Bilbo

Slammin'.

Anyone who suggests this is the 'future of bass' knows nothing about its past. Highly derivative, imo. Certainly no melodic, harmonic or rhythmic innovation. Just some home studio production and some mediocre songwriting. Not bad, just not worth spending much time with.

Just buy a pretty one. Whatever bass I play, it always comes out sounding remarkably like me.

Cranes not there anymore?

Steve Berry not Bury* (not being a smart arse, Jake, just makes it easier for the OP to Google him if he spells it right). * Unless it was spelt wrong on every Loose Tubes record and his own trio LP!!

An endoresement from Markbass!! Hasn't everyone got one of them Seriously, there are issues here but I am hijacking someone else's thread so will apologise and go and start one of my own!!

Don't make it a priority, Mike. It won't change your life Mostly just mindless noodling!

And that Niti video just confirms hows bad tapping sounds! I guess he is a great teacher (an established reputation) but he is also selling a product and is not going to 'not' sell videos of techniques that are useless, he is going to fill a perceived market need.

Me neither, just telling it as i see it. I have been aware of these types of players for decades now and every player spends some time with these techniques but I can say that in all my years of gigging and watching bands, I have only ever seen these tecniques employed on youtube and never as anything other than a contrived 'solo' spot that amounts to nothing more than a circus trick. The best tones from bass are rarely achieved with the r/h slamming into the strings and pull offs are equally limited in tonal colour. In short, most of it sounds ugly (Manring is the rare exception and I liked the way Kevin Glasgow used it on a video he posted here). IMHO, its an attractive part piece but, musically, its mostly wasted time. But, as I said, its the OP's call. As for the classical comment, I wasn't being ethnomusicologically specific, just referring back to the earlier post.

Pictures?

Manring was also a sideman for Michael Hedges. Watch this and ask yourself where Manring got his concept from! [u][color="#0066cc"][u][color="#0066cc"][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wid_dZUFKw&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wid_dZUFKw&feature=related[/url][/color][/u][/color][/u] Its great but is it worth the investment required? Its your call.

Alternatively, spend some time learning something useful like how to read music or some advanced theory That classical fugue showed everything that is wrong with that technique. Take a perfectly servicable piece of music and turn it into a juggling act with no musical merit. Two things to watch and then think about.....both Michael Manring. The second one Manring could probably do standing on his head in terms of his technique. But which one got him a gig outside of someone's living room [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4Ra2KOyas"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4Ra2KOyas[/url] [u][color="#0066cc"][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_KDum0b2z8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_KDum0b2z8[/url][/color][/u]

Blimey - that Gorey/Wyatt stuff is a bit grim (or should that be Grimm?). Marvellous stuff - the best side of prog rock, when it had that wonderful English quality that it seemed to lose after the break-up of the Canterbury Scene etc

Just downloaded this. A trumpet player called Avishai Cohen (NOT the same guy as the bass player). I heard this guy with the SFJazz Collective so got hold of this trumpet/bass/drums trio recording to see what he is doing. Really pleasant surprise. Intense and intelligent stuff. [url="http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B0000CA34T.01._AA160_.jpg"]http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B0000CA34T.01._AA160_.jpg[/url]

Didya get one? Didya? Didya?

Yum yum, pig's bum..... sounds great, Mike.

Can you record an example of what you are doing? Video would be better? Can't tell you what is better without knowing what you are doing wrong!

I remember seeing a Segovia masterclass on tv and this Japanese guitar player playerd for him and, to me, it sounded great. Segovia shook his head and said something like, you play the notes but not the music. And the guy tried again and the piece he was playing just opened up like a flower. A real epiphany for me. Getting the right notes in the right order is just the starting point. After that, after the craft, you have to discover the Art. That is where the magic lies, that's where you will find the Holy Grail of music. Keep going.

Its getting those details right that seperates the men from the boys, xgsix. Stick with it and get it finished. [i]Learn[/i] it and then learn to [i]play[/i] it. Its time well spent.

I was in exactly the same place as you and went for this: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/93958-i-did-it-now-with-photos/page__hl__gedo+musik__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/93958-i-did-it-now-with-photos/page__hl__gedo+musik__fromsearch__1[/url] You can hear it on my Soundcloud paghe (see link in my signature). I cannot compare it to others as I haven't tried them all but it got me gigging. I can say no more than that.

[quote name='lobematt' timestamp='1323099083' post='1459241'] Bilbo - I am playing it, I thought that was a given... just wondering what else should be done with it! [/quote] If you can play it, write it down and then analyse it, the only thing left is to post it here

Don't jsut transcribe it. Play it. That will allow you to develop insight into the execution of these ideas as well as the theory behind them.

Dorian minor, passing notes and chromatics. Then there is dynamics, rhythmic and melodic interplay with the soloist or with the other accompanists, play double time or half time, playing three against four and six against 4, playing lines that resolve in the wrong place (too early or two late), playing off beats in your walking lines, stopping playing and letting the soloist improvise alone or with the drummer.... all of which requires the cooperation of the rest of the ensemble. The options are pretty much infinite.

I have to say it was my first gig with my own trio about a year ago. It was a little pub gig with an audience of about 30 but it was uncompromising and, nevertheless, went down a storm, giving me the confidence to move the project forward. It has been a frustrating year as the drummer who did it has been unable to play and the replacements, whilst great, were not what I wanted conceptually. But the thing was that it clarified what it was I was trying to do. I have since written 18 original tunes for the line-up involved and am rehearsing those tunes this coming weekend. If they work (and they may not), my next gig with the trio, on 1/1/12, will be a jazz trio playing all originals written by me!! Now THAT is worh waiting for!!