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When Ted talks--I listen. I think what made these parts so good is that there's a simple authority to them. They lay rock solid, inside the groove without cluttering things up. Thanks for the insight into one of Prince's many talents...a true groove-master.

Left out LET'S WORK. A Funk Bass workout!

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Head is a masterpiece.

Ya’ll are missing the obvious. What about the bass line to “When Doves Cry”? Wait a minute, there is no bass line in that song. EXACTLY! That, to me, is the mark of a true musical genius: knowing when to play…and when not to…or even knowing when not to record a bass line at all. That shows restraint. Restraint is the hallmark of a mature and accomplished musician. And musicians of that caliber serve the song. Brilliant!

Preach! This isn’t spoken about enough! Loved the video 🙌🏼

You would have to be out of your damn mind, to think that flea, from the chilli peppers is a better bass player than Prince.Utterly insane. Flea is as good as the bass player for Hoobastank.😮😮😮

I am glad this topic surfaced and its still boiling because,. I heard that Prince the mistro invented a tecnique or aproach on playing the bass. I hope and pray that if you know you would demonsyrate.

Prince played hard

I think Prince is a better bass player than Flea..Flea is a lot noise to me..

Prince wasn't a musician he was a hack at best yuk

Princes genius is in the presentation. He's a master performer and showman. He also did some clever innovative stuff regarding recording. But as for his bass playing -- it's hardly anything special. And those parts are pretty pedestrian. IMO. Versatile? Can you give me an example of him playing jazz?

I saw Prince live 7 times. At one show he played bass throughout most of the set. The groove was so fat I thought the roof was going to cave in.

Flea Can NEVER Stand Up To The Bass Playing Of Prince. Furthermore Everything Flea Does On Bass, His Whole Fuckin Style He Stole, Copied And Mimics The Bass Playing Inovations From The Black Culture As All Gentiles Copy From And Claim As Their Own.

I like your teaching style very much - Thanks for the lesson!

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If you gave Flea a whole year to learn 777-9311 or Let's Work he wouldn't be able to play either song. I don't need to mention Lady Cab Driver or All The Critics Love you. Flea is lazy & always plays safe & tame lines. His thumb is trash. He has literally zero swing or shuffle in his playing. It comes off as sheet music. Frankly Flea couldn't face Mark Or even Andre Cymone...

Prince was a brilliant musician and that showed through no matter what instrument he was playing.

Exactly

Flea kicks Prince's ass on a purely technical aspect. Bet you can't take anything away from Prince The guy was a genius and all around 😢😢good musician on any instrument he played

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Nothing Flea ever played can top the bassline to LETS WORK. LONG LIVE THE FUNK

I adored Princes Bass guitar playing, I would have loved to have seen him do a long funky thumping session.

Love Flea, but cmon....lol. Not even on same level as Prince

what string gauge do you use? it looks so nice and loose

Thanks for this, man. I never knew there was a Sexy Dancer Long Version; solo gives Victor Wooten vibes. 😊

Prince's approach on Irresistible Bitch and Tamborine is totally unique

Love your breakdown! Im copping the black mug and subscribing my brother!. Stayn tuned in!! I sent this vid to both my musician cousins because this was our era and inspiration for what we do today. Keep em comin. Im locked in!!!! ✌🏾

I love Flea, but Prince is definitely funkier, in the deep sense. And put Flea on a guitar and see how he does, so ... there's that. And I don't recall hearing Victor Wooten name one of Flea's lines possibly the funkiest of all time, like he did with the line Prince wrote and played on Let's Work. Great video. What kind of bass is that you're playing? Something that starts with an M. Looks and sounds great.

Prince holds his own against/with Damn near ANY bass player. Sorry...not sorry. He'd put Flea into the blender.

I respect and I do like flee as a bass player but to compare flea to Prince on the base is absolute ludicrous. There is no human comparison to put between Prince and flea. Prince is absolutely a monster top five ever on the bass guitar. I'm sorry but I have to keep it real. There is absolute no merit. If anyone says fleet is a better base pair than Prince, they obviously don't know bass players

OH PLEAZE!!! Prince and Flea shouldn't even be mentioned in the SAME breath as each other when it comes to musicianship.

That's when he started using Alembic

He played a fender jazz up until America and you need another lover

Also, I'm surprised you didn't mention Let's Work. Let's Work has some awesome bass work as well. But to me what made Prince an awesome instrumentalist was his ability to know what sound sounded good with every other sounds... He was like that with his vocals as well. Speeding up & slowing down vocal tracks, putting them together, & making it sound perfect together... Prime example: If I Was Your Girlfriend... You hear speed up, and slowed down tracks throughout that joint... Pure Genius! No one could do that but Prince... He simply had a knack for knowing what went together, and what didn't... Like taking the bass line out of When Doves Cry... I couldn't even imagine that having a bass line... 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

I was wondering if you were going to get into the extended version of Sexy Dancer, because the bass playing in that version is insane. Way ahead of it's time for that time period... I had never heard anything like it back then...

Let's Work is funkier than 7 cans of Magic Shave! Brown Mark is indeed a beast on the bass

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That muvfkr is out of his mind who ever made that statement

Prince was above all a composer. Each individual thing he did served the larger concept of the work. There are times when his drumming/drum programming is the highlight and other times when it’s dirt simple, etc. I think (accept for maybe on guitar) he really didn’t care what you thought of him on any instrument. He understood that music isn’t about trying to prove how bad you are. It’s about expression.

I think Andre Simone was his first Bass Player. I used to play with his cousin Urban Simone.

This video was well done.

Playing melodically like Jazz bassist Ray Brown and Jazz bassist Larry Ridley

Thank you for this video. Prince's style,technique and sound is often overlooked when talking about the pioneers of Bass. Awesome video! 👍

You people need to get out more.😐