What punk bassists ACTUALLY do

[@SugarpillProd]

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[@polovolt3]

He used the song from the 10 levels of Punk Bass!!! Brilliant callback!!

[@SugarpillProd]

Real fan 👊

[@RubenLaden]

Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendencies, Agent Orange, Descendents, Adolescents, Tsol, DRI... These made me learn bass, and then got me into metal step by step. I'm very greatfull of punk for that.

[@benbriggsmusic]

Yo that arpeggio line you wrote goes CRAZY

[@SugarpillProd]

Thanks! 😁

[@thedutchderp7319]

The alternate universe where cliff burton was a pop punk bassist

[@ajasen]

yeah also sounds a bit iron maiden to me,not sure why, maybe the sort of galloping rhythm?

[@baconfirre]

You have a really in depth knowledge of a certain era of Punk Rock that resonates with my High-School era so much! So I guess Late 90's/early 2000's. But to a point In feel like you could probably write an entire book about it. Keep sharing this with us! I find it fascinating to explore a period of music that at the time, was written off as overly simplistic, but clearly has so much intention behind it

[@SugarpillProd]

Thanks so much! Yeah, the late 90s/early 2000s punk scene has some really great songwriters overall - so much awesome music that doesn’t always get the credit it deserves. I’ll keep sharing more for sure!

[@adrianozuna2149]

Been watching you for so long now man i just get happy everytime you upload something

[@SugarpillProd]

That's really nice to hear, it means a lot!

[@mrnogot4251]

These approaches to writing bass lines work for almost all music

[@SugarpillProd]

For sure, a lot of techniques are transferable to other genres.

[@Lolo4yk]

Damn I love that video “10 levels of punk bass”.

[@Contrabann_]

Playing bass (optional)

[@SugarpillProd]

Pulling from the Sid Vicious bass playing handbook?

[@Contrabann_]

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[@JerryBylers]

love that you featured the rock room. you should check out the "The shitty Neighbor" session.

[@davidmckenzie3608]

I had a roommate in the 90s that played bass in a punk band. If you looked at anywhere but his hands he was barely moving. But, he would have to change out the strings about three times every show.

[@Mighty_Atheismo]

That had to have gotten expensive pretty fast

[@davidmckenzie3608]

@Mighty_Atheismo yeah, it did. One year for Christmas I splurged and bought him a few sets of strings.

[@benbiffton3710]

love this one !

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

I think some of my favorite bands are NoMeansNo, Victims Family and Rhythm Pigs. All of them can loosely be described as "Jazz Punk" (at least for some songs) I think. Kepone is interesting too, but I wouldn't say they belong to my favorites. And all of them have some very fun bass lines, although there aren't many tabs out there, many tabs that are out there are wrong and I suck at hearing stuff and translating it into actually playing it. And yes, I kinda had to think about Jazz Punk because you mentioned "Walking Bass" and my first reaction was "So the rumors are true... punk is just lower class jazz".

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

But I also like more simple punk bands with simple, repetitive bass lines. Like check out Slime - Deutschland musss sterben (It means "Germany must die", but for the context, one of the nazi slogans in the Third Reich was "Germany has to live, even if we have to die (for it)" which was coined by Heinrich Lersch, an enthusiastic fanboy of the NSDAP after whom multiple schools and streets are still named. So the Slime song is basically the antithesis of it, "Germany must die, so we can live").

[@totaltuesdays]

tutorial so fire I played it twice (I'm a guitarist and I don't have a bass)

[@SugarpillProd]

Haha that's awesome, thanks so much!

[@kingslaphappy1533]

I noticed that you used all down strokes for the root notes examples but for the others you used alternate picking. Can you tell me the reasoning behind that?

[@SugarpillProd]

I guess it just feels more natural to me when I'm playing something a bit more intricate. There's less to worry about when it's all root notes, haha.

[@Franface31]

Yo Cigar!

[@toadallyawful]

do you have tabs for what you played here?

[@SugarpillProd]

Pretty sure they're listed on my tab website (there's a link in the description).

[@1joshjosh1]

But I loved it

[@thadiousmilton]

Punk music is an iceberg. You're explaining the very tip.

[@SugarpillProd]

Correct lol.

[@brentgould958]

How do you get your bass tone?

[@SugarpillProd]

Either I'll amp it using my Axe FX, or I'll just use the DI signal and mix it in that way - I think for this video specifically it was the former.

[@mxadema]

Punk o rama 5 star.

[@flamingRose100]

i don't even know how to play bass and now i'm part of 3 bands

[@MarioAsti8]

Wait when did you start talking? Been missing your videos lately 😂😅

[@SugarpillProd]

Like the past 10 at least 😂

[@feeblecovers_punk]

Hello

[@SugarpillProd]

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[@smakaap]

Doe Hét!

[@mmeshutoz]

👍👍👍

[@BrandonMobley614]

In my opinion, some of the best punk bass playing I’ve ever heard is Matt Freeman, on the Rancid album “..and out come the wolves.”

[@richardvalentine4186]

Love Matt. There's a reason his signature Squier is now a collector's piece...

[@ericray7173]

Wait till you hear Operation Ivy

[@venomlords]

Narrator: “What bass players actually do.” Sid V.: “Hold my bass.”

[@YoureNowOnTV]

🤘🎸😎

[@Dellvmnyam]

It’s not punk if bassist plays something besides root notes.

[@SugarpillProd]

That sure rules out a lot of great punk bands then lol.

[@diydylana3151]

It became quite common in melodic hc/punk/skate punk and ska punk. Not to mention punk/hc leaning post-hardcore and post/art punk.

[@bobgreen8142]

It's not punk if it merely conforms.

[@1joshjosh1]

This seems to be focusing on 1 band.... Just a little bit

[@phillipsmusic3871]

They seem like great examples to me. He's not focusing on one band.

[@knmbsst]

essentially, how to create anti flag bass lines

[@brianjkelly1551]

This is only American style Pop punk

[@SugarpillProd]

Yeah because that genre is notorious for using walking bass lines.

[@brianjkelly1551]

@@SugarpillProd try Crass “big A little A” and then you will see real punk bass

[@SugarpillProd]

@@brianjkelly1551 OMG thank you for showing me what REAL punk is. Forever in your debt 🙏

[@brianjkelly1551]

@@SugarpillProd v funny 😁

[@SugarpillProd]

No I'm serious! Thank you Mr. Boomer, now I finally understand what real punk is. It's just the same 5 English bands from the 70's (even though punk didn't start there but whoops, better just forget that) and nothing more. It never evolved or expanded beyond its simple beginning. It always remained one rigid, uniform sound that everyone had better conform to, or else the dreaded "you don't listen to real punk" accusation could be hurled at you. My eyes are finally open, so thank you! jk

[@malegria9641]

We get drunk and pretend to play

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

That's the way! The audience is drunk as well, so nobody will notice anyway.

[@Hickorybee]

Who made up these rules. I don't want to conform .🤔🤪

[@RandomNonsense1985]

80s and 90s LA punks. They inadvertently turned the genre into a uniform thing.

[@jamesdelaney3797]

Way too complex for punk. This is iron maiden shit

[@SugarpillProd]

It's really not lol. You probably just haven't heard much outside of the bands who keep things more basic. Punk can get pretty complex.

[@jamesdelaney3797]

@@SugarpillProd The ramons that's it

[@SugarpillProd]

@@jamesdelaney3797 I get why you'd think that way then lol. Maybe take a listen to some bands like Refused, RKL, At The Drive In, Lagwagon, etc.

[@jamesdelaney3797]

@@SugarpillProd probobly because I'm way too 80s metal

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

@@jamesdelaney3797 Funnily, the Ramones actually threw their first bassist out of the band because they said he couldn't play bass right.

[@garethde-witt6433]

Obviously you don’t know what real punk is. You can’t explain punk as anything goes

[@SugarpillProd]

Please enlighten me then...