This man made me fall in love with slap.

[Lorenzini]

Sounds like Victor Wooten meets Marcus Miller, he has a nice touch.

It sounds more like Victor Wooten meets Carles Benavent.
Total flamenco flavor coming through in this playing.

If he doesn't have a good paying gig, someone needs to give him one.

It's a very distinct, beautiful and I believe, difficult style. Here's Carles playing similar chordal stuff : I'm not talking about comparison of slapping/popping! Just the sliding chordal style and harmony underlying the whole thing.

 

[arai]

really smooth, nice

 

[Chris Ramlar]

I'm not big fan of slap but this man is awesome, totally puts his soul in his fingers

 

[arai]

I'm not big fan of slap but this man is awesome, totally puts his soul in his fingers

yeah dont show your girl friend what he can do wit his fingers

 

[Shockwave]

Stupendous playing. Very very nice.

 

[Rhythm5]

Wow!

 

[Modo74]

Apart from everything else, I love what he's doing with the harmonics there. Really fills the tune out.

 

[Woodchuck]

VERY musical!

 

[Alan Vorse]

Melodic. Not wanky.

 

[Asaf]

Here you can hear him better :
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click on sound 1 / sound 2

great stuff...

 

[Spector_Ray]

I like the nice subtle use of harmonics. I can hear a little bit of Steve Bailey in there as well.

Edit: I've watched this video about 10 times in a row now and he doesn't need any other instruments in that piece. He provides his own percussion and everything. That's some really great playing!

 

[animal52]

If I had to nominate someone for the "coolness of a bassist to you" thread, it would be that dude. Wootenish, but more melodic. Just awesome.

 

[Beast]

Fantastic, I'm in the same boat as you, all that clanky bright snappy slap bass just sounded ridiculous to me. That man saved slap for me. Wonder what kind of EQ settings he's using and such.

 

[dannoman]

Great, now im really regretting selling my bass like that......


Cool vid though and great player...

 

[phxlbrmpf]

Wow, that guy kicks butt!

 

[BassJunkie730]

THIS GUY

Makes me feel strange things when I hear him slap.

the OP's guy is cool. But for me - it's all about Larry

 

[ROON]

Time for a haircut buddy!

 

[Vin_MM_Sabre_79]

I'd give him 10 bucks.

 

[Hoover]

I don't like slap, or I didn't. It seemed to always be grouse. Grouse as in overdone, over the top, too much.

I'm curious as to the etymology of that word "grouse".

Are you misspelling "gross", as in the colloquial abbreviation for "grotesque", or do you literally mean "grouse" as in the wild game bird?

 

[Wonder]

Bravo, Bravo, Magnifico!!!