Hey everyone! Thank you for watching my video, I'm so happy to hear all this amazing feedback on it being helpful and encouraging! My goal is simply to bring short and attainable lessons to this platform, and help bassists become better, and not discouraged by challenges. But something magical is happening with this video, and I felt like I wanted to share it and make it more accessible to everyone. I am a bassist indeed, but I am also a composer and a songwriter. I am so grateful for all of you who visited my Bandcamp and purchased my music!! And so I wanted to write this note since it is not a given, that people go through the trouble of finding my work and contributing to it. So THANK YOU!! And just to make it a little easier, if you didn't get the chance and want to listen to my music and get to know the other side of me and what I do, please feel free to visit yonitspiegelman.bandcamp.com/ listen to my original music, and purchase if you like it :) Thanks for following, thanks for your support, and keep in touch!
This is a great lesson! I was struggling so much with sixteen notes and this is the first exercise that has helped me to feel and play sixteen notes. Greetings from Mexico!
I just bought my bass last week and started practising watching your videos, they are so good and they help us beginners to feel motivated and happy with learning the first steps!! You're awesome. Cheers from Barcelona!!
Awesome, teacher! I love your videos, they're always useful. You not only teach how to play the bass but music theory in practice. It provide us the independence to create grooves by ourselves. I'm really improving. Thanks and greetings from Brazil.
Hey, great videos. I’m from Germany, 51 years old and after 30 years started playing bass again. Your videos helping me a lot. Keep up this great work and stay healthy.
Absolutely brilliant lesson. Your explanation has helped me massively. I started to learn the bass a few months ago and the 16th notes were really bashing me. Thanks to your superb lesson I got it right now. Thank you so much, Yonit.
I'm learning "Everybody's Changing" by Keane right now, and the entire bass line is 16th notes. This video was so helpful! Once I really started getting it down with my fingers, I switched to alternate picking (because I'm trying to balance my practice with both fingers & pick)...but this video helped me to finally nail it! Thanks so much!!! :)
Thank-you Yonit for this clear and well presented lesson. You have no idea how poorly done and glossed over most lessons on time counting are. I have searched dozens and dozens of videos and yours is the only one I've come across where you explain EVERYTHING! Most others assume far too much of the student, leave basic (but important) things out, and fail to tell you "why" something is important to learn. Thank-you again - I have subscribed and am looking forward to learning from your videos. 😃🙂
As a long time dummer/guitar player, I’ve never put much thought into my bass playing. I’m also a long time beat buddy-ist. Really gonna spend some time with what you’ve shown us.
As stated in other reviews this lesson is fantastic. I struggle big time with counting. I can typically look at the music, figure out the rhythm and get it right most of the time. If I try to count it while playing its a mess..............a big mess. I really get into Motown and there is so much syncopation in that great music the counting while playing seems way too much to bear. This lesson was really good on how to count better. I typically would count the 16th beats and hold the note for (as an eight note) two of the 16th counts. I felt doing the 1 & ah for the two 16th notes in the first quarter note would be wrong but my senses told me other. After seeing your lesson I will correct my thinking and see how much I can improve. More lessons with this kind of thing would be great!! Even more in depth information on the fumbling most who are learning how to play will encounter would be very very useful. Love everything you do!! Thanks so much!!
Your lessons are jam-packed with useful ideas- thank you! I struggle with pedalling 1/8 and 1/16 notes and your idea of starting off by just playing on measure at a time helps a ton!
I really like your lesson. The rhythm count out exercises then follow by a bass demonstration is helping in my progress. Thank you Yonit for this excellent video. I have watch this video many many times. Really good stuff!
Love you personality im getting better im really trying to stick this teaching in my head,cause I like smooth funk on bass,learning bass lines with this methodology helps thanks
Honestly, - i was going trought all your stuff ( and since i know where you came from/ bc of an interview ) i want to say----- your teachings are an important message/ and i like your Energy Level. God Bless You
Thanks so much for your video, I just bombed a 16th note progression in a song called TAKE HIM AT HIS WORD....and because of your video I have a means to be more successful next time
i salvaged/saved 3 basses and 2 electric guitars... they're all set up to manufacturers' specs now: i learned about action, relief, intonation, fret leveling, pots... now i'm building courage to start learning how to play them :}
That’s a very interesting approach. You’re much more familiar with the exact workings of the parts of your instruments than the average beginner. I think this will help you quite a bit
im a beginner bassist and the other day I was listening to drum beat and confused myself because I was counting 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and, then I realised wait a minute, I can also count 1 2 3 4 to this same beat? and I was so confused because usually I thought it depending on the tempo of the beat. Today I was wondering how to keep track when counting out 16th notes, and I found this video, now it makes sense, I was ONTO SOMETHING THE OTHER DAY!! Thanks for making this so clear!
Perfect. I am fighting to get the feel of sixteenth notes. Just what I need. 😃 I was just alternating bars of quarters followed by bars of eighths followed by bars of sixteenths. This much better.
Hello Yonit, Falling apart is my favorite song and also video. Question, perhaps I misinterpreted one of your videos with regards of not playing open notes. say for example, the bass part of the song "all my loving" by the Beatles, it has a lot of open notes and on youtube specially the Ed Sullivan performance Paul plays the song with a lot of open notes, would you suggest to look for the same open notes he plays and find them and play them on the fretboard? Please excuse the question if it appears to stupid, i am a begginer.
wow thanks beautiful .How do you playor practice triplets ,4ths ,10ths or 6ths or 8notes or 32 notes 16-notes using arpeggios triad s,/major 7 arpeggios and scales plus incooperating the inversions on the entire fret board? Question 2. How do you incooperates Arpeggios or scales in your grooving or playing or coming up with licks or riffs using Arpeggios or Scales on the entire fret board?
Yonit, I love your videos and I find them really helpful. Could you help us with descending arpeggios exercises? Ascending is easier and immediate descending too (work memory); but if you just want to descend from anywhere is tricky...
I left info on spirit of the radio into riff from rush It has 1/16 notes I believe. I wrote out my short hand thinking or long hand as I was trying to figure out what scale. here's my correction or short story version He's utilizing notes using the 3rd position E natural minor the c# not in it they use ITS THIRD POSITION E NATURAL minor JUST THE NOTES IN IT FROM A AT THE 5TH FRET GO A,B,C D,E,F#,G,A,B.C.D THE C ON THE E STRING IS NOT USED IN RIFF THEY ADD A C# to the third position their using the ladder method and twice back up the riff I broke down in three parts I found out if breaking the 1 riff down into 4 parts uses THIS IS COOL ( each section of the one longer riff) keeps adding 1) 3 notes 2) 4 notes 3) 5 notes 4) 6 notes section 3 and 4 the back up on the ladder couple rungs to make it seem longer to get to the end and third positon E natural minor a 7 note scale is the same as G natural minor (7 note scale) using the 2nd position instead of EMajor 3rd positon of moving up or down 3 fret to get a scale you already know
Love your lessons so much! And your Mustang bass sounds so good! Never seen one in this colour before! So it’s like a parts Stang. Do you put it together yourself? Looks like a vintage Musicmaster bass neck, but a Mustang body and bridge? It’s so pretty! But I promise that I am still focused on the lessons not just the pretty bass 🙏😸
Spot on Lasse, it's a parts Stang indeed :) I purchased it from a former student! Put my fingers on it and fell in-love, and it was just upgraded with P Daddy Coils Boutique pick ups from extra groovy sound!
Hey Eric! For this video I used my Mustang bass with P Daddy Coils Boutique pick ups, and I went through an MXR Bass Di + and an Ampeg SVT-3 Pro to my Universal Audio Arrow interface. (The BeatBuddy was also going straight in the Arrow). When I record with my Sadowsky, it's built-in pre-amp is so good that I plug in right in the Universal Audio interface and put a CLA 3A compressor on it after. Hope this helps! :)
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Hey everyone! Thank you for watching my video, I'm so happy to hear all this amazing feedback on it being helpful and encouraging! My goal is simply to bring short and attainable lessons to this platform, and help bassists become better, and not discouraged by challenges. But something magical is happening with this video, and I felt like I wanted to share it and make it more accessible to everyone. I am a bassist indeed, but I am also a composer and a songwriter. I am so grateful for all of you who visited my Bandcamp and purchased my music!! And so I wanted to write this note since it is not a given, that people go through the trouble of finding my work and contributing to it. So THANK YOU!! And just to make it a little easier, if you didn't get the chance and want to listen to my music and get to know the other side of me and what I do, please feel free to visit yonitspiegelman.bandcamp.com/ listen to my original music, and purchase if you like it :) Thanks for following, thanks for your support, and keep in touch!
This is a great lesson! I was struggling so much with sixteen notes and this is the first exercise that has helped me to feel and play sixteen notes. Greetings from Mexico!
I just bought my bass last week and started practising watching your videos, they are so good and they help us beginners to feel motivated and happy with learning the first steps!! You're awesome. Cheers from Barcelona!!
Awesome, teacher! I love your videos, they're always useful. You not only teach how to play the bass but music theory in practice. It provide us the independence to create grooves by ourselves. I'm really improving. Thanks and greetings from Brazil.
Hey, great videos. I’m from Germany, 51 years old and after 30 years started playing bass again. Your videos helping me a lot. Keep up this great work and stay healthy.
Absolutely brilliant lesson. Your explanation has helped me massively. I started to learn the bass a few months ago and the 16th notes were really bashing me. Thanks to your superb lesson I got it right now. Thank you so much, Yonit.
I play by ear having focus issues and no problem playing gigs for many years. I will practice this and a big thanks to you!
I'm learning "Everybody's Changing" by Keane right now, and the entire bass line is 16th notes. This video was so helpful! Once I really started getting it down with my fingers, I switched to alternate picking (because I'm trying to balance my practice with both fingers & pick)...but this video helped me to finally nail it! Thanks so much!!! :)
Thank-you Yonit for this clear and well presented lesson. You have no idea how poorly done and glossed over most lessons on time counting are. I have searched dozens and dozens of videos and yours is the only one I've come across where you explain EVERYTHING! Most others assume far too much of the student, leave basic (but important) things out, and fail to tell you "why" something is important to learn. Thank-you again - I have subscribed and am looking forward to learning from your videos. 😃🙂
As a long time dummer/guitar player, I’ve never put much thought into my bass playing. I’m also a long time beat buddy-ist. Really gonna spend some time with what you’ve shown us.
Thank you, Yonit, for the generosity of your time, talent and expertise. Your videos are very inspiring
As stated in other reviews this lesson is fantastic. I struggle big time with counting. I can typically look at the music, figure out the rhythm and get it right most of the time. If I try to count it while playing its a mess..............a big mess. I really get into Motown and there is so much syncopation in that great music the counting while playing seems way too much to bear. This lesson was really good on how to count better. I typically would count the 16th beats and hold the note for (as an eight note) two of the 16th counts. I felt doing the 1 & ah for the two 16th notes in the first quarter note would be wrong but my senses told me other. After seeing your lesson I will correct my thinking and see how much I can improve. More lessons with this kind of thing would be great!! Even more in depth information on the fumbling most who are learning how to play will encounter would be very very useful. Love everything you do!! Thanks so much!!
It felt like the first exercise unlocked something in my playing, thank you!
Beautiful bass! You're a great bass player. Thanks for sharing all of that with us.
I love your way of teaching Miss Yonit ♥♥
Your lessons are jam-packed with useful ideas- thank you! I struggle with pedalling 1/8 and 1/16 notes and your idea of starting off by just playing on measure at a time helps a ton!
I’m still in the dark. When I see 1/8 or 1/16 or whatever I usually always apply it to measuring something but never music.
Thank you yonit
רואים שמדובר במקצוענית ,עזרת לי מאוד .
I really like your lesson. The rhythm count out exercises then follow by a bass demonstration is helping in my progress. Thank you Yonit for this excellent video. I have watch this video many many times. Really good stuff!
Yonit Thank you for producing so much great content and lessons like this that you make really easy to understand!
Love you personality im getting better im really trying to stick this teaching in my head,cause I like smooth funk on bass,learning bass lines with this methodology helps thanks
Great video Yonit! You've taught me a lot in a short amount of time watching your videos. I am forever subscribed...Thank you! ~ Steve
Thank you so much for this as always start nice and slow and just staying on the root so the notes are all sounding the same. Cheers
Been struggling with that for a long time. Thank you very much!!!!!
Hi from Australia Yonit, always love your videos they are always appreciated.
Honestly, - i was going trought all your stuff ( and since i know where you came from/ bc of an interview ) i want to say----- your teachings are an important message/ and i like your Energy Level. God Bless You
Your teaching is simple Yonit.I like it. Rhem Malaysia.
Am a solo n a bassist dear.
would love to see a version of this filling in beats 2 & 4. Sounds very different. Really enjoy your work.
That was definitely a great lesson. Essential tips I needed to know
beginner here! thanks for this. needed a very basic training!
Thank you.
Thank you for the time and effort you put into making these videos. I have learned so much and I am very grateful to you. 😀 I wish you all the best.
Yeah, playing super slow is as hard as super fast, it's then that you find out how anxious you are by hitting the first beat too soon
Thanks for this helpful video! 👍
Great counting trick. I was having trouble playing Chic: "I want your love" with my fingers - this helped. Enjoyed your lesson. oNe LovE from NYC
Thanks so much for your video, I just bombed a 16th note progression in a song called TAKE HIM AT HIS WORD....and because of your video I have a means to be more successful next time
If you're not failing it means you're not pushing yourself enough, so you're doing GREAT! You'll get it next time!
Owwwwww superb 👍 Nice playing ❤️❤️
Loved this! It was be nice if you showed the fills you added
i salvaged/saved 3 basses and 2 electric guitars... they're all set up to manufacturers' specs now: i learned about action, relief, intonation, fret leveling, pots... now i'm building courage to start learning how to play them :}
That’s a very interesting approach. You’re much more familiar with the exact workings of the parts of your instruments than the average beginner. I think this will help you quite a bit
Wow Yonit, love your videos.
Greetings from Brazil! I love your videos!
Thank You! Great Lesson...Excellent Explanation!
It helps me a lot
Wow what an amazing teacher!
Thanks Yonit!Very well taught lesson!
Love your bass - awesome color too
Love it! I just got started on playing 16th so this is perfect for me! :D
Thanks Yonit! Beautiful and talented Bass Mama Queen!!
Yonit! You own it. Great video!
Very well explained lesson
im a beginner bassist and the other day I was listening to drum beat and confused myself because I was counting 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and, then I realised wait a minute, I can also count 1 2 3 4 to this same beat? and I was so confused because usually I thought it depending on the tempo of the beat. Today I was wondering how to keep track when counting out 16th notes, and I found this video, now it makes sense, I was ONTO SOMETHING THE OTHER DAY!!
Thanks for making this so clear!
Always great lessons. Curious.... what do you use those earplugs for I see on your desk??
Bravissima ottima lezione, ho intrapeso da poco lo studio del basso e mi sei stata utilissima, spero di vedere altre tue lezioni. Ciao!!
thank you
LOVE your lessons!
Very helpful, and an overdue smash of the subscribe button from me!
You're the best ❤
Thank you Yonit for that special tutorial.
This was very good video for me. THX!
Excellent 👌 .
Thanks
Perfect. I am fighting to get the feel of sixteenth notes. Just what I need. 😃 I was just alternating bars of quarters followed by bars of eighths followed by bars of sixteenths. This much better.
Thank you for the vid. Really well explained. Subbed.
Hello Yonit,
Falling apart is my favorite song and also video.
Question, perhaps I misinterpreted one of your videos with regards of not playing open notes.
say for example, the bass part of the song "all my loving" by the Beatles, it has a lot of open notes and on youtube specially the Ed Sullivan performance Paul plays the song with a lot of open notes, would you suggest to look for the same open notes he plays and find them and play them on the fretboard?
Please excuse the question if it appears to stupid, i am a begginer.
Very helpful I will start practicing this!
Thank you very much. This makes a big difference. Now for some work to get to on the bass :)
Very good lesson Yonit!
Thank you yonit for this class today, from here Venezuela
Thank you so much for this very useful lesson today Yonit... 👍👌
Thanks Yonit. Your amazing ❤️
Thank you so much! Love your playing
This is a great content! Really helpful! :)
That's a good one. Thanks Yonit
Thank you Yonit 😊 Godbless and Stay Safe,
Excellent exercise, thank you!
this means a lot!thank you very much
Good one. Thanks.
Great content, perfect lesson. Keep it coming!!!
Very clear and easy to understand. Thank you for this.✌️😷
Great info. Thx.
I will practice more with this method
This was very informative!! Love your lessons!!
Your playing is super in the pocket! Great job! I would love to hire you to play on one of my projects!
I know I've said this before but and I'll keep saying it....Damn you are the best teacher ❤.
Awesome!!
Im fronteira Brazil. Thanks
Thanks for this tutorial, Yonit :-)
Top ! Merci ! Encore !
wow thanks beautiful .How do you playor practice triplets ,4ths ,10ths or 6ths or 8notes or 32 notes 16-notes using arpeggios triad s,/major 7 arpeggios and scales plus incooperating the inversions on the entire fret board? Question 2. How do you incooperates Arpeggios or scales in your grooving or playing or coming up with licks or riffs using Arpeggios or Scales on the entire fret board?
Yonit, I love your videos and I find them really helpful. Could you help us with descending arpeggios exercises? Ascending is easier and immediate descending too (work memory); but if you just want to descend from anywhere is tricky...
Great suggestion! Will keep that in mind :)
Yes! useful information but a challenge for me love those pickups 👍
I'm a professional bass teacher. Excellent lesson 👍
Nice instructional vid. Long live Rocco Prestia, in all of us.
That is so useful... love it. Richard
THanks!
А что за горошек в банке слева от компа? И спасибо за ценный вариант счёта 16-х 😘
Fantastic Explanation!
Five Roses, 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹
I left info on spirit of the radio into riff from rush It has 1/16 notes I believe.
I wrote out my short hand thinking or long hand as I was trying to figure out what scale.
here's my correction or short story version
He's utilizing notes using the 3rd position E natural minor the c# not in it
they use ITS THIRD POSITION E NATURAL minor JUST THE NOTES IN IT FROM
A AT THE 5TH FRET GO A,B,C D,E,F#,G,A,B.C.D
THE C ON THE E STRING IS NOT USED IN RIFF
THEY ADD A C# to the third position their using the ladder method and twice back up
the riff I broke down in three parts I found out if breaking the 1 riff down into 4 parts uses
THIS IS COOL ( each section of the one longer riff) keeps adding
1) 3 notes 2) 4 notes 3) 5 notes 4) 6 notes section 3 and 4 the back up on the ladder couple
rungs to make it seem longer to get to the end
and third positon E natural minor a 7 note scale is the same as
G natural minor (7 note scale) using the 2nd position instead of EMajor 3rd positon
of moving up or down 3 fret to get a scale you already know
Love your lessons so much! And your Mustang bass sounds so good! Never seen one in this colour before! So it’s like a parts Stang. Do you put it together yourself? Looks like a vintage Musicmaster bass neck, but a Mustang body and bridge? It’s so pretty! But I promise that I am still focused on the lessons not just the pretty bass 🙏😸
Spot on Lasse, it's a parts Stang indeed :) I purchased it from a former student! Put my fingers on it and fell in-love, and it was just upgraded with P Daddy Coils Boutique pick ups from extra groovy sound!
Hello yonit do you us a amp if not what is your set up like
Hey Eric! For this video I used my Mustang bass with P Daddy Coils Boutique pick ups, and I went through an MXR Bass Di + and an Ampeg SVT-3 Pro to my Universal Audio Arrow interface. (The BeatBuddy was also going straight in the Arrow). When I record with my Sadowsky, it's built-in pre-amp is so good that I plug in right in the Universal Audio interface and put a CLA 3A compressor on it after. Hope this helps! :)
real cool video your friend billy