Hi Dan! Your lessons are absolutely great! Thank you so much for all the insights you are providing to me! Love it! Your channel is the best place to improve my bass playing!
Hi Dan! Just want to say how much I've been enjoying your lessons and videos. They've really been of great help in leveling up my playing. I had a suggestion for a lesson. I'm relatively new to bass and I play in a cover band at work. One thing I've been struggling to grasp is bass tone. Whether it's listening for tone in different records and how to replicate it between the knobs on my bass and the knobs on the amps. It can be confusing and overwhelming. As I move through songs in our setlist it'd be great to know how to adjust tone for different songs simply and quickly for playing live and in rehearsals. Right now I just stick with one setting for all the songs and I'd love to dial that in for better effect and sound.
I'm not Dan, but would like to offer some help in the meantime: Tone is a marriage in physics between set-up, technique, and equipment. You can do a lot with just your fingers with one setting, tone-wise, depending on whereabouts you pluck (or pick, or slap) the strings. playing softer, nearer the fingerboard will produce a warmer, boomier tone. Harder, nearer the fingerboard will produce both more percussive fundamentals but with deeper body. Playing nearer the bridge produces tighter, narrower sounding notes. There's a lot to experiment with just from varying your touch and hand position. Similarly, if your bass has 2 pickups, the nearest to the neck will produce deeper, wider sounds, while bridge pickups with be narrower, and tighter. The specifics of your onboard bass controls (eq, active / passive), and what kind of preamp / amp and cab set up you're running makes things a bit more nuanced. I'd start with hand positioning, and plucking technique first with a fairly flat setting on all controls to get you as close as possible to your desired sound, and then cut or boost controls to taste. If the part played feels more comfortable plucking somewhere in the middle but has a rounder, warm tone (e.g Motown), roll off the treble / tone a bit (usually better to slightly cut frequencies initially than boost so you've got more headroom without farting out).
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Had both i remember cutting the index finger on my right hand cut the tendons n just put tissue bln duct tape on it n my middle finger got a van door slammed on it so the top part is bent in but it's actually better that way.( 30 years construction)
I plan on getting the paid bass courses as soon as I am able and really learnin to bass like a pro! Love these tips and lessons in your videos. These keep me going and help to stoke my motivation when I need it. Thank you and your com padres for all the work and effort you guys do making the videos to teach, inspire and level up the baby bass players in the world. You Rock! (except for the mode thing, that stuff kinda sucks, but other than that you definitely rock!) - Groovyhippygypsydudemanguy67and68
@@OnlineBassCourses That's awesome! I actually signed up for your website again a few days ago (I can't remember the first name I signed up under or old email pw) My account is under spacefern now. Thanks!
I appreciate the way you simplify these into understandable chunks. Thank you!
Hi Dan! Your lessons are absolutely great! Thank you so much for all the insights you are providing to me! Love it! Your channel is the best place to improve my bass playing!
My pleasure! Thanks so much.
Thanks Dan - some great and easy to digest tips in this vid!
Fireball love it.
Thanks!
Thanks, Jeff!
Hi Dan! Just want to say how much I've been enjoying your lessons and videos. They've really been of great help in leveling up my playing.
I had a suggestion for a lesson. I'm relatively new to bass and I play in a cover band at work. One thing I've been struggling to grasp is bass tone. Whether it's listening for tone in different records and how to replicate it between the knobs on my bass and the knobs on the amps. It can be confusing and overwhelming. As I move through songs in our setlist it'd be great to know how to adjust tone for different songs simply and quickly for playing live and in rehearsals. Right now I just stick with one setting for all the songs and I'd love to dial that in for better effect and sound.
I'm not Dan, but would like to offer some help in the meantime:
Tone is a marriage in physics between set-up, technique, and equipment. You can do a lot with just your fingers with one setting, tone-wise, depending on whereabouts you pluck (or pick, or slap) the strings. playing softer, nearer the fingerboard will produce a warmer, boomier tone. Harder, nearer the fingerboard will produce both more percussive fundamentals but with deeper body. Playing nearer the bridge produces tighter, narrower sounding notes. There's a lot to experiment with just from varying your touch and hand position.
Similarly, if your bass has 2 pickups, the nearest to the neck will produce deeper, wider sounds, while bridge pickups with be narrower, and tighter. The specifics of your onboard bass controls (eq, active / passive), and what kind of preamp / amp and cab set up you're running makes things a bit more nuanced.
I'd start with hand positioning, and plucking technique first with a fairly flat setting on all controls to get you as close as possible to your desired sound, and then cut or boost controls to taste. If the part played feels more comfortable plucking somewhere in the middle but has a rounder, warm tone (e.g Motown), roll off the treble / tone a bit (usually better to slightly cut frequencies initially than boost so you've got more headroom without farting out).
Thanks! The answer below is excellent. You can also try these videos:
•th-cam.com/video/QgXoophMYAQ/w-d-xo.html
•th-cam.com/video/E6X1GXk7bP4/w-d-xo.html
•playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLdXYrUzLRVdoe7wKxXcJvzMgytiJwqop5.html
All really good tips
Had both i remember cutting the index finger on my right hand cut the tendons n just put tissue bln duct tape on it n my middle finger got a van door slammed on it so the top part is bent in but it's actually better that way.( 30 years construction)
Really good
Sir I till need more help
Nice suggestions! Would playing intervals of a scale up and down the fretboard work? Thanks.👍
Absolutely!
pinky stretch for me..gonna take work
What if you can't do OFPF? My wrist will not bend perpendicular to the fretboard, so I have to move my hand down to perform an exercise like that.
That's absolutely fine. If you need to shift and move around more in order to play those same notes then just do that....
Hello, what's the model of bass?😊
Hi! 1982 Ibanez Roadster with DiMarzio DP126 pickups
Hi..thanks for sharing..which app you used to write the chrats?
iReal Pro.
I plan on getting the paid bass courses as soon as I am able and really learnin to bass like a pro!
Love these tips and lessons in your videos.
These keep me going and help to stoke my motivation when I need it.
Thank you and your com padres for all the work and effort you guys do making the videos to teach, inspire and level up the baby bass players in the world.
You Rock! (except for the mode thing, that stuff kinda sucks, but other than that you definitely rock!) - Groovyhippygypsydudemanguy67and68
Thanks very much! I’ll put you on the list for the modes course.
P.S. it’s just me here - no team.
@@OnlineBassCourses That's awesome! I actually signed up for your website again a few days ago (I can't remember the first name I signed up under or old email pw) My account is under spacefern now. Thanks!