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Official Zon Club Part 4

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#842
That is very interesting about the stretching .I have never heard about it much .It makes perfect sense.I notice bass has become harder for me to play as I have aged.Also have noticed that I can play a lot better after playing for a half hour.I always just pick it up and start playing it without thinking of those things.
I have dedicated a whole evening to watching Michael M performances on utube about a year ago .It was pretty hard to wrap your mind around.He sure has his own thing going.
 
#843
Physically warming your hands up can make a massive difference as well. Before any elongated playing period, put your hands and wrists in a very warm/hot bowl of water for several minutes. I saw a video of Stanley Jordan doing this years ago and tried it myself, and for me it's even better than stretching.
 
#844
Will need to try this. Just got back from the store . Old man winter is batting 1000 with cold temps and -20 or lower windchills. Havent checked just know after 47 years it is damn cold out tonight in Fargo ND. Business as usual . I filled up with gas too but yes I could see where a hot soak would do wonders in comparison to not and no stretching . Seems like iam in love with triads that stretch across six frets lately ,a cold climate tendon tweeker for sure.
 
#846
golower said:
That is very interesting about the stretching .I have never heard about it much .It makes perfect sense.I notice bass has become harder for me to play as I have aged.Also have noticed that I can play a lot better after playing for a half hour.I always just pick it up and start playing it without thinking of those things.

I have dedicated a whole evening to watching Michael M performances on utube about a year ago .It was pretty hard to wrap your mind around.He sure has his own thing going.
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Last year I started wearing wool glove liners when playing, I just cut the fingers off. Warmup is much faster and the thumb glides on the neck back like ice.
 
#847
Was watching parts of that Manring vid . Very inspiring. His intonation execution is pretty flawless . I experienced utmost dedication from an artist to music and his craft in the video and experimention along with innovation. Thanks for sharing that Tsar. Could see there are other vids from the same gathering from some other influential players that I need to check out too.
 
#848
I have never been influenced by how someone spoke about bass as listening to Michael talk about how he felt about bass guitar and music in that clinic.That kind of changed my perception of bass guitar and music a bit.Opened a few windows of thought for me .
 
#849
Michael Manring is such an amazing player, and the sweetest most humble guy as well. I know a lot of players that could take a page out of his book in regards to ego/humility. His playing always floors me, and some of the old windham hill recordings with him playing are still some of my favorite pieces of music ever.

I wanted to share a recent recording with the new (to me) sonus fretless. This is the first tracking I've done with this bass, and I love the way it sits. Its nothing fancy, just a supportive bass line, but the sustain and bottom end is lovely. The sonus went through a demeter tube DI, into a Metric halo ULN8 and protools. I think it had zero post production, as the bass was sounding great. This is on a record a friend is producing to benefit a local food bank. Amazing players all over it, and so far the sales have generated 30,000 meals for local homeless and under-resourced families. Amazing...

cant figure out how to embed the player, so here's the soundcloud link:

https://soundcloud.com/jakewolfmusic/patapan
 
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J.Wolf said:
Michael Manring...
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+1 to all the comments here about Michael... I've met him a few times at NAMM shows and he's the real deal... what an amazing set of life experiences, and he's made full use of all of it.

I love his work as a solo artist as we all do, but I'd also really like to hear him do more work with groups. I've heard recordings in the past of him doing this and I wish he'd be interested to do more (as well as continue the solo stuff of course).

I wanted to share a recent recording with the new (to me) sonus fretless...
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Very nice!

cant figure out how to embed the player, so here's the soundcloud link:

https://soundcloud.com/jakewolfmusic/patapan
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Use the "SOUNDCLOUD" markup instead of the "URL" markup... here you go...

 
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J.Wolf said:
I wanted to share a recent recording with the new (to me) sonus fretless. This is the first tracking I've done with this bass, and I love the way it sits. Its nothing fancy, just a supportive bass line, but the sustain and bottom end is lovely. The sonus went through a demeter tube DI, into a Metric halo ULN8 and protools. I think it had zero post production, as the bass was sounding great. This is on a record a friend is producing to benefit a local food bank. Amazing players all over it, and so far the sales have generated 30,000 meals for local homeless and under-resourced families. Amazing...
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Sweet tone and playing.
 
#852
^ Great track and playing! That bass timbre really gets into your gut. Hats off to the bowed string player(s)!


Total agree re : sustain on the Zon fretless. I feel like it pretty much gives me the power of a synth bass in a much more expressive package.
 
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@Vic : Manring has a lot of session stuff out there, check out a partial list here :

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/michael-manring-mn0000390790/credits

I really recommend his playing with Henry Kaiser's Yo Miles! project, which is just a wonderful group that interprets latter-day Miles Davis tunes. Also, even though I'm not a huge fan of the group Montreux, they're worth checking out just to hear Manring's sympathetic playing. And if you haven't checked out his work with Michael Hedges yet (though you probably have), that is a super fun place to start -- those guys had a nigh-supernatural musical rapport.
 
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tsar nicholas said:
@Vic : Manring has a lot of session stuff out there, check out a partial list here :

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/michael-manring-mn0000390790/credits

I really recommend his playing with Henry Kaiser's Yo Miles! project, which is just a wonderful group that interprets latter-day Miles Davis tunes. Also, even though I'm not a huge fan of the group Montreux, they're worth checking out just to hear Manring's sympathetic playing. And if you haven't checked out his work with Michael Hedges yet (though you probably have), that is a super fun place to start -- those guys had a nigh-supernatural musical rapport.
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Yeah, I should've been more specific... more traditional group stuff with drum kit... like the Alberto Rigoni stuff from '11. Seems like the vast majority of what he does is either solo, or pretty similar sounding stuff like the more recent thing with Halpern, etc. But yeah, the Yo Miles stuff is great and the kind of thing I was talking about.
 
#858
Huge Zon Fan here and an owner of a Hyper bass V, Legacy Elite 8, Legacy elite 5 and a Sonus 5/2. Someone suggested I post this video I recently did with my old band ( reunited for a special cause) on this thread. This song is all with my 5 string Legacy spalted Maple, with some good bass shots. Check it out if you have a sec. :bassist:

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El Bobo said:
Huge Zon Fan here and an owner of a Hyper bass V, Legacy Elite 8, Legacy elite 5 and a Sonus 5/2. Someone suggested I post this video I recently did with my old band ( reunited for a special cause) on this thread. This song is all with my 5 string Legacy spalted Maple, with some good bass shots. Check it out if you have a sec. :bassist:

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Lovely bass! You wrote that just for the de-tuner, right? :p Love that studio, I need those lights in my house.
 
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