The Two Feel: Making your bass lines dance! - Bass lesson with Russell Hall

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  • Опубликовано: 21 сен 2022
  • Check out this preview lesson from Russell Hall's new course, Bessie's Bass Busters
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    LESSON NOTES
    In this lesson, Russell breaks down the mystery and challenges of playing two feel bass lines. He explores and demonstrates how great bass legends such as Israel Crosby, Ron Carter, and Ray Brown all approached the two-feel bass line, and how you can use their playing as inspiration to play your own great bass lines.
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    BESSIE'S BASS BUSTERS BY RUSSELL HALL
    In his new online course, Russell Hall teaches his 'Bass Busters' - his essential lessons which can make a huge difference to your bass playing. Designed for jazz bassists, the course covers a range of topics including left and right-hand technique, sound production, rhythm, soloing, creating walking bass lines, and much more! In the course, there are 45 videos over 5 hours, band demonstrations, play-along tracks, and detailed transcriptions so you will have everything you need to make maximum progress. If you are a fan of Russell Hall's bass playing and want to learn some of his signature sounds, you will love it!
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Комментарии • 108

  • @haggaicohen-milo4705
    @haggaicohen-milo4705 Год назад +39

    This is a beautiful lesson. Hearing Russell give a lesson through history with all his own idols and teachers. Such a deep and humble approach. And of course still so unique and personal for his style. Chords are subjective, I love this. Like 2 times

  • @jimmynickles828
    @jimmynickles828 Год назад +42

    Really nice to see you giving props to Israel Crosby- he is not mentioned enough.

    • @DiscoverDoubleBass
      @DiscoverDoubleBass  Год назад +7

      Agreed, Israel Crosby is a legendary artist.

    • @jamesrichardson3322
      @jamesrichardson3322 Год назад +6

      @@DiscoverDoubleBass Israel Crosby was born in my home town Chicago and died here at the age of 43, He is buried in Alspin, Illinois at Burr Oak Cemetery 🪦.
      Bob Cranshaw was also born in Chicago!!

  • @georgefulton8152
    @georgefulton8152 Год назад +4

    Russell Hall is one of my favorite bass players. He swings. It’s not just intellectual playing, it has always has a danceable feel. So this is a perfect lesson for him to give. Thanks for sharing this.

  • @leblille4146
    @leblille4146 5 дней назад

    This dude knows what he’s talking about. Remarkable.

  • @sultana1486
    @sultana1486 Год назад +13

    Wow!! I reached for my bass after a minute into this clip. ‘Prof’ Russell should definitely make more clips….we are waiting to learn sir. It’s like having the great Ray Brown in the room. Will surely look into enrolling.😊

  • @kyleetie5608
    @kyleetie5608 4 месяца назад

    Great lesson, thx! 🙏

  • @LloydMajor
    @LloydMajor Год назад +1

    Awesome and thank you for the class!

  • @ivofechner8039
    @ivofechner8039 Год назад +11

    Phenomenal to hear Mr. Hall speaking about his artistry. Thanks!

  • @m.hughes2521
    @m.hughes2521 Год назад +1

    Thank you sir, really good stuff.

  • @nimitng5922
    @nimitng5922 Год назад +1

    Such good observations and ideas!

  • @arnoldfernbladst3875
    @arnoldfernbladst3875 Год назад +3

    That was a great lesson! I took in and understood everything you were saying! Thanks

  • @jethrofrancis1470
    @jethrofrancis1470 Год назад +1

    Thank you for this!

  • @danielargolo2797
    @danielargolo2797 Год назад +4

    Loved it, Russel! Thanks for share your knowledge! Great lesson!

  • @davidlopez-white3185
    @davidlopez-white3185 Год назад +6

    Incredible content right here, Russell Hall is a living legend!

  • @NoushLikeSploosh
    @NoushLikeSploosh Год назад +11

    That was super interesting to hear the link from tuba to bass and how the 2-feel evolved from that, is what I understood. Amazing lesson:)

  • @TomBelknapRoc
    @TomBelknapRoc Год назад +4

    Great, inspiring words and demonstrations of bass playing. Thanks!

  • @jpa1214
    @jpa1214 2 месяца назад

    What a great music lesson!

  • @nylesfrench3568
    @nylesfrench3568 Год назад +1

    Great lesson, beautiful Nod to the legends.

  • @Sannypowa
    @Sannypowa Год назад +1

    Thank you for your video, Russell, I feel inspired by your music so much that my brain was playing a piece of jazz music of its own from your lines

  • @DavidMiller-bp7et
    @DavidMiller-bp7et Год назад +3

    Great to see your individual lessons; your playing is great; I lust after your hats. Too cool. You deserve all the accolades. Love your vibe.

  • @timbuktug3321
    @timbuktug3321 Год назад +2

    Thank you Russell this is great. I’m currently learning the bass guitar but I have a long way before I start the upright bass. Beautiful man.

  • @sixofone
    @sixofone Год назад +1

    As always, your spirit is inspirational, and your viewpoint up-lifting. Such sincerity, coupled with incredible talent is a rare find these days. Thank you for these amazing lessons.. on many levels!👏

  • @fiddlestix3025
    @fiddlestix3025 Год назад +1

    Super interesting and well explained!
    Thanks man, also for your absolutely beautiful playing there, not just grooving and grounding, but that bass tone is singing…! 🔥

  • @janubbelohdehenningsen4190
    @janubbelohdehenningsen4190 Год назад

    Thank you Mr. Hall, simple and easy - explained - now I´ll find out about the difficulty of playing and will come back!

  • @jeffroberts_tunes
    @jeffroberts_tunes Год назад +1

    the tip of humming/singing the melody while playing is huge --and it's really such a completely cool thing to listen to; wish there'd been material like this when I was learning to play!!

  • @peterwarshaw2352
    @peterwarshaw2352 Год назад +3

    I am not a bass player, but this was, for me as well, a wonderful lesson. Thank you, Mr. Hall!

  • @lambrusco1970
    @lambrusco1970 Год назад

    Russell, this is great. Thank you.

  • @curtrod
    @curtrod Год назад +1

    sounds great and groovy!

  • @ttrumpett1
    @ttrumpett1 Год назад +3

    Phenomenal!
    I like this. To learn from such good musicians❤
    Peter
    Germany

  • @raccoola5089
    @raccoola5089 Год назад +1

    What a great lesson. I loved the end too 🤣. It's so true it's all about the resolution!

  • @fideliusconcrete4871
    @fideliusconcrete4871 Год назад +1

    Wow, what a great lecture. Thank you very much for that. As the people wrote here before me: "Professor" Russell should make more clips. He's really good at that.

  • @robinmolin
    @robinmolin Год назад +2

    What in the living… this youtube clip made me smile and gave biig time inspiration. Thank you master Russel Hall 👍🏻👍🏻 and thank you dicover double bass for making great content

  • @alexandergallant6444
    @alexandergallant6444 Год назад +1

    Great lesson

  • @richardbishop1916
    @richardbishop1916 Год назад +1

    That was Fresh !...........ya................................ thanks Russell

  • @godfreydaniel6278
    @godfreydaniel6278 Год назад +1

    Love this guy!

  • @jinobass
    @jinobass Год назад +4

    So beautiful,spiritual &such a great simple but important musical lessons,Thank You!

  • @andresdelafuente3783
    @andresdelafuente3783 Год назад +1

    very good! 👍🙂

  • @MrLuridan
    @MrLuridan Год назад +5

    Hey Russell! I met you in Portsmouth…I was playin some fiddle. How this video ended up in my recommendations is a pure luck! Amazing playing, great lesson.

  • @LloydMajor
    @LloydMajor Год назад

    Excellent playing Russell!

  • @SOFTSPEAKNOIR
    @SOFTSPEAKNOIR Год назад +1

    Taking in a lot from this lesson thank you so much

  • @garethde-witt6433
    @garethde-witt6433 Год назад +2

    Absolutely wonderful lesson

  • @duett445
    @duett445 Год назад +1

    Great sounding bass.

  • @thomascordery7951
    @thomascordery7951 Год назад +2

    "The Basis of a Bassist". Sounds like the title of a book you're going to write. 😊

  • @andyisacsson7503
    @andyisacsson7503 Год назад +1

    This is inspiring 😊

  • @pascalgrit
    @pascalgrit Год назад +1

    So inspiring

  • @michaeldozier7053
    @michaeldozier7053 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks!

  • @paulohenrique-bv4qg
    @paulohenrique-bv4qg Год назад +1

    MAGNIFICO!!!!!!

  • @kitsunepicard1111
    @kitsunepicard1111 Год назад

    Thank you

  • @rogertebb1997
    @rogertebb1997 Год назад

    Beautiful musicality.

  • @JesusChrist5000
    @JesusChrist5000 Год назад +1

    nice clean rich tone on that bass

  • @ili626
    @ili626 Год назад +1

    Good voice too

  • @jkcymbal
    @jkcymbal Год назад +1

    Awesome! :-D

  • @fruitypebbles803
    @fruitypebbles803 Год назад +3

    😮I didn’t know you could do this with a bass. 🤯

  • @KevsSanders
    @KevsSanders Год назад +6

    That tone!

  • @ChimyMusic
    @ChimyMusic Год назад +1

    My dude!!

  • @richardbishop1916
    @richardbishop1916 Год назад

    (and CRISP!)

  • @sambac2053
    @sambac2053 Год назад +3

    Worth noting ,authentic Samba is in 2

  • @IanFrancisco-CAPianoman
    @IanFrancisco-CAPianoman Год назад +4

    The drummer contributes as much to a 2-beat feel as the bass, so it might help to demonstrate the difference between 2 -beat and 4/4 with drum loops. Especially if the bass is getting busy, the distinction between 2 and 4 can be blurred in a solo context

  • @davedave8608
    @davedave8608 2 месяца назад

    awesome.. what would you guess is the percentage breakdown of you targeting the different triad chord tones on the changes? for example 50% thirds 30% fifths, 20% tonic?

  • @richardbishop1916
    @richardbishop1916 Год назад

    (and) smooth goes without saying

  • @taijazvidfish
    @taijazvidfish Год назад +1

    Free gold!

  • @theturnaround7290
    @theturnaround7290 6 месяцев назад

    Cool

  • @af2k368
    @af2k368 Год назад +1

    Already on the mount rushmore of bassists

  • @RomualdIII
    @RomualdIII Год назад +1

    This is basic if you play some tradition and want to go deeper in your feel and more tasty in your line. Great fathers as Ron, Paul Chambers, Brown, and other know and feel it and play it perfectly, because they are grow up in two feel era. Russel give key for this - it’s Tuba part transcribe. If somebody have possibility try to play on Tuba, use it, it great feel for understanding two feel !!!

  • @mp4str
    @mp4str Год назад +1

    Also listen to slam Stewart and Milt hinton..

  • @Hiphopdabop
    @Hiphopdabop Год назад +2

    Don't forget the dancers, who many of these rhythms, beats, and grooves were associated with..

  • @avunculaire3823
    @avunculaire3823 Год назад +1

    yeah

  • @jamesrichardson3322
    @jamesrichardson3322 Год назад +1

    😯 Russell was taught by Ben Wolfe? Ben Wolfe played Harry Connick Jr and etc, he is a monster bassist. Ben Wolfe was taught by greatest bassist ever been born Ray Brown, freaking awesome.

  • @dnikoevans9902
    @dnikoevans9902 Год назад

    YOOOOOOO!!!!!!

  • @sirpatrickofgoober6603
    @sirpatrickofgoober6603 Год назад +1

    Wonderful playing and vibe but I still don't get the difference between 2 time and 4 time but with the emphasis on 1 and 3 say with the latter. Although, it took a great lesson on RUclips to explain the difference between 3:4 and 6:8 as being the former is counted as 3 quavers with emphasis on 1, and the latter as 2 lots of triplets with emphasis on beat 1 of each triplet. Otherwise I would have never got past the mathematical equivalence. So, it could easily be me!

    • @DiscoverDoubleBass
      @DiscoverDoubleBass  Год назад +2

      I can't answer for Russell, but if you're asking about when to set the metronome and feel the pulse on beats 1 and 3 or beats 2 and 4. Typically for a straight 8ths feel it's beats one and three and for swung quavers it's beats 2 and 4. However, for uptempo swing it may be better to use beats one and three, and for very high tempos, you may even just set the metronome on beat one.
      I hope that helps. The key thing is to not mix up points about 2 and 4 feel bass lines with how to you feel the pulse (on beats 1 and 3 or 2 and 4).

  • @abara887
    @abara887 Год назад +1

    Luv yer playing. 💓 wonder what strings you using?

  • @farshimelt
    @farshimelt Год назад +2

    This bass with that E string could grind up a pound of raw beef.

  • @grishagek3290
    @grishagek3290 Год назад

    Hello, where did Chad LB go?

  • @richardbishop1916
    @richardbishop1916 Год назад

    next time you are at smalls ,Say ;"Hi GREG "(and I will know you got the last 2 messages(i am 64 yr old Ret. Postman.(Guitar since 12 , Bass since age 63(and loving it as a portable skill

  • @jazzman1954
    @jazzman1954 Год назад +2

    Some nuggets in this!
    I get confused between the 1&3 guys and the 2&4 guys though 🤔

    • @Stabacs
      @Stabacs Год назад +1

      Yeah, same. He got a lot of prays in this comment section, and he explained a lot of good stuff. But the one concept this video is supposed to be about didn’t really get explained in my opinion. Like what is the 2- feel know? What does he mean by that opposed to playing on 4?
      I learned more about melody and harmony and will take it as a lesson in that instead. :)

    • @tuomas3964
      @tuomas3964 Год назад +2

      @@Stabacs Have you listened to jazz ever? Two feel = two notes per bar. Playin in four = walking.

    • @robinmolin
      @robinmolin Год назад +3

      If you guys litsen again you can hear mr hall explain that 4 feel accentuates four beats in a bar and 2 feel two.

    • @jazzman1954
      @jazzman1954 Год назад +4

      @@tuomas3964 Condescending comment mate. Perhaps he is new to jazz or perhaps he struggles with English as a non speaker. Perhaps the teacher didn’t explain it well because of his hippyish verbal approach.

    • @jazzman1954
      @jazzman1954 Год назад +1

      @@robinmolin True. But you will get guys out there who say you should accent 2&4 on a walking 4 note (crotchet) line. That’s the confusing bit.

  • @memobass
    @memobass Год назад

    woooooooooowwww

  • @ajota77
    @ajota77 2 дня назад

    who is the guy he mentions at 10:45 min

  • @fabianmartin7126
    @fabianmartin7126 Год назад

    Had I seen this video 35 years ago...

  • @1happboy
    @1happboy Год назад

    I can barely play in tune, now I gotta play in two???

  • @justanotherk0ala
    @justanotherk0ala Год назад +1

    off topic, but you have beautiful eyes 😊

  • @richardbishop1916
    @richardbishop1916 Год назад

    I don't want your feelings hurt like the guy's(on the chat) hurt "Benny's"( it's too hard to type faster than the guys ,And say things to try to counter ,and keep Benny's outlook and sensitivities good (don't get mad at them ) because we are the peanut Gallery) chat ...we wish we were on(envy) ya know?

  • @geofharris5546
    @geofharris5546 Год назад +1

    Delicious sounding double bass.. Love his approach, tho' I don't go for all the fancy fills saturating the gaps.. kinda defeats the sparseness and beauty, and purpose, of a 2-feel.. irrespective of which illustrious player it originates from.. Call it clutter if you will. Don't understand why many db players insist on doing this, as if it's an obligation? Or is it ego that's driving it..? ".. I must make a creative contribution to show that I'm hot-shit too..!" ??

    • @farshimelt
      @farshimelt Год назад +2

      No, people respond differently to music. It's the same with drummers. Listen to Roy Haynes with Monk, then listen to Ben Riley with Monk on Monk's Time. Both approaches are valid. You play you.