Fair play Scott. A lot of younger players think that music school is the only way to go, but many either don't get in or simply can't afford it. You demonstrate that having a passion for music and a desire to learn and grow as a player is really all you need. I must drop Mr Willis a line myself!!

Scott in the background on the monitor, with scott in the background on the monitor.... Scottception :P

Scott you are DEVINLY guided, killer lesson, and this is in the past?,....wow

Very Inspirational Video here! I've watched many of Scott's videos and didn't know what his background was. With as much skill and technique as he has I would have assumed he'd gone to a music academy. Thanks Scott for being humble and letting people like me know that through dedication, practice and the right influence- I can achieve good chops!!!

Absolutely great to discover your lessons...After nearly 40 years of leggin' it,makin' it up as i went along(30 of those as a pro)i now can see the theory of what my ears were telling me!You are a wonderful teacher and it is a real joy to be back in school and finally learn my craft from somebody who has thought it through in so many ways!

Scott, I gotta say you're one of the best bass teachers on KZread. Thanks!

May as well been talking about brain surgery,being a non-musician I didn't understand a word of it. I still watched every minute and thoroughly enjoyed it. Makes me want to learn to play a bass.

I award this the most helpful basslesson I've ever had!

I do a similar thing to this to find the relative minor, but never thought of reversing it like this (I mean as far as finding the relative major to use a common thread of shapes)...This is brilliant and been staring me in the face for years.

love your bass life story, Scott. I lived outside the proverbial box most my life so your story reverberates with me

Super Helpful! OMG. Possibly the most powerful and compact insight into soloing I’ve ever stumbled into. Thank You

Have been struggeling with this for quite some time now and I finally understand it with the help of this video! So thanks a lot Scott! Cheers from Holland, Nathan

as always, you deliver quality on all levels...and you are a great player! thanks so much

Great explanations. I hope a lot of young musicians listened.

Your lessons are great man...thanks so much. Such a huge help.

I did go to music school. I've learned much more from KZreadrs who aren't afraid of depth of knowledge. I love how Professors hold back information and keep students hostage.

Love this. The flat 7th major pentatonic sub brings out a really nice colour. Thanks for sharing this! While I'm a drummer, I'm also a wanna be bassist and I've been looking for lessons like these for a while. I think I've hit a gold mine! Cheers.

TO ME THIS IS HIS GREATEST LESSON much theory. love it

GREAT!!! GREAT!!! GREAT!!! THIS INFO HAS PIECED TOGETHER EVERYTHING iVE EVER LEARNED ABOUT MUSIC....THANKYOU

Marrying the relative modes - mainly Lydian Ionian mixolydian and aeolian is so key to me. They are basically reciprocals of each-other plus or minus an interval. And See/ people talked to me like I was crazy referencing the scale degrees from the point of the minor scale- when talking about a minor pentatonic.. Many don’t believe it’s beneficial to know relative modes but they open up so many doors for us

Oh wait a second. I think I got it. It's all about hearing it right. Opening up your mind to new sounds. Pretty great.

The man speaks wise words. I recently graduated from the ACM with a BA honours in music performance. Thoroughly shitty three years.

Scott is the best!!!!!!

thanks, this is really inspiring. your teachings are gold!

This is really inspiring, thanks so much for posting this

Thank you so much!!! Now I've got a lot to practise, keep up the good work!

Great lesson as always. Thanks Scott

This is ridiculously helpful!!!! Thanks Scott, learned a bunch.

Scott, you are so cool!

Iv been Playing bass for a loong time and Iv never had a lesson like this one, I\Great Great teaching. and easy to understand lessons. I'm heading for your website ASAP.

Thanks scott for your vids

Very inspiring, both your words and music!

Inspirational. Thanks Scott.

This is the video I needed!! thx Scott

Great video! I have always known the relative minor major thing but never applied it like that thanks! your a great teacher!

Excellent lesson dude. Lots of good information , Thank you

Awesome, this is really useful and quite fun to practice! Thankyou.

Scott, this one is very awesome! Regards

Pretty cool stuff...definitely a new way to think of things.

That's for the tuition Scott many thanks!

An excellent lesson. Cheers.

this is great, thanks for sharing!

Back in my day music schools that catered to Jazz, Pop and Rock didn't even exist. They were strictly Classical. We all had to figure it out on our own, primarily by listening and watching other bass players.

@pnojazz

7 жыл бұрын

No youtube either!

thanks im learning so much from you.

kya baat hai....superb....thanks for sharing this with the world..god bless :)

this is great stuff. love it.

thank u so much, u've made my playing much easier

Another great lesson Scott.Thanks for what you're doing for the bass community. The ideas of subsituting different pentatonics to highlight colour tones is not new to me at all, but to hear you playing such complete musical ideas with such a limited range of notes was very inspiring, so I've fired up cubase and revisiting those ideas(including stealing some of your licks, of course!) Sometimes when I transcribe Tony Grey I'm amazed at what beautiful melodies he plays using such simple chd tones!

Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!

muy bueno gracias Scott!!:)

Great Job Thanks for the lesson

Thanks mate. Wish I could follow better, but that's what the replay button is for. Brilliant lesson!

Great vid! Thanks!

Dying for the second video...Scott you rule!

THANK'S FOR SHARING MAN , THAT'S THE SPIRIT , GREETINGS FROM MEXICO CITY.

Thank You,Great Master!

very cool lesson...thanks

Gary Willis will be my teacher!!! :)

London to Barcelona to London for lessons!!!!! Fucking love the dedication bro!!!

you have the nicest accent on earth!! it makes me melting somehow while playing bass haha :) just LOVE your lessons! just awesome! greetings from germany :)

Excellent ! :D

THANK YOU AMIGO

Hey, man. Some great info. I think I will check out some more of your videos.

Hey man! You are an amazing teacher I wanna learn how to play bass with gloves now.

great stuff!

Part # 3 So please dont think that I am a beginner in the music sence, I Not. It,s just I never learned the frets scales and the notes, I just winged it but I was and is still pertty good at playing the bass for not knowing the proper way. And your little tricks of words that you sent me MADE SO MUCH SENCE To me it was like you smacked me upside my head, and I went WOHHO That is so simple. Thats why YOU R MY HERO, For life. I want to see you play in real life sometime. YOU ROCK Multi Thunder54.!

Such a cool guy

great stuff

Nout weird about flying to Spain for a bass lesson, good video mate.......... Hats off to you

He is playing an Overwater Jazz bass. They are hand made in the North of England. Incredible basses.

...light bulb went off in my head!!...I just had a "Oh Cool!! and Oh Crap!!" moment at the same time. Thank you Thank You!! I got work to do.

wow....I just felt something click! thanks alot mate :)

@Musselerran Lol... thanks man!

thanks !!

i did! thanks!

Damn, thanks a lot!

Thank you for the inspieational word :) i will be playing bass again...

LOL! I was a bit worried when you started - 'I'm gonna talk about something I've never spoken to anybody about?'.

muito bom seu som

Thanx!:)

I' ve learned this from my teacher of a traditional greek instrument (bouzouki) and it's actually pretty useful when improvising. However I have also learned that in eastern music (arabic,byzntine,etc) they believe that 2 sets of notes, containing the same notes,but with a different starting point (or in a different order at all) are way different, because they differ on the emotion they create. For example {D,E,F,G,A,Bb,C,D} is different from {C,D,E,F,G,Bb,C}. I think of it similar to a vector.

Its crazy they wouldn't let you in, most music schools these day based it on your playing. Cool video

Your a good hearted man Scott. Its a pleasure to learn from you. Believe it or not your one of the greats now. I don't care what other people think. Im quiet convinced. Good Luck, A pocket bass player from Melbourne, Florida

Ah, I *thought* I recognised that logo. I just couldn't read it. I think I came across one on TalkBass once. I like the looks of it, that's for sure. I think I'll go check out Overwater's website. Thanks for the info.

so basically hes playin the relative Major to Cm which is Eb Ionian AND Bb mixolidian (5th step of Eb). great lesson.

Perhaps I'm mistaken but I think Scott Henderson, with whom Gary Willis played for many many years, has a similar approach to the pentatonic scale.

oh yea thanks for the link ,, thats scot i saw @ the london bass show 2012 ?,, seem him on you tube ,, but we had good chin wagg @ the bass show with another dude i know called "mike edmonds",,great player serious random solos going on ,,was wearing worn out gloves at the show also ,,lol

nice bass!!! what kind of bass is that, thanks fot the lessons!!!.

@0tt0kruegar Totally correct! I suppose you could also treat the Cm as more of a Dorian chord (Cm#13) and play both Eb and Bb pentatonics. Eb being the (Lydian) and Bb being the (Ionian). But you are more correct than me because he does explain that Cm chord in the background is indeed blatantly Minor instead of Cm#13.

Hey scott. I have one little issue on watching your awsome lesons. you need to show the fingering bar a little better, those gloves sometimes block out the right fret we are supposed to be on. is ther a way to make this issue more noticable for students. PLEASE. thank so much. Robbie. You are about the best teacher I have come acrossed in a long A## time. I Really dig watching your Lessons. The fingering issue needs to be more observent or for us to see the proper spot to place are fingers at.

Scott , admire what you’ve done over the last few years, you’ve got some great people in your show. Personal question: what bass would you buy if you had 3 to 4 grand to spend?

@bassface12348

4 жыл бұрын

Hey man fodera is awesome lakland kensmith mtd all of them are great basses in that price range check them out and see what it is you are looking for

You don't know how much that story meant to me. Im sure a lot of people agree.

Here's a friendly hint from a violinist who is learning bass: Learn the notes on your bass. To make this easy remember that each fret is a half step. EX: Take the E- string. Fret 1= F, 2=F# (#=sharp), fret 3 (The one with a dot)=G, and so on. There is no E# and no B#. It goes from E to F and B to C respectively. If you learn where your notes are located on your instrument you won't need to see his fingers-- just listen to what note he says to play and find it. Also use your ear to check :)

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Great fucking story dude, I subscribed and I never ever heard of you before.

From manufacturer Overwater in UK. His is likely a custom

Money spend in the right way. Bravo! Best regards. BEN

also there are loads of good lessons on the tube

Well structured lesson mate. Why do you wear that glove?