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What are you looking for surfing youtube?

#41
Iko Challenge said:
Hello,

My name is Etienne, I mainly play fretless bass and few months ago I began a youtube bass related channel (Ikochallenge). I am currently trying to reframe what should be my channel. I'm wondering if it should be a pure bass channel or a more general music channel. That's why I'm here :D
So my question is when you are on youtube what are you looking for: Covers? Licks, riffs explanations? gear review? Theory? Music composition tutos, music related fun...? Is it specifically bass related? Any constructive answer will help me :)

Thanks.

Etienne
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I mainly look for original music. I particularly like when I find full length albums or playlists of full albums
 
#42
Iko Challenge said:
Thanks guardian member for your advices ;)
I'm currently working on the crooked hand but I didn't know that it will improve vibrato.

My lefty (you noticed it :D) Warwick corvette is so nice and so beautifuuuul ^^o. It's a real pleasure to play it. The fretboard is high quality, pleasant with no buzzes at all. What I love with this fretless bass is that you are not limited to the mwah sound. It can deliver 3 type of sounds depending on the pickup selection: neck for a round sound, bridge for a jaco sound and mix for a more rock-ish sound.
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Yes, good luck. As far as the crooked hand, maybe you know someone who has good classical training on the upright and also plays electric bass. That person could show you in 5 minutes what to do. Basically the fingers need to curl slightly more to play on the tips which improves intonation, tone and vibrato and reduced required hand effort. It also minimizes differences between the fingers individual lengths. Not a big change from where you already are at...and your hand wrist position is excellent.

See video below for an example of playing on tips of fingers.
 
#43
Hahaha said:
You would take the first syllable off of it. I didn't want to get too close to it so as not to violate the rules here.



Thanks for the heads up. I don't actually use any of them, but I like to identify them when watching the dash cam videos.
The "B" word is most common.
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That means whore. Note the soft extended ending on the final d. Its not blahd, but more like blahdtz.
 
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#47
Bass related - I am either looking for covers, theory/lessons or gear. For covers, I'm just looking for the fastest way to learn a song, so less talk, a good player with clear backing track and notation on the screen. Cover Solutions is my go to.

For lessons/theory, I like Daric Bennett and Joe Hubbard. Both completely different styles and levels but I like how they explain things and they both seem like teachers I would enjoy having in person lessons with. I've leaned a lot from both.

Gear wise - I don't have any go tos but perhaps the most helpful have been the GK videos with Norm Stockton and Juan Alderete with Pedals and Effects. They both are thorough with going through most of not all of the settings on the gear and have a good balance of talking vs playing.
 
#53
I feel like I have a general idea of the pulse of these forums, so from everything I've heard: all slap bass all the time. Bonus points if you don't talk about any of your tone settings.

Seriously, just slap it. Try and peak the wave form while you're doing it.

Is it a Motown cover? Have you tried slapping it?

Also, try talking down to the viewer, trash any bass brand that isn't the one you're playing, and make me feel horrible if I don't "slam that subscribe button!"
 
#56
Iko Challenge said:
Hello,

My name is Etienne, I mainly play fretless bass and few months ago I began a youtube bass related channel (Ikochallenge). I am currently trying to reframe what should be my channel. I'm wondering if it should be a pure bass channel or a more general music channel. That's why I'm here :D
So my question is when you are on youtube what are you looking for: Covers? Licks, riffs explanations? gear review? Theory? Music composition tutos, music related fun...? Is it specifically bass related? Any constructive answer will help me :)

Thanks.

Etienne
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Everything but someone slapping.
 
#58
Iko Challenge said:
In a nutshell, you are looking for bass content and not musical entertainment.
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Me?
No.
There are already a lot of lessons and I know where to find them.
Occasionally, I'll find some Ariane Cap technique referenced on NoTreble and I'll check it out.
Then it heads into a grey area...
Mostly, I'm on YouTube looking for live performance videos.
But mostly not for their entertainment value.
Mostly it's to learn something about the art of live performance.
Sometimes, it's "How do they play that?"
Sometimes, it's Live Sound technique (how did they mike that amp?)

For me, tutorials - not so much...
Since you ask...
 

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