5 Reasons Geddy Lee is the PROGFATHER

[Music] who are they opening for is it Metallica wait what wait what are you talking about dude these can't be all Prague fans there's not this many prop fans in the world this is from Rush live in Rio I thought it was like a best friend yes it is it's a festival of Rush fans to only see Rush yeah Scott was like hold on are they opening for somebody I'm like dude Russia's huge and it was killing me is Rush huge in the UK we were discussing this earlier I'm not oh my God I like that you know like I like it Just Vibe like I like it do ya oh that's right you guys listen we are here to deliver the top five reasons why Getty is the greatest and I am here to convince Scott Devine that this is true number one what is number one reason number one reason number one he's a riff monster he is a river he's a riff monster I will give you that gotta play a couple of riffs yeah yeah which one do you want to kick off with uh let's do Limelight and we're also going to show you how to play these as well we will have some tablet notation down below check this out so What's this called Limelight Limelight this is off in 1981 moving pictures one of my favorite records of all time which I have done a full breakdown for your channel worth saying that Ian is a die-hard Getty fan like he's got like the bed clothing oh really yeah like Getty on the on the pillows oh really yeah yeah Emily told me I don't wish now I want some Rickenbacker cooler space just tenacious and that's actually a really easy in to Getty and before we talk about the approach and the sound let's just learn this line we've got identically yeah I know and yeah yes yes because I think in order to learn it I don't think you have to smash right so what if we're playing a b power chord yeah an a power chord and then we're playing e yep open a you got it open e f sharp G sharp a C sharp a so slowly but [Music] yeah it is a wicked riff like I really love it and he is playing it I mean if you want to get the spirit of it [Music] he's a smash yeah we're going to talk about his um Getty's particular approach to technique as well which is really where a lot of his tone comes from what time 697 oh one two three four five six seven one yes and that's like a rush thing isn't it like a lot of the Rifts are in odd time signals yeah but that one doesn't feel so odd to me like I I didn't even know that this was an odd time signature thing when I first heard it yeah constructed so beautifully around it the crowd starts singing this melody [Music] oh [Music] black jazz bass yeah it seemed like what is it okay yeah so right and again if we're hitting if we're just learning it I say you don't need to bust out the big smack sound just learn it sort of with a regular pull on the base but yeah right all right so and then he moves it up a minor third [Music] if you hit it hard [Music] and you know right away it's almost like you can't not talk about his approach he doesn't ever seem to play this way ever ever yeah it sounds so silly like you said like oh that's a very delicate way to play limelight like it's not that it's this [Music] the first person I heard talking about this is Brian Bella he was talking about this where you swing like the string imagines sort of like a golf club boom like going through the ball well that's the string this is the finger push yes you know it goes which is so different yeah yeah completely different to how I play normally and there's such a commitment to it too because you have to be it becomes a percussion a percussion instrument yeah yeah that it isn't usually I mean you know we're locking up with drums but it really becomes like when you're playing this way you have to really commit to where that is on the grid yeah it's worth saying as well when you watch good you're playing ah this but check out what's down there yes [Music] I love this one [Music] that is so cool right it's like he's back and forth he is but he's not playing down here you can't do you can't get this right yes [Music] it's like the tension of the string is right back there [Music] it's like an angry dog you know yeah can you do this thing that he plays like oh man that sounds terrible yeah right right yeah I'm dead muting everything except with that note almost a good pick yeah oh [Music] I will say that you know like when you're looking at other people's technique like this it doesn't like so much matter how they're doing it like if you can get the sound doing it another way Wicked you don't need to do it you know that's why when I was doing that almost like a chucking thing [Music] right if I was playing it live I might go with something like that because it feels more comfortable to me if I can get the sound yeah yeah then who cares you know yeah great he is just hitting the base hard so we've done these riff monster number one number two was he plays with gusto yes he does Gusto yes number three he's also the keyboard player of the band [Music] and another monster riff yes was that the vibe then did he play like a lot of keys and then he would switch Yeah so he's at the keys station sometimes also playing Taurus pedals with his feet I was gonna say is they're not sort of like are we are we classing that in this are we bulking this into the same point so many rules the six reasons I don't know should this have been the six reasons oh there's so many reasons he's amazing um yeah he's at Key station he's playing that riff which on the keyboard is then he ends up playing a different line when he switches to the bass part but he's playing that on Keys he's even getting the mod wheel in which is so hip and maybe he's playing the Taurus pedals at the same time I'm not sure I think they had some early tracks like there was a bunch of production that didn't that Getty wasn't always triggering but he definitely was at times also for the what the Taurus pedals essentially organ pedals they're set up like the black and white keys on a keyboard and you just step on them and they fill a stadium with low end it's very very cool but hey yeah before we before we move on from the keyboard thing let's just learn that riff can we show them this yeah yeah yeah [Music] check this out you're playing a completely different bass I've got this 80s wall mark one Scott has a more recent Oliva coppolo jazz bass active and and it's like I've got some drive on this but you get the spirit of the sound when you play hard like if you're not playing hard [Music] well there you go that's the Getty Vibe and it's just how you're playing yeah it you don't have any drive you don't have anything on it if you just play that like back by the bridge kind of light it's not quite the Thing versus like so if you don't have like a fancy active jazz bass or a wall you can really get the spirit of Getty without any pedals without any special fancy bass just by digging in yeah right hand yeah and it's like round wound strings round wounds yeah right hand Smash and you'll get very close are you doing anything like specific with your like the EQ or anything like that I just have a little bit of amp emulation on this so I'm not using any overdrive I'm letting the overdrive from the HX stomp inside of the Ampeg SVT model Yeti never used that but I just like the sound of it but again if I'm playing light it's not the sound you need the clunk don't you yeah the signature clang you gotta have the Clank yeah yeah now the next point is that he's obviously and you'll have you know caught this already he's an incredible singer oh incredible he's also the singer this is also the singer the lead singer yeah yeah and he's got a little bit of a range oh let's go check this out this is Bonkers [Music] [Music] I dig it like if I was gonna be a singer I'm not sure I'll be going for that kind of thing right now oh I know right it is incredible it's crazy it's crazy yeah it's kind of like a Coverdale type of but no not day not covered L um Robert Plant well a plant kind of yeah I think when they first started you know the the first Rush record self-titled there's a lot of tunes where he sounds like Robert Plant was the big influence yeah yeah and they sounded like Zeppelin to me in the beginning and then they really morphed into this crazy like program band yeah yeah love it finally we've got one and it's back to the tone thing actually this is the fifth and final uh point I wanted to jump into today and you've kind of got a story to tell around check this out yeah so I I've seen Rush a lot and I saw them on the R40 tour and that was after Getty uh got into base collecting for the longest time he didn't care he says Ah he didn't care he played a Rickenbacker for a long time then a jazz bass yeah then there was the wall era there was a Stein a short Steinberger era then he went back to the Jazz but I mean I'm talking like he he would commit to sometimes like a decade with an instrument or years and years records and records with the same instrument never really cared and then at some point he was like I wonder if any he saw the you know he saw what was on the other side of that this is a thing that I've been playing and making my career on so the area of easy way yeah and he was like I should know about what this is and he wrote a book it's called like the big bad beautiful book of bass or something like that right a big book of mice yeah and it's very cool and he got into collecting and I saw him on the R40 tour he had probably about 20 instruments on that tour and I've got to tell you between the rickenbackers the Jazz basses the P basses the Thunderbirds the zimedus oh yes yeah as well yeah and you know what he kind of just sounded like Getty Lee yeah yeah which is the the fifth and final point is that he can play any base yeah and he just has his his sound baked in yes so he's it's his physical approach to playing the bass I know we've spoken about a lot you know that a lot today but it's everything every base the rickenback of the Jazz Bass the Steinberger it all sounds like to me it just sounds like Getty that's what I thought too especially when I was younger in hearing him I had no idea that I was listening to him play different basses over eras and then I think we really hear with our eyes sometimes I see a bass and you're like oh that of course that's a wall yeah yeah yeah but so many people can't even tell what he played on moving pictures which is the seminal record and so if Getty sounds like Getty you can sound like you on any base too right so I think even if you don't want to play light Getty Lee I mean I almost never play that way but I think it's a cool skill to have to be able to pocket lines versus this [Music] yeah it's just such a different approach to playing the bass and it is a sound and a vibe that you should absolutely get into your playing we did it dude okay let me ask you did I convince you yeah you know like I was still surprised all of them people heard that content but yeah like I dig it I dig the Prague I'm a Prague fan yeah are you no no but it's like close to fusion and I'm like a huge fusions fan so like kind of maybe maybe now remember also to grab the PDF with the tab and notation and all of that good stuff the URL is in the description as well so you can learn all of those Mighty cool bass lines and if you think of anybody else that you want us to do a video like this on you know a bass player that you might be a huge fan of let us know in the comments we'll go through them comments and then we might choose your video and we'll make it for you other than that take it easy and I'll see you in the shed why are you gonna see that I'm gonna see them also in the shed you need to get a shed I do we'll see you in the show soon bye-bye

Channel: Scott's Bass Lessons

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Id: AOXB78Az3cA

Length: 15min 47sec (947 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 29 2023