Cream's Crossroads LIVE Bass Guitar Lesson || Jack Bruce Bass Line (No.147)

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In this video, I show you how to play Jack Bruce's bass line from the live Cream version of Crossroads. I show you the main Crossroads bass riff and cover the essential licks and techniques that Jack Bruce played in this iconic Blues bassline.
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0:00 - Cream Crossroads Bass Line Cover
1:58 - Crossroads Chord Progression
2:57 - Main Bass Riff from Cream Crossroads Bass Line
4:03 - Intro Section from Cream Crossroads Bass Line
6:23 - Verse 1 from Cream Crossroads Bass Line
8:30 - Verse 2 from Cream Crossroads Bass Line
11:32 - Verse 3 from Cream Crossroads Bass Line
14:00 - Guitar Solo from Cream Crossroads Bass Line
18:48 - Last Verse from Cream Crossroads Bass Line
20:26 - Simplified Bass Line from Cream Crossroads
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@alphacentauriproxima 2 жыл бұрын

Amazingly helpful, Ty, Greg!

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

No problem, glad you like the lesson!

@claudedalton8970 Күн бұрын

GREAT LESSON AS A LEAD GUITARIST, I ADMIRE YOU BASS PLAYERS!

@GregsBassShed Күн бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it. Jack Bruce was a monster player!

@idontuseapick 28 күн бұрын

This saved my rear end for an upcoming gig. Thanks for posting!

@GregsBassShed 28 күн бұрын

🤣 Happy to help! Hope the gig goes well.

@blairtaylor3601 Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, this helps lots, great teaching.

@GregsBassShed Ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

@paulthompson5715 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Greg, probably my favourite bass line of all time. I once read that Jeff Berlin said it was the most musical bass playing he had ever heard. Great lesson, great presentation as well!!

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

No problem Paul and glad I covered your favourite bass line! It is so musical and that’s what I love about Jack Bruce’s playing.

@jrs988 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome lesson Greg...really appreciate the time and effort you take to help others.

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

No problem, and thanks for letting me know.

@joeblues5515 2 жыл бұрын

Nice one.I love it.Cheers,mate.

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe, glad you love the lesson.

@peterbridge7940 11 күн бұрын

thank you for a very interesting reply which reflected what I was thinking.... irrespective of the musical ability I couldn't really picture people sitting down and writing these sequences and riffs in advance. At a much lower simple level. this is how I learn, although it's not often that the people I play with at open stage are free to practise. The people I play with are generally quite happy for me to play What I feel fits the song and I try to record everything and listen afterwards and see what worked didn't work. The chord changes and the structure of a song is what I aim for as I can almost never learn / remember specific bass lines But of course I do learn specific riffs such as the one for "We gotta get out of this place," or "Black Knight"

@diamondkingman1 Жыл бұрын

최고! Wonderful lesson! you have good ears and eyes for music!

@GregsBassShed Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 🙏

@kennyi8141 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff Greg. To paraphrase the late DJ John Peel after he played Crossroads on Top Gear " do you still think they are human:"

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Kenny. John Peel has a good point 😀

@StevenDoyleLuke Жыл бұрын

This is a GREAT lesson!

@GregsBassShed Жыл бұрын

Cheers Steven, it was a tricky bass line to tackle!

@timpeel4386 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Greg for another insightful lesson 👍

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Tim. There is a lot to learn from this bass line, including me!

@timpeel4386 2 жыл бұрын

I am subbing for a friend's blues band and this lesson has helped me learn the parts needed 🙌

@fearsomemumbler9946 8 ай бұрын

When playing the main riff, I find using the C on the E string easier than shifting my hand up to the C on the A string. I just find it is much less effort as my hand stays in the same area of the neck and it sets me up nicely for the root note. Great lesson though, never thought to use the off beat options before 👍

@GregsBassShed 8 ай бұрын

That's definitely a very good suggestion for another way to play the main riff. Glad you enjoyed the lesson. I should build up to another epic Jack Bruce bass line video! Been checking out his playing on 'Brief Encounter' by Bernie Marsden (from Whitesnake). Have a listen if you don't know it.

@patrickfitzgerald2861 5 ай бұрын

Yes, and you can use your pinky finger that way too.

@bevtaylor5750 Жыл бұрын

Like this Greg!

@GregsBassShed Жыл бұрын

Cheers Bev, it’s a classic isn’t it.

@eddiemcknight1206 Жыл бұрын

simplified version very helpful for a rooky. Thank you!

@GregsBassShed Жыл бұрын

No worries, I’ve started putting more simplified versions in my lessons. Glad they are useful.

@celticbassman6890 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Greg 🤘

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

No problem!

@olivierhorman4485 10 ай бұрын

great ! thanks

@GregsBassShed 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

@Nugmania1 9 ай бұрын

Good vid, I agree that this is a better song jammed, as it was live when recorded, I’ve overplayed, underplayed and pulled some cool shiitake out of my assets lil

@GregsBassShed 9 ай бұрын

😂

@Tracer9GTRider8 2 жыл бұрын

Geddy Lee, rightfully so, gets a lot of recognition for singing over his bass lines but I don't think guys like Jack Bruce and Rick Danko get that same kind of acknowledgement - as they should.

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

I agree, Jack Bruce was great at playing and singing. I think Eric Clapton sang Crossroads though, so maybe that's why we have an even more adventurous than usual bass line from Jack Bruce!

@Tracer9GTRider8 2 жыл бұрын

@@GregsBassShed True that and I agree! My comment was more in the general sense of the band. JB did the bulk of the singing, from what I recall, and he played some great stuff all while providing some of the best vocals ever recorded. He is a legend! Glad to see you share such an appreciation for him as well!

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

@@Tracer9GTRider8 yeah I think you’re right in that Jack Bruce did most of the vocals. There really wasn’t anyone else like him. He’s in my top five Blues bass players!

@magicalleela666 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the lesson and pdf. For the simplified version, I think E8 for C would be a lot easier than shifting. Maybe it's just my style.

@GregsBassShed Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. The Tab is just a guide so always play what you find the easiest.

@StevenDoyleLuke 2 жыл бұрын

Love the British stuff, Greg!

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

It’s great isn’t it. I grew up on it and only discovered the real roots at a later point.

@StevenDoyleLuke 2 жыл бұрын

@@GregsBassShed I grew up on it as well but I think I am a bit older that you, I have a white beard!

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

@@StevenDoyleLuke the albums were from my Dad’s collection but me and my mates started playing Blues from when we were 14. I should have been born a couple of decades earlier! I have started to notice white in parts of my beard now as well! 🤦‍♂️

@StevenDoyleLuke 2 жыл бұрын

@@GregsBassShed When I was 14 and playing in a band, it was 1964. I played an Ampeg AEB-1Scroll Bass. '64 was a great era!

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

@@StevenDoyleLuke wow I looked at those bases recently online when I found out that Joe Long played one.

@danielroos5426 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job. Can you do this with the Lemon Song by Zep? That's another great blues tune that's hard to figure out.

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

Great suggestion! I'll put that on the list but it may take me a while! I just had another listen and it's pretty incredible for bass isn't it.

@danielroos5426 2 жыл бұрын

@@GregsBassShed Well, I haven't been able to figure it out. The end part of Slow Ride by Foghat would be another very cool song to break down.

@robertmudrow8034 Жыл бұрын

16:15 Jack didn't have really thin strings. He had Labella flats. Why he could bend is they were on an EB-3, a short scale bass!

@GregsBassShed Жыл бұрын

Hi Robert, you are correct, jack Bruce did use a Gibson EB-3 which along with string choice helps with bending strings as was his style. But the strings he used around then were lighter/thinner strings. Here is a quote taken straight from an interview with Jack: "I used some borrowed instruments, and started looking for something new, and that’s when I found the Gibson EB-3, which was very important because I wanted to develop a style of playing that was very guitar-like, instead of playing root notes. I used La Bella light-gauge strings, which I could bend." he also used a variety of other basses in the early days of Cream. I hope this info helps.

@peterbridge7940 14 күн бұрын

As always, an excellent and informative and complete lesson. i use lessons mainly to give me ideas And also information about when there is a quick change and when you stay on the wand chord but I often play Blues numbers I don't know and I just have to make it up as I go along and usually get it wrong 😂😮😂 anyway, the question do you think the awesome talented Jack actually thought about these changes and made them because it was musically appropriate? or do you think when he played they just came out because they're instinctive to him and he knew they would work? also, I've never managed to learn. remember the rift in my generation, but I read somewhere that John entrussel would often play it differently, but of course in the spirit of the the riff So basically do you think these rifts and changes and variations were thought out or just experience? plus possibly knowledge of Music theory enable people to come up with them because they just knew they would work

@GregsBassShed 11 күн бұрын

Hi Peter, I'm glad that you enjoyed this video. In regards to your questions, I think the band would have probably discussed a framework for the song and talked about when they would use the 'quick 4 change' but it might have grown organically from jamming the song together. Most good bass players will 'play around' with their bass lines and through experience, know what will work. Over time you built up a lot of different options that you know will sound good. This comes from trial and error over years of playing.

@robertbogdan7058 2 жыл бұрын

That move to F# could also be interpreted as a vi ii V I turnaround. (F# B E A) which is a jazzier blues turnaround and since Jack was a jazz player first ... That's just how I hear it. But both ways of looking at it work.

@GregsBassShed 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah very true, that’s a good way of looking at it. Thanks

@marknalewaiski3463 Жыл бұрын

English or Ausi? This is more hand movent than any Italian I've ever seen. I'm Italian as well as Polish but grew up Italian. So what do you think? Italian raised or very hyper? No offense bro. Just just having fun. 😊 Thanks for a great lesson.

@GregsBassShed Жыл бұрын

😂 I’m from Essex which has similarities to the Aussie accent. Well from my Mum’s side of the family I tan very easily and love the heat so I’ve always thought I must have originally come from a hotter country. Believe it or not I move my hands like that in real life and am very animated! But by popular demand I’ve tried to change that in my more recent videos but it’s a work in progress. Someone wrote “man those hands are super distracting!” 😃 By the way, at first glance of your photo, I thought you had a massive Afro!