Lacquer Head - Les Claypool Slap Bass Breakdown!

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Today we're looking at a song requested many times on this channel. Lacquer Head by Primus played by the incredible Les Claypool!
This song contains a bunch of bass techniques from muted slaps and left hand slaps to strummed chords, popped chords and everything in between.
I'll be breaking down three of the main riffs in the tune and giving a step-by-step approach to learning the bass solo.Lacquer Head is a great workout for any bass player.
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Пікірлер: 125

@joshuahenry4218 2 жыл бұрын

This lesson set my skull on fire 💀 🔥

@ritterlejeune2994 2 жыл бұрын

this lesson made me huff gasoline

@Joetime90 Жыл бұрын

Were you high on gin and Gatorade

@coolchannelat Жыл бұрын

Do you know but one desire?

@11anonymous6 9 ай бұрын

Ask good MacDuff & Donalbain So many good ideas are slain By those who wouldn’t dare step out of line

@TheSageCommander 8 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@samuel112313 Жыл бұрын

Im a guitarist and just looked up this video to figure out what the hell Les Claypool was doing on this song. Very detailed video and i feel that if I played bass I would easily be able to understand your teachings. You are a very talented person just like Les, 10/10 video 🤘

@desreddy2728 2 жыл бұрын

The best bass tutor on the internet bar none 👍

@talkingbasslessons 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Des

@vincentvince196729 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Mark for this lesson ! At the risk of repeating myself, you're the best teacher I've seen round here, and thank you for the time you spent for all of us !

@talkingbasslessons 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Vincent

@yttri9876 2 жыл бұрын

If you were to do another Primus lesson, would you consider doing "To Defy the Laws of Tradition"? Your teaching style here is incredibly effective

@ogmudbone2334 2 жыл бұрын

Shaak Ti’s Electric Kool Aid has a good lesson on this song kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZmdpKuomdPcpYU.html

@jeffreyyyy3052 Жыл бұрын

@@ogmudbone2334 the man has good tutorials on many Claypool songs!

@talkjunkie31 2 жыл бұрын

I know I’m not good enough to play it but it was fun to watch you lol

@silvereminence 2 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJmqrNqetrvRh2Q.html

@crispyrobot77 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely the best bass tutorials on YT imo. Love how Les Claypool has gone beyond traditional bass playing and has adopted a style that's percussive (ghost notes), rhythmic (chords), and lead (ala Geddy). Thanks for breaking it down into the basics. You make it look easy.

@willschwabenbauer2577 Ай бұрын

Mark def. has a way to disect songs and make them easy to grasp.❤

@Asthmos Жыл бұрын

really great video. i love tutorials on how to play "ghost notes" as a guitarist turned bassist recently, im fascinated with all the percussion that can be done. thumping and double thumb and alternate slap picking as well as a lot of more melodic tapping with those iconic claypool sour notes (especially on fretless) sounds soooo cool

@poochiecheeks627 2 жыл бұрын

You always pick the coolest stuff to cover Mark great video

@Joetime90 Жыл бұрын

I love the humility and conciseness of your videos.

@goblin_de_gook5795 4 ай бұрын

Im really new to bass, when i first looked at the tab on its own it looked like goddamn hieroglyphs. You broke this down in a really digestible format, thanks dude

@beatsbydrew8930 2 жыл бұрын

Les is in my top three bassists for sure, wicked fast hands

@alangunderson998 Жыл бұрын

Your a great player and teacher!You make things very clear,thank you

@bAgRiMoIrEsS.4 2 жыл бұрын

Les Claypool is a the innovator. Who created something new.

@bAgRiMoIrEsS.4 2 жыл бұрын

@@urdiman Monster OG thumb!!

@LaziestBassist Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much demystifying the most intimidating riff I heard when I started on bass

@NotDr.Evil137 Ай бұрын

Absolutely awesome 🤌

@ghoul1998 Жыл бұрын

This lesson is incredible! Thank you.

@treylem3 2 жыл бұрын

Great, as always !

@TellURide447 2 жыл бұрын

What a nice bass you got there. Really super duper

@humanidrome 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson again 👍🏿

@standhd Жыл бұрын

AWESOME STUFF!

@niteshades_promise 8 ай бұрын

You got that tone dialed in for this perfectly🍻

@donalddodson7365 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Makes my ears droop. Great lesson. thank you.

@NameLess-ks4fi 2 жыл бұрын

Oh lawd that tone

@tommymassey1275 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome lesson,big Claypool fan!

@stevenmacintyre5912 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks man!

@CutandColorDude Жыл бұрын

Rad! Nice breakdown

@itsellenoreilly 2 жыл бұрын

Love this line!!

@Kloiterra 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding pedagogy, thanks!

@relativeparadox9567 Жыл бұрын

What a great song.

@alexandercrash2191 2 жыл бұрын

I'll never learn this😭 Then I come across this video and now I can. Thanks so much for breaking it down for us!👍

@phyroscire5817 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!!!

@andropolisstudiomusic 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Could not get the coordination down well but your video helped a lot.

@sketchesforyou8020 2 жыл бұрын

Dude hell yeah!

@Erik1970Viking 2 жыл бұрын

excellent breakdown !! Thank you ... i will try this ... :-)

@eugenechek7288 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool, as always. Greetings from Moscow.

@nicolasurteagabriceno3388 2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU.

@NewMedicineVEVO Жыл бұрын

Very awesome. I watched one of your videos years ago about 3 finger picking. It was very helpful. I was playing with the strap on then I took it off then stood up and the bass almost hit the floor. 😅

@al76groovekeeper 2 жыл бұрын

Good job

@turboduckhead6179 2 жыл бұрын

The God of Bass is impressed with your efforts, Sir.

@ssab420 Ай бұрын

Man this way harder than I thought to nail down 😂

@markmaw8 Жыл бұрын

That's a monster bass lick 😁

@veryslyfox9704 2 жыл бұрын

Can we get golden boy next? Love your work!

@weedwhackerman 5 ай бұрын

You are spot on mark, only thing ive been hearing from listening to the tune, is after he hits the c power chord, i can hear the slapping and popping from the intro, but it sounds as if hes doing something else, its like an low E and e sharp too, as well as that slapping bit, you can hear that new string metallic sound, im probably wrong as im just new too bass, wish we could get an isolated track, maybe he doubled it up, we'll never know, but anyway subscribed and your helping me so much, love it buddy

@weedwhackerman 5 ай бұрын

Maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but it definitely sounds as if its a double track with bass copying the guitar, with the slaps and pops above haha, happy new year anyway lol, I'm just sitting with a few cans trying to learn Les and yourself haha, it's all good fun 😂❤❤

@weedwhackerman 5 ай бұрын

There's a possibility it could just be the sound of the slapping etc, I've only been playing for 6 months, but have experience on guitar but have moved to bass, your videos are brilliant, I'd love a bass lesson from you personally, if you can contact me, 😀 😊

@LeeJoRo Жыл бұрын

Because of the alexis sklarevski slap bass video I constantly watched, I can't help but do: Thumb, hammer ghost, thumb, pop It's like I'm relearning the technique all over again

@ardiwinatah 2 жыл бұрын

This videos complete me!

@damiandassen7763 8 ай бұрын

16:24, man's a time traveller. Learned a 1999 song in the early 90s lol.

@talkingbasslessons 8 ай бұрын

Listen again. I’m talking about the lick (from Stu Hamm) not this tune.

@hegemony69 Жыл бұрын

nice

@andrewcrossman2165 8 ай бұрын

Natural Joe was even better, do that one next 🤙

@andreasdeutinger7319 2 жыл бұрын

thanks. i always wanted to learn this one. it is of the primus record i like the least, but this song is good.

@chesspunk489 2 жыл бұрын

Antipop is my favorite primus album, but I am probably the only human in the world with that opinion.

@graagullesson87 2 жыл бұрын

@@chesspunk489 you are not alone ;)

@AtomizedSound 2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Love Les! If you could do one on Tommy the Cat or Jerry Was A Race Car Driver which are the hardest songs in their catalogue to me on bass, that would be amazing!!

@talkingbasslessons 2 жыл бұрын

Already done both of them

@grzegorzw.9650 Жыл бұрын

Awesome lesson! Will take some sweating till I make it sound as it should.. ;-)

@josephdeluca7602 Жыл бұрын

So hard!! But great lesson!

@elliottryan13 2 жыл бұрын

This dude is fucking legit! Not bashing Les but his riffs can be simple but the complexity of the riffs mixed with everything is what makes Primus so SUCK so bad. Great video brother!

@reneebear3641 Жыл бұрын

Huhhh

@jeremyredd4232 2 жыл бұрын

I wondered how he did those triplets! I'd been trying slap hammer on double thumb double pop. It works but it doesn't sound quite the same. Thanks!

@andrewerbach6278 2 жыл бұрын

More les Claypool !!! …pls…

@KEvronista 2 жыл бұрын

double thumb on the solo is easier (for me, anyway) and snappier. same two thumb hits, but then up-thumb after the palm mute. t-t-pm-tu-s-pm. when you're doing it right (his way or mine), you can feel the waltz time in it. KEvron

@Junkkray 2 жыл бұрын

thanks Mark! Greetings from Russia

@alessiopizzignach3878 2 жыл бұрын

does anyone know any youtube channel as good as this one but for piano? i mean, structured and everything, for almost beginners... ps mark you're amazing

@sondresvorkas Жыл бұрын

I want to request a «Natural Joe» cover. I’ve been breaking my brains trying to figure it out

@Dj_pound Жыл бұрын

Hot daym this is hard to do. Got dam les you crazy bastard haha

@mezzs 2 жыл бұрын

great lesson as always Mark, but noticeably absent is the "bridge" part right after the second chorus (around 2:15 into the song). any specific reason for it? I feel it to be kinda tricky as well. Cheers!

@MrGul 2 жыл бұрын

He uses some sort of envelope filter or synth bass pedal for that part and it starts with a slow 1/2 step bend from the low G (E-string 3rd fret) for a half note, then two 16th notes which are tapped (using two different fingers on the right hand) starting on the G-string 18th fret (a C#) and then the D-string 17th fret (a G) which is then followed up by hitting the low E-string with the right hand thumb in consecutive 16th notes and moving it down chromatically on the neck (while muting the string with the left hand so that the sound is only percussive) before starting over from the bend again, but this time the tapped notes are 19th fret (a D) and 18th fret (an Ab) - then repeat all that nine (!) times!

@Ross_gitar_bas 7 ай бұрын

My hand shoke so much after playing this

@chatter7653 Жыл бұрын

the tricky parts for all these licks for me, is the coming back around to the thumb note to start off the lick....you kind of short shrifted the difficulty (and speed) required to in essence , 'double slap' the thumb on the final note of the simple loop , to the first note of the same simple loop, particularly for that solo. That is where the difficulty lies for all the patterns, imo. Connecting the final note back into the first note of all the patterns.

@rja7062 2 жыл бұрын

Puddin Taine Puddin Taine Puddin Taine , please, PRETTY PLEASE

@punkfan97 2 жыл бұрын

Can you talk about Les's use of a tremolo especially on those damn blue collar tweakers

@carwash9333 Жыл бұрын

8:16 lmaoo that was so passive aggressive

@talkingbasslessons Жыл бұрын

I am the master of passive aggressive disembowelment

@mid2139 2 жыл бұрын

k? 🤣 Awesome tutorial!

@WalterSawan Ай бұрын

What are your tone settings? And are you using any pedals? Or just light drive with heavy compression?

@TheCrocodillian 2 жыл бұрын

That's a gorgeous sounding bass, are you using any pedals here or it that how that bass sounds? and if so what is it ?

@talkingbasslessons 2 жыл бұрын

Enfield Lionheart bass. Normally go totally direct for the vids (listen to some for the pure bass sound). In this one I'm using a Darkglass Alpha Omega pedal for the overdrive.

@kirksneckchop7873 Жыл бұрын

My guy, what compression and/or other pedals/effects are you using here?

@relativeparadox9567 Жыл бұрын

OK? With eyes saying: "See, piece of cake!'

@NameLess-ks4fi 2 жыл бұрын

We need “Natural Joe” my dude.

@dambrooks7578 2 жыл бұрын

The amazing thing about Les Claypools' playing is he often takes a simplistic riff, structures it around a repetitive swing rhythm.

@MrGul 2 жыл бұрын

Overall I agree totally, but disagree about the swing rhythm. This song, as with 95% of Primus' material, is just straight 16th notes. There are 6-tuplets for the slap solo as well as a triplet in the bridge riff, but none of them have an actual swing rhythm to them - the "grid" is still straight, not swing.

@foofy14 10 ай бұрын

Badass paying

@the_Sleepy_Druid 9 ай бұрын

Chorus getting dangerously close to Mudvayne's Dig....brr brr deng, brr brr deng!

@Akira-gt1dp Ай бұрын

Lo creía fácil pero tiene su complejidad xD

@dmoore1369 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Mark. What are you tone settings etc for this sound. It’s a great copy of the original!!!

@talkingbasslessons 2 жыл бұрын

Everything flat (direct recording) but with Darkglass Alpha Omega for a little overdrive

@HerrLohmann 2 жыл бұрын

No, it's even better.

@cody8992 Ай бұрын

What bass is this you’re playing?

@greenspiderforce 2 жыл бұрын

What bass is that? Love for the Wal style!

@eugenechek7288 2 жыл бұрын

Enfield Bass

@silvereminence 2 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJmqrNqetrvRh2Q.html

@StevenHoste 2 жыл бұрын

For sound: are you using a bass driver like Sansamp’s?

@talkingbasslessons 2 жыл бұрын

Darkglass Alpha Omega

@clarkkotte3069 8 ай бұрын

I thought this was in B not E? Like for a five string bass?

@beatsbydrew8930 2 жыл бұрын

Think I could do this on my 110’s?

@Bonkikavo Жыл бұрын

It starts at 1:28

@revtox6001 4 ай бұрын

Harder than it looks really

@MikeNevill3 9 ай бұрын

Side note. The main riff is weirdly muted with his thumb aswell

@ikigai47 2 жыл бұрын

Would have been nice if you wore a cheesy biker helmet / shades like Les wore in your thumbnail

@iranoliveira684 Жыл бұрын

Now sing as well

@talkingbasslessons 2 жыл бұрын

Lesson Material: www.talkingbass.net/lacquer-head-les-claypool-slap-bass-breakdown-tutorial-tabs/

@joeking9760 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes bored and sometimes lonely..

@danieljames6877 2 жыл бұрын

No anesthesia bass solo!!!

@SomeGuy-ws5zj 7 ай бұрын

Devie504 will delete this chanel