I like how you learnt the song just by ear. I play saxophone and when I want to learn something I also just listen, try to repeat, sometimes write it down.. listen again.. and repeat the whole process until I am satisfied. And, in my opinion, you did this song really, really, really good! Cheers from holland!

I dont know what to say... very intimate and warm and confident and funky. Awesome mate.

I wouldn't say I've perfected it either. But I'm humbled by your comment. The man himself can afford to make mistakes and it's a good thing to see people at that level make mistakes because we can see how they handle it and it also validates themselves to show that they actually are human. Thanks for the comment

i've just come straight from watchin the vid of victor playin this... and all i can say is wow!! fantastic job man!!!!!

dude, that was absolutly amazing. IF there was no video to go along with the audio, i would have thought that was victor. JC

Amazing playing + Clear sound + ubar pretty bass = 5 stars. Props!

Awesome! Excellent Job! Very Impressive! I found Vic's version a while back and was so impressed with it. You easily rival his talent! Awesome that you play upright & electric bass. Keep up the awesome work and please continue to share your gifts and talents with others.

wow that was an amazing performance! you've done this piece justice

Damn that is too good! And you are 17? Man in 10 years you will be out of this world! Keep up the good work!

amazing, I've been playing bass for like 1year now and i suddenly see that it's a long way to go :p verry nice job

Absolutely Awesome!

Good job! I really enjoyed Victors version and I enjoyed listening to you play it as well. Keep in there!

Very,very fine! Wonderful!

woah, you get all my respect with this video. I love it. Just like my boy Vic. Keep on rockin bro

thanx very much. oh it took a long time especially to try make it sound good. i started learning dis tune 3 years ago, i had got all the notes right but then i had to make each note sound good. Cheers

Thanks for the comment. Uh I learnt the song by ear really. Really good skill to do. Oh when did you see me in that?

never seen anything like it, amazing

Phenominal effort mate, that was amazing. Alot of soul and heart in that playing, much respect.

This guy's so friggin good. Love the song. Love his interpretation. I even like that this giving this little recital thing in what looks like a church. Cool stuff.

Hey man all I can say is keep working hard cause you'll get it and it will be amazing. And i'm pretty sure you're doing very well. Good luck mate Ben

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! God bless you

Thanks very much bassjack99. I am 16 yrs old, I turn 17 next week. Have a good one Peace Ben

Amazing job dude.. absolute Jaw dropping Victor would be god damn proud... And I'm not ever a bass player... (electric guitar) just.. so clean, and accurate.. a-m-a-z-i-n-g whatever you're doing... keep on doing it =]

Man, you got that bass to sound great!

AWESOME DUDE!!! VICTOR WOULD BE PROUD

Ben, your a natural. Keep it up!

Hi buddy,, that was really awesome,, I too love victor wooten dearly. you've done an excellent job with this song.. keep it up!

Excellent cover! 5 stars!

I love how this guy doesnt seem stuck up either.

Damn man that was awesome.......congrats.

Hey thanks for the comment. When Victor Wooten plays tune he uses his tenor bass which is tuned A D G C. You can play this on a normal tuned bass but because it's lower, alot of the notes will be muddied out thus creating a low end mess. So I had my bass restrung like a tenor bass but tuned it half a step down to give a different sound and feeling to the song. So have a go and tell me how you got on. Cheers

Hi I started playing bass 11 years ago. Thanks for the comment. Wow man your son sounds like he wants to be a bass player and maybe a performer.

G'day mate. Thanks for commenting. But unfortunatly I don't have the score for this tune. You can try searching for it but I think there is a Vic transcription book that is for sale which has this song in it. Peace

you got it man. keep rockin

Great work. I love Vic too

Very nicely done!

Um, wow. That was really excellent.

it sounds sooo like victor wootenn!!! very very very good job man.. congratulations..

perfectly replicated tone! good job

effin awesome!

didnt really understand that but thanx for commenting cheers

While credited to Lennon-McCartney, it was primarily written by John Lennon, though Paul McCartney contributed to the middle eight section.

impresionante!!! good, very very good!!

very good man im learnin that at the moment thanks

cheers mate. that bass im using is an early 90s ibanez sound gear sr400

good job dude. i played this for an audition!

I'm actually going to be studying at the California Institute of the Arts. I did look at Berklee but it just wasn't my thing. Thanks for commenting

Very good job mate. Im working on this as we speak

The pickups on that bass are the DXP and DXJ. The better ones that ibanez had on their early 90s Ibanez Sound Gear basses, the ones the put out later on weren't as good.

very very impressive

awesome!

You can make any 4 string a tenor bass. It doesn't have to be made specifically. The only difference your doing is putting different gauge strings on it that accommodate that tuning. To make tapping easier it depends on the strength of your fingers and the setup on your bass.

I used light guage strings. Well I used the A string and put it where the E was put the D where the A was etc.

I don't have tabs at all and didn't use any notation or tabs to learn this tune. I used my ears and you should too. The video is right there to learn from or you can see Vic's one to.

Hi thanx for commenting. The tuning I used was Ab Db Gb B Cheers and goodluck

On the live version it is because thats how a tenor bass guitar is tuned, but i use the tuning of the album version which is half a step lower. But well done for coming up with that. Have a good one. Peace Ben

Bassben, you are a very talented young man, you could be on stage right beside victor and I'm sure he would agree. keep up the good work, practice makes perfect!

Thank you very much :)

this is really cool. You have so much talent

damn...so...beautiful.......

well I pretty much used my ears really. I've forgotten how to play this song now, this was recorded over 2 years ago when I was 16 but now I'm 18 and I'm not really doing this solo technical bass stuff

very well done

That's good stuff.

Hey man. The song is in 3/4 and the reason why I hold it a bit is because i'm puttin in some rubato. I do this so the audience can get a good listen to each note and it also pulls them perfectly into the next phrase, I don't like the idea of just playing straight off to get it over and done with, I like to put some emotion into it and also let the audience listen to the sound of the bass otherwise they just won't understand it.

Fair enough, I only like to play this sorta stuff for fun really, I'm a Jazz Bassist who mainly plays Upright Bass

Cool man, I'm pretty keen on getting a vintage jazz bass but that'll be abit later on. Anyway have fun with the new instrument

Haha cool man glad you like it. I sometimes get mistaken with the other Ben Shepherd who was the bassist in a mint as band called Sound Garden.

its actually a piece by the beatles if I remember correctly but yeah, wooten made it worth listening to..

i like how u took a wooten song and put in some of ur own feel and flavor

Yea man i'l try post sumthing up soon, we don't hav a website yet

great!

Hi I tuned my bass in 4ths for this tune Ab Db Gb B. I don't have any tabs but why don't you use your ears to learn this. The video is right there for you to learn from as well as there is Vic's one to.

That sounded great. I'm glad you didn't just clone Wooten's version. You did your own thing. It makes me laugh at some of the comments such as yours sounds echoey etc. When they fail to realize Wooten has the sound engineers and equipment to give him that crisp sound. Good job.

Cheers bro

well 4 years really. But it was just something I was learning on the side really.

Thanks. Yeah its the sound you get thru the camera mic.

Bravo! well done man! sounds like Mr Wooten´s playing.

Oh nah don't worry man its all good. I started learning this version from that DVD 4 years ago just as a little side thing to explore as I am a Jazz Bassist really. So at some stage I was determand to perform this infront of an audience. So what you saw is the best that I ever played it and the 1st and last time I played it. I would an arrangement if I wanted to but I don't really venture into that solo bass stuff really. That performance was done about 2 years ago and I've moved from then. Ben

very nice! the fact that u said u learned it by ear makes it that more impressive...um as a fellow bassist how did u arrive at the tuning that u ended up using?!?

YEAHH!! tanks

damn, way to get an excellent sound out of a wee lil ibanez!!! fantastic playing

hey. lovin it man. nice. did you find a tab online or a bass book or do it by ear or what? if it's a book then what book?

Great playing, you musted be excited lol

It can be played in standard with a few minor adjustments but Wooten uses his tenor bass (like the intro of the song which is really high). Great performance, though, how do you hit those harmonics?

Good on ya for standard notation. Just wondering though, is this Vic's tuning? Or is his tuned standard tenor?

Who write this? Lennon or Mcartney? Would be interesting to see what Mcartney thought of this version... Well played.

that was an awsome cover i dont like the beatles but i like that arrangement and it was great to watch

When did you start playing? Sounds great! My son is five now and he likes playing my bass already.

Hey bro i used special ones. all i did was buy a c string 0.30 and put it where the g string was. so what i did was take the e string off and had the tuning as Ab Db Gb B. have a go at that. good luck Ben

That bass is an early 90s Ibanez Soundgear SR400. I got it when I was 9 years old. What type of Fender Jazz did you get?

I AGREE good job

Thanks bro. Wootens version is great and I like his better than mine. But I appreciate your comment mate.

Bravo

Good job Ben. And isn't Wooten's version tuned A, D, G, C? Correct me if I'm wrong.

*Shakes hand* Oh excellent. Another Tapping bass brother. Awesome, hope you enjoyed your concert, which by watching I can guess you did. Even better you added your own flavour to the song. As Vic says himself, you should always play songs your own way, even his! Top stuff, awesome tune. How long it take to learn? I'm learning "The Vision" but this is coming next.

great preforming,... hey do you use normal strings (4 strings package).. or special

Woops what I was meaning was it was my first time performing it. I had practiced it before the performance but I had never got it to sound as good as it did on the performance. Cheers

he yo mate... did you use the normal strings in that type of tunning?? (4 strings .04 ans so on) or special ones tanks! Great Preformance

Is this the Victor Wooten version of it? it sounds like his Flanger sound that he uses on Show of Hands too, sounds great man, keep it up.

Thanks :). I'll give it a shot :P