It was about six or seven years ago when I got my first bass guitar, but I'd wanted to play for several years prior to that. Well, my dad said that he'd get me an electric guitar first, and then it would be easier to move onto 4 strings I got the guitar, but unfortunatley, I had no passion for it, so it just collected dust in the corner. Couple years later I was given an acoustic bass guitar, and I've been running with it ever since, and only been moving faster with it since I discovered Rush and Coheed and Cambria. It's really cool to see other people who felt the pull towards bass rather than guitar
Used to be a neighbor of Mr. Leland Sklar...He has been on a few recordings you might be aware of. Am a regular on his CZcams channel as well. McCartney was my inspiration for acquiring a Beatle bass... But...I am a guitar player ater... 😂 Your style has opened me to textures the bass can contribute... For this...I thank you very much😎👍 😎👍❤🖖 Love Sister
Hey Cici! I have really been enjoying your reviews, and your fresh and innovative approach to the bass guitar. .Your passion for the bass is infectious!
I would cry too, if a 12 year old girl, comes up after 3 weeks of lessons and play that song! I also cry a bit for myself now, that I have never had that kind of talent,and god knows I tried....you are a gifted person! Maybe in my next life...😁
Found you from Dave's channel and I just picked this vid at random. I was going to say you are so fortunate to have such amazing parents, but after watching the entire video I'll add ...they are fortunate to have such an amazing child as well. You are so grounded and down to earth (thank you parents😉)...and obviously talented. Anyone who can keep the same enthusiasm for music that they had at age 12, and combine discipline for learning and improving, deserves major success👏👏. I hope you get to whatever heights you aspire. Your love of what you do is inspiring to me, an old geezer lol. Best of luck and be well💖
Wow, thank you so much for the kind words, your comment really made my day. It means the world to hear things like that, and I’m so glad you enjoyed the video :) Thank you for taking the time to check out my channel as well! I’ll pass this onto my parents and let them know what you said :)
CICi that’s some serious air shifters you have there.I bet your neighbours love em 😎👍 Excellent vindeo 👌 I’ll check out his early stuff you recommend 👍
Telling your mum you wanted to learn "bass" but saying it wrong, that's adorable :D I wish I could remember this kind of stuff from my childhood. My earliest memory about wanting to make music is maybe kind of weird, we were in the car and I was composing music in my head and thought it sounded amazing. So I knew I wanted to create music myself. I don't have any memory of when I decided I wanted to play guitar specifically.
That is a nice bass. Never been into slipknot so I've never seen it before, but I love the black chrome on it, always liked the look of black chrome on things. I could only just make out the grain in the wood, a bit too much reflection to see it well, but I could see it's there. For me wood grain and black are two wonderful elements to combine in a guitar body, whether black filler is applied to the grain and a lighter colour put over the top or a translucent black goes over the grain like on this one, it looks great. From an aesthetic perspective, Duff McKagan's bass is probably my favourite. I think your bass teacher was crying because he knew he wasn't going to be making much money lol. Love the sound of it at the end, effects and melody worked nice.
I didn’t realize you had a CZcams channel. Cool video. Awesome content as always. Really cool to hear about how you started playing and getting into metal
I had a similar experience to yours, however it was with Mark Hoppus from Blink-182, I loved music a lot at that point but Blink 182 was _THAT_ band that made me pickup a bass and start playing (followed by Nirvana, which exploded my love for music and to this day it is my favourite band ever, and Kurt was a lefty like me) I remember years ago when Mark Hoppus told the world he had cancer I was in a band and when I discovered the news I started crying (I was playing bass at that exact moment) and started jamming a couple of Blink songs after years of not listening to them (I even remember the songs I played, Life is so boring, Always and Story of a Lonely Guy) and I was shocked that I still remembered every song 13 years later (25 currently) I still play bass, it is part of my life along with everything music related, oh and also, I totally get the "the bass is too big" feeling because I'm a small dude (1.57m) and a lot of basses feel huge to me and hurt too lol
Hi Cici, thanks for your story, the bass is a beauty and I’m so glad you were inspired at such a young age and so sad that many inspirational musicians die so young, it makes you wonder what they would have done to further inspire you and others throughout their lives. Your tribute piece at the end was both musical and well played! I certainly didn’t progress as quickly as you when I started out! Like you, I can remember the player that inspired me to take up bass, also a left handed person like me who learned right handed, I thought, great, I might be as good as him one day but sadly not so for me, the left handed bass would probably made all the difference! I can’t play with a pick even now. The inspiration came in 1984 on The Tube, it was Mark King of Level 42 playing a blistering solo on stage. I thought, if bass can sound like this and make me feel what I did, it’s the one to go for. The footage is readily available on CZcams. Mark was initially a drummer which explained his ease of syncopation and speed but more than the machine gun triplets which are ok and fast, his chords and harmonics along with the more melodic lines he played and still plays are what make you take notice. Our inspirations are at opposite ends in terms of style and tone as yours is drop B and mine is standard but light gauge strings, the pull is the same. I finally managed to save up to buy my Jaydee Mark King bass in 1989 and still have it today. They are still made in Birmingham and are like yours, a thing of beauty which I won’t part with. I’m so glad you realised your calling to the bass so young and came on so quickly 😁
It's awesome that you went straight to the bass in music....so many go to bass as failed guitarists....a few from tuba but to go straight to the bass is special!
I bought my first bass at 17 years of age. My first big influence was Flea and then at 18, I discovered Jaco and Stanley. So I never went down the metal road.
Another interesting video cici, and you never ramble in you vids by any means they are really informative and thought out! Duff mckagan inspired me to play bass, I'd love one of his signigture basses any time!! I think music really found you early to play like that at 12 so good on you, Paul gray was a fantastic bassist such a shame he's no longer with us, keep playing his music cici, he will live on through you 🌹🤘😊
war of the worlds ? such a classic !!!!!! for me it was Geddy Lee : Rush - The Trees and Chris Squire: Yes - Close to the Edge (that riff... ) I have finally after thirty years a true Rickenbacker
I really didn't expect that the person who inspired you to play bass is Paul Gray. I'm so sorry he's not with us anymore. With his passing, I think Slipknot has lost something much more than just a bass player.
@@CiciVonStrangelove [Off topic] When you mentioned that your mom asked you why don't you learn to play the "proper" guitar, I immediately thought that it would be an interesting topic for one of your future videos: "Your relationship with the 'proper' guitars." :)
Finally! It almost seems like it's a bit of a faux pas to give Slipknot any love from a guitar or bass standpoint. I love Slipknot, I'm not really a Numetal fan, more of a black metal guy, but Slipknot has always been one of my favorite bands. Paul was a bad ass. I remember when he passed; it was a sad day, indeed. Great playing and storytelling, Ms. Cici!
I know exactly what you mean, it’s a shame people view it that way. They really are fantastic musicians, not just technically, but melodically, and even feel wise :) I hope more people discover what Paul could do, and how well he could write. Thank you so much for the kind words, and the insight! I’m really glad you enjoyed the video :)
Slipknot is a very special technical band, I think many just bundle them in with the rest of the three chord bar chord, metal bands but clearly they are not.
It's a bit of a shame at times that the mixes on Slipknot's music are so dense because it's hard to appreciate everyone individually except Corey. When you get isolated bits of any member, be it Craig, Sid, Jim, Paul or Vman, Chris or Michael, you feel like you're sneaking a cookie from the jar. That's part of why i love Gently and Iowa. In the intros, you get just Paul being Paul.
Wow thank you so much :) You can do it! The important thing is finding the way of learning that suits you best, remember that if someone has done it, it’s physically possible, which means there’s no reason you can’t reach that goal too :) Don’t compare yourself in a negative way to others who are further along the road than you, you’re exactly where you need to be at this moment in time, all the time. Also, play with confidence and conviction, I found that if I played tentatively and hesitated when going for notes, it took a lot longer to learn what I was trying to learn, both physically and mentally. Whereas if I just dove headfirst into the notes with conviction, even if I wasn’t 100% sure on where they were in my muscle memory yet, I found it not only sounded better, but it also helped it stick faster because my brain realised it was something important to be remembered, and it doesn’t matter if you hit wrong notes or make a mistake, you can always try again :) I do have a couple of lesson videos if that’s if any interest too (with more on the way), one called Learning The Bass-ics, and the other is An Introduction To Slap Bass :) Most importantly, have fun and don’t pressure yourself!
@@CiciVonStrangelove wow..thanks so much in taking time to brief me....will give my best n won't give up...duality is in the list but for now I'm about to nail common girl n Cowboys from hell I just need to push myself a bit...hope I cover them soon...
@@CiciVonStrangelove I know this is an old post, but I have to say thank you. What an inspired and inspiring lesson...perhaps you just highlighted why my guitar journey has been so slow. Guitar is one of the few things in life that I desperately wanted to learn but struggled to do so. Maybe my deep desire is putting me into an anxious frame of mind, when I should just be letting it fly. Also, this is a great story, and your family sounds lovely!
@@stevescuba1978 Ahh wow, thank you so much Steve :) I’m really happy it helped. I completely understand that, I still struggle with that sometimes when doing various things (even music!), it’s so easy to get caught up in that desperation and anxiety about wanting to do something. It seems like the more you fight to do something, the more things seem to work against you and the harder it gets, whereas if you just go with the flow things have a way of happening. Of course you have to put work in, and you need to want those things to a certain extent, but I just mean that if you can relax about it a bit it tends to come much more easily for some reason :) It doesn’t matter if you find yourself stuck in that cycle, even I do, the important thing is noticing that you’re in it and being aware of it, which will in itself, help you to get out of it :) and one last thing, there was a quote I heard although I don’t remember who said it at the moment, but it was “you can fail at doing what you don’t love, so you may as well try going what you do love”
@@CiciVonStrangelove since you clearly see these comments, I just want to say that I really enjoy your trio, and I think that you are making awesome music. You and Dave are among my favorite artists....if I knew enough about drums, I am sure that I would appreciate your drummer properly for his talent as well. It is so entertaining to see a band play with such obvious joy. Much love from Florida, USA.
Are you and Dave a couple, life boyfriend and girlfriend couple !?💓 If not you guys would be perfect for each other based on your guys's CZcams in my opinion 🤷🏻♀️👍🥂
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds is a hidden gem in music history. One of my all-time favorites ❤️
It was about six or seven years ago when I got my first bass guitar, but I'd wanted to play for several years prior to that. Well, my dad said that he'd get me an electric guitar first, and then it would be easier to move onto 4 strings
I got the guitar, but unfortunatley, I had no passion for it, so it just collected dust in the corner. Couple years later I was given an acoustic bass guitar, and I've been running with it ever since, and only been moving faster with it since I discovered Rush and Coheed and Cambria.
It's really cool to see other people who felt the pull towards bass rather than guitar
Ur awesome ci-Ci. Ur bass vids are so natural. Long live us bass players. X
Your parents are legends.
Definitely :)
What a lovely insight into why you picked up the bass. Your passion and love for the instrument really shines through.
Thank you so much, that really means a lot :) I’m glad you enjoyed the video!
Used to be a neighbor of Mr. Leland Sklar...He has been on a few recordings you might be aware of.
Am a regular on his CZcams channel as well.
McCartney was my inspiration for acquiring a Beatle bass...
But...I am a guitar player ater... 😂
Your style has opened me to textures the bass can contribute...
For this...I thank you very much😎👍
😎👍❤🖖
Love Sister
Oh wow! Paul Grey, RIP, our man!
Hey Cici! I have really been enjoying your reviews, and your fresh and innovative approach to the bass guitar. .Your passion for the bass is infectious!
I would cry too, if a 12 year old girl, comes up after 3 weeks of lessons and play that song! I also cry a bit for myself now, that I have never had that kind of talent,and god knows I tried....you are a gifted person! Maybe in my next life...😁
Found you from Dave's channel and I just picked this vid at random. I was going to say you are so fortunate to have such amazing parents, but after watching the entire video I'll add ...they are fortunate to have such an amazing child as well. You are so grounded and down to earth (thank you parents😉)...and obviously talented. Anyone who can keep the same enthusiasm for music that they had at age 12, and combine discipline for learning and improving, deserves major success👏👏. I hope you get to whatever heights you aspire. Your love of what you do is inspiring to me, an old geezer lol. Best of luck and be well💖
Wow, thank you so much for the kind words, your comment really made my day. It means the world to hear things like that, and I’m so glad you enjoyed the video :) Thank you for taking the time to check out my channel as well! I’ll pass this onto my parents and let them know what you said :)
Great story, keep up your amazing work! Huge regards from germany! 🤘😎🤘
Cool hear the finger 🤘 work
Hello Carina. Bass is the biggest inspiration, you know. Wonderful video by the way. 🎸🎼⭐👏🏻👍🏻
CICi that’s some serious air shifters you have there.I bet your neighbours love em 😎👍
Excellent vindeo 👌
I’ll check out his early stuff you recommend 👍
RIP Paul!
Just started picking up on this channel, loved the gig vlog you did at my hometown Cannock. Keep on keeping on 🤘🏻
Thank you so much, I’m really glad you’re enjoying it so far! :)
"I ... c r a v e ... b a s s ! ! !"
Good enough! Please, proceed! :D
Telling your mum you wanted to learn "bass" but saying it wrong, that's adorable :D I wish I could remember this kind of stuff from my childhood. My earliest memory about wanting to make music is maybe kind of weird, we were in the car and I was composing music in my head and thought it sounded amazing. So I knew I wanted to create music myself. I don't have any memory of when I decided I wanted to play guitar specifically.
👍 🎸 ❤ 🇬🇧!! Stay 😎 cool.
Happy you found your passion in life with the Bass. You do have a great gift for the instrument. Liked the song at the end, so well done as usual :)
Lovely story. I find you inspiring Cici and i think you rock !
Surely #2 is smiling somewhere.
nice and a beautiful outro .....
That is a nice bass. Never been into slipknot so I've never seen it before, but I love the black chrome on it, always liked the look of black chrome on things. I could only just make out the grain in the wood, a bit too much reflection to see it well, but I could see it's there. For me wood grain and black are two wonderful elements to combine in a guitar body, whether black filler is applied to the grain and a lighter colour put over the top or a translucent black goes over the grain like on this one, it looks great. From an aesthetic perspective, Duff McKagan's bass is probably my favourite. I think your bass teacher was crying because he knew he wasn't going to be making much money lol. Love the sound of it at the end, effects and melody worked nice.
I didn’t realize you had a CZcams channel. Cool video. Awesome content as always. Really cool to hear about how you started playing and getting into metal
I had a similar experience to yours, however it was with Mark Hoppus from Blink-182, I loved music a lot at that point but Blink 182 was _THAT_ band that made me pickup a bass and start playing (followed by Nirvana, which exploded my love for music and to this day it is my favourite band ever, and Kurt was a lefty like me) I remember years ago when Mark Hoppus told the world he had cancer I was in a band and when I discovered the news I started crying (I was playing bass at that exact moment) and started jamming a couple of Blink songs after years of not listening to them (I even remember the songs I played, Life is so boring, Always and Story of a Lonely Guy) and I was shocked that I still remembered every song
13 years later (25 currently) I still play bass, it is part of my life along with everything music related, oh and also, I totally get the "the bass is too big" feeling because I'm a small dude (1.57m) and a lot of basses feel huge to me and hurt too lol
Hi Cici, thanks for your story, the bass is a beauty and I’m so glad you were inspired at such a young age and so sad that many inspirational musicians die so young, it makes you wonder what they would have done to further inspire you and others throughout their lives. Your tribute piece at the end was both musical and well played! I certainly didn’t progress as quickly as you when I started out!
Like you, I can remember the player that inspired me to take up bass, also a left handed person like me who learned right handed, I thought, great, I might be as good as him one day but sadly not so for me, the left handed bass would probably made all the difference!
I can’t play with a pick even now.
The inspiration came in 1984 on The Tube, it was Mark King of Level 42 playing a blistering solo on stage. I thought, if bass can sound like this and make me feel what I did, it’s the one to go for. The footage is readily available on CZcams. Mark was initially a drummer which explained his ease of syncopation and speed but more than the machine gun triplets which are ok and fast, his chords and harmonics along with the more melodic lines he played and still plays are what make you take notice.
Our inspirations are at opposite ends in terms of style and tone as yours is drop B and mine is standard but light gauge strings, the pull is the same. I finally managed to save up to buy my Jaydee Mark King bass in 1989 and still have it today. They are still made in Birmingham and are like yours, a thing of beauty which I won’t part with. I’m so glad you realised your calling to the bass so young and came on so quickly 😁
It's awesome that you went straight to the bass in music....so many go to bass as failed guitarists....a few from tuba but to go straight to the bass is special!
I'm watching this video of yours right now...n listening to your journey..reached the pick part....
I bought my first bass at 17 years of age. My first big influence was Flea and then at 18, I discovered Jaco and Stanley. So I never went down the metal road.
Another interesting video cici, and you never ramble in you vids by any means they are really informative and thought out! Duff mckagan inspired me to play bass, I'd love one of his signigture basses any time!! I think music really found you early to play like that at 12 so good on you, Paul gray was a fantastic bassist such a shame he's no longer with us, keep playing his music cici, he will live on through you 🌹🤘😊
war of the worlds ? such a classic !!!!!!
for me it was Geddy Lee : Rush - The Trees
and Chris Squire: Yes - Close to the Edge (that riff... )
I have finally after thirty years a true Rickenbacker
Real cool video, love learning what inspired really talented people.
Whaoh Cici, lovely insight you shared there. Very inspiring to see how pasionate you're into bass playing and music. Thanks for sharing.
I really didn't expect that the person who inspired you to play bass is Paul Gray. I'm so sorry he's not with us anymore. With his passing, I think Slipknot has lost something much more than just a bass player.
I completely agree. V-man is a fantastic musician as well of course, but Paul really deserves more credit than he gets a lot of the time
@@CiciVonStrangelove [Off topic] When you mentioned that your mom asked you why don't you learn to play the "proper" guitar, I immediately thought that it would be an interesting topic for one of your future videos: "Your relationship with the 'proper' guitars." :)
@@SokolRock That’s a great idea, I will do! Thank you :)
Geddy Lee and Les Claypool are my faves.
Finally! It almost seems like it's a bit of a faux pas to give Slipknot any love from a guitar or bass standpoint. I love Slipknot, I'm not really a Numetal fan, more of a black metal guy, but Slipknot has always been one of my favorite bands.
Paul was a bad ass. I remember when he passed; it was a sad day, indeed.
Great playing and storytelling, Ms. Cici!
I know exactly what you mean, it’s a shame people view it that way. They really are fantastic musicians, not just technically, but melodically, and even feel wise :) I hope more people discover what Paul could do, and how well he could write.
Thank you so much for the kind words, and the insight! I’m really glad you enjoyed the video :)
awesome video CiCi!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much Robert!! :)
For me it was cliff burton Jason newsted and Rex brown
Slipknot is a very special technical band, I think many just bundle them in with the rest of the three chord bar chord, metal bands but clearly they are not.
That’s so true!
You've got a trace Elliot bass amp they are awesome I've got one exactly like yours it's my main giging amp can you do a video on it?
They’re awesome aren’t they, that one was my first ever amp :) I’ll do a video on it!
The GRAY chapter :')
2 bassists that made me want to play. Geddy Lee and the infamous convicted felon Richard Finch of KC and the Sunshine Band.
Ok will listen to confession.....
9 year olds advising each other to listen to Slipknot.. damn son 😁😁
I see your inner Suzy Quatro coming out😉
Whoooaaa, well, we can do a cover of Duality if you want
damn, I think at 6 weeks I was only playing Dirty Water by The Standells.
very cool story, what is the gauge of the strings in the paul bass?
I’m really glad you thought so, thank you! :) They’re 105-45s
Batista de pijama vc e demais nas bases
Try Paul Gray from the Damned.
Another excellent bass player named Paul Gray.
😀
Also did u use two fingers in the intro
I did indeed!
It's a bit of a shame at times that the mixes on Slipknot's music are so dense because it's hard to appreciate everyone individually except Corey. When you get isolated bits of any member, be it Craig, Sid, Jim, Paul or Vman, Chris or Michael, you feel like you're sneaking a cookie from the jar. That's part of why i love Gently and Iowa. In the intros, you get just Paul being Paul.
At 12 u nail duality...I'm 40 n still looks like a far cry.....
Wow thank you so much :) You can do it! The important thing is finding the way of learning that suits you best, remember that if someone has done it, it’s physically possible, which means there’s no reason you can’t reach that goal too :) Don’t compare yourself in a negative way to others who are further along the road than you, you’re exactly where you need to be at this moment in time, all the time. Also, play with confidence and conviction, I found that if I played tentatively and hesitated when going for notes, it took a lot longer to learn what I was trying to learn, both physically and mentally. Whereas if I just dove headfirst into the notes with conviction, even if I wasn’t 100% sure on where they were in my muscle memory yet, I found it not only sounded better, but it also helped it stick faster because my brain realised it was something important to be remembered, and it doesn’t matter if you hit wrong notes or make a mistake, you can always try again :)
I do have a couple of lesson videos if that’s if any interest too (with more on the way), one called Learning The Bass-ics, and the other is An Introduction To Slap Bass :) Most importantly, have fun and don’t pressure yourself!
@@CiciVonStrangelove wow..thanks so much in taking time to brief me....will give my best n won't give up...duality is in the list but for now I'm about to nail common girl n Cowboys from hell I just need to push myself a bit...hope I cover them soon...
@@CiciVonStrangelove I know this is an old post, but I have to say thank you. What an inspired and inspiring lesson...perhaps you just highlighted why my guitar journey has been so slow. Guitar is one of the few things in life that I desperately wanted to learn but struggled to do so. Maybe my deep desire is putting me into an anxious frame of mind, when I should just be letting it fly.
Also, this is a great story, and your family sounds lovely!
@@stevescuba1978 Ahh wow, thank you so much Steve :) I’m really happy it helped. I completely understand that, I still struggle with that sometimes when doing various things (even music!), it’s so easy to get caught up in that desperation and anxiety about wanting to do something. It seems like the more you fight to do something, the more things seem to work against you and the harder it gets, whereas if you just go with the flow things have a way of happening. Of course you have to put work in, and you need to want those things to a certain extent, but I just mean that if you can relax about it a bit it tends to come much more easily for some reason :) It doesn’t matter if you find yourself stuck in that cycle, even I do, the important thing is noticing that you’re in it and being aware of it, which will in itself, help you to get out of it :) and one last thing, there was a quote I heard although I don’t remember who said it at the moment, but it was “you can fail at doing what you don’t love, so you may as well try going what you do love”
@@CiciVonStrangelove since you clearly see these comments, I just want to say that I really enjoy your trio, and I think that you are making awesome music. You and Dave are among my favorite artists....if I knew enough about drums, I am sure that I would appreciate your drummer properly for his talent as well. It is so entertaining to see a band play with such obvious joy. Much love from Florida, USA.
Wait . . . it wasn't Geddy?
5:30 I would have answered: Bass? Why not trout or catfish?
Slipknot
Are you and Dave a couple, life boyfriend and girlfriend couple !?💓
If not you guys would be perfect for each other based on your guys's CZcams in my opinion 🤷🏻♀️👍🥂
BASS PLAYING : 10 / 10
BOOB PRESENTIATION : 1 / 10
OVERALL : 6 / 10
CONCLUSION : SORRY, YOU ARE DISMISSED...
Just the way I like it, huge compliment thank you :)
@@CiciVonStrangelove YOUR OVERALL RATING IS 7 NOW...
KEEP UP WITH GOOD WURK...