Why the P Bass CRUSHES everything
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It’s an amazing testament to Leo Fender’s ideas and design that 70 years since its introduction, the Fender P Bass is still one of the best-selling and most used instruments in music today, despite all the world’s advancements,. If you’ve never played or owned a Precision Bass - you simply have to!
In this lesson we’re going to explain why no one will ever topple the Precision from its perch as the best-selling bass of all time. You’ll also get note-for-note breakdowns of bass lines on which the P Bass really shines.
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Video Breakdown:
00:00 - Introduction
01:29 - James Jamerson / What’s Going On
03:27 - Bob Babbitt / Signed Sealed Delivered
04:02 - Carol Kaye / Good Vibrations
05:25 - The UNCOOL Period
05:50 - Pino Palladino / Chicken Grease
07:20 - Jamareo Artis / Locked Out of Heaven
08:41 - Why is it a workhorse?
10:39 - ULTIMATE P Bass Trick
11:01 - Freddie Washington / Forget Me Nots
12:13 - Paul Simonon / London Calling
13:14 - Adam Clayton / U2
14:27 - Duff McKagan / Sweet Child O’ Mine
15:55 - Steve Harris / The Trooper
18:17 - Billy Sheehan
19:53 - The End
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No, no, no, no, you cannot leave us with only 30 seconds of a dual-bass-sweet-child cover, this needs to be a full cover! I have never enjoyed this song as much as in this brief half minute of p-bass glory. Pretty please with bass sugar on top!
Bass is the sugar on the bottom 😉
Yes, yes and yes this needs to happen!
Full cover in a lovely mix uploaded to spotify too please 🎉
And release the tabs for us beginners please
A 20 minute video about how awesome the P bass is? Yes please.
should have been 2 hours though
@@Ralferator true…probably still not long enough though, right? 😂
Yes I have 6 Early 70's P-basses and 2 Jazz basses, I have seen other basses , but no thanks!
And yet it’s still not a Jazz bass
@@jimmygee3219 Jazz Basses are nice and all but you simply don't get the low mid punch you get with a P Bass. When I play Jazz Basses life I usually play the neck pickup and miss the power of a P Bass
Everyone needs a friend like you have in each other. The bass is a bonus.
"Not versatile? YOU'RE not versatile!" 😁
John Deacon played P basses throughout his career that includes the 80s. Worked like magic.
He also played a Wal at some point.
and a stingray@@unduloid
@@ragingmong5593stingray is another excellent product from the mind of Leo Fender. Not a coincidence.
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I didn't know John Deacon played in The Smiths.
@@unduloid- I'd also seen him with a Warwick 'Buzzard', around '86 and when 'It's A Kind Of Magic' was a Hit 🙂
I love that you guys display the tabs as you’re playing and talking about the songs.
It makes the whole show interactive for us!
Great episode.
It’s cool for sure, but I’m still team notation. Had a talk with one of my school kids who plays bass a week ago and he said: “I don’t like tab, I keep finding easier or better ways to play things in different positions than the tabs tell you to play..”. I didn’t bait him on that, but I concur.
@@lowstringc I see. Tabs or notation I’m just pleased with the idea that we can follow along.👍🏼
@@lowstringc That's true but personally I think it's a matter of how much you know your bass and what feels easier/more comfortable for you.
If I use tabs then I sometimes disregard what it says (in terms of where to fret) and find a position that works better for me.
Notations are much better but they're not as accessible as tabs are.
The vibe between you two in this video is so smooth. Sounds like a real nice afternoon talking about music and playing
That pretty much describes an afternoon with Ian!
The P Bass is the ultimate “Mr. Fix-it”..Whether it’s self standing or through the roof with outboard gear..A well maintained P bass is the smartest money spent🍻
Now that's the truth 👌
Bought my ‘74 P bass in 1980 for $600! Best investment ever!
@@radiooz2420 Was a decent amount of money at the time but still!
The workhorse is often the most derided, yet it does the most work...
As someone trying to break into the studio and live music scenes, I’ve been told by several people that all the producers will ask if you have a P bass before a session even if you bring a Jazz or a Rick or a 5 string whatever other popular type of bass. I’ve played one since I was 13 and it’s gotten me through so much over the years!
One of the most underrated bassists of all time Andy Rourke of the Smiths played the shit out of his P Bass. So many iconic bass lines. Such an incredible bassist. RIP.
Never gets a mention in here. Barbarism, Q is Dead, That Joke, Shakespeare’s Sister, the list goes on!
Sound of the Pbass is just THE bass sound that I hear in my head. It’s a pleasure on its own, a wonderful instrument!
amen to that
Nailed it
Scott, I've followed your channel when you had under 100k followers, I learned so much from you! Then, around 2015 I stopped playing bass until a month ago when my wife bought me one as a birthday gift. Then I searched for your channel and God I'm happy that you are here better than ever. It's great to be part of your community again!
Please make this an ongoing series! This was awesome!
More to come! 👍👍👍
My favourite P-bass tone is the one Waters gets in the funk section of Echo's from Live at Pompei.
Yes!!!!!!!
Yeeess !!!
Fuck yeah, Echoes is one of my favourite Pink Floyd song and that's definitely one of the most badass gloves I've ever heard. Such a vibe
I didn’t know it for years, but a P bass was always home for me. My first bass was a Samick P bass. Two years in I got a 5 string LTD bass followed by a shameful period were my only focus was on guitar. Got back into bass in 2017 with a Warwick corvette. Then followed an onslaught of active basses and a jazz bass. About six months the ago I picked up a Squier P bass (40th Anniversary) and I felt right back at home with the sound and feel I’d been trying to get for years on other instruments. Gotta love a P bass. They were made right the first time. Can’t fix what isn’t broken
Ray Shulman of Gentle Giant made dozens of amazing recordings and brilliant shows with his PBass. RIP, one of the greats!
Absolutely. Amazing touch with a pick too.
Jamerson's muting sponge was not underneath the strings but above them. The sponge (actually a small piece of weather strip) was glued to the interior of the ashtray bridge cover, in order to make a light pressure over the strings that mute them. It was the original Fender P-Bass muting system by default.
100% correct. Over not under.
Bob Babbitt used sponge underneath, he said so in an interview but yes Jamerson was just factory muting
Was this before finger muting techniques were thought of? No longer necessary surely?
Man, I love when I hear chorus on bass. It’s 1986 all over again!
or earlier like ‘79 (joy division)
Best opening sequence of any SBL film. LOVE IT!!!!
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I caved in and got one... I've played many bass over the years, but i have to say that I've never come across such an amazing, versatile sound as a Pbass and now I'm hooked! I know what Scott means when he says he gets anxiety if he hasn't played one for a few days 😂😂
Even though I mainly play PJ basses these days, I always keep a P bass in my arsenal when I just want to rock or jam without too much fussing about. And definitely U2's Adam Clayton is one of my inspirations.
Adam has so many good lines that drive the song.
Whenever I think of the perfect p bass sound, Jean-Jacques Burnel nails it for me.
I love that gnarly P Bass tone, perfect for terrifying the guitarist.
I love his gritty bass sound on The Stranglers' early recordings and use a similar one fairly regularly myself, and also a black&maple P-bass 😊
@@mightyV444 On Rattuss, he jacked into a lead amp as he had no money for a bass amp ! Hence giving it that trebly sound.
@@stephenbennett1643 - With a rip in one of its speakers, too! 😉
@@mightyV444 That's correct 👍
That was one of the most enthusiastic, entertaining and infectious videos I have ever seen. I have always played a Stingray, but if I ever had to buy a new bass, it would be a Precision.
I picked up a used '78 Fender P bass way back in 1986 and it's been my main bass ever since. I use D'Adarrio nickel half rounds most of the time, which cover just about any sound I might need. If someone needs a really specific sound I'll switch to stainless steel round wounds or nylon flats. And yeah, fingers or pick, tapping or slapping, the P bass does it all.
Yeah the half rounds do everything pretty well.
P basses set in the track perfectly. I’ve played precision fretted and fretless basses on a lot of sessions and they always do the trick!
I play fretless too ...and don't feel a need for noodly bridge pickups.
High five from Berlin.
You just can't beat genuine enthusiasm and chemistry, this video was a blast, cheers chaps!
you guys crack me up, such joy to watch and listen ❤😂. This is why I keep saying Leo Fender was a time traveller who travelled into the future to find out the perfect specs for an instrument that would revolutionise the world of popular music. After he gathered all the facts, he returned to 1951 and presented an instrument that - to this day - works perfectly with exactly theses original configurations (well, actually we are talking about the revised version he introduced in 1965, so he must have travelled into the future again that year 🤪). Period - my only explanation 😂
Well done for including the open 'A' before each D/G/D in 'The Trooper'. They're missed by so many bass players, including some in high profile Maiden tribute bands.
You two have such synchronicity! Doesn't matter what your topic is, you guys tear it up!!
Cheers!!
Hey boys !
I'm from Brazil and I've been following your channel recently, since I bought my very first bass ( It was a teen dream ). And guess what type it is? Yes it's a Tagima PJ bass.
Acustic guitars are very popular here, and I've been playing it since 90's. Now with 47 years I materialize an old dream which was a P bass.
I'm relearning how to play because dispact thge fact the instruments are visually close, but the way you play them are pretty different but I'm loving it.
So keep the amazing job you've been done and cheers!!!
Love everything about this video - the vibe, the quality, all the effort for the tabs etc. Haven't come across the channel before, but now subscribed!
The first 33 seconds of this video encapsulate what's really great about playing with other people. I don't know how many takes that took or whether this was improvised, but it did feel like pure joy. to watch. I may have replayed it a couple times to play along...
Ian, please do some more stuff about flatpicking vs picking at an angle. I'm obsessed with this topic at the moment. I've always picked at an angle to get a modern sound, but you get a cleaner fundamental picking flat and you can play tremolo faster and really get the wrist to snap like a guitar player. Also the thumb and index finger make a big difference in the feel. Cool to see someone else thinking about this!
My only bass is a Yamaha BB200, their copy of a P bass. Discontinued in 1994, I bought mine for $395 that year, it still sounds great. It's a great instrument, easy to play, yet teaches you how to play anything if you're willing to experiment on your style.
Forever love my P Bass!! Started out with jazz bass for a bit over 2 years and I enjoyed it but it always felt a bit “restrictive” in a sense. Tried out a p bass and I’ve stuck with it for 13 years now! The length is perfect as well on the neck
Great to hear you guys talking about hand placement! I had to learn on my own as a teenage bassist (30 years before TH-cam existed) that I would get the warmer, rounder tone that I was looking for if I simply plucked the strings (fingers or pick) nearer the neck (often just below the bottom of the neck), and to this day that's still my favorite position. It's a completely different sound from plucking near the bridge (which I still do on certain songs that require that more 'hard' abrasive sound). That alone is a great tip for young bassists.
You guys are so good. An American and a Britt just vibing together. Who'd have thought it would work so well? Love it, keep it coming.
I have a ‘71 P with La Bella flats (per JJ) and a ‘B’ neck and there is a point as you turn the tone up, when it just thumps. I also have an Elite, active, PJ, which is a work horse, but my old P is way more unique and just sits in a mix. Love a P bass.
I am working on a '71 now. What flats have you tried?
I have LaBella flats, just like James J. They are a bit expensive especially in the UK, but they do have a certain thumpiness. Set the pick-up height correctly and experiment with the foam damping.
Yep same here, '71 with labelling flats. The perfect sound!!
Moved recently from my Ibanez active bass back to my Fender P Bass and it's just set and forget. Forever playing with the active bass sound.
As a live audio engineer, nothing beats the P bass in my opinion. Cuts perfectly through the mix.
A Fender Precision was my first bass. I caught a bad case of G.A.S. and acquired six basses in under two years. I enjoy playing all of them equally but nothing makes me feel the way my first P bass does. I guess it took me playing everything else to realize that I got it right the first time.
I started playing bass in 1992, and I just got my first P - Bass (a 1981 Tokai Hard Puncher) a month ago. I recorded some really basic stuff with it 2 weeks ago, and the sound is absolutely magnificent. It has this growl to it, I should have bought one 20+ years ago
You guys are the best, most fun, and inspirational.
I own a 2008 US passive PBass, when I tried it in a music shop it blowed my mind - and now it's still the same : this bass have a wonderful sound, a high level output and even with rinced strings !
Just to point one thing about Steve Harris.
He writes every Iron Maiden song except the solos. He might be the most underrated songwriter of all time.
Great series! Waiting for the Rickenbacker one.
Steve Harris as a lyricist is on the level of Roger Waters, imo--doesn't receive mainstream recognition being Iron Maiden is Metal.
Love my Squier CV P Bass! I have other "better" instruments but I love that one for some reason. Ps have that piano quality to their notes. They fill the space in a natural way whilst providing the mids to support what everything else is doing.
It’s nice to see your love for the PB, you convert me since 2 years & I don’t regret it
What a coincidence that I just happened to finally get my first real P Bass after years of wanting one, and then this video comes out saying how awesome they are. Thanks guys!!
There’s more to a P-Bass than the things that Leo Fender got right- there’s also character in its imperfections, and learning to play around them strengthens your range of expression as a bassist. A trick you missed: picking, plucking, brushing and slapping over the fingerboard. There are some interesting tones over there, especially if you hit down into the fingerboard for some fret noise.
Dudes!!! Your videos always make me happy - funny as hell, with tons of great information (and inspiration). Keep it up! And as a female player, thanks for making me feel welcome. Rock on!
Agree totally. My favorite bass sounds over the decades have always been a P. And thank you for the Hurley content. That guy has some beautiful tone.
Awesome video guys. The audience love how our band sounded, whether we played classic rock, new wave, pop, or even oldies standard tunes, the band had this distinct overall round sound... until I changed my bass guitar. Scott's earlier video of the PBass made me realize how significant the precision was to the band's overall sound. While changing my bass to an active instrument back then achieved the single bass sound I wanted (for alternative music sound), it lost the royalty place it was sitting in the band's overall sound. I've now got a Squier precision contemporary active bass (new gen PJ) but I still use the P-pickup in majority of my playing and never looked back. Thanks to both of you for solidifying our belief and love for the P-bass ♥
Would you look at that! Almost 1 and a quarter million views in two days! You all hit the nail with this video! P-bass forever!! Well done!!
I think flatwounds suit the P bass very well. There is still a place for roundwounds though.
Definitely still a place for rounds on the P!
Life with a '69 P - simple, versatile, and well loved! Thanks for making this video and helping to articulate what I have known for the last 30 years....
You two are hilarious. Laughed so much! Thanks for everything you guys do for bass players everywhere!
You guys have mentioned doing a full on breakdown of the Voodoo album with Pino for years and it needs to happen!!!
SRSLY
He’s only on half the tracks I think
Still would love to see it though
Your Adam Clayton tone was spot on!
i love my pbass. i have 2 Squire/Fender and an Ibanez TMB-300 that adds a double J pickup. All give great sounds and can really do whatever i need it to do.
Thanks guys, always entertaining, fun & informative !
According to Genius and Locked Out of Heaven Wiki English Page that bass was recorded by Nick Movshon.
Thumbs up for that beautiful tone.
Man these two are the most infectious persons ever
This is really a great analysis of this song and you both are totally representing the vibe the players are creating!!
I chose a Squier PJ as my first bass and I really love it. I put flats on it and mostly find myself playing right in front of the P pickup. That tone is undefeated and I think you’re right on, it fits and cuts thru a mix like nothing else…
I was surprised when I heard people calling the P-Bass a one-trick-pony. It's the one bass that can't go wrong!
The P bass is literally everything you need in a bass, and nothing you don’t
OMG YES! I've gone through P Bass anxiety! I got away from it for a couple of years but just recently purchased a P Bass and haven't put it down since. Cuts through every track AND live.
Love watching you two together, crack me up every time! 😉
You guys are gonna be the reason I go broke. 😂 (headed to my local guitar center to get a p bass and flats)
😅😅😅
Dude, that dual bass rendition of Sweet Child of Mine rules.
might be nice to hear ore of that or maybe even another album, but this time with 2 basses!😜
Seriously tight
Hey Scott, not really related to the video, but I wanted to thank you for sharing why you wear the glove a while ago. I have had bad RLS for a while that interrupts my sleep so much. I slept with a sock on… and nice restful sleep. You impact lives in many ways friend ❤
Started on a cheap P Bass copy about 25 years ago. I hated it at the time, but in hindsight, it was an absolute blessing. It forced me to learn how to coax all kinds of different sounds to emulate my favorite players strictly from my hands and not to rely on the instrument itself. And now that I play my "super active 80s" Music Man Sabre (total hidden gem btw), it sounds absolutely brilliant. Great video - you guys put out some of the best bass-centric content on TH-cam. Thank you. 🍻
How can you do a piece on the P bass and not mention JJ Burnel? 😱
I know! When it got to the bit about punk/rock and the Clash I was going OK cool, but then I was shouting at the screen "WHAT ABOUT JJ BURNEL?" What an oversight 😞
Im so split in if i wanna go with flats or half wounds on my p
I put bass boomer half rounds on my p-bass and they sound FANTASTIC 🎸🤠 from Arkansas USA
That’s amazing I started with a Fender P.Bass in 1996 after that I studied with Yamaha 5 strings in 2000, in 2007 I bought a Ibanez Gio 5 strings and since one year ago I have a squire P.bass again and the sound is great but the most important is the what you can do with your bass and dedicated time to study…..and let me tell you something you are the best!!!!! Thank you for everything you do for this great community channel!!!!!
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No other guitar channel is this much fun. Well done, dudes. You’re a big reason I got a bass (a P Bass!) last year.
JAZZ BASS WARRIORS, WE HAVE TO STOP THIS
It’s not versatile?
No…YOU’RE NOT VERSATILE!
Another great band whose bassist (Jessy Carson) plays a P-bass is the bedroom indie band, Men I Trust. Their basslines are notoriously appreciated. You could look up any song of theirs right now, go into the comments, and I guarantee you'll find people googling over that warm, compressed, plucky bassline. He plays with a pick, palm-muted, flatwounds, and with a generous amount of compression - the result you get is this creamy, warm bassline for your ears. I cannot recommend their basslines enough. Start with Show Me How, Numb, Days Go By, Pines, and so on... They even have brighter basslines played with the P-bass like Sugar, Lauren, Say Can You Hear, Always Lone, and a few more I'm not remembering at the moment. Please check them out when you get the chance.
We want more!!!
And yes….finally the journey lead me also to the p bass. Awesome tool for mostly any job!
Locked out of heaven was one of the first music, if not the first, that i learned from ear, it felt so amazing to play it and still got that first humble and basic P bass ❤
Duff's "Jazz Bass Special" is my very favorite bass. P body with PJ pickups and a Jazz neck. I grabbed a Boxer reissue last year and I adore it.
Hey guys. I LOVE MY P BASS and now after seeing this video EVEN MORE. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Those U2 bass lines are killer ones and now I know why.
Those other songs were great too and you guys HAVE SKILLS. very awesome. Cool video dudes.
I could seriously watch y'all all day. Just ordered my first P-Bass. Im gonna be cool! 😎
I just recently finished mine, I installed vintage tuners, Seymour Duncan vintage pickup, CTS potentiometers, vintage flat top knobs,and a hip shot high mass bridge. I deep stained the fretboard with ebony black. All black body with black pick guard. Cool AF!
I’ve been playing J and other active basses since I was 12 years old. I’m now 67 yrs old and got my first P bass last year. Convert. Love it. Main axe now. I play mostly jazz music.
My Silvertone P-bass is the most beast-mode bass I have ever owned (and I've had Peaveys -1 jazz and 1 p-style, Ibanezes -1 active one passive both pj style, and a Fender Jazz). P basses are the ultimate work-horse. Sound great in any genre, cut great through a mix, super low-maintenance, and just feels great to play.
Love their enthusiasm and friendship
Sal Cuevas bass player for Fania All Stars and played on a ton of latin sessions and more. He mostly played a Pbass, but like you guys said he placed his hand in various places to make the Pbass sound great from a thick almost baby bass to Jaco like tones. Also inspired by Chuck you can hear the double stops on the baas come out on the mixes. FYI he took latin bass playing to a whole other level for that time.
Duff McKagan's line is literally goosebumps-inducing heaven on earth. Every time it's on the radio, I crank the volume way up! 😁
Thanks a lot for all your advices and all your content, i follow you since a long time now, and i like very much your videos it makes me progress a lot in the way of bass playing.
I have the Fender P Special Deluxe I added 500k pots to, with the bridge pickup it really makes more versatile. I really love that bass, goes from vintage to modern in an instant.
14:03 Oh I LOVE this bass line so much!! 😍 this actually brought me to playing bass three years ago.
You two together are just class,.. !!
So, i got a call one afternoon about 4, to come sight read the broadway show “Ain’t Too Proud” live as the tour bassist got sick, no rehearsal and downbeat at 7:30. Problem, it’s a 5 string show! I brought my AmPro 2 jazz 5, a piece of foam, round wounds and the bridge pickup off. I played the hell out of the show, and the md and cast loved my playing. BUT… the “P bass anxiety” is REAL!!! I missed my p and flats so much. So much.
And every time i record an electric bass line, the P is always up for the job. Thanks for a great video guys, keep it up!
Okay, I'm hooked in the first 30 seconds! Scott playing Slash's ironic riff on the P Bass. In fact, he may have just sold me on one right now!!!!
This is a superb vid gentlemen. Thank u
John Wetton had a fantastic rock p bass sound. I saw him perform with UK in 1978 and it was phenomenal. He mostly stuck with a p bass through his career.
Hey Scott I'm a guitar player but i also love bass guitars. I find that i should absolutely know about the nuancss of bass playing so thanks a lot for this video. A very important one when it comes to different bass sounds. I own a p bass and a marl hoppus bass (jazz neck, p bass body, wonderful instrument)
I have a p bass but it’s a blacktop p bass with the two humbuckers in the jazz bass set up. It sounds so cool when I’m playing with the band but watching this makes me think I should get a traditional p bass.