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For all the comments saying that he's high, he very well could be, but more than likely he is just introverted, not used to interviews, and incredibly humble. Getting world experience playing with great drummers, learning to feel the music, and sitting on the back of the beat is the best advice from any SBL video for understanding the role of a bass player. Nothing wrong with bass nerd content, but THIS is what it means to be a bass player.
Oh man what an awesome interview! The way he turned the nerds around to basics - groove, feel, friends, enjoying it, feeling it, the other stuff comes after.. and with such an ease.. I'm a fan
Love Kelsey's advice about moving (and focussing on the plucking hand). I was shocked by his Pino impression. It's clear he's thought about what he's talking about and not just making stuff up on the spot.
This is the most Cali a Cali person could possibly be...down to the bone...😄. Also, the "like..." counter on this video is record breaking 😄 yet the simplicity of it all is engaging enough that it doesn't sound as though the guest is trying to show how amazing they are. I didn't even wait 5 seconds before going to apply the "Fall Back" advice on a 70s beat I just made. Huge difference.
Yay!!! Aston Familyman Barrett, that's my Bass teacher!! Glad he mentions him. Very groovy and melodic Bass lines. 🙌🏿👌🏿✍🏿 Listening to him is like I'm listening to myself. Strange! Thank you for the interview. Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤
Let me tell you, I grew up with this “fool” Kelsey since elementary school. We mostly lost contact after high school but it’s crazy to see that even after 20 years, he still exactly the same at his core. Saying random funny shit, and chuckling about it. Just having a good time wherever he is. He’s the type of dude where you don’t see him for a few years and when you do finally hang out with him, you just pick up right where you left off. We had an inside joke in fifth grade, or you would rub your hands together and say “toasty”. I bet at 38 years old, next time I see him I’ll bust that shit out and he’ll just laugh. He always had this uncanny ability to have people gravitate to him by being humble. Quite literally one of the coolest dudes I’ll ever know. Stoked to see him get his flowers with this interview.
I’m key-bass player in a cover band that covers Come Down regularly. And learning the technicality behind this just boosted my appreciation for this song! Free Nationals go hard!! I feel like I’m “cheating” lol Oh yeah, we do Tints too. That’s the one I get to showcase my left hand go-off!
🤣🤣🤣27:29 Yeah, there's no other band in the world like SoundCheck and no other bassist like Thadd! I'm so blessed to be a part of the movement. That's an awesome first gospel song to have to play!
FINALLY!!! This interview is one of 2, I’ve been wondering why it’s taken so long to see. Thank you so much for it! I appreciate it so much. It was AMAZING! Juliaplaysgroove would be the other “dream interview” I’d love to see. Cheers
Great interview! Maybe,,one or two less bong loads before an interview but still really good!! HAHA!🤣 Scott and Ian PLEASE try to get an interview with Steve Harris. 😃😃 🙏🙏
When an artist is interviewed by nerds. "Yeah, oh yeah... Ostinato? What you call it? ....Yeah, I guess a fan of that." Kelsey is a cool cat and a real dude. He's right, Family Man is a GOAT. He's also right about reaching for BEAD tuning for some tracks you could play on EADG - because it feels better, easier on the fingers, and you get a warmer tone
I saw the Chili Peppers at the same Lollapalooza as Anderson Paak and the FN. At the end of the show (Give It Away) Flea made the break before the final part of the song with the Come Down bassline. It was great
OMG, had a bassist on one gig (a pretty new bassist - he was good, but not played with others often) who kept thinking WE were speeding up, so he would speed up. Nope, it was all him. He kept driving the tempo up and up and up, until it was almost too fast to play. No drummer, just bass and a handful of strummers/singers, so we were all following him. Absolutely hilarious. xD
Find that good drummer..yeah..I miss playing with my friend Larry. I always felt locked in with him from day 1. I moved away and haven't really played live since.
I've been a huge fan of this guy since the first time I heard Anderson Paak. He's so under rated and grooves so hard. I'd rather listen to his basslines all day over all the instagram bass virtuousos out there.
@ 19m40.....YES !!!!!! "There is room for all of it". Flashy playing, and simply groovin". Can we all get over that fact. Also...I wonder when he was mentioning the "BLUE" MXR octaver pedal. I wonder if what he meant was the blue Octaver Deluxe pedal, and not the Blue Poly Octaver. 🤔🤔
HAHAH shaddap that's funny. That was funny, I know what he's saying. Some people you have small hands and I respect that because if I didn't have large hands and thumbs, I would be at a disadvantage with Bass and frets. I played Bass since that was the instrument people said I was supposed to play, that or saxophone because I tested the best with that. We did musical testing in my school, long time ago did you guys do that ?. I could not play the flute whatsoever, I just sat it down after failing like ooook. I have a respect for flute now. Small hands people are savages man, I bet your friend has smaller hands than me by a lot because she seems rather kind of small sized. The fact she plays bass is amazing, but I feel like...bad for people without extra large hands. I do use most my muscles any way no matter how I play, eventually get tired of sitting or standing. So it does not matter how long my hands can play cause my feet are the weakest link. I wouldn't play anything if I didn't have strong hands. It's a little bit like basketball, size does matter for your hands. You can know everything about music, but can you play it is another thing. Not many people can just play what they want, which at this point nothing else matters and game over. But playing is much better than thinking about talking about music, writing it etc. Like it makes more sense to me to listen always first, lf I can hear and feel the changes then I can learn the song and that's good enough for me. I definitely am glad I didn't go to college for music, no offense but there's a lot of talking up in there for nothing. There's never a time where I wouldn't use my ears first, or use different senses for reading music when I'm not struggling to learn music just using my ears. I'm not learning to play Les Claypool, not something impossible sounding. Not rocket science to create a Bass part, it's simple. When you start getting into lead and solos, this gets more complicated and it's not always Bass anymore, and sometimes it's ...shaddap !. I like to play keys and horns lines on Bass, I think I am Dizzy Gilespie, who likes that anyways I have no clue for now, but that's how I approach lead, something that's not Bass and then I go towards the vocals and whatever is leading the song. I don't go the finger tapping route, Van Halen and I leave this for him. I would rather be singing, or be better at singing with my Bass than with my actual my voice. Nick Campbell he said this about singing too, he can just play what he likes now basically. This is a possibility for anyone, especially if you're not great at vocals, you can get vocal with Bass. It's a option besides following a lead guitar style, like most people follow that. Andrew Gouche followed the vocals as well. Both Andrew and Nick have razer sharp ears, they can hear every note and this is why they're both legends and they will both agree. I can hear that they can hear everything. All they did was have a keen ear for music. There's a lot you need for tools, a package deal to be good and I don't have the memory or the willpower that you all have to know everything formal about music whatsoever. It's impressive that you can tell me the scientific name for everything you play, I am like look at the brain on this man. You should be a teacher with all this knowledge. My brain is loaded just on songs, remembering songs. If you have all good influences this helps the most, watch the videos and learn good songs, have good taste in music and the rest is easy for anyone because there's a lot to enjoy and a lot of possible influences, this ends up being who you sound like in the end. Follow the legends and you will be fine, they are all good. But don't just pick a guy and copy that guy, that's like...ok. Pick 5 guys and copy them all. Pick gals and copy gals, I love Dua Lipa. Play something that sounds good, like she is good it's not complicated is it, but it's good. She crossed the line from okay to good and now whatever she does is going to be fine. You guys never needed to be so complicated at this thing to get good...pick a spot and jam on it. You just maybe didn't do that enough times or something, if you're lost somehow. We need more jamming and more human contacts, everyone does. We are set up online, and it's not a good spot to be forever. Get four people together, get tight and practice until you need breaks. Seems like nobody is busting down the doors of Bassists these days, not at all. I see street performers at the level of straight legend, those people are homeless and rock. I heard performances that will give you goosebumps coming out of subway stations downtown. They might not be pretty looking people, I just gave them a few bucks. It was simple music, very soulful and roots based and it really worked for what it was. They never went to college either, for any reason. It's just amazing I paid over 40$ for tickets to see Bob Dylan and I can barely remember set 1, from 10 years ago but I can remember a homeless woman and a man in a Subway like it was yesterday. They just had a better performance, hands down better than Bob. It was then I had a deep sense of appreciation for the Blues, just in general because it's where I come from, part of town is legendary Blues. This still will always be good music, no matter opinions how they change. It's just objectively better than Bob no matter which culture it is, maybe when Bob was young enough to sing and play but not later on. Most of USA culture changed and suddenly, bands don't exist like before at the rate.
Love what we do at SBL? Well we've got LOADS more. Here are just a couple of ways for you to dive deeper:
🎸 Dive into The Ultimate Bass Fretboard Crash Course to master the techniques used by the pros! sbl.link/fretboard-crash-course
🔥 Try the SBL Bass Academy FREE for 14 Days: sbl.link/join-sbl
🚀 Get 1-1 Bass Coaching (12 Month Mentorship Program): sbl.link/the-blueprint
Either he’s super chill or baked out of his mind 😂🤷🏾♂️ I’m all for it
Definitely both
😂💯
The latter
Basketball baked
Probably both 😂
This may be my favorite interview with a bassist ever.
For all the comments saying that he's high, he very well could be, but more than likely he is just introverted, not used to interviews, and incredibly humble. Getting world experience playing with great drummers, learning to feel the music, and sitting on the back of the beat is the best advice from any SBL video for understanding the role of a bass player. Nothing wrong with bass nerd content, but THIS is what it means to be a bass player.
Nah he for sure is baked
“Wishing you health and good drummers” HAS to go on the next SBL swag
Oh man what an awesome interview! The way he turned the nerds around to basics - groove, feel, friends, enjoying it, feeling it, the other stuff comes after.. and with such an ease.. I'm a fan
Love Kelsey's advice about moving (and focussing on the plucking hand). I was shocked by his Pino impression. It's clear he's thought about what he's talking about and not just making stuff up on the spot.
“That fool Flea” DESTROYED me 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Love this guy. Keeping it all real. No ego, sounds like the guys I grew up with in the suburbs. Very inspirational in a real world way.
You’re 100 % right. I actually DID grow up with Kelsey in the suburbs. Such a rad dude since day one.
Most ‘Chill’ interview ever. Great conversation, folks 👍🏾
This is the most Cali a Cali person could possibly be...down to the bone...😄. Also, the "like..." counter on this video is record breaking 😄 yet the simplicity of it all is engaging enough that it doesn't sound as though the guest is trying to show how amazing they are.
I didn't even wait 5 seconds before going to apply the "Fall Back" advice on a 70s beat I just made. Huge difference.
Since I saw the NPR sessions with Anderson .Paak I laid my eyes (or better: ears) on that fellow. Man just *knows* how to lay nicely the groove
Love the recognition that Family man Barrett has been getting on the channel recently
🧡🧡🧡
This very well could be my favorite interview. This guy is hilarious, but is hitting so many great points.
Yeah! Every bass player knows he lays such a solid groove... This was a long expected interview. Thanks!
I think this dude had a visit from Dr. Green thumb😂
Literally just came to say this exact thing 😂
California guy, with reggae roots. Such a cool guy... !
Correlation not causation. I know sober fools from Long Beach that still talk like this 😎
Kelsey is a absolute stud. Great musician, super chill dude
🧡🧡🧡
That Tiny Desk started my fandom of Paak. Absolutely sick showcase 🔥
🔥🔥🔥
Yay!!! Aston Familyman Barrett, that's my Bass teacher!! Glad he mentions him. Very groovy and melodic Bass lines. 🙌🏿👌🏿✍🏿
Listening to him is like I'm listening to myself. Strange! Thank you for the interview.
Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤
I am so happy he talked about the head bobs. It is so fucking important. FUCKING MOVE.
Kelsey is super humble, love this man
Let me tell you, I grew up with this “fool” Kelsey since elementary school. We mostly lost contact after high school but it’s crazy to see that even after 20 years, he still exactly the same at his core. Saying random funny shit, and chuckling about it. Just having a good time wherever he is. He’s the type of dude where you don’t see him for a few years and when you do finally hang out with him, you just pick up right where you left off. We had an inside joke in fifth grade, or you would rub your hands together and say “toasty”. I bet at 38 years old, next time I see him I’ll bust that shit out and he’ll just laugh. He always had this uncanny ability to have people gravitate to him by being humble. Quite literally one of the coolest dudes I’ll ever know. Stoked to see him get his flowers with this interview.
This dude’s sound is my goal right now. So tight, warm, and funky
I’m key-bass player in a cover band that covers Come Down regularly. And learning the technicality behind this just boosted my appreciation for this song! Free Nationals go hard!! I feel like I’m “cheating” lol
Oh yeah, we do Tints too. That’s the one I get to showcase my left hand go-off!
Loved when he slipped and said Breezy. Made me laugh thinking about the old days.
Buddy Strong is a hell of a keyboardist and singer.
Kelsey and his security basketball :)
Literally saw this guy play like 2 days before this video came out. So cool to hear the back story behind his work
What a great guy, he’s so humble and friendly! And an absolute monster on bass! ❤
Nah I've known this foo for over a decade and he's always like this 😂
I can't wait to see them next week in Phoenix - Kelsey is who inspired me to learn to play this wonderful instrument!
Thanks guys, great interview & always good to hear different perspectives !
One of my favorite interviews so far.
Lord Kelstro's super chill.
I would love to see more from this dude.
Ian! Thank you for always repping MN! Love to see it.
🤣🤣🤣27:29 Yeah, there's no other band in the world like SoundCheck and no other bassist like Thadd! I'm so blessed to be a part of the movement.
That's an awesome first gospel song to have to play!
This is an awesome interview sbl team. Love the little nugget at the end about playing more key bass 😊
FINALLY!!! This interview is one of 2, I’ve been wondering why it’s taken so long to see. Thank you so much for it! I appreciate it so much. It was AMAZING!
Juliaplaysgroove would be the other “dream interview” I’d love to see.
Cheers
I work at leveling up my playing with theory and scales, but this is where I like to live.
Thx Ian, Kelsey Gonzalez is my guy, so happy 😂
🧡🧡🧡
Such a huge fan of Kelsey! Thank you so much for this interview!
Glad you enjoyed it!
His work on "Winner's Circle" by Anderson is just nuts. Such funky and tricky syncopation.
Crazy, i was practicing Bass, took a break to check this video, and the Bass I have is a Sadowsky, but exact the same color and maple fingerboard!
beautiful interview !!!!!! so much JOY ;))))) thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
🔥 the glue of the band!
Great interview! Maybe,,one or two less bong loads before an interview but still really good!! HAHA!🤣
Scott and Ian PLEASE try to get an interview with Steve Harris.
😃😃
🙏🙏
Family man taught him more than the bass
hahaha underrated comment
😂😂😂
💯
When an artist is interviewed by nerds. "Yeah, oh yeah... Ostinato? What you call it? ....Yeah, I guess a fan of that." Kelsey is a cool cat and a real dude. He's right, Family Man is a GOAT. He's also right about reaching for BEAD tuning for some tracks you could play on EADG - because it feels better, easier on the fingers, and you get a warmer tone
I saw him play with his band a few months ago in Virginia. Really tight pocket.
🔥🔥🔥
I saw the Chili Peppers at the same Lollapalooza as Anderson Paak and the FN. At the end of the show (Give It Away) Flea made the break before the final part of the song with the Come Down bassline. It was great
24:26 ian spittin bars "if you lock in some kinda rigid arrangement,
it would feel kinda strange then,
to change it.."
damn!
They say bassists are cool dudes, man that Kelsey nails it
Loved this! Thank U🙏🏾🔥
what a legend legend!!!
Lovely episode, ty ❤
THAT WAS one great Tiny Desk!!!
OMG, had a bassist on one gig (a pretty new bassist - he was good, but not played with others often) who kept thinking WE were speeding up, so he would speed up. Nope, it was all him. He kept driving the tempo up and up and up, until it was almost too fast to play. No drummer, just bass and a handful of strummers/singers, so we were all following him. Absolutely hilarious. xD
Find that good drummer..yeah..I miss playing with my friend Larry. I always felt locked in with him from day 1. I moved away and haven't really played live since.
I see anderson paak i like
Es el numero uno, el groove por delante de todo es el rey
I've been a huge fan of this guy since the first time I heard Anderson Paak. He's so under rated and grooves so hard. I'd rather listen to his basslines all day over all the instagram bass virtuousos out there.
22:26 this reminds me of Rust by Yussef Dayes and Tom Misch
Bro this guy holding a bball and bass at the same time is so relatable.
and him holding back his tears when he thinks deeply about Family Man is so real.
Reggae is what got me into bass. And now I play bass for a reggae band.
🔥🔥🔥
WHAT A BASS PLAYER. My fav bassline is trippy
More hip hop bass lessons please 🙏
32:32 - that's the secret to Kelsey's tone for sure
@ 19m40.....YES !!!!!! "There is room for all of it". Flashy playing, and simply groovin". Can we all get over that fact. Also...I wonder when he was mentioning the "BLUE" MXR octaver pedal. I wonder if what he meant was the blue Octaver Deluxe pedal, and not the Blue Poly Octaver. 🤔🤔
Geeked out bro
Not a virtuoso, but ‘just’ a music lover, like all of us. Great!
👍 I am having whatever Kelsey is having, I mean this in a very good way . peace
Ian please do a lesson on some beginner gospel/worship music to get us going!
If Kelsey still wants an OC2, I got one here. Used but functional.
That fool flea and this guy miguel, dude is working with legends like it's nothing. he is my spirit animal
True musician
That was tight
Have your heard of Carles Benavent? He is the first bass flamenco player that started with Paco de Lucia a great work
Monster player. I once visited Barcelona and mailed him for a bass lesson, but he was out of town. But Gary Willis was in town though. Not too bad.
Dude is high asffff rn lmao
One of my all time favorites - lordkelstro
Babylon By Bus, in my opinion, is the greatest Bob Marley album, and the best live bass recording ever!
Does he play flats or uses a foam when playing the bassline from Come Down?
He is the goat
Shafiq Husayn is one of the most underrated🔥
Please get an interview with flea! 😊
Another cool cat I didn’t know ! Thanks guys
👍👍👍
dope ! ❤
100/100 Ian :)
awesome
kelsey is super high!!!!
Cheers!!
Janek Gwizdala is a mover...
Kelsey Ganjalez
I dont think he does many interviews. Or he was really high.
I want a Christmas card!
why are you holding a basketball?
Why do I feel like every time he mentiones a musician he’s just making the name off the top of his head.
HAHAH shaddap that's funny. That was funny, I know what he's saying.
Some people you have small hands and I respect that because if I didn't have large hands and thumbs, I would be at a disadvantage with Bass and frets.
I played Bass since that was the instrument people said I was supposed to play, that or saxophone because I tested the best with that.
We did musical testing in my school, long time ago did you guys do that ?. I could not play the flute whatsoever, I just sat it down after failing like ooook.
I have a respect for flute now. Small hands people are savages man, I bet your friend has smaller hands than me by a lot because she seems rather kind of small sized.
The fact she plays bass is amazing, but I feel like...bad for people without extra large hands. I do use most my muscles any way no matter how I play, eventually get tired of sitting or standing.
So it does not matter how long my hands can play cause my feet are the weakest link. I wouldn't play anything if I didn't have strong hands. It's a little bit like basketball, size does matter for your hands.
You can know everything about music, but can you play it is another thing. Not many people can just play what they want, which at this point nothing else matters and game over.
But playing is much better than thinking about talking about music, writing it etc.
Like it makes more sense to me to listen always first, lf I can hear and feel the changes then I can learn the song and that's good enough for me.
I definitely am glad I didn't go to college for music, no offense but there's a lot of talking up in there for nothing. There's never a time where I wouldn't use my ears first, or use different senses for reading music when I'm not struggling to learn music just using my ears.
I'm not learning to play Les Claypool, not something impossible sounding. Not rocket science to create a Bass part, it's simple. When you start getting into lead and solos, this gets more complicated and it's not always Bass anymore, and sometimes it's ...shaddap !. I like to play keys and horns lines on Bass, I think I am Dizzy Gilespie, who likes that anyways I have no clue for now, but that's how I approach lead, something that's not Bass and then I go towards the vocals and whatever is leading the song. I don't go the finger tapping route, Van Halen and I leave this for him.
I would rather be singing, or be better at singing with my Bass than with my actual my voice. Nick Campbell he said this about singing too, he can just play what he likes now basically. This is a possibility for anyone, especially if you're not great at vocals, you can get vocal with Bass. It's a option besides following a lead guitar style, like most people follow that. Andrew Gouche followed the vocals as well. Both Andrew and Nick have razer sharp ears, they can hear every note and this is why they're both legends and they will both agree. I can hear that they can hear everything. All they did was have a keen ear for music.
There's a lot you need for tools, a package deal to be good and I don't have the memory or the willpower that you all have to know everything formal about music whatsoever. It's impressive that you can tell me the scientific name for everything you play, I am like look at the brain on this man. You should be a teacher with all this knowledge. My brain is loaded just on songs, remembering songs.
If you have all good influences this helps the most, watch the videos and learn good songs, have good taste in music and the rest is easy for anyone because there's a lot to enjoy and a lot of possible influences, this ends up being who you sound like in the end. Follow the legends and you will be fine, they are all good. But don't just pick a guy and copy that guy, that's like...ok.
Pick 5 guys and copy them all. Pick gals and copy gals, I love Dua Lipa.
Play something that sounds good, like she is good it's not complicated is it, but it's good.
She crossed the line from okay to good and now whatever she does is going to be fine. You guys never needed to be so complicated at this thing to get good...pick a spot and jam on it.
You just maybe didn't do that enough times or something, if you're lost somehow.
We need more jamming and more human contacts, everyone does. We are set up online, and it's not a good spot to be forever. Get four people together, get tight and practice until you need breaks. Seems like nobody is busting down the doors of Bassists these days, not at all.
I see street performers at the level of straight legend, those people are homeless and rock. I heard performances that will give you goosebumps coming out of subway stations downtown. They might not be pretty looking people, I just gave them a few bucks. It was simple music, very soulful and roots based and it really worked for what it was.
They never went to college either, for any reason. It's just amazing I paid over 40$ for tickets to see Bob Dylan and I can barely remember set 1, from 10 years ago but I can remember a homeless woman and a man in a Subway like it was yesterday. They just had a better performance, hands down better than Bob.
It was then I had a deep sense of appreciation for the Blues, just in general because it's where I come from, part of town is legendary Blues. This still will always be good music, no matter opinions how they change. It's just objectively better than Bob no matter which culture it is, maybe when Bob was young enough to sing and play but not later on. Most of USA culture changed and suddenly, bands don't exist like before at the rate.
Strong brownies there
Why’s he holding a basketball though 🤨😂🤷🏻♂️
*Bassketball
@@Corniis 😂😂
It's very distracting.
Security ball..Like Linus blanket in peanuts
Lakers fan
If this guy is high, then I have to go get high.
my man is zonked
Hes like a younger bobby vega