...Well, I guess if you only aspire to play bass for YouTube.Really? Talk to a concert pianist about that - you might learn something - you need to.
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That would be NO again. There are tons of clips up there of CONCERTS with top tier Indian musicians including the thing I just posted. She's a star over there. The sitar player is Purbayan Chatterjee - you can read about him up there.
And you can read about her here, for starters:
Jazz in India : Mohini Dey Jazz in India
Mohini Dey, daughter of bass player Sujoy Dey, has been described as prodigy by many acclaimed musicians and has already been making waves in the music scene in India. Born in 1996, Mohini is probably the youngest bass player in India having such a busy schedule and an already successful career. She started learning bass guitar at the tender age of 3 and started doing concerts and recordings at the age of 10.
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That would be NO again.
I'm not making any judgements about specific performers. That girl's success is well earned and deserved.
I was making a point about music in general.
Composing and writing music has always been more profitable than wiggling your fingers very fast. From Jaco to Paganini, the greatest technical innovators are remembered more for the songs they wrote. Almost any competent bass player can learn to play Continum or Portrait of Tracy, but who amongst us could write such beautiful songs?
Looked more like bass gymnastics to me. So with that in mind, I'll give him a 9 on execution, a 3 on style, and a 1 for musicality.
He plays what the guitar also plays, so you slow down the */%$ out the music and learn it.
Opinion. We can all have them. Deal with it.
I'm OK with noise. Used to listen to Einstüzende Neubauten, and still like the sound of a freight train going by. What I no longer appreciate is the darkness and negativity. We have enough of that.
Dude can play, though. Respect. I'll never reach that level of achievement in any field.
The fact is that it is music. The opinion is you don't like it.
a : the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity
b : vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony
Yes, it's music. It's just not "good" music.
b : vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony
Yes, it's music. It's just not "good" music.
I liked that first one. Very musical, although all were music per se. Maybe my next binge listening bender will be Teramobil.
Well that's very subjective, to me and a few other people it is good music, to you and some other people isn't. It's not definitely good or bad, it's just opinable
The guy has skill. Would love to hear the bass track isolated. I wonder how he'd do playing a motown groove
That's what happens to the rest of the band when the bass player rests for two measures.
- What did Jamerson write? What did Chuck Rainey write? What did Jack Casady write? The list goes on...
- Jaco's "theme song" was The Chicken - he didn't write it.
- Who played it that way first? That's the important thing.
- That material impresses people but doesn't represent Jaco's real contributions to the art of electric bass, any more than Blackbird or Yesterday represents Macca's.
- Who's talking about profit?
- Fast is not the point at all, as demonstrated by the OP's video. You can be tone deaf and play fast. We don't evaluate greatness by how fast somebody plays. (At most it might be one aspect of judging the chops of a great player but it's by no means the most important factor.) Nobody's going to remember the guy in the OP video.
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