Bass Sweeping (Instructional Video)

[King Of Suede]

Hey TB, I posted an instructional video for bass players teaching themselves how to do sweep arpeggios.
I think it's a pretty helpful video. Like I say in it, I took a lot of my technique straight from the guitar technique and Frank Gambale.
There's a bit of rambling, but if you really want to learn how to do them and can sit through the 10 minutes, it's very much worth the time.

Please comment on here or the video if you have any critiquing you want to give on the information provided or just the overall presentation.
If there's enough problems with it, I'd be more than happy to take it down a record a new one =P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g1f7Dx7Bmk

Thank you.

[Danhole]

Looks quite interesting. I play bass in a few metal bands and I'm also quite fond of playing some of Bach's solo instrumental works. I don't see the benefit of your technique though. Why do you do it?

[Gawd]

Thanks I'll check it out. I've been doing arpeggios with a basic two finger approach for years now, and can get as fast as the guys who do it with four fingers, or their thumb. I have seen instructional videos that outlined a very similar technique to yours. I might try this again, last time I tried this approach it felt too awkward to me, but that was a while ago.

[King Of Suede]

Danhole: Depends on the type of metal. I was in a death metal band and we had a few breakdowns and in the open space, we did harmonized sweeps. It's just used as a way to play arpeggio's at super fast speed. It's more efficient than picking every note and just has more finesse.

Watch this video to see how it's used (by the master himself) in a musical and melodic sense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p37s2RGVCxk
(Namely :50-:55)

This video is how it's mainly used in metal. Just a sweeping "melody" to go over the chug chugs, or as a solo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u9KDMWJsAM
(starting at 1:21)

Franck Hermanny is the guy to watch on the bass though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRNMwNgYqvI

Gawd: Yeah the guys who used the 1 finger per string thing is more like raking, it's plausible.. I'm just more comfortable with the way I play it =P
And yeah, I tried to learn a few times before, but once I started looking at it as a guitarist and followed Gambale teachings, it came very easily. You might benefit from looking up some of his articles and such from magazines.

[champbassist]

Here's something similar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chD81eC-H2k

[King Of Suede]

Similar, I talk about that in my video, what he's doing is raking. While it gives the same effect, it's not "Sweeping." He's just assigning a finger in the right hand to a string, where in my vid you "down pick" with your thumb and "up pick" with your middle finger.

Impressive non-the-less.

[champbassist]

Originally Posted by King Of Suede

Similar, I talk about that in my video, what he's doing is raking. While it gives the same effect, it's not "Sweeping."

Yes, indeed