What Is Hip? The Fingerstyle Funk Bass Of Rocco Prestia (tabs and tutorial)
Last week the bass world lost another all time great in the king of fingerstyle funk, Mr Francis Rocco Prestia Jr of the band Tower Of Power.
If you’re a bass player and have never heard Tower Of Power or any of Rocco’s lines then you’re missing out on one of the most influential funkateers out there and some of the coolest bass lines ever recorded.
Today, in this video I’ll be breaking down probably the most famous of his lines by way of the song What Is Hip? This is a great test of your stamina and technique and I’d recommend using this song as a study piece for developing bass players in any style.
Tab and tracks here: https://www.talkingbass.net/what-is-hip-the-fingerstyle-funk-bass-of-rocco-prestia-tabs-and-tutorial/
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You can check out the tab and tracks here: https://www.talkingbass.net/what-is-hip-the-fingerstyle-funk-bass-of-rocco-prestia-tabs-and-tutorial/
TOP are badass. The horn section is one of a kind. But Rocco controlled the beat like nobody's business.
Do Roco's bass lines for This time it's real.
I just listened to the original. He plays just behind the beat to get the funk groove.
Awesome video. Super clear and straight to the point. Thank you!
yes sir
Amazing Playing, Mark! Very precise!????
Check out my Version of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUMfAl3KrKY
It’s doesn’t sound quite right.
How about Funk the dumb stuff or you're the most?
Love it
Another component of TOP, which made their sound absolutely unique, undeniably and incomparable. Rocco’s playing was pure ear candy!
Thanks a lot, now i started building my funk base for better inner feeling)
ROCCO was a str8 genius with the 16th thing. His FEEL is just insanely hard to copy. It's crazy cuz some of the stuff isn't complicated but maaaan…trying to play it like him is seriously hard.
Would love some speed building videos and right hand stuff in detail. This guys a machine. The original is not 110bpm though I don’t reckon, it’s a fraction slower.
come on man… can you look like, maybe it's a little difficult to play?
Loved it. Great video. I can't believe I turned down a free ticket for a Tower of Power show at my high school in 1973. But I saw them many times after that. I've been practicing singing this bass line for about 50 years, though I'm a trombonist. Live, they would kick this song off at a much faster tempo, though that never seemed to be an issue for Rocco (when you could see him). It would be great to see you show his technique on some of his wild 'way up the fret bar' techniques later in that song.
Always wanted to learn that bass line ! Thanks for the lesson and I mean lesson, you are a Taskmaster but I hung in there. Saw Rocco here in Toronto about 14 years age. The band killed ! RIP Rocco and thanks for being you!
I actually got to meet Rocco in 2019 he came to my house to visit my roommate and I was starstruck. He was a very chill and nice man R.I.P.
Apparently I'm weird, but I've never understood how people can do the string skipping part properly. Even after 14 years of playing bass I just can't do that part where you have to switch between the A and G string. Physically impossible to do for me at the song's tempo, no matter how much I practice. Luckily I'm able to play anything else I want to, though, it's just that one part of this particular song.
Please, make a video on Only so much oil on the ground
another cool Rocco bass line is Attitude dance, we would love to see you play it
please show "oil in the ground"
Mark, have you thought of developing a course entirely dedicated to fingerstyle funk 'a la Jaco , Rocco and Jamerson?
RIP Rocco! My life changed for the better when I discovered T.O.P. in high school, and I finally got to see them live 2 years ago (I did get to meet the horn players in Boston back in 2001)
I love this line – Rocco is such a loss – going to get busy with getting this under my fingers. Cheers for the lesson.
I’m still getting twisted with the right hand fingering. You said to switch to start the 16th pulse with middle after the low open E, then how do you land the octave on the middle finger. It lands on the index. This song is twisted and so am I.
You've gotta mute those notes bro. That's the beauty of Rocco's playing.
Dean town by Vulfpeck uses the same 16/4 as this tune. It takes amazing stamina to play it right
Great explanation. How about a breakdown of Pork Chops by Jon & Lee and the Checkmates?
Great lesson as always Mark. How about "I Got To Groove" or "Bump City" (Down To The Nightclub)
Rocco was always kind to me through the years. His nickname was Thumper. God be with him.
Unbelievable stamina & consistency. Quality playing bud.
Спасибо!!!Вы Супер!!!!!!!!
A great lesson, as always from you. Best bass lessons on You tube!
The bassline from 'So I Got To Groove' is a fave.
Hi Mark, great lesson. Was wondering if you could do an analysis of Rocco Prestia's "Come on With It"? Cheers and thanks, Fred Jansohn
HI
Always wanted to learn the bass parts to So I Got To Groove.