10:39 "Just wiggle around" That's my main bass technic and basically the extent of my musical theory knowlage so that should come natural

I didn’t know badger played bass

I've tried learning this tune a handful of times, but I've never had much success until I came across your video. Fantastic find! Thank you for putting this together. With the musical notation as well as intermittent tutorials on intricate parts of the song, learning it was a breeze.

dong a duh de de de de de duh lol good job

Hey josh, just want to say thanks for the vid and pdf... i know there are a lot of tutorials for this song, but i like the way you break things down and explain the bits with insight and humor :-)

you legend one of my favorite youtuber ever. keep uploading videos I really enjoy them.

Best bass teacher I’ve found on YT so far! Thank you!

GREAT lesson Josh!!! Thanks for explaining the timing and the "feel".

Great lesson, thanks! I'm a guitar player starting on some bass and this feels like a good entry point!

Thank you , you nailed it ! Best lesson I have seen for this tune ! Thanks

Josh thank you ! I am grateful by your teachings !

This is the best lesson of this song on the net.Period!

Thanks, man. Your videos are fantastic. Once you get the tempo and the main riff ingrained then the hardest part of the song is to get that turnaround at A timed just right....That it is still tricking me. I can kinda do it with the actual song, but it gets harder with the metronome, I still falter. I thought maybe the time signature actually changed for like 2 bars or something, but...nope, just me.

Thank you for all your free content and pdf. They been a great help

great lesson man and great tips too, this really helped me out subscribed!

This is an enormous help. I couldn't even recognize the melody no matter how fast I tried to play it because my timing was so poor. I'm starting to hear it come through now.

Thanks so much... this slapping this is way more fun than i thought..!

Great layout and I like how you offer students notation/tab pdf format-that's going above and beyond. I'm this will serve you well-keep up the good work!

Excellent video, very thanks for the lesson. :)

Great video I love how you explained this It really helped me alot You sound like a really nice guy You know what you doing , you know your stuff , great playing ... great 👍

Wow it looks to hard but it is so easy when u go through it

Even slow sounds badass and BTW keep driving on with the humor. Great lesson!

Very good video tutorial served me a lot, thanks bro and greetings from Monterrey México.

Excellent as always.

This is fantastic! Thank you sir 🫡

I really like the way you teach man. Keep running !

Great vid, Josh! Very helpful. If you don't mind me asking, what is your tip to get that tone?

Did my solo on this, got an A

Thanks! I love this video so much bc it was easy to learn the way you explain it

Thanks for the help brotha 🙏🏾 this helped out a fuck ton

Hi Josh! Can you cover Like Eating Glass by Bloc Party?

thx mate, your vids are amazing and realy helpfull

I have only been playing for 4 months and am already close to learning this song!!! I feel so accomplished

When you get a simply guitar ad on a bass video. Me: plays this “HA suck it guitar”.

Josh, thanks a lot for your lessons and your overall contribution to the bass community! You ve mentioned in this video 7:12 Incubuss bass riff. that sounds amazing! i've tried to find it in the internet but could not... can you please tell me the name of the song

Thank you so much for this tutorial

Thanks for posting!

Good tutorial

good tutorial - nice bass too :)

Great tute! But where is the link for the basic slap technique you mentioned @5:00?

Great video. thanks.

thanks for the pdf man!!!! and good lessons tho

I started playing it yesterday and it took me 6 hours to get to song tempo

That's very good men You're best continue whit this type of videos

Can u please tell me the notes or the positions of the fingers???? U do It greate Idol!!!

Thanks Josh .

'Keep that dig-e-da dig-e-da dig-e-da did-e-da dig-e-da pulse going and look like you know what you're doing and it'll be fine' best advice ever :-)

Very nice Josh....

Thank you sir.

You will go popular for sure

Sick!

Love the jam behind the talking at the end. Fucking beautiful.

What are the settings on your amp and effects if any? I've been having a really hard time getting a good slap/pop sound that I'm happy with.

Love that cirrus,...have a 5 string grind,..want one of those too though...bass Love 💕👍

The main slapping parts are right but there is a crazy funky scale that flea does in between. That’s what’s missing. Flea is a freak though and can play really fast scales up n down the bass with ease. I been trying to find what those scales are

What kind of bass were you using in this video.

So this is where bass buzz guy was before bass buzz, huh

Thank you

love this tutorial thanks so much

thx bro

Excellent lesson 😀 💚🐕🎵🎸⚛

For some of you who are confused as to the polyrhythm in High Grounds click the link below imgur.com/a/7YTl11c The arrows are his finger snaps and every other main beat in 12/8 are accented for the polyrhythm to work imgur.com/a/P7uIAbL How the polyrhythm works 4:3 or 3:4 (you can change them by your hand) Also, more on 4:3 from kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZegmM2FzLLZmHU.html

you are a good sport

Ohhh ok I see star ya did. The crazy funky scales are later on in the video. I know he goes from higher notes to lower then back up again. But yeah. Like you said. It’s hard to pick out exactly what he’s doing lol

The poly-rhythmic explanation totally threw me.I have never heard this tune with anything other than the standard 12/8 count. And,after you described it,I still can't hear it!

The A mixolydian pattern is different in the tabs, it's just regular notes, you play hammer ons here and it seems that the note choice is different.

John, what are you doing with a bass?

I play a Peavey Cirrus as well!!

I have found an easier way is to hit the open A instead of sliding up from G to A. When I try to play the correct way it sounds a bit muted, or maybe I'm rushing it.

I can do the slap and pop... but i just can't get my wrist to relax. do you have lessons that will help with that?

Oh my goodness it’s the bass buzz fella

Great playing! I'm mostly a guitar player, but I want to work and doing slap bass for my recordings. I have an issue with getting such fast consecutive downstroke thumb slaps. I know a solution is often to do two-directional thumb slaps (basically slap and then a pop on the way back), but a bass line I wrote has a similar pattern where after two thumb slaps there's an octave pop. Doing the downstroke-upstroke double slap makes popping a higher string right after quite problematic. So, I need to be able to pull off slap sequences as demonstrated here, but I don't see my hand moving anywhere quickly enough even if I'm just rotating my wrist in the air back and forth. Do you have any solution? I heard someone else say you should use the "jump" provided by the previous slap, but I don't feel my hand gets away from the string on its own - I need to consciously rotate away and then rotate it back onto the string to play another slap. Thanks in advance!

Heads up! Your cover video got removed I think. I like watching it very often and it doesn't show up in the search. I also checked your uploads and it isn't there anymore :(

Dude. If you’re going to give base lessons on line could you use a guitar with dots on the neck? Pls

It’s the bass buzz guy!

Thanks for the video and tab. Just a bit of feedback. That the lack of fret markers on the neck makes it a bit more difficult to follow what you're doing.

Josh you explained this riff really well . I wanted to ask you why is it my E string vibrates making unnecessary noise when slapping and no one I see online has this problem. I know how to palm mute , finger tip or thumb mute the E string when slapping the A string and all that but this seems excessive. Could it be the bridge of my bass not being sturdy enough , its the basic bridge where I can separate the saddles so they don't touch one another. I've tried adjusting the truss rod because my bass was bowed a bit , adjusted the action , tried new strings , a sponge under the strings that dries and does no good plus a folded up paper towel to a nice neat little square under the strings by the bridge that helps some if I make it the right thickness. Its awful frustrating BUT I don't dare get angry because playing bass is my passion so I just move on to the next riff. Does anyone else watching this have a bass with a noisy E string tremble disease ?

so so nice, thx alot

I simply cant hear it as a polyrhythm. 12/8 all the way

whats the guitar?

7:13 certain shade of green perhaps?

Very cool video. Much appreciated man! Gotta say I was cringing alot watching your left hand.. 1 finger per fret! I could see if you had small stubby fingers using your pinky for the 3rd, but damn.. break the habit! LOL

HELP PLEASE !!! First of all, great video and great explanations ! But I want to ask something : I am a bass player and this song is a mythic song for me, it' the one that made me want to play the bass. For 3 years now, I have been trying to play this song but I can't have the same sound as the one in your COVER video. Now I can play this song without any real problem for the technique, but it's so frustrating because I have been trying a lot of things to improve the quality of sound (I changed the bass 2 times, I tried to play on other amps, I had my bass tuned and set by professionals, etc). According to the professionals who set my bass, my sound is really normal and there is nothing strange, but it's still frustrating for me because when doing slap or just when playing with fingers on the lowest string, I have SO LOUD metal noises I don't know how to remove (like PLOK and BZZ). BUT I understood more and more that it's normal, and when I saw your tutorial video (after the explanations), I realised that actually you also have what I call the metal "dirty" sounds, particularly when playing on the lowest string (the first note you play at 9:20 is a very good example). So I'm now SURE that it's normal ! You video is then perfect for me because you might be the perfect person to explain to me how you managed to remove that, since the sound in your cover is perfect (so I supposed you changed something ?). I used to think that these "parasite sounds" were normal when playing unplugged, and that the volume of the amp would "hide" it but no. The amp also amplifies it. And anyway, in your tutorial video, you're also playing with an amp, don't you ? I also used to think that it was normal to hear these "parasite sounds" when we play with an amp but "alone", without any back track "hiding" it, but no, since the song (and your cover) begins with bass only, but there are no parasite sounds. Also, I used to think that the secret was to record for example directly on a sound card, to add post-video treatment, but I also saw covers in which people speak (during the song), which proves it is recorded with a basic camera. Finally, I thought about using a compressor pedal but don't understand how it could hide this metallic sounds since it sounds mechanical to me. I would be DELIGHTED if you (or anyone else) could explain to me how to solve this 3 years long MYSTERY and PAIN. Thanks a lot in advance ! (and sorry for the mistakes in English !). PS : I play on a Squier Modified Jazz Bass (but had the same problem playing on more expensive basses).

The bridges are a bit more complex than that. There is an isolated bass track on youtube that i will try to find for you.

Where is your video "Higher Ground Bass Cover" ...?

Hey you look like the bass buzz guy, and you have the same tattoos, and voice, hey wait a second!

It's probably better for teaching if your bass has inlays ;) Excellent lesson though! Very helpful!

The only other thought I had was that a bass with face dots might be helpful to viewers.

Didn’t put the link there

! BET!

Which incubus song was that?

Bro I tore my finger skin playing that song on bass

9:15

some of the parts during the verse are wrong

starts in 2:53

Starts @2:55

bass buzz?

Tabs?

my uncle wants to teach me this for my first song on bass

im confident with my randomness except for the filling part hehehe