Best Youtube Bassist?

[KingRazor]

Don't know if Tony Dickinson has been mentioned yet, but he's the best youtube bassist I know of.



He doesn't only do covers, but they make up the bulk of his vids.

 

[chuck norriss]

i dont know if he's a youtube bassist but he's a bassist on youtube

 

[barbarbass]

This guy:

 

[PimasterPearson]

Sorry if he's already been mentioned, but I get a huge kick out of this video of Gustavo Dal Farra.

 

[Reaper Man]

this guy's pretty good

that's some serious bass face...

 

[ster]

Hands down, Jon Reshard. I went to middle and high school with this cat. He was playing Donna Lee @ 170bpm in SIXTH GRADE!

Absolutely sick!!!

 

[dls59]

This one is my favorite:

 

[Mayers]

i don't know if he was posted ( I don't think so ... )



He plays really hard stuff by ear. I'm really impress

 

[LAKland_24]

killin it on the bass yadidai mean? get on his level. im tired of seeing alot of copying other people's licks, study your harmony and scales and create your own groove....go to 2:05

 

[plangentmusic]

This guy:

A cover of Selegehammer is the best playing you've seen on Youtube?

Some great players have been showcased, but I'm a little surprised overall. Talk about a wankfest.

So many of these guys are playing songs that are just fast riffs. It's like "pick any series of notes" and play them as fast as possible. Then stick it together with a jaunting line in an odd time signiture. Then a quick atonal lick. Then play another fast riff. That's music?

There's no musicality. No voice leading. No counterpoint. No melody. No groove. No originality. All the things that make the bass so magnificent.

Maybe I've just gotten too old.

 

[BaditudeDude]

First post! I'm a beginner bass player and have watched a lot of YouTube bass covers recently. My tastes run more into smooth jazz and classic rock. The two guys that I most admire for their style and tone are these two:

 

[Cantstandsya]

I vote for my friend Ian Enderson.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LQrp8UiW0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0IevNye_qk

 

[GL797]

BillyMegaWatt aka Munkybarz

my favorite from him, even though many of his great videos will never be seen on YT again.
Gentle Giant "Cogs in Cogs" cover

 

[JAUQO III-X]

A cover of Selegehammer is the best playing you've seen on Youtube?

Some great players have been showcased, but I'm a little surprised overall. Talk about a wankfest.

So many of these guys are playing songs that are just fast riffs. It's like "pick any series of notes" and play them as fast as possible. Then stick it together with a jaunting line in an odd time signiture. Then a quick atonal lick. Then play another fast riff. That's music?

There's no musicality. No voice leading. No counterpoint. No melody. No groove. No originality. All the things that make the bass so magnificent.

Maybe I've just gotten too old.

You ever thought that it's their moment to shine.


I'm sure some of the guys that you're complaining about really can do all the other things that you think make a bass player a bass player. And I'm sure a lot of them actually may sound great in a band context.

 

[JAUQO III-X]

BillyMegaWatt aka Munkybarz

my favorite from him, even though many of his great videos will never be seen on YT again.

Why not?

 

[1dgbass]

Haven't seen any Rush covers here so:

 

[Randy Newton]

my man SlikkTim all the way!!!

Check him out, he's 22 and he's already a great musician (he plays bass,guitar,keys,drums and sings pretty well too)
very creative and genuinely versitile.

Here are only 2 examples (but he uploaded lots of great vids):

 

[plangentmusic]

You ever thought that it's there moment to shine.


I'm sure some of the guys that you're complaining about really can do all the other things that you think make a bass player a bass player. And I'm sure a lot of them actually may sound great in a band context.

I get that. Then again, just like there used to be "music store chops", now I think there's "Youtube video chops." Nothing worng with it. I've got chops too. I just don't understand what's so impressive about some of these guys.

Hey, you want YouTube chops? Beat THIS!

 

[the yeti]

A cover of Selegehammer is the best playing you've seen on Youtube?

Some great players have been showcased, but I'm a little surprised overall. Talk about a wankfest.

So many of these guys are playing songs that are just fast riffs. It's like "pick any series of notes" and play them as fast as possible. Then stick it together with a jaunting line in an odd time signiture. Then a quick atonal lick. Then play another fast riff. That's music?

There's no musicality. No voice leading. No counterpoint. No melody. No groove. No originality. All the things that make the bass so magnificent.

Maybe I've just gotten too old.

kinda odd that the clip you singled out is not what you went on to rant about.

 

[Randy Newton]