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What is Mohini Dey Playing?

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ole Jason said:
I'm not a big fan of all the fret noise but it's probably hard to avoid with slammed action on a bass like that. My Warwick is the same way... a lot of Mayones basses I've heard seem to have the same sort of Warwick/Spector grindy tone.
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The less I say here, the better. Looks like a nice bass. Sounds like it needs a setup but that's how she always sounds. I guess that's part of her personal style. I like a low action, too, so I get it.
 
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LBS-bass said:
The less I say here, the better. Looks like a nice bass. Sounds like it needs a setup but that's how she always sounds. I guess that's part of her personal style. I like a low action, too, so I get it.
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I’d like to hear your thoughts.

I’ve said some negative things about her in the past, about her hard tone and technique versus musicality ratio. Allowing for the fact that this video was created to show off her explosiveness, I think there are substantial improvements in both tone and musicality. I do feel that some of the “setup” noise was distortion in the recording.

She’s still young. I have faith that she will mature musically. I on the other hand will never develop anything close to that level of technique.
 
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smeet said:
I’d like to hear your thoughts.

I’ve said some negative things about her in the past, about her hard tone and technique versus musicality ratio. Allowing for the fact that this video is meant to show I have to say this was created to show off her explosiveness, I think there are substantial improvements in both tone and musicality. I do feel that some of the “setup” noise was distortion in the recording.

She’s still young. I have faith that she will mature musically. I on the other hand will never develop anything close to that level of technique.
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She has some crazy-level chops, but lacks attention to detail while, somewhat paradoxically, being more of a technician than musically soulful. I 100% agree with you that she has room to mature as a musician and hope she continues to grow.

While I can be a critical listener, I am certainly not in her league, chops-wise, or anywhere near there, but my ear is good and I like to think that I have pretty good feel as a player.

When I was her age, I tried hard not to sexualize myself with revealing clothing because I didn't want people to accuse me of trying to get by on something other than talent. This sort of thing seems to be much more normalized these days, and I suppose I shouldn't blame anyone for pulling out all the stops to compete, but I still find it a bit sad that so many women feel they have to wear a skimpy outfit in order to be noticed. To me it detracts from their real accomplishments, but that's just me being old-fashioned, I suppose.

Other than that, I have no complaints. There are virtuoso players out there who are good players with clean technique and excellent feel. I have nothing against fast chops or great technical playing. She's certainly got some great ability, and room to grow, and I wish her the best in all of that.
 
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As for the bass itself, I would like to hear it with both pickups on. I also hope to play a Mayones. I know Chicago Music Exchange is a dealer. Ironically, I was in Chicago Saturday, but it was a quick train trip for business only with no time to check out gear in music stores.
 
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I like Mayones’ Fender style basses, especially the Hadrien Feraud Signature basses.
 
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smeet said:
I’d like to hear your thoughts.

I’ve said some negative things about her in the past, about her hard tone and technique versus musicality ratio. Allowing for the fact that this video is meant to show I have to say this was created to show off her explosiveness, I think there are substantial improvements in both tone and musicality. I do feel that some of the “setup” noise was distortion in the recording.

She’s still young. I have faith that she will mature musically. I on the other hand will never develop anything close to that level of technique.
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You and me both, but I do take some comfort in the fact that technique is only a means to an end and provided one has well developed musical sensibilities, one can still be a very serviceable player without stratospheric chops (which clearly, Ms Dey has in abundance).

Anthony Jackson, my life-long bass hero, once said of Joe Osborn, another bass hero (...from an interview in Bass Player magazine, circa 1992, and I'm paraphrasing...) "Joe's note count was always on the low side, but those notes defined a universe rather than a playpen".

I've always liked that. By today's standards, Joe didn't have stratospheric chops. Heck he didn't even have stratospheric chops by '70's standards, but I've seldom heard a bass player who could play for a song like him.

He gives me hope that someone like myself - i.e. who's never really been interested in developing lightning chops because his attention span has always been on the short side, but loves playing for the song with good time, touch, feel and tone - still has something to bring to the table.
 
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ToddB1963 said:
You and me both, but I do take some comfort in the fact that technique is only a means to an end and provided one has well developed musical sensibilities, one can still be a very serviceable player without stratospheric chops (which clearly, Ms Dey has in abundance).

Anthony Jackson, my life-long bass hero, once said of Joe Osborn, another bass hero (...from an interview in Bass Player magazine, circa 1992, and I'm paraphrasing...) "Joe's note count was always on the low side, but those notes defined a universe rather than a playpen".

I've always liked that. By today's standards, Joe didn't have stratospheric chops. Heck he didn't even have stratospheric chops by '70's standards, but I've seldom heard a bass player who could play for a song like him.

He gives me hope that someone like myself - i.e. who's never really been interested in developing lightning chops because his attention span has always been on the short side, but loves playing for the song with good time, touch, feel and tone - still has something to bring to the table.
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I wish I still had those issues because Anthony Jackson is quite a writer in addition to being a G.O.A.T. level bassist.
 
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ToddB1963 said:
You and me both, but I do take some comfort in the fact that technique is only a means to an end and provided one has well developed musical sensibilities, one can still be a very serviceable player without stratospheric chops (which clearly, Ms Dey has in abundance).

Anthony Jackson, my life-long bass hero, once said of Joe Osborn, another bass hero (...from an interview in Bass Player magazine, circa 1992, and I'm paraphrasing...) "Joe's note count was always on the low side, but those notes defined a universe rather than a playpen".

I've always liked that. By today's standards, Joe didn't have stratospheric chops. Heck he didn't even have stratospheric chops by '70's standards, but I've seldom heard a bass player who could play for a song like him.

He gives me hope that someone like myself - i.e. who's never really been interested in developing lightning chops because his attention span has always been on the short side, but loves playing for the song with good time, touch, feel and tone - still has something to bring to the table.
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This right here. I'll sacrifice speed for feel and musicality and never think twice. I think if you're going to go for speed, ultimately you have to bring all of it, because speed alone does not really work, at least not for me.
 
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