9:00 where the slap part starts.

I love how when musicians talk to eachother about their instruments they mix their speaking phrases together with melodic phrases

If I had as much enthusiasm for life as you do for bass, I'd be king of this galaxy.

@BadChizzle

5 жыл бұрын

Well... you’d certainly be king of your own inner one, anyway. I am in agreement with your statement... and Admire enthusiasm and consistent working inspiration, brought on by hard work and dedication to a craft. Possessing these things at one time... brought my Musical reach to where it is today... and I am thankful. Now... I only need dwell there again...

@yuichituba

4 жыл бұрын

That’s the best compliment anyone could receive. Brought a smile to my face.

15:26 Scott flipping us off, lol

@dronespace

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

12:15 I've been playing bass on and off for 5-6 years and could never really push forward until very recently, and one of the things that has alluded me is this exact slapping thing. My technique is kinda all over the place and now i know what to practice holy crap.

"it's really simple" as my fingers fall off.

@EphemeralProductions

7 жыл бұрын

LOL! Exactly like how *I* feel!

@kennethgibson5728

7 жыл бұрын

'THAT'S ALL IT IS!' he says....yeah right THAT and about 2,000 hours of practice..

@noahzimmerman7913

5 жыл бұрын

@@kennethgibson5728 better get started then

@largemale7821

4 жыл бұрын

*Has flashbacks to ray and frank guitar lessons*

It is just a pleasure to see how much fun you have doing the videos lately. I stopped watching on a regular basis a while ago because they seemed a little "on the dry side" for me back then. But now I'm happy I've given your channel my attention back. Keep it groovin'! :-)

@darkwaven1795

7 жыл бұрын

Frankior Exactly the same for me

@bdgoodman313

7 жыл бұрын

^ for sure! love to see him having fun

@ajadrew

7 жыл бұрын

Me too..;-))

@jeffs.1999

7 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Great stuff!

@sandormiglecz1186

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, so much fun just watching :)

As a guitar player i love watching bass players approaches to rhythms, Rufus sounded amazing

Love your stuff man. after 15 years of playing bass, I'm just now learning music theory from my wife. Between you, Adam Neely and her I'm finding that I can actually learn something. Thanks for the knowledge man!

Thanks Scott for all you do for the bass community! Your academy is one of a kind! I would love to see SBL become a place for all musicians (guitarists, drummers, keys, etc.) to learn. My band mates are jealous of how easy you make it for me.

@devinebass

7 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh thanks Patrick! :)

Great stuff Scott. I've been playing bass for almost 50 years and I learn something every time I check out your vids. Your love of the bass and music in general is obvious and infectious. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more bass adventures!

@alexr7856

5 жыл бұрын

at what age did you start playing bass

It's so amazing how you outline every little detail of musical concepts, and your way of simplifying things for us is beyond measure! Thank you so much Scott :)

This should be required viewing for all getting into bass. Tons of priceless info here. Thank you ! ! !

Have played guitar for 40+ years and finally decided to take on the bass. Delighted to have found you! You are amazing, talented and funny! Thanks!

Love your work! My favourite Bass channel by far.

I gotta' say, as an academy member, Scott Devine and the Team truly deserve an award for his/their contribution to musical and bass learning AND appreciation world-wide. World-class Musical Ambassadors!! Thank you. Jeff BC, Canada.,

Thank you sooo much!!! The improvement is already showing and I feel so mich better about my slap bass!

Really great stuf Scott! Very good content and easy to understand. Plus your attitude and encouraging persona makes all the difference. Please keep them coming !

Great Video!! I have truley enjoyed watching the videos you have put out while in New York. What a great group of highly diverse musicians that are playing in these videos. Keep them coming!!

I love it when you realize how fast you are playing and smile ....you my good sir are a true gentleman and a scholar and a very fine teacher and musician ..

Mr. Devine you are the best!!! thank you

Man!! I love your videos!! Thanks for the techniques!! I've already begun practicing them!!

Wow, you're really a great Teacher.. I usually don't write below KZread Videos and rarely like something on YT (im kinda lazy sometimes) - but the fact that your content is so good and your personality is so kind made me lose control about myself and now im here, writing you a comment, that hopefully will reach, and please you. (By including this fact i don't want to state that my regards were therefore more valuable - i just wanted to inform you, that the power of your personality had the force to influence me over distances and moved me to do something i usually wouldn't do). Thank you very, very much for your lessons, kind sir. Greetings from Germany.

Cause I love da bass and Scott! I'm still rocking through the harmonic layering course!

Just recently picked up my bass again and just wanted to tell you how entertaining and unpretentious your videos are. Thanks. :)

If it wasn't for you,and others like yourself, I would never be able to progress and learn these things like this...Thank you immensely for everything that you teach!!!!! So appreciative!

excellent teaching session. Thanks.

Wicked tutorial!!! Loved it and am DEFINITELY gonna get this groove on! 😎

Great lesson, much appreciated.

Thanks!! I always wondered and wanted to know!! YOU ROCK!!

I just recently discovered this channel. Very cool. I've been playing a long time, and while most of what I have seen Scott covering is not new to me, refreshers can be helpful, and I just like listening to his accent. lol..... I subscribed. :)

Outstanding explanation...Great lesson!

you make me understand things , thnx so much

Scott he is an amazing bassman, thank you for taping !!!!

I never thought about fretting hand slap, that's what I've been missing from my slap technique. Thanks!

Very well explained! Thanks.

Ridiculous being the operative, Scott. Amazing stuff you do there, making it sound so simple and then showing us what a locomotive it can become. Wonderfull stuff! Thnx mate!

Parabéns!! Dicas sensacionais!! Didática simples!!

Rufus is just outrageously good!

@devinebass

7 жыл бұрын

He is Trevor... great to see you on here man! :)

@rufusbass

7 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks Trevor-I think you'll dig the stuff we got filmed that day-it was a blast!

@utubehound69

7 жыл бұрын

Thats is a really Cool Paint Job looks like a 60's Muscle Car Color. That Fits that Jazz looking Bass w/the Crome pot plate. What is that color called?

12:08 We love Lacquer Head XD

Love your videos! You are my fave You Tube channel! Your passion for bass always shows, along with your very British sense of humor. (humour?) Love Rufus' playing, especially his speed, articulation, and most of all, his tone! Keep posting these videos!

@danielwightman4719

6 жыл бұрын

Dank memes for edgy teens

Brilliant lesson Scott & I'm not even playing bass. 14.5k views in one day and 14 dislikes by people who think there is no "content" in slapping. They forget Larry invented slap to bring in the percussive element out of necessity. Really enjoyed this as I do all of your work. Inspring.

Great stuff Scott !🙏🏻✌🏻️🎸👍🏿

Fantastic video. finally I saw the thing. thank you so much man.

Just picking up the bass after years of playing guitar. Great lesson, thanks!

I am digging the editing of this video! Bravo/a!

Love you playing! And i can learn a lot from you :)

brilliant. Thanks.

Love your videos Scott. You are such a great teacher and bass player!

@SamuelChibuikem

6 жыл бұрын

Good and smart

Thank you for the slap tech !!!

Dude! Sweet! Im trying to improve my speed and this is great.

Very cool Scott, cheers.

Thanks Scott!

Nice that you gave a mention to Alain Caron. My all time fav bass player. Fist time I heard him and the rest of UZEB was in a bar watching how my beer was fizzing from the bottom end of his 5 string bass. It made me buy a bass almost immediately I was so inspired. I already played guitar fairly well, but bass like that was a whole nother thing. I still play and love both instruments.

you literally make playing bass so attractive! it may be my new favorite instrument.

You pull the best faces! Started sounding like Les Claypool after (well, maybe including) the "Ahhhhh!" at 17:55. Thank you so much for this video! I have owned a bass for a very long time (I don't think Crate makes basses anymore, HA!) and now I'm one step closer to being able to say I actually play one!

I really like his bass,very nice look,quality and I bet feel.

Thanks man. Subbed. :)

Dude is a beast..reminds of a player I know named Buddy Pearson of Freek Johnson.. Thanks Scott for all you are doing to make the world safe for better bass players:P

you sooo greate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! awssomee!!! thanks for share!! gracias desdes mexico!!

Rufus's phrasing is crazy awesome!

Awesome lesson

you rock! so freaking smooth

Hey, what's up? Scott, thank you so much for the funny and valuable explanation of this technique. I've learned a lot with your videos. Please continue with this great work, I believe the bassist community is grateful.

I love it when they say: "It's so easy!". Yep, it's easy when you practice minimum 2-3 hours a day for several months maybe :D

@AirGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

This is the best video I've seen in a while. I first learned the double thumb technique from Victor Wooten.

Thank you..!! it was really helpful.. \m/

Gotta be my favourite video so far!

very,very,very nice and this your friends with this fraze......beautifullllll......thank you very much.

Every bass player in India loves you! God bless

Hey Scott, no gloves? Does that mean it's getting better? Love your videos, as always!

Bloody good video segment mate....!

Love that flipped bass idea. :)) Quiet fun for developing the basic right hand 'percussive' rhythm. Later, I found Jayen Varma video on TEDx. He's combining slap with an Indian tabla technique, which is also cool to dig into.

alright, i actually learned something. i always hought it's just thumb and pop. now i know there's a muted one too. explains alot

I watched most of the video but all I really needed was this 11:56 thank you so much!

I love your videos!!!!! This video leads to me to the question why do you suggest the pointer finger to initially pop? This technique would suggest otherwise? You seem to be tall with big hands. I'm more comfortable popping with my middle finger in general, how do you feel about that?

Hey man that was awesome so helpful

Esse cara toca demais, my favorite bass player... gente fina.

8:30!!! That's the good stuff!

Scott i got bit bad my new Tobias 4 string bass has me fingers blistering i can't put it down this is a inspirational Bass I was Larry Graham for second lol. These Bass lessons have my Bass side playing Bass like I haven't in years… i play guitar or did lol.

Great lesson. How close to the rear frets are your strings? Thanks.

Are you doing any gigs while you're in New York? I live in Williamsburg in Brooklyn and I'd love to see you play while you're there. You're enthusiasm is contagious mate and there's a reason why you have the largest online bass community/group/following because you seem like you're having so much fun with it and really that's what music and life are all about. Legend!

hey! been watching ur videos for a while now...realy like them.... n noticed that u hv taken off ur gloves ..luks u hv recoverd from ur shaky hand prblm....keep it up brother !!!

show valeu tirou minhas duvidas

I started playing bass (upright) in 1975! I started playing electric bass in 1979! We were happy when cassette tapes came around because we could then record individual songs from different albums onto one mix tape and create set lists for the band which meant we could take those recordings home to woodshed rather than playing the album 50+ times during rehearsal to learn new songs. Kids today are CLUELESS to how EASY they have it now!

Something a friend told me when I first started was that if you keep you ring and pinky finger together it help with control and getting a proper slap movement down

Damn you just ooze rhythm and great timing Scott.... great vid.

can you make a video regarding the double thumping technique I have many problems with it

AWESOME WORK! :)

BRAVO!!!

Thanks for your knowledge. I have been playing Guitar for fifty years and today is the firstTime that I have understood how Bass players could make those strange slapping sounds from their instruments ! What a discovery !!! 👍👍👍

Eres lo maximo

I love the title of this video! 😁

I figured out what we used to call the 'left hand pats' technique in the late eighties (yeah, when we only had VHS...) - not least because it was the key to a lot of Mark King's flashier triplet moments. I've never figured out double-thumbing though, and not sure I ever will. Ultimately I'm not convinced some of these percussive techniques end up being very musical though...

Sneaky is what you are. This Thumb, slap, pop, pip, pope, index, middle, thumb, etc. Being a Trumpet player you guys are sneaky. For me is slur, single, double, triple tonguing, and embouchure/breathing tightening-loosening and so forth. Music itself is just awesome 👏 😎

The first excercise helped me a lot.. Sitting everyday in dat bus listening to monuments origin of escape and cant stop moving ma thumb .... XD

Thanks Devine, best lesson ever! slap your wood everyday guys!

The Reddings, a classic album and I thought everybody knew about that one. The awakening being the track to play. Heard it live in Amsterdam and it's fantastic. But I actually like the whole album. They made another 5 albums after this debut.

Nice tone of your bass

Man's playing at 4:12 is slick af

@sigiriabeysekara8723

3 жыл бұрын

I'm the one whe liked this video......... after 3 years