The Future of SBL - Wrong Answers Only

[SteveXFR]

13 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

 whaddya think of his selection here

?

 

 

No Steve Harris, Tim Commerford, Sean Ysealt, Rex Brown, Scott Reeder or Al Cisneros? Unacceptable. 

[ahpook]

54 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

 whaddya think of his selection here?

 

Well, I skimmed through his selection and read the section titles without watching the video....I only recognised 4 of the names.

 

I really am not very rock

Edited August 2, 2023 by ahpook

[LukeFRC]

On 31/07/2023 at 15:52, asingardenof said:

I have a lifetime membership so at least I don't have to worry about him putting my subs up if I say something too critical 🤣

I have entered the comps and would have been more than happy with a lifetime subscription as a prize rather than some fancy bass… sounds crazy, but I’ve got a nice bass or two - and long term I would learn something 

[Paolo85]

3 hours ago, TeresaFR said:

I think it depends on who you're marketing to. The last email I received from SBL mentioned John Patitucci, Gary Willis, Sean Hurley, Rufus Philpot, Steve Jenkins, and Rich Brown

I think there's a misunderstanding there. He drops those names because they actually do courses and seminars on the SBL website. It is something to be proud of without doubt. Sean Hurley is a session man playing for famous pop stars, not a specialist in microtonal funk jazz. For what I understand he does a seminar with tips to go through a session.

Patitucci, on top of being a top notch player, is a renewed educator. On the website he does advanced stuff but also a course named introduction to cuban music and another one for which I find the description confusing but I think has something to do with getting into the style of The Meters, which also are not microtonal jazz-funk.

Other people like Gary Willis do only or mostly jazz courses but the website is known to contain a number of beginner courses or genre specific courses taught by less famous bassists (and Scott himself) - for which one cannot do much name-dropping in marketing emails.

It would be difficult to get those courses made by bass players that are more famous than Patitucci and "inspire" the majority of the bass players. They would cost too much, often times they have zero teaching experience, and often lack theoretical background and are unable to explain why they do what they do.

 

[ambient]

Apart from the Andrew Gouche video I posted a link to earlier, I can’t say I’ve ever really watched any of the SBL videos .The trailers I saw featuring Phil Mann gurning away put me right off.

[TeresaFR]

2 hours ago, Paolo85 said:

I think there's a misunderstanding there. He drops those names because they actually do courses and seminars on the SBL website. It is something to be proud of without doubt. Sean Hurley is a session man playing for famous pop stars, not a specialist in microtonal funk jazz. For what I understand he does a seminar with tips to go through a session.

Patitucci, on top of being a top notch player, is a renewed educator. On the website he does advanced stuff but also a course named introduction to cuban music and another one for which I find the description confusing but I think has something to do with getting into the style of The Meters, which also are not microtonal jazz-funk.

Other people like Gary Willis do only or mostly jazz courses but the website is known to contain a number of beginner courses or genre specific courses taught by less famous bassists (and Scott himself) - for which one cannot do much name-dropping in marketing emails.

It would be difficult to get those courses made by bass players that are more famous than Patitucci and "inspire" the majority of the bass players. They would cost too much, often times they have zero teaching experience, and often lack theoretical background and are unable to explain why they do what they do.

 

There's certainly truth in what you say, absolutely. I think your last point really is the part I should hold most closely to, I don't need a theoretical background to create art. It would just be nice to not feel excluded from learning pathways and to understand more of the terminology that gets thrown around, and jazz noodling does feel exclusionary. Again though, I'm autistic so maybe my interpretation is not what everyone else gets from SBL.

 

Back to the topic though: SSBL Scott's Space Bass Lessons - all the standard SBL material but now hosted from the SSBL space station, which just so happens to be in the shape of a vintage P bass with a 340 metre scale length. Governments around the world are deeply concerned that this monster bass space station is just sitting there in geosynchronous orbit above the Atlantic Ocean and no one knows where it came from. Scott, Ian and the team are all up there laughing their bottoms off, knowing the world trembles in fear of their mighty bass power and now, no one can avoid their podcasts, absolutely no one who isn't completely off-grid - not now the station has taken control of all Earth's electronic communication systems. 

[ymdtzx]

I just want to know if any BC member has actually won his fantastic bass giveaway.

[matski]

Sweaty Balding Lurkers

 

[bremen]

On 26/07/2023 at 22:51, redbandit599 said:

Scott's Bass Lessons - during which he educates fish.

 

Scots Bass Lessons - same format as usual but wearing a kilt.

Scots Bass Lessens. As above, but not so much. 

[johnDeereJack]

How about a body modification channel:

Six Boobs? Lovely!

 

Or a liposuction-themed channel:

Sliced Buttock Lard!

 

🥳

[ezbass]

A drink awareness campaign

 

Spirits Bugger Livers

[TeresaFR]

3 minutes ago, johnDeereJack said:

How about a body modification channel:

Six Boobs? Lovely!

 

Or a liposuction-themed channel:

Sliced Buttock Lard!

 

🥳

Scarification, Bloody Lovely! 

[BlueMoon]

Silent But Lingering

[TeresaFR]

7 hours ago, BlueMoon said:

Silent But Lingering

Sounds like something viral that might also cause the pained faces Scott likes to pull when a particularly nice bit of jazz is played in earshot.

[SteveXFR]

S**t bass lessons 

For those who want to learn to play like Sid Vicious 

[Gasman]

Strings Beaten Lifeless...

[Stub Mandrel]

Scott's Brief Lessons.

 

The 30-minute videos with the 25 minutes of waffle taken out.

 

Or more likely...

 

Scott's Biographical Lessons.

 

As above, but with an extra five minutes waffle and no bass content.

[ahpook]

2 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Scott's Brief Lessons.

 

Ah, I thought you meant something else there.

 

"Jockeys for playing in the pocket".

 

Wish I hadn't said that now

 

[SteveXFR]

Scott's balalaika lessons?

 

 

[TeresaFR]

Scott's Boxing Lessons - but it entirely relies on just using one arm and it has to be the left hand, which is the only one you're allowed to wear a glove on.

[SteveXFR]

10 minutes ago, TeresaFR said:

Scott's Boxing Lessons - but it entirely relies on just using one arm and it has to be the left hand, which is the only one you're allowed to wear a glove on.

 

Punching down the low end (below the belt)

[TeresaFR]

12 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Punching down the low end (below the belt)

Immediately followed by cries of "But Jaco didn't need to punch below the belt!"