John Paul Jones Bass Lesson (35 minutes)!

4-Banger · #1 07-25-2010, 12:46 PM

All about his playing styles. Very cool. Check it out any Zeppelin Fans or JPJ fans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaa1a...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_Jd...eature=channel

UncleFluffy · #2 07-25-2010, 01:02 PM

Awesome. Thankyou!

Dr. Cheese · #3 07-25-2010, 05:37 PM

Oh well, guess I didn't really know those riffs afterall!

4-Banger · #4 07-25-2010, 06:10 PM

Yeah I when I saw that part about Whole Lotta Love, I was like "what!" and then I went back to listen to it and I was like I guess he does play octave strings.

Never knew that tidbit. This is definitely good stuff.

9mmMike · #5 07-25-2010, 06:24 PM

Wow! Thanks so much.

retardedpossum · #6 07-25-2010, 06:51 PM

great and thanks!

cire113 · #7 07-25-2010, 11:18 PM

This rules.. I love how he talks about listenj to every style of music

D.M.N. · #8 07-26-2010, 03:04 AM

My mind just EXPLODED. AHHHHHH! I feel so.........just, oh my. That was genius. It's like being spoken to by Apollo, who you've just met on the street as he was on the way to the shop and just struck up a conversation about how the "whole being a god" thing is going.

BillyIVbass · #9 07-26-2010, 03:39 AM

Thanks for sharing!

hills1234 · #10 07-26-2010, 04:41 AM

Fantastic! Full of JPJ gems ... like

“I find that even if you duplicate equipment with a player you’re trying to emulate, you soon realise that it’s really not the equipment at all. I mean for instance, with drums, John Bonham could literally play cardboard boxes and he’d sound like John Bonham immediately ... It’s the way you play it. And I can pick up all sorts of strange instruments and still play them in a certain way and people can recognise it.”

So there ya go. Settled.

All the same ... nice Jazz he's playing there

KPJ · #11 07-26-2010, 06:30 AM

Gotta check this out when I get home!

Colonel_Claypoo · #12 07-26-2010, 06:45 AM

thanks, great find. i wish the quality was better, tough.
it's so bad i can't even decide whether he attacks the strings so hard
or if it's the bad quality, haha.

edit: is this interview really from 2000 or am i mistaken here? if so, that's why the quality is so bad.

So Low Bass · #13 07-26-2010, 10:16 AM

Really interesting. To hear a master use phrases like “questions, answers, tension, release behind the beat, vibrato”… things every musician should hang on. His comments on gear were very interesting as well, but I was surprised by his sound. Seeing that these videos were made 10 years ago, I found his sound to be much much more “OX-i-dated than I would ever imagine. His string choice was surprising to me.

Thanks!!

MrTAteMyBalls · #14 07-26-2010, 10:27 AM

cant wait to check this out when i get home!

p0werslav3 · #15 07-26-2010, 03:11 PM

I like the fact he played with a pick also. Too many bass players think "fingers only". Both are legit, viable ways to play the bass.

Oh yeah, JPJ is the Fn man!!!!!

macaroni tony · #16 07-26-2010, 03:38 PM

wow....I gotta check this out once I get to a place with restriction-free internet

poorbassist15 · #17 07-26-2010, 06:20 PM

The guy who inspired me to play... Is he playing a classic series Jazz?

4-Banger · #18 07-26-2010, 08:53 PM

That bass is probably his old Jazz. He mentioned somewhere else he still had it

xray · #19 07-26-2010, 11:42 PM

For all you tab guys (me included) and to paraphrase: "do the guitar editors transcribe your riffs correctly in the magizines - NO!" That was funny.

M0ses · #20 07-26-2010, 11:50 PM

So much fret noise!!

I'm sitting here listening to my biggest bass idol and thinking "My strings don't click".