I love how every bass player takes from other bass players and creates their own style of solos. Solos are an expression of what’s in your heart and what you’re feeling as a musician. It’s an opportunity for you to express through your instrument the joy and love you feel as a musician.
Thank you for giving Jeff Andrews some shine. Definitely one of my favorite players that, I agree, needs more credit and notoriety.
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Since binge-ing on this superb channel and working on my new bass skills, or lack there of, this drummer hasn't touched a stick in weeks. You, dear sir, are seriously addictive. I am not complaining.😀
My personal favorite bass solo on record is Oteil's solo on "Davey Crockett", with Col Bruce Hampton and the ARU live from 1991 (I think it was '91). Great video Scott. Those guys are all monsters!
That was right around the first time I saw him live. I did not know who he was, but that first experience seeing him wearing long Egyptian garb, barefoot, eyes closed.....as a young bass player then (about 5 years in), it completely changed everything for me. He dropped every jaw in that room. I will never forget that. At first I couldn’t handle playing for a couple of days, and then I couldn’t stop. Oteil remains one of my favorite bassists of all time
Thanks so much, this is incredible! I got to see and meet Skuli at a Holdsworth gig. I'd never heard him before, and he stunned us. I told him that Iceland must be a source of geniuses! :) 🎻
Pipoquinha is a monster, as well all the other bassists in this video. I'm glad to hear you saying that Jeff Andrews deserve much more credit, I totally agree. I love his solo on Mike Stern's "Bait Tone Blues", music from Play album. it's a mind blowing solo.
Etienne Mbappe ? One of the best things about your video is watching you watching the solos .. lol. It has a kind of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" quality to it :-) Thanks, Scott. Great stuff.
Sad to hear about Jeff Andrews' passing. I knew him at Berklee, he lived in the room above mine. I even subbed for him on a rehearsal once. Mike Stern was playing guitar!
I don't know Bass like you do. But man I loved watching this as much as you loved presenting it. I thought Stu Hamm would be in there. But that is likely because of my lack of Bass player knowledge. Great vid, keep it up!
That Gary Willis solo on Self Defense has always and will always be the best bass solo I've ever heard. The only thing that comes close for me (if not another Willis solo) is Jaco on Havona. Never has something inspired me so much. 👍🏼 Great video again, Scott.
That video, your skill, ear, and playing blew me away. Asa drummer just starting to make covers musicians like yourself let me know where i stand. The drummer in those videos were insane! I’m now hoping there’s some video of some of your performances. Your on that next level I’ll never achieve . Brilliant!
Fantastic selection of bass players,everyone who ranks among my favorites including 2 of whom I was not aware. You can tell alot about a musician by his influences. Incidentally, beautiful bass, great tone and killer playing, Scott.
Another superb video. IMO you saved the best till last! If I'd foreseen any of this in April 1970 [when I took up the bass], I.... don't know what I'd have thought.
Thanks Scott! Your enthusiasm for great bassists mirrors my own. This is a great selection of players/solos. I saw Jeff Andrews with Mike Stern. He made a 4 string sound like a 5 string, huge vocabulary. He is missed. I would consider adding two of my favorite fretless players: Jeff Berlin, and Percy Jones of Brand X, to this group.
As much as I respect all these technically brilliant ultra fast-playing bassists - nothing comes close to folks like Pino, who can create a solo which stands out simply by its recognisable melody and tasteful phrasing. I could probably learn to play this solo in a day, but I would never be able to come up with something pure like this myself. This is what makes a great solo in my opinion. Michael League played an equally impressive solo last year in Nuremberg. I can listen to the recording of this show over and over again, just for that bass solo.
Completely agree, I also found the Pino solo best in this video's selection of solos. Pino made me "woooo" just by his groovy licks and choice of notes. The other solos are technically very impressive, but mostly not interesting to listen to. Exceptions for me are Gary Willis and Hadrien Feraud though, because they got the chops, but I know they also do great solos with more melodic approaches. Personally for me the best bass solo is still Victor Wooten's live solo on Dave Matthew Band's #41: ruclips.net/video/LQPrb5c-TnU/видео.html It combines groove, melody and technique together and there are only a few bass solos that come close to this for me. Edit: I just remembered since I brought Victor Wooten into the conversation. I heard some clinic a while ago where Victor said some of the most important aspects of solos or music in general is space, meaning the notes you don't play. And as I watch this video more, I notice a lot of these technical solos very much lack space.
Totally agree with you. I think the best solo (no matter on a bass or guitar) is that continues the main theme of the composition. My favorite bass solo for many years is from Cosmosquad's "Jam for Jason". Anyway thanks to Scott for the video, it has many interesting things to learn and practice.
You're awesome Scott....you are always bigging up other musicians but all credit to you for being a great teacher, you have a love for the bass which shows with the excitement on your face watching the greats from yesteryear. Keep it up, you are inspiring a new generation of bassists...myself included. Many thanks.
Great video Scott. I know there's no way you can include every amazing finger bass solo (or solo technique), but I really think Tom Kennedy's crazy solo technique should've been included, whereby he incorporates fast 16th chromatic notes along with open strings while moving his hand along the neck, and THEN almost doubling the speed into a triplet feel while still playing that same technique. Especially since a lot of bass players don't even know Tom. Hope you explain that technique in one of your future videos. Thanks and appreciate the great work you and the team are doing for the bass community.
Scott I’m a guitar player and you’ve got me thinking “ Bass “ Lol. Dude I love what you do, I’m always sharing on my FB page and tagging all my musician friends. I may have to join the F Clef Mafia 😎
I really enjoy your channel, but I've walked into the wrong video here. I've heard some Jaco Pastorius...but the rest I have no idea about. Pino Paladino, is the only other player I know of. I feel like I'm in the wrong class at high school. To be honest, they all sound the same to me, and I realise I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but going purely on what I'm hearing, it all sounds like Jazz school...but each to their own. Love your passion and depth of knowledge. Keep on keeping on. Thanks.
hey scott, before even checking the video, the title made me remember when i had a band, we played some nirvana, as you know the bass lines are mostly easy. the guitar guy asked us to try love buzz, i said ok, i will learn it... basically nirvana one can learn in one sit, i thought love buzz would be the same. for my great surprise it has a hell of an amazing bass solo in the end! it took me a quite time to achieve it and it cracks! after learning it, i started giving more attention and respect to Chris novoselic as bassist.
Great video! I studied with Jeff Andrews in NYC; he was totally brilliant! What a loss for the electric bass world; luckily Jeff's legacy is totally intact via amazing records and videos! Thanks Scott!
@@devinebass yeah! I wrote a paper about Jeff when I was at NYU taking a class in Jazz history... I totally gave it to Jeff before I handed it in for my final to make sure I had gotten all my facts right; he liked it so much he asked me if he could publish it on his web site as his bio. Of course, I said "yes please!"... He was a total master bass player and really nice person too. R.I.P. Jeff Andrews.
Really cool video! So happy to see a brazilian bass player featuring! The pronunciation of Pipoquinha is way different, but I can't imagine how to ahow the right way without audio... 🤣
muchas gracuias! este video valio cada segundo de su tiempo , adhiero a cada uno de los bajistas que nombraste los que conocia y aun los que no. creo que deberias escuchar a Federico Heliodoro de brasil , Marco mendoza,, guillermo vadala en cada uno de sus solos , ´pero particularmente en willie. gracias
Beautiful upload nice work that takes time you are sharing your heart your commentary is engaging and educational. I am a guitar player but love introduction to virtuosos. This is my religion, therapy and spiritual energy ( music) source I consume at high doses. I love when people get wigged out emotionally, gestulations and feeling that shit down to the toes. The universal language. Quality post . Life enriching. Thx bro
Hey , Scott! Greetings from Brazil. Very nice video. You must be a very good teatcher. Thanks for share your view about this greats bassists. About the brazilian bass player, the las name is PEE-POH-KI-NEEA-AH (it´s a dimintutive to pop corn. Something that jumps out from the pan - like in his case). Best warms. Congratulations.
Jaco was soooo the best of his time, and now the technical level is really much more higher, and...impossible to reach for most of us ! I wouldn't have thought that 40 years ago when I started playing..
Yep, the technical level went up a notch. However, there’s still no cat around who has all parameters on that ‘Jaco level’. I mean, I still haven’t heard compositions of all those technical guys reaching the musical level of ‘Three Views of A Secret’. Also, Jaco’s arranging skills were very high. And not much players had that level of impact like Jaco did. He’s still audible in every (technical or even non-technical) bass player. But then again, there are lots of bass players who have their own thing going, despite of the obvious Jaco influence. There are numerous of great players out there, still so much great music for us to enjoy.
Hi, Scott. I'm a Brazilian English teacher, and a bass player too.I'll try to teach how pronouce "Pipoquinga", that means something like "tiny popcorn", because he was a child when he starts to play the bass. So, you can try to say: Pe-paw-ke-nã (like senõr in spanish). Have you ever seen he playing Jaco pastorius' Teen Town with an orchestra? That's amazing! Cheers from Brazil!
Man goes to an island, and when he steps off the boat, he hears loud drumming in the distant hills. As he walks into his hotel, he can still hear the drumming. He asks the concierge, ‘what’s with the drumming?” Concierge says, ‘if drumming stops, very very bad.” Next day, the man had not slept all night, due to the incessant drums that never stopped! As he goes downstairs and jumps into a cab, he asks the taxi driver “so what happens when the drumming stops?” Driver says, “oh very very bad if drumming stops”. ‘Tell me what is so bad?” Taxi driver looks at the man and says…”if drumming stops, then it’s bass solo!”
Thanks for the video it was great from start to finish. speaking of technique, The kid from Asterism is doing some cool things on the bass and i wouldn't mind seeing some of them decoded by you. his bass solo's are really cool melodic pieces.
your passion for what you doing, it's brillant! Greatings from Brazil! And Pipoquinha means a diminutive for popcorn, it's like call him "Little popcorn".
A good selection. I love that session with Jaco, Albert Mangelsdorf, and one of the greatest drummers Alphonse Mouzon. Btw, it would be nice if you could do something on the late great Dave Carpenter sometime.
Man that was so clean every note people have a tendency to muffle notes when they play fast but this was like someone speed up a regular recording, really good.
I think I appreciate all kinds of bass solos, both technically complex and also more melodic and soulful. But the ones that touch me emotionally are usually the simpler, more tasteful ones. I'd love to hear your thoughts Scott on something like the one Jaco does in Midwestern Nights Dream by Pat Metheny. A blizzard of notes is for sure impressive and easy to be wowed by, but it's really nice to be able to connect with the music on a deeper level sometimes ... It's the same with drummers - those internet arguments about who the 'best drummer ever' is so often revolve around who's the most technically proficient or who can solo with the most fireworks. But I'll very happily take Vinnie's playing on something relatively simple like Fields of Gold or Seven Days as it's the restraint and tastefulness which come to the fore rather than the display of chops! Just listen to Pino's playing on the Don Henley track New York Minute and you'll see what I mean :)
The Michael Pipoquinha solo almost feels like flamenco guitar. The precision and the tone and the energy is just... gorgeous.
I love you because you’re a true bass geek Scott. Never change.
FX Turk don’t worry - never will ;)
I agree with this sentiment completely, I absolutely LOVE every bass solo on here.
@@devinebass so glad to have this in writing, lol. We love you Scott!
@@devinebass thank you for teaching us!
I love how every bass player takes from other bass players and creates their own style of solos. Solos are an expression of what’s in your heart and what you’re feeling as a musician. It’s an opportunity for you to express through your instrument the joy and love you feel as a musician.
Richard Bona-Majestically the best of all of them. Precise and very beautiful ❤️
best ?!?? music is NOT a race cars !!
Dear Scott, you always brighten up my day. Thank you so much for all your beautiful energy! Greetings from Holland, André
Thank you for giving Jeff Andrews some shine. Definitely one of my favorite players that, I agree, needs more credit and notoriety.
Since binge-ing on this superb channel and working on my new bass skills, or lack there of, this drummer hasn't touched a stick in weeks.
You, dear sir, are seriously addictive. I am not complaining.😀
I played drums with him in Tommy Strand and the upper hand back in early 70’ s. Played all summer at the Hurricane lounge in ocean City Md.
Great video!!!! I'm from Brazil and tks for showing Michael Pipoquinha, he's an amazing musician.
Tudo bem!!
Mate, I love that you are straight to content (and good content). Good analysis and no bs.
Awesome thanks for the cool clips
Jeff Berlin and Percy Jones are two of my favourites
Saw Pipoquinha live... he was everything and a little more, I was absolutely blown away.
Laugh out loud at the joy it brings to you, Scott! It gets me, too, and I'm not even a bass player!
My personal favorite bass solo on record is Oteil's solo on "Davey Crockett", with Col Bruce Hampton and the ARU live from 1991 (I think it was '91). Great video Scott. Those guys are all monsters!
Go to 15:13 in this: ruclips.net/video/t_RCe1HtIqI/видео.html
That is Oteils best work, he sounds way better with a 4-string
That was right around the first time I saw him live. I did not know who he was, but that first experience seeing him wearing long Egyptian garb, barefoot, eyes closed.....as a young bass player then (about 5 years in), it completely changed everything for me. He dropped every jaw in that room. I will never forget that. At first I couldn’t handle playing for a couple of days, and then I couldn’t stop. Oteil remains one of my favorite bassists of all time
GREAT JOB Scott !!! thanks a lot !!!
Thanks so much, this is incredible! I got to see and meet Skuli at a Holdsworth gig. I'd never heard him before, and he stunned us. I told him that Iceland must be a source of geniuses! :) 🎻
Pipoquinha is a monster, as well all the other bassists in this video. I'm glad to hear you saying that Jeff Andrews deserve much more credit, I totally agree. I love his solo on Mike Stern's "Bait Tone Blues", music from Play album. it's a mind blowing solo.
Hey props for shouting out Dane! Cool guy and never fails to drop quite a few jaws.
love this format! keep doing these
I wish I could like this video more than once! Thank you Scott!
Rob Kelman ahhh cheers Rob! :)
You just did Rob 👍
Thanks for all the great content! -amateur bassist from a small town
Etienne Mbappe ? One of the best things about your video is watching you watching the solos .. lol. It has a kind of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" quality to it :-) Thanks, Scott. Great stuff.
Sad to hear about Jeff Andrews' passing. I knew him at Berklee, he lived in the room above mine. I even subbed for him on a rehearsal once. Mike Stern was playing guitar!
I don't know Bass like you do. But man I loved watching this as much as you loved presenting it. I thought Stu Hamm would be in there. But that is likely because of my lack of Bass player knowledge. Great vid, keep it up!
Bruce H thanks Bruce! I REALLY enjoyed making this vid - hearing feedback like this make me wanna make more :)
Oh hell yeah, Steps Ahead. Man this video was great, going to have to watch at least three times.
KiraPlaysGuitar cheers! :)
That Gary Willis solo on Self Defense has always and will always be the best bass solo I've ever heard. The only thing that comes close for me (if not another Willis solo) is Jaco on Havona. Never has something inspired me so much. 👍🏼
Great video again, Scott.
I love how excited you get about this stuff, keep it up Scott!
Love your channel! Keep it up!
Great video, thanks for breaking down the music theory behind those solos! So helpful.
stunning compilation. could watch that all day.
Great compilation! Loved watching this and learning from it. Pino all the way.
David Raath cheers, David! :)
That video, your skill, ear, and playing blew me away. Asa drummer just starting to make covers musicians like yourself let me know where i stand. The drummer in those videos were insane! I’m now hoping there’s some video of some of your performances. Your on that next level I’ll never achieve . Brilliant!
Fantastic selection of bass players,everyone who ranks among my favorites including 2 of whom I was not aware. You can tell alot about a musician by his influences. Incidentally, beautiful bass, great tone and killer playing, Scott.
Great video! Some of these guys I've never heard of. I must look them up.
Miguel Fair cheers, Miguel :)
Another superb video. IMO you saved the best till last!
If I'd foreseen any of this in April 1970 [when I took up the bass], I.... don't know what I'd have thought.
Awesome stuff! I just watched your video on why you wear the glove(s). I admire your persistence in not giving up on your passion.
Thanks for another great video Scott! Just like every single one of them, when it's finished, I gotta grab my axe and lay down some grooves!
Andrews sounds exactly like a tenor sax bop player. Incredible, what a talent.
It`s very cool format! More and more analize music!!!
Wow! The best video Scott!
I know all the bass players, but your video is TOP!👌🏾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Humberto Oliveira ahhh cheers Humberto! :)
Thanks dude very good to start my day's plus being that I am 67 year's old I seen a few good bass player's
All great players. All have amazing chops....and I can listen to soloing like that....1 minute, tops.
My favourite video of yours. Whatever it is in this thing, keep it up. You had me laughing of joy and geekiness at 3:36 at Pino's unharmonic bit.
When I started to play the goal was to play with the touch and technique of the violinist. These greats have realized it. Great video.
I think Alain Caron and Percy Jones should be mentioned. But you have a great list here that made me discover new bassists.
Thanks Scott! Your enthusiasm for great bassists mirrors my own. This is a great selection of players/solos. I saw Jeff Andrews with Mike Stern. He made a 4 string sound like a 5 string, huge vocabulary. He is missed. I would consider adding two of my favorite fretless players: Jeff Berlin, and Percy Jones of Brand X, to this group.
Wowwww! Pipoquinha is unbelievable! And you are one of the most complet bassists that I ever know.
Scott, what a good player and teacher you are!!
As much as I respect all these technically brilliant ultra fast-playing bassists - nothing comes close to folks like Pino, who can create a solo which stands out simply by its recognisable melody and tasteful phrasing.
I could probably learn to play this solo in a day, but I would never be able to come up with something pure like this myself. This is what makes a great solo in my opinion.
Michael League played an equally impressive solo last year in Nuremberg. I can listen to the recording of this show over and over again, just for that bass solo.
Completely agree, I also found the Pino solo best in this video's selection of solos. Pino made me "woooo" just by his groovy licks and choice of notes. The other solos are technically very impressive, but mostly not interesting to listen to. Exceptions for me are Gary Willis and Hadrien Feraud though, because they got the chops, but I know they also do great solos with more melodic approaches.
Personally for me the best bass solo is still Victor Wooten's live solo on Dave Matthew Band's #41: ruclips.net/video/LQPrb5c-TnU/видео.html
It combines groove, melody and technique together and there are only a few bass solos that come close to this for me.
Edit: I just remembered since I brought Victor Wooten into the conversation. I heard some clinic a while ago where Victor said some of the most important aspects of solos or music in general is space, meaning the notes you don't play. And as I watch this video more, I notice a lot of these technical solos very much lack space.
Totally agree with you. I think the best solo (no matter on a bass or guitar) is that continues the main theme of the composition. My favorite bass solo for many years is from Cosmosquad's "Jam for Jason". Anyway thanks to Scott for the video, it has many interesting things to learn and practice.
drums stop. very bad. drums stop...
bass solo
lw48wp4 what tune was Michael League soloing over? I’ve always liked his solo on Skate U from Tell Your Friends.
Agree 100%! No more details necessary. :-)
I'm a pretend bass player and love your geekish enthusiasm. totally inspiring. You play great as well. Had to subscribe. Great Video.
Flaming good video Scott, I'd like more like this personally.
Great choises. Thank you for your explanation
You're awesome Scott....you are always bigging up other musicians but all credit to you for being a great teacher, you have a love for the bass which shows with the excitement on your face watching the greats from yesteryear. Keep it up, you are inspiring a new generation of bassists...myself included. Many thanks.
Steve Thornton ahhh thanks so much, Steve 🙌
Scott, you are terrific.
I do enjoy watching you but sometimes you make my head hurt with info overload.
Keep up the great work. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Wonderful content - love it
Let me send this to Richard Bona. 👌🏿
Pino 🔥
All these are incredible Bassists.
Man! Singing that part in the Gary Willis solo, you're a real bass player! xD
Great bassists. Dedicated to learning and performing music.
Great post Scott!
Scott, I can’t understand most of what is happening, but I really enjoyed your passionate explanation and will share your video. Brilliant.
really cool selection, love it
just incredible! thanks
Jazz is the best music for bass players !! yes !!
Great video Scott. I know there's no way you can include every amazing finger bass solo (or solo technique), but I really think Tom Kennedy's crazy solo technique should've been included, whereby he incorporates fast 16th chromatic notes along with open strings while moving his hand along the neck, and THEN almost doubling the speed into a triplet feel while still playing that same technique. Especially since a lot of bass players don't even know Tom. Hope you explain that technique in one of your future videos. Thanks and appreciate the great work you and the team are doing for the bass community.
Ahmed 'AQ' AlQasim Tom is THE MAN! 💪... did an interview with him a few weeks back for SBL... keep a look out for it ;)
Wow! Great bass solo
Scott , u are a gentleman, i love u bro! Cheers from Brazil!
Okay, this will be a much listened to and practiced video!!
Lincoln Adams cheers, Lincoln! 🙌
@@devinebass Actually, I'm in deep need of carving out the time to be in the shed with Scott's bass lessons!
Scott I’m a guitar player and you’ve got me thinking “ Bass “ Lol. Dude I love what you do, I’m always sharing on my FB page and tagging all my musician friends. I may have to join the F Clef Mafia 😎
I really enjoy your channel, but I've walked into the wrong video here. I've heard some Jaco Pastorius...but the rest I have no idea about. Pino Paladino, is the only other player I know of. I feel like I'm in the wrong class at high school. To be honest, they all sound the same to me, and I realise I don't really know what I'm talking about here, but going purely on what I'm hearing, it all sounds like Jazz school...but each to their own. Love your passion and depth of knowledge. Keep on keeping on. Thanks.
Great stuff, thanks!
hey scott, before even checking the video, the title made me remember when i had a band, we played some nirvana, as you know the bass lines are mostly easy. the guitar guy asked us to try love buzz, i said ok, i will learn it... basically nirvana one can learn in one sit, i thought love buzz would be the same. for my great surprise it has a hell of an amazing bass solo in the end! it took me a quite time to achieve it and it cracks! after learning it, i started giving more attention and respect to Chris novoselic as bassist.
Great video! I studied with Jeff Andrews in NYC; he was totally brilliant! What a loss for the electric bass world; luckily Jeff's legacy is totally intact via amazing records and videos! Thanks Scott!
Billy Likitsakos music awesome Billy! I spent time with Jeff (and his cats, lol) in NYC too - great guy!
@@devinebass yeah! I wrote a paper about Jeff when I was at NYU taking a class in Jazz history... I totally gave it to Jeff before I handed it in for my final to make sure I had gotten all my facts right; he liked it so much he asked me if he could publish it on his web site as his bio. Of course, I said "yes please!"... He was a total master bass player and really nice person too. R.I.P. Jeff Andrews.
Really cool video! So happy to see a brazilian bass player featuring! The pronunciation of Pipoquinha is way different, but I can't imagine how to ahow the right way without audio... 🤣
muchas gracuias! este video valio cada segundo de su tiempo , adhiero a cada uno de los bajistas que nombraste los que conocia y aun los que no.
creo que deberias escuchar a Federico Heliodoro de brasil , Marco mendoza,, guillermo vadala en cada uno de sus solos , ´pero particularmente en willie. gracias
Scott,
Can you make the top 10 solos you transcribed for bass? (any instrument)
Because this video is FIRE!!!
Gonçalo Marques absolutely- great idea man :)
I wish I could have listened to all of your favorite bass solos and then had you break them down.
top notch... absolutely amazing
So awesome to see the "Great Dane" Alderson on here, with Andy Finsenden on drums, Perth represent!
Blown away of them all, but that brazilian guy.....man...great upload, thanks!!
Drummer here, love your channel!
Beautiful upload nice work that takes time you are sharing your heart your commentary is engaging and educational. I am a guitar player but love introduction to virtuosos. This is my religion, therapy and spiritual energy ( music) source I consume at high doses. I love when people get wigged out emotionally, gestulations and feeling that shit down to the toes. The universal language. Quality post . Life enriching. Thx bro
Unreal!!! Mind blown...
Hey , Scott! Greetings from Brazil. Very nice video. You must be a very good teatcher. Thanks for share your view about this greats bassists. About the brazilian bass player, the las name is PEE-POH-KI-NEEA-AH (it´s a dimintutive to pop corn. Something that jumps out from the pan - like in his case). Best warms. Congratulations.
❤️❤️❤️❤️I love what you do man
Jaco was soooo the best of his time, and now the technical level is really much more higher, and...impossible to reach for most of us ! I wouldn't have thought that 40 years ago when I started playing..
But Jaco still sounds better. Honestly this all sounds a bit pointless trying to do stuff for the sake of doing it.
Yep, the technical level went up a notch. However, there’s still no cat around who has all parameters on that ‘Jaco level’. I mean, I still haven’t heard compositions of all those technical guys reaching the musical level of ‘Three Views of A Secret’. Also, Jaco’s arranging skills were very high. And not much players had that level of impact like Jaco did. He’s still audible in every (technical or even non-technical) bass player.
But then again, there are lots of bass players who have their own thing going, despite of the obvious Jaco influence. There are numerous of great players out there, still so much great music for us to enjoy.
@@charlesnagtzaam1658 Right. Still love Jaco too.
Jaco was on the level of Mozart.
Good stuff! Jeff Andrews had the ability to make an electric bass sound like an acoustic on some songs. Very underrated bass player.
Hi, Scott. I'm a Brazilian English teacher, and a bass player too.I'll try to teach how pronouce "Pipoquinga", that means something like "tiny popcorn", because he was a child when he starts to play the bass. So, you can try to say: Pe-paw-ke-nã (like senõr in spanish). Have you ever seen he playing Jaco pastorius' Teen Town with an orchestra? That's amazing! Cheers from Brazil!
Even these complex, shredding bass solos can put me to sleep. And I'm a bass player!
Man goes to an island, and when he steps off the boat, he hears loud drumming in the distant hills. As he walks into his hotel, he can still hear the drumming. He asks the concierge, ‘what’s with the drumming?” Concierge says, ‘if drumming stops, very very bad.” Next day, the man had not slept all night, due to the incessant drums that never stopped! As he goes downstairs and jumps into a cab, he asks the taxi driver “so what happens when the drumming stops?” Driver says, “oh very very bad if drumming stops”. ‘Tell me what is so bad?” Taxi driver looks at the man and says…”if drumming stops, then it’s bass solo!”
Oh and.. TRILOGUE! I bought that on DVD and was just amazed from beginning to end. Good shout!
Great video!
I loved this channel ❤❤
Thanks for the video it was great from start to finish. speaking of technique, The kid from Asterism is doing some cool things on the bass and i wouldn't mind seeing some of them decoded by you. his bass solo's are really cool melodic pieces.
your passion for what you doing, it's brillant! Greatings from Brazil! And Pipoquinha means a diminutive for popcorn, it's like call
him "Little popcorn".
A good selection. I love that session with Jaco, Albert Mangelsdorf, and one of the greatest drummers Alphonse Mouzon. Btw, it would be nice if you could do something on the late great Dave Carpenter sometime.
I'm not an expert, but Scott is the best bass player I've seen among the youtube musicians.
Great lines with even greater tone.
Michael Pipoquinha.... 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
@Scott, you can try saying Michael's name like "Pipokiña". 😉
@@marcuslacerda618 Si, legal! Glad to see Michael again!
Marcos Perrone Tudo bem!!
Man that was so clean every note people have a tendency to muffle notes when they play fast but this was like someone speed up a regular recording, really good.
BR BR BR !!!!!! Pipoquinha !!!!
Scott, I take great offense by you listing "Self Defense" as a solo I've probably NEVER heard…🤣
Great list, by the way!
I think I appreciate all kinds of bass solos, both technically complex and also more melodic and soulful. But the ones that touch me emotionally are usually the simpler, more tasteful ones. I'd love to hear your thoughts Scott on something like the one Jaco does in Midwestern Nights Dream by Pat Metheny. A blizzard of notes is for sure impressive and easy to be wowed by, but it's really nice to be able to connect with the music on a deeper level sometimes ...
It's the same with drummers - those internet arguments about who the 'best drummer ever' is so often revolve around who's the most technically proficient or who can solo with the most fireworks. But I'll very happily take Vinnie's playing on something relatively simple like Fields of Gold or Seven Days as it's the restraint and tastefulness which come to the fore rather than the display of chops! Just listen to Pino's playing on the Don Henley track New York Minute and you'll see what I mean :)
Agree. Chuck Rainey said there's "melody notes" and "theory notes". I like the melody notes
Wow, didn't know that was Pino! You're absolutely right, incredible Bass work!!
JAMES BEARD I LOVE YOUR COMMENT IT,S VERY TRUE .
Love your stuff Scott, and so chuffed to be a prt of the advanced technique accelerator program! You top it off by wearing a Panerai