How to F**k Up Your Bass Playing

Are you too good at playing bass? With my 10-Step Fkup Method, you can systematically f* your playing in no time, GUARANTEED.

Fcked Playing - A Variant (GIVE UP)

If you’re doing the Beginner to Badass course, you can lean back in your chair and nod smugly as you watch this video, since I’ll be covering a bunch of bass f**kups you already know how NOT to make.

I think it is of great importance to note that at about 8:30, I played “It Ain’t Easy” by Davie Bowie just because I said “easy song you love to play”, knowing that nobody would ever notice. But now you will. Hurray.

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Hah this is a great idea for a twist. I’m guessing this isn’t the last we will see of Buzz Lawman.

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I’ve f**ked up my playing by tripping over stage cabling. Does that count? :sweat_smile:

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Ok this is scary. I’ve been practicing the intro to Sweet Child of Mine lately and I swear you somehow got a recording of me playing it to use as your bad example because it pretty much sounds the same.

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The awful attack is my speciality. I’ve mastered that method with both pick and fingers.

Also, I’ve learned that if you play the wrong note, you are supposed to either look at the guitarist like they did something wrong or go the Bob Ross route and claim it’s a happy little accident.

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Your characters are awesome, @JoshFossgreen. It would be great to see a video with all of them… from Not Josh and Noob Josh to GAS Guy and Buzz Lawman. :smiley:

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Epic! Unfortunately, I didn’t need the video for some of those…

P.S. Need to work on that, whatever the F that was, accent :rofl:

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Ample

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I’ve tripped over myself just standing still at home. So, I’d say it counts.

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Great video, the whole ‘bad is good’ reverse theme with buzz lawman was well executed, I really enjoyed it
You missed one of the simplistic guaranteed f**k up methods though = don’t bother to tune your bass
…as someone once said to someone else (not good with remembering names):
I don’t know a quick way to sound good, but a quick way to sound bad is play out of tune

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Josh dropped enough f bombs to be considered for honorary Australian Citizenship…

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Once he starts adding mate every second sentence, you should really consider it :sweat_smile:

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Loving the last addition to the ‘Not Josh’ gang, what a great lawyer :rofl:
It’s becoming a real avengers team !

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Apparently I took the video too much to heart, cause I really sucked during my practice time this morning.

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I would still consider myself as a beginner so luckily I don’t need too much help fudging my bass playing. This has to be one of Josh’s best videos to date as It’s funny but also shows you may not notice the guitarist screwing up but as soon as the bass goes to crap everyone notices it.

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I know how you feel! I once fell off a stage because I couldn’t see the floor in the dark!

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Haha this is brillliant :slight_smile:

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