Pino Palladino and Joe Dart both do this - here's why

[@igorkurtz7358]

I thought the video was about their necks.

[@thegreenmanalishiyamadori371]

😁😁😁

[@desvonbladet]

There's a certain amount of pigeon in the ancestry of many fine bassists.

[@alessandroarcuri209]

Me too! :-D

[@paddydaddyo]

Damn you Eddie Kurtz ... You beat me to the punch(line).

[@blaqkstar]

Haha, beat me to it

[@Teen_Drama]

Joe Dart is the modern bass idol! So happy he's getting the recognition he deserves!

[@TheEstonianAaron]

Jack Alterman you're telling me that Joe Dart doesn’t have his own signature style? Do tell, who is he copying exactly?

[@Teen_Drama]

When I said he was an idol it meant he's on the spotlight and lots of people recognize him. He aint a legend or up the ranks of the greats but he's inspiring nontheless. Other bassists borrow styles, Joe too, but he has new stuff on the table as well. He's a great bassist from this era. I dont wanna complicate things all bassists are cool in every way :)

[@CarpRidesAgain]

@@TheEstonianAaron check out the bass player from Stuff, very comparable, Joe does his own thing though, in a good way

[@harleym4585]

Make sure you know mononeon

[@garideb]

I like JD. You can tell within a few notes when it's him, from the sound and the notes he plays. Sure, he's standing on the shoulders of giant funky bass players, but he's managed to carve his own identity and he's done it with a lot of skill and musicality. Good on him.

[@Jibsterman]

Woody Goss = Just A Happy Man

[@favogiuseppo]

Hijacking this to remember that Goss wrote that piece

[@AfferbeckBeats]

The Birdwatcher himself

[@hristi.yanche8487]

@@favogiuseppo Did your mom tell you this?

[@favogiuseppo]

@@hristi.yanche8487 She tells me every time we hang out

[@OsteoPana]

Woody smiles, a common reaction to a great bass fill

[@holdencaustic]

Pino has hands that can palm a medium size planet.

[@iamalpharius9483]

Him and Jaco could start an arpeggio on the 3rd fret and play the next note on the 9th fret of the D string. They had ALIEN fingers.

[@regimiro4888]

Indiana Jones Seriously, Jaco has huge feelers

[@wjcolon]

Pino's hands can provide shade to a small boy

[@SonicSeraphim]

*Davie504 pff*

[@calcradden6293]

He's like 6'8"

[@greggoso600]

green marker was a bad idea

[@devinebass]

@MomoTheBellyDancer Pears?! ;)

[@gilbycoyote]

Purple marker is still missing though, return ASAP!

[@igormeo8744]

@MomoTheBellyDancerapples and "something else"

[@HimanXK]

Green is not a creative color

[@MisterAppleEsq]

@MomoTheBellyDancer Agreed.

[@alongr5]

I'm a simple man, I see Joe Dart in the title, I hit the like button

[@devinebass]

Lol ;)

[@thewomble1509]

Whereas, I'm sick of hearing about the moderately talented bastard!

[@natecorning]

@@thewomble1509 moderately? cmon now man, respect where respects due

[@thewomble1509]

@@natecorning I'm being true to myself. I don't get the hype. He's nowhere near the level of Jaco, Pino,Bobby Vega, jamerson, Bernard Edwards and about another fifty bassists that come to mind. It's a cult of personality and easy availability among people of a certain age. Very predictable.

[@seanfitzgerald2078]

@@thewomble1509 no one's saying he's the best, but he's clearly very technically gifted and if you see Vulfpeck live you'll see he is extremely tight and funky

[@stevehall3410]

John Deacon was another good example of keeping the wrist low. His left hand technique was awesome.

[@bassweapon]

One of the most useful tutorials (for my personal knowledge) I've seen from your channel. Please, more Joe Dart! There's a lot to talk about him ;)

[@funkymonk3672]

Me encantan tus vídeos! Sigue así :)

[@roccocostello5533]

@@jackalterman What a fucking incredibly ignorant statement

[@shudigga5246]

@@jackalterman Have you even listened to vulfpeck? i mean more than 3 songs

[@nairnodrums]

As a drummer, this lesson just opened my eyes to learning as a drummer. Doing the same in fills, but applying some of the learning techniques from Scott, has given me good practice ideas. Cheers buddy

[@ronaldbarnesii385]

If you can’t see the green marker: SPEED >MUST HAVE 1 - FRETTING HAND >MUST HAVE 2 - PLUCKING HAND >MUST DO 3 - SPEED BURST EXERCISE

[@bastelkleber6665]

moost have: fretting hands, noockles down, ploocking hand

[@ronaldbarnesii385]

@@bastelkleber6665 LMAOOO

[@elim4605]

thanks!!

[@AzuriteCoast]

Giving the progressional timeframe was possibly the most helpful part, and makes this lesson really stand out. Thanks, Scott. I hope you're reading this - because despite the clickbait title, you really nailed it.

[@malcolmgoldie]

Why does no one on the production team, including Scott, realise that light green thin pen on a whiteboard is almost invisible? Seriously SBL - thick black pen please :)

[@MaadScience]

Malcolm Goldie you have to enroll for the good markers.

[@badairhead]

yep...

[@Mtb-TrailTime]

@@MaadScience 😂😂😂👏😁

[@uralien1227]

Malcolm Goldie because it makes you listen instead of just watch.

[@jaco7675]

Malcolm Goldie He moost get some black ones

[@malcelinho]

4. Must do: chicken neck

[@ekundayosamuel]

What's the chicken neck?

[@chrisc.4517]

Must have*

[@teadat]

More Joe Dart please!

[@dominiccoleman2536]

Jack Alterman what do you dislike about his playing?

[@dominiccoleman2536]

Jack Alterman Agree 100% that there’s better players (always will be). I don’t particularly think people are saying he’s the best player here tho, there’s just a lot of comments about him cause it’s a video about the way he plays lol. I doubt there would be many on say a video about Jaco or Marcus Miller

[@Insight-Nobody]

He is fantastic in the pocket. Thats why i love him. His groove (even on very slow tracks) is off the chain

[@adviceman5211]

Please be VERY careful when bending the wrist. It will, of course, bend occasionally, just don't keep it bent all the time. CTS AND RMS can develop and this IS NOT GOOD !!!!

[@moraigna66]

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Seems pretty contrary to what the great Adam Neely tried to teach me.

[@Chord_The_Seeker]

People look down on speed because they can’t pull it off, but speed is freedom. Playing fast all the time is boring, but being able to play fast when you want/need to is essential. I’m a guitarist, not a bassist, but I love the bass. If I did have the time to play another instrument, which I don’t, it would be the bass. I work on my speed all the time, and slowly, but surely, it comes along. Great video. Keep up the good work.

[@vallesguitar]

Excellent lesson Sir! Especially the lesson with skipping the strings and breaking down to simple sections is the key to success in music for me. In music, greatness seams to come from perfecting simple things. Keep up the splendid work and keep making great lessons!

[@GiacomodellaSvezia]

4:37 Woody moving his head like Stevie Wonder. :-)

[@bicisnobombas]

At the end of practically every one of Scott's videos my response is: Sir, yes sir!

[@norvillerodgersspeaks]

Scott you should use a black marker. It will improve the contrast.

[@losjuanhitwonders]

I am a SBL member and I do all the exercises for FH and PH. After a year and a half I noticed I can play way FASTER! This really works guys!!! Peace and Groove 🤟🏽💀🤘🏽

[@zacharyshectman1517]

Scott do a Joe Dart interview!!!!

[@chrisrush2112]

Scott, that Anniversary F Bass is gorgeous and sounds amazing! I love my BN4 but I've got that Anniversary bass on my GAS list!!!

[@rickenbacker40011]

Interesting, Adam Neely says the exact opposite; “keep your wrist straight” What do you feel about this in comparison to this video where you say angle the wrist

[@dansaunders1655]

Might just be me, but I'd rather play like Joe Dart than like Adam Neely.

[@BPrismo]

Dan Saunders have you ever listened to sequence start by sungazer? Adams bass line in that is more interesting than most things joe plays. Joe is a great player and maybe my favorite bassist but his technical skill isn’t anywhere near Adams.

[@johnmacqueen3811]

You want to have the neck height and or angle elevated so as to have the wrist out AND straighter as opposed to a sharp bend ideally.

[@juanignaciopozzi7412]

If u have a disco Man strap pos ur hands get different

[@Fr4gg3r2]

I side with Adam on this one - keep your wrists straight. I just developed a painful Ganglion Cyst for not keeping a straight wrist, and now can't play for who knows how long.

[@InfiniteRhombus]

seems like whenever i watch these videos i find out im already doing the thing they talk about but i just dont notice i was already doing it. Dean town is a really fun song to play, "a walk to remember" is even more fun

[@chelfyn]

"as a drummer, you wouldn't have a weak left hand" - You've obviously never seen my appalling drumming then :)

[@jeremychakwas1178]

Scott really is a fantastic bassist, not just a great teacher.

[@mandolin926]

Great stuff Scott! Your instruction has helped me develop soooo very much over the years! Great exercises 😎👍

[@Bimhermodrsenblom]

This video really helped me out. Good one, Scott.

[@theguy4688]

4:38 a happy man indeed

[@MadunicMusic]

This was a very great, informative video. Thanks for posting/sharing it, Scott!!

[@devinebass]

Thanks for tuning in dude!

[@chrisjarski1116]

I'm gonna chime in here for topic #1... though I agree that having the wrist extended (relative to the forearm) is a bad thing, so is having it flexed. Bio-mechanically, it's most advantageous to keep the wrist neutrally in line with the forearm (think of it as having the back of your hand and the back of your forearm in line). I'm not gonna bore ya with the details, but speaking as a physical therapist, all that I know suggests that is the way to go for finger flexibility, dexterity, and injury prevention (alright, I'll bore you a little = think of all the tendons that pass from your forearm to your fingers... the reason they don't bowstring is that there is tissue - a retinaculum - that holds them down at the wrist. When you flex your hand at the wrist, as is suggested in this vid, you're placing a tremendous amount of tension on that tissue and basically are asking for injury. Seasoned players can at times get away with this, especially if they have a great stretching routine as part of their prep, but it's not the preferred way of doing things. It's just a thing peeps do so they can get away with lowering their bass down on their bodies).

[@ThedebsHD]

Please do more lessons about joe dart ! My favorite bass player !

[@fredrikstadwhite]

Worth a like for the quick ‘carry on camping’ clip alone

[@ericfellner2689]

You do a great job of not just tailoring your lessons to beginners.

[@eskrimadecampodumaguete2273]

That bass sounds godly. Chills.

[@henrymentz6497]

4:37 That's just a happy man lol

[@nathanieldaniel7468]

Joeco dartstorious

[@devinebass]

Lol, love it ;)

[@nathanieldaniel7468]

Lol thanks, do you think that you will do any hadrien feraud technique videos in the future? I would really love some help for stuff like that.

[@thewomble1509]

Absolutely no comparison. Have you actually heard Jaco's compositions? Joe Dart is a musical infant in comparison. I can't believe (well, actually I can,) Scott Devine giving Joe Dart so much kudos. And why does everyone talk about him as though he's their best mate? Something quite creepy about this cult of Dart. If he had been playing twenty five years ago, no one would have taken any real notice. Emperor's new clothes part 685!

[@nathanieldaniel7468]

The womble sorry man I was just making a little joke😄

[@mikkorajakangas5303]

@@thewomble1509 what I find mildly creepy is your apparent need to reply on every other commenter who thinks of Joe Dart as a great bass player in a frankly, dare I say, condescending manner - as if the man had no worth as a musician and each and every one who appreciates him and gets inspired by him is an utter fool and moron. I don't know, I may be completely wrong, but that's how your comments come across to me. I can't say I have an opinion of Joe Dart - never heard of him until maybe a week ago, and the few tunes I've heard I can say he plays well (and the tunes are good). But if people get inspired by watching/listening him play, isn't that a great thing in itself? Maybe some kid will pick up a bass because of this "cult of" Dart, and end up finding out about Jaco and Marcus Miller and the likes...

[@eugenechek7288]

Good lesson, as always. Saw these exercises in your past lessons. Very useful exercises.

[@chrisc9421]

Another great video Scott. Thanks!

[@kradmehr]

Thank you Scott for this! much appreciated! :)

[@anthonythomasexperience]

You need to write in black ink.

[@v1cshon]

Thank you Scott!! 🙌🏿

[@jaythemusicguy]

The brief track played during the Speed clip was by Skillet - Bass player is also the lead singer.

[@scottfree3160]

Some amazing hard truths but well needed

[@Tracer9GTRider8]

Incorporating speed bursts into my practice...thank you! Side note...I have no problem seeing the green marker, but please switch to black so people will stop complaining! LOL!

[@timothyrk89]

Thank you scott. You are so helpful

[@matiasgaddathompson]

Hi Scott, great lesson as always, thanks! Please use a Black marker, way better than green

[@remusredbone1214]

I’m good on left hand, but I’m not always “IM, IM, IM” on the right hand, however, everything comes automatically; no stumbling.

[@simonpieman1653]

This guy makes a living by making bass playing seem as complicated as possible

[@garideb]

He's funky a funky bass geek lord. I like Scott - I've learned a LOT from his videos.

[@paulevans4334]

Two of my favourite groovers

[@NickTann]

"Let’s just slow the tempo down" *plays at same tempo* Seriously though, this was a great video one of the best. Cheers Scott!

[@gerrimeister]

But isnt the first thing exactly wjat people like adam neely say you should NOT do, because its mot healthy for your wrist? You meantioned joe dart switching between the two, but maybe you should mention the health risks when playing with your wrist down.

[@gssong7111]

Adam Neely plays bass??I thought he just stands in front of the camera and acts out some sort of vsauce know it all character.

[@MaggaraMarine]

No. Straight wrist doesn't mean bending the wrist in the opposite direction. Also, keeping the wrist straight only tends to be a problem in the lower register where you need to do bigger stretches because of the fret spacing. I do agree that he probably should have mentioned the health risk, but if you watch Adam Neely play fast runs, he doesn't use the "thumb over neck" grip. He has actually mentioned that this grip also has its problems in this video: /watch?v=TttEi8drWQY

[@gssong7111]

@@badnoodlez nope, it's not hard to ignore

[@VideoPrens]

@@gssong7111 He plays in a band called sungazer.

[@gssong7111]

@@badnoodlez whitey-if you are educated, you would realize that I didn't say anything about hating him. Dunce.

[@gssong7111]

Love the green marker!

[@Terrible_Peril]

I, much like my biggest bass influence so far, Bobby Vega, was always disappointed by my accented 16ths with fingers. It’s actually what drew me to him after posting about my issue on talkbass many moons ago. Someone suggested, ‘do it with a pick like Bobby!’ So I did. I love playing Vulf songs with a pick. Because I’m a masochist apparently, I’ve gotten to the point of using no pick, but a picking style as if I’m holding one, so I can more easily and fluidly switch to what I find is a superior staccato sound with fingers digging in a bit. So I AM trying to get my finger style chops up to par for the funk lines, but doing them with a pick feels so good. Especially with no drummer, I love creating the backbeat with some arm drops on the accents, which in turn helps my overall feel so when I sit down and try to do it fingerstyle, the groove is already in my body.

[@-NguyenKienHao-CA]

Why does Joe Dart look so swag in literally every thumbnail he’s in?

[@ducas8937]

I feel like Scott already showed that Pino clip before

[@user-hu2on4xd6u]

pretty funny that I was literally trying to figure out a Joe dart base solo last night and I couldn't basically keep up with my hand so I was doing this exercise myself.

[@JamesDavisakaRemguy]

Scott, congratulations on being DENSE. That was a wonderfully short, sweet and value-packed piece of bass lesson goodness, there! In a short SPACE of TIME (ScottSpeak™: “Whoa! Ah JUICE wen tall astro-meta-physical on yar rarses, dint ah?”)

[@JamesDavisakaRemguy]

Oops, I just suffered some premature KZbin-ulation™ there, also known as HSBR (hit ‘send’ before ready). Anyway, was just heaping praise where it rightfully belongs. That was a great lesson, really important points, and ones I will take to heart and put into practice as well. Thanks as usual for the excellent content (and superb delivery!), see you in the shed, sir! Signed - Your Number One Fan (unless someone else shows up, heh heh...). Cheers, brother - JD, Montréal

[@chadbierman8058]

It's funny, my friend played me that video and I learned about pino yesterday! And I saw that video of dean town a couple days ago!

[@pepegalvan_]

Nice advices, greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽

[@jacksonwrightmusic6805]

Very interesting! I find I play more like Dart, where I will wrap my palm around the neck during slower lines. I once had a teacher tell me to never ever do that and I always thought "why not?" As long as I can play something right shouldn't I stick with what feels right? And this affirms that. Thanks, Scott!

[@grahsam6670]

For more on speed technique, check out videos of Alex Webster, Erlend Caspersen, Ryan Martinie, Evan Brewer, Mark Michell, and Nick Schendzielos.

[@hornetlord]

Love the Stanley Clarke at 0:36

[@Kriterian]

The secret to playing like great bass players is just to be in complete control of your left and right hands. Easy. Seriously though, I've never seen anyone talk about the wrist of the left hand like that. I always thought it was just a comfort or personal thing, but that makes sense.

[@NikHuhr]

For anyone who has ever met Pino, his hands are HUGE

[@wolfgmusic2632]

Good lesson

[@jamesgoddin8880]

My natural tendency with right hand alternate picking is to start with the middle finger, i.e. m - i - m - i rather than i - m - i - m. Is that something I should try to correct or doesn't it matter too much?

[@teehee2589]

Doesn't matter at all - you do you!

[@matzac97]

Nice lesson Nice bass and very nice watch 😉

[@pasfaishalhaniq]

What about the head bobbing?

[@paulmessamore2440]

Please tell me what bass your useing love the two tone wood with that beautiful warm wood look.

[@MotoGreciaMarios]

It's an F-bass PJ.

[@Fretless99]

Great lesson! Thank you, Scott :) Is that a Furlanetto (F Bass)? I have been to George Furlanetto's shop...beautiful instruments!

[@mikehampton1140]

Hey Scott, I'm an academy member and was just wondering if you could break down some of these lines you are doing in this video for the academy members, especially the first one!

[@leobassii]

Very cool Scott... I'm working the technique accelerator course so I think I'll pass on the practice course for now

[@adityarao5721]

please do an interview with joe dart w.r.t technique and approach to funk :)As always Thank you for you work and lessons. Appreciated :)

[@wallamgradit]

Excellent !! Thanx a lot ;-)

[@BenD_Bass]

That happy man was the one who wrote Dean Town lol

[@psions555]

Pino's bass totally makes Gary Numans I assassin. Music for chameleon's and we take mystery to bed are phenomenal

[@fishstick341]

Its hard to find a band that will challenge you. Most times they want you to play simple bass. Or they say you play to much. Kinda rock and a hard place. Here in alexandria

[@trinitidylan]

What type of bass is that? Nice!

[@jameslimber1447]

Awesome information! Thank you. Is that a special Bass Glove on the fretting hand?

[@MrCavityMan]

It's for a medical condition. He's made a video about it.

[@JoshuaDb_The_Witness]

So much of this is beyond just being a bassist. If you can tune into your body. Making mindfulness a top priority, being mindful of how your hands feel, you start to FEEL how little hand strength you need, the lighter your touch, the more control of your overall sound.

[@slorge2012]

specifically...it can be anything...you have to be aware... don't rely on specific lessons.... listen to your own recordings and judge yourself. I did it initially with cassette recordings of myself, and still judge myself on my performances after being a 30 year bassists. fuck it. have fun.

[@johnyrocksville]

Love the 1.5 seconds of Skillet in the beginning!

[@DirtyDawgSailing]

Love it! Please use a different coloured pen though!

[@Nivenization]

Thank you.

[@tastybassy8135]

You didn't mention thumb placement on plucking hand... for me I switch from anchored on the pickup to floating over the strings depending on playing lower or higher strings.

[@_omega420]

If your plucking hand is being problematic, my bass teacher has made me float over the E when I play it and rest my thumb on top of the E string when I play the A. He said I slightly change the angle of my PH when I switch from anchored to floating, maybe that'll do something for you ( if it's needed of course )

[@bannanapancake]

Not to undermine this video, but, does anyone know about the “practice accelerator” when Scott mentions if you sign up, you get a life time access to the “ENTIRE PROGRAM” .......does that mean both the accelerator and his normal school???? Or just the accelerator???

[@_omega420]

1:41

[@RH-xs8gz]

Great video. But the green marker is very difficult to see.

[@משהפרג-ת2ס]

Thank you Thank you Thank you

[@ejm05897]

7:57 sounds like the start of Go your own way

[@jurgengyns3352]

Could you do a technical analysis of the bass line of Breakthru - Queen, sounds is easy but it's a finger twister XD

[@jaymichael4604]

Nice tone! Is this a full scale? It looks more like a 32" scale.

[@kalvsl]

This is so relevant now because of the Joe Dart Bass Junior haha

[@wjcolon]

Finally a pj orientation

[@paulobrandao8]

Wonderful!!!

[@jackie.p6891]

one thing you forgot: when playing bean town you gotta walk around, stomp your feet on the beat and make the groovy face.

[@BlackRootsAcademyOfSoul]

Slept thinking about this, all night! I think my plucking is quite good, I use three fingers actually. My problem is definitely the fretting hand!

[@Not_Lewis]

Scott, I've played for over 10 years but one aspect of economy plucking I've struggled with is being able to keep the same tempo immediately when economy plucking to a lower string. Say I'm playing a series of 16ths on idk, G on the D string and then I wanna shift to that same groove on the A string. I often find that if this tempo is too fast, it's hard to keep this string of notes going. Any tips on improving consistent economy plucking when ascending up each string?