Julia answers your questions! | Bass Q&A Ep.1 | Thomann

Julia answers some of your most asked questions: What's the blue bass? Does Julia like short scale basses? And also lifting the secret where Julia is from...

Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Intro
0:15 What's the blue bass?
1:33 How do you record?
2:08 recording and mixing with UAD
2:32 Where is Julia from?
3:13 Learning bass lines
4:50 What's inside the pineapple?
5:02 Top bass lines of CHIC
5:41 Yes, you can buy the db meter
6:04 Does Julia like short scale basses?
7:22 Exercise for the pinky
8:54 Leave a comment if you have any other questions!

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[holy_braille]

"Sing the bassline." That's the advice I needed. That's smart AF. Thanks a lot Julia.

[deadxalive]

How she talks about the blue Bass gives me chills. This is passion

[rocketreindeer]

I think your accent always sounds really cool.

[eddierayvanlynch]

3:42 - "...sing the bassline first."
Singing is an excellent habit for musicians! Jazz legend George Benson was an avid practitioner of using singing to develop better solo chops.
In an interview, he said not to worry about how "good" you sound, just think about the tones.

[CesarDornfeld]

Hello, Julia! My name's Cesar Dornfeld. I'm from Brazil, and I'm learning to play the bass and I'm learning to speak English. I love your videos. It's very funny. Your pronunciacion is so clean, so sweet. Thanks a lot, Julia.

[ctwz]

We can tell by the way she plays the bass how much she enjoys this instrument. That’s why I subscribed

[ricarcorpse]

Julia is one with the groove. BY far the most influential bass player in Youtube for me ( I know, Victor Wooten's words are pure magic, but he is not a Youtuber) Lots of love from Chile!

[scienceproject]

Cello background before starting bass? Hey me too! I knew I liked your style, Julia. Really informative video. Cheers!

[rbk]

I'm a percussionist way back from the 70's classic rock era, all totally by ear. still jamming today at age 61, never a lesson one. You are an awesome bassist, enjoy your videos, thank you.

[goobfilmcast]

I can't stop looking at your hands! Built for the Bass

[londonemski]

Great Q&A session. Love Julia’s articulate and thoughtful responses. Love to all my bass sisters and brothers!

[joshuabrice]

I didn't realize you have other videos on Instagram. Yay more great bass!

[immanuelkantholz]

About that pinky: I took violin lessons since I was 9 years old and piano lessons since I was 10 and quit both at 14 because I had an anomaly in my left pinky which basically made it impossible for me to use it on either of the instruments. I could move my pinky but whenever I tried to press anything with my pinky, like violin strings or a piano key, it got dislocated. Later I learned to play the guitar, but still couldn't use my pinky. (Since I'm a metal fan, that wasn't a problem. I just need two fingers for a power chord. ;-p ) One day I got a bass guitar and although it was a short scale I still wanted to be able to use all my fingers. So I started to use my pinky, but not with the tip, as you would on a violin or guitar but I laid it flat on the fretboard. It still hurt but it didn't dislocate that way. And I practised and practised and today I can use ALL my fingers. My pinky doesn't dislocate anymore, since the muscles around it got strengthened so much that they now stabilize it.
I'm still a dead loss on bass though. :D

[Jordynateurdebord]

Listening to the song and sing the bass line before you pick up your instrument is such a good advice! It makes me learn more songs quicker, the memory lasts longer and also it's much more fun to play without a chart. Great advice! Thanks!

[bumpdunlop]

My Grandmother imigrated from Austria-Hungary to the USA in 1908 when she was eight years old. She made it across Europe and the Atlantic to New York City and then on to Chicago, as the story goes, all by herself! I got my music from her. She was a whistler on live radio! Translates to bass pretty well.

[WilliamTheMovieFan]

She is super groovy! Glad I found this. Her happiness and excitement about music is such a joy!

[wanderingfirbolg]

That just cracked me up, the mention of Schwarzenegger's accent because my mother, who comes from the east part of Switzerland, right next to Lichtenstein, has an accent like that. Thanks for the upload! Cheers!

[springcreekfarmer]

I tried several short-scale basses recently and settled on the Gretch G2220. I changed over to flat-wounds, did a set up on it and I find it to be perfect for my situation. The sound on the Gretch was more full and the pickup selections actually make a discernable difference in the sound. I'm new at bass, for the most part, but with 40 years of guitar experience to influence me. I'm an ear player that understands theory and can read some and it's been lots of fun learning new songs from the perspective of bass. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 🙂

[blainekelley]

So cool you mentioned singing it. As mainly a trumpet player, I was trained ‘if you can sing it, you can play it’ as ear training technique. That certainly helps me on bass too!

[janethouse]

thanks, great video! I'm a guitarist from USA -- I really like the way you describe working on songs, I've been working from charts, but I've noticed how much better I feel playing songs I know from memory. I look forward to trying your learning method!