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TeresaFR

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54 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

 whaddya think of his selection here?

 

Well, I skimmed through his selection and read the section titles without watching the video....I only recognised 4 of the names.

 

I really am not very rock :)

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On 31/07/2023 at 15:52, asingardenof said:

I have a lifetime membership so at least I don't have to worry about him putting my subs up if I say something too critical 🤣

I have entered the comps and would have been more than happy with a lifetime subscription as a prize rather than some fancy bass… sounds crazy, but I’ve got a nice bass or two - and long term I would learn something 

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3 hours ago, TeresaFR said:

I think it depends on who you're marketing to. The last email I received from SBL mentioned John Patitucci, Gary Willis, Sean Hurley, Rufus Philpot, Steve Jenkins, and Rich Brown

I think there's a misunderstanding there. He drops those names because they actually do courses and seminars on the SBL website. It is something to be proud of without doubt. Sean Hurley is a session man playing for famous pop stars, not a specialist in microtonal funk jazz. For what I understand he does a seminar with tips to go through a session.

Patitucci, on top of being a top notch player, is a renewed educator. On the website he does advanced stuff but also a course named introduction to cuban music and another one for which I find the description confusing but I think has something to do with getting into the style of The Meters, which also are not microtonal jazz-funk.

Other people like Gary Willis do only or mostly jazz courses but the website is known to contain a number of beginner courses or genre specific courses taught by less famous bassists (and Scott himself) - for which one cannot do much name-dropping in marketing emails.

It would be difficult to get those courses made by bass players that are more famous than Patitucci and "inspire" the majority of the bass players. They would cost too much, often times they have zero teaching experience, and often lack theoretical background and are unable to explain why they do what they do.

 

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2 hours ago, Paolo85 said:

I think there's a misunderstanding there. He drops those names because they actually do courses and seminars on the SBL website. It is something to be proud of without doubt. Sean Hurley is a session man playing for famous pop stars, not a specialist in microtonal funk jazz. For what I understand he does a seminar with tips to go through a session.

Patitucci, on top of being a top notch player, is a renewed educator. On the website he does advanced stuff but also a course named introduction to cuban music and another one for which I find the description confusing but I think has something to do with getting into the style of The Meters, which also are not microtonal jazz-funk.

Other people like Gary Willis do only or mostly jazz courses but the website is known to contain a number of beginner courses or genre specific courses taught by less famous bassists (and Scott himself) - for which one cannot do much name-dropping in marketing emails.

It would be difficult to get those courses made by bass players that are more famous than Patitucci and "inspire" the majority of the bass players. They would cost too much, often times they have zero teaching experience, and often lack theoretical background and are unable to explain why they do what they do.

 

There's certainly truth in what you say, absolutely. I think your last point really is the part I should hold most closely to, I don't need a theoretical background to create art. It would just be nice to not feel excluded from learning pathways and to understand more of the terminology that gets thrown around, and jazz noodling does feel exclusionary. Again though, I'm autistic so maybe my interpretation is not what everyone else gets from SBL.

 

Back to the topic though: SSBL Scott's Space Bass Lessons - all the standard SBL material but now hosted from the SSBL space station, which just so happens to be in the shape of a vintage P bass with a 340 metre scale length. Governments around the world are deeply concerned that this monster bass space station is just sitting there in geosynchronous orbit above the Atlantic Ocean and no one knows where it came from. Scott, Ian and the team are all up there laughing their bottoms off, knowing the world trembles in fear of their mighty bass power and now, no one can avoid their podcasts, absolutely no one who isn't completely off-grid - not now the station has taken control of all Earth's electronic communication systems. 

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