This is what happens when you give a guitarist a bass

[BrandonBass]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAxKq0_nhzU

i thought that was pretty cool, technically he can play for almost any metal band

[SuperDuck]

It seemed like he was using the same fingering pattern over and over again. Oh wait... he was a guitar player, after all.

[AcidShred]

Guitarists can take take to bass very quickly. Especially if they use a pick.

[ALiP BoB]

I really dont get bass shredding. They all sound like if you know what i mean...

[The Winkler]

I thought it was really good.

[Neb Maro]

That was pretty pickin awesome.
Not my style, but danged awesome nonetheless.

[trasser]

IMO exremely boring...nothing but technical showoff

[Jeff Martinez]

That's the kind of thing that gets the average crowd going. It's cool that this fella' can play that fast, but I found it to be quite boring.

[Swimming Bird]

He's pretty good, at least in terms of shredding. I'd like to see what else he can do or if he's a one-trick pony, but it was cool.

As for guitarists taking to bass -- it's fine if they understand it's a different instrument, but many don't which leads to crappy bassists and a lot of guys just being straight-ahead rockers with no groove. Most guitarists suck as bassists because the instruments have completely different roles in music despite their similarities and they simply don't get it cause they look down on the bass. Some can pull it off with practice, and some have bass become their true love; remember, Paul McCartney started off as a guitarist.

[fourstringdrums]

Judging from the title I thought it was going to be alot worse. I quite liked it. But then again it was no Joey Dimaio solo

[jady]

Ole'

[marcray]

can't most guitar players do that on any stringed fretted instrument? All the ones I've played with can because they spend 90% of their practise time doing that kinda stuff... and I have no problem with that... ask them to hold down any kind of groove though, no clue... I find most guitar players don't even have a concept of what the bass is, they never payed attention..., the function of the bass player was to stick his tongue out while the way cooler guitar player had smoke coming from the pick-ups... cool dude.

I'm joking guitar players... but to the shredder... listen to James Jamerson on "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone"... it has lots o' notes to keep your fingers nimble, and, more importantly, feel.

[MonetBass]

So what.

[Grueber]

blah blah blah...groove...blah blah blah...Jamerson...blah blah blah...boring...blah blah blah...shred



sounds good, Carles Benevent would be proud

[user101]

I probably couldn't do it half as fast. But doesn't sound good to me. Not on a bass at least.

[Erick Lam]

From reading the comments, I've come to the conclusion that world peace ain't gonna happen soon.

[morf]

I usually back up the guitarists in those thread, but I really dont see the point of doing something like this on bass. For one, it sounds FAR better on a guitar, the bass muddies it up and it doesn't really sound good, though it is impressive (and then again, not that impressive, its not very fast not very technical, like superduck said he's playing the same thing changing only the root).

[chaosMK]

Just sounds like diddly diddly to me.

[ryco]

Noodling doesn't really do much for me, but sometimes I like the loose feel guitarists can get ala Ronnie Wood when he played bass in the Jeff Beck Group. Sounds slinky!

But I don't care for noodling even if the guy is a true bass player.

[Correlli]

sure to be a crowd pleaser. But what do I know, I'm biased