Your Sound Is Your Signature - Christian McBride | 2 Minute Jazz
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Christian McBride breaks down the keys to developing your signature sound on the acoustic bass.
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Your sound is your signature. Lot of things you can do to get a good sound.
I'll tell you a few things you don't need to do. You don't need to raise you strings way high off the fingerboard. You don't have to pull the strings so far back like you're about to shoot off an arrow. You don't need to do any of that.
Keep your strings at a nice height, maybe .9, one whole centimeter off the fingerboard. Play without an amp, especially when you practice. Don't move your right hand around too much while you play. You don't wanna... See the guys doing the bird when they play? Start flapping their hands, almost like a chicken. They think somehow physically it makes them swing harder. It just makes you tired, that's all. You don't need all that movement, just right in there. And keep your thumb locked. See my right thumb? Whoops! It's not going all in here. Keep it locked.
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There's so much to learn in these two minutes. Bravo.
Thanks Jason!
I can't walk and talk at the same time, but you make playing and teaching at the same time look effortless.
I love this comment
One of the very best bassists of all time. When he gives you advice, you listen up and you take it and learn from it.
Even as a saxophonist!
Man, I don't even play double bass, but you know I learned so much watching this, in any case.
hey Big Smoke
All you had to do was play the bass CJ
hey gizzard cock
Extremely niche comedy right there lol
Listen to his arrangement of "Tangerine". He's got the fastest pizzicato technique. I transcribed his solo after slowing it down, and hope to play it one day at his tempo. He is the dictionary definition of what a jazz bass player should be. Chops, bass lines, phrasing, and rhythmic stability all rolled into one.
A brilliant bassist giving some brilliant advice. Thanks Christian & Open Studio!
Thanks for watching!
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" A most pussaintly dainted 'tall animal holder, ' lecture from the oratically prominent Mr. Mcbride, one of my highly benightied double stringed prospectors, I have many more, many before him. I simply don't choose to fatuously aperture detailing such records. His fundamental approach I found very portenous for those out there whom are "seekers," such as myself.
What a nice, humble chap. I feel like he nearly gives himself the giggles on a few occasions too.
Pure gold. Mr. McBride imparts knowledge in every movement and word, and it all just clicks.
I love this guy. So real.
lovely, C--relaxed and very helpful for a beginner (moi)-thanks, S
CMcB is so damn cool. Love him to the max.
You are GREAT not only as Musician but as person!
a real Artist
One of the best and simply put instructional's posted..
Thnx..
This is my 9th time watching this I think and it makes me so happy
This was... magical ...
where was Open Studio when I was playing this stuff in 1954 tho👀
This guy’s brilliant
Spot on delivery.
Love it!
Christian thanks for a great video with so much knowledge about string height.
I love that you left in where you made a mistake.... lets us know you're human! Great mini lesson.
I learned more from this 2 minutes than 10 hrs. of full videos! Good Show!
More value in two minutes than any other lesson I've seen...
My consent, that was beyond watson elementary jazz!!! He delivered not only the sermon but handed out the offering plate as a deacon and the church service ended early 'Amen,'
That sounds awesome!
Okay, giving brother, thank you. But at times I flap my right hand around like whatever, because that's how I play it best for that moment. The wish for the note inside me sends my body there. And I love it. I don't think it makes me "swing harder". I don't think at all about it. And I don't "rake" the strings as you and many amazing jazz upright players do, and a person that you revere (now passed) said for me to go ahead with what works. All that being said, your advice might help some, so thank you. Just don't dictate. Fabrics of sounds evolve through human dancing.
Thank you for making Japanese Subtitle. ありがとうございます。Lesson にも日本語版があると嬉しいです。
arigato!
this video is equally as hilarious as informative...I thank you teacher!
Hey man, very inspiring - although - all you really say is: this is how you get your sound, you have a bunch of nice solutions. And that's the valuable advice all should follow - find their own bunch of nice solutions.
Shhhhheeeet. This gives the coolest advice lessons I have ever seen.
I don't even play the bass but I still clicked on this vid because Christian McBride is Life.
He should do a whole instructional dvd like this
You're in luck, Christian has a 21-lesson course from Open Studio! Check out Fundamentals of Jazz Bass here: www.openstudionetwork.com/project/fjb-overview/
I highly recommend this course, awesome knowledge and hipness all around
Thank you Mr. McBride.
thanks , hey , great class , i dont play acustic bass , but i like very much the low tunes
"just makes you tired, that's all" hahahahaha too funny too right. Saw you perform live in brattleboro, vt. , within 5 mins I realized I was out of excuses. Thanks Maestro.
yeah this is a great tutorial
Thank you Sir for this wonderful lesson. Where do I send the check. Oh no. my wife says I can't do that! LOL!
Elegant and masterful.
Great grove man!!!!!!! Lovely
thank you. greeting from bali island
Wow. Fantastic
Can you give us some advice on the electric bass … Thank you Christian
A young master!.........
what makes you think that is a good sound? It's resonant, rich, and woody (and way in tune). Is that good?
Nice !
So cool
1:01 but somehow the chicken technique gave him even more punch :-)
Wonderful tone. Would love to know what strings and gauges you use!
He is endorsed by d'addario and uses this set in this course www.daddario.com/artists/orchestral/christian_mcbride/
In many other videos he gets the same great sound on thomastik spirocores, however most of his tone is in his fingers ;)
Thanks!
If I could go back in time, I would have studied the upright bass before the electric bass!!!
🙌🏾🙌🏾
22 viewers pick with the chicken wing. 😎
"start flapping their hands, almost like a chicken" - too dismissive told to accept it.
If he don't use that movement, it does not mean that it's not necessary to others
This movement is recommended by many great masters for create a big acoustic sound and good swing feel. He is a big man and he have very strong hands, therefore he spend less energy to do it. If you is average human then you need to compensate a create big sound some way. Therefore many people playing with the help a chicken wing movement which Is the sum of little a different movements, like a cross in a boxing.
한국어 자막 누가 달았는지 ㅋㅋ 재미있고 유익하네요 한국어 자막 제작한 분이 누군지 모르겠지만 땡큐입니다 ㅋㅋ
I tend to use my right arm a lot to keep time in between notes/phrases. But I'm a guitarist, so what do I know?
the successor to ray brown...that TONE!
Dear Christian, first you have to learn to play, how to awake the soul of your instrument. Soon after comes the sound. Every music-instrument has a soul. Your is under your hat, when you play well.
I agree, Play forever until your instrument reveals its soul to yours.
A seldom but wonderful event when it transpires , like a musical rainbow.
Wow!
浮き上がる音質,,,,///\\\\:いいね！
master's didactics
This man does the need a bass. He can just sing.
What about the left hand?
Awesome lesson!
Anybody knows why does Christian have the bass all tied up with the black ties?
Thanx
He's using a bib to protect the part of the bass that's touching his body. You can find them on upton bass or gollihur music if you're interested.
cela est si naturel pour lui incroyable
"See my right thumb?
:P
Whoops!"
@1:28 ❤😂
Yes!!!
I play with my strings a foot off the finger board and I swing around the bass like a dandy swinging around a light pole in the moonlight,
1:28 _Whóps._
wonder what he means by .9-1cm. is he talking about the E string? so G is .6, D is .7, A is .8, and E is .9? if so thats fucking insanely high action
Why he tied around the bass with some tipe of rope? Is it broken or its for some sound stuff?
There are double bass piezo pick ups that you tie around the bass
@@davidburrows2136 I dont know, its a possibility, I think too that is for killing the "wolves" but if you dont play with the bow its not a problem (I think)
From another comment (Sebastian Owens): "He's using a bib to protect the part of the bass that's touching his body. You can find them on upton bass or gollihur music if you're interested."
I imagine the same lesson in a hazy speakeasy, dudes sipping on whisky and smoking cigars, nodding their heads along with the walking bass...
Oh baby I hear the blues a-calling, tossed salads and scrambled eggs!
that heavy sound makes me crazy
I am a pianist, and I try by all means not to be emotional when I play
わかりやすい
"whoops" was still an amazing sound to me lol
1:28 so now we know he's human
Alright Christian, I’ll retire the chicken wing.. can’t lie I’m gonna miss it though haha
your sound is ur signature but make sure ur signature isnt all these things
The ad brought me here
He forgot to mention. You need fingers like cucumbers otherwise forget it.
For ALLL, the Jaco, Stanley,Victor, Marcus, Wannabe's!!
昔のベーシストに比べるとやっぱり現代的な弾き方だよな。
the fingers look like trunks ...
Hey hot shot how about you tune a little bit better, specially every single fourth finger man it sounds off.
Ha ha...don't do the bird!
素晴らしい皮肉だなwwww
どこが
자막 개빡치네
You're only allowed to look like a chicken playing the bass on that groovy assed song called The Chicken. Maybe. Well. Probably not.
Keeping my thumb locked makes my fingers cramp. What do think I should do to make it stop?
make sure youre relaxing your hand as much as possible when you play
Switch to Guitar. LOL
Awesome! ❤