How to play BASS FILLS... like the pro's do it.
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At some point or another we ALL want to be able to play a kick-ass bass fills, right?...
The gag is, I see a LOT of players trying to pull them off, but unfortunately they end up sounding garbled (is that even a word, lol?), sloppy, and honestly, just like they're trying to "shoe-horn" a bass fill in without knowing what notes they should be using, or even makes a great bass fill.
If this sounds like you - don't worry, I've got an AWESOME trick that's going to get you playing bass fills... like the pro's do!
In this lesson you're going to learn:
- How to use the bass fill minimisation technique to get multiple bass fills from just one idea
- How to stop starting every bass fill you play on the same beat of the bar/measure (this is a VERY common mistake!)
- How pentatonic scales can be used to create great sounding bass fills
And MUCH more...
Ready? Let's jump in!
As always, see you in the shed...
Scott :)
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Yeah! Totally Jamerson!
And, yes please, more content about R&B fills and everything!
Cheers from Brazil!
Great video, BTW! This kinda videos are awesome! Really helps me a lot!
All of this.. thanks!! Favorite... tough one man, maybe Aint no mountain high enough but depends on the mood :D
Jamerson, yes!!! Love the systematic approach. Can't wait to try that approach on some Pino fills! BTW, your channel has been instrumental (see what I did there) in turning this guitar player of 25 years into a proper bass player (although the wife says I just needed new fodder for G.A.S...) Thanks a bunch!
Would love to hear about some common features in Jamerson's bass lines. What's Going On is my fave among many others.
More Motown and funk please J Cooper
I would love to hear some content on reggae. Specifically on the unique styles of artists like Aston Barrett and Stu Brooks.
Gotta check out robbie shakespeare and flabba Holt too brother. Robbie learned alot from family man. Flabba played in the roots radics and was playing on tons and tons of classics.
familiarizing with the one drop rhythm is first.
Absolutely 100%
I have always loved Jamerson's playing. I think if I had to pick only ONE song, it would be "I Was Made To Love Her" by Stevie Wonder. In that song, he does fills, melody and outlines all the chords, all in one 2:37 take. The Master!
Woah, I didn't even realize that was a thing I was doing, but it totally makes sense. Changing the beat the fill starts on is such a simple idea, but you really displayed is importance perfectly!
Awesome lesson!
Glad you enjoyed it man :)
Scott's Bass Lessons Hi Scott, I play in a Mowtown tribute band. Favourite Jamerson bass line "Can't get next to you" by the Temptations.👍🏾🙏🏿
I love James Jamerson! I love Inner City Blues' Bass line! So Simple and so Good (:
Darling dear by the Jackson 5. Jamerson is amazing, love to hear loads more of those old lines. (Carol Kaye as well!)
BelligerentBurgers Hell yes. Darling dear is a definite favourite of mine.
For me it would have to be Bernadette and I want you back by the Jackson 5 Love the Bass lines Jamerson plays. It all fits and blends well.
Bernadette was a cold blooded bassline by the master. There is some debate as to whether Wilton Felder, or Bob Babbitt played bass on I Want You Back.
+Ruminant Melanoid Wilton Felder!
More Jamerson please! Gladys Knight's " I Heard It Through The Grapevine" bass line is finger funk at its best! His sense of time and feel allowed him to effortlessly create infectious grooves that are still considered to be some of the most creative, hard grooving bass lines to this day. His innate ability to play busy, melodic lines without ever stepping on the vocals or any other instruments was truly incredible. Lately I've been digging on Roscoe Beck's work with Robben Ford and the Blueline. A true Jedi Knight on bass.
Jamerson + all Marvin Gaye songs
I thought you were talking about the whiskey...
Video idea: Do a video about making a bass work for a specific genre of music. For example, you generally play P-Bass. Many beginners (except Maiden fans) do not associate a P with metal. They write it off as "not a bass for metal". Go through what you would do to make your P work well in a hard rock or metal setting. Likewise, you could take something generally associated with metal (maybe a Spector or something pointy) and outline what you would do to make it work in an R&B setting. What type of strings? EQ? Pedals? Amp settings?
I'd say you can't have too much Jamerson.
Amen to that
Josh Chambers who the hell is Jamerson?
If you play bass and you don't know who James Jamerson was, you need to be finding out.
bfy.tw/DaUs
Dave Emilio that was cool how did you do it
Yeah to Jamerson - learn from the all time great!!
And how about more Bernard Edwards!! and Jamiroquai!!
Scott "misbehaving" at 10:55 - works just fine for me. Nothing wrong with a "What the hell was that?" or "Didn't see THAT coming" riff once in awhile - and it demonstrates the rhythm and composition sense that attracted me to SBL.
Hey Scott! As always great bass playing and teaching. At the moment I'm studying the Scale of Fifth and Module 4 is really demanding but I'm dedicating 2 to 3 hours of practice a day, I new the notes names in Latin not in English. This bass fills video is great, is it possible to get into training/learning videos of yours to get deeper into it, I play Rock and am a big fan of Prog Rock. I'm also interested on getting faster and learning more technical on using a pick instead of 2 or 3 fingers? It would be the light at the end of the tunnel for me. Thanks and hoping to get an answer.
Love, LOVE Jamerson. Favorite is What's Going on (Gaye) and I Was Made To Love Her (Wonder). Keep it coming brother!! Instead of more cowbell it should be more Jamerson!!!
Some of ny Fav's = Jamerson, Willie Weeks, Bruce Thomas, John McVie, and Horace Panter.
I want a lesson on black church bass lines. U know what I mean right? Southern African American Jesus loving Sunday morning 4 hour church service more people in the choir than in the pews funky shit. New age tho, not like the Blues Bros. James Brown 1975 bull shit. Help me out dude...
james jamerson rules. favorite line it's the same old song. please do more jamerson, motown and 70's R&B stuff. thanks, keep up the good work. sincerely, Larry Moody
My favourite Jameson is "For Once In My LIfe" - groovy, melodic and virtuosic!!
Love Jamerson favorite bass line is "Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" Marvelettes
Love Jamerson
ain't no mountain high enough
more jamerson funk please
RULE NO. 1 = There are no shortcuts / Hacks in MUSIC
I guess that is why you sound the way you do
I want to learn metal, you bass god you. My favorite bass riffs are Death Blooms by Mudvayne and Roundabout by Yes
Big fan of Jamerson (For Once in my Life), but so much out there on him already. More of that genre would be great though.
OF COURSE I love Jamerson! Favorite bassline: Ain't No Mountain High Enough. Would LOVE to see more Jamerson, Motown, R&B and Funk lessons - what about James Brown lessons??!!
I'm into Geddy Lee style playing. I love the Rush instrumentals. Could you do a lesson or two on that?
METAL!!! Please give yourself the oppurtu it's to rise to the next level of Intelligent thought by studying and analysing metal. Haha nah I'm just kidding about, but seriously consider metal for some great gems. Give my hero Cliff Burton a search and make sure to bring cleaning supplies to clean up all the brains on the roof and teeth on the floor once your mind is blown.
Peace out.
Long been a Jamerson fan...one of my faves would have to be Darling Dear - Jackson 5
Yes James Jamerson is the beginning of the contemporary electric bass. My favorite Jamerson bass lines are Darling Dear and I'm Gonna Make you Love Me. Please more old school groove stuff!
Today I been listening to Coltrane giant steps. Not to much on the walking bass line in the tune. But more the solo. Both piano and sax. Freaking amazing. Oh. Date this day is July. 28th 2020.
Hey Scott! I'm really a fan of the lessons. I'm not even a bass player, and I love your approach to teaching, your personable attitude and your clear skill on the instrument. I find I'm translating what you're teaching to my other instruments. All I want now is a bass to practice all this good stuff you're teaching!
Favorite Ain't no Mountain High Enough. love the bass and the song
Ain't no mountain high enough. And yes. More from the funk machine.
My favorite Jamerson lines:
"Darling Dear" - Jackson 5
"It's a Shame" - The Spinners
"What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye
Jamerson for sure. Love Mutiny with Jr Walker
Heard it through the grapevine I guess. Genius basslines :)
The Four Tops "Bernadette"! th-cam.com/video/QLDqlgRK100/w-d-xo.html
Been listening to Esperanza Spaulding & Meshell Ndegeocello.
I love James Jamerson! I'd say "What's Goin On" is one of my favorites that I'd like to learn.
What I would love Scott, is some stuff based around rock music. Not the root note stuff, but the interesting stuff that John Paul Jones did! I guess bluesy rock.
I absolutely love James Jamerson lines. I've been working on 'Ain't no mountain high enough ' and it is fantastic. I surely would appreciate special studies on line about motown, stax, soul R&B tunes.
Yessss Jamerson, But don't forget Carol Kaye!
I am a huge fan of James Jamerson. My favorites are Bernadette and Grapevine. I dig your videos very much - thank you!
Absolutely yes, Major James Jamerson fan. One of My favorite Bass lines is "Darling Dear" by the Jackson 5, & another is Marvin Gaye's, "What's Going On". I would love to see you break those down. Thanks!
Everything i do on bass when playing with my dad in his blues band is Jamerson based lol. Almost everything my dad does is in A...so i justfancy up my turnarounds with a nifty little Pino Palladino flare lol
But in and within i use alot of the typical walks...just insert (in your respective key on the 4) a "Redhouse" style "rythm guitar" style blues chords
Jamerson is foundational like Carol Kaye
Jameson is great in a 750ml bottle and on the ipod!
Simply put, James Jamerson is, along with John Deacon, the reason I play bass.
Two tunes that really stand out for me are Bernadette by the Four Tops, and What's Going on by Marvin Gaye. Also I Heard It Through The Grapevine.
I have picked up the Soften the Glare CD. It's nice to hear Ryan Martinie really stretch himself.
More Jamerson, R&B, Soul.
The correct answer would be "Once in My Life" by Stevie Wonder.
Have been a Jamerson fan since "Standing in the shadows" came out.
Favourite: Jr Walker, Home Cookin'
Remark: you really don't like #4 because you keep sneaking ghost notes in to make it sound more like #3.....
Love Jamerson stuff! "Ain't No Mountain" is my favorite.
Hey Scott, what do you think of Joe Dart!
i grew up in Detroit suberbs the first and probly most cool bass line Jamerson ever recorded is,
the hopped up version of Grapevine .. you should totally get here and do a bass clinic at -Dime the bass society here in the D is,emence Scott i drummed with many many bassists before i started playing bass .
Motown has,some of the best ever players in the world ...
I love watching you but I find your bass volume way too low.
Elvin Headphones work wonders.
Elvin headphones
Elvin you never listen to anybody anyway and your wife Sandra is sick of you
All things Jamerson and while you're at it don't forget about Chuck Rainey, Jerry Jemmott and Willie Weeks.
'Bernadette', Jameson bass line.
"What's Going On" is no. 1 - however; have made a Spotify playlist with 40+ different original Jamerson bass lines (as listed in "standing in the shadow of motown") - a lot of really good stuff!
Jammerson was the man. My favorite Jammerson groove would either be "Trouble Man" or "Inner City Blues" recorded by Marvin Gaye..! ✌😎
Great picks, David! (Jamerson only has one m, though).
Love Jamerson, he's why my first bass was a P. What's Going On was my white whale bass line for a long time. Still love it. As for lessons what I'd really love is a lesson on how to get the lines I'm writing in my head to come out my fingers. It's like when I was learning to write stories. I could tell a story really easily but I didn't yet have the skill to put them to paper. Eventually I learned how but the tricks for that aren't working for music.
Jeremy Jones Have you tried singing the notes while you play? A teacher said that is a good way to associate the tone with the finger position. Then, finding the note becomes a little easier.
Ain't no mountain high enough,... My Fav Jamerson bassline.
Ok,..getting my coat, nevermind.
that same bass line is featured on the Amy Winehouse tune "Tears Dry on Their Own". it's one of my favorites, as well.
Whats going on is a great jamerson bass line
I began playing bass 50 years ago and I considered myself pretty good but not great. I wish I had access to the resources available on the internet back then. Being able to learn this way is much easier than trying to repeatedly drop a stylus onto a piece of vinyl to learn a song. There are so many great bass players around today. Now if only there were song writers …
Fave Jamerson Bassline has to be on Stevie Wonder`s For Once In My Life.Cheers Scott,
MORE JAMERSON PLEASE - DARLING DEAR
Who doesn't like Jamerson?! But (!) the one thing I'd like to learn about from you is Rock. Not that Jazz Fusion thing you've been talking about. More of a Deacon style, or ever heard of Mick Grondahl? He was a killer on Jeff Buckley's records. Colin Greenwood regularly gets me. Nick Olivieri played some awesome lines.
I can't find decent (or any) vids talking about those kinds of bassists.
Otherwise, I like your style of teaching, keep it up!
1. Yes
2. Darling dear
3. Yes
yes! this lesson is exactly what i needed to work on
I just feel like adding this if it'll help someone-
Variation #1 starts on the "a" of 3
Variation #2 starts on the 4
Variation #3 starts on the "e" of 4
Variation #4 starts on the "+" of 4
Excellent and useful lesson. I had the opportunity to do exactly what you were talking about and play professionally for a decade and I almost naturally started gravitating towards more soul-oriented playing once I got comfortable on a tune. I found copping many of those licks and grooves lent itself well to making any song "pop" in our own way ("our" being the rhythm section, not just myself, but drums and r. guitar) It didn't matter what song it was either. It have been a Temptations song, or Springsteen or Rascal Flatts or Daft Punk or Imagine Dragons... I could find a way to squeeze licks like you are demonstrating into almost everything and not only did it work, it worked REALLY REALLY well and would affect the way the whole rhythm section fit together and performed.
Embarrassed to admit that I've only recently gotten into Jamerson. Stud. He's awesome.
Love the practice technique! I would add - don't always fill on the 4th beat! The drums are going to want some turn-arounds and the guitar will want pick-up notes leading into solos.
Jamerson yes yes yes. Love everything he did with Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, on top of everyone else. Thanks!
My answer to the favourite Jamerson song is 3:35
Anything Jamerson I'm down for.... Fave bass line... That's a tough one... I would have to say "what's going on"
Hey Scott, do you listen to reggae? You should do a reggae lesson video
a.k.a. Eric Wilson/Sublime, etc.
Jamerson fav = "I Was Made to Love Her"
I love your videos man I'm a guitarist but find these bass videos really interesting and gives me great ideas for my rhythm playing KEEP IT UP SCOTT !!!!
In a fretless lesson a little time ago you mentioned Mick Karn. Such a unique player, would be interested in hearing some thoughts on his methods and style...
James Jamerson is definitely one my top ten. Most others of my top ten were influenced by him. I checked some of his songs out one day and realized my dad listened to them when I was younger. Would definitely recommend the book "Standing in the Shadows of Motown." Fav line would be "I Was Made to Love Her." But there are so many other good ones.
Of course we ALL love Jamerson! "Bernadette" is wicked. But let's get some Paul Turner type stuff on here! I always have trouble with the intricacies of his lines.
You gotta love flats.
All Jamerson - All Day ! - All the bravado of the slap - super complexities does not compare to the the way Jamerson's beautiful lines pull those MoTown tunes together - Brilliant!
Soundgarden
Yes - more Jamerson!
The different styles of Rock. Progressive... Geddy Lee, Chris Squire. Metal.. Geezer Butler, Steve Harris, Billy Sheehan. Heavy/Classic,,, John Paul Jones, John Entwitsle,. And the many many others masters of the Bass in the Rock genera.
MORE JAMERSON PLEASE! WHAT'S GOIN' ON!
Hi Scott! I play a 5-string SR1305E Premium Ibanez bass.
Since you 'did ask', here is specifically where my interests lie.
By the way, Jamerson is No 1, Chris Squire is a close Second. Favorite Jamerson piece is "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Wish you would offer some TH-cam 5-string bass guitar tips on how to play Robert Palmer's version of "Mercy, Mercy Me". Would you consider posting a tutorial on how to correctly play the bass parts to "Journey to the Center of the Mind" by the Amboy Dukes, and "Along Comes Mary" by The Association?
Thanks!
Hey Scott, Thanx for the video, but the most favorite basline of mr jamerson has got to be "whats going on' by marvin gaye, and than especially the story behind it.
they had to get him out of the pub drunk as f@%k, and then he layed down on the floor and played it in one take........
LEGEND
Hello Scott, Yes!! More James Jamerson! My favourite track is "What's Going On" ... Thank you for sharing your wonderful skills. More cheers from Brazil! (P.S.: I have no family or friend relationship with Gabriel Melo who wrote before me, but the Melo's bassist's blood rules here!)
Great lesson! Jamerson definitely one of a kind. I second the choice of Grapevine by Gladys Knight, had a bass teacher years ago that used it as a lesson. That's an eye-opener! I'm old, so parts for ABC and I Want You Back by Jackson Five were early faves. And Stevie. So many great ones...
James and Bootsy!!! So many songs are so memorable, moving, and inspiring... but I like... what he did on Heard It Through the Grapeline with Marvin, yes... What's Goin On is .. essential, and .... I want you back by the Jacksons... :) gotta stop or I'll just go on and on...
More Jamerson!!!
Who's Jamerson? My faves are Tony Levin (King Crimson) , Dan K. Brown (The Fixx) John Lally (Einstein's Car) and Paul McCartney (Beatles). One bass line I'd love to learn is the verses from "Liner" by The Fixx.
James Jamerson for ever!!!!! My favourite bass line is Gladys Knight and the pips Heard it through the Grapevine! Jamerson totally rules on it!
Jamerson - yes!
I feel ashamed to admit this, because it is so cliche`, but "I Was Made To Love Her" - Stevie Wonder. In my defense, I grew up with that album in my house.
Favourite Jamerson line - too many to mention, but I'll go for "How Sweet it is (To be Loved By You) by Jr. Walker & the Allstars. Can we also have some Bob Babbitt, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Jerry Jemmott, David Hood, Tommy Cogbill, Chuck Rainey, Joe Osborn and Carol Kaye too?
Love Is Here and Now You're Gone. (Diana Ross and The Supremes). Superb note choice and placement throughout, great rhythmic pulse and drive. (See "Standing in the Shadows of Motown", Jamerson tribute book/cd.)