Nathan East's Tips for Playing Bass with Feel

Wasted my money signing on to ARTIST WORKS. Nathan wasn’t even engaged in the teaching on the website as he’s on tour in Europe with Eric Clapton for several months. All the best to Nathan- thumbs down on the website artist works. Waste of hard earned money . Thank you very much.

I never knew Yamaha basses were so good. Since studying Nathen East I picked up a nice green Yamaha bass like his only a 4 string. The shuffle is a good lesson and similar to my shuffle lesson on my channel.

Love your lessons, I was wondering, if you can listen to me play this song with the bass. I am using a version with no bass so I can play along with it with my bass guitar. Would you be whiling to check it out and give me feed back?

This aint so much a lesson as it is a ‘watch me do something u cant’

Thank you
If you could play this on DDbass?

Very nice thanks

this gentleman work with Angela Winbush playing the bass he did the entire Album of The Real Thing with the bass Please Bring Your Love Back when Angela Winbush Moan at the end you can hear the bass clearly as day Angela play her parts than she played them back so they all the players could play what she ask for when she singing her songs on her album in 1989

Got it!

Thank you Mr. East.

I've been looking to improve my rhythm through groove based exercises, thank you for this lesson!

Oh so true, as a percussionist I must have the shuffle of my bassist so I can follow that lead and throw in some ghost strokes ! Awesome.

Thank you Nathan

OK, Nathan. I believe you. I will sign you for my band. When shall we start rehearsals...? Call me when you can.

It drives women crazy if you could do long short long short for a really really really long time.

You can tell this dude is a bad ass bass player, he doesn't hold one of those pretentious Fender bass guitar.

If you don't get it after a week, sell your bass. Simple.

Thanks for the tips bro!

It's funny to watch a legendary Bass player intentionally play poorly. You can tell it required a lot of concentration! Ha!

If I give a tip how to play well to a young blood just barely learning an instrument, I tell them "Don't make your instrument sound like a robot with a rigid formula. Make it sound like it has emotions. " -A :)

I love how Nathan East brings a heart beat to music. He calls it "feel" I call it "passion". This is what make my fav bands or musician my fav and host a let's get lost party :) -A

Its actually comical, how amazingly hard it seems for him to NOT play with feel. I was laughing.
When you have been that good, for that long....

He says he's playing off time but actually he's playing quintuplets over heptuplets in order to SOUND off time

Genius

Here’s my tip- don’t play with assholes like Eric Clapton.

Phenomenal Bass player 🔥🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You are right Sir, it's the FEEL that counts & I will remember that as an AMATEUR Bass player. You are the BEST when it comes to SIMPLICITY & SMOOTHNESS. GOD BLESS YOU Sir Nathan. ✌️💖🎸

Thanks for that! If you ain’t playin with feel...you ain’t playin! That is a beautiful bass!

So awesome! Love it. Thank you so much.

The man with AMAZING FEEL AND GROOVE 🎵🙌🏽

Rfsgdgsds

Nathan: so this is what it's sounds like bad
Me: that sounded good

Nathan East isn't human.. 🤣❤

Just fell it se Nathan East

You can play well all day but if you don't add the "feel" to it, there's not as much impact. Thank you for a great lesson!

Thanks for sharing my good man . I definitely picked up a few things I can add to my playing and I'm nowhere near your level either. Very practical for any level of playing in my humble opinion .

When I started on bass mid 60s Paul McCarthy was my bass hero. I learnt all his bass lines religiously for years. I listened to many other bass players , but none of them graded me the way Paul did....... such melodic lines and playing ...... so what if he used a plectrum !!!!! Then I got hooked on Nathan East and my playing has improved since then ..... also such melodic playing and clever in the way he uses the pentatonic, chromatic, arpeggios and all the scales. I am still a huge McCartney fan and to me Nathan is a worth while co leader. I am earning soo much just by listening to him and deconstructing his lines. Thanks for this site. A huge fan from South Africa.

We love you man!

how much is that kind of bass? i want one please.. my idol nathan east.. i hope to see you play in Canada.. pls sign my bass guitar please.

Him and Leland Sklar are two bass gods!

It´s true, the more you varies your lines, uses the whole neck, with apogiatures and bends on the notes, the better your bass lines will be

Wow beautiful, thank you for sharing. I just discovered you and your channel!

Thank you. I value and appreciate all that went into creating this cool lesson, and for putting it out for others to learn on.

feel your bass :) Great !!!

It still all comes down to the question Can you play? Doesn’t matter what kind of bass, amp and effects you have if you can actually play.

Thanks!

Nathan , one of the best and one of the nicest...

Can’t hear a thing over the piano

True class!