Transform Your Bass Fills Using This Simple Trick

[@johnberger7039]

#1 Paul Mccartney Surprised know one mentioned John Entwhistle! Also like Adam Clayton for his simple but effective approach. Less is more!! James Jameson...classic!!

[@ebassguitar]

Less is more - I can agree with that one!

[@stephenbennett4265]

My Fave bass players are, Colin Moulding of XTC, for his ability to play any kind of music. JJ Burnel , The Stranglers, and the late great Mick karn of Japan . Knoweone made the frettless sound as good as Mick.

[@ebassguitar]

Mick Khan is a fretless legend... so underrated!

[@firemedic105ns]

Jason Newsted, David Ellefson, Steve Harris, Paul McCartney, Leland Sklar are but just a few of my favourite bassists.

[@ebassguitar]

All amazing in their own rights!

[@firemedic105ns]

@@ebassguitar i get so much flak for liking Jason Newsted

[@ChanceC5]

My favorite bass player right now is Carl Radle. He has some great basslines. I like Alex James too. He's has some really creative basslines too.

[@ebassguitar]

Those are brilliant bass players! Thanks for sharing that!

[@stugoodman7407]

So many bass player I love to listen to. Stuart Zender left a big mark on me as to did Flea as I started playing in the 90's.

[@ebassguitar]

Thanks for sharing Stu! All the best!

[@leonardpoindexter5289]

James, even though I've been playing bass for quite a while, I find one never stops learning. Each of your videos either reinforce a technique or show a different approach. Thanks ever so much.

[@ebassguitar]

So great to hear! I never stop revisiting things...

[@brunocyclist]

So many awesome bass players too choose from! James Jamerson, Duck Dunn, Nathan East, all the classic greats, you know. But entering a dark horse here: I think Sting's playing is underrated. With its reggae influences, musicality and combined with singing it's something I have a newfound deep respect for since picking up the bass. Oh, and let's not forget about Tina Weymouth.

[@ebassguitar]

Sting is amazing!!! Fantastic musician

[@Cpw1959]

My favourite Bassists are Glenn Cornick & the late John Glascock both from Jethro Tull, Also a massive fan of both Steve Harris and Lemmy Kilmister.

[@ebassguitar]

Great shares :-)

[@Cpw1959]

@@ebassguitar :Thanks James, I cannot wait to try this out, maybe in a few more weeks once this Cast is removed, I have so many lessons to catch up on.

[@elducko1951]

Once again, you've done a brilliant job!! I like the fact that you don't spend all your time above the 8th fret and do you don't play too "busy" like Scott Devine... My all-time favorite - the one guy I stole 90% of my technique from is - Donald "Duck" Dunn! I also like Hutch Hutcherson (Bonnie Raitt) Have a good week

[@ebassguitar]

Thanks man... the lower register is my favourite area of the bass :-)

[@atty.juliusvincentlibang7351]

My ulitimate fave Duff Mckaggan

[@briangibbons2841]

My favourite bass player is Lemmy. I think that he was at his most inspired when he was in Hawkwind.

[@ebassguitar]

What a legend!!!

[@shooz4unme]

James Jamerson, Larry Graham,Bootsy Collins, Louis Johnson, Ray Brown, Willie Dixon, Flea, Willie Weeks, Hank Hankerson, Abe Laboriel, to name a few.

[@ebassguitar]

Many heroes of mine in there...

[@shooz4unme]

@@ebassguitar Yes! Bernard Edwards, Paul Chambers, Milt Hinton, didn’t want to forget them!

[@bobderosa4079]

Very cool! Thanks.

[@ebassguitar]

Cheers!

[@Kyomeimei]

Please James i like your lessons very much they help me a lot to improve my bass playing. Can you teach sugar pie honey bunch- four Tops bass lessons? There are so many different tabs out there and I don't know which are the original James Jamerson tabs. I would be very happy about it.

[@ebassguitar]

I’ll put it in the list!

[@Kyomeimei]

@@ebassguitar thank you so much. 🤩

[@wofoo1]

Wilbur Bascomb who played the bass lines on the movie version of Hair seems to be overlooked but amazing! (james, love your lessons!)

[@ebassguitar]

Nice... that’s a classic score!

[@TheTwangKings]

Awesome idea! I love the sound of that, it's sort of like disco-funk. I found that for a longer fill - one-bar - we can play all four in a sequence, and it sounds great! As for players, Jaco Pastorius is the main reason I am trying to play the darn thing :-) Alfonso Johnson is the other.

[@ebassguitar]

Thanks for sharing!

[@kevinpressnell2769]

James Eager Thanx for that sounded awesome 😎

[@ebassguitar]

My pleasure! Give it a go...

[@JoelBass68]

Anthony Jackson. Such groove.

[@ebassguitar]

Yeah! His work with Chaka Khan and michel Camilo is incredible

[@thejlp9894]

Hi James great lesson as always one of my favourite bassist is David Brown from Santana sadly no longer with us but to be honest there are too many to mention including yourself thanks again for a great video cheers John

[@ebassguitar]

Glad you like it! Cheers!

[@kenhogeland446]

John Bazz of the Blasters. The guy is awesome

[@ebassguitar]

Can you share some links?

[@johnnystiner8995]

Awsome fun lesson , one of my favorite bassists is Jeff Pilson. There are many others who were really good.

[@ebassguitar]

Don’t know that name... who did he play with?

[@peterthomas1187]

@@ebassguitar Jeff Pilson has played in Dokken, Dio and Foreigner amongst others...

[@TheYjmfan]

Loved that 👍👏🏻

[@ebassguitar]

Cheers Colin!

[@drummerdaveshouse5848]

All bass players that play in the smooth jazz circle are my favorite bass players. Check out smooth jazz and you’ll see what I mean. I do like Nathan East and since I’m a smooth jazz drummer learning bass, Steve Gadd is one of my favorite drummers but there again, all smooth jazz drummers are technicians and are great.

[@ebassguitar]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@christyjohn5149]

Can u pls make a video for longer licks like most of the ones that we are really short ones....

[@ebassguitar]

Sure! I’ll do some more lick / fill ideas

[@paulsteadman5618]

JJ Burnell for me too !

[@ebassguitar]

He keeps coming up!

[@paulsteadman5618]

Well he is very good and your usual muso choice!

[@vincentsweargen8436]

My #1 favorite is Nathan East.

[@ebassguitar]

He astounds me!

[@carlospaiva8238]

Michael Pipoquinha - Incredible

[@ebassguitar]

Thanks man!

[@eliasmkhabela8629]

My favourite bass player is Sipho Gumede from South Africa

[@ebassguitar]

Thanks for sharing!

[@DbassUK19]

Nico Assumpção! The best

[@ebassguitar]

Can you share some links?

[@bradleystone3923]

My faves are Joe Osborne, Lee Sklar, and Jerry Scheff

[@ebassguitar]

Love it!

[@sarassoap]

Jack Bruce, John Paul Jones

[@johnnystiner8995]

Hey james you ever tried the bass line to freedom by robbin ford?

[@ebassguitar]

I will definitely look into that! Thanks!

[@christophe2987]

Hi, thanks for the video, when you start jamming at 10:40 what scale do you use ? thanks

[@ebassguitar]

Kinda Gminor pentatonic largely... and the stuff I showed in the lesson

[@christophe2987]

@@ebassguitar Thanks !

[@luigi.zanini]

my favourite bass player is the brazilian ALBERTO CONTINENTINO, who playes also with Ed Motta....very underrated!

[@ebassguitar]

I’ll have to check him out!

[@luigi.zanini]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6uugoiblpeZotE

[@Kyomeimei]

My favourite bass players are Francis Rocco Prestia, Nathan East, Flea (RHCP), Taka (FEEDER), Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers)

[@ebassguitar]

Very nice choices! CheerS!

[@Kyomeimei]

@@ebassguitar you can put Falco on my favourite bass Players List too ❤️

[@ErixSamson]

is it just me or the lesson PDF link is broken?

[@ragsna1630]

Me either

[@ebassguitar]

We’ve fixed it now :-)

[@hbriem]

Jean Jacques Burnel

[@ebassguitar]

Second time he’s been mentioned today!

[@zachariahshort6546]

My favorite bassist is Robert Deleo of Stone Temple Pilots. So very underrated!

[@ebassguitar]

I’ll listen to him again :-)

[@geldercarvalho640]

Jaco of course

[@ebassguitar]

Of course!

[@geldercarvalho640]

@@ebassguitar Im from Brazil. Thanks for answer back 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@alfrazier8389]

My favorite bass is between two guys . Slam Stewart, and james jamerson.

[@ebassguitar]

The original slap bass player!

[@Ed9870]

Christian McBride, Glenn Worff, Keith Ferguson, Tommy Shannon, John Paul Jones, Geddy Lee, to name but a few.

[@ebassguitar]

Christian Mcbride is one my all time bass influences

[@Ed9870]

@@ebassguitar Excellent to hear. He'd be proud to have you as an enthusiast. He's helped my upright bass playing tremendously, as have you.

[@rossco420]

Jaco pastorious / Marcus Miller / Geddy Lee

[@ebassguitar]

Very good line up got there!

[@brendanthebdog]

Good fill ideas. John Paul Jones hands down, and Peter Cetera and Chris Wolstenholme for honorable mention.

[@ebassguitar]

Who did chris play for?

[@G8TQH]

pdf link isn't working for me either :-(

[@ebassguitar]

It’s sorted now! Correct link in description

[@ajdayton101]

I have so many. Probably John Taylor.

[@ebassguitar]

Brilliant!

[@docneet]

Paul McCartney

[@ebassguitar]

Yes!

[@edwinengelbrecht3377]

Sir Paul McCarthy. No one more melodic that his playing !!!

[@ebassguitar]

So melodic - a master!

[@graemerobertson5160]

Way before your time James but the what you describe is being used here but just using one approach note instead of two but as a part chord. This is the classic disco track from 1975 which features the open shut hi hat and the octave jumping bass once the tempo picks up. I had only been playing bass for a few months and tried to copy the octave jumping. No youtube at the time so I used thumb for the bottom notes and middle finger for the upper octave. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4DdgJJqg7hrhKs

[@ebassguitar]

Watch the paul Westwood masterclass inside the BLP and you’ll see how powerful thumb technique is and where those concepts can go...

[@davidvitale9338]

John Deacon is still my favorite.

[@ebassguitar]

I love him too

[@duranduran6415]

John Taylor :)

[@ebassguitar]

You KZbin name might give that one away!

[@duranduran6415]

@@ebassguitar Yeah - he is a big reason why I play bass.

[@patrickjamesknight8100]

Bernard Edwards!

[@ebassguitar]

Legend!

[@basderhaag]

Willie Weeks on Donny Hathaway Live.

[@ebassguitar]

Fantastic!

[@kresimirdobranic1682]

Randy Hope Taylor

[@ebassguitar]

I used to go an watch him in a bar in the city of London... what a phenomenal player

[@godj7437]

Carol Kaye. No one can do it better

[@ebassguitar]

She’s a legend!

[@janetgeddes9899]

james and you bro

[@ebassguitar]

That is very kind of you Janet! All the best!

[@fayolakeru4471]

justin RAFIKIIII Rains my bro!!!!!

[@ebassguitar]

Share some links!

[@athonadjalin]

Victor Wooten !

[@ebassguitar]

A master bassist and innovator

[@RogerHuxley]

Andrew Bodnar - The Rumour

[@ebassguitar]

Nice!

[@francoislandry9556]

Steve Harris

[@ebassguitar]

Yeah!

[@sonnywhitlock6220]

John paul jones

[@ebassguitar]

Fantastic bassist

[@marksanders8066]

The late great Trevor Bolder of Uriah Heep.

[@ebassguitar]

I’m going to have to find out more about him!

[@delltellapharoah2378]

.... Rodney skeet Curtis

[@ebassguitar]

Remind me... who did he play with? Got a mental blank!

[@delltellapharoah2378]

@@ebassguitar parliament.funkadelic.. You might want to check out Pleasure Principle on the parlett Album...good solo at the end

[@kilbozjan8871]

Pino Palladino Obviously.

[@ebassguitar]

Absolutely!

[@Ricardo96092]

Jack Casady from Jefferson Airplane.

[@ebassguitar]

Great player!

[@rattmann3170]

Nikki Sixx

[@ebassguitar]

Cool!!