How Music Works with Howard Goodall - 04 - Bass (Full Show)

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
  • Music is usually broken down into melody, rhythm and harmony. But what about the very lowest notes in music, that can have an impact on all three? In this film Howard looks at the abiding fascination musicians and composers have had with the bass.
    For half a millennium instrument makers have been trying to construct instruments of all shapes and sizes capable of thudding, sonorous low notes. Only with the arrival of the synthesizer did they succeed in producing a rival to the mighty organ. With disco, dance, and drum 'n' bass, the bass has arrived centre stage.
    But bass notes have another, crucial role. Far from just plodding away in the background, bass lines can have a critical effect on the whole structure of a piece of music, helping to drive the chord progressions.
    Howard looks at the dark horse of the musical family, and its use in the hands of such diverse musical talents as Johann (and Richard) Strauss, John Philip Sousa, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Albinoni, Bach and Motown's resident bass maestro, James Jamerson.
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Комментарии • 85

  • @earlleonard
    @earlleonard 4 года назад +13

    I love how fair Howard is to all kinds of music

  • @MatthewMcVeagh
    @MatthewMcVeagh 10 лет назад +10

    "This video previously contained a copyrighted audio track. Due to a claim by a copyright holder, the audio track has been muted."
    Fffffffffffffffffffffff...................

  • @KevinMichaelCallihan
    @KevinMichaelCallihan 11 лет назад +4

    I agree with the 'Top comments', mostly. Those comments worthy of notice are great to read while listening/watching the fact that in me, music is sacred. Bass Clef music is heavenly and closer to love while beginning in my life during 1968 when a dear friend loaned a beautiful upright double-bass to me so jazz lines could be studied. The band needed a tuba player in high school so my primary school at the end of the day drove me a mile up the road in a small 1200 population town in Greenup, Kentucky USA to sit in as the previous tuba player moved on to other adventures. It was when the passion for 'BASS CLEF' began in my life. This presentation is well done and thoroughly researched. I believe all music is sacred but if you take out the primary BASS, you simply lose far too much of gut full of passion required in classical and jazz music...Kevin.

  • @LunaSeaSane
    @LunaSeaSane 10 лет назад +5

    Then mute the f@#$ing track... not the whole show!!!

  • @DaleHubbard
    @DaleHubbard Год назад +1

    Goodness, Howard's work is phenomenal. I wish I'd found this earlier!

  • @GregorExplorer
    @GregorExplorer 9 лет назад +4

    Good stuff, I much prefer Howard Goodall's music theory to the Associated Board stuff because he delves into other musical cultures and styles apart from Western art music. Having said that, I was surprised when watching this series how pop, rock and jazz is in many ways not that different to medieval and baroque music. I guess there's nothing new under the sun, and (conventionally in the West at least) there are only 12 notes to play with.

    • @Atlas65
      @Atlas65 8 лет назад

      +Gregor Smith actually if you watch his show about the rithm, you will see that ther is alot new under the sun. But that mostly came to be in the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and the 70's, if we are talking about the 20'th centuy.

  • @CaetanoWGalindo
    @CaetanoWGalindo 10 лет назад +3

    Hey, Don Vince! About the music begining at 21:27... It is 'only' the harmony of Dido's Lament he is going to discuss next. Wonderful isn't it? Sounds so modern....

  • @sollyismail1909
    @sollyismail1909 5 лет назад +3

    Excellent series. Well done! Howard Goodall. Hope to see more of your genius in explaining this exciting but difficult field!

  • @LarryJazzLouis
    @LarryJazzLouis 9 лет назад +10

    Where is Mr. JACO PASTORIUS In this documental about THE SOUND OF BASS?

    • @JosueRosasjoscello
      @JosueRosasjoscello 9 лет назад

      Dice: vídeo no disponible. Mi pana

    • @127eadgbe
      @127eadgbe 8 лет назад

      +Larry Jazz Louis Just in case you don't know, Larry, on www.primewire.ag is a documentary about him. Search: Jaco 2015. Enjoy.

    • @127eadgbe
      @127eadgbe 8 лет назад

      +Larry Jazz Louis Sorry, just type jaco. It works better.

    • @LarryJazzLouis
      @LarryJazzLouis 8 лет назад

      Thanks for share

    • @LarryJazzLouis
      @LarryJazzLouis 7 лет назад

      127eadgbe
      thanks a lot

  • @larsfriisc
    @larsfriisc 11 лет назад +4

    Thank you Howard Goodall - you have given music a NEW dimension for ME, and I will forever listen in another way. It has been such a joy to watch this food for brain.

  • @hemiolaguy
    @hemiolaguy 7 месяцев назад

    Mr. Goodall -- "Moog" rhymes with "vogue," not "fugue"!

  • @tidusheray
    @tidusheray 2 года назад +2

    I love this man

  • @MoonSafariFilms
    @MoonSafariFilms 8 лет назад +3

    Thanks for uploading these. Interesting stuff

  • @gigabloke
    @gigabloke 5 лет назад +2

    Marvellous program. I learned and enjoyed much.

  • @ftumschk
    @ftumschk 5 лет назад +1

    Great programme, although it would have been nice if room had been found for Bach's Passacaglia in C minor, where the bass line recurs over and over again without ever getting boring; in fact, the piece gets even more interesting as time goes by. Surely one of, if not THE, most masterful examples of an "ostinato" bass ever written.

  • @OrphanSeasun
    @OrphanSeasun 10 лет назад +2

    I got a little hot at 7:03 with all that deep throbbing muscle yada yada yada.

    • @Atlas65
      @Atlas65 8 лет назад

      +OrphanSeasun I got a little hot watching and listenning to Donna Summer at 39:58

  • @littleripper312
    @littleripper312 11 лет назад +1

    omg the organ with a piano at the feet is awesome! I played an organ where you just have to push those two pumps with your feet and it took some getting use to.

  • @KoDaring
    @KoDaring 9 лет назад +1

    These seires helped see where all that music came from and how. love it

  • @baptistic
    @baptistic 8 лет назад +1

    4:24. Anybody know that lovely keyboard piece?

    • @pamelacraig9049
      @pamelacraig9049 7 лет назад +1

      It is by Couperin : Les Barricades mystérieuses

  • @saltech3444
    @saltech3444 Год назад

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but the bassline that Goodall composes with the sequencer at the end (41:01) seems to be the same as the Jeremiah Clarke bassline at the beginning (7:52). A little easter egg for those listening hard?

  • @jlingviolin
    @jlingviolin 10 лет назад +2

    Brilliant!

  • @DJKoollord
    @DJKoollord 7 лет назад

    Music is as mysterious as the Pyramid of Egypt. How human as whole invented it. Im pretty sure other civilizations have discovery too, in our huge universe. Clownsec thanks for sharing the amazing documentary, is impossible to find such complex documentary in America's cable networks channels.

  • @bagualues
    @bagualues 2 года назад

    why can't we find "Switched on Bach" by great Wendy Carlos anywhere on the internet anymore? I really miss to listen those excellent versions

  • @RCAvhstape
    @RCAvhstape Год назад

    That guy playing the organ with his feet around 9:00. Wow. A good organist is superhuman.

  • @Joe_J-MT_Boy
    @Joe_J-MT_Boy 10 лет назад +3

    Ever since hearing Ray Charles in the early 60's, I've been a fan of a killer bass line in a song. Temptations, Four Tops, CCR, The Who, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Steve Miller Band, The Allman Brothers, Doobie Brothers, The Eagles, The Stones, Booker T and the MGs, Stevie Wonder... ALL of them got to their listeners by having that solid bass line upon which to build the rest of the song.
    In this installment, we learn just how that foundation is crafted... and why it is we are such whores for a song where that dark underbelly is what mystifies and addicts us to what lies above.
    This is a marvelous piece of documentary film-making.

  • @TheIamtheoneandonly1
    @TheIamtheoneandonly1 9 лет назад

    @43:00"Scuba diving with a nuclear submarine would create a similar buzz"....... Love it !

  • @homeofdoom
    @homeofdoom 11 лет назад +1

    "SCUBA diving with a nuclear submarine" XD God I love that

  • @sarahhall738
    @sarahhall738 6 месяцев назад

    Bass on a melodeon sounds amazing and you can feel it when playing it.

  • @JustinMoralesTheComposer
    @JustinMoralesTheComposer 11 лет назад +1

    8:40 that organ footwork :o

  • @originaluddite
    @originaluddite 6 лет назад

    I'm surprised bass is so young. I wonder if droning in many kinds of traditional music would count as a kind of bass that is older...

  • @Scopophile23
    @Scopophile23 10 лет назад

    @caetano galindo & don vince
    it is chopin's prelude no20 in c-minor

  • @blackwash
    @blackwash 11 лет назад

    I thought you only use "tonic" to refer to the root note of an entire key. So if you're in the key of C, C is the tonic, and if you're playing a G chord in the key of C you don't call G a tonic; G is just the "root" of that chord, and no matter how you voice or invert that G chord (no matter what note is in the bass), G is still the "root" of the G chord. So am I mistaken? or are there different schools of terminology?

  • @MrPlasmaniac
    @MrPlasmaniac 12 лет назад +1

    31:43 - "Yo, Johann, drop it hard!"

  • @whiterottenrabbit
    @whiterottenrabbit 10 лет назад +2

    This is the fuckest thing I ever saw ... this week. Copyright my ass!

  • @Skankhair333
    @Skankhair333 11 лет назад

    You are correct. I know Howard Goodall really knows his stuff, so I am sure he didn't just "get it wrong". This series, while entertaining, is dumbed down for non-musicians. I can only assume he used incorrect terminology during that part to make it as simple as possible for the laymen. Maybe they producers/writers felt that explaining the proper terminology would confuse people since this episode doesn't go into inverted chords or the names of scale degrees.

  • @Skankhair333
    @Skankhair333 11 лет назад

    "If you are the bass player, you are the conductor of the band (regardless of what anyone else thinks)"
    If the bass player knows what he is doing, then this is generally true and I agree with you, but a lot of bass players have no clue and are just following the guitar. They are not conducting anything just because they bought a bass.
    Also, if you are playing bass in an ensemble that has a conductor, he would take issue with you considering yourself the conductor.

  • @MICKEYISLOWD
    @MICKEYISLOWD 3 года назад

    What was the music @4:45 on the Harpsichord...? it's beautiful.

    • @simmme
      @simmme 3 года назад

      Couperin - Les barricades mysterieuses

    • @MICKEYISLOWD
      @MICKEYISLOWD 3 года назад

      Thx..so much. I love it so much.

  • @ricardofreire7276
    @ricardofreire7276 10 лет назад

    translated into Spanish Please !!

  • @davide.gabert8458
    @davide.gabert8458 9 лет назад

    Foundation, Bass, bottom to top! d

  • @vicee5868
    @vicee5868 10 лет назад

    very informative thanks

  • @bingeltube
    @bingeltube 5 лет назад

    Very recommendable

  • @hankmajor2
    @hankmajor2 12 лет назад

    "The Rhythm is the Bass and the Bass is the Treble."

  • @qwe07
    @qwe07 11 лет назад

    Good looking cellist for Dido's Lament. :)

  • @joesopeters
    @joesopeters 12 лет назад

    I knew White Stripes had to be in!

  • @DonVince
    @DonVince 11 лет назад

    Does anyone out there know what the piece being played at 21:27?

    • @Kinitawowi
      @Kinitawowi 7 лет назад

      Chopin's Prelude in C minor, also known as Could It Be Magic by Barry Manilow. :p

  • @kwaal
    @kwaal 11 лет назад

    Bauhaus FTW

  • @zvidanyatvetski8081
    @zvidanyatvetski8081 7 лет назад

    What's the music at 6:35???

    • @ftumschk
      @ftumschk 5 лет назад

      Bach's "Fantasia and Fugue in G minor"

  • @mauroheffner8925
    @mauroheffner8925 7 лет назад

    subtitle spanish please

  • @ttst53A
    @ttst53A 11 лет назад

    One of the bassiest genres is Jamaican Reggae's drum 'n' bass -- it's not mentioned. Many Reggae bass lines are melodic enough to have a sub bass part.
    This presentation was a Bass-101. Bass has evolved from I-V to counterpoint, and its lines can be harmonized.

  • @voiceoftreason1760
    @voiceoftreason1760 9 лет назад

    what is the piece at 11:14?

    • @VonSteinhofer
      @VonSteinhofer 8 лет назад +2

      +Enhanced Pyrotechnics -
      At 11:14 in the video, the piano is playing the last portion of Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, March No.1; "Land of Hope and Glory" - aka commonly in the USA as the "graduation march."

    • @voiceoftreason1760
      @voiceoftreason1760 8 лет назад

      ***** ah, the host assumes the viewer is American, thats why it wasn't common to me. Thanks!

  • @StonedGoats
    @StonedGoats 11 лет назад

    Shame the quality of both the image and particularly the sound has been made so very poor. Why would that be then?

  • @psychodad6601
    @psychodad6601 9 лет назад

    fuck yeahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @mykenzymiller6288
    @mykenzymiller6288 5 лет назад +1

    this is so boring

    • @richardstocks9139
      @richardstocks9139 5 лет назад +1

      Then you know nothing of music and don't need to watch.

  • @pleximanic
    @pleximanic 9 лет назад

    JACO PASTORIUS?

  • @antigen4
    @antigen4 7 лет назад

    one of the weaker episodes it would seem

  • @zainmunshi1793
    @zainmunshi1793 9 лет назад

    horrible
    s

  • @darthnegrus9255
    @darthnegrus9255 9 лет назад

    Howard Goodall is a nasty producer too!!???? Thank you for posting this series.