How To Sing And Play - Bass Tutorial
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Bass Guitar Lesson: Curtis Freeman, professional bassist and instructor at Metalworks Institute, teaches you how to sing while playing bass in this bass guitar tutorial.
Singing a song and playing the bass part can often be very difficult. In this lesson, Curtis makes playing and singing easy with a few basic techniques to focus on while playing your bass guitar.
By following these basic concepts, your technique, and singing/playing will improve immensely. This video is great for beginner, intermediate, and advanced bass players. Enjoy!
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So the tip is, practice singing over bass lines until you get better at it. Thanks a lot teacher.
My tip for bassplayers wanting to sing: start with The Police songs
Roxanne, So lonely and so on...
The timing on Roxanne is TOUGH
Regarding The Police, if I was learning to play bass and sing. I'd start with Walking on the Moon
So Lonely helped me immensely. I still can't do both propertly but it's vastly improved.
Geddy Lee is superhuman
For those looking for songs to practice this with: check out the indie group Omni. The singer is also the bassist and most of their songs are quite playable if you're singing/playing as a result.
I don't know how Paul MacCartney sings and plays the bassline to "Silly Love Songs".
It really isn't that hard. During the vocals the bass line is all 8th notes and a few quarter notes, so it smoothly flows along with the vocals.Now Boogie Wonderland is a real challenge if you're playing bass and singing any of the vocals. Any of the covers that I have seen of Boogie Wonderland, the bass player is only playing bass. In any case singing and playing more intricate bass parts is no doubt a challenge.
@@lenb8436 yep cause that's gonna help the guy learn the baseline and sing isn't it
@RKSHW Bass to Day Tripper headache too.
but it's impossible to sing and play the bass
Hey rick!
Searcj zild benitez and you will amaze in his talent
Hes playing solo bass while playing and hard riff while singing
Mario Humbert just askJayLeonhart
Just ask Jay Leonhart...
Ask Sting
Ask Mark King
I was a lead rock vocalist for five years and then i switched to playing bass guitar. Man, I couldn't sing lead again. My brain was trying to think of many different things at once, plus the feeling of it. I really appreciate drummers having to do diff things with both hands and both feet. I now find some songs that are easier to sing and play bass, but it does get next to impossible for some songs.
me too bro
Slayer songs are bass-singer compatible, because Tom Araya sings and play bass.
Now imagine drummers who can sing. DragonForce drummer sings backing vocals for example.
@@TerminatorZXY what bout Eagle's 😂
I find that the tighter the bass riff the easier it is to sing over it. An example would be a song like Hall and Oats “I Can’t Go For That”. But first get the riff down so we that you don’t have to really think about it then start laying the vocals over. Pay close attention to to where the melody coincides with where the notes are for each bar of the song.
Initially, it will be a struggle, but your brain will eventually catch on. If the melody is in a high key, sing it an octave lower first so you don’t have to put energy and concentration into your voice so as to put equal focus on your singing and fretting, tempo and plucking at the same time. The use of a metronome, drum track or drum machine to keep tempo would be very useful as well.
I recently learned to play and sing “My Sharona”. It’s actually easier than it sounds. The real challenge is singing and playing in my upper vocal range without getting tired.
I'm by no means a lead singer, but I do the odd backing... which sometimes can be even harder than the lead part!
I find it to be a bit easier to play bass and sing when I'm using a pick - opposed to fingerstyle. Having that auto-piloty up/down motion going all the way throughout a song, much like a guitar player, enables me to concentrate on singing more. That way, I "only" have to take care of fretting the right notes...
I was just explaining to my son how challenging bass and vocals are together and the explanation that you gave in the beginning and the Beatles songs that you gave as examples were the exact same ones that I used right before we watched your video. Great explanation of the topic.
For the longest time, I wanted to play "Driven To Tears" by the Police. Like many Sting tunes, the lyric pattern is counter to the bass line. I would try and try and try and try, but I could never get the hang of it. At one point, I had to learn it because I was in the process of starting a Police Tribute band, which never came to be cause we lost our drummer when he went on tour with his main group.
So the band never made it, but I did discover a neat trick that helped things fall in place. The bass line goes "Da da da Bum bum Da da da Bum bum etc...". What I did was take the bass line, or phrase, and strip it down to only the pulse note, which is the first "Bum" in the phrase. Then I would sing and play only that pulse note so I could get a feel exactly where the pulse is played in relation to the lyrics. Once I got that timing down, the song came together pretty quickly.
That might not work for all songs, but it did great for me there.
Michael Alexander Great trick! Thank you =)
Dude I listened to the bass line(s) of Back In The USSR- Beatles and thought, all yours Paul: I just played root notes.
Explaining tidbits of the concept is a start. I need more.
the best song to try out playing bass and singing for beginners in my opinion is under the bridge
1212MikeO Yes, I agree completely. Super easy and sounds amazing.
1212MikeO i will try - thx
+1212MikeO The verse is pretty easy for singing and playing. The outro and the chorus are way harder.
well the chorus is still easy for me because the rhythm is simailar to the singing but i do agree that the outro is difficult but its still not as difficult as compared to anything from like Rush
...but Flea was not a singer/bassist.
I think start with Macca, Sting, J.Bruce and G.Lee... limit this to singer/bassist.
Billy Jean works fairly well, cause it's a repetitive line and the rhythm isn't hard to make automatic, but with more melodic lines... I feel I have to practice a song like a hundred times more than I usually do on guitar. I need to get the song so damn right I could play it in my sleep. It's so much extra practice it gets to one point where it's not even worth it, I rather exchange the instrument or have another person singing it. Anyway, the thing you said about piano is a good tip, that's exactly what I do.
this has helped alot! thanks man!
Wonderful bass man!
nice explaination, helped me, I thought because I can play guitar and sing but not bass and sing was because I don't play bass much. But thinking about it, i never considered drilling a pattern, I'm still in improvise head jumping around chords and scales which i find distracting on bass, i should reign in and choose a simple pattern and drill it. So i can sing to it and not think about, untill my bass playing gets better.
You have a great voice
Try to sing a Jack Bruce, and a Cream bass line......fantastic singer and a guy who revolutionized bass playing, from the guy in the back playing roots and 5th notes, to playing lead bass, melody lines and the groove........all at the same time. R.I.P. Jack, we miss you..
Or Primus and Rush... oh boy.
jwardbass Funny you mention that. The only three songs I can play while singing are Primus songs(Del Davis Tree Farm, Over The Electric Grapevine, and Professor Nutbutter's House Of Treats.) Which, coincidentally, are all from the same album.
White Room
Paul McCartney too
Yeah I practised singing and playing with Sunshine of your Love and White Room
thanks for the advice! the first song I learned on bass was Country Roads by John Denver, and it's actually quite easy to sing along to, then I learned other songs and couldn't sing along worth crap. lol!
Sting and Paul McCartney are masters
Les Claypool, Geddy Lee
play bass like when you tap your feet , that it, thank you and sorry for my bad english
Great video. Thanks. One band I can recommend is Royal Blood. They don't even have a guitarist! Bassist sings and plays both roles.
as a 50yo lifelong singer and a decent for 3 years bass player, I can't do squat at the same time. My guitar player is wanting me to sing backing vocals in a cover band & I can't do that even. I'm so used to putting a'll my focus on one at a time.
my band asked me to play the bassline of creep (radiohead) and to sing and im really struggling with it.. thx for the vid tho, seems like rly good advice :)
+0509brook Thanks - good luck with the song!
0509brook Great band, not so good song
so im getting my first bass/guitar soon and were wondering if i can play the melody with bass, cause im mostly gonna play solo and sing aswell
Super!
Try playing Level 42 songs and singing. That looks ridiculously hard!
in theory you're absolutely right, but in practice.....????no go for me :)
i think that you already got to have it in you so that you can fine tune it but if you don't and have to learn it from scratch... its possible but then it takes a lotttttttttttt of time...that you start to wonder if its worth all the energy and time.
Bass Tutor: Its very hard to play bass and sing at the same time.
Geddy Lee : Hold my RO water.
Hi I'm a singer in a band and I can play bass to, but not together got any tips so I can play and sing living on a prayer by bon jovi...
Thanks
Its always so hard for me to sing Smells Like Teen Spirit and play it at the same time but this helped me a not more
Good lesson. Go in depth more and it'd be great.
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It's always good to start with simple songs like "Can't Help falling in Love' by Elvis Presley.
Yeah, we just gotta have a lot of rhythm to sing and play bass at the same time. I'm doing the The Who song Bargain this way in my next song.
Plenty of easy songs to practice singing while playing bass to, ex. try Petty's vocals on "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" while playing that very simple, time-keeper bass line .. at first, avoid runs, just fill with higher octave notes .. that awkward, "counter to the rhythm feeling goes away with practice, and then, more practice ..just my experience..many similar songs,
ill just buy a looper, that makes the job easier
4 years late but try doing that live and see how it works out
i get what you are saying but its really hard to do so
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hah try to sing while playing jaco´s lines :D
What a comment! Great as he is, Jaco was never known to be a singer-bassist.
I know how to play and sing but how do i learn how to sound GOOD when i sing!? In my ears i sound professional,but in recordings and others i sound terrible !
HOW DO I FIX THIS!?!
Vocal lessons
***** so in your ear did you sound good before the lessons, or did you sound terrible to your self and to everyone else. :/
***** and how long did it take you to sound good?
***** No problem, 4 years huh, damn ,it takes that long ?
Here's what I don't get, how do guitarists 'automatically' know how to sing? Literally, here in the scene the most of the guitarist here, just somehow know how to sing,also my singing teacher told me that if your paying for singing lessons for a year your getting ripped off? :/
***** ok, thank good sir ^^
Jack Bruce played bass and sang as if it was an easy thing to do!
IMPOSSIBLE 2
But zildjian benitez can sing while bassline solo
zild benitez go offff
he a superhuman
am a newborn basssist lol
cant even sing while playing it
Used the best bassist of all Time Paul McCartney
Nope still can't do it.
how about now?
Lol Then there is Geddy Lee.
like patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time...
Yeah keep it really steady and solid....but you didn’t really show it...,
I find your metaphors at the beggining really unclear and hard to relate to :P
I find it harder to sing when I'm playing a p-bass. (j/k)