How to play like Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam - Bass Habits - Ep 48

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[@tfeerick]

I'm glad to see coverage of the 90s alt/grunge scene. Might I suggest an episode on Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots next. Him and his brother were a part of something magical with that band

[@DrBASSics10]

Robert is such a underrated bassist!

[@silkywellman9046]

He's one of my favorites!

[@xbw5066]

!!!Just thought of him when watching the video

[@alainbrasseur7083]

before Jeff Ament on fretless rock bass is Tony Franklin ( the firm, blue murder, ...) and on 12 string bass is Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick. Both deserve an episode, don't they?

[@johnwilliams3075]

I was just about to say that Tony Franklin was wall-to-wall fretless with The Firm (1984-86) and Blue Murder (1987-1994) before Pearl Jam came along. That's not to take away anything from Jeff because his playing has really reached an incredibly wide audience. But Tony blazed the trail for him.........

[@ivanhozjan7137]

...and Mick Karn was doing some otherwordly stuff with Japan, solo and several contributions. Also, how about Tony Levin and his stick?

[@AndrewCapobianco2014]

Tom Petersen plays 1 note guitar on a bass through guitar amps, I know, 12 string.

[@andrewpappas9311]

Always loved Jeff's playing, that 12-string part on Jeremy never ceases to amaze me

[@avelaunchmusic]

Love the video. I would’ve mentioned a few more songs, like Alone and Breath. Amazing fretless action there

[@ziggybaker3446]

Pearl Jam is my absolute favorite band of all time and I'm glad to see some of their lesser known songs mentioned here. Jeff's basslines are definitely noteworthy throughout all their albums. Thanks for making this!!

[@thomasfioriglio]

Wonderful video, Paul. Ament is so talented and I love how he doesn't use conventional bass styles in rock music. His playing of fretless has been a big influence Thanks

[@bassdrummer9849]

To complete the big 4 of grunge bassists; could you please do Ben Shepherd from Soundgarden next? Would be awesome! Aaaand Robert DeLeo of course

[@TotoDG]

I’ve always respected and admired Ament (as with most bass players), but I never noticed just _how_ crucial he was to Pearl Jam’s sound until watching this video. And if I may make a suggestion, I feel like Frank Bello is _way_ overdue for a video.

[@HeadacheMachine]

as well as KING's X and KXM's dUg PINNICK

[@samuelszabo8391]

Great part 😌 could you do a video about Soundgarden’s Ben Shepherd - he created awesome and unique bass parts - never played just the root, he always added something special (grunge+jazz) 😌 true grunge bassist

[@bookbm]

The drop tuning was awesome. Used to wear my strap like his when I first started playing. That didn’t last too long 😂

[@deivi1]

It seems like you're making a lot more use of isolated bass tracks in the recent videos which is great!

[@GuitarUnderground]

Thanks for this, Paul. Really good stuff. It's interesting how he will often play behind the beat when he's going into a descending passage and then lock back into the groove when he ascends back to the root. He really emphasizes his descending slides. It creates an interesting movement to the music that gives it that 'swirling ocean current' feel that is unique to his playing. Also, listen to how he changes the complexity or pitch of his playing throughout a song to accent the vocal narrative (I got Id, for example). Another Ament-ism is his combined use of harmonics and whammy pedal (ex. Even Flow, Garden).

[@therealeikichionizuka]

Considering you’ve covered most of the metal guys, I would LOVE to see a video on Alex Webster.

[@KaltOhm]

Great video! Jeff Ament is such a great and underrated player...

[@tristencoon8198]

Facts him both Mike's from AIC, and Ben Shepherd are all underrated and Krist gets credit just because he was a part of Nirvana

[@silkywellman9046]

Jeff was one of the stand out bassists of the 90s!

[@andreasdeutinger7319]

grunge really has/had great bassplayers-aic, soundgarden, pearl jam, nirvana…bass is really good in every band.

[@tristencoon8198]

Facts and I love playing grunge songs mostly AIC because I've only been playing bass for a little over a year and Mike Starr especially bass lines are pretty simple but sound good

[@chriskartalidis9687]

The best "traditional" bass player of the 90-20's. He provides extreme service to any song. By backing up the song and his bandmates, or being up-front (Jeremy,in my tree, WMA, nothing man etc.) Amazing bass lines.

[@pedrobenitezherrero9191]

I think it would be very interesting to hear you speaking about Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne.

[@daniellemos4413]

Grazie!

[@phantooom]

Hello Paul, nice episode! You forgot to mention Temple of the dog and song Pushing Forward Back, one of his best bass lines, so groovy and powerful. Keep on doing this great work!

[@dimitrijefilipovic1537]

Please, can you do video about Ben Shepherd from Soundgarden, he is such a great and underrated bass player? Greetings from Serbia

[@thomasfioriglio]

Hey Paul, I just watched this again after getting a Tony Franklin Fretless Bass. I've always been interested in fretless bass in rock music. Going back to the 80s with Sting and the Police and Michael Been and The Call. when I first picked one up. It's been years since I've played one and I feel so inspired. Jeff is such a creative fretless and I've gone back to the Pearl Jam catalog to give him a listen. I would love to see a bass habits for David J of Love and Rockets and Bauhaus. I read an interview where Jeff cited him as an influence. I love the way David J incorporates the fretless bass in the Gothic and Alternative sounds of Love and Rockets. How about it? Thanks!

[@jackquarantillo5192]

I'll second the mention of Michael Been who played a fretless Ampeg "scroll" bass. ... and of course Sting who played a lot of fretless as well.

[@ArthurPerez-t2e]

He carved out a place for himself to fit in the band that no one else could fill in the same way.

[@mmeshutoz]

Спасибо! Отлично!!!

[@edsohovocals]

Good video, thanks. Please please please do one on Mick Karn from Japan though. The king of fretless. 🥰🙌🏻

[@strykr82]

I hope that after this one Paul makes a video about Ben Shepherd

[@avelaunchmusic]

In Getaway Jeff actually wrote the bass first and Eddie mimicked the bass.

[@fachriridho3644]

Please analyze the bass from duff mckagan, song: move to the city live in tokyo

[@kommissar.murphy]

Any thoughts on his use of obnoxious headwear?

[@randall9000]

Balding. Now he has some weird rug

[@kaloyanmishev1368]

Can you do an episode for Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple and The Dead Daises please

[@m3ntalcollid3r]

You should do Lou Barlow from Dinosaur Jr next.

[@josi8569]

I never liked PJ but Jeff Ament is a great bass player

[@VikoTheBassist]

I know this might not be super popular but you should do a video on Dean Bernardini from Chevelle

[@lordoftheelements2112]

Can you do Troy Sanders from Mastodon next?

[@ramonemiliogomezjorge8557]

can you talk about bauhaus?

[@diogopadela2379]

Pls tetsuo sakurai next!!!!

[@lasyanka7821]

You know, I'm waiting for a Jerry Only video that will go like Step 1: *go weightlifting*

[@vellvet_]

Please Jeese F Keeler from Death From Above 1979

[@ShaneScott69]

I built an 8 string bass because of jeff

I think he was really creative in the first 4 PJ albums, but nothing extraordinary apart from Jeremy. De Leo, Novoselic and Shepard were definitely better, because what they did was based over the chords, not only riffs.