this guy is incredible 😀 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQoRS09OUnE[/video] no doubt some of you will disagree 😉 just stunning 😀

Nice, but go listen to some Jaco Pastorius/Weather report stuff…It’ll blow you away! 🙂

Squarepusher to the thread please.

no doubt some of you will disagree

Yep. He’s just using a bass as a normal guitar. Bass playing is for rhythm.

Squarepusher to the thread please.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrBBHDJMEuQ&feature=related[/video]

Bass playing is for rhythm.

In the main yep. Bass playing is all about ‘feel and groove’, how that is delivered can vary.

Uh……..?

Bass

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8FF7Gk7G2g[/video]

Great musician! But when playing a piccolo (tuned an octave higher than standard) bass like that is it still bass playing? I’d like to hear the same piece in standard tuning…

They’re all quite good. The bottom one especially…he is probably at level 6/7 in my opinion.

However, there is only one bass player that has ever got to level 42.

Wankery – doubley so with a headless bass.

Les Claypool plays the only slap I enjoy.

However, there is only one bass player that has ever got to level 42.

BARF!

Jaco

end of discussion

Urgh – Jaco is clicky rubbish

Stu Hamm, anyone?

No. But I am glad ‘that’ guy hasn’t been mentioned yet.

I thought bass players were just failed guitarists?
😉

Kayak, go to your room and dont come back down until you’re sorry!! 😉

john Myung is the best i have ever seen

but i also really like to listen to Geddy Lee

Marcus Miller

http://youtu.be/NHdN_O5k3WM

DezB – Member
Squarepusher to the thread please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8FF7Gk7G2g

I’m not sure I’d call that bass playing. More like making stupid noises with a bass guitar.

defydude – Member
Squarepusher to the thread please.

A claim to fame, I’ve recorded with Squarepusher…

Admittedly we were 14 and it was for some pre-GCSE school project and he was just Tom back then, but all the same…
Sickeningly talented even then.

Years ago I used to admire Billy Sheehan, but now I can’t listen to him, even in Mr Big mode.

Shouldn’t bass playing have some low end to it? Crazy idea I know.

I’m not sure I’d call that bass playing. More like making stupid noises with a bass guitar.

An apt description. Marvellous innit? 😉

Here grum – this made me laugh almost as much as your Herbie H vid –
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgy1vjxARd4[/video]

Close your eyes and it sounds just like someone has laid their bass on the floor and bashed it about a bit 😆

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMWUYMWlEyo&feature=related[/video]

😀 ^^^ 😯 ^^^ 😆 ^^^ 😥 ^^^ 😛 ^^^ ❗

Slap bass? Horrible, horrible stuff.

Not a fan of that kind of slap bass either. My kind of bass playing is stuff like that in Free’s Mr Big just after the guitar solo. Subtle but awesome.

I’d take Andy Fraser over Jaco any day of the week.

Pino Palladino, now I like him.
Oh and Juan Cruzier(spelling) out of Ratt, but that was a style thing. Oh and that lad out of Dokken..

What about Bootsy Hawks (is that his name??)

Listen to (not ‘see’) players like Danny Thompson, Red Mitchell, Ron Carter and, of course, John Paul Jones. All excellent examples of the craft.

Here’s some good bass playing for you

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxeI3APNAEQ[/video]

Joe Lally is great!

This is probably my favourite bass line of his, weird first beat rests but I like.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apuLs_ayKRM[/video]

@ dunstick hjfreaks is awesome, this is my favorite

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_X7mMU6Gb0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIzN51SLwwg&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giVuQ0TEi5w&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4151Xvhje4&feature=related[/video]

Me’Shell is almost as bad as Larry Graham. Feel the funk y’all!

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTDe5i6JA6g[/video]

“Who is he and what is he to you” is four notes, is there some ridiculous solo in that ^ version?