Duff McKagan's top 5 tips for bassists

Haha, I love this:

“Bass playing is about the fuckin’ groove. Your band is gonna suck unless you and your drummer have got your shit going on."

2.5 expletives to get the point across, I dig it. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Haha very funny thing in there:

“Learn from someone like John Paul Jones for dexterity, something like Immigrant Song, which he actually plays with a pick. Do those weird major runs with a minor seven during the build-up and learn how to play them fast.”

“weird major runs with a minor seven”… that’s a mixolydian scale, Duff! (those runs are at 0:44 on the studio track)

Is it still weird after being commonly used for (at least) hundreds of years? And it’s in, like, every blues tune ever? :stuck_out_tongue:

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