anyone else realised bass in 60 seconds is 3 minutes and 9 seconds long

How to think like a drummer: HULK SMASH! NO ONE IS STRONGER THAN HULK!

Thank you all so much for watching!

It's 189 seconds.

Love the percussive element on the bass - congas! Cool vid and helpful, thanks for taking time to create and share.

Nice, good advice esp idea of writing bass lines to kick and snare, etc. Looking forward to more videos!

Ogni volta che guardo questo video mi piace sempre di più. Bravissimo!

I started off as a drummer,gigged a few years as one,got diagnosed with SLE lupus as a teen had to give drums a break,went back to singing....now I'm a singer,pt drummer,and I'm learning bass at 35!Just for myself really,but thanks,I enjoy your style of teaching!Maybe it's the drummer connection!lol Thanks man!Barbaranne

Awesome! Love this approach to bass. I come from a guitar background and have been getting more and more into bass. This is a new way to think for me, but I like it!

Thanks for your message! I think I understand now. "Pocket" refers to your groove or the "Feel". To me that's most important. You can have all the speed in the world, but if the feel isn't there it is wasted. Thanks for teaching!

love your attitude joe !!!

excellent perspective to pass along !

Really helpful lesson, cheers.

Nice. And I'm just moving on to bass after playing guitar for 40+years. So your stuff is fantastically helpful. Thanks!

Solid knowledge brother. Thanks for sharing

I have been playing bass for about a decade, and you are the first one to adequately describe a feeling I have been at a loss for this whole time. Thank you. Time to work on quantifyint this and, as you said, be a more grounded player.

thanks for the ideas you have shared

Great video. Excellent way of putting it (think like a drummer). Thanks Joe. Great video.

very very cool cool sound and playing, reminds me to Percy Jones!

As bass player, Ive always thought of myself as a "drumming guitarist"

nicely done!

Ohh...and I freaking love that riff you play in the example.

Joe, I appreciate your tips here (this is the first vid i have viewed of yours and I subscribed right away), I feel that you are very personable and I can learn from your tips, etc.... Thanks for sharing brother...

Thank you all so very much! Working on some vids right now. They'll be up soon! Take care.

JOe .... Awesome lesson !! i have never thought of that... i know how important the connection between drums and bass is.. but i have never thought of it in this way ... thanks for the lesson =D

Thanks for your kind response...speaks very high of you!!......I will instrall the strings you use , your inout very inportant! Thanks and keep the good work for us bass players wanna bees!

nice sound!!

I play drums and bass. You nailed this. Been doing that for 30 years. Cool video and great advice. Subd.

I have been playing bass for a while and have taken lessons before, but i find these videos much more helpful. thanks

this video is awesome and insightful. a true musician you are

It's instructional videos like this made by excellent players and great communicators like yourself that make youtube worthwhile. Great job! Solid groove too!

wow ive watched like 3 of your videos and i cant stop i play 6 string and these lessons help alot also like bass but i dont get to play bass to often

Great video thanks

Great lesson man thanks! I think the lines that follow the rhythm of the song, drums especially, really stand out and are usually better sounding!

Hey Joe! Man, i can´t express how much i´m learning from your vids. I play by ear...can´t grasp the "technical" aspect of music easily, but with your vids, it´s like telepathy, and That vid is one of my favorites...always...think like a drummer! I´m Rocha too, that in my country also means "Rock/Stone"... Thanks for sharing Bro! And "keep Rocking"! PS- So cool at 01:30

Great lesson. Cheers :)

this is so cool!!! Thank you!!

I like your vids! you come across as a very nice down to earth guy.

You have the groove. Explain it well, too!!

VERY GOOD ,thanks

I play drum and guitar.I have 25 years experience.I just got a yamaha RBX 270 BASS.I got it to record with . I came upon your video and it gave me a new way of thinking. I know how to play but by no means am I good enough to play gigs as a bass player .Thanks for the info . Scott

Excellent advice Joe! I am a guitarist with 40+ years of experience who recently switched to bass. Bass is a totally different animal! I'm so glad I learned to play rudimentary drums so long ago when my bands used to practice in my parents basement. I say either you got natural rythm or you don't. It's hard to feel it if you don't have it. ;-) I sarted on Short Scale basses, and now have mid scale and full scale basses as well. I have very small hands and not sure I will ever be able to play a full scale bass well. Thanks for sharing.

top man thanks joe!

This video is very good!!

You are an EXCELLENT teacher...

That steady driving drummer is the bassman's best friend. Also a steady rhythm guitarist- keyboardist that swings. Good words CoolBear.

Just saw ur band at evenflow.u kill it man.band was great.sound.was tight.but ur stellar.and entertaining musician.great.harmonies too

me too lol ,, I had to stop playing drums due to numerous back operations ,, need to keep playing so I am trying to play the next best thing ,,

great sound

Very Good!!

Very good !

Thanks Joe. Excellent instruction. It never fails to amaze me how many of the worlds best musicians also play either drumset or other percussion instruments or both. eg: Carlos Santana, Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea, Prince, Paul McCartney, yourself etc etc. Having a strong sense of "Groove" is the only thing that is going to make a musician sound solid. Love your playing Joe, thanks for sharing. Chris Brien.

Just taken up bass over the last couple of months, great site, well explained, easy to follow. This thinking thing though...hhmmmm. Only kidding, keep up the great work

Subscribed -- thanks!

Thanks Joe,Great advice for me friend, I have just started on bass and quickly realised that I wasn't working it hard enough, Now I have relaxed with it a little,things are starting to happen, Liked and subscibed to you,Thanks very much man,I really love this instrument and would like to become a good player,Take care :)

I learned something! thanks!

awesome own

I'm a bassist of over 10 years now and I can still take lessons from this.

Hey! I just subscribed, I'm a drummer too, and just bought a bass so I'm scoring lessons online ( I've been playing rythym guitar for for a while too so needed a bass for the songs I write and record, I dig your stuff so far! KEEP ON ROCKING!

ive been playing drums for 7 years and just starting bass. so im exited to hear about drum like stuff in bass.

lovely that bass line at 1:30... thanks

Sorry to hear about the pain you must be in! Kudos to you for not quitting!! In my experience, your "clock" or "meter" is very different from being "in the pocket". I've heard drummers with great time and no feel. Conversely, I've worked with drummers with a great groove or "pocket" that pushes and pulls ever so slightly that makes music "trance-like" to where you can't help but feel something in the music! The drummers are feeling your "groove". Keep doing what you're doing! All the best!!

the way you put all these things into words is great! I just know how it feels like. You know how to describe =)

I can play drums also, and as soon as i saw you slapping fingers down to mimic snare, i realised i do the same without noticing!

Great! It sounds good! Great tone! Have just ordered a squire jazz bass, modified 70's one, are they good?

A very overlooked but incredibly important lesson. Take heed fellow bassists! I like this guy - he's a very good teacher.

love that 75 jazz bass

thanks man!

excellent

I play both as well and I never thought of that

This is a thing I became aware of when I went from solo guitar to bass guitar... I realized that now I am between the guitars and the drums, so I HAVE to think like both of them! As far as the guitars go, I had no problem about that, but the rhythm/drum part was a new thing to me, and boy - I got addicted to bass since!!! Bass players, do not forget - you are in between the guitars and the drums! Gotta find that middle ground and when you find what you wanted to reach, hold on to it!

What a great vid

ive been playing for about 5 years and i still have problems with the slapping , ive paid for lessons even though i dont enjoy lessons. i like learning from playing but this was awesome advice. Thanks alot.

I enjoy both the drums and bass. I played bass for years, but never owned a drum kit since my younger brother had one around. Playing drums and bass are inseparable.

yes. I just realized it couple of days ago. i started tapping the bass like i would play bongo drums :) I come from playing guitar and I really didnt have any clue how to play bass, bt now it's getting better with these youtube tutorials. I'm starting to sound like a bass player. I want to master both instruments!

I came from the "world of the double bass", so I've always approached the electric bass left hand in the same way as the double bass left hand. I use "1-2-4" fingering (1 - index finger, 2 - middle finger, 4 - pinky) up to the 11th fret. IMO good left hand technique means the pinky is at a right angle to the neck (along with the second and third fingers) and the first (index) finger reaches back. That should work with the shape of your hand. Keep your left hand relaxed. Keep loving music.

As far as playing in a band, (I'm primarily a guitarist learning some bass) I really listen for that driving bass guitar when I'm playing rhythm. This really helps me find my down beat and keep in time while singing. Bassists! listen to this man's words of wisdom!

As a drummer who is trying to learn bass myself, this is very helpful. Thanks dude!

Joe - spot-on advice for bass players..

Learned the most from this than any other bass vid on youtube by just going off on that aspect

Best definition ever

I'm well thanks for the video!

True, listen to your drummer, listen carefully to the all the part (kick, snare, hi-hats, etc..) and you'll never go wrong. Go crazy on the drum roles, put cool melodic fills here and there, but always stay locked to the basic rythme and it will always sound cool.

thank you real helful

I'm sorry to hear about the pain you must be in! Kudos to you for not quitting!! In my experience, your "clock" or "meter" is very different from being "in the pocket". I've heard drummers with great time and no feel. Conversely, I've worked with drummers with a great groove or "pocket" that pushes and pulls ever so slightly that makes music "trance-like" to where you can't help but feel something in the music! The drummers are feeling your "groove". Keep doing what you're doing! All the best!!

Thanks, Joe. Just prior to finding this, I've been kicking in some "thud" harmonics, such as on the low D and E on the A string, not trying to play a note, but keeping rhythm. It's been teaching me more about rhythm. Sometimes not playing a note, but playing the "thud." Does that make sense for me to experiment with that?

Great advice, Joe, thank you. I'm originally a keyboard player but I recently started learning bass...my new favorite instrument. Something I've learned in the studio is this: No matter how good a keyboard player's left hand may be, s/he will NEVER be able to reproduce the sound or feel of a real bass. I love the bass and I'm learning a lot from your tutorials. Thank you. Keep 'em coming!

Thank you for that :)

Exactly!

Think like a drummer? Well I am a drummer who wants to take up bass so works for me! Thanks for the videos, I've watched a few and hope to use them to aid me as I learn : )

love to play bass...its my passion ;D

I wish more bass teachers would emphasize this lesson. In fifteen years of playing drums in bands professionally, I had TWO bassists that would lock in with me, so I switched. This seems to be a lesson that a lot of bass teachers (or wannabe bass teachers) forget.

this is awesome! very informative to a beginner like me xD

Very good advice; think like a drummer. How one could not realize this from the get go is beyond me. Of coarse I've been playing since around 1964. God, I'm getting old!

crispy tone

@drummerguy1888 I started out playing the bass in the 70s when I was 16 and moved to the guitar at 21 though I still play the bass. I learned to play the keys when in a cover band in the 80s as someone had to do it. After playing with enough drummers over the years I picked up the sticks in the mid 90s. I never mastered the drums or keys - have I mastered any of them?...No, but I try my hand at any instrument I can because it keeps me fresh. I don't grow bored with any of it at 52.

Good video! This is very helpful and i think like you for how i play bass :) What jazz bass is this?

I'm only a guitar player, but I still like your videos a lot because you know what's up dude.

Funny to see this, I've been playing the drums for 9 years before picking up my first bass a week ago, I've already made some progress and your videos have helped me a bunch, off course I'm not that good right now, and a lot of your video's still don't make a lot of sense to me, since I have no knowledge of scales and stuff, but I'm getting there! Thanks a lot!

I've practiced conga and drum patters lifted right off videos here, or from the book "Afro-Cuban Grooves for Bass and Drums" by Robby Ameen and Lincoln Goines. I think it fosters a better understanding of rhythm. It can't hurt to know exactly what the drummer is doing and be able to kinda replicate it on the bass.