Thank you so much, Greg, for providing a clear and uh open answer to a crucial beginner's question 😇😎

Thanks, this was clearly illustrated and explained...perfect.

I'd love to see you pick apart 'Vietcong Blues' from Junior Wells' Vanguard Visionaries album. Jack Myers plays some really wild stuff on that one.

Great job thank you!

thank you Greg great job can you do some grand funk

Perfect

Why are tape wounds much more brighter ? Simple, the strings inside the tape coating are in fact round wounds and non machined like the flats.

Weird, my comment must not have posted when I hit send. Anyway, I'll try again lol! This is great and another nice example of a 6/8 bass line is Carl Radle on the Derek and the Dominos version of Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out. Not too tricky to play and has some nice little fills and variations.

Everybody loves the Blues ❤️ . These are your best lesson !.

This is making me want to go to my local music shop and get a Hofner Violin bass and string it with Tapewounds 👍

nice ! I recorded this song there's 7 years ago. Love your groove

Beautiful blues bassline. Thank you Greg.

Click for the free transcription: www.gbshed.com/same-old-blues

Click for my lesson on this bass line: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5SXYqSFpb6oa9U

Nice tone, Greg!

Thanks. Great lesson.

Nice! But a lot of counting …😀

Thanks.

😎 Greg, I love the Blues and I am definitely a Freddie King Fan. Thanks for introducing us to the Bass Player too. ❤ 💫

The Rotosound tapes for my ear, are more robust. Thumping with more defined depth than the LaBellas.

Great lesson Master !!!!

great thank you

Great job on a classic! Love Freddie King and Duck Dunn.

Perfect! Always wanted to learn this song. Now if I could only find some blues musicians in my area. Slowly building a following and an interest locally in the music thanks to instructors like you.

You should do a video on Rockin Daddy (The London Sessions) by Howlin' Wolf. Bill Wyman is playing the bass line and he's really playing some cool things. It almost sounds like a Jerry Jemmott line: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gX2lZ6KAoqeFnMU

Yes, ❤ Freddie King! 🙌🏻

This is a link to download the free transcription PDF: www.gbshed.com/same-old-blues

Great vid! I choose to sing the blues, Ray Charles. Thanks 😊

Tricky but fun!

Thanks mate

Lol, yes already ?. No offense you are the lucky winner of my outrage. Yes they stack up and what should be most talked about for the less detail oriented, they sound a lot different. It's more like a cello, I love that part about it and not the size...irrelevant really as the sound is concerned , the smaller bass sounds bassier, so play which feels better. For me it's short scale cause I can quickly stretch 6 frets, even up towards my headstock. I have big fingers and I still do the short a lot, so I am not a small man. It's not really for small people it's like a different instrument, I felt it instantly that it's a new tamber ?. I guess that's the word. I am getting used to sliding up to the high frets and from the F on a short scale, It's a relatively short slide all the way to the 15th frets, then back. Short scale is like so much faster, I will need to grab like a USA Mustang, something like this. I just play my acoustic a lot it's 30 inches and light, I don't plug in a lot since my other axe is heavy. I will break myself with the other bass, I feel that. The problem, is that the Mustang is like 9 pounds, which is not light. Thinking about a Ampmaster, they are a couple pounds lighter than a Mustang and a little more money. They use rarer woods, from Europe and quartersewn rock maple necks. I am not trying to mess up my back, you guys will figure if out in like a few days. The Mustang would probably sound better though, the other one has more sustain and sounds a bit different, I would need to try both. Sometimes I like to go like 2-3 hours for practice, 6 is asking for a problem. I like to move around a lot, I kick my foot or stomp my feet, I do a lot of reactionary things, dance a little so I get a bit of a sweat sometimes when I'm feeling the music, can't stop you know it's like a bass face, I suppose it makes no sense for new players. If you don't do this, not a chance you can make another person dance, cause there's no energy put into your song lol. To make a person dance with a bass, this means ur good, you will work. You don't even need to play notes, not all the time. If you're a serious bassist then you wanna know how to do some type of Disco, Funk, Jazz, something, this is like 5-10 years or practice before you have a clue what's going on, for most people with Jazz. Metal is like, ruining a lot of ideas about music with negative vibes and I am sick of these Steve Vai wannabes. You guys are doing last decades stuff, many of you are conceited about it, what are we doing ?. People want like Dua Lipa now, you guys are doing edgy stuff...that's like I dunno man, 1987. I am not sure what we need to play, fun stuff that's straight sounding and not like depressing or about...Satan. Could that be Rock ?. I can do some Reggae, I figured it out...somehow just messing around with Bob Marley, that's going to be good for your live career. I wish I knew now what I know, back in my 20's I would have been much funkier, more roots and better for live, Blues and Rock, I didn't know any Jazz back then. Now I figure soon I will be the best all around player, if I keep playing I will start passing a lot of people that are considered like really good, I think I am passing the girls and now I am like wtf am I going to do ?. I don't see many people besides like Pino, few people out there still playing, that can really kick my butt, there's some fast guys and stuff if you think that means everything like a car driver, I use my brain so I do slow and fast grooves. Victor is gone. I don't care anymore If I am good or whatever. There's like not many guys I can learn a lot from anymore, am confused what to do now, I don't copy players to a T. Solo bass is weird to me, I need a band track too. If I get bored with bass, I will geta nice guitar for Christmas too and a bass, cause I need it. My advice is make adjustments and adapt and stop crying and learn more genres, instruments, you will be very glad u did for anyone. I can now safely hop the genres and it's like a chameleon skill for a player to have. You guys are going to have to I don't know, get some rhythm ?. Just play drums because nobody is like born with rhythm, 99% of players don't have it down, music suffers and stuff. I am like Pino Palladino in that I am serious about rhythms, he is like a chameleon and does a lot of things, classical to funk. I figure it takes a good 20-30 years to master bass, I don't have that type of play time yet, maybe 12 years I actually played the whole year you know, now I need to be a more complicated player, to show off more flashy fills and runs, a lot of my runs are admittedly the same kind of patterns, that's the way to go for most material that exists. Again, your rhythm total skill level is at least 50% of your player skill level, not scales and fretwork would be the other 50% of your total skill level. I get away with being simple, just by having above average rhythm. If anything I don't want to play the same things everyone else does. I don't write a lot, not today. I feel nobody can really compare with my volume, in general with a lot of things even cooking, I just cook more things well enough than the other cooks can, I do Chinese, Italian, American, French Cajun, Mexican, I prefer to not go out then. Music is very the same in my mind with food, when I think to prepare or make it. Some of you eat some crazy things and listen to wild sounds and whatever, that's cool but once you start getting rude about it, I am out. The same with art, like would I hire a artist to do a mosiac painting ?. No, I don't ever hire anyone to do anything. People are usually rude once they know me, they get real mad at me, i finally understand why...cause I rock and they're jealous. This is why people have been telling me I need to change this or that, they can't handle my abilities, not at all because I plan too much and nobody can do that. Every time people tell me I am thinking too much, I am like ohhh no, no no no, I am thinking definitely not. If someone calls you paranoid, ask am I paranoid enough to get by ?. People living by London on LA, not paranoid enough to survive. I am like MacGyver mixed with Bob Ross + Flea + Martha Stewart + Rambo. I just actually realized I can do anything I want, as well as I wanted to and this triggers every person on the planet including my best friends and my brothers, sister, whoever. Nobody can handle my stacked levels of swaggyness, this is nothing. I am just like Thanos, I am going to collect all of the stones of knowledge and then when I get them all...oh boy not all the stones !. Don't do the others like that, Frank.

the block under the bridge is mahogany not pine

Is there any way to use mouse’s to play live drums to tracks and not have the crowd hear the click??

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Funk like that needs more bass face! 😆

Thanks!

Charlie from San Francisco, CA here. I really love your lessons.

As always, thanks Greg! I ordered one of your books from Amazon to help with my blues journey. I wouldn't be where I am without people like you.

I like the Freddie King version of Same Old Blues, not sure if it is 12/8 or 6/8.

Thanks for keeping it real !

Why not replace the original strings with, both, new flatwounds and half/groundwound strings befor making a comparison?

Question : I'm often playing with no drummer and a couple of guitars/singers. How should I play?

Thanks

Blues are easy. Playing them correctly, not so much. Way to show em' Greg!

Thanks!

Good Work,Greg🎶🎶

I am still learning theory. I’m not sure that I completely understand the differences between 12/8 time and triplets in 4/4 time.

Very thnx for tab!i m from Hungary.... Im beginner bassist.... Sorry for my enghlis😅

Great lesson Greg! It made me pick up one of my basses - which have been ignored for far too long. Easy riffs and great instruction! It felt really good to noodle along with you.