Josh makes these kind of videos that gives you the urge to pick up your bass immediately and start playing. No showing off. No flexing. Just pure motivation. Thanks mate.
When Josh says "it'll take a long time" to get rid of the flying fingers, take it to heart. I've been playing for years, but never really focused on economy of motion until recently. I've been focused on proper technique for about four months and I've improved but still am not to where I want to be. Don't get discouraged if you're not keeping your fingers down after only a couple weeks of practice!
Same. been focused for a few months in developing technique (both hands) after playing for years with pluck and no sense of proper finger placement. It's great to start feeling the improvement!
Working on this as well lol. Wait... are there enough commenting here that this constitutes a support group?!? My name is Brian and I'm recovering from flying fingers...
This guy is great. I’m halfway through his (paid) lessons and in less than 2 weeks I can play along with my (hugely more experienced) mates in their band. This is no paid promo (I don’t even know the dude…I live in Australia!) but I guarantee you, if you want to learn the bass, pay him his money…it’s not much…and have him teach you.
If you can play bass with people instead of sitting in a room on your own, you might find the inspiration and excitement of playing along with others keeps you going. Especially if you can gig. That’s how it’s gone for me. I have been lucky to play with some amazing musicians.i am completely rubbish at bass the weakest link in the band. But I practice my ass off to try and not let down the people I am in a band with. He is right! Only find inspiration from others. So what your not as good as others. They are doing their thing. You are doing yours. Least your playing .Things of great value are seldom achieved instantly . If music was easy it would be boring
I have to admit, when I first started going through this video my first instinct was to blow through the exercise, but it's more challenging than I anticipated; especially trying to play it clean and clear. And I've been playing for over 30 years! Thanks for keeping the old dog in line!
I had this bookmarked for later reference and just got around to it today. True, it is a little tricky to play clean. On first few passes I kept stylishly sliding in to the 6th fret instead of just playing it plain as intended. It was actually hard to stop myself from doing that.
I've been a professional music educator for 4 decades. This is the best bass teaching video that I've seen. I'm so glad that I've stumbled across your channel. I'll quickly refer you to all my students.
Music teacher starts a youtube video and walks out for a smoke break, joking... I'm taking the Bass Buzz course and I'm having so much fun with it, Josh is an awesome teacher. I'm 58 years old and my elementary music teacher put me in a corner with a triangle because I couldn't sing in tune. Totally turned me off from learning an instrument at a young age. But I'm back! And I can groove!
Learning bass was a childhood dream of mine but my parents wouldn’t let me 😢 Just yesterday I realised, hey, I am 33, now I can learn it if I want! So I ordered stuff and I am looking forward learning with your videos ❤
Can relate to that! My parents never let me take music lessons as a teenager. Picked up a bass at 19 and played more seriously when I started music lessons with a teacher at 25. Now 43 playing music with bands since my 29th birthday. My father's behavior has become my music drive never to quit!
Alright so, gotta say it: this is the best bass class video on the internet. And having watched only this I can bet is the best bass channel on TH-cam right now. Everything is on point; good delivery, no stalling, comprensible explanations, great sense of humor, LOTR memes. This is peak bass
Josh, you are one if the few bass coaches here on TH-cam who can make practicing things like this fun and entertaining. And you don't need to apologize for being funny.
6 weeks ago I started bass lessons irl. I'm 54 and always loved bass, but never thought of playing it myself, now suddenly I thought, hey why not. I'm never gonna excel or anything, but just to play along with some simpler tunes would make me happy. I am gonna do this excercise daily now. Not even at 100bpm yet, but whatever, I'll get there. You're stimulating me to do more, so thanks and keep up the good work 👍
I just love this video, it’s not « PLAY THIS EXERCISE TO BECOME AN UTRLA BASSIST » and it’s juste one stupid exercise that I’ve been playing for months. It’s so much more than an exercise, it’s how to use the exercise in an intelligent manner. Learning how to approach learning. Because very few people will teach you how to learn properly. Thanks josh you are awesome 🤘🏻
Been on and off drums since 95, played marching band symphonic, and orchestral even was in a metal band after high school. Got to play the whiskey agogo. Haven’t played a large handful of year. Felt mental health slowly dying because of no outlet. Today I bought second hand bass. I’m going to use your lesson here. I belive in myself and will get somewhat okay. And when I am. I have a specific new one I’m going to buy. Todays purchase the Schecter omen 4 string this is the start of a new chapter. Then when I’m ready I’m buying the Schecter omen elite 5 string. Man it’s beautiful
A bought my first bass literally a few days ago and have been watching dozens (hundreds?) of videos for a total beginner and this is the best I’ve found. When my son bought drums, he immediately tried some Slipknot songs and I implored him to start like this video and build from absolute zero. Thank you!
The effort you put in is outstanding! You are the best teacher and I love how you play with Squires and not expensive instruments... you rock! You really make learning bass what its supposed to be... fun!
I recently got a bass ukulele. Bass ukulele teachers I've found so far suck. Mr Josh here speaks my language: "it'll take time; do this simple exercise which sounds nice and is satisfying to play for just 10 minutes a day [yeah? I keep losing hours doing this stuff!]." Thanks Josh, so glad I found you - thanks TH-cam algorithms! Within a couple of weeks, I've been recruited to a Uke band, and just from these lessons here in no order I'm making sense of it all - it's not quite intuitive yet, but hey, it's just been a month! - and they're happy with the bassline I've written for one of their songs.
I'm so green at bass, been drumming for 30+ years. I've been learning for a few months now and I absolutely love playing the bass... this video has helped alot of my problems and my progress.. my only difference is I'm missing almost half of my middle finger on my fret hand and my nub doesn't reach well so I get a little flying sometimes and have had to make some things work that aren't optimal... but thank you for making these videos!! It's very helpful and encouraging!!!
I’ve been doing this practice every day for three months, never picked up a guitar before then- and it’s considerably improved my playing. The overall sound quality has changed form sounding incomplete with that metal scraping sound to a much cleaner bass tone. My finger dexterity has improved a lot too, and it’s much easier to go back and forth between my index and middle finger ‘plucking’ than just using my index for everything. At this point I’d say the most ‘complex’ baseline I can play is Burnin Love by Elvis, and I’m very proud of myself to see such progress. Thank you very much for this video!
Level 3 is also good for pick players, as it teaches you to alternate pick when moving between strings instead of doing two consecutive downstrokes or upstrokes, which is something that beginners on pick usually do (me included). Neat exercise, Josh!
Noel Redding use the same cromatic bass lines in Hey Joe and that have inspire me since the 60-ties and I´m glad you show it again for bass players of today... I use to say: "Why use only 5 tones when you can use all 12?" Jaco Pastorius is my guiding star and I was going pro 1987, the year he passed away. Your channel is very entertaining! Bless You Bass Buzz!
I got a Bass for my birthday an now i have to learn to play it, so much to learn, now i have to get a amp so i can hear my mistakes an how it sounds, I'm so excited though! 🎸🎸😊
This exercise was truly outstanding. It pinpointed exactly what I needed to practice, is easy enough to play without an amp, and wasn't so repetitive that it would make me lose focus. Incredible work! 🙇♀
Played bass for 6 years as a teen, and played around with it once or so a month. I recently bought an acoustic bass and realised how sloppy my technique actually was. So I'm starting back at square one to get it perfect, and this is working out to be the PERFECT drill to get me on track. Thanks!
This exercise is truly useful. I've been having problems with clear execution of couple of basslines recently, got fed up and put them on the back burner. Around the same time I started doing this drill and yesterday I came back to my nemesis basslines. Guess what? They sound much better now and I feel more control in both fretting and plucking hand. Amazing stuff Josh, I love your channel.
Bro I’ve been “playing” damn near 5 years on and off and this is kicking my ass. My hand is sore in muscles I haven’t felt in ages. I’ve much work to do. I been lacking so hard and this really makes it show
I'm a guitarist who has been contemplating getting my first bass for a while now. Josh's vids nudge me closer to pulling the trigger every day! Anyone else really keen to hear more of what he was playing in the first 6 seconds?
Josh is the kinda guy I like to watch even tho I play bass for years know just because of three things: first he's super nice to listen, second even advanced players can sometimes learn new stuff and third ... Did he really just tapped the chords and played a walking bass line ? Damn josh, keep your great work up.
Started 3 days ago. And just found this and im glad to start trying to get this down and start with good habits :) The good side of youtube is very refreshing and im grateful for all who offer their knowledge to noobs like me :) (:
It’s been awhile since I’ve watched your videos Josh, and I must say. WOW, the videography, editing and information has exponentially improved! Well done my friend! 👍🏼
This video uncovered bass tricks as the last one of all things on your channel! And it’s incredibly outstanding! Thanks a lot! You’re great!!!!! I think you’re GOAT-teacher!!!
This exercise has been a godsend. I barely spent a minute practicing it and my technique has already improved dramatically ripping out those bad habits like noxious weeds. Fookin byotiful.
A quick tip from a hobbit for all the other hobbit bassists out there: If you are just starting out with this exercise and you are really struggling spreading your hobbit sized fingers across 4 frets, you can move the exercise a dot or two higher up the neck 😁
And micro-shifting isn't against any rules. I've got small hands and can stretch enough to fret a note on the 4th fret while keeping my index finger down but it's prone to a lot of buzzing because I'm short of the actual fret. Shifting a bit or even rocking my hand down does wonders and after it became natural, my playing became a lot better. Glad to see other Hobbits here!
I have relatively short fingers and everytime my bass teacher wanted to really mess with me he made me play the bassline of Seemann (Rammstein). It's a pain.
fellow hobbit hear, still just learning but I wish I hadn't listened to the naysayers that said you needed large hands to play when I was younger and just tried it.
this is a small gateway to the benefits of Beginner to Bada$$. Josh's explanation's are fantastic his delivery is great! and the course is very fun! if you enjoyed this consider his course I'm not kidding! Thanks Josh!
Just gonna join my voice to the chorus of praise for this excellent bit of teaching! I’ve been a professional music educator for almost a decade and have experience on several instruments but am just starting on the bass (well, ukulele-bass - but it’s the same notes!). It was so great to find a video that has super practical stuff I can practice now as a beginner but that wasn’t also explaining what half-steps are ;) This was JUST what I’ve been looking for! And since I’m self-teaching with videos instead of taking lessons it’s great to know some bad habits to look out for and how to fix them. This video truly has so much wonderful content. And I enjoyed all the LOTR and bits of your personality that came through as well :) Bravo sir!!!!
Josh, I LOVE YOU!!! Your videos are so useful and funny, I can't play my bass because of laughing!!!😂😂 And I'm a patreon because I want you to make such awesome lessons more often!!❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Holy theory realisation BassMan!!!! Your PDF is actually taking us through the cycle of 4ths and 5ths !!!!! I'm astounded at the fact that I realised this, because I thought my grey matter was a little to old to learn and retain stuff. But hey guess what? it aint!!! Thanks for a great lesson Josh. Mucho appreciato.
Just as I thought to myself that it would be nice to find an exercise so I can try to get to where I was before I took a break. Perfect timing Josh (as expected from a bassist). Thanks!
My bad habit when I started was never using my pinky to reach that far note. But with practice and discipline, I can now play songs I never knew I could. Consistency and discipline will be your friends. Took me about 2 months to adjust to using my pinky.
This is great Josh! I’m still working on the Badass course but my job has increased my hours so I’ve not been able to play much in the past 3 months. I’ll start on this exercise this weekend and hopefully finally finish the course. You do a great job Josh as always. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with all us wanna be Steve Harris’ out here.
Most people DON'T like to be educated, they'd simply prefer to be entertained. You have somehow managed to do both! They come for the "show", but STAY for the expertise! Good job on this, I'll be watching...
For those who want the PDF to try out the simple progression shown at 1:28, go to the last page, bar 89, and then shift everything up a string! So, E string becomes A string, etc.
Please tell me what the lovely bass line your were dreamily playing at the start was? And maybe a list of “pretty bass lines” would be nice? You know super melodic, sweet. Then a list of awesome hardcore bass lines to balance it out?
You are so funny! The sense of humor in your videos is truly one-of-a-kind. I laugh out loud every time I watch them. Thank you so much for your amazing work and for creating such great lessons!
The beauty of this is that you can truly take it as slowly as you want. If you can’t even do that you likely like the idea of learning an instrument more than liking the process of learning an instrument which is fair. Thats why so many people own dusty unused guitars and pianos 😅
I’m a couple weeks into the Beginner course on BassBuzz, been enjoying it - this video with it’s effects and editing is next level. Going to start adding that to my day as soon as I have a talk with my fingers about listening…
I'm not proud to say it but I've been playing 30 years and even level one is hard for me. That's how I know it works. If it's hard and your fingers get sore, that's growth. No pain no gain. Plucking, I'm way beyond this. Never gave my fretting hand the exercises it needs, but will now. Great vid. Thanks.
Josh, thank you for this simple lesson. I play Let's Go Crazy by Prince with musicians for years, I love the song but stressed because I want to play it correctly to get the groove. After this simple 10 minutes a daypractice the song is so easy now. It's surrounded by 5s. In my former life/work I would say Advanced is just the basics mastered. Thank you
Great bass tip. I'm a guitarist making the switch to bass after 45 years of playing guitar so I need to start thinking like a bass player. I've got a long way to go with my plucking fingers so this was super helpful for me too. I also suffer from "flying fingers" as I noticed after learning to play Queens Bohemian Rhapsody last night. OUCH. I'm going to do this technique every day until I finally go "BEYOND" 200 BPM.
Thank you so much for these introductory videos Josh! I really love your approach to teaching. You are not just showing the exercises but also constantly reaffirming beginners by telling them it's okay to microshift and to go slow in the beginning. This makes your lessons so much more motivating and beginner-friendly. I just got a bass for free off "Kleinanzeigen" (German craigslist) and I'm so happy that I found your videos because I feel like I have a good ressource for practicing now. I really really appreciate your work.
Listen man, I think those Lord of the Rings references are ace. That’s just my reaction. The way you tutor the viewer about walking patterns reminds me of an exchange I overheard between my mentor and one of his neighbors who was a renowned jazz French horn player. My mentor played jazz and symphonic upright bass. The French horn player said that he liked the way my mentor played walking lines, going so far as to say that some Berklee School of Music graduates he had acquainted with somehow couldn’t play a simple walking line. I didn’t go to that college myself, even though I have tried getting in. My education is at a community college. However, some alumni of that school who later became faculty members told me the best education they got was there at that community college, compared with prestige universities where they had done their graduate work.
I took upright & electric lessons from Ed Friedland when he lived in Austin. One of the core exercises was quite similar to this, but actually a time exercise. The advanced versions moved every note to all upbeats, or either 1/16 upbeat inside the beat. Play a metronome super slow, keeping eighths, super fast, etc. and record yourself playing different variations with the metronome. Recording won't lie; your time is probably not as good as you thought. Playing accurately at a very slow tempo is HARD. Boom: Same exercise and now you're also working on your time.
I was so excited to find this exercise and then I realized it was for the base. I wish this was for the guitar, because you appear to be a very good teacher. :)
Finger permutations served me well in the early days trying to build up the strength, technique in my fingers, not that I am an expert by any means. I got them from the Bass Guitar For Dummies book which has some great stuff in there for beginners. I will defo give this exercise a go because all advice and tips are welcome for this Bass playing lark. One of the things I am having to go back and have a look at is my string crossing tripping over my fingers whilst playing Paranoid by Black Sabbath. It is not a particular hard line to play but there are parts where you have to hit the octaves which has brought up a deficiency in my playing that I have overlooked, back to the drawing board!
This is one of those videos that feels like it is going to be click bait… yet delivers on its promise. Thoroughly thought out exercise that packs in a huge amount of exercise elements!
Greetings from Australia Josh! Great video, I've 'played' guitar for many years, just started on bass again, your videos are so educational, informative, and inspirational can't wait to get back on the bass! Cheers Jon
Good practice exercise. Instead of a shift I'm more use to calling it a pivot from learning on stand-up bass because when making that shift/pivot your thumb should stay rooted to the same spot/position to be able to do everything in the same position on the bass as quickly and with as little movement as possible. Because moving your whole hand for one note that's in reach then moving it completely again to go back isn't needed at all.
No hobbits were harmed in the making of this bass lesson. 🧝
But are they taking the bassistis to Isengard?
🤣🤣😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Does it mean that this exercise is good also for players with short hands? Cool, I'll use it then.
regardless, practicing too fast is a pretty bad bass hobbit.
Seeing this comment right before watching the video is slightly worrying
Josh makes these kind of videos that gives you the urge to pick up your bass immediately and start playing. No showing off. No flexing. Just pure motivation. Thanks mate.
Please become a patreon for him!!!
Yeah! I feel exactly the same!
Exactly what I thought before even watching.
I agree but it sucks for me because I usually watch them while I'm at work lmao
I'm watching this on a 4 hour train ride, now I really really can't wait to get home and play some bass 😂
When Josh says "it'll take a long time" to get rid of the flying fingers, take it to heart. I've been playing for years, but never really focused on economy of motion until recently. I've been focused on proper technique for about four months and I've improved but still am not to where I want to be. Don't get discouraged if you're not keeping your fingers down after only a couple weeks of practice!
Same. been focused for a few months in developing technique (both hands) after playing for years with pluck and no sense of proper finger placement. It's great to start feeling the improvement!
I’m in the exact same position! The metronome’s never been so fun
Working on this as well lol. Wait... are there enough commenting here that this constitutes a support group?!? My name is Brian and I'm recovering from flying fingers...
@@crocholiday I am also in flying fingers recovery and struggle with relapses very often!
@@martinmix7464 I don't want to relapse but I likely will when I practice here in about 15 min lol.
Memo
Level 1 - Nail The Shift 1:14
Level 2 - Flying Fingers 3:15
Level 3 6:20
Level 4 Root Note 7:26
Level 5 - Walking master 9:54
Haven't seen the video but I'm afraid of the ominous Level 3 exercise
This guy is a hell of a great teacher. Theres nothing boring about him at all. He knows his stuff. Keep up the great work Josh!!
Facts.
This guy is great. I’m halfway through his (paid) lessons and in less than 2 weeks I can play along with my (hugely more experienced) mates in their band. This is no paid promo (I don’t even know the dude…I live in Australia!) but I guarantee you, if you want to learn the bass, pay him his money…it’s not much…and have him teach you.
Josh rules.
I got beginner to badass course as well...finally got me playing after just looking at the bass for the last 20yrs
If you can play bass with people instead of sitting in a room on your own, you might find the inspiration and excitement of playing along with others keeps you going. Especially if you can gig. That’s how it’s gone for me. I have been lucky to play with some amazing musicians.i am completely rubbish at bass the weakest link in the band. But I practice my ass off to try and not let down the people I am in a band with. He is right! Only find inspiration from others. So what your not as good as others. They are doing their thing. You are doing yours. Least your playing .Things of great value are seldom achieved instantly . If music was easy it would be boring
This also describes me.
I have to admit, when I first started going through this video my first instinct was to blow through the exercise, but it's more challenging than I anticipated; especially trying to play it clean and clear. And I've been playing for over 30 years! Thanks for keeping the old dog in line!
I had this bookmarked for later reference and just got around to it today. True, it is a little tricky to play clean. On first few passes I kept stylishly sliding in to the 6th fret instead of just playing it plain as intended. It was actually hard to stop myself from doing that.
Ooohh yes.... Looks easy, but...... play it fast and clear... thats the challenge!
ONLY 30 years?
I've been a professional music educator for 4 decades. This is the best bass teaching video that I've seen. I'm so glad that I've stumbled across your channel. I'll quickly refer you to all my students.
Music teacher starts a youtube video and walks out for a smoke break, joking... I'm taking the Bass Buzz course and I'm having so much fun with it, Josh is an awesome teacher. I'm 58 years old and my elementary music teacher put me in a corner with a triangle because I couldn't sing in tune. Totally turned me off from learning an instrument at a young age. But I'm back! And I can groove!
Learning bass was a childhood dream of mine but my parents wouldn’t let me 😢
Just yesterday I realised, hey, I am 33, now I can learn it if I want! So I ordered stuff and I am looking forward learning with your videos ❤
Woow
Hell yeah dude
Same dream, same parents, started at 58.....
I started at around 46, I always thought bass players needed to have big hands and stuff. I've wanted to play since high school.
Can relate to that! My parents never let me take music lessons as a teenager. Picked up a bass at 19 and played more seriously when I started music lessons with a teacher at 25. Now 43 playing music with bands since my 29th birthday. My father's behavior has become my music drive never to quit!
Alright so, gotta say it: this is the best bass class video on the internet. And having watched only this I can bet is the best bass channel on TH-cam right now. Everything is on point; good delivery, no stalling, comprensible explanations, great sense of humor, LOTR memes. This is peak bass
Josh, you are one if the few bass coaches here on TH-cam who can make practicing things like this fun and entertaining. And you don't need to apologize for being funny.
6 weeks ago I started bass lessons irl. I'm 54 and always loved bass, but never thought of playing it myself, now suddenly I thought, hey why not. I'm never gonna excel or anything, but just to play along with some simpler tunes would make me happy. I am gonna do this excercise daily now. Not even at 100bpm yet, but whatever, I'll get there. You're stimulating me to do more, so thanks and keep up the good work 👍
I just love this video, it’s not « PLAY THIS EXERCISE TO BECOME AN UTRLA BASSIST » and it’s juste one stupid exercise that I’ve been playing for months. It’s so much more than an exercise, it’s how to use the exercise in an intelligent manner. Learning how to approach learning. Because very few people will teach you how to learn properly. Thanks josh you are awesome 🤘🏻
Been on and off drums since 95, played marching band symphonic, and orchestral even was in a metal band after high school. Got to play the whiskey agogo. Haven’t played a large handful of year. Felt mental health slowly dying because of no outlet. Today I bought second hand bass. I’m going to use your lesson here. I belive in myself and will get somewhat okay. And when I am. I have a specific new one I’m going to buy. Todays purchase the Schecter omen 4 string this is the start of a new chapter. Then when I’m ready I’m buying the Schecter omen elite 5 string. Man it’s beautiful
Thanks Josh! Great exercise and PDF. I really appreciate all your great content AND your sense of humor!
A bought my first bass literally a few days ago and have been watching dozens (hundreds?) of videos for a total beginner and this is the best I’ve found.
When my son bought drums, he immediately tried some Slipknot songs and I implored him to start like this video and build from absolute zero.
Thank you!
Josh's videos are fantastic and the Beginner to Badass course is routinely reviewed as the best of the best. Glad you found your way here!
so he should've started with stone sour instead of slipknot?
@@BlueGamingRage He's a big Joey Jordison fan though
@@ByronTexas you missed my joke. Absolute Zero is a Stone Sour song, and Stone Sour is another Iowa band who Corey Taylor sung for
@@BlueGamingRage NO, sorry. I got it. I'm just saying he picked Slipknot only because he's a Jordison fan. I gotcha though!
The effort you put in is outstanding! You are the best teacher and I love how you play with Squires and not expensive instruments... you rock! You really make learning bass what its supposed to be... fun!
I recently got a bass ukulele.
Bass ukulele teachers I've found so far suck.
Mr Josh here speaks my language: "it'll take time; do this simple exercise which sounds nice and is satisfying to play for just 10 minutes a day [yeah? I keep losing hours doing this stuff!]."
Thanks Josh, so glad I found you - thanks TH-cam algorithms!
Within a couple of weeks, I've been recruited to a Uke band, and just from these lessons here in no order I'm making sense of it all - it's not quite intuitive yet, but hey, it's just been a month! - and they're happy with the bassline I've written for one of their songs.
I'm so green at bass, been drumming for 30+ years. I've been learning for a few months now and I absolutely love playing the bass... this video has helped alot of my problems and my progress.. my only difference is I'm missing almost half of my middle finger on my fret hand and my nub doesn't reach well so I get a little flying sometimes and have had to make some things work that aren't optimal... but thank you for making these videos!! It's very helpful and encouraging!!!
I’ve been doing this practice every day for three months, never picked up a guitar before then- and it’s considerably improved my playing. The overall sound quality has changed form sounding incomplete with that metal scraping sound to a much cleaner bass tone. My finger dexterity has improved a lot too, and it’s much easier to go back and forth between my index and middle finger ‘plucking’ than just using my index for everything. At this point I’d say the most ‘complex’ baseline I can play is Burnin Love by Elvis, and I’m very proud of myself to see such progress. Thank you very much for this video!
Level 3 is also good for pick players, as it teaches you to alternate pick when moving between strings instead of doing two consecutive downstrokes or upstrokes, which is something that beginners on pick usually do (me included). Neat exercise, Josh!
Noel Redding use the same cromatic bass lines in Hey Joe and that have inspire me since the 60-ties and I´m glad you show it again for bass players of today... I use to say: "Why use only 5 tones when you can use all 12?" Jaco Pastorius is my guiding star and I was going pro 1987, the year he passed away. Your channel is very entertaining! Bless You Bass Buzz!
I got a Bass for my birthday an now i have to learn to play it, so much to learn, now i have to get a amp so i can hear my mistakes an how it sounds, I'm so excited though! 🎸🎸😊
I have been playing for 30 years, and I still love watching your videos. Always learning cool things. Thanks man!
Thank you for this free lesson 😊🤘🏻❤
Please become a patreon for him!!!
Thanks!
This exercise was truly outstanding. It pinpointed exactly what I needed to practice, is easy enough to play without an amp, and wasn't so repetitive that it would make me lose focus. Incredible work! 🙇♀
Played bass for 6 years as a teen, and played around with it once or so a month. I recently bought an acoustic bass and realised how sloppy my technique actually was. So I'm starting back at square one to get it perfect, and this is working out to be the PERFECT drill to get me on track. Thanks!
I always enjoy the bass. Trying to go from beginner/intermediate to more intermediate/advanced. Something about the bass that makes it so great.
This exercise is truly useful. I've been having problems with clear execution of couple of basslines recently, got fed up and put them on the back burner. Around the same time I started doing this drill and yesterday I came back to my nemesis basslines. Guess what? They sound much better now and I feel more control in both fretting and plucking hand. Amazing stuff Josh, I love your channel.
Bro I’ve been “playing” damn near 5 years on and off and this is kicking my ass. My hand is sore in muscles I haven’t felt in ages. I’ve much work to do. I been lacking so hard and this really makes it show
I can't wait to practice after work!!... as usual, but especially with these exercises 🤩 thank you!
i actually formed a genuine happiness just looking at josh’s variety of band t-shirts
A bad brians Banned in DC iconic album cover shirt would be nifty. As well as Nothing’s Shocking
Good morning !! After I get some coffee ☕️ in me, I'm going straight into our music room. Thank you for sharing 😉✌️
I'm a guitarist who has been contemplating getting my first bass for a while now. Josh's vids nudge me closer to pulling the trigger every day! Anyone else really keen to hear more of what he was playing in the first 6 seconds?
Josh is the kinda guy I like to watch even tho I play bass for years know just because of three things: first he's super nice to listen, second even advanced players can sometimes learn new stuff and third ... Did he really just tapped the chords and played a walking bass line ? Damn josh, keep your great work up.
Started 3 days ago. And just found this and im glad to start trying to get this down and start with good habits :)
The good side of youtube is very refreshing and im grateful for all who offer their knowledge to noobs like me :) (:
Excellent editing. That transition at 1:17 was nicely done. I had to slow-mo it to figure out what you did.
I don't understand. What happened?
It’s been awhile since I’ve watched your videos Josh, and I must say. WOW, the videography, editing and information has exponentially improved! Well done my friend! 👍🏼
Thanks Darryl!
Thanks
This video uncovered bass tricks as the last one of all things on your channel! And it’s incredibly outstanding!
Thanks a lot! You’re great!!!!!
I think you’re GOAT-teacher!!!
Thanks Jaydee!
I agree with you Jaydee! I've learned a lot from Josh. Wooohooo keep it up idol. Gemini here from Philippines
This exercise has been a godsend. I barely spent a minute practicing it and my technique has already improved dramatically ripping out those bad habits like noxious weeds. Fookin byotiful.
glad to see Justyn here!
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Been doing this for about 5 months now and Josh is right. This exercise helps with everything. Best exercise out there.
A quick tip from a hobbit for all the other hobbit bassists out there: If you are just starting out with this exercise and you are really struggling spreading your hobbit sized fingers across 4 frets, you can move the exercise a dot or two higher up the neck 😁
And micro-shifting isn't against any rules. I've got small hands and can stretch enough to fret a note on the 4th fret while keeping my index finger down but it's prone to a lot of buzzing because I'm short of the actual fret. Shifting a bit or even rocking my hand down does wonders and after it became natural, my playing became a lot better. Glad to see other Hobbits here!
I have relatively short fingers and everytime my bass teacher wanted to really mess with me he made me play the bassline of Seemann (Rammstein). It's a pain.
fellow hobbit hear, still just learning but I wish I hadn't listened to the naysayers that said you needed large hands to play when I was younger and just tried it.
this is a small gateway to the benefits of Beginner to Bada$$. Josh's explanation's are fantastic his delivery is great! and the course is very fun! if you enjoyed this consider his course I'm not kidding! Thanks Josh!
Every video seems to help my playing progress more every time 😄 also love the fact that josh is slowly getting weirder 😂
Please become a patreon for him!!!
Just gonna join my voice to the chorus of praise for this excellent bit of teaching! I’ve been a professional music educator for almost a decade and have experience on several instruments but am just starting on the bass (well, ukulele-bass - but it’s the same notes!). It was so great to find a video that has super practical stuff I can practice now as a beginner but that wasn’t also explaining what half-steps are ;) This was JUST what I’ve been looking for! And since I’m self-teaching with videos instead of taking lessons it’s great to know some bad habits to look out for and how to fix them. This video truly has so much wonderful content. And I enjoyed all the LOTR and bits of your personality that came through as well :) Bravo sir!!!!
Josh, I LOVE YOU!!! Your videos are so useful and funny, I can't play my bass because of laughing!!!😂😂 And I'm a patreon because I want you to make such awesome lessons more often!!❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Holy theory realisation BassMan!!!! Your PDF is actually taking us through the cycle of 4ths and 5ths !!!!! I'm astounded at the fact that I realised this, because I thought my grey matter was a little to old to learn and retain stuff. But hey guess what? it aint!!! Thanks for a great lesson Josh. Mucho appreciato.
Just as I thought to myself that it would be nice to find an exercise so I can try to get to where I was before I took a break.
Perfect timing Josh (as expected from a bassist). Thanks!
My bad habit when I started was never using my pinky to reach that far note. But with practice and discipline, I can now play songs I never knew I could.
Consistency and discipline will be your friends. Took me about 2 months to adjust to using my pinky.
This is great Josh! I’m still working on the Badass course but my job has increased my hours so I’ve not been able to play much in the past 3 months. I’ll start on this exercise this weekend and hopefully finally finish the course. You do a great job Josh as always. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with all us wanna be Steve Harris’ out here.
Most people DON'T like to be educated, they'd simply prefer to be entertained. You have somehow managed to do both! They come for the "show", but STAY for the expertise! Good job on this, I'll be watching...
For those who want the PDF to try out the simple progression shown at 1:28, go to the last page, bar 89, and then shift everything up a string! So, E string becomes A string, etc.
Where can I get that backing track tho
Please tell me what the lovely bass line your were dreamily playing at the start was? And maybe a list of “pretty bass lines” would be nice? You know super melodic, sweet. Then a list of awesome hardcore bass lines to balance it out?
Shire Theme from LotR. :) Thanks for the support! 🤘
People who only have 10 minutes time available today can't watch this 12 minute video
10m min practice in a 12min video. Well done ! :) (thanks, and keep up the good work!)
You are so funny! The sense of humor in your videos is truly one-of-a-kind. I laugh out loud every time I watch them. Thank you so much for your amazing work and for creating such great lessons!
Justin's a BEAST on bass. Cool cameo to see!
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You are definitely the "Lord of the Strings". Great job!
dude i love your videos
Please become a patreon for him!!!
BassBuzz is the best channel ever!
“I’m not qualified to play Gospel.”
None of us are, my friend. None of us are. That’s actually what it’s about. ❤😎
No caucasians are qualified to play gospel
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Did I just hear the Layton puzzle theme at 00:12?😳
I appreciate the way you explain stuff. I've been struggling to find ppl who can explain well
No matter how much i improve, my girlfriend always tells me that i have to get better at fingering
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The example that starts at 10:00 is awesome! I finally was able to understand "walking from one chord to the other". Thanks!
you lost me at the basic level of the exercise
The beauty of this is that you can truly take it as slowly as you want. If you can’t even do that you likely like the idea of learning an instrument more than liking the process of learning an instrument which is fair. Thats why so many people own dusty unused guitars and pianos 😅
You lost me at what lost you.
I hope to be a beginner one day soon
I found it hard to see where the notes were landing, a visual bar would help,
@@boxmonkey1what do u mean
You really made it hard not to buy a bass. Sooo i sold my Strat, bought a bass, now im on the dark side. Letsgooo
Thanks for the support, welcome to the dark side!
You rock josh!
Thanks for the support John! 🤘
I've been playing a while, but formed some nasty habits. Starting on my index finger, plucking with one finger but I didn't realize. Good exercise!
For those of us who went through your course, I can only say that I’m glad you finally got a base that has fret markers.
I’m a couple weeks into the Beginner course on BassBuzz, been enjoying it - this video with it’s effects and editing is next level. Going to start adding that to my day as soon as I have a talk with my fingers about listening…
Best beginner course out there by far. 👍 Enjoy Billie Jean 😂
@@malcolmbennett3907 lol ya that was something!
I'm not proud to say it but I've been playing 30 years and even level one is hard for me. That's how I know it works. If it's hard and your fingers get sore, that's growth. No pain no gain. Plucking, I'm way beyond this. Never gave my fretting hand the exercises it needs, but will now. Great vid. Thanks.
Josh, thank you for this simple lesson. I play Let's Go Crazy by Prince with musicians for years, I love the song but stressed because I want to play it correctly to get the groove. After this simple 10 minutes a daypractice the song is so easy now. It's surrounded by 5s. In my former life/work I would say Advanced is just the basics mastered. Thank you
your videos actually make me feel engaged and i feel like i want to do this, not some boring routine vids
Josh is the absolute best teacher! Amazing musician plus great teacher! Would love to see him play with a band.
Really appreciate the mix of real content and pure entertainment- also the Rancid shirt 🤘
Great bass tip. I'm a guitarist making the switch to bass after 45 years of playing guitar so I need to start thinking like a bass player. I've got a long way to go with my plucking fingers so this was super helpful for me too. I also suffer from "flying fingers" as I noticed after learning to play Queens Bohemian Rhapsody last night. OUCH. I'm going to do this technique every day until I finally go "BEYOND" 200 BPM.
Thank you so much for these introductory videos Josh! I really love your approach to teaching. You are not just showing the exercises but also constantly reaffirming beginners by telling them it's okay to microshift and to go slow in the beginning. This makes your lessons so much more motivating and beginner-friendly. I just got a bass for free off "Kleinanzeigen" (German craigslist) and I'm so happy that I found your videos because I feel like I have a good ressource for practicing now. I really really appreciate your work.
Listen man, I think those Lord of the Rings references are ace. That’s just my reaction.
The way you tutor the viewer about walking patterns reminds me of an exchange I overheard between my mentor and one of his neighbors who was a renowned jazz French horn player. My mentor played jazz and symphonic upright bass. The French horn player said that he liked the way my mentor played walking lines, going so far as to say that some Berklee School of Music graduates he had acquainted with somehow couldn’t play a simple walking line.
I didn’t go to that college myself, even though I have tried getting in. My education is at a community college. However, some alumni of that school who later became faculty members told me the best education they got was there at that community college, compared with prestige universities where they had done their graduate work.
I took upright & electric lessons from Ed Friedland when he lived in Austin. One of the core exercises was quite similar to this, but actually a time exercise. The advanced versions moved every note to all upbeats, or either 1/16 upbeat inside the beat. Play a metronome super slow, keeping eighths, super fast, etc. and record yourself playing different variations with the metronome. Recording won't lie; your time is probably not as good as you thought. Playing accurately at a very slow tempo is HARD. Boom: Same exercise and now you're also working on your time.
I was so excited to find this exercise and then I realized it was for the base. I wish this was for the guitar, because you appear to be a very good teacher. :)
Thanks bro ,,, I've been stuck on the second mistake of flying fingers,,, now at least I've gotten faster
Excellent information. #1 best bass lessons hands down. Plus a nice guy w/a sense of humor.
Finger permutations served me well in the early days trying to build up the strength, technique in my fingers, not that I am an expert by any means.
I got them from the Bass Guitar For Dummies book which has some great stuff in there for beginners.
I will defo give this exercise a go because all advice and tips are welcome for this Bass playing lark.
One of the things I am having to go back and have a look at is my string crossing tripping over my fingers whilst playing Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
It is not a particular hard line to play but there are parts where you have to hit the octaves which has brought up a deficiency in my playing that I have overlooked, back to the drawing board!
BazzBuzz confirms my 45 years bass playing experience is really just 6 months repeated 90 times! Time to do some proper practice.
This is seriously high quality education! I just finished a gig and I want to go practice already.
Danke!
Thanks for the support Eckhard, rock on!
I think I may have trolled you one time in a comments section a while back, apologies, you're inspiring me to keep going. hats off sir!
Haha, thanks, if so you win a gold medal for First Trolling Apology Ever. :)
This is one of those videos that feels like it is going to be click bait… yet delivers on its promise. Thoroughly thought out exercise that packs in a huge amount of exercise elements!
Such a brilliantly engaging teacher 👏 Starting with his B2B course was the best choice ever
Greetings from Australia Josh! Great video, I've 'played' guitar for many years, just started on bass again, your videos are so educational, informative, and inspirational can't wait to get back on the bass! Cheers Jon
Good practice exercise. Instead of a shift I'm more use to calling it a pivot from learning on stand-up bass because when making that shift/pivot your thumb should stay rooted to the same spot/position to be able to do everything in the same position on the bass as quickly and with as little movement as possible. Because moving your whole hand for one note that's in reach then moving it completely again to go back isn't needed at all.
Yeah, he has an addictive attitude. I'm getting a bass today!
Love your work , Josh!
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even after just two days of this, my hand feels super stretched out every time i do this LOL youre the best josh
This walking part is golden, thank you Sir
josh is a great teacher. oooh, he makes learnin fun