Man, I don’t know about you cats but I can’t play my bass with out a little wiggle (or in most cases a lot).
There are soo many good covers on YT , they are playing some funky ass grooves (and they play them well) but where’s the wiggle? They look like bass robots!
How about you? You got some funk in your trunk? Do you gotta shake yo pants and dance when you play?
Here’s an example. Not picking on the player they are doing a good job, but where’s the wiggle?
The original artist, Louis Jhonson has the wiggle.
I was trying to find him playing the original tune but this video is sooo much better. He even reveals his technique for when you bust your thumb open and blood is flying everywhere 
Notice the heavy use of “flying fingers”, maybe I won’t try soo hard to get rid of them…
Whenever I hear “bass and wiggle” it reminds me of Laura Lee from Khruangbin.
and i will always default to mr. groovador
That’s like a slow mo wiggle
Yyyyyeeeeessssss. His bottom half is doing what my top half does!
I’m glad he didn’t wiggle, 
I’m trying to learn the song. I sway back and forth sometimes in the cover video but if I’m watching the the right hand then the headache hit pretty hard and fast. That’s why I love concert video, the cameramen / and video editor seems to knows exactly when the bassist about to play a tasty fills and just cut to another angle,
I tend to be a wiggler / dancer when I play (which is hilarious because other than playing, the last time I danced was at my wedding). Not to the level of this video, but I use it to help me keep time. I’ve tried taming it for cover videos but I’m kinda thinking I should stop doing that and let my freak flag fly.
Dude is wiggling, but - like lots of us goofy white dudes - his wiggle is located in his shoulders, neck and chin area.
I bet that if you could see his head, the bass chicken-neck maneuvers would be top notch.
I’m afraid I am like The OX - I look like a bored uncle standing there expressionless while playing
For me personally her wiggle is the closest to phonoaesthemic definition of the word. But this linguistic categorization is highly subjective, so it can be just me.
Good question. My take is that my timing / pocket beats the wiggle.
The wiggle is part of it but not the most important.
Now get practicing with a metronome : drum pedal / drum app @MattyD
Get yo freak on!
Aww man, yesterday I was GASsin hard looking up drum machine loopers. Bunch of interesting stuff out there that I need to wait till Christmas for (but will probably just buy next week)
Whatever drum machine you get. My advice is find one where you can set the bpm to a figure ie 100.
This is useful for practicing songs etc where you’ll know the tempo.
There are cheaper ones available without a bpm display that I wouldn’t recommend.
Same! To the point that my friends call it my alter ego since I am pretty quiet outside of playing the bass. 
Yea is like bpm, the ability to record longer loops and export. With some of the ones I saw they are getting 1hr plus loops which means I could save it and listen to my practice or save loops for sharing.
Of course playing and practicing every day is probably a lot more important.
No bpm is beats per minute. The tempo of the song.
It’s good to get that ingrained. So you can hear the difference between say 105 and 120 bpm.
It’ll pay off down the line.
Oh yea I get that 
I’m a big electric music fan and dreamed of djing for a loooonnngg time I could probably list BPM by EDM genre at this point… But now I’m just an old bass fiddler
Aaah, another person who has the ability to recognize specific bpms of 128, 136 and 142. 
