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Best fingerstyle bassists?
- Thread starter RicPlaya
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For content, I'll go with Jamerson or Jack Bruce. Bruce plays with one finger, doing figure eights across the strings.
For sheer technique, I have to go with Billy Sheehan. I went to one of his clinics. Everything he does has very minimal movement of the hand and fingers. He's got all eight fingers in synch.
Second nod has to go with Mars Cowling from Pat Travers.
For sheer technique, I have to go with Billy Sheehan. I went to one of his clinics. Everything he does has very minimal movement of the hand and fingers. He's got all eight fingers in synch.
Second nod has to go with Mars Cowling from Pat Travers.
Well, theres the usual geddy lee, flea, lots of jazz bassists.
Check out some iron maiden. He plays some pretty sweet stuff, all finger style. I think aces high was the first one I learned.
Check out some iron maiden. He plays some pretty sweet stuff, all finger style. I think aces high was the first one I learned.
Check out these guys
Steve Harris - Iron Maiden
Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath
Aston Familyman Barrett - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Ronnie McQueen - Steel Pulse
John Patitucci
Larry Gales - Thelonious Monk (Underground album)
Sean Malone - Gordian Knot,Cynic
Stanley Clarke
John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin
Tony Levin - King Crimson,Peter Gabriel
Hope this can help you a little bit
Steve Harris - Iron Maiden
Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath
Aston Familyman Barrett - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Ronnie McQueen - Steel Pulse
John Patitucci
Larry Gales - Thelonious Monk (Underground album)
Sean Malone - Gordian Knot,Cynic
Stanley Clarke
John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin
Tony Levin - King Crimson,Peter Gabriel
Hope this can help you a little bit
You want finger style...check out this cat from Germany, his name is Gerald Reese, ...go to SLAPRING.COM..then click on english, then click on sound&video, then click on funky fingers...enjoy the show...this cat is fast...maybe not as fast as victor wooten, but i like his style..this funk fusion stuff sure is sweet!
Jimmy Haslip! Wow. What a monster. His take on 'Havona' from the Jaco tribute CD 'Revisited' is something else. Woosh!
Good list, some key players from the metal world.
I'd also mention Tyr of Borknagar and Lars Norberg of Spiral Architect. (They've also both toured in Satyricon but that's less impressive, IMO)
while his technique is not purely fingerstyle, I just caught Dominique Di Piazza... yowza! Mike Pope gets around them strings pretty well, too!
from the depths,
Stew
from the depths,
Stew
The God-like genius of the late great..........
Clifford Lee Burton.
AND his spiritual sucessor,Robert Trujillo!!!!
Dixie
Clifford Lee Burton.
AND his spiritual sucessor,Robert Trujillo!!!!
Dixie
the list can go on and on, but alot of names have already been given. ill contribute a nomination for Tom Kennedy though. he's amazingly fast and clean and tasteful. he holds down the low end in the Dave Weckl Band. killer player.
oh, man! how could I have forgotten the mighty Tom Kennedy?!? that is a bad, bad man!
from the lows,
Stew
