Bass Videos - Page 185

Earlier this year, Lissie visited The Current’s studios in advance of her new album, , which released in March. Here’s the singer/songwriter with her band performing “Best Days,” from the record. Megan Mahoney lays down a tasty bass line on the tune.

We’re huge fans of Snarky Puppy and Michael League. Here’s the band like you’ve never heard before, with this special arrangement of “Lingus.”

Leonid Vorobyev’s Leonid & Friends Chicago tribute band keeps bringing the heat. Here’s a new video they just shared covering Chicago’s “Beginnings.”

The Fearless Flyers (a band promoted by Vulfpeck and including some of that band’s members) is rolling out new videos from their self-titled album. This clip will be recognizable to Vulfpeck fans, featuring The Fearless Flyers’ take on “Barbara.” The lineup includes Sandra Crouch on tambourine, Nate Smith on drums, Cory Wong on guitar, Mark Lettieri on baritone guitar, and...

We’ve featured Maddie Jay before, with her band, the pH Collective. Now we get to feature a video where she’s backing up another band. In this clip, vocalist Naïka performs her original composition “Before He Falls” live at Berklee College of Music. The tune features some interesting instrumentation, with a nice groove behind it.

Zander Zon loves film scores, and he loves arranging them for solo bass. In this new video, Zander takes on “Misty Mountains” from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’s soundtrack, using his fretless bass and EBow.

When I was in college, one of my best friends turned me onto the composer Philip Glass and I was hooked. His minimalist style entranced me with its use of repeated themes and overlapping rhythms. It seemed mind-bending to be performed on the piano, which is why my jaw hit the floor when John Ferrara sent me this video. The...

Double bassist Petros Klampanis is back with another groove with a view. “Pes Mou Mia Lexi” is the third video in his Rooftop Story series. This time he’s above the bustling streets of Havana, Cuba. “I have always been fascinated by the music and culture of this part of the world. The way that Western and African civilizations merge in...

The duo of bassist Jonathan Joly and vocalist/typewritist Leah Gracie, aka What a Day, are back with a new cover video. This time they tackle Françoise Hardy’s “Le Temps de l’Amour”. Joly sets the song up by alternating registers to offer a bass line and intro melody before Gracie’s beautiful vocals enter. The bassist then adds his bow to expand...

Back in 2012, we featured what went on to be a very popular video by Evan Marien covering the Jaco Pastorius tune, “Havona.” (We later published the transcription for Evan’s arrangement.) Now Evan is back with a new version for 2018. This time around, he’s playing a Supro Huntington short scale bass.

If you love huge, nasty bass sounds then you’re going to like this. The Melvins stopped by Australian radio station 3RRR for a live-to-air set including this performance of “The Bit.” Steven Shane McDonald conjures up a bass tone that sounds like it could be used to smash boulders. He anchors the song with sludgy riffs punctuated with gnarly fills,...

Last month we lost the great Mr. Big drummer, Pat Torpey, due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. His music, of course, will live on forever. Here’s an incredible jam taken from the drummer’s instructional video, Big Drums, featuring bandmate Billy Sheehan tearing it up. It’s no wonder the duo’s musical connection helped propel Mr. Big into stardom. Their groove locks...