64th notes...

[arther daily]

You've been playing 3 years and you're scrating on wootens stuff, Cool! I take he doesn't always double thumb out his solos at 160 bpm then?

I've been playing 11 years (apart form the 5 or 6 years where I took too many amphetamines and generally scummed about) and what I've heard from wooten I wouldnt even try to play it!!

Somebody email me an mp3 of some wooten stuff, pleeeeaaaaaase!

[phunkjam]

Yeah, I slap differently than Victor Wooten does. He uses the double thumb which is cool. There's no way I'm as fast as he is, but I've been practicing a whole lot, and I'm getting pretty fast. It's a challenge, but it keeps me on my toes.

[arther daily]

I was running through one of my bands songs yesterday and tried to double up on some of the notes in the break (just for the sake of it)... It was really difficult to get perfected. Later on (in the bath as it happens) I counted the notes/beats in my head and realised I was trying to play 32nd notes, at about 90bpm.

64th notes... no way, certainly not at that bpm with 2 fingers.

I guess it would be easier with a pick?

Oh.. and my slap technique is complete s**t! I have my thumb pointing downwards rather than horizontal, I can get a fairly good slap sound and I can play relatively fast and smooth - and I do get some nice rhythms out, but I dont use it much cause no one really wants to hear it!

Slap is only cool if you're VERY good at it, otherwise it totally sucks (totally IMO of course).

[Erick Lam]

<i>"...i want to play classical thump by victor wooten..." </i>

Maybe the guy is very talented and from what I know of Primus and RHCP, I think it's possible to play SOME within a year. And there's nothing with wanting to play Classical Thump, it doesn't mean one can actually play it.

<i>"...but can't find a tab for it...if anyone can tab that, i would be most grateful"

"btw if 16th notes are hard then i can play really hard ****...i can play 32 notes easy..."</i>

Well, I'd like too hear that! The guy asks for a tab, I wonder if he really knows what 32th notes are.

<i>"...and on a good day i can pluck straight 64th notes"</i>

This one, I just don't believe. One can do something or one doesn't. If he can pluck 64th notes "on a good day", the notes are bound to sound like crap.

BTW, what's the point of 64th notes?

[Zonplayer]

If you have basic slapping/popping skills and can play a Gmaj7/Cmaj scale....Then you can play most of Classical Thump.

[ikickuintheballs]

Ask him to make an mp3 or something of him playing those 64ths. That's what it would take for me to believe.

[The Mock Turtle Regulator]

hmmm- the guy might just record a power drill and say that's him playing 64th notes on his bass.

a guitarist friend says that one of his teachers used to play extremely fast stuff that sounded like a blur of notes, but record it and play it back slowed down so people could distinguish the notes and marvel at his ability.

[arther daily]

"a guitarist friend says that one of his teachers used to play extremely fast stuff that sounded like a blur of notes, but record it and play it back slowed down so people could distinguish the notes and marvel at his ability."

A guitarist, say no more.