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03-01-2006, 01:33 PM
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03-01-2006, 01:34 PM
|  | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | | I'd love to see someone pull off those bigass chords on a fretless. |
03-01-2006, 01:40 PM
| | Howzit brah | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Kauai, HI | | | yowza!
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03-01-2006, 02:12 PM
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It's definitely not standard classical guitar technique, because he's using his pinky as well as up/down thumbstrokes. It's more like a modified flamenco guitar technique.
I've heard of this guy before, but I've never seen him.
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03-01-2006, 02:20 PM
| | Brother of the Groove with a 'Pocket Full of Funk' | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Calif. | | | Dominique Di Piazza just amazes me. He's been around for a while but hit the bass community like gang busters when he was at the Fodera and Epifani booths at NAMM 2005. |
03-01-2006, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: London, UK | | Dominique is definitely in the top handful of electric bassists in the world today.
He's only on a handful of recordings, having retired from music between 1992 and 2000 (that includes giving up playing the bass).
To have come back to the bass and quickly re-establish yourself as one of the masters of the instrument is amazing. He mostly plays with just his thumb and middle finger (and tears up single-note lines doing so), but also has the amazing chordal approach demonstrated in that video. The amazing thing about Dominique is the sheer musicality of his playing, not just what the plucking hand is doing.
You need to check out:
John McLaughlin - 'Que Alegria'
Front Page - 'Front Page'
Carbonne, Di Piazza, Manring - www.carbonnedipiazzamanring.com
His own website is www.dominiquedipiazza.com
He doesn't get to play outside France much, but playing the trade shows for Epifani and Fodera is helping him build up his profile.
Here's a video of Dominique back in in 1991 with John McLaughlin: http://www.spikesbigadventure.com/mp...QueAlegria.wmv
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03-01-2006, 08:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | I don't get why you posted this three times, thesaddpenguin.... |
03-01-2006, 11:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Clawson, MI | | | Victor Wooten is where I draw the line between bass and lead bass.
As incredible as he is, that's not really bass. In other words, it doesn't fulfill the bass's role in a band, IMHO.
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03-02-2006, 01:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Australia | | | Ever since I started coming to TalkBass, I've seen a number of video clips of amazing players like that. I'm starting to think it's normal! |
03-02-2006, 01:10 AM
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Originally Posted by RiseOfTheWooten Ever since I started coming to TalkBass, I've seen a number of video clips of amazing players like that. I'm starting to think it's normal! |
The bar has been raised a few notches. This is the best time to be a bassist IMO, sooooo man cats just blowing through boundries for the rest of us. |
03-02-2006, 06:08 AM
|  | Sam was a basket case!!!! | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Corrupticut | | | I've had that Carbonne, DiPiazza, Manring disc for a while and it is outstanding. I think it goes wayyy beyond any kind of wankery. Carbonne plays some amazing sub-bass, Manring is well... Manring, and DiPiazza does his thing in a very musical way. To me, it breaks away from the "Bass Extremes" kind of stuff and is on par with any other jazz trio album. You don't have to be a bass-geek to get it.
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03-02-2006, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by EricTheEZ1 Victor Wooten is where I draw the line between bass and lead bass.
As incredible as he is, that's not really bass. In other words, it doesn't fulfill the bass's role in a band, IMHO.
-Eric. |
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03-02-2006, 01:01 PM
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Sorry guys but, as impressive as the athleticism of the phenomenon is, it sounds like someone throwing a bag of spanners down the stairs. It's mechanically clever but where is the music? The beauty of instrumental tone is what, for me, defines a musicians voice. There is no tone here, no beauty - for me it has no more value than a juggler.  |
03-02-2006, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Rob Palmer Sorry guys but, as impressive as the athleticism of the phenomenon is, it sounds like someone throwing a bag of spanners down the stairs. It's mechanically clever but where is the music? The beauty of instrumental tone is what, for me, defines a musicians voice. There is no tone here, no beauty - for me it has no more value than a juggler. | Hey, juggling is hard 
And I actually liked his tone and execution personally, but I suppose thats all a matter of personal preference. To me it was also very musical. |
03-02-2006, 02:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NC | | | that little guy sitting on his knee is also really good |
03-13-2006, 08:48 PM
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Of course it won't execute the rlole of bass in a band, but as a solo piece it's frighteningly excellent. Although on the oter hand musi supposed to be performed on guitar should be performed on guitar...
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03-13-2006, 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by xgabriel What does this have to do with anything in this thread? | As incredible as that playing was, it's not really playing bass in a way that would fulfill a bassists role. I don't know how else to say it.
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