How Jacob Collier Learned Bass 🔥🔥🔥

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GENIUS! Jacob Collier on creating bass lines.
This clip is from Jacob's SBL interview, available on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud, and the SBL website.
As always, see you in the shed!
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@norcyconstanza1050 2 жыл бұрын

This is the musical equivalent of how to draw a face: first draw a circle, then add the details… then boom! You have successfully recreated the Mona Lisa.

@Mathhead2000 2 жыл бұрын

First I draw this face. Then I erase some of the details, and 1, 2, 3 a circle!--eh... thingy.

@urilevy1 2 жыл бұрын

If you imagine the mona lisa and then forget about the rules, you will surprise yourself

@rainerschwindler2596 2 жыл бұрын

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563 what

@derpbird4586 2 жыл бұрын

It’s more like putting the Mona Lisa in your mind, repeatedly drawing a face, with lines of closer shape, size and colour until you get an exact replica.

@jonnehayesjr.9299 2 жыл бұрын

@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563 I totally get where you're coming from

@colosalblack 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah thats how I learned too. I just went doo doo doo and suddenly I'm Jaco Pastorius

@SimonBrisbane 2 жыл бұрын

😆😁😄

@X-EvilAsh 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@omarvazquez5613 2 жыл бұрын

LMaO this made my day. That’s hilarious.

@harisultan99 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@user-rk6do8gl9p 2 жыл бұрын

Lol same

@djrea4815 2 жыл бұрын

I think Jacob Collier is an incredible musician, but trying to learn from him often times feels useless. He has perfect pitch as well as clearly an innate sense of audiation, that most people don't have access to.

@jdjk7 2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, audition is a criminally underutilized skill. It's not that people don't have access, it's that it doesn't even occur to most of them.

@Eldorias 2 жыл бұрын

He's a genius but you don't need perfect pitch to be a great musician (Charlie Parker, Bill Evans, John Coltrane for example did not have perfect pitch)

@samuelward1148 2 жыл бұрын

@@Eldorias To be fair most great musicians didn't have perfect pitch... It's kind of a RARE thing.

@Eldorias 2 жыл бұрын

@@samuelward1148 Totally !

@beidouvirus3978 2 жыл бұрын

@@samuelward1148 and then there are some people WITH perfect pitch who don't really do anything of musical significance. I don't see any correlation. Now audiation is probably miles more important imo. Being able to hear melodies and passages strongly in your head and being able to translate them to a voice or an instrument is extremely valuable.

@hyhy4430 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine being able to learn a instrument by just “sounding it out “ 💀

@DoktrDub 2 жыл бұрын

It can be pretty helpful, being creative with learning

@jonasmcclain2134 2 жыл бұрын

Its an extremely valid way to learn.

@matthewverkuil1694 2 жыл бұрын

Yeahh, he's just a natural 😃 No hate to to him but we know it's cap

@Kemanaperginya 2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewverkuil1694 envy is something we cant erase ya 🥱

@tassiegamer4516 Жыл бұрын

@@matthewverkuil1694 what do you mean “we all know its cap 😠” tf, there are many musicians with relative/perfect pitch that learn by playing around for hours. i know cause thats how i learned piano bass and guitar

@philliptoone 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know he played bass. But I'm not surprised. This guy is a musical genius.

@randomdude1rd1 2 жыл бұрын

He plays everything

@Abbasoffspring 2 жыл бұрын

That's what I've always focused on when I watched his videos. I love the natural groove and ease with which he plays the bass.

@chubob73 2 жыл бұрын

@@randomdude1rd1 He even plays the audience lmao 🤣

@_mike9 2 жыл бұрын

@一面のクソミドリ aint no way it’s bass, it must be piano

@maksschmidt 2 жыл бұрын

The only instruments he doesn’t know how to play are the ones he hasn’t touched yet. I’m fully convince if you give him a week with any instrument he’d end up at least moderately proficient.

@wilko871 2 жыл бұрын

As a guitarist who has recently "got my ear in" I can comfortably say that it's the single most satisfying and important aspect of playing any instrument. Some people are just born with it, that's what we call a musical genius, it took me 15 years! If you're a struggling musician I would highly recommend doing ear training above all else, providing you have the basics down.

@dangdrjay3011 2 жыл бұрын

What does “getting your ear in” even mean?

@metallsnubben 2 жыл бұрын

@@dangdrjay3011 Being able to hear something and play it straight away (which could mean "hear in your mind", thinking of a cool lick for example)

@ji6664 2 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily playing right away what you hear, but at the very least, having good relative pitch. Having that understanding of chord relationships, and most importantly, having an intuitive grasp in it as you apply it to your instrument is such an important aspect in playing music that you are then able to essentially “improvise, adapt, and overcome” different musical scenarios that you come across. Edit: i hope this makes sense lol

@wilko871 2 жыл бұрын

@@dangdrjay3011 Getting your ear in just means that when you hear something you can immediately visualise how that may translate to the instrument. Or a good example would be recognising intervals too, so I can recognise a flat 3rd and make an assumption that we are in a minor key. It's about being able to paint a picture of the music in your mind, then copy it onto the canvas. It doesn't always come out perfectly, but then you can make minor tweaks.

@dangdrjay3011 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks !

@catcat1182 2 жыл бұрын

I accidentally learnt how to learn songs by “ear” by doing this. Even after 5 years of learning guitar, I have never been able to improve my ears. That was until I started humming melodies that are replaying in my head. Through trial and error, I would play a section of song on my phone, pause it, recall the song in my head until it loops, and then hum out the song until it matches with the melody in my head. Afterwards on my guitar, I would try and find each note one by one while continuously humming that one note till I find it on the guitar. I would then hen put together all the notes i found and I was able to play the melody on the guitar. I did this over and over again with various different songs and my ears improved a lot in a short period of time. All within a month.

@end.olives 2 жыл бұрын

This 30 sec video actually gave me months in learning, its so easy to just hum things out till you find them xD

@mihailmilev9909 2 жыл бұрын

@@end.olives wow

@mihailmilev9909 2 жыл бұрын

@@end.olives I'm glad this is helping everyone and hopefully me included

@mihailmilev9909 2 жыл бұрын

cat cat

@henriquemesquita5692 2 жыл бұрын

I might have been doing this since childhood just to pass time... Hearing about the effects now explains a lot about how easily i pick rythms and melodies. Damn, could've gone for perfect pitch if i just started studying music eariler. Either way it's a silly sounding habit that can actually impact a lot in your musical training.

@Fkkakdj 2 жыл бұрын

Nearly shit myself when he started singing for a second and then started playing the bass immediately after at a perfect pitch. Stuff like this is what I love about music, because it’s so inspiring.

@justinrobinson4636 2 жыл бұрын

I love the cut back to Scott just watching, then back to Jacob just "da doo doo DAI daahhh! Do do do-"

@Nokus416 2 жыл бұрын

God, Jacob Collier is an absolute mad man. I love him.

@joshuamiller8149 2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I was just pretending to play bass one day, and then busted out this sick solo that I heard in my head and the rest his history, my theory is he gets his talent from every musician who doesn't practice and try to reach there full potential

@Gamingfreak237 2 жыл бұрын

he has perfect pitch so, like he said he sang it out and found the notes on the bass

@mariahmendes4270 2 жыл бұрын

He has perfect pitch that’s why it works for him

@sisamusudroka3000 2 жыл бұрын

Like a vampire

@f2detaboada 3 ай бұрын

That's pretty much the story for those of us with perfect pitch

@09razgriz 2 жыл бұрын

If you can sing it slow, you can play it fast- SunTzu, The Sound of Music

@yanmahesa2171 5 ай бұрын

now sing the flight of bumblebee :D

@luf4rall 3 ай бұрын

If you can sing it fast you can play it faster

@joshuavarro8936 2 жыл бұрын

I love how the guy is like “got it, yea” and Jacob’s still just “doo dee doo dee do’ee doo doo”

@corazonbeso 2 жыл бұрын

I met him on Saturday and his concert was the best I’d ever been to! Such a sweetheart in person. He gave me a fist bump while on stage! Amazing memory!

@jeremiah_7267 2 жыл бұрын

This is probably the best way to encourage a totally new never touched a stringed instrument person to play... can you hum out what you want to play? Well a little searching with your hands and you'll be playing it... Boom!!! You're a bass player. Persistence.

@northernhemisphere4906 2 жыл бұрын

Piano got strings though

@defaultset 2 жыл бұрын

@@northernhemisphere4906 It's a stringed instrument with buttons

@northernhemisphere4906 2 жыл бұрын

@@defaultset it's a mechanism rather

@markreed9146 2 жыл бұрын

Yep. My dad always said, “if you can sing it you can play it.”

@MrC0MPUT3R 7 ай бұрын

My band director told us if you couldn't sing it, you couldn't play it 💀

@feeshgosqueesh4146 3 ай бұрын

@@MrC0MPUT3Rwell yeah, if you can’t imagine how a bar would sound even with the instrument most innate to humans, how can you understand how it would be played on something which you aren’t born with? Being able to sing the music means having a basic understanding of the music.

@maruke8516 2 жыл бұрын

Bro, the way hes so in tune with it makes him sound like a duet

@robertray2714 2 жыл бұрын

Dude’s a legend but he explained absolutely nothing here Edit: Chill. I was trying to poke fun at the man for busting out scat singing in place of verbal elaboration. If anything, that’s part of the Jacob Collier charm. I get what he’s doing, I just like to have fun here and there . Try it some time.

@reececox666 2 жыл бұрын

Hum the note, find it on the fretboard, repeat, and you could play a song. He learned bass by ear is basically what the video is saying

@randomdude493 2 жыл бұрын

@@reececox666 yeah, what he said makes perfect sense for me, that's how I learned to play the bass and still haven't being able to learn the tuning

@randywatts7554 2 жыл бұрын

you: (not really paying attention) i don't unnerstan.

@AnderDoUrden 2 жыл бұрын

He didn't explained. It showed it. Much better

@julian1457 2 жыл бұрын

He did

@OdaKa 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, singing along with your playing is HIGHLY underrated and underutilized by musicians

@1bigboi_629 2 жыл бұрын

This technique actually helps me so much with solo's and breakdowns in metal. I can't read music and i'm self taught so dooda ladoodalin was the way forward

@justinbill3101 2 жыл бұрын

When you clearly know what you wanna play and understand how this new instrument makes sound, all you need to do is find the notes. That's just how I picked up my guitar techniques in 1 hour, with 20 year of violin playing.

@aXeL-qr9xs 2 жыл бұрын

He truly is one of the special ones of this generation. He was on point with singing everyone of those notes and translating them to fretboard while having insane vocal control and hitting every half step and any little fluctuations. crazy.

@uraharamitchell7250 2 жыл бұрын

"I was a bass player in my mind." I wonder if he was a multi grammy award winning super genius in his mind too.

@nicholas2508 2 жыл бұрын

The best advice I've ever heard. Your voice is the key to it all! The best point of reference for most!

@BertMagurt 2 жыл бұрын

He's like a combination of Steve from blues clues and Shaggy.

@strungupandgutted 2 жыл бұрын

Basically how I've learned most of the shit I know on guitar, if shit gets too technical for me to find out by ear, I research a little through tablature and what not. One of the best yet hardest ways to learn guitar/bass, cuz its not something you can do in an instant (bass may be easier tho) but rather something you have to train yourself to get used to. Obviously it helps having a general idea where certain notes / sounds are on the fretboard.

@change3787 2 жыл бұрын

I love him so much, so much talented and love for music, can’t wait to seem him live next year!

@ATECRIO 2 жыл бұрын

I recall victor Wooten speaking to a similar point. His brothers had him emote "phat bass" before he played his first note.

@slothandturtle8036 2 жыл бұрын

He learned bass watching Davie504 on youtube

@emersonsrandomvideos248 2 жыл бұрын

Its more on ears than music theories. It's just plain ears and its amazing

@rooseph7152 2 жыл бұрын

How Jacob collier does anything is pure magic.

@ricarcorpse 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob can probably make a symphony out of a toilet bowl. He is the embodiment of music. On a different plain of existence.

@ac27934 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty much. Have you heard Bathtub by him and Becca Stevens? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtxlqJN-y9Wnm3k.html Watch to the very end to see them goofing around in the bathroom, recording splooshy sounds, etc.

@Deusofficial123 2 жыл бұрын

"And still now as a bass player, doo dun da dee doo dad dun dee doo." I hear ya

@McArRuIzO 2 жыл бұрын

I feel true joy when I play music from within. I see kids who grow up reading sheets and, while I wish I knew how to read them myself, I must admit those kids always seemed to lack passion. Focussing on what notes to play whether than the ones you want to play. I'll always play by ear, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

@thomasipkiss8793 2 жыл бұрын

It’s like superman trying to explain how to use laser vision to the regular humans….

@DolphinaLF 2 жыл бұрын

They way they come together is amazing

@yungking2801 2 жыл бұрын

Great, got it...I'll just doo dun doo my way to being a pro bassist 🤔 somebody should have told me this earlier 😂

@bearwboots8839 2 жыл бұрын

Full interview where?

@modelcitizen1977 9 ай бұрын

"Well, first, I realized I'm a genius, and the rest just kind of figured itself out."

@nicolasptrsn 2 жыл бұрын

Man is a musical genius

@ratsoup3823 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of notes there chief 🕵️‍♂️

@jdjk7 2 жыл бұрын

I mean, have you ever watched any other of Scott's videos? particularly ones where he plays a jam intro?

@matyastorok 2 жыл бұрын

If you really understood music theoretically and or had perfect pitch, you will learn to play any instrument much faster. If you can hear the distance between notes and understand rythm, you can come up with melodies in your head and find the notes. I used an ear trainer app and learned a few scales and I could much easier work out a melody on the piano. So rather than practice exercises for muscle memory I would defo train my ears and learn theory first.

@robob3ar 2 жыл бұрын

That actually sounds like the most original advice I’ve seen so far.. I’ll dig into ear training, any apps or tips?

@matyastorok 2 жыл бұрын

@@robob3ar look into Rick Beato's stuff, he doesn't have perfect pitch but dissects any song, great teacher, he has ear training course and has videos explaining music theory really well

@TheFastballs 2 жыл бұрын

I really wish people stopped trying to learn and copy how he got so good at music when it’s impossible unless you’re born with the gifts he was born with.

@MyLittleHecarim 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob is the music teacher for other geniuses who haven't quite found their way yet

@soldier6958 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great mind, now imagine that talent of his but instead of playing the bass he's illegally creating explosives

@kyranlewis4759 2 жыл бұрын

Helps if you have perfect pitch

@BUSBYPRODUCTION Ай бұрын

“And still now, as a bass player…” then goes on to perform a masterpiece 🤯 One of one

@xilpes6254 Жыл бұрын

I do that with some songs where the melody is really simple, like for hot butter popcorn. Its really fun to find the notes.

@abel.borges 2 жыл бұрын

As a kid I learned acoustic guitar from my dad, almost entirely the “practice” part, lots of “pick up this music just by listening to it”. That had some method. But after that, I kinda transferred knowledge from one instrument to another just like he is saying (drums were different though). It is evident that he thinks music in a whole other level, but I believe a lot of people identify with what he is saying.

@01frugalbassist85 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, it's a language that one doesn't truly understand until it's been experienced personally through repetition.

@Ballsonova 2 жыл бұрын

I learned from being a guitarist. The bass hits different when YOU want it to.

@jean-pierrethouin2404 2 жыл бұрын

What you just said reminds me of the fact that MUSIC is inside of you.! And it is deff. Inside you. Tx. J.p.

@westlee1626 2 жыл бұрын

It’s just that easy to remember the notes on every fret 😵‍💫

@james9832 2 жыл бұрын

What instrument is that?

@IO279K4RMN 2 жыл бұрын

acoustic bass

@IO279K4RMN 2 жыл бұрын

no i think that's a Kala-U bass

@20thingsgoing62 3 ай бұрын

Piano

@MrPopo40 2 жыл бұрын

This is how I am learning it and really works. You just have to visualize the note and then find it on the fretboard. If your pitch sucks then do the same with songs, listen and then copy it. It may take a long while before you find it but Everytime you try it'll get easier.

@FrogToadBug 2 жыл бұрын

It definitely works. It's a great way to learn. Still helps to learn some theory though, so when they call out "2-5-1 in D minor!" you aren't totally lost

@rioriorio17 2 жыл бұрын

As a piano player that wants to play base this makes perfect sense

@DichardSwagBoss69 4 ай бұрын

Bruh Jacob Collier absolutely schooling Scott hahaa

@devan9189 2 жыл бұрын

Beauty of bass

@stuartewoldt1513 4 ай бұрын

Some of the most beautiful music is played just like this

@cameronbran1086 2 жыл бұрын

the first base lick sounded so good

@spoolstring1853 14 күн бұрын

This guy is straight alien he's so good at musics

@Will-zt9xz 2 жыл бұрын

Woow this man has opened my eyes. You can learn most instruments like this and just goes to show how music is its own language. Crazy.

@musikbutikdk 2 жыл бұрын

Jacob is a one in a million artist.

@Samuel-ku1qb 2 жыл бұрын

This is actually how I learnt to play “Like Real People Do” on guitar which allowed me to also play “Cherry Wine” and “Soilder, Poet, King”😂 I’ve done this all my life, that’s why I can play so many instruments, I cannot read a single note but I can play anything I’ve listened to/sang a lot.

@DarthCiliatus Жыл бұрын

Do you have perfect pitch or do you just try notes until it sounds right?

@dmang3 2 жыл бұрын

Playing by ear is great

@connorphelan9825 3 ай бұрын

This is like how SpongeBob draws a perfect circle

@benbrinkmann6201 4 ай бұрын

There’s some really impressive footage of Richard Bona doing this on stage, it’s wild

@jameswalker210 3 ай бұрын

Jacob collier is nightmare blunt rotation material

@Therealdamuski 2 жыл бұрын

I love those lil basses played one at namm fell in love ever since

@Thoughtless427 2 жыл бұрын

This is the most Jacob Collier thing I've ever heard.

@harpera5925 2 жыл бұрын

i love this video so much for no reason

@saturnoenllamas 2 жыл бұрын

He went full Jacob there

@xxbattygrrrlxx 3 ай бұрын

I'm self taught, I get where he's coming from. It can take time to find that first note but when it's there, I can just sing it out and it's so satisfying. But I kinda lack on improvising sometimes lol

@thehighboy7361 Жыл бұрын

When he said “Duuwweeiid 🎶 Duweeeiiid” I felt that deep in my soul

@mdrnlevi 2 жыл бұрын

people who play ukulele basses are the coolest people

$@fracklo1997$

@fracklo1997 Жыл бұрын

This tip actually helped me a lot considering i love to think about basslines but I just couldnt find grooves when playing

@nashvillesfinest1718 4 ай бұрын

look something i’ve learned about myself is that i enjoy watching jacob collier as long as im not trying to learn from him.

@biggabenne 3 ай бұрын

Insane that he can sing and play the improv bass solo and stay accurate at both

@jasminebower2305 2 ай бұрын

I didn't know how to play bass but then i just thought about out loud and immediately nailed it! Fantastic tip 🤣

@stephenperez7168 3 ай бұрын

Bruh this is basically how you Learn any Language as a Baby it makes Total Sense

@dylan-2169 4 ай бұрын

You can do the same on guitar, both with chords and notes. I didn’t learn that way, but that’s one of the ways that people in general create songs, by coming up with a riff or lick in their head first.

@leandermaramba6862 2 жыл бұрын

The synchronization 🖤🖤

@OfSunFlowers 2 жыл бұрын

When you're not human but you're really trying to relate

@Hazed64 2 жыл бұрын

I've a friend who's a perfect pitch hearing (if that's what it's called) and played piano for years and could walkways play a song after like 2 or 3 listens and now he's started up bass recently and he's amazing at it after only a couple months can do most baselines I play him

@fionnanomahony8283 2 жыл бұрын

That’s how I learned! Let’s goooo!!

@babyoven 3 ай бұрын

I think he's saying any instrument can express your inner voice in your head without restricting yourself to scales or techniques if you first create the melodic lines or song first from your head and then apply it to the bass instead of starting with scales or techniques because everyone innately has a song in their head Dann Huff said that once in an interview on how to write a guitar solo

@annette8409 Ай бұрын

I'm so tone def. He explans & plays where I get what hes doing .

@coolguy0421 2 ай бұрын

That’s how I learned how to play all the instruments…. In my mind! Just the wildest solos I come up with.

@howardcarle2593 4 ай бұрын

we're all bass players in our minds.. Jacob is BLESSED with the gift. Amazing !

@matthewfregeau9076 6 ай бұрын

Where it cut off made me laugh, good job editor

@Marta1Buck 2 жыл бұрын

He's being that jazz player. Playing note while singing itm

@dre21492 2 жыл бұрын

I do that with drumming... It makes breaking things down a lot easier

@vicentecollao2288 3 күн бұрын

What my drunk friend sends at 3 AM *crash bandicoot gameplay*

@poink1777 2 жыл бұрын

The only string instrument I have is a ukulele and I have no idea how to actually play it, so I just take what I hear and whistle it until I find the right notes. It's really helpful when you wanna play random songs but no one has any charts for it

@gamergirl209 2 жыл бұрын

Playing by ear. Most people think about piano but it applies to a lot of instruments

@ZtevanAustere 3 ай бұрын

This is exactly how I learned. Started by trying to find guitar chords but I can only hear the bass. Ended up learning bass in addition to learning guitars. 😂

@klxaudio 2 жыл бұрын

Anyone know what brand that funny little bass is?? I want one! Sounds good and looks fun to play.

@pewperclipped3709 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I had this kind of teacher for everything in life.

@ceresattheirbest1182 2 жыл бұрын

This Person is amazing

@burnedmydickinatoaster2116 2 жыл бұрын

Did the same after playing the piano for years and not anymore for years Just casually humming the melody helps so much

@johnsrabe 6 ай бұрын

This reminds me of two things: 1. My college humanities teacher, the wonderful Donald Gochberg, telling us the best way to learn a language was to read - line by line - the original and the translation. Yeah, right. 2. Dylan Thomas’s line in A Child’s Christmas in Wales: “O, easy for Leonardo!”