I'm a bass player. I certainly don't play bass like a frustrated guitarist, but I do often play a guitar like a frustrated bass player......which makes me a below average guitarist....but what separates me from all the other below average guitarists..... *I know when not to play*

You just calmed Glenn, thought that was impossible haha

Thanks for having me on the show, Tyler! It was really cool hanging out with you at #guitcon, and I hope to see you at NAMM!

glenn fricker was my inspiration to pick up the bass. after hearing his experiences with bass players, im trying to do the opposite of what he hates. so i dont just learn my parts, i learn what the guitars are doing and what the drums are doing and alter my part to fit with them! im learning my theory, and i never try to hide in the mix!

oh shit it's Glenn "Fucking" Fricker

"Most bass players are a fail at everything" jesus christ what did I do to deserve this kind of hate

0:13 Mission failed. We'll get him next time.

take a shot every time glenn scratches his nose

Clearly he’s used to heavy metal bassists / bands who rely on their guitarist. Other bands who rely on a bass for direction will be much more professional.

When we did our first EP our guitarists (me being one of them) had some problems with the songs. Our bassist tho. He played all four songs in a row. One take each.

*Mate are you high?*

Hiding guitar players? Oh man have I lived those in jazz band. I'm the bass player and I was ALWAYS on my shit. The guitarist never learned his sheets, didn't know how to play. I was on point. What Glenn is missing is that it isn't bass players that are the problem, it's shitty guitarists that think they can play bass. Like he said, When you give a bass to a crappy guitarist, you get a crappy bassist. 95% of bassists in amateur metal bands wanted to be guitarists. Do you know why they were given bass? Because they didn't practice, weren't motivated and don't know their songs, hence, they weren't good enough for guitar, and bass gets all the crappy "musicians".

that bass is stupid, where can I buy one

I have been learning how to play bass, specifically without a pick... listening to players like Louis Johnson, etc. I believe Bass guitar is just as difficult as guitar if not more. Plus it really teaches you rhythm.

Glenn "perfect face for radio" Fricker

Funny, I play bass in a metal band and they always tell me to turn it down at practice. No hiding for me. I was the only one in my last band that made it through every song first time when recording. I sounded great until the guy doing the recording made the bass disappear. along with all the dynamic range of the recording!

I learned how to play guitar by playing bass. It got me out of the lead guitar mentality, and I found out I'm actually a pretty decent at rhythm. I can play some lead stuff, but bass and rhythm are where it's at for me!

No offense, but did the two of you share blunt before shooting?^^ You come across a little... slurry and slooow and Glenn is incredibly calm, measured on his usual temper, tone and speed. I don't know, maybe I just see ghosts in shadows but I watch both your videos, especially yours, frequently. And something is weirdly different in this one. Not that I think that's important or bad... I was just wondering.^^

That 'Pretending to play guitar' reminds me of your Taylor Swift video.

Tyler I have to say you are my favorite youtube musician because you seem so genuine. Thank you for all the great tips and videos! I truly appreciate them

If you are prejudiced against bass players, does that make you "bassist"? 😏

Cliff Burton is going to strike this guy with lightning from heaven.

His "hate" for bass players isn't really hate, it's more tough love. Like he said he loves bass and it an absolutely essential instrument in every form of music. But most other time the people who play bass don't try hard enough and he's had bad experiences with them. A great bass player makes the difference, if you're a bass player in a band, take that shit seriously.

as a bass player, I practice, know the material and prepare. The shock that my clients Express at me actually being prepared and giving a shit proves Glenn is right.

Great call out to Tony Franklin, what a trio of musicians Blue Murder were. Most underrated bass player for my money, Geezer Butler. What great bass lines.

Glenn​ "Best hair in the game" fricker

i dont understand why the hate towards glenn. If u know u are good bass player, then u will know Glenn is not talking about u. He said all those thing due to his experience recording hundreds hours of different bands. He never said those things to all bass players.

two of my favorite youtubers

Has Glenn ever seen Davie504? I think he would enjoy him regardless of his beliefs.

I discovered your channel through Glenn and I'm glad I subscribed

I knew it! Tough love.

Here's my perspective as a bass player for many years in different bands: guitar players, who are often the primary song writers in a band, do not take the necessary time to teach songs to the rest of the band. They will play a riff or complicated section maybe three times and expect everyone else to know it perfectly. Also, they are very prone to wasting rehearsal time. Rehearsals are often just running songs from start to finish without stopping to work trouble spots. Then they will look at the poor bass player (or the second guitarist) like they're an asshole because they can't learn the song. All the while ignoring the fact that the wrote the freaking song or riff and have been working it for weeks or maybe even months to get it clean, perfect, and memorized. (But they still don't know what key it's in, have no idea what chords they're using, and you're lucky if they know the time signature if it's not 4/4) To cut time in the studio, make more of rehearsal time, and just be a tighter group, "band leaders" need to take responsibility for the time of their fellow musicians and stop expecting their bandmates to be mind readers. Run stuff slowly so people can follow it. Tighten transitions by working just that part of the song over and over. Etc. And.... A LOT of guitar players have an absolute shit sense of time. Not that anyone is still reading this comment, but let's not forget that many exceptional bassists have played on very old strings and gotten great tones- James Jamerson and John Taylor come immediately to mind. Not every band or song requires the bright twangy sound of new strings, which I personally hate.

“I don’t know how to sum your channel up in one word.” I can, dude. Yelling. Just, yelling.

Me as a producer: ''can you edit this?" - ''fuck no just play your part right", me as a bass player '' ok now can you edit this?.... pleaseeeee!". True story happened the same day and i was laughing with myself

I really like this kinda videos.

I'm applying to Berklee as a performance major on Baritone horn. My audition's in November!

Glenn "fuckin go away" Fricker

Love the shirt Glen is wearing. Awesome!

This is gold

I...love that base....

I most be a super human... Because i can hear the bass in most metal recordings.

I love this crossover

one of a major problems today and for many years to many guitarist want to sound and play like someone else.it's to simple to sound and play something that has already been done and played by someone else and it most certainly doesn't show your talent as a individual all you're doing is mimicking someone elses style tone playing and song..when I see someone play lets say a Van halen song I say great you can do a Van halen song now lets hear something of you're something original that comes from you and most of the time they can't they have nothing to call their own sad really what shows your real talent is what you have done your own original music not copying something that has already been done by someone else..Music is a win you have a great channel keep up the great work

_"In a Metal situation, the guitarist takes up so much bandwidth, no one can hear the bass anyway."_ That's in Extreme metal. And in bands where the bass is turned down in the mix. Many Metal bands I can think of, Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, or Dio for example have the bass actually turned up to a decent amount. And it doesn't matter how much distortion is on the guitars, the bass rings through easily. You just have to turn it up.

There’s one thing I do know. One band I love listening to amped their bass up for their recent album. the Birds of Tokyo. And bass player was rocking it at the concert \m/

I play my Ibanez BTB 1406 through a Little Mark 250 for my practice setup. It's a great amp and light weight.

Nice

That's a Warwick Buzzard bass I'm really into the double P-pickup basses, specially those w/ an inverted one in the bridge, like that Blizzard and the Stryker

My favorite thing Glenn said in this video: "In metal, if you have a weak bass tone, you have a weak guitar tone." I find it awesome that he mentioned this. Been noticing lately that I've actually been finding prog rock albums like Fragile by Yes heavier than a lot of metal lately, for having such huge, driving basslines that enhance everything around them. I'm biased, being a bassist, but there's definitely a very strong drive to bass signals that electric guitars can't ever reach. Animals as Leaders used to octave down the rhythm guitars to try to create a bass tone, but the electronics simply aren't as meaty. Given the influence of bands like Obscura and Testament's strong return lately, I'm really hoping it'll inspire more bassists to truly make bold, thick grooves in the coming years. Beyond Creation proved that there's a very real audience for bass led metal. Hell, I listened to them for a while despite thinking the rest was rather poorly mixed/mastered....that's how much an awesome bassist can take a band to greatness.

Guitcon brought Musicians on KZfaq together. BTW Glenn Fricker is a badass! Tyler cool as always

WOW! THANKS SO MUCH! WARWICK RULES! COOL!

I have a massive amp and it sounds Fricken great

THAT BASS IS SO BEATIFUL

As a guitar player, I totally think bass player on average knows a lot more of music theory than the average guitarist. I was stuck in a rut for quite a while on guitar until I stumbled on bass videos and the theory they learnt as basic stuff and that totally glued together the random stuff that I already knew on guitar.

John enwhistle One of my all time favorite bassist ✌️😎✌️

Where can I get that bass dude

how do you make a guitar players play quiet? put sheet music in front of them?

I love this video so much!!!! Glenn Fricker is a fuckin' badass!!!!

Woah

Had to have made that t shirt Glen after you went to shreveport la.

Holy its GLENN

Yeah I play acoustic bass and classical guitar. About to think of buying acoustic guitar also maybe some years later bought electric guitar and bass and maybe a Classical Bass (double-bass)

Holy christ i cannot take my eyes off that bass dude. It’s fucking beautiful WHERE can I get one???? i... i fucking love it!!!

As a actual bassist ive always shown up to practice with my 4x10 and 800 watt head. (Usually having the best set up playing with people using 2x12 combos i have always been real crazy when it came to changing my strings with my active bass i can usually get away with a extra week. Before changing my strings but i currently have 8 sets of bass string 3 for my 6 (roughly 107 dollars worth) and 5 sets for my spector legend 4 string (roughly 120 ish mostly all dr strings except one set of some pro steels.

Thoughts on tuning down a baritone guitar one octave in place of a bass?

Tyler looks like the sandman from marvel, well he should while wearing that shirt enter sandman

The greatest combo On earth.

I WANT that bass! And I'm a keyboard player, although I also have 13 guitars and can and do play 5 string bass.

Same

As a guitar player Ive been more and more thinking about switching to bass to benefit my band (currently just myself and another guitar player) I love playing guitar.. A lot. But I also love love love making music with people and almost like an MMORPG I am willing to switch roles to rock that raid; ya know?

I'm sorry that Glenn, apparently, never played with a good bass player. Or at least, an average bass player that was a good musician. Sounds bitter. Glenn, show me on this doll where the bass player touched you.

Whats that bass Tyler is holding?

I used to be just a bass player and started playing a lot more guitar. Now, years later I play bass like a guitar.

My band's bass player would often do a mean 13 & 1/2 bar blues!

There's a pretty awesome video of Billy Sheehan on Produce Like A Pro's channel.

Bobby vega, John Paul Jones, Carol Kaye. Players who use both pick and fingers to great effect. ;)

Holy shit my two favorite youtubers !! Top 10 anime crossoversss!!!!

I was in a band where I did all 10 songs in 11 total takes on bass (one track had a harmonized bass part). After an hour of the guitarist bumblefucking through 1 track, I recorded his remaining parts on guitar in under 90 minutes (solos included). Incompetence doesn't care which instrument you play.

that bass.... i want it.

As a bass player I can't agree more 1) know the song 2) show up on time 3) please if recording change your damn strings (I only change my strings for shows and recording want to sound my best) 4)dont say you can play bass if you actually were a guitar player. 5) have a rig. (if recording head with a decent di markbass not a svt4pro) very worse situation for recording is not having a di box at the least. 6) don't let your pride stop you from admitting things.

The way this guy speaks makes me think of when I'm watching a movie and the internet is shit. He stopped every 5 seconds to think about the next thing to say. Glenn was too patient!

Glenn Fricker : "Most of the bass players are a fail at everything" *Davie504 wanted to know your location

what bass is that?

I play guitar and own a 5 string Ibanez Ergodyne that I got from a bass player that was getting kicked out of my company in the Army. I play the bass like a bass as much as possible but I always end up trying to shred...

Guitarists playing bass? Get thee to Adam Neeley for a roasting. I tried out the over-distorted, squashed compression bass method mentioned by Glenn - the bass pops out much more without muddying the mix.

Da fuck? 4:49 It was like Glenn was looking right at me.........and thinking "Fuck You Jeremy" LMAO

What's a bar?

i live near berklee college i dated a girl that went there in the early 2000s amazing on the skin flute.

4:05 ... my first bass amp was hooked up to a 18” speaker cabinet. I shook the whole house with my first band. I (unlike some bass players) am not a guitar player. I am a bass player first.

I have seen a few of your videos and just realized I wasn't subscribed that problem has been remedied cool bass man.

Glenn is great.. he is straight up and not bet around the bush

Should get glen on the podcast

if there is such a thing as a skilled bassist I have yet to meat it.

I love Glenns shirt😂

Tyler's guitar playing is bluesy and soulful and I love it ......... Tyler's speaking cadence is likes he's high as fuck and searching for the next word

Tyler can play bass too that’s awesome.

I just quit a band with a guitar player that was hiding like dude was talking about. Those two guys played guitar and I was on drums. I told one dude to get on bass and the other guy stayed on guitar. As soon as the one dude went to bass, the "guitar player" didn't know whether scratch his watch or wind his ass. I walked out on both those damn fools.

I’ve both played and seen bassist play with and without bass picks. It’s really a preference thing.

Glenn for president

Wow roasted in the first 10 seconds of the video. I love it already.