Car Wash - Rose Royce (1975) - bass

[@markslima1557]

super badass playing and cover of this funk classic!

[@styner3]

KZbin would have made my life so much easier when I was learning bass in the 70's, we had to replay songs over and over and interpret notes and hope you were playing it right. Players have no excuses anymore for not getting better, just play a video and practice.

[@rbk7876]

One of the coolest base lines from the funky Mowtown era ! 🎸👏👍

[@jjns5600]

Dude! That bass playing was 'freakin' awesome!!!!

[@AVEEGEELIK]

Heard on the radio just half an hour ago, searched on YT for the bass covers and guess which one popped up! Thanks for this

[@BelgaBass]

Great find by yourself :).

[@jaimeruedagomez]

Amazing bass lines

[@joevandura9625]

One of the famous tracks from Rose Royce! Thanks for the bass and keep on playing good old music. Dankeschön für das Video. 👍👍👍🇺🇸🚐🇺🇸🌞😎

[@johnwade4826]

Beautiful slap bass to this iconic song! Love it and keep rocking!!!!!!

[@jmcrae825]

I see you also come from the that golden age of bass, the 70s. What a great time for bass!

[@martinjaeger1273]

You nailed it !

[@vincedupont]

You master pretty much all the bad-ass funky grooves out there. This is a delight! Thx Belga-B-ass ;)

[@bassrabbit9]

Wonderful!! Great right hand finger accents. You got the feel! Thank you for this inspiration to learn it!

[@aquamarine99911]

I honestly think that the wah sound in the intro is a bass wah. The guitar is doing other stuff while the wah is being played, but the bass doesn't. If you have two guitarists in the band, no problem. Or in the studio they overdubbed the wah. But it doesn't sound like a normal guitar wah. I've experimented with it, and believe I'm right.

[@tyjeter5880]

Outstanding

[@MuammarHamed]

Absolutely superb job well done man you hit every little nuance!

[@seungjaeyune2008]

Amazing pbass sound

[@thebionicbassplayer]

Excellent!. Great job with the octaves and thumping.

[@Riccardo_Silva]

Wow, mate, you can play! Kudos! And-what a beauty is your P Bass!!!!

[@BelgaBass]

She's a real mature beauty yes, turning 50 in 2 years.

[@Riccardo_Silva]

@@BelgaBass though not as blazoned, my old Eko fretless is in the same ballpark as far as age goes...they made them in Italy back then, and after a pick-up swap, it too feels and sounds like a charm!

[@PazVizsla88]

Hi there. Very nice cover indeed I looove this tune!! Would you mind sending me the tab you used for it ? If you used a tab of course. Thank you anyway and congrats !!

[@rickb1266]

Another great job! I think your right, it sounds like he's using a lot of his thumb but playing lightly. Maybe a little similar to Louis Johnson's style when playing octaves with his thumb.

[@noelkaruse3551]

what is that walking bass line called from 1:21 to 1:35??

[@javiceres]

Spot on. Bravo!

[@haroldalexis4200]

I saw the film later on tv remember the song in the 1970's. The bass is very accurate to the Rose Royce hit! 😃🎸🎶

[@johnwade4826]

I've been trying to get the wah wah pedal right!

[@tonywyche8293]

Greetings BelgaBass! Man, thanks for clearing this playing up for me. I been playing this song like you did for quite a while and I thought I was getting it wrong when I was listening to other players trying to play it. Now I feel vindicated! I have a Fender MusicMaster bass I brought when I was in junior high school in 1975. It's sunburst color. Thanks again! Love your playing.

[@frankie7826]

Great video superb playing 👍

[@omgwoody]

Hi - I am 60 yo and just bought my first Bass Guitar. I have chosen this song as my first project. I have looked about and there are other versions and Bass Tabs but this version looks the best. However I cant find a matching Bass Tab. I have the gist but some parts are complex to follow so a link to this specific TAB would be wonderful.

[@lorenzozinna4700]

This is quite a hard song for starting, I would suggest picking it up later (without using tabs)

[@MrBeachMadness]

E string tuned down to a D?

[@BelgaBass]

Yes, but only in the intro. It's a Hipshot D'tuner (Extender?). hipshotproducts.com/collections/bass-xtenders. I used those a lot in the '90s, still seems to be available today but quite pricey I must say.

[@lanresoetan9873]

Another great rendition. Well done sir. It would be great if you could play Dynasty's Here I am.

[@BelgaBass]

Thank you.I've looked into that Dynasty song, didn't know it, Leon Sylvers on bass. Unfortunately, since breaking my righthand middle fingertip a few months ago, the fingertip is now too stiff to reliably play that kind of busy bass line anymore.

[@lanresoetan9873]

@@BelgaBass I'm really sorry about your finger. Here's hoping it heals fully. Happy to know you still play all the same. Yes, it's a great song. It would have been great to see you play it. Best regards.

[@axs203]

Oh this is ace well done!

[@joeemick1891]

Slamming bass tune

[@barbiepatterson9374]

I like this Song too!

[@thebassfreak5370]

just WOW! The slap part is almost perfect, I just can't get that part right :(

[@spacesloth6496]

Slow down the video wil help with difficult parts and practis practis slowly then faster. IT works pretty good ✌️

[@michaelanthony9068]

GREAT PLAYING, GREAT VIDEO, GREAT COMMENTS. THANK YOU !!! This is a huge lesson for me. Great job !!!

[@2110MAT]

EXCELENTE!!!

[@raymondwittnebenv2970]

My family wants to play this at a concert in 3 weeks….. they just added this to the set list. I got some major practice

[@michaellozano4108]

Gran bajista de la música disco, funk,...! ¿Puedo decirte algunos temas buenísimos para que la toques?

[@BelgaBass]

Claro, porque no ? Pero no puedo garantizar que los voy a tocar.

[@MikeMaxwell1961]

Utterly superb. The same quality of your other work. I cannot fathom if you are not in some group and making really decent money.

[@BelgaBass]

Thx. I'm already long past the age of being in bands and making some money off music as an additional occupation (have been active from the late '80s to 2012)

[@WhiteCrone]

Those strings are so old, their social security number is 1!

[@leogold75]

numero uno assoluto!!!

[@justmdc]

Bro hell to the Yaaaa🤘🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

[@JoaoLuiz73]

Pra quem saber como um baixo é a alma da funk music !!

[@aguirre67]

Your deepest string is in D at the beginning, later in E... thanks anyway, helped a lot!

[@JohnHancotte]

You can see the man flip back his Hipshot D-tuner at 0:45 which brings the low string from D back up to E.

[@怒りおやじ-z8e]

🤩👍

[@taskapa]

Nice shirt

[@salamanco968]

Come tae hear the bass, and I'm like, oh, I like yer shirt 🙋

[@brutus7927]

Salut j'adore tes chanson !

[@Vikingvin2006]

P bass is still The King.

[@rossfromhonolulu]

Nice, but I think your slapped octaves sound rushed. Keep at it!

[@BelgaBass]

Well, that ain't gonna get any better after 43 yrs of playing :)

[@ireneirene_chmst]

Oh those "nice,but"s comments. People should find some humility inside, eh? )) Even if someone finds your octaves not relaxed, your slangy "ain't" and "gonna" are now - and I'm glad ❤ you feel this way)

[@lenyamamedeable]

😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲

[@geoffreykennard5829]

you are super good....please clean your fingerboardLOL!

[@BelgaBass]

No thank you, I like my basses to have natural patina, and hardly ever clean them (and most certainly not my strings!)

[@geoffreykennard5829]

@@BelgaBasswell I meant it as a slight poke in jest . You're fine player I've had people say that too I don't know why you do it but whatever floats your boat I can hardly stand fingerprints on my instruments !

[@BelgaBass]

Allow me to shock you then some further, and admit that I have not cleaned a bass (any of those in my vids) for at least the last 10 years :). I also do not possess any new bass, so no need to clean. The most recent one is the 5-string, somewhere beginning of '2000. It still has 3 of the the 5 original strings since I bought it 15 yrs ago, and also: never cleaned nor cooked. The white '78-79 Stingray is a rather recent almost perfect refinish , and I would be inclined to keep that one clean, but let's talk again in 5 years to see if I ever did...

[@odeep2147]

×1.25 make this great.

[@dannydirt5D]

😮😮😮 that was awesome

[@boydmaddocks838]

Fuck yeah !