The MAN himself. My true bass groove hero.

This is GOLD, thanks Nathan.

You are right Sir, it's the FEEL that counts & I will remember that as an AMATEUR Bass player. You are the BEST when it comes to SIMPLICITY & SMOOTHNESS. GOD BLESS YOU Sir Nathan. ✌️💖🎸

Thank you. I value and appreciate all that went into creating this cool lesson, and for putting it out for others to learn on.

Thank you Nathan ! I have always LOVED your playing .

"Do your best to make it feel good." *smile* I'll do my best. Nice playing. Beautiful bass.

I love how Nathan East brings a heart beat to music. He calls it "feel" I call it "passion". This is what make my fav bands or musician my fav and host a let's get lost party :) -A

Nathan East just a wonderful bass player and charming person- met you at a Toto show. Thanks for the kind words & inspiration

@donenzoworld-canada9460

3 жыл бұрын

i definitely agree..

When I started on bass mid 60s Paul McCarthy was my bass hero. I learnt all his bass lines religiously for years. I listened to many other bass players , but none of them graded me the way Paul did....... such melodic lines and playing ...... so what if he used a plectrum !!!!! Then I got hooked on Nathan East and my playing has improved since then ..... also such melodic playing and clever in the way he uses the pentatonic, chromatic, arpeggios and all the scales. I am still a huge McCartney fan and to me Nathan is a worth while co leader. I am earning soo much just by listening to him and deconstructing his lines. Thanks for this site. A huge fan from South Africa.

Love the playing as always by Nathan ,and that Yamaha looks the biz and sounds great

What a wonderful bass playing. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Thanks Nathan, Happy to see You

The way I heard to visualize the shuffle would be to play triplets but leave out the middle note. I guess some similarity to the swing beat which has that long -short feel. Sounded great with the walking lines.

I've been looking to improve my rhythm through groove based exercises, thank you for this lesson!

I’m digging this! Dynamics with the right touch !

So awesome! Love it. Thank you so much.

The way he's taking everything so easy..

The man with AMAZING FEEL AND GROOVE 🎵🙌🏽

Nathan is The Best!!!

It’s pretty funny to watch NE try and play badly. He literally can’t do it haha

@henrikbas1

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaa

@josephnewbern2717

3 жыл бұрын

That was like Larry Bird trying to miss jump shots for that ad campaign back in the eighties. The mastery of their respective crafts doesn't allow them to just "throw off" a note or a shot. lol

@trollenz

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 nailed it !

@nancyhopp4173

8 ай бұрын

Haha! I was thinking the same thing!

I never knew Yamaha basses were so good. Since studying Nathen East I picked up a nice green Yamaha bass like his only a 4 string. The shuffle is a good lesson and similar to my shuffle lesson on my channel.

Thanks for sharing my good man . I definitely picked up a few things I can add to my playing and I'm nowhere near your level either. Very practical for any level of playing in my humble opinion .

Nathan , one of the best and one of the nicest...

Thank you Nathan

👍🏻 I started on guitar when I was 13. I got a bass at age 16, but for decades, I played bass like a “guitarist playing bass.” I studied classical & Flamenco guitar & tried to apply them to the bass. However, I still didn’t have that bass “feel.” Now, after so many decades I am trying to think & play like a bass player. 👍🏻

@TennesseeVolfan

4 жыл бұрын

I have always picked out, listened for, or sang the bass part for about every song I hear on the radio, at church, etc...done it for years for whatever reason. This made playing bass much easier for me....I can play a boring bass line or jazz it up a bit...it depends on the mode of the song for me....

@tonekilltech

2 жыл бұрын

As a bass player first and guitar player second, I feel like when people say "play bass like a guitar player" what they mean is "play bass like a BAD guitar player", which unfortunately is the most common kind. A good guitar player should be able to play bass with good feel and appropriate rhythm oriented parts because that's part of the core skill set for a guitar player as well. It's just that many guitar players only focus on lead playing and their attempts at bass playing reflects that.

Wow beautiful, thank you for sharing. I just discovered you and your channel!

Phenomenal Bass player 🔥🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We love you man!

So good

Thanks for the tips bro!

Thank you Mr. East.

True class!

Thanks for that! If you ain’t playin with feel...you ain’t playin! That is a beautiful bass!

-Cool) Thanks for this video)

Very nice thanks

Good morning Mr. Nathan, after many years I decided to learn to play the bass I'm a beginner, (I can't read music), I saw and reviewed the 2001 Budokan Tokyo concert with Mr Clapton and I must say that, for me , that concert is a bass encyclopedia. I would like, if possible, that you would give me some fundamental tips in order to get as close as possible to your playing. All the pieces performed in that concert are interesting. Difficult to say or explain to anyone that the bass gives emotions, Thanks Mr. Nathan. I'm Flavio from Treviso Italy

Love you brother

OK, Nathan. I believe you. I will sign you for my band. When shall we start rehearsals...? Call me when you can.

This is good

Nathan is really really good

Thanks!

It still all comes down to the question Can you play? Doesn’t matter what kind of bass, amp and effects you have if you can actually play.

This guy is the legend behind Daft Punk's amazing bass lines

@marcovortexbohler

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry man. He's the legend behind many amazing bass lines for other artists way before Daft Punk

Oh so true, as a percussionist I must have the shuffle of my bassist so I can follow that lead and throw in some ghost strokes ! Awesome.

Nathan: so this is what it's sounds like bad Me: that sounded good

Got it!

Thanks for showing the feel of a Base guitar the stuff he plays ain't taught in lessons its something you gotta work on your self 4:38 - 4:41 the fact he pause one second is the difference of going off beat or playing on the spot it looks so simple but its years of practice

@mattfoley6082

4 жыл бұрын

How stupid do you have to be to call it a "base"?

@dsuper1710

4 жыл бұрын

​@@mattfoley6082 Not that stupid at all, base more or less means the foundation of which other things extend, which is generally the purpose of the bass in an ensemble, which is why the word evolved from that. You seem more stupid yourself for your pedantry and inability to make that connection.

@mattfoley6082

4 жыл бұрын

@@dsuper1710 Did you think up that bullshit all by yourself?

@dsuper1710

4 жыл бұрын

@@mattfoley6082 Yeah, I used my brain. You should try it, that way you wouldn't feel a need to compensate for your crippling insecurity in your intelligence through roleplaying as a grammar nazi in youtube comments. Have a great day, little man :)

@mattfoley6082

4 жыл бұрын

@@dsuper1710 Pro tip: if you want to get hired as a bassist you should 1) learn to spell the name of your instrument and 2) learn to take constructive criticism from other players. Otherwise, good luck playing in the basement by yourself.

Him and Leland Sklar are two bass gods!

feel your bass :) Great !!!

Great blass player

Genius

this gentleman work with Angela Winbush playing the bass he did the entire Album of The Real Thing with the bass Please Bring Your Love Back when Angela Winbush Moan at the end you can hear the bass clearly as day Angela play her parts than she played them back so they all the players could play what she ask for when she singing her songs on her album in 1989

Great guy. This tutorial is definitely for beginners or non-musicians. I true musician should already know these routines just from listening to other professionals over time. 😀

@jas_bataille

3 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily. I come from the blues, but if you come from another tradition of music, it ain’t that natural. You can be great let’s say in metal or funk or pop and don’t have that good of a shuffle feel.

I guess the hardest notes Nathan ever played was playing notes without feel.

Very good,I love it.But I was actually looking more closley at the notes you were playing,but the rhythm patterns.

You can play well all day but if you don't add the "feel" to it, there's not as much impact. Thank you for a great lesson!

Yes sir

👏👏👏👏

"A real bass player here ppl".....

When I'm playing the bass when I hit my notes and move around all I can here is my fingers rubbing on the strings..how do you make the transitions so smooth

Thank you If you could play this on DDbass?

It´s true, the more you varies your lines, uses the whole neck, with apogiatures and bends on the notes, the better your bass lines will be

He barely got the wrong part wrong. Hard to play badly when you don't have practice doing it ;)

@MrNamePerson

4 жыл бұрын

Yess.. funny.

@jas_bataille

3 жыл бұрын

It sounded totally wrong to me but arguably I started playing the blue at 10 years old or so but of course you struggle to do it wrong once you feel it ;)

how much is that kind of bass? i want one please.. my idol nathan east.. i hope to see you play in Canada.. pls sign my bass guitar please.

this is great! but I don't agree that it cannot be written down or described: this notes would just be written as triplets

If I give a tip how to play well to a young blood just barely learning an instrument, I tell them "Don't make your instrument sound like a robot with a rigid formula. Make it sound like it has emotions. " -A :)

If I were to say the bass player needs to be ever so slightly ahead, timing wise, would that be correct? It seems like the confidence to lead is needed for a bass player? I may be all wrong I am not yet a bass player.

@JoeMM5

4 жыл бұрын

Gomher i would disagree, it depends highly on the exact situation, band, setting, song all change it but in my experience it’s much more common for the bass player to be playing slightly behind the beat. If anything, you will do a better job leading by playing bang on the beat in a lot of situations. It’s something you need to be able to determine for yourself but definitely don’t go by rules, go by your ear. I also wouldn’t say the bass player needs confidence to lead, in pretty much every way they aren’t the leading role, whoever’s playing melody is much more the ‘leader’ in the sense of what people are actually listening to. However the bass player does need to have the confidence that they are often the glue bringing the band together so if you’re playing bad everything will suck.

I must have been hard for Nathan to play that badly at the beginning!

@guitard1280

4 жыл бұрын

He almost can't do it, he's so inherently smooth and in the pocket. 😁

@tengkusulaiman

4 жыл бұрын

He is just an ordinary human like us.

@lordundhimself1310

4 жыл бұрын

@@tengkusulaiman Reverse World Indeed. I'm sure it'd be hard for any of us to play bad if we had knowledge and experience comparable to his. In other words, Nathan East kicks ass

His bass sound, sounds good with my car subwoofer. Others dont

Damn no youtube when i startede playing bass

Just fell it se Nathan East

Love your lessons, I was wondering, if you can listen to me play this song with the bass. I am using a version with no bass so I can play along with it with my bass guitar. Would you be whiling to check it out and give me feed back?

Its actually comical, how amazingly hard it seems for him to NOT play with feel. I was laughing. When you have been that good, for that long....

OK, you can say that the difference between the two demos was the second had "feel", but you can also say that the second sounded better because it had walks, arpeggios, covered more neck (octaves)...etc. The only different "feel" I saw was the expression on his face, the actual playing was the same throughout

@jas_bataille

3 жыл бұрын

Not at all.

You're my bass god Mr. East, I'm not worthy..........

who's that 123 guy?

Some tatoos in the arms may help🤔 to play better? Just kidding.Natan East is a true signature!

Can’t hear a thing over the piano

i don't understand where the mertronome !!! but i know the greatest player hero nathan east, why this feel without rythm ?

Trying to listen to the amazing bass sound with that piano in the background is like trying to eat a steak and someone takes a big shit on my steak.

There must have been some latency with Nathan playing over the piano recording? You wouldn't expect him to be behind- but it was consistently behind. Had to be the way they recorded that. Nathan would never play that far off the beat. So uncomfortable to listen to.

@Nagroddy

4 жыл бұрын

Thought the same thing. Weird. Unless he somehow feels the groove a millisecond behind the beat and in the mix with the band it somehow sounds right?

@MarkoMarcello

2 жыл бұрын

I was looking for such a comment I noticed that too. I believe that someone in postprocessing messed up if they used two di s or something. However, I congratulate my and your ears.

Kinda obvious, give us more context if your going to say this is for intermediate players ! This is beginner stuff !

1:50 Nathan is unable to suck at playing bass. Even when he tries to demonstrate bad playing, he's kinda still in time.

If you don't get it after a week, sell your bass. Simple.

Feel, is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it won't work.

It's funny to watch a legendary Bass player intentionally play poorly. You can tell it required a lot of concentration! Ha!

Sorry mec mais tu n'es pas dedans...No feeling...Un peu derrière,un peu devant...Heureusement que tu n'as pas croisé la route de Chuck Berry...Si vous voulez rire,allez voir la manière dont se fait remettre en place cette tâche de Keith Richards...😅🤣😂

You can tell this dude is a bad ass bass player, he doesn't hold one of those pretentious Fender bass guitar.

He can't play the blues.

He says he's playing off time but actually he's playing quintuplets over heptuplets in order to SOUND off time

I'm really struggling to hear your bass

@Userhardrockfan

4 жыл бұрын

maybe use headphones?

@DOGOID

4 жыл бұрын

That's because your speakers don't go that low.

@DavidSmith-ur1ih

4 жыл бұрын

@@Userhardrockfan Yes. I must have been listening through the computer speakers which are not too bad...but now i have me headphones on..and I hear he bass clearly

This aint so much a lesson as it is a ‘watch me do something u cant’

It drives women crazy if you could do long short long short for a really really really long time.

Wasted my money signing on to ARTIST WORKS. Nathan wasn’t even engaged in the teaching on the website as he’s on tour in Europe with Eric Clapton for several months. All the best to Nathan- thumbs down on the website artist works. Waste of hard earned money . Thank you very much.

😎🚬

Very down to earth Master of the Bass