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The SBL Podcast

116 - GLASS CEILING / Scott's Album Breakdowns (Tone, Grooves, Solo's, Technique and More)

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

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4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As bassists we get used to writing bass lines that are grooving, but can the bass guitar also play the melody of a song or be the focal point? In today’s episode, you’ll hear Scott’s analysis of the song Glass Ceiling from The Devine King Project, Vol. 1, including the importance of being able to represent and perform a great melody on the electric bass. Shouldn’t everyone in the band get to play the melody? In this episode Scott breaks down his track Glass Ceiling.Including his route into p...

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Hope we're having a wicked one wherever you are in the world today.

0:04.5

This is another album breakdown and just a huge shout to everybody that's been listening to the album.

0:09.6

All of the feedback that we've been getting about it has been just amazing.

0:14.2

And it's just been such a pleasure to hear from you guys.

0:18.2

All of the comments on YouTube have been amazing.

0:20.9

If you don't know, we've been releasing all of the tracks, all of the live video recordings.

0:27.2

We've been releasing them onto YouTube.

0:29.4

So the album, the Divine King album, is nine tracks in total.

0:35.2

And I think that we're like four tracks in now on YouTube and we're

0:39.9

going to be releasing them every single week. And obviously I'm going to be releasing these

0:43.3

podcast episodes alongside where I talk about, well, I just give you some sort of like behind

0:48.3

the scenes, uh, information of how I approached certain parts of the song because it's something I was always really interested in.

0:58.0

You know, I was following my, you know, the guys that I really looked up to when I was, you know, in the shed for many hours a day.

1:07.0

You know, Matt Garrison, Jeff Berlin, Gary Willis, John Patutche, Lincoln Goins,

1:13.5

you know, like those characters. And to hear them break down how they were thinking about

1:20.1

their playing and how they were approaching certain things on albums would have just blown my

1:25.1

mind. So I think that, again, that's why I decided to do

1:29.4

this, because I think it's always great to find out what's going on inside of somebody's mind

1:35.6

when they're approaching different things from a musical perspective, obviously. By the way,

1:40.8

side note, I've got like a massive grey patch that's just erupted on my face.

1:46.1

It's just, it's like all, like in my beard.

1:49.1

I don't know, I'm like a stereotypical bloke, and I think, and because I've got no hair,

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