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The SBL Podcast

144 - Gospel Bass Mastery: The Justin Raines Interview

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Scott's Bass Lessons, Bass Guitar, Bass, Online Bass Lessons, Education, Music Interviews, Electric Bass, Music, Sbl

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

There’s a TON you can learn from Gospel bass players – and one, in particular, you may have overlooked. Justin Raines could teach you everything you need to know about pocket, songwriting, and epic bass fills. In today’s interview, Scott and Ian sit down with Justin to breakdown his tone, his technique and some of his signature licks, including his astounding bass solo on Nobody by Ne-Yo.

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0:00.0

Come on, dude.

0:06.2

Scott is going to go on reverb right after this and buy an MTV, Justin.

0:10.3

Just wait.

0:15.0

Scott and I are sitting here today with Justin Rains, who is a three-time Grammy award-winning bassist.

0:21.4

He's also a private bass and drum instructor, founder of Jay Raines Lessons.

0:26.7

You know him as the bassist for Israel Houghton and New Breed.

0:30.4

He is a beast of a bass player, and he's with us today to break down some of his classic bass lines

0:35.7

and hopefully, like, just let me in on a

0:38.5

piece of that ferocious technique. Justin, man, thank you so much for being with us today.

0:44.4

Oh man. Thank you for having me. This is an honor. This is a deadly honor. So thank you.

0:48.4

Oh, dude, it's our honor. Obviously, you know, so many of you will already know that Justin is like

0:52.7

a gospel legend. But if you don't already know and you haven't know that Justin is like a gospel legend.

0:56.4

But if you don't already know and you haven't seen Justin inaction,

0:57.7

what we thought would be cool to kick off this conversation

0:59.7

and this video with is actually

1:01.5

just in playing a performance that we've got right here.

1:05.6

It's a medley of Israel and new breed

1:08.5

and it's just absolutely blazing.

1:11.4

Hold on to your socks because they're about to get blown off.

1:13.8

Check this out.

1:28.3

I've got a bunch of it. I want to know that kind of, you know, how you're going to play.

1:32.3

You're playing is so even, too, like between the thumb stuff and the finger stuff.

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