This bassline is impossible.....

[Newfoundfreedom]

.....ahem! I beg to differ.

I find most of this guy's YouTube videos pretty annoying if I'm honest. 

But there's no denying. Damn he can play!

 

 

Edited December 14, 2018 by Newfoundfreedom

[dmccombe7]

I quite enjoy this guys clips. Not sure i could play it all but i could manage most of it with a little practice

Dave

[BigRedX]

Looks fake to me.

His finger/fret positioning in a couple places should be resulting in choked notes, but they sound perfectly fine on the audio. 

Besides it's a video there's no guarantee that it is actually real.

[fleabag]

Someone made a decent job of post EQ , and any mistakes could have been sorted with drop ins

Edited December 15, 2018 by fleabag

[shoulderpet]

2 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Looks fake to me.

His finger/fret positioning in a couple places should be resulting in choked notes, but they sound perfectly fine on the audio. 

Besides it's a video there's no guarantee that it is actually real.

Could be the camera angle, a lot of the time I fret practically on top of the fret (bad habit I know) but I have no issues with choked notes, I don't think its fake imho 

[Newfoundfreedom]

Most of his videos are heavily edited and processed, no doubt.

Still no denying the boy can play. 

[ahpook]

No fair ! Look at the size of his hands !

Edited December 14, 2018 by ahpook

[Cato]

The guys got monstrous skills but I can't see why anyone would think that bassline would be 'impossible'.

There's clearly a lot to remember and a couple of very fast  sections, but I didn't see anything that technically difficult in there.

I don't see why the 'start as slow as you need then gradually increase the BPM on the metronome/drum machine' technique wouldn't work here.

Edited December 14, 2018 by Cato

[The59Sound]

I don't think he is that bothered about a few throwaway comments. 

[Guest MoJo]

His strings appear to be made of rubber. I'm sure mine don't flex like that. Is that down to the force he's using with his plucking hand ?

[Coilte]

19 minutes ago, The59Sound said:

I don't think he is that bothered about a few throwaway comments. 

I'm sure you are correct..so he won't care if I add one more...

With the severe bend in that plucking hand wrist, I can almost feel the CTS coming on. 😦

[fiatcoupe432]

I hate this guy s videos and all the other like him .

Only youtubers .....  ! "Look at my 15 string bass solo " (rubbish) .

a talented bass player or musician is someone who actually makes a living (or writes  ) beautiful music . 

I don't get it ! 

Sometimes (most of the time ) I get annoyed from Scott D as well ! He is such amazing bass player and I had a chance to listen at his Ep (never released) which was unbelivable good   but prefer spending time making rubbish video (not all of them btw)  

[Guest]

Eh? It sounds straightforward enough to me. He’s playing very hard and digging right in, and the damping makes it sound nice and tight but nothing remarkable or that difficult with a bit of practice. Some octaves, a few fills and a bit of slap. Par for the course on YT.

[Barking Spiders]

18 minutes ago, fiatcoupe432 said:

I hate this guy s videos and all the other like him .

Only youtubers .....  ! "Look at my 15 string bass solo " (rubbish) .

a talented bass player or musician is someone who actually makes a living (or writes  ) beautiful music . 

I don't get it ! 

Sometimes (most of the time ) I get annoyed from Scott D as well ! He is such amazing bass player and I had a chance to listen at his Ep (never released) which was unbelivable good   but prefer spending time making rubbish video (not all of them btw)  

With you there all the way. Music's about writing and/or performing tunes not onanism with a bass/guitar substitute! I've seen some of this guy's vids and yes he's technically advanced but unless this can be replicated in a band in front of an audience it's pointless.

Edited December 14, 2018 by Barking Spiders

[Woodinblack]

Why is it useless? I assume he is probably making  a living from it, is that pointless? I don't particularly want to see it, but that is my choice.

[yorks5stringer]

2 hours ago, fiatcoupe432 said:

I hate this guy s videos and all the other like him .

Only youtubers .....  ! "Look at my 15 string bass solo " (rubbish) .

a talented bass player or musician is someone who actually makes a living (or writes  ) beautiful music . 

I don't get it ! 

Sometimes (most of the time ) I get annoyed from Scott D as well ! He is such amazing bass player and I had a chance to listen at his Ep (never released) which was unbelivable good   but prefer spending time making rubbish video (not all of them btw)  

He'd scrape a living as a  working musician ( as many even big names do) and yet he is worth millions as a online Tutor. 

[chris_b]

2 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

Music's about writing and/or performing tunes not onanism with a bass/guitar substitute! I've seen some of this guy's vids and yes he's technically advanced but unless this can be replicated in a band in front of an audience it's pointless.

Only in your opinion. 

That this video has over 10 million views would seem to indicates this guy certainly does have an audience, and it's more people that have been bothered to listed to any of us!

[Drax]

It’s just some guy who doesn’t play bass saying it’s impossible 

and some YouTube star responding to a Tweet.. as the kids (probably don’t say anymore) meh 

[BreadBin]

As I understand it, Davey504 has made over 1/2 a million quid from YouTube so is probably way more successful than anyone posting on here! 

Fair play to him I say, if he's making a living doing something he enjoys then surely he's doing it right?

[Drax]

Definitely more than anyone’s ever paid me to play bass! 

Although - probably a few quid less than many on here earned over the same 7yrs, in significantly more boring jobs. 

One of the neat ironies being a YouTube success, people that watch your videos and don’t like you, earn you money too. 

 

[Newfoundfreedom]

9 hours ago, Drax said:

Definitely more than anyone’s ever paid me to play bass! 

Although - probably a few quid less than many on here earned over the same 7yrs, in significantly more boring jobs. 

 

One of the neat ironies being a YouTube success, people that watch your videos and don’t like you, earn you money too. 

 

I doubt I'll make that much money over my entire lifetime doing mugs jobs that I absolutely hate, so fair play to the bloke. 

[dmccombe7]

Serious question :- how does he make money from YT. ?

Dave

[PawelG]

2 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Serious question :- how does he make money from YT. ?

Dave

Advertising.

I just read the whole thread and had few things to say, but then as I read further I found people writing what I wanted to anyway, so just clicked the like button few times - super easy!

[Drax]

3 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Serious question :- how does he make money from YT. ?

Dave

The main model is you get a slice of the ad revenue, for those ads served against your videos. 

[The59Sound]

You may not like it (or him) but this is the style you have to adopt now to acheieve 'sucess' on social media and make serious money off of it. I know it's not your proper version of bass playing etc. etc. but he appeals to the kids and the kids are making him money.

How many people here would watch his video 'Can you play Korn with Corn?' Yeah... silence. Don't watch his channel then.