What a great video! I think the most beautiful and important thing you can wish to someone, is that they have great teachers, or at least one, in their life. Be it gardening, sailing, photography, or playing the bass! I love to think of all the teacher - pupil relationships, also shown in this video: Rufus Reid talking about all his influences and at the same time being mentioned as a wonderful teacher in the very same video. I do recommend to take a lesson with inspiring players whenever you can, even if it's only for one hour. A great bass player is visiting your town? Ask him/her for a bass lesson next morning before he/she continues the tour... And jazz players, get some classical bass playing experience and vice versa... your bass will love it!
Thanks for watching and I agree completely. It's amazing how many of the worlds best bassists will give a lesson when they are touring and I'm always on the look out to get feedback from master players like these.
Geoff, you've done it again man! Of course the entire DDB library has done wonders for my playing over the years and I'm sure many others will agree. But these ask the artists videos are so inspiring! Again THANK YOU! P.S. If there is anyone on the planet that can keep his segments at any length he wants, it's Ron Carter, but I wish that he'd give us a little more. Hahaha.
Thanks, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! Yes, Ron works to his own time table! He opens up a bit more in one of the upcoming videos and it's all inspiring stuff!
What a wonderful video series! This is the Royal Jelly of bass playing. Please capture more of this wisdom; we tend to take it for granted and let it glide by. I had some lessons from Rufus Reid on an Abersold course many years ago and have never forgotten his kindness and forbearance, I needed it ! A wonderful teacher. Thank you for this gem and to all the contributors for their generosity.
Thanks for watching and I'm really glad you've enjoyed it. I also love those Rufus Reid tracks on the Abersold recordings! There's also a great Ron Carter bass lines transcription book that I have by Abersold. Great practice tracks!
This is a fantastic series, with so much finesse available, it's a veritable feast for my insatiable ears...am reminded of the saying that "In many counsellers there is safety" - 'Or summit lark that lad" -Thanks forever to "Discover Double Bass",...Not one teacher but many - "Whew"!!
@Geoff, thanks to you and to all of these great masters for these valuable memories. In the tidbits they are sharing from their teachers, I feel I am getting some of the same lessons they themselves got. I will probably play 15 minutes of long tones today. Thanks, John Clayton! And thanks, Rufus Reid, for page 24 of The Evolving Bassist with my “daily drill” long-tone exercises!
Great stuff Geoff! Very motivational as I start to get back into it. Definitely going to spend some time with arpeggios, open tones and transcribing and ultimately finding a teacher or 2
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy it. It's been fun to see how everyone answers in a different way and there's so many great lessons to learn from their replies.
What a great video! I think the most beautiful and important thing you can wish to someone, is that they have great teachers, or at least one, in their life. Be it gardening, sailing, photography, or playing the bass! I love to think of all the teacher - pupil relationships, also shown in this video: Rufus Reid talking about all his influences and at the same time being mentioned as a wonderful teacher in the very same video. I do recommend to take a lesson with inspiring players whenever you can, even if it's only for one hour. A great bass player is visiting your town? Ask him/her for a bass lesson next morning before he/she continues the tour... And jazz players, get some classical bass playing experience and vice versa... your bass will love it!
Thanks for watching and I agree completely. It's amazing how many of the worlds best bassists will give a lesson when they are touring and I'm always on the look out to get feedback from master players like these.
Geoff, you've done it again man! Of course the entire DDB library has done wonders for my playing over the years and I'm sure many others will agree. But these ask the artists videos are so inspiring! Again THANK YOU! P.S. If there is anyone on the planet that can keep his segments at any length he wants, it's Ron Carter, but I wish that he'd give us a little more. Hahaha.
Thanks, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! Yes, Ron works to his own time table! He opens up a bit more in one of the upcoming videos and it's all inspiring stuff!
What a wonderful video series! This is the Royal Jelly of bass playing. Please capture more of this wisdom; we tend to take it for granted and let it glide by. I had some lessons from Rufus Reid on an Abersold course many years ago and have never forgotten his kindness and forbearance, I needed it ! A wonderful teacher. Thank you for this gem and to all the contributors for their generosity.
Thanks for watching and I'm really glad you've enjoyed it. I also love those Rufus Reid tracks on the Abersold recordings! There's also a great Ron Carter bass lines transcription book that I have by Abersold. Great practice tracks!
The video is special in getting up close with so many great artists talking bass. I was especially taken with Chuck Israels. Great work Geoff!
Thanks Leslie, I'm really glad you enjoyed it. Chuck Israel's is amazing! I can't believe how many people he's played with.
Super great video nuff said !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So preciously informative!!!!
Thanks Geoff👌
My pleasure! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :-)
Great! Thanks to all those guys sharing their experiences! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching Tony :-)
This is a fantastic series, with so much finesse available, it's a veritable feast for my insatiable ears...am reminded of the saying that "In many counsellers there is safety" - 'Or summit lark that lad" -Thanks forever to "Discover Double Bass",...Not one teacher but many - "Whew"!!
Glad you enjoyed it and stay tuned for more from this series next week :-)
Great information that applies to all instruments. Your most important thing is to get the sound out of your instrument and how to do it.
Absolutely! ...thanks for watching.
Another installment on a great series! Thanks for sharing this!
Glad you enjoyed it and there's more next week! :-)
A family tree diagram would be fun to see. Rufus, Ron Carter, Abe Lubof, John Shaffer. The mentor pool was not so big. Very cool!
That's an awesome idea!
@Geoff, thanks to you and to all of these great masters for these valuable memories. In the tidbits they are sharing from their teachers, I feel I am getting some of the same lessons they themselves got. I will probably play 15 minutes of long tones today. Thanks, John Clayton! And thanks, Rufus Reid, for page 24 of The Evolving Bassist with my “daily drill” long-tone exercises!
You're very welcome, thanks for watching and enjoy your practice! :-)
Wonderful inspiring stuff
Thanks so much for watching! :-)
@@DiscoverDoubleBass Just waiting for each episode as if it were a hot tv-series :)
Great stuff Geoff! Very motivational as I start to get back into it. Definitely going to spend some time with arpeggios, open tones and transcribing and ultimately finding a teacher or 2
Thanks for watching and that's all great stuff to work on. Both the arpeggios and long tones are a superb way to develop facility on the bass.
Yeah, this is really cool, helpful and inspiring. Thank you so much, Geoff!
My pleasure! I'm really glad you enjoyed it. :-)
Very helpful! Love this series. The musicians’ candor is refreshing.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy it. It's been fun to see how everyone answers in a different way and there's so many great lessons to learn from their replies.
Wonderful video, thanks a lot DDB!!!
Our pleasure! I'm really pleased you enjoyed it. :-)
Interesting to hear Linda Oh talking about Rufus Reid in the same video where he talks about his influences...
Agreed! I love the way it all links in.
AWESOME!!!
Thanks for watching! :-)
Thank you
You're welcome :-)
Something Jackie taught me " your job is to make everyone else sound great'.....
Great advice!
“The weak link here is me, not the bass.”
Carlos' chromatic scale...good lord...
Lol! It's so fast and he makes it look effortless! Such an inspiring player.