8 string Bass solo

[Sonorous Sound]

Hi Guys,

I came across this recently, on an 8 string Schecter bass.

Check it out.....

YouTube - The First Movement (8 string)

[jaywa]

Good stuff.

I'm guessing Ashdown bankrolled that clip, probably?

[Hoover]

Originally Posted by jaywa

I'm guessing Ashdown bankrolled that clip, probably?

Someone sure did!

[jasonmasters]

great video quality. that bass sounds pretty good except when he hits that big chord around the second fret... then it goes GONK

[afinalfantasy]

Sounds neat, not what I was expecting (expected bass wanky boring stuff)

[BagelBruin]

Watching this muted just looks silly.

[Bob C]

I don't know. To me, watching it muted just looks like someone playing bass with the sound turned down.

I thought the playing was decent and it was very pleasant to listen to. I liked the tapping part the best and wish it was longer. That had some great counterpoint (I think that's what I meant to say).

The piece gets a little boring at times and the guy's timing is not perfect. Could I do better? No.

[superbassman2000]

The tone is cool, but something about the timing is making me dizzy...

[tehbassist]

Originally Posted by Bob C

I don't know. To me, watching it muted just looks like someone playing bass with the sound turned down.

I thought the playing was decent and it was very pleasant to listen to. I liked the tapping part the best and wish it was longer. That had some great counterpoint (I think that's what I meant to say).

The piece gets a little boring at times and the guy's timing is not perfect. Could I do better? No.

Well seeing as anything you play on an 8 string is parallel octaves I'd say it had terrible counterpoint. Counterpoint is a style of writing classical music (think J.S. Bach, the king of counterpoint) that has very specific rules as to the intervals between notes and patterns in which they can move. But you really aren't expected to know that if you aren't a classical music buff or haven't studied music in school.

That being said I loved this a lot. It's good to hear some solo 8 string stuff that isn't 100% musical masturbation...

[Bob C]

Maybe counterpoint in the classical sense was the wrong word. But I wasn't referring to the parallel octaves at all.

I meant that in one section he was tapping a sort of walking bass line and playing a separate melody with hammer-ons or whatever it was.