Jimmy Haslip of the Yellowjackets with Wilkins Guitars - What To Practice

Bassist extraordinaire of the Yellowjackets, Renegade Creation (with Michael Landau, Robben Ford and Gary Novak), and many more, talks about his new Wilkins 5-string Bass, the E Pentatonic Minor Scale and what to practice.

[@etpslick100]

Pat makes great basses and guitars. Also does some beautiful finishing stuff as well. Also I’m a big fan of Jimmy and the late great Wayman Tisdale. They both play left handed with the strings in reversed; and be KILLING IT! Jimmy is awesome!

[@MrMintjazz]

A great bassist and a magnificent instrument.

[@gnmoffice6063]

At 13+ 45 years later + and uploaded 12 years ago? WTH😳wow

[@Ravivharshanee]

JIMMY!!!!

[@dolomighty74]

6:40

[@drummersac]

I am a drummer, so excuse my lack of knowledge. I am surprised to see that he is not playing a Keith Roscoe, nor is he playing a 6 string. I liked his tone on Roscoes more than on this bass brand.

[@spider5604]

Actually I was wondering what gimmeagig was talking about, I am hearing no flanger also.

[@patwilkins2813]

I'm not sure what you're hearing but I can assure you, there's no flanger on this audio track. Pat Wilkins

[@gimmeagig]

That flanger wha effect makes it harder to hear what Jimmy is playing and I think it is also altering the sound of the bass in a negative way. Other than that it is a really nice video.

[@lonhillyer]

I think, sometimes, those great 1970s and 80s jazz and fusion cats seem to be attached to the sounds the chorus and flanger..., even Allan Holdsworth (more recently often had) and Mike Stern still have the chorus on whenever they play, even in Stern's lessons videos it seemed to always be on. Herbie Hancock, as advanced as he is sonically, always seemed to stay with that 80s and sometimes clavicord (or net) sound, especially when he uses that strap-on keyboard which has that 80s chorus-y thing. Then again, George Benson, Stanley Clarke, Pat Martino always for the most part always stuck with their dryer or more natural sounds.

[@spider5604]

Really, is there a flanger effect?

[@herrdruhl]

great bass, but $4000 more than my budget allows...(sniff).

[@pluralband9324]

Is the C# NOT Db ! with all the respct ! E dorian has E , F# G , A ,B C# , D E

[@ronj9448]

No, He's playing a E Minor Pentatonic with a Db added (5:26) which he says is like a Dorian scale. Enharmonic but he's not changing to E Dorian.

[@dandavis2552]

No doubt we all enjoyed his tenure with the Jackets, his tone and grooves. But being he is not a reader, nor versed in any theory......I say dig what he has accomplished and let this kind of stuff ride. Sure, he was not able to correctly demonstrate even (1) single scale he mentioned, spelling it correctly, and nearly everything was the same run & pattern. Relative minor VS Parallel minor, modes, and such just not his bag. I too, agree this instrument is "clanky" perhaps just in the set-up, compared to what he has displayed on the Roscoe with Jimmy digging in like this, but he could have done better than to say , "I just checked out this scale this mornin" lol. Hope all is well, not even certain how this video ended up in rotation.......

[@spectortobias1371]

Roscoe or Tobias are better

[@wilkinsroadtestedbassesand1216]

Thank you for you OPINION. Have you ever played a Wilkins bass?

[@spectortobias1371]

not yet. But I'm big fan of Mr. Haslip. I have all the Yellowjackets Records. IMO He played bass with more soulful and great intonation when using Tobias or Roscoe. I don't hear "the real Tone" of Mr. Haslip when using Wilkins.

[@patwilkins2813]

That's exactly the point. He was looking for something completely different. Something with a more modern,/vintage tone. The project is Renegade Creation with Mike Landau, Robin Ford and Gary Novak. He told me none of his basses would be able to get him the vintage tone that they were looking for but he wanted to be able to go modern if he needed it for a specific session. Check out renegade Creation and you'll hear what he was going for.