The Two Feel: Making your bass lines dance! - Bass lesson with Russell Hall
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- čas přidán 21. 09. 2022
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In this lesson, Russell breaks down the mystery and challenges of playing two feel bass lines. He explores and demonstrates how great bass legends such as Israel Crosby, Ron Carter, and Ray Brown all approached the two-feel bass line, and how you can use their playing as inspiration to play your own great bass lines.
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BESSIE'S BASS BUSTERS BY RUSSELL HALL
In his new online course, Russell Hall teaches his 'Bass Busters' - his essential lessons which can make a huge difference to your bass playing. Designed for jazz bassists, the course covers a range of topics including left and right-hand technique, sound production, rhythm, soloing, creating walking bass lines, and much more! In the course, there are 45 videos over 5 hours, band demonstrations, play-along tracks, and detailed transcriptions so you will have everything you need to make maximum progress. If you are a fan of Russell Hall's bass playing and want to learn some of his signature sounds, you will love it!
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This dude knows what he’s talking about. Remarkable.
Really nice to see you giving props to Israel Crosby- he is not mentioned enough.
Agreed, Israel Crosby is a legendary artist.
@@DiscoverDoubleBass Israel Crosby was born in my home town Chicago and died here at the age of 43, He is buried in Alspin, Illinois at Burr Oak Cemetery 🪦.
Bob Cranshaw was also born in Chicago!!
This is a beautiful lesson. Hearing Russell give a lesson through history with all his own idols and teachers. Such a deep and humble approach. And of course still so unique and personal for his style. Chords are subjective, I love this. Like 2 times
Russell Hall is one of my favorite bass players. He swings. It’s not just intellectual playing, it has always has a danceable feel. So this is a perfect lesson for him to give. Thanks for sharing this.
"The Basis of a Bassist". Sounds like the title of a book you're going to write. 😊
Wow!! I reached for my bass after a minute into this clip. ‘Prof’ Russell should definitely make more clips….we are waiting to learn sir. It’s like having the great Ray Brown in the room. Will surely look into enrolling.😊
Phenomenal to hear Mr. Hall speaking about his artistry. Thanks!
Hey Russell! I met you in Portsmouth…I was playin some fiddle. How this video ended up in my recommendations is a pure luck! Amazing playing, great lesson.
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That was super interesting to hear the link from tuba to bass and how the 2-feel evolved from that, is what I understood. Amazing lesson:)
I am not a bass player, but this was, for me as well, a wonderful lesson. Thank you, Mr. Hall!
Awesome and thank you for the class!
Incredible content right here, Russell Hall is a living legend!
Such good observations and ideas!
That was a great lesson! I took in and understood everything you were saying! Thanks
Great, inspiring words and demonstrations of bass playing. Thanks!
Loved it, Russel! Thanks for share your knowledge! Great lesson!
Good voice too
Russell, this is great. Thank you.
As always, your spirit is inspirational, and your viewpoint up-lifting. Such sincerity, coupled with incredible talent is a rare find these days. Thank you for these amazing lessons.. on many levels!👏
Thank you for this!
What a great lesson. I loved the end too 🤣. It's so true it's all about the resolution!
Great lesson, beautiful Nod to the legends.
Thank you for your video, Russell, I feel inspired by your music so much that my brain was playing a piece of jazz music of its own from your lines
Thank you sir, really good stuff.
Super interesting and well explained!
Thanks man, also for your absolutely beautiful playing there, not just grooving and grounding, but that bass tone is singing…! 🔥
Great to see your individual lessons; your playing is great; I lust after your hats. Too cool. You deserve all the accolades. Love your vibe.
Great lesson, thx! 🙏
That tone!
What a great music lesson!
Thank you Russell this is great. I’m currently learning the bass guitar but I have a long way before I start the upright bass. Beautiful man.
the tip of humming/singing the melody while playing is huge --and it's really such a completely cool thing to listen to; wish there'd been material like this when I was learning to play!!
Excellent playing Russell!
Thank you Mr. Hall, simple and easy - explained - now I´ll find out about the difficulty of playing and will come back!
Phenomenal!
I like this. To learn from such good musicians❤
Peter
Germany
sounds great and groovy!
That was Fresh !...........ya................................ thanks Russell
Wow, what a great lecture. Thank you very much for that. As the people wrote here before me: "Professor" Russell should make more clips. He's really good at that.
Love this guy!
Great lesson
What in the living… this youtube clip made me smile and gave biig time inspiration. Thank you master Russel Hall 👍🏻👍🏻 and thank you dicover double bass for making great content
Our pleasure, I'm glad you enjoyed it :-)
Great sounding bass.
very good! 👍🙂
So beautiful,spiritual &such a great simple but important musical lessons,Thank You!
Glad you enjoyed it! :-)
This is inspiring 😊
😮I didn’t know you could do this with a bass. 🤯
Absolutely wonderful lesson
Glad you enjoyed it :-)
Taking in a lot from this lesson thank you so much
Excellent, I'm glad you've enjoyed it :-)
nice clean rich tone on that bass
Beautiful musicality.
So inspiring
Worth noting ,authentic Samba is in 2
MAGNIFICO!!!!!!
Thank you
Don't forget the dancers, who many of these rhythms, beats, and grooves were associated with..
Already on the mount rushmore of bassists
Thanks!
Thanks so much, we really appreciate that! :-)
Awesome! :-D
The drummer contributes as much to a 2-beat feel as the bass, so it might help to demonstrate the difference between 2 -beat and 4/4 with drum loops. Especially if the bass is getting busy, the distinction between 2 and 4 can be blurred in a solo context
Good point.
My dude!!
(and) smooth goes without saying
awesome.. what would you guess is the percentage breakdown of you targeting the different triad chord tones on the changes? for example 50% thirds 30% fifths, 20% tonic?
Also listen to slam Stewart and Milt hinton..
(and CRISP!)
This is basic if you play some tradition and want to go deeper in your feel and more tasty in your line. Great fathers as Ron, Paul Chambers, Brown, and other know and feel it and play it perfectly, because they are grow up in two feel era. Russel give key for this - it’s Tuba part transcribe. If somebody have possibility try to play on Tuba, use it, it great feel for understanding two feel !!!
Free gold!
This bass with that E string could grind up a pound of raw beef.
Cool
😯 Russell was taught by Ben Wolfe? Ben Wolfe played Harry Connick Jr and etc, he is a monster bassist. Ben Wolfe was taught by greatest bassist ever been born Ray Brown, freaking awesome.
Yes, Ben Wolfe is a monster player!
yeah
next time you are at smalls ,Say ;"Hi GREG "(and I will know you got the last 2 messages(i am 64 yr old Ret. Postman.(Guitar since 12 , Bass since age 63(and loving it as a portable skill
Luv yer playing. 💓 wonder what strings you using?
Pirastro Perpetual 👍
Wonderful playing and vibe but I still don't get the difference between 2 time and 4 time but with the emphasis on 1 and 3 say with the latter. Although, it took a great lesson on CZcams to explain the difference between 3:4 and 6:8 as being the former is counted as 3 quavers with emphasis on 1, and the latter as 2 lots of triplets with emphasis on beat 1 of each triplet. Otherwise I would have never got past the mathematical equivalence. So, it could easily be me!
I can't answer for Russell, but if you're asking about when to set the metronome and feel the pulse on beats 1 and 3 or beats 2 and 4. Typically for a straight 8ths feel it's beats one and three and for swung quavers it's beats 2 and 4. However, for uptempo swing it may be better to use beats one and three, and for very high tempos, you may even just set the metronome on beat one.
I hope that helps. The key thing is to not mix up points about 2 and 4 feel bass lines with how to you feel the pulse (on beats 1 and 3 or 2 and 4).
YOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Some nuggets in this!
I get confused between the 1&3 guys and the 2&4 guys though 🤔
Yeah, same. He got a lot of prays in this comment section, and he explained a lot of good stuff. But the one concept this video is supposed to be about didn’t really get explained in my opinion. Like what is the 2- feel know? What does he mean by that opposed to playing on 4?
I learned more about melody and harmony and will take it as a lesson in that instead. :)
@@Stabacs Have you listened to jazz ever? Two feel = two notes per bar. Playin in four = walking.
If you guys litsen again you can hear mr hall explain that 4 feel accentuates four beats in a bar and 2 feel two.
@@tuomas3964 Condescending comment mate. Perhaps he is new to jazz or perhaps he struggles with English as a non speaker. Perhaps the teacher didn’t explain it well because of his hippyish verbal approach.
@@robinmolin True. But you will get guys out there who say you should accent 2&4 on a walking 4 note (crotchet) line. That’s the confusing bit.
Hello, where did Chad LB go?
woooooooooowwww
I can barely play in tune, now I gotta play in two???
Had I seen this video 35 years ago...
off topic, but you have beautiful eyes 😊
I don't want your feelings hurt like the guy's(on the chat) hurt "Benny's"( it's too hard to type faster than the guys ,And say things to try to counter ,and keep Benny's outlook and sensitivities good (don't get mad at them ) because we are the peanut Gallery) chat ...we wish we were on(envy) ya know?
Delicious sounding double bass.. Love his approach, tho' I don't go for all the fancy fills saturating the gaps.. kinda defeats the sparseness and beauty, and purpose, of a 2-feel.. irrespective of which illustrious player it originates from.. Call it clutter if you will. Don't understand why many db players insist on doing this, as if it's an obligation? Or is it ego that's driving it..? ".. I must make a creative contribution to show that I'm hot-shit too..!" ??
No, people respond differently to music. It's the same with drummers. Listen to Roy Haynes with Monk, then listen to Ben Riley with Monk on Monk's Time. Both approaches are valid. You play you.