Who are some great bassists you'd LOVE to get lessons from?

[The_Ryst]

Personally, on a lesser known scale, I'd like to get lessons with Jay Terrien. His sense of humor and his different but very chill style of playing bass are very cool and impressive.

http://www.grasstain.com/home.htm is his site.

On a larger scale, I'd like to take lessons with Stuart Hamm. His Slap, Pop, and Tap and second video arevery cool, and he's a superb musician.

I'd also like to take lessons with Marcus Miller...a man with such groove! Very awesome guy, favorite slap sound no doubt.

For the progressive side of things, albeit John Myung might not be able to teach well (I've heard nothing but bad things about his instructional video) he's good at bass. I'd also like to learn from Michael Lepond or Thomas Miller from symphony x.

Who are some bassists you'd like to take lessons from?

[Baryonyx]

I know a guy who took lessons from Stu, said they were very very helpful...so I'd want Stu! I love him musically and apparently he's very cool to talk to when he teaches you, until the point where it feels like paying a friend to teach you!

other guys....Jonas Hellborg, Victor Wooten, Vail Johnson (I really dig Vail right about now), Geddy Lee, Stanley Clarke...

I love them all!

[nysbob]

Can it be a dead guy?

I'd go for Leroy "Slam" Stewart.

[The_Ryst]

Originally Posted by Chris2112

I know a guy who took lessons from Stu, said they were very very helpful...so I'd want Stu! I love him musically and apparently he's very cool to talk to when he teaches you, until the point where it feels like paying a friend to teach you!

other guys....Jonas Hellborg, Victor Wooten, Vail Johnson (I really dig Vail right about now), Geddy Lee, Stanley Clarke...

I love them all!

Man I'd love Jonas to teach help me learn western/eastern fusion and any other style! He's the man.

[Bernie Connors]

Anthony Jackson
John Patitucci
Nathan East
Alain Caron
Jean Baudin
Stew McKinsey
Victor Wooten
Matt Garrison
Mike Pope
Lincoln Goines

The list goes on...

[Baryonyx]

Originally Posted by The_Ryst

Man I'd love Jonas to teach help me learn western/eastern fusion and any other style! He's the man.

I'd just want a masterclass in chords/Elegant Punk/genreal bass mastery . I'd love just to pull a chair with him and talk about the Elegant Punk album in particular, as I really am taken by it!

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Michael Manring would definitely be first on my list. I met him once, and he's a super-nice guy, and very intelligent. I can assume with real assurance that he could open up how I think musically in ways I'd never dreamed of.

Matt Garrison would be next on the list.

[nick g.]

John Myung. His three-finger technique is fantastic, and his endurance is certainly enviable.

Victor Wooten. I'd love to be able to use DT as coherently as he does, and expand my groove when slapping to something other than a mute/octave bore-fest.

[Wrong Robot]

Raphael Saadiq
Pino Palladino
Duck Dunn
Tom Jenkinson
Michael Manring

Though I don't know if some of those guys would be very good teachers.

[Lorenzini]

I'd LOVE lessons from Richard Bona.

[Jason Carota]

Leonard "Hub" Hubbard
Charles Mingus (focus on composition)
Jean Baudin

[Aussiephoenix]

Les Claypool. I consider him to be the Van gogh of the bass...

[-Timothy-]

Adam Nitti
John Patitucci
Victor Wooten
Alain Caron

Please! hahaha

[The Owl]

John Patitucci

Anthony Jackson

Jimmy Johnson

[Starrchild]

Marcus Miller.
Prince.
Rapheal Saadiq.
Pino Palladino.
Preston Crump.

[bobbykokinos]

Doug Wimbish just so I can see how he gets all of those crazy sounds and learn his slap style..

[tbone0813]

Matt Garrison
Adam Nitti
Norm Stockton


...in no particular order.

[Sippy]

I've heard from my bass instructor who has met him a few times that Victor Wooten is the nicest guy on the planet. He will talk bass with you no matter what level you are and he will NEVER talk down to you.
You could be talking about something as simple as "How to play the C Major scale in the first position" and he will explain it to you just as if he is on your level. That is an EXTREMELY good value in a teacher.
I would expect somebody at his level to say something sarcastic or not even answer a question like that. But my instructor brought a student to meet him and Victor took 15 minutes and just spoke with the student and the student asked him "How do you remember all the notes on the bass?" (the student was something like 11 or 12) and Victor explained to him how he memorized them and how he remembers them. I think that is fantastic!
Sorry for the rant but my Vote is Victa' hehe

[Matt Till]

I'd like to get bass lessons from Jennifer Lopez, just so she could talk down to me and treat me like dirt.

[Sippy]

Originally Posted by Matt Till

I'd like to get bass lessons from Jennifer Lopez, just so she could talk down to me and treat me like dirt.

And the random comment of the month award goes to.... *drum roll*