whats your easiest wooten songs?...for me all of his songs are nerve wracking..bro john may be somewhat easy..overjoyed is very nice too but very difficult..also the classical thump and the live version of amazing grace...al those thumping with out of nowhere harmonics..thank you vic..for all those wonderful sounds...i really like his new song Bass Tribute..:cool:

i dont play much wooten, its better to listen to.

man i love that song bass tribute,
"Jaco Pastorius, ya know we love ya too..."
"what would bootsy say, if he were here today, 'yabadabadabadaboo!'"
i love vic. :)

If you're looking for an easy Wooten song, you're not gonna find one. If you think you can do it, take a song you wanna learn how to play, and try and learn it, but learn it a small part at a time, and start VERY slowly. Like, ridiculously slowly. I started to learn how to play that first part of Classical Thump maybe 6 months ago, and I can only now play it.

the hard part of playing wootens stuff isnt the technique or the speed or the number of notes, it is remaining musical while playing some crazy stuff. technique can be learnt. its a matter of repetition. sure there are heaps of guys that can play 64th notes but how many of them do it in a music way, not just to show how fast they can play? "all that stuff is the icing on the cake, you gotta have the groove first else the icicng dont mean anything" and that is coming from the man himself.

when i'm teaching i find that alot of students assume that something is too hard before they even try. My response is that how do you know if you cant do something if you havent tried before. like i said before, technique is a matter of repetition. if you realise that it is possible (and it is, vic can do t cant he?) then al you have to do is be dedicated and practise and in time you will be able to execute that stuff.


jb