82 - How to choose the PERFECT BASS

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Scott's Bass Lessons

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4.8 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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When it comes to bass guitars, there’s a massive scope in style and sound for you to explore. It can be subjective, sure, but certain styles of music tend to work best with certain kinds of basses. In today’s episode we delve into what makes a bass guitar perfect for the gig. In this episode you’re going to learn: The backstory behind Scott’s new album.Which star-studded musicians he has invited to take part.Why he needs a new bass for the project.Why it has to be a 5-string! And much mo...

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0:00.0	What's up and welcome to another episode of the Scott and Ian show on the SBL podcast. How you doing? Can you breathe? Through both sides of your nose? I struggle. I have a deviated septum. But last night I wore one of those things that like opens your nose up. I've got to tell you, I think I got a pretty good night of sleep. I'll be it short. I'm a night owl. What do you do to self-sabotize yourself? I stay up too late.
0:24.6	Eat Dore. pretty good night of sleep. I'll be it short. I'm a night owl. What do you do to self-sabotize
0:22.4	yourself? I stay up too late, eat Doritos and watch YouTube videos. What do you do? Hey, you guys,
0:29.2	this episode is super, super fun. We're going to get into it today. Scott and I are going to talk
0:34.0	about choosing the perfect base. Oh my God.
0:38.4	Oh, my God.
0:39.5	Don't we just all want the perfect base?
0:42.2	How do you choose the perfect base?
0:45.9	The search, the holy grail.
0:48.2	We've described it as Excalibur before.
0:51.0	How do you search for it?
0:52.0	Isn't that what everybody wants?
0:53.8	Well, is it? I don't know.
0:55.7	What's the perfect base for you? What does Scott think the perfect base is? What do I think the
1:00.3	perfect base is? Does it differ per gig, per song? Well, you're about to find out. This is a really
1:07.2	fun episode. Before we get in, let me tell you what's going on at SBL this week.
1:11.6	We have a brand new course coming out on Wednesday, April 19th, Rhythm Section Development, Part 2 with the legendary drummer, Steve Gould, and me.
1:23.9	The first one we did a few years ago went really well.
1:27.4	We had a lot of great comments about it.
1:29.0	We're just talking about things that seems like not a lot of people talk about. A bass player
1:35.4	and a drummer in a room together. Me and Steve Gould, I've played a bunch of sessions, gigs with
1:39.5	Steve. We talk about his approach to playing drums, to thinking about playing with a bass player, locking in, syncopation.
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