How To Be A Better Improviser ft. Victor Wooten

Victor Wooten is without a doubt one of the most fearless musicians. Check out some incredibly insightful wisdom on how to approach your instrument for better improvisational skills!

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[metatrontumultum]

This is the real shit that actually makes you a better musician.

[RobBeatdownBrown]

This is some of the most practically brilliant and encouraging teaching you'll ever see out here on the Youtubes. Shout out to Victor Wooten, man 🏆

[dsanringser]

“Your body says this is good and your brain agrees”😂 this is probably the best bass video I’ve seen to date

[thebrunoserge]

Did Wooten just demonstrate that if you play all the wrong notes with absolute confidence, people won't doubt your playing and assume you're just a genius? Dear God that's brilliant

[robgriffis]

Vic is the Bob Ross of music.

We don't have wrong notes, just happy accidents.

[dontworryaboutit]

As a veteran guitar player of 15+ years, who just recently started playing bass for a band, I can confidently say that this one video has changed my entire perspective of how I look at the fret board. This man is a national treasure.

[msp]

I'm a guitarist who's been playing for 40 goddamned years, and it's rare that I run across a teacher who's informative, entertaining, gracious, smart and funky as Sir Wooten. He's taught me more here than probably a good 25 guitar teaching vids have. This guy is the bomb

[ajibolaoshunnuga]

“Even though the note is technically wrong, the brain will accept it if you add rhythm to it. You paid for every note, use them all.”

I’ll never forget those words.

[STMVO]

Victor needs a teaching channel. So good.

[RealDavidN]

this man is a genius. and what a great lesson: having to do it "right" is the biggest anxiety-inducer that ruins learning improvisation and forces you onto well-traveled (boring) paths.

[crankystinkleton]

I've been playing bass for over 30 years, and I tell ya, whenever I see Victor Wooten giving advice, I click immediately. I always come away with a big ol' smile on my face, and somehow absorb a whole bunch of knowledge that makes me go "Wait. I never even *thought* of that!" Much love.

[lucasfogaca]

"So it sounds more like i'm moving, but it's really the chords moving around me"
Bro, no way to deny it: at the side of being an awesome teacher, this man is also a poet!

[HitWaveMusic]

Victor Wooten... destroying everything you've ever learned about music theory in 15 minutes.

[WaltherSuk]

This man is very kind and humble. As a beginner you feel encouraged, instead of blown away.

[kenkinter]

Victor is the Chuck Norris of bass. He says a note isn't out of key, so now it isn’t. Thanks for this. Takes the pressure off.

[davidvitale]

When a person of the skill set of Victor Wooten can explain a topic that not only explains, but enables and removes the paralytic of fear from the topic, you know he doesn't just have mastery of the topic, but has the spirit of a teacher and a human being that wants us all to gain mastery as well. That takes take skill, heart and maturity.

[pbsxgmail]

He played all 12 notes in the scale and it sounded better than anything I ever thought of playing. Thanks Dr.

[garythebard]

The way Victor breaks it down is masterful. But he's absolutely right, took me 10+ years to realize - it's not what you play, but how you play. I learned theory first, which was very helpful. But rhythm and dynamics - that came with time.

[limo-swine]

I started playing without learning any music theory. Then I learnt music theory and it felt like a cage, trying to play what is "right". Then I listened to jazz and realised that there are no "wrong" notes. Just how you play them.

[iseya]

I am a pianist who strictly goes along with the notes available to me in a key. But currently I am learning bass so I got here, and OH MAN was this so refreshing! Started doing improvs on bass with feel and rhythm only, and for the first time in my life have I allowed myself to finally let loose. Amazing stuff, God bless