There are educators who don’t give a shit, and then there are those who do the job with enthusiasm and purpose- Jeff is the Latter- and he’s a top echelon player to boot... just awesome stuff.

Unbelievable! JB's ability as a teacher is so encouraging and clear!

It felt great when Jeff said he was a good bass player at the end. You can feel his enthusiasm for teaching and sincerity. He really meant it! When a guy at his level says you are good, it feels GREAT despite knowing how much work needs to be done! I hope Canyon is still playing, he was a good player!

a natural teacher if ever there was one, as bassists it is SO difficult to come out of our rhythmic mode, canyon did great I would have been sweating like crazy and so nervous

Dude.... loooooove the way he engages a student!!!!!!!!!

Jeff your are so calm and very precise on the bass.

I love this so much!! Jeff is such a brilliant musician and educator. And generous with his hard earned wisdom to boot! One of my favorite memories is asking Jeff for a pic at a bbq/bar where a bunch of awesome musicians were performing after the NAMM show and got a solid 15 minute lecture about how to be a better musician. I'll never understand why people get so butthurt by one of the greatest musicians and bass players of modern times stating directly and passionately that the way to get better at playing music... is to learn and practice playing music. Crazy concept. Jeff Berlin is a national frickin treasure!!

I’m a guitarist and I watch anything Jeff Berlin related!!! Had the pleasure of opening for the B3 tour. I’ll never forget as a nervous original band, no sooner did we set up our gear that we turned around to find Jeff introducing himself to us!!! Told us to have fun and enjoy a great show, he must have seen the fear on our faces and tried to help us out 🤣👏Was absolutely floored, he came up to each one of us in the band and shook our hands personally “Hi I’m Jeff…” me:”yeah, I know…😳🤯” 🤣👏 we did one of our best shows ever, then watched Jeff show us how it’s really done 🎶🔥❤️

Jeff Berlin is without doubts a great musician. I have read some very nasty and useless comments about this video but hey this is the power of KZfaq,. If Jaco was still alive and he was posting KZfaq videos, , there still will be someone leaving negative useless comments just for the sake of it! Having said that, I am a lecturer in music and I have been teaching for nearly 20 years between Italy and the UK. If I would be observing this lesson out of contest, there are some aspects of it that I won’t be agree with like approaching the student by calling him a “ringer”, or having the student do a litter more talk can lead to a useful reflection that lead to self -assessment and so on. Also, Jeff has a very physical approach with the student by touching his shoulder and standing very close to him while in the British educational system, you are suppose to keep a distance of not less than a metre between the teacher and the student, but again teaching practices are different all around the world. I personally would be honoured and delight to have a one to one music lesson with Jeff Berlin; even just hearing him talking will teach me a lot, definitely a music master.

I watched several of these videos, where Jeff gives people the bass, and it is very interesting. People have their own lick or way of playing, regardless of skill, and he deconstructs them in a single take, puts them in a place where they never were, or even thought about it. And people struggle a lot to figure out very simple instructions. It's amazing.

Wow. Really encouraging and educational at the same time! 🙏🏻😀

I like Jeff Berlin... Nooo I LOVE HIM... A great musician, composer, teacher... and Nice Humble Man.

If that kid took a simple one week course, developed by Jeff Berlin, by the end of the first day he would sound like he just picked up the instrument. Bad habits, bad posture, and know it all attitudes take time to break. However, by the fifth day of his first week, he would notice an incredible change in all aspects of his playing. This also includes recognizing when the Player themselves is about to make a mistake and immediately begin to correct it. In my opinion, self taught players, such as myself, have the hardest time in breaking the bad habits. I am glad I attended a course at Jeff's former school, the players school of Music. Mind altering, life-changing, incredible learning experience. Thank you!

best advice for bass players ever

A great teacher.

More vid like this Jeff please

He did this to me when I took his master class in Portland.

It was awesome to witness your teaching approach, it was very skillful.

Jeff is a great teacher!!!

The very last thing I would in that situation would be to try to impress Jeff Berlin with my technique......

any less of a teacher would have made Canyon Erie and lock up. Jeff really made an excellent point off keeping him motivated and really do something different and drive from imitating everybody "Jaco" and the like and find true music and so hopefully his own voice. I am humbled. Very humbled. Thank you Jeff. I will take this experience into my own teaching, which is on a very different topic (measuring sound systems) but also here it is often the task to break up very old habits and motivate and excite the students to look at the very basics of their trade again.

Wow, Canyon killed it! Nice work man.

That was fantastic to watch. Thanks!

Heck...I just learned half dozen thoughts in the first 3 min....killer! Ty

Now he's the GRAND KENYON!!!

JB is the best teacher on the planet, period, and his playing in the late 70's/early 80's was so far advanced for its time (confirmed by other bassists of that era) he has the street cred to back up what he teaches. I love how he instantaneously troubleshoots a students limitations and changes their playing and outlook immediately. I really need to take (at least) the one week intensive.....I'd probably get more out of that one week than one year at BIT or some other music school

There's bass playing and there's musicianship. I love the way Jeff Berlin explains stuff - separate the practice from the art.

Super teacher !!

Increíble máster, que sabiduría, muchas gracias, maestro, eso no lo había visto y ni escuchado, y no me lo habían enseñado, GRACIAS.

He is entirely right

Jeff, you are a amazing theacher!!!

Master Jeff❤

I love Jeff, just like his playing he cuts through all the bs…

the opposite of Jaco: Steve Swallow, listen to Vashkar on the Album Hotel Hello. The man IS a melody! Articulation (and performance) should be intentional. If you do it too much during practice they become mannerisms, we don't want that , or do you? ;-)

Only i can say : Gracias maestro Berlin

Master !

Jeff is an incredible artist

This student is the type of guy who comes up during break and picks up your bass to start playing Les Claypool making weird faces at you like he’s killing it

He played with allan holdsworth. Nuff said

Man.. ok. I really need the basics. Chord tones arpeggios scales . I thought i was good at one point. I know nothing.

Jeff is like the Gordan of bass.

Maestri si nasce.

i can feel his nervousness

Great teacher - the bass player was too busy trying to impress Jeff with technique and not music.... for some reason

Jeff was just jealous he couldn’t play like him, so had to flip the script and make simplicity seem like it is king hahahaha. Give me the bass back!!

Can anyone out there show me how not to sound like Jaco?

so cringy when bass students sit there and kinda try to impress Jeff or smth? LOL

As good as this kid was, he couldn’t do what Jeff asked him to, to dumb it down.

Why do these guys always Try to play while he is talking .. fucking don’t do that