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04-26-2007, 06:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Valparaíso, Chile | | | hey check out this young bassist, he totally rocks tha bass!!!
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04-26-2007, 09:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hillsboro, Tx | | | i love virtuoso and solo bass playing, and that guy was good, but he had no groove, imo. but he can double thump, so that makes him good, right? jk. good player. needs groove.
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04-26-2007, 10:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Woodlands, Texas | | Very nice
He had good articulation with his double thumping/popping or whatever he was doing. A lot of times it can sound sloppy if the player doesn't have the chops.
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04-27-2007, 03:04 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Talented kid but he needs someone to teach him how to play actual music on the bass. Once that happens, there will be no stopping him.
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04-27-2007, 02:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | He was clean, but there was no groove in that at all.
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04-27-2007, 02:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: L.A., as in Lower Arkansas! | | Quote:
Originally Posted by iamlowsound He was clean, but there was no groove in that at all.
lowsound | +1!
And besides, who you gonna sell that to? You can't dance to it!
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04-27-2007, 02:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas | | | Sorry. That's not music.
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04-27-2007, 02:54 PM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyM Talented kid but he needs someone to teach him how to play actual music on the bass. Once that happens, there will be no stopping him. | +1. Not very musical, but good chops. |
04-27-2007, 03:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | Too sloppy and no sense of time. He has a lot of potential, but needs a teacher or mentor to help him learn what playing music is about.
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04-27-2007, 03:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas | | I don't see how anyone that can gain that much technique without gaining any sense of time or feel can be said to have any more potential than anyone else.
Technique without musicality is about as useful as tits on a boar.
Kinda like being able to shoot a single-action revolver really fast and missing your target every time, to give y'all a Texas-style analogy. 
God bless him, though. I hope he takes an interest in music and learns to put that technique to use.
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04-27-2007, 03:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | | If he's having fun , thats cool . But to me , being a bassist thats grown up in this decade , it sounds so similar to everything else everyone is doing. EVeryone wants to turn up the treble knob , slap , double thumb . No one seems to want to just groove. I guess its all about what you like. I like the groove . |
04-27-2007, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | May 23, 2007? this hasnt happened yet? |
04-27-2007, 04:28 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Sloppy and with no real melody at all. I love solo bass if the guy playing is talented. Wooten is a great example of how make great music doing this stuff, this guy just makes a mess! |
04-27-2007, 04:48 PM
| | | +1 to no groove
When he started off with the harmonics, I thought he was goin to do a cover of Wooten's version of 'Amazing Grace.' I was severely disappointed when he just started thumping and poping away on his bass with no rhythm or groove at all.
I don't have his chops, but at least I can groove. If I wanted to hear someone mindlessly playing chops and licks, I could just go to my local GC 
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04-27-2007, 04:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Hattiesburg, MS 39401 | | | It seems like this guys is double-thumbing to double-thumb. He does it because he can, not because it is what he hears. |
04-27-2007, 05:13 PM
| | | | Great technique indeed...but i feel i do more just by playing the 5 notes of Black Dog chorus.
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04-29-2007, 10:54 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Technical yes. Musical? I vote no.
I hear Wooten do that stuff...Miller...and a bunch others...my foot starts to tap.
Don't let the trees block your view of the forest.
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04-29-2007, 02:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Woodlands, Texas | | | "not musical" seems to be a pretty popular response. Just wondering if anyone would like to elaborate on that. |
04-29-2007, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Bothell, Seattle area | | | He could simplify it some, make it more "musical", and play it along with a drummer keeping a light and simple beat. As far as simply playing to show off what you can do, doesn't do much for me, but with some maturity the guy has potential. |
04-29-2007, 03:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF (North) Bay Area | | | I agree with the "not musical" perspective... however, there's a young guy in Northern Cali that plays in a bass and drums duo called Toast Machine that ya'll ought to hear though. I don't think he's got anything on youtube, but I give him a call to see if he can post something. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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