Is It Luck? - Les Claypool's Crazy Bass Riff (tabs and tutorial)

[@talkingbasslessons]

Click here for lesson material: www.talkingbass.net/is-it-luck-les-claypools-crazy-bass-riff-tabs-and-tutorial/

[@foshizol]

What's the name brand of your bass? I can't quite see it.

[@PotatoP000]

No matter what song, I CAN LEARN IT FROM TALKINGBASS!

[@rahinc]

This is a great breakdown. I started practicing it and the dog started howling at me.

[@donh5794]

Hope the dog did not try to bite.

[@ripperplaysclon152]

The dog was just trying to show you the words he knew, and how loquacious he could be when he set his mind to it!

[@repost-central]

dog will hunt!

[@michaelmoore7568]

@@repost-centraldood. Tooo funny! Primes s-ks!

[@W_snailman]

Is it luck?

[@wade8177]

There is a point with this riff where I get it all down together at 188 bpm and it finally sounds like the real deal THEN my brain gets excited about it causing the mussel memory to fall and my fingers suddenly feel like 5 pound bricks each. Lol I’m almost there.

[@wade8177]

“Muscle” hate when the KZbin edit button fails. Anyway, just a lil more practice and …luck?

[@stelly8839]

@@wade8177 😂

[@chickenminute8195]

I’d love for you to break down ‘Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver’ your lessons are great. You’ve really helped me learn these songs. Thank you.

[@jaybles0999]

This is one I’ve never been able to quite wrap my head around. Thank you so much for this breakdown, i really needed it!

[@foshizol]

Such an awesome tutorial. I love Primus, but honestly never attempted any of Claypool's songs because they seemed way beyond my abilities. However, your tutorial really breaks it down into easy to digest segments.

[@philmasecar8542]

I have been learning Lacquer Head for awhile now to the point where I can play the song in full (at a slower speed but I can still play it) thanks to the tutorial you made, could you be that helpful again with Jilly's On Smack?

[@salty_3k506]

I guess Jilly's on Smack isn't possible on a normal bass because it's played on an electric double bass

[@jackmiller1209]

Glorious!! You are the most generous musician, thanks a lot for this awesome breakdown of the riff.

[@traviswilliams]

First clear explanation I’ve heard of this ditty. Thanks so much.

[@benmartinez6248]

Thanks mark your breakdowns like this one have made hard songs easy

[@waynemichaelbanks]

American life please Mark. Your tutorials are a dream come true, spent hours getting these songs wrong back in the day. Many thanks 🙏

[@talkingbasslessons]

Thanks a lot. Already done it. Worth mentioning there are over 600 lessons here on the channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJCcoYSsfNuBj7Msi=GYf1xXhoBkRHFgmz

[@_Majoras]

thanks for the tutorial, unreal! i've seen another video with someone playing it without a whammy bar i always thought it was necessary for this riff

[@donh5794]

Nice breakdown that was really needed.

[@Chuck365]

Thanks so much!

[@mariobarchiesi3789]

Thanks so much! Subscribed :)

[@humanidrome]

Grrrreat stuff Mark 👍🏿

[@russtuff]

This is fantastic

[@benrascoe5821]

Love your break downs could you do the toys go winding down or DMV next?

[@dambrooks7578]

Les Claypool, the original Blue Collar (Bass) Tweaker, an imagination set on course by the likes of the equally brilliant Geddy Lee and The Residents. The former Claypool introduced to the Hall of Fame, while the latter was covered many times live, as well as on one EP (the name of which escapes me currently).

[@d4ben]

Thank you Mark.

[@synops2112]

hey mark, could you please make a video about the opening bass solo in Fish On, from the sealing the seas of cheese as well.

[@clancywiggam]

Good work!

[@rosiebrightstar]

Thanks for this. Love this song.

[@mariano.tiberi]

RHCP 'nobody weird like me' has a pretty hard fast bassline slapped

[@kevmac1230]

I get intimidated just hearing the name Les Claypool.

[@leabrown9305]

Have you done Les Claypool’s version of The Awakening? I’m struggling here 😁

[@MarshmellowJello]

Can you show how to play Mr Knowitall? The bass line in that song goes hard

[@rosiebrightstar]

Could you please do ‘up on the roof’ by Les Claypool.

[@traviswilliams]

Have to second this. Or Phillipino Ray.

[@Fraktacular]

I would have loved to see the look on Ler's face when Les busted this out!!

[@veryslyfox9704]

Golden Boy from the Brown Album would be great!

[@Ozzmania]

That was bad ass

[@mmollioum3983]

Your lessons are really awesome. Thank you. Can you say from what part of the UK you are from ? I asked it because of your pronunciation of some words . I like English accents and you pronunciation of words "strum", " drum", "funk" really blow my mind)))

[@dambrooks7578]

Northern, possibly Leeds I'm inclined to guess 🤔

[@ianfreud]

@@dambrooks7578 Good guess! He’s my best mate and we’re from South Leeds bordering Wakefield

[@dambrooks7578]

@@ianfreud admittedly I am British, originally born in Essex, but have lived my adult life in London, so after Northampton evening is a blurry "The North" except Liverpool and Birmingham, they have very distinct accents. 😀

[@MisterFarce]

Those open D slap to hammer on 6 or hammer on 8s are so damn quick! If they're played too slow they throw the phrasing of the riff off completely. Good times! Primus sucks!

[@rosiebrightstar]

Any chance of Hennepin Crawler

[@kerdum]

PLEASE do Primus Rengades!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant get the first breakdown, and along with this video would be the last 2 primus songs i could not play before! Thank you! Tryed to pay this as a kid as well.

[@yarisarabasi_]

I was looking for a tutorial for this one today, finding your video is luck i guess

[@awakenb8619]

What pickups are those

[@markbass354]

YAY

[@charlesxcalibur]

Not quite. It's pluck open G and hammer on to 7th on G string, slap 8th on D string, slap open D and hammer on 7th on D , pluck open G hammer on to 6th on G, slap 7th on D, slap on D and hammer onto 6th on D. And do the same thing 2 frets higher and do it really fast

[@Tonys_Gabagool]

Jeeze and I was happy when I learned Jerry Was A Racecar Driver lol this is just ridiculous

[@dentoncrimescene]

DMV?

[@Robbo859]

I can play my bass for you

[@TristanJCumpole]

No-de-no-de-no-de-no.

[@govs213]

Is it luck?

[@TristanJCumpole]

@@govs213 Well Herb

[@tommymassey1275]

Love it can't get enough claypool

[@vamountainman2512]

Primus sucks :P

[@firaolgetachew8512]

This awesome and am bassist so why don't you give me one of your bass guitar

[@leonardnovel]

♥️

[@rollingrock5143]

This is just missing the tremolo.

[@CouchEconomyTX]

I swear there's supposed to be an extra note before the last hammer on of the riff

[@CouchEconomyTX]

Nvm lol, it sounds fine at full speed

[@mcinen67]

🤘😄

[@hewystudio7832]

Interesting. In an interview les claypool says he uses the whammy bar in it. I wonder what part it plays.

[@talkingbasslessons]

The divebomb chord with distortion

[@traviswilliams]

I think he holds it loosely the entire time. Just to give that warbly of kilter sound.

[@TheHeckler85]

When I saw them on tour de fromage I saw this song a couple times and did see him using the whammy bar, still could not figure out how he was doing any of it lol

[@_Majoras]

interview on bass player magazine, from what i remember, he was talking about his more unusual basslines on 'seas of cheese saying the rhythm for is it luck he holds down the whammy bar while popping

[@skateordielaughing8753]

When I first saw him play this live it was the whammy bar that I was like "that's how he does it!"! He holds the whammy bar the whole time

[@shokprof2064]

🎼✌🏿🌎✌🏼🎼

[@davidtuden738]

Good vid, but why do you write flats when it's written in a sharp key? And why restate the accidentals?

[@talkingbasslessons]

Accidentals don’t have to match a key signature. The key signature is A major. What accidental are you to use for a flattened second function? It will be a Bb. Not an A#. You have to differentiate between harmonic and melodic functions when stating accidentals. Is it a chromatic chord tone? Is it an ascending passing tone? Is it a descending passing tone? Is it a modal scale tone? The function is everything. As for restating accidentals, I actually didn’t (although there’s nothing wrong with that). I used sharps after they had been naturalised. That’s absolutely necessary otherwise the natural would still be in effect.

[@spacevspitch4028]

When you play the bass riff to this song correctly...is it luck?

[@dizzyz8485]

does nobody watch how he plays it live?

[@LosBastardostributeband]

Good tutorial but this song is completely played with a whammy bar though

[@Firedancer100]

Ethereum 🎸

[@Gravyea]

Winona be cool or the new song conspiraNOIA

[@risoledoce]

one of the weirdest song I've ever heard

[@nikobellic1191]

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