Do you need $10k+ to play these bass lines?
Show us a bassist who doesn’t have at least a little bit of affection for the old Wal Mk 1 and we’ll show you a bassist without a heart! A Wal bass is one of the wonders of the bass world, all eminently strokable woods and state-of-the-art tones! Red Hot Chili Pepper and all-round bass guru Flea likes them, and if a Wal is good enough for him, frankly it’s good enough for us.
In today’s video we take you through our own Wal story and the bass lines that you must learn if you want to call yourself a true bass hero!
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Video Breakdown:
00:00 – Introduction
00:07 – 01 – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Give It Away
03:44 – 02 – Rush – The Big Money
05:14 – 03 – Tool – Schism
08:19 – 04 – Janek Gwizdala – Darkness
10:50 – 05 – Laurence Cottle – Quite Firm
14:13 – 06 – Percy Jones – Nuclear Burn
16:57 – 07 – Mick Karn – Bestiel Cluster
19:37 – Summary
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Originally posted by UCWTj3vCqkQIsrTGSm4kM34g at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXn1Uj6pss
4:50 I am new to the channel (as a drummer finally picking up the bass seriously), and I love how excited you guys are about different basses, their versatility, and the folks who have played them! It’s very fun. Geddy is such a gem
Mick Karn!
Chris Hawkins, an amazing bassist and notable figure on the Norwich music scene of the 80s and 90s had a fretless Wal Mk 1 and it sounded amazing, I knew him as the bassist with my mum in a bluegrass band called "Dan Branch & The Hot Iron Express", and and also in legendary local blues combo "Albert's Blues and Boogie Band" who regularly played in Norwich and were often the support and backing band for Phil Guy (Buddy's brother) when he came to Norwich.
He passed away a decade ago, he was one of a number of local musicians who were a big influence on me and many young players in the Norwich music scene.
Rubin in wearing sunglasses in the studio,I’d be like,fuck off????????
Yo forgot Leigh Gorman from bow wow wow he has been playing a Wal for years !!!!!!!
So pleased to see both Percy Jones and Mick Karn (his mentee!!) featured here. I built a fretless Wal clone in 1990 and 2 years later was able to play a real one at the Bass Centre in LA. Red, fretted, I passed on it (it was $2500). Similar bases to the Wall are the G&L L-2000, the Music Man Sabre, and the Peavey Rudy Sarso (original wiht the big humbuckers).
I want/need one Wal bass!
So I’m gonna sell three bass guitars (MM Stingray5, Marcus Miller Jazz MIJ, Warwick Fretless) and a Cherry 1988 4 runner. I still need about $5000 and I can get me one of these bad boys.????????
What brand is that red instrument cable on the right?
Aw yeah! Love some funk and fusion! ????????????
The price of Wal basses is crazy, esp the used ones but they got that nice raw tone.
Man I love yall
Cómo amo este bajo , en un futuro me comprá uno :v
Brand X even had a tune called Wal to Wal, which is nice…
Nostalgia alert…had my first one in 1987(!) Made by Ian and Pete…sold seven-ish years ago for some pitiful sum. Best bass (along with a fretless Pro 1 I picked up a couple of years later) I ever owned. Paired with Trace AH250, and the classic 4×10 and 1×15 stack for the full '80s effect 🙂
Damn ! You forgot BOW WOW WOW’s amazing bassist Leigh Gorman : just listen (carefully cause it’s f&#@g undermixed) to Sexy Eiffel Towers
You can achieve similar tone with a stingray?
I've got at least a year and a half for my WAL basses to be finished *cry
more mick karn, mick karn video
Hehe, he didn't play the Big Money riff at normal speed because it's hard! (JK, I'm sure he can play it). Say what you will about their 80's sound, but 1985's Hold Your Power was a great album and Geddy's playing is monstrous on it, especially on this track.
Shout out to Kev Hopper from STUMP
The bass player who played with a prog band Camel on the live album Pressure points used a Wal MK1 fretless. Got to be one of the most unique fretless sounds ever.
What would have been really useful is to have a comparison bass to try match the Wal tone to answer the question from the video title. Good stuff otherwise guys!
I don''t understand. Limp Bizkit's album "The unquestionable Truth Part 1" is ALL COMPLETELY recorded with a Wal Mark 3 and the bass sound is ABSOLUTELY MINDBLOWING !!! Check it out if You haven't yet.
Tame Impala the less I know the better has a very very crunchy bass sound which I’ve heard in songs of other bands please please please explain how it’s done please. Also in volleyball. Aloosh the holy dung couple remix.
Do you accept requests? To cover a topic on a video?
I think you guys should swap, with the obvious stipulation to never give away/sell/lose the bass and to swap back if one of you so desires. It's a unique position you're in with two (!) Wals and it'd be something cool that binds you as well.
You guys are so fun to watch. As a drummer learning bass these lessons are priceless!
Colin Moulding's playing on "Greenman" is pretty Wal-tastic.
Nice Montana hat.
Im dissapointed that Colin Moulding, was ignored ? He was a Wal player and one of the best ever all round bassists, and deserves a mention .
Thank you for the Mick Karn! I love his music. It's what I was listening to in the 90s. Bestial Cluster and The Tooth Mother are brilliant albums!
That Laurence Cottle line, I learned it from this video and in 1hour solid practice got it to 140bpm pretty reliably (jazz bass, high action) – it starts to sound a little bit like the line at that speed. On the actual track it’s…. 240bpm
TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY Beats per minute
Hats of the Scott for getting that under his fingers for a one off 20sec video segment, on demand. Phew!!!
Edit: day 2 in a Specter (my father’s) with low action: 170bpm, starting to sound like the actual line, it makes my head and hands get hot…
Edit: day 3 (gigged last night (party band) so a bit tired) 180bpm – solid! 185bpm falls apart… the little finger string crossing to the E on the A string is my undoing. I noticed last night that my fluidity felt very comfortable, even for the flamboyant moments. I think this is my new favourite exercise as it’s building left and right hand speed in a non-artificial way.
Edit: day 4 200bpm on the jazz bass. 170bpm now feels very easy.
Love the sound but the Wal horns look out of kilter.
Scott's Wal bass looks incredible…I'll start saving my money ????
No but you need 10k to enrol for a year
what is the material of the glove? want to buy one
I am trying to figure out a sort of brace/guard for my left thumb(fretting hand).
I am missing the top half (the top half of the thumb knuckle and up) from a table saw accident over ten years ago. I was, and still am, having to jam the bottom half of my knuckle into the back of the neck to wrap my hand around the bottom and posture my fingers along the fret board.
This is excruciating and the resulting injuries and residual strength, dexterity and flexibility issues that came from it was so severe that I shamefully walked away from the instrument all together.
However, over time I've sort of come around again and after hearing me talk about it for years, my wife surprised me with a new bass and amp set up for the holidays. So, I've been practicing again and it's very uncomfortable to play at all, let alone for long periods. This is something I am realizing I need to combat if I am going to seriously play again at all.
I've been watching your videos for a bit now ( I love your tips on technique by the way) and I am curious if you might have any suggestions that might help me practice, or really anything that might help in creating this thumb guard I'm putting together.
If ever I think of somebody trying to get their hands on a bass guitar like these who isn’t in one of those acts but might think they need something like it to play those songs, it puts me in mind of a situation I probably already mentioned here. From the summer of 2008 to the following March, I was trying to play in this quintet with these guys who were very gifted but somewhat amateurish. The other guitar player was often getting his hands on new instruments he was not likely to play and resisting the idea that he should take formal lessons. He kept talking about how we only had a four channel PA system and that we weren’t going to get better as a band until we got a bigger one. I told him that we shouldn’t be waiting around for something like that to fall in our laps and thinking it was going to make us suddenly become a professional band. We hadn’t even chosen a name by the time I left, and the one they came up with after I moved on (Lunch Among Cannibals) was pretty ridiculous.
A couple of months after I moved on, I went to see them play live as a quartet just to check out how they were faring. That other guitar player rubbed it in that they were getting gigs when I was convinced it wasn’t going to happen. When they played, the drummer had left behind a crucial piece of his kit. Instead of adapting and trying to play without it, the drummer, bass guitar player who was still a teenager at the time and the best guitar players father all went back to the best guitar players house to seek the single piece of gear, that’s jamming up the schedule for the night.