass version of this great concept!!

I like his tight pulse on the chorus and picking up that last bit of vocal melody. Super cool.

This is everything I love in a video. Loved Ian’s face when he threw in that little lick. So much good!

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

🧡🧡🧡

Is the channel planning to make a series out of this concept? It's a lot of fun watching other people feel out and deconstruct a song on the fly and see their method.

@devinebass

5 ай бұрын

Potentially!! 👍👍👍

@oldraventwo

5 ай бұрын

@@devinebass wicked!

@jorgefalcones1753

5 ай бұрын

This drumeo shit is awesome!! Keep them coming guys!! @@devinebass

@nadialockhart9910

20 күн бұрын

@devinebass do it!!

Wow, respect to Sean for agreeing to this and then nailing it! Also, I love Ian and Scott’s reactions to Sean’s playing. So cool!

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

🧡🧡🧡

Always wanted this sort of format for bassists. I love this so much. Informative and extremely enjoyable. I hope we get more of this.

Fantastic!!! The playing, the faces, the reactions... Awesome. Thanks for make me happy

I found this video while looking for something that had nothing to do with this video and I couldn't be more excited about it.

@devinebass

4 ай бұрын

🧡🧡🧡

The walk from the end of the pre into the chorus is so simple but adds so much!

What a way to listen from Sean Hurley,the way he understand the musical arrangement just amazing.

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

💯💯💯

This is my first exposure to Sean Hurley and wow, incredibly talented and also exudes positive vibes. Great video!

Absolute madness, Sean Hurley is a beast ! Thank you so much for adapting this concept to bass, that's totally perfect ! Can't wait to have more videos !

This is amazing!!! That drummeo series for bassists. Do more!!

the level of experience and finesse he showed in this video is remarkable!! that’s an amazing musician! love his playing

This was the best video I've seen in a long time. Such a great idea. Amazing player!

@devinebass

5 ай бұрын

🧡🧡🧡

I waited for so long for these kind of videos!!!! Thank you SBL!!!

Incredible feeling of the song's arrangements ! Thank you!

SBL and Drumeo are my two favorite music education channels. Great to see you're doing this with professional bassits too. I am a bass player and really love rhythm section. Thank you for the great work you do guys.

Incredible. Sean absolutely rocked this. Very inspiring to see what you can do if you recognize chords and know your way around the fretboard. Also: I was a bit surprised how good those fingerpicked flats sounded in the mix for that song.

Videos like this shows the real difference between pro musicians and the rest of us. A lot people can play nice licks and crazy chops. The pros have elite level ears. They simply listen better than the rest of us

@devinebass

5 ай бұрын

💯💯💯

This was so much fun!!! More please!!! Really enjoyed this!

I freaking love when they do this on Drumeo, awesome to see on here. More of this, please!

Wow, this is so great!!! Looking forward to more episodes of this format!!!😮

@devinebass

5 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

Thanks a lot for this. I've enjoyed this video so much. Amazing!

I've been waiting for so long for someone to do this format on bass after watching all the drumeo ones! Thank you for scratching the itch, it's so fascinating watching the pros work their magic and seeing how they process playing!

@devinebass

5 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

This is a great concept! Sean is such a pro, soooo impressive

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

💯💯💯

Like Sean, I hadn't heard this song before. Also like him, I was _expecting_ the final four notes after the stop at the end! Sean did a great job on this, and yes please SBL: more of these would be terrific, and thank you!

@devinebass

4 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@shankrl1

4 ай бұрын

I just straight up don’t believe either of you. This song was everywhere in like 08?

@caddelworth

4 ай бұрын

@@shankrl1 I'm 67 and the FFs are not a band I've ever listened to. Don't make wild assumptions on zero evidence.

Oh I absolutely love this, I'm so glad this is becoming more popular. Like, when you interact with musicians in real life, especially non musicians, you really get a lot of the "awe" effect from them doing casual covers of songs you love in their own style. Sean Hurley gave me goosebumps!

F-Yes. Bravo. This is the caliber of bassist drummers love to play with.

@devinebass

5 ай бұрын

💯💯💯

We need more of this. Well done! 🤘

@devinebass

5 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

Please keep doing this drumeo style thing!!! We needed this for bass 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I would love to hear them talk like this about so many songs. Great insight into "the band" and how they glue it all together. Awesome video!

This is what I call true life wisdom, diligence and passion. I love people like that

I don't believe any of these chaps haven't heard these songs before... you can't avoid them for the last 20 years...

@cinders302

2 ай бұрын

A lot of musicians aren't listening to a bunch of other artists. They're busy focusing on their own work. Some dig into numerous artists, lots don't

Now we need a drummer and bassist to hear a song they've never heard and come up with a part!

@murphytoonz

6 ай бұрын

That's a great idea. Maybe a collaboration or Rick Beato.

@thegabaghoul93

6 ай бұрын

@@murphytoonz 2 songs one for both SBL and Drumeo would be kinda cool

@murphytoonz

6 ай бұрын

@thegabaghoul93 it would probably be a bit too complicated but a drum take on drumeo followed by a bass take on sbl and then the drummer and bass player getting together and changing their parts to make a cohesive rhythm section would be great. Or maybe I should just form a band again!

Sean is a god! So precise and calculated but also full of feel and life!

This was such a fun video, I think so many fans would like to see more of this. Killer job gang!

This needs to be a series ooooweeee

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

do we have more coming? maybe? mwahahaha

@erhock92

6 ай бұрын

@@devinebassI sure hope so! This was fantastic!

I’d love to see someone react to the live Foo Fighters version of this song, the arrangement is different - it’s such a powerful stadium song to being with and then Dave and the boys decide to crank it up to 11 for the live arrangement, it’s bananas. Best band you’ll see live, even without Taylor on the drums. (JF seems like such a stellar guy & drummer to bring in to fill that massive void.)

This was awesome! MORE PLEASE!

This is great to see from a bass player who is always learning to see a professional bass player break it down with ear training and playing for years give all us new and old bass players hope.

there is no way he never heard it before

@Wordsareprayers

Ай бұрын

Yes, there is.🤓

That was awesome, love that we got to see him track the entire song not just parts. Would love to see someone do something like Metallicas orion that has so many unique parts, be cool to see someone elses interpretation

@devinebass

4 ай бұрын

🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Huge fan of SBL, Scott, Ian, Sean Hurley, and the Foo Fighters. This is a dream come true for me. Thank you!

Incredible this format guys. Please, keep doing that. It's very inspire for us as a bassists.

I dont believe a second that he hasnt heard that song before

@JabezGill

4 ай бұрын

1000000% I guarantee you that any professional, touring musician hits age has heard all of the biggest hit songs. Maybe he never played it before but he has heard it. These channels lie just drive clicks and views.

Would love to see Robert DeLeo on here

Fantastic playing and professional musicianship. Great video idea guys! Loved the reactions

I love how pumped Ian gets lol made my day!

Jumping on that drumeo train eh

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

can't argue with a really solid type of content 😂 seemed like a waste that it didn't exist for bass 😜

@bassapace

6 ай бұрын

get it girl!@@devinebass

I refuse to believe he never heard this.

No surprise there, Sean is a total beast, haven’t seen him in ages but not only is he a fabulous musician but a wonderful human being too.

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

🧡🧡🧡

Man, it's some kind of magical trick that he can do that. . . how. Mind blowing.

How can he be a bassist for so many famous musicians without ever hearing a song as well known as the pretender?

@woutertron

5 ай бұрын

I think this might be the second time in my life I've heard this song and I attended conservatory for bass performance and played professionally for a little while. There's a whole world of music out there. Your standards aren't everyone else's. I've played at jam sessions with guitarists who have never played a blues before, but then they knew every note to every Randy Rhoads solo or whatever. I find that mind boggling, but that's just the way it is.

@josephwalton487

5 ай бұрын

I was saying the same thing. This song has been played out to extremes both on radio and TV.

@woutertron

5 ай бұрын

​@@josephwalton487 you think pro musicians spend a lot of time listening to the radio these days?

@brouwersjasper

2 ай бұрын

Isn't it weird before his go at it he says "I'm gonna let Dave have the intro" and in the end when they reveal who the band is he goes "aaaah". How did he know it was Dave Grohl singing then if he didn't know the band?

@garycoates4987

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm not buying it lol , this is a ubiquitous radio airplay song at this point

Ahhh, the secret to playing like Sean is playing with a pen in the plucking hand 😂 Now I get it...

Gracias muchachos, la pasé genial! Compartir con bajistas divirtiéndose es lo máximo!! Y el invitado...? DE LUJO!!!

Love the format/idea for this, you should do more of these!

Joe dart or Bobby Vega would have interesting approaches

3:34 How can he say "I'm gonna let Dave have the intro" if he's never heard the song before? Does he know FF and DG but not The Pretender? Seems unlikely.

@FizzyCape

2 ай бұрын

Any professional musician is at least familiar with who Dave grohl is. He was in 2 of the most popular rock bands of the last 30 years. Even if you don’t know their music, you know dave

A Sean Hurley video is always a welcomed way to start my morning

i love this! pls do this format more with more bass players! Just absolutely love it:)) Dont stop :)

absolutely no way in hell he has never heard this.

@TheconfusedChristian86

5 ай бұрын

The guy is a top session guy

@akmadsen

4 ай бұрын

At 3:34 he says "I'm gonna let Dave have the intro". Obviously that doesn't necessarily mean that he knows the song beforehand, they _could_ have told him after the first playthrough that it was Foo Fighters and just edited it to look like it was all revealed after the final take, but it does seem a bit odd. Sean Hurley is nonetheless still awesome and an absolute beast and I have no doubt he'd be able to do play this by ear this quickly regardless if he actually does it in this video.

There is a 0% chance he hasn’t heard this song as a bassist for those artists- I’m shocked

@jamiemacdonald436

5 ай бұрын

Not sure why everyone says this. I love Foo Fighters, I know every song, but not everyone listens to everything.

@AshiStarshade

4 ай бұрын

You might not have figured this out, but he was busy with his own career, not sitting around in a basement listening to all the songs in the world.

@jmklamm

4 ай бұрын

This song won a Grammy in 2008. From Wikipedia: “The Pretender was the most densely played alternative rock song of 2007. It held the record for longest running number-one in the Modern Rock Tracks' history”. Just seems pretty hard to miss!

Awesome video, love the format! This was a ton of fun to watch, and the parts Sean came up with fit extremely well.

@devinebass

6 ай бұрын

Cheers for that!!!

I’ve been waiting for something like this for bass. That was amazing.

So good to see pros playing and giving honest insights.

The most entertaining video I've seen in a while! Sean Hurley is a master🙌

So enjoyable🎉 Rocking out with you guys while watching. Laughing out loud at how good it was. Shoutout to all you bassists 👊

One of the most underrated bass players I know is Henkka T. Blacksmith from Children Of Bodom. The only footage you can find from the guy, are few old backstage interviews, but I've never seen him invited to any bass clinics or tutorial videos like these. Sure a chance missed for content creators, dude's an awesome player, and COB is very popular world wide. I bet there would be a lot of fans from all over, who'd like to see and hear the guy play in a setting like this, and given the technical provess, it'd sure be something interesting for bassist who don't like the band too. Also, after the death of the lead guitarrist and songwriter Laiho, the band is no more, so there's no more music coming from them. Would be nice to have shout out to their music and legacy. Bring them back to people's minds. Would be cool to hear what a melo-death bass player would do with funk or jazz for example.

Love this, Can’t wait for more stuff!

@devinebass

5 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

This is so cool to learn and see people work out songs, without the baseline to see what they come up with. The idea is brilliant and I hope for many more. So cool

SLAYED IT! Simply phenomenal. Great work!

@devinebass

2 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

What a great format! Loved it :) And big song too