It’s the spelling for me, but same. 
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Also his thumb needs some work and flattening the fingers will help with muting.
He has the correct boring shirt for a bedroom bassist though.
I’m now interested. What’s the lesson?
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it always cracks me up how little effort ad guys put into things. “here hold this bass”.
Here’s a classic compendium of a new technique: playing above the capo. Once or twice. Bad. But six different times? Time to send Darth @Vader to eliminate the bAd Republic. Anyone recognize the capo and the manufacturer? Gotta put them on the “hell no, never” list.
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Man, I didn’t even spot that. It’s literally an English class.
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Somehow, that tracks
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You’re teaching an English class? 
Maybe post the rest of the slides so we can help you with them? 
Also the use of the generic amplifier 
I didn’t actually make the slides. It’s just something that gets given to me with very little preparation time (1 minute) before I have to teach.
This is something I am terrible at as a native speaker. I blame US public education funding, at least in my school district we were never actually motivated to learn our own language.
I hope you learnd at least four languages, like we did? 
I really, really, really wish I had.
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I know all the essential cuss words in a plethora of languages, so I’m good. 
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You guys have always received TV signal from at least four other countries, never mind radio (rock songs etc.) and now the internet. This makes the learning process much easier.
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Ha - it’s true!
Also, while the Germans dub everything (which is a crime against humanity!), we have sub titles - which makes learning a language easier.
But also, we try to be good neighbours and learn the languages beyond our border…
Isn’t it true that in the US, learning Spanish is mandatory? If not: it should be!
My girlfriend speaks German, English, Spanish and Russian. Russian cause she’s East German (and lived in Moscow), Spanish because she wanted to travel to the south after the wall fell.
Both Russian and Spanish came in handy when we traveled wonderful Cuba, by the way!
I remember fondly how she translated for me, when I discussed good old times with an old compadre of Fidel Castro, while both were getting really drunk on Rum.
She gives a f#ck about learning Dutch though, so that’s why she’ll never get my really really really great jokes
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Well… all these systems have their pros and cons, to be honest (I have experienced all of them).
- original language and subtitles is great - if you can choose the sub-titles. That wasn’t always the case. When I moved to Denmark, I went to Blockbuster (remember them?) and got a videotape of the French movie “Taxi”. It only occurred to me at home that the subtitles would be in Danish, and so neither Marseille French nor Danish subtitles did me ANY good.
- subtitles can be super distracting (and tiring) to the eye, if you are not used to them. Also, often they are “in the way” in unfortunate ways…
- German dubbing is at least done well (or was, back in my youth). You should see what they do in, e.g., Poland. They don’t dub, but they have a person reading the lines (in a dispassionate voice) and only one person for all the characters. All the while, the original can still faintly be heard in the background, though not loud enough to help… it’s infuriating as heck.
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Total disagreement!
Tone & accent is part of the acting. Imagine a world class actor, directed by a world class director, doing there magic.
Watch this documentary to see what goes into making a movie:
A life & death experience!
And then somebody sits in a dark & smelly booth, underpaid, headphones on, looking at a screen where the movie is playing, with a unmotivated nobody giving him or her directions, while under time pressure to finish the d@mn thing … and rapes the whole movie by doing a bad dub.
Also, while there are many original actors, there are only a few people doing dubs. Which means: often voices are the same for several actors (leading to issues when those actors appear in the same movie). And sometimes the dubbing voice does not fit the actor AT ALL.
There are exceptions, but in general, dubbing IS A CRIME!
Also: you can switch off subtitles, at least at home…
Hahaha!
Same in Russia. I quite like it - it was great when I still smoked joints. I always wanted to watch a Russian dubbed porn with that voice over, but didn’t get to it
I know you are joking, but depending on where you live - mainly the Southwest - you simply absorb a lot. Much of it used to be either Spain or Mexico so all the place names, etc…
Also lots of native speakers, and I mean Mexico is an easy drive away for a lot of SoCal and Texas, etc.
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Okeeeeeee…
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In fact I was half joking.
I know about the state of the US education since an American (an acadamic!) asked me who is the current king of Germany. I wanted to say it’s still the Austrian guy from WW2, but that would have gone too far!
The Germans truly had a regime change
Consequently, I don’t really expect that non-English languages would be mandatory in the US school system, no.
But, personally I think it’s great for the development of the brain to learn as many languages as possible, but also to understand the culture of people you meet. With so many Spanish speaking people in the US, this would be a first choice, right?
And understanding a culture might raise more sympathy, just saying!
Since I was in Cuba, I am pondering about learning Spanish myself. I don’t like the tone of the Spanish that people in Spain speak, but the South American style is so laid back.
They swallow syllables at the most unexpected parts in a word.
Love it!
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I don’t think it’s just the US honestly, but any country who’s native English-speaking. Little incentive to learn other languages, especially in the public school system
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