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06-22-2009, 06:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Metro D.C. and Brooklyn, NY | | | uuuummmm....this guy is insane...
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06-22-2009, 06:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: OOOOSA! | | | The finish is worn off of his bass. He must practice a lot.
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06-22-2009, 06:12 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Gravity Picks | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ohio/West Virginia | | Looks to be a Yamaha of some sort. Pretty good slapper.. 
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06-22-2009, 07:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Pretty cool. But I didn't take anything away from that "lesson" other than I need to practice more...
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06-22-2009, 07:35 PM
|  | Looking for Opportunities to Create Harmony | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada | | | Dude must have a bionic arm!
Wow, he was moving fast.
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06-22-2009, 07:40 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | I had a feeling it was this guy. 
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06-22-2009, 08:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Socorro, NM | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike  I had a feeling it was this guy. | +1 there's a part 2 and 3 as well lol.
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06-23-2009, 09:10 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Harkte Amps | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | | I hope he gets paid by the note! =) |
06-23-2009, 09:20 AM
| | | | I applaud his dedication to perfecting his technique.
He is certainly good at complex slapping.
The only serious problem is finding an audience that would like to hear such busy slapping.
I personally prefer the old school style of slap.
I mean no disrespect. Its just not the most melodic form of musical expression.
However, it is fun for the person playing it. 8)
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06-23-2009, 10:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Indianapolis, IN, USA | | | I have a friend who has worn similar holes in the finish on his Kubicki.
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06-24-2009, 04:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Tucson, AZ. | | Video sounded alright starting off. Too bad a lot of these slap bass videos getting out there now turn into a guy having an epileptic fit on his bass towards the end. Sounded like complete noise in the last minute or so. Looked cool and fast though at least. I don't know, after watching videos of someone great like Marcus Miller or Les Claypool using slap bass techniques and someone like this guy, it's almost like night and day between the two groups. You watch Miller or Claypool and you are treated to a show that while technical, doesn't come off with an air of showing off or trying to flail as fast as humanly possible, music and melodic attempt be damned. They don't try to do too much all at once making it sound like a car accident or train wreck. I don't know really. Each time I see a video like this, it really turns me more and more off on slap bass in general. While I do quite enjoy the tone, I don't want to scare potential band mates away preemptively with this kind of stuff. To each their own I suppose  Probably wont be liked much after that one. 
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06-24-2009, 05:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Steele City, NE | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DblG Pretty cool. But I didn't take anything away from that "lesson" other than I need to practice more... |
Yeah, terrible "lesson". Great playing though.
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06-24-2009, 06:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Norwich, Norfolk, UK | | | Agreed. A pretty bad 'lesson' from what I could see (but then I don't speak his language) - the only thing that video taught me was that the guy in it is much better than me. A good incentive to practice more, though. I would like to be able to play like him. There is no doubt he is a great player though. I enjoyed that. I kind of agree with Freelancer about some of the comments he made, though; mainly that there is a point where it just began to sound sort of random and incoherent, and it is right about there that I, personally, begin to lose interest. I did watch the whole thing, though, and liked it. It was cool. |
06-24-2009, 07:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cincinnati OH | | | The guy has developed some amazing technique...however, he lost the groove in several places spots and, like many of these flashy slappers, seems mainly interested in seeing how many notes he can crowd into a measure rather than doing anything particularly musical.
The more I see of this stuff, the more it re-affirms my decision not to go down that road.
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06-24-2009, 08:14 AM
| | | As an exercise in bassturbation its pretty self justifying, I prefer this one of his - it seems closer to a musical statement, but still... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qwgk...eature=channel
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06-24-2009, 08:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Boston | | | I like music.
That isn't music.
Though, I guess it was in the context of a "lesson" |
06-24-2009, 01:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Racine,Wi | | | DAMN! he's good. VERY good. Period.
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06-24-2009, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by nysbob ...he lost the groove in several places... | I'm SO glad I'm not the only one that thinks that he's not playing "with" the drummer/loop . . . it really doesn't matter WHAT you're playing, if it's not "groovin'", what's the point? |
06-24-2009, 02:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Washington, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nysbob The guy has developed some amazing technique...however, he lost the groove in several places spots and, like many of these flashy slappers, seems mainly interested in seeing how many notes he can crowd into a measure rather than doing anything particularly musical.
The more I see of this stuff, the more it re-affirms my decision not to go down that road. | For the most part, I typically appreciate this type of playing. Probably since it is so different than what I do. But in this case it didn't do anything for me. He seemed to try to do some of Wootens riffs, but not nearly as polished or rhythmic.
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06-24-2009, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Troy, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by 51m0n | I like this one better, has a lot more melody.
It may have a melody but it's being pushed out of the way by all the other unnecessary wankery
that being said I don't know if I'll ever be able to play like him...
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