Extended vamping on a chord

[lownote]

Really interesting and useful (for muppets like me) exposition on various options for fooling around on a single chord

 

 

Edited September 20, 2021 by lownote

[Newfoundfreedom]

Thanks. I really enjoyed that 

 

Nice to hear someone actually play a bass rather than doing honky noodling Jaco impressions or slapping the snot out if it. 

[Happy Jack]

That is excellent - real world stuff.

[Chezz55]

Outstanding, I'll be 'playing' along to this later on this week.

 

[Nail Soup]

Good stuff... his ideas were things I could use.

Other YT'ers play stuff I'd want to avoid doing.

[Merton]

Yep I agree, that was lovely tasteful playing and has easy real world application. Nice

[Skybone]

Great to see musicians interacting with other musicians, rather than solo noodling, or "playing along" to a backing track where you can only hear the backing track.

[FinnDave]

I very rarely bother to watch videos, but I watched that from beginning to end - very nice playing, and no showing off, just good, tasteful music. They looked like they were enjoying themselves, too.

[casapete]

1 hour ago, FinnDave said:

I very rarely bother to watch videos, but I watched that from beginning to end - very nice playing, and no showing off, just good, tasteful music. They looked like they were enjoying themselves, too.

Exactly this. Nathan East is a wonderful musician, also nice to hear a guitar played using a great clean sound.

 

Mind you, nearly didn’t watch it due to Paul Gilbert having a clip on tuner on show......🤣

[Count Bassy]

Lovely

[NHM]

well I'll buck the love, I thought this was pretty disappointing fare from such esteemed musicians. Can't see much use for self indulgent bass-lead-noodling at a gig (leave that to others) although it might be OK with a chum at home after a few beers. Perhaps that's what they're doing here.

Given we're in an education platform, I'd be more interested in seeing what bass patterns could be used under a single repeated chord to keep the interest going without resorting to being showy. We had a repeating root after a minute or so of fluff, but I didn't see much 'extended vamping' to develop this classic bass support-pattern which would have been more useful to see what a maestro can do to educate mere mortals like me into how a pattern can be developed, so I gave up at 3.30. Perhaps it was all in the second half.

For me 'going off on one' doesn't make great music, it's better if development is structured.