The+Bass+Page

=__**Bass Page**__=


 * Hey. I'm the bass player, as you probably guessed and well this is my main area of knowlege...** **I will be the moderator for this page (and wiki in general actually),** **I should be able to answer or get the answer to most of your questions, so just ask!**

//The Bass Player//**
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=__Victor Wooten__=

This is just part of his unique style of bass playing though. Wootens overall technique is astounding and is another main reason why i value him so highly as a bass player. One of the more noticable and complex techniques he uses is the "thumb technique". He uses this in most of his work, as does a well known jazz bass player Marcus Miller. It is an incredible technique and one that so many bass players strive to perfect, but most cant replicate it. I shall talk more about this technique in future. This is not the only technique he uses, he uses many more... some complex and some not so complex. It might be a good idea to study some of the techniques Wooten uses in the video below, and even discuss them on the discussion tab at the top of the page. I also suggest watching and listening carefully to the end of the video, his use of jazz chords is very cool, the progressions he has added fit in perfectly with the song, but adds a different feel to the end of it all... it is a great thing to watch and i hope you can appreciate it. The video starts with part of the song Classical Thump (by himself), and then goes into the very busy version of Amazing Grace. Enjoy.**
 * To start the Bass page off i've got a good video for you to watch, even if your not a bass player. It features a guy called Victor Wooten. He is one of the most musically talented bass players ever to walk this earth (in my opinion at least), and one of the reasons i find his playing so breathtaking is because he manages to take very basic melodys and develop them into very complex patterns and songs, adding in lots of intriquite detail and a wide variety of techniques along the way... making his songs very musically busy (especially if you remember it's just one guy and a bass guitar). The detail and complexity doesn't necissarily come from the melody itself, often in Wootens playing you will find the difficulty comes with playing all the extra notes around the main melody. For example While Wooten is composing, or even improvising, he is constantly thinking about the main melody, the "bass" notes to go with this melody, and all the choke notes and slapping patters which could make up a "drum" part, not only this, but Victor Wooten also trys to add in more subtle parts, like piano and trumpet representations, to name a couple. These parts are harder to listen for and hear, however, they can be picked up upon once you listen closly enough. By any standards, this is a genious way to approach the bass guitar, and it is such an incredible skill, to be able to think about all that while in mid performance is one which im sure most other bass players out there would love to have. Going back to the more noticable extra parts, if you listen carefully enough to the Amazing Grace section of the video you can hear the "drum parts", "bass parts" and of course the melodys that make up this complex version of the well known song. There are of course more instruments that he tries to imitate as i said, this is all part of Wootens style.

//**The Bass Player**//

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