School Days Bass Cover - Levin Allen

This is my rendition of Stanley Clarke's School Day - one of the things that I admire about Stanley is that even though his solos can be extremely complex, each note is always very distinct and clear, regardless of the speed. This is as close to a note for note rendition that I have time to submit (I learned the song a good while ago and took a couple of days to brush up on it. I also tried to video close enough that you can see what notes I am playing in case this is a song you are interested in learning (it may make it even easier as I have a habit of playing with just 3 fingers on my left hand whenever possible - the result of a broken pinky when I first started learning the bass in my youth) - Enjoy.
Song: School Days
Artist: Stanley Clarke
Copyright: 1976 Sony Music Entertainment
Label: Nemperor; Epic
Also, I am still using a very straightforward setup for recording - it only involves the following items:
Ibanez SR500E-BM Bass Guitar: purchased from Pineville Music
616 Morrow Avenue
Pineville, NC 28134
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A FocusRite 2i2 Scarlet: focusrite.com/....
ScreenFlow 10 for Mac: www.telestream...
Apple iMac: www.apple.com/...
OneOdio Wired Headphones: www.amazon.com....
I am not running my bass through a Bass amp - it is directly connected to one input of the FocusRite 2i2. The FocusRite is then connected to my Mac via USB. The Bass track is mixed with the song track in ScreenFLow 10, and my headphones are connected to the headphone port of the FocusRite for monitoring recording and playback. That’s it.
On videos using transitions and title pages, I use Camtasia to add those elements to the output mp4 file from ScreenFlow.

[@stephenm.harrissr.6617]

fantastic! I didn't think there was anyone who could cover the great Stanley Clarke! You blew my mind brother! Great excellence!!!

[@lallen2297]

Thank you so much. I really enjoy playing Stanley Clarke songs, they are challenging but really fun to play. Please be sure to check out my cover for Clark’s Lopsy Lu and Silly Putty. As always, I try to play note for not as the original and try to let what notes I’m playing be seen to help others learning the songs.

[@motorcitysmitty]

Great job on such a difficult and epic masterpiece of Stanley's. A lot of players shy away from these types of challenges but you didn't.

[@mikerivera7509]

Excellent work

[@BjörnPeick]

Excellent Job , Mister - can´t understand why you have just 71 Likes, should be 1000 times more !

[@lukegood1329]

Absolutely amazing!!! ,
Seriously well done,
Love from the UK

[@lallen2297]

Thank you so much - Wishing you well in the UK!

[@thejone6067]

Great touch, feeling, and sound

[@lallen2297]

Thank you very much for the kind comment!

[@Tom_11523]

Awesome!!!

[@SkyRiderJavelin]

Excellent cover, best I have seen .. well done

[@lallen2297]

Thank you so much - that is awesome to hear!

[@timkossmusic8754]

You musta spent hours on that one at one time. Fantastic!

[@QuentinMaile-mn5jm]

fabulous

[@lallen2297]

Thank you!

[@isaacelbert6818]

Awesome job!

[@lallen2297]

Thank you!

[@paololave9854]

Great job👍

[@lallen2297]

Thank you so much!

[@patj7770]

Super sir, bonjour de Normandie , fan de stanley depuis 47 ans

[@lallen2297]

Thank you, and bonjour!

[@easybreezy2676]

You did a great job! I was impressed

[@lallen2297]

Thank you!

[@josegnaspinijunior4581]

Great job! 😊😊😊

[@lallen2297]

Thank you!

[@andyr5579]

Very cool…

[@lallen2297]

Thank you!

[@questelohim...]

👍🙂Verynice

[@lallen2297]

Thank you!

[@waynefurr3871]

Great

[@lallen2297]

Thank you!

[@easybreezy2676]

Nice Job! James

[@lallen2297]

Thank you!

[@garydaniel1158]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@lallen2297]

Thank you so much!

[@BassTinazoCovers]

Very good!! 👍🎸

[@lallen2297]

Thank you!