Bassist Hears Thundercat for First Time (Mind Blown)

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This video just makes me appreciate @JoshFossgreen
Click bait?
Absolutely. But, if you’re not down to clickbait, stay out of the YouTube, as my mother always told us.

Also, someone needs to send you a trophy for your synth sound.

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Fun and interesting watch as always :slightly_smiling_face:

Exactly this! :laughing:
Basically the way YouTube has been for a long time lol.
Pretty much the only way to get anywhere with it.

Literally the only video I’ve ever posted to even get likes in two figures was clickbaity as hell :rofl:

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Great video Josh and amazing how quick you picked it up. I do like the OG bassline a bit better but still a cool take!

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Yes…

But…

This is a bit like the old adage " Eat shit, people - a million flies can’t be wrong!" :wink:

Does something become acceptable just because it is done over and over again?

Also: this is not any beef I have with Josh (I have no beef with Josh!) - just some food for thought.

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This particular clickbait is the norm in reaction videos. I see a lot of these as the ladies in Babymetal, along with BTS and Nightwish, are the most reacted artists on YT. And I see this every day “First time reaction to Babymetal” and I’m like dude, you have 20 other Babymetal reactions.

But this standard grammar for titles. First reaction to the song.

That being said, this was a fun video. My first Thundercat song in reality. He did a collab with Gorillaz last year which is the first I had heard of him. Just not my music scene. He got game though

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I saw Thundercat when he sat in with Colbert’s band back when it was Stay Human. Truly next-level shit. The guy is a bona fide badass.

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I was actually impressed how close the tone was to Thundercat’s.

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I understand where you are going with this and I find clickbait annoying too, but the fact of the matter is Josh is building his brand, and this is one of the tools he has available to increase views. He’s doing the right thing here.

To be honest I found the previous video title even more baity - his “30 most iconic bass riffs” one. Even though I agreed with Josh for many of them there, the title reminded me of the lame lists Rick Beato frequently churns out that he always titles the “best of” lists. Beato’s choices on those lists have convinced me that the guy has broad and yet really disturbingly bland tastes if he really considers his lists to represent the best; this is the danger of using words like “best” or “most” in titles. The answer is of course that Beato doesn’t really consider those necessarily the absolute best, but rather uses such titles as bait; this has been very successful for him, so I can understand why Josh would do it too.

Being a youtuber seems a really rough climb that can take years until you hit critical mass (at least according to successful youtubers, anyway). I can totally understand and support Josh using all the tools he has here.

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Fully agree with Howard :slightly_smiling_face:
Kinda have to in order to work the algorithm & generate views :+1:

I never fully committed :laughing:
But a couple of random videos I uploaded, one with a boring generic title, one clickbaity, I’ll let the numbers do the talking
A lot of paranormal activity enthusiasts were probably disappointed in that 30 seconds or less, but it got views :laughing:

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This is the first time I saw one of these “create a bass line challenge” videos and the whole concept is fascinating to me. I know absolutely nothing about music composition or how somebody goes about creating a bass line for a piece of music. Seeing it done in real time was so interesting. While Thundercat is a killer musician and his bass line shows that, I actually thought the one Josh came up with was really good!

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Whenever I see titles with those words, I always assume it’s from the POV of the person/brand putting them forward. Rick Beato’s “best” are not Josh’s “best”, which are not my “best”. For me, there’s always an assumed “IMHO” at the end of a title like that.

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My thoughts exactly. First time seeing a video like this as well, and I thought it to be a fun concept. I’d love to see more of these in the future.

As for the click-bait title, I think that’s just the way of things these days. Its impossible to build a brand/increase subs/etc. these days on YT and other platforms without being a little “edgy” or lean towards “sensationalism”. Regardless of my personal tastes, I understand its a necessary evil at this point.

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That was cool. If anyone doesn’t know it already, songster.com allows you to isolate the bass lines on any mp.3 you run through it.

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I just watched the video, and I liked it, I find it very “Josh” and it’s a lesson really on how to add a bass part on a track, there’s a lot of info
I’m probably not getting the concept right but clickbait to me is when the tittle misleads you and the content doesn’t correlate, that’s not case here imo
I think that the title and thumbnail are tongue in cheek if anything

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Thanks for the input @joergkutter ! I feel ya, I’m always toeing the line of “clickbait” and “clickable”, it’s a tricky game. I have always enjoyed making my head blow up though, it’s been built into BB videos for a few years now lol. (can’t remember which ones, anybody?)

Anyway, I will definitely keep this in mind going forward. The day I release a video called “13 Bass HACKS You Won’t Believe!!!1!! (as life changing as parenthood)”, please fire me. :crazy_face:

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I dunno. If I were doing YouTube videos, I’d name every one of them like that… or worse.

Click bait? Hell yeah. Click my bait. Please. Click the bait.

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I don’t know, the Professor of Rock is way more clickbaity than you. You gotta work on it if you want to reach his level

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I bet it is - I can only imagine. What I do know is that I would make a lousy YouTuber (as long as those are the rules of engagement) :laughing:

Haha, I would totally click on it :crazy_face:

Thanks for the reply, Josh - firing you is not an option; I owe you too much gratitude :smile:

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woah woah woah - as a parent, I’m going to have to insist that you release this video NOW. Right now.

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Added as an addendum to the 7 Reason Thundercat is Awesome video on the
BassBuzz YouTube Video Guide. Like this…

I would totally watch that video!

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