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JP Basses 12-string all finished!

#122
Kcorren said:
Here's an example of a Scott Joplin Rag on a Bass
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fduv3nF-kFA
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See,there you have it.Thats what I'm talking about now who's going to step up and do a version of I'm Just Wild About Harry(Harriet) :) on Bass?and not to discredit Jean but I've seen that technique applied to Bass from other Bass players for some time now.
 
#124
Not for nothing, but Charlie Hunter has been doing something like this for quite some time now. Yes, Jazz, not TV show themes, or ragtime or fuzak or Bach, but still contrapuntal, bass and chording and melody, extended-range, and tapping. It just seems odd that he gets little or no notice here on TB. Maybe it's because he doesn't have enough strings (only 8!), or call the instrument an ERB. (Which I would call an ERG anyway, not that the name should matter.) Or maybe just nobody's heard of him. But he grooves on that thing!
 
#126
mark beem said:
To play "Devil's Advocate" here in order to help some understand these instruments better let me pose the question;Why would a person want to hear a Scott Joplin piano rag on anything other than a piano?
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I think the most important question here is: Is there actually anyone out there who still wants to hear a Joplin rag?

Oh, and in case I haven't posted in this thread yet, Killer Bass :bassist:
Beau Travail JP!
 
#127
Phil Mastro said:
Is there actually anyone out there who still wants to hear a Joplin rag?
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I'm sure there are people who would love to hear modern interpretations of Rag time music done in what could be perceived as respectful and creatively done just like there are people who love some of the modern interpretations of classical music.
 
#128
well playing up in the higher registers was something before jaco, that no one had ever done before, and was considered "not bass". and at the end of the jaco instructional video, he holds a chord and with his left hand he taps the root on the E string. so he didn't employ the exact two hand thing, but he might of later if he didn't die, who knows?

oh and sweet ass bass.

Jaco only used four, because that is all that he could afford and was available to him.
 
#130
Of course we owe all of this tapping crazyness to Emmett Chapman. Anyone who denies this fact, denies their own existance. Let's give him a prop or two, shall we? The 12 string tapping instrument is nothing new. A 12 string bass that you can pluck, slap and have trouble muting the low strings on IS new however. That bass looks rad and I'm sure sounds great as well. I hear guys all the time that can play super fast, but let all their non-used strings ring out. Not impressive at all. I say more power to ya with that bass, but the ringing strings are my only concern. I'm sure you've come up with a technique to do this. I use thumb trailing on my 6 string basses, but you eventually run out of thumb. Do you just keep going to your elbow? I'm not dogging this kind of thing at all, heck I almost bought a 9 string at NAMM 6 years ago when NOBODY was even thinking about 9 string except Bill Dickens and a few others. The mechanics of this 12 string just has me wondering. Please enlighten us.
 
#131
steve4765630 said:
Of course we owe all of this tapping crazyness to Emmett Chapman. Anyone who denies this fact, denies their own existance. Let's give him a prop or two
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I give Emmett mad props but during the baroque period there were a slew of instruments that were tapped entirely and enough musicians of the period that were more than talented enough to do so and if one were to take a look at some of those instruments you could say that they resemble what we know today as the Chapman Stick.
 
#135
I'm certainly not saying that Emmett was the first to tap, I'm just saying that he was one of the pioneers. He also did something about it by making his own instruments. That's all.

About the 9 string. We all may have been looking at that same bass. I was about to buy the Warrior 9 string at the NAMM show in 2000. Maybe that's the one you ended up with.

I would like to hear this 12 string though. It looks like it's got some telephone pole wires on it. I wanna hear that low string!
 
#136
Jean is actually in France, enjoying his trip after the masterclass and taking good times in Paris. Be sure he will comment his new baby.

I had chance to play it all this week-end, and it's just an awesome instrument. Used to play on 7 strings, i wasn't lost at all on the Sheep.
 
#139
Why not get a piano ????? Well that's right, and why did YOU get a bass whereas you can play basslines on a tuba or bass-clarinet ?

Actually, can you slide, bend, play harmonics and ghost notes, fingerstyle, slap or tap on a piano ?

The musicians we are talking about here are bass players in heart. This is the instrument they prefer to express themselves with. Extending their range is just like getting a larger flat... getting more space to live in.

I was at the masterclass saturday, the JP-12 sounded great, and I did not hear anything sounding like playing piano.
 
#140
Jean is still here with us enjoying his last hours eating Nutella :D :D

He performed demos in two parisian bass shops on friday and one demo + Masterclass with our association bAziC'

For someone who did only spend 1 hours with a brand new instrument before his first show he just did AMAZING!!

I am in owe I had the opportunity to share those moments with such a great musician and person and that I was able to see and hear him play that so particular baby of mine!!!

Life can be real good sometimes!!

Thanks Jean !!!!!!!


Peace,
JP- President founder of the Chat Bite Team
 

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