This is the coolest bass solo I've ever heard.

Mike Perlowin · From: Los Angeles CA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkZMlP7SRKk
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David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

It's a purdy tune, but as another poster alluded to sometime, somewhere, it does kind of get a bit... tiring, to me. J.S. Bach's cello & violin suites are worth learning to play because it makes you smarter, but this constant

Barry Blackwood · Posted 4 Nov 2011 7:52 am

I liked it, but then I haven't heard the other 24,000 renditions. I'm curious as to how the bass is tuned here. Is it like a 6-string guitar, or different?

Mike Anderson · From: British Columbia, Canada

Peter Freiberger · From: California, USA

And then there's this guy, who had me and countless other bass players pulling the frets out of our Jazz basses until we realized there was and could only ever be one of him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdqje73KQwg

Jerry Overstreet · From: Louisville Ky

I couldn't see the video Peter, but from your description I assume it must be Jaco Question

Frank Freniere · From: The First Coast

Here's mine! It starts slowly but...

Peter Freiberger · From: California, USA

Excellent, Frank! Here's another great one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmU_m2pE8I

Dave Hopping · From: Aurora, Colorado

Interesting,Mike....A musician doing something the learning of which makes him a better musician,rather than the next pop sensation.Cool to watch someone doing that.Thanks!

Dave Little · From: Atlanta

Earnest Bovine · From: Los Angeles CA USA

David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

Well, I hate to be the grump (not that that ever...) but why did he post it and why did I watch it? It's good for him, but there are even for-sale transcriptions available for the bass fingerings to play the cello suites. Bach wrote the 6 violin sonatas & partitas and the cello suites as combination theory and technique practices for his music students. Which says something about the state of music education today, in the early parts of the last century (oh now i know why ima grump) these were performed at cello and violin recitals - by 8th graders.

I mean I love this stuff, I try to get to bits and pieces (practice and listening) of Bach at least once a week, but to my ear, it takes the fire of an Eliot Fisk or Henryk Szeryng, or at least the thoughtfulness of Harnoncourt or Milstein, to make these into interesting performance pieces. I certainly don't mean the swoopy "romantic" moodring fizz (Perlman!), but Martin Motnik can read and remember music, basses sound better and play easier than ever... it's nice for him, but not especially for me. Here's John Patitucci making music out of the same piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx9Tp8oRu9w&feature=related
I'm getting some horrid digital distortion & some weird echo artifact, but you can still can hear the there there.

I'm not all mean, here's some more there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xB_X9BOAOU

Earnest Bovine · From: Los Angeles CA USA

David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

I am convinced that I am a better musician because of the computer, and the internet. I'm not at all sure I can say this includes time spent on YouTube. One more "gee whiz!" after another. There's some value in downloading sheet music, and finding out about new bands, and most certainly the forum knowledge base about equipment and learning methods is impressive - you hardly ever have to figure anything out on your own!* And because I have the computer on for at least a few hours daily to meet the rent, I thrive on the live concert archives like sugarmegs.org and the "radio stations" like MusicIndiaOnline.

And surely the samples available on YouTube are helpful - in moderation? And humans are above all a moderate species, and people who watch lots of Fox News and MSNBC think they know a lot about what's going on in the world.

I've had some guitar students who were constitutionally unable to relate to anything that wasn't online, they'd come bounding over "You gotta turn on your computer I gotta show you this!" And it would be some scale finder program where you type in "G#" and "harmonic minor" and a little series of dots would appear on the screen. And I'd say "but you don't know the G# harmonic minor scale" and they'd point to the screen. It's right there. And I'd say "but you don't even know what it sounds like" and they say you just push that button and it will play. How cool. And I wonder how easy it's going to be to develop a style based upon personal choices, when you "get to" look up all 85 other versions of "Autumn Leaves", "the Star Spangled Banner" or the Chaconne in D minor. And seriously - you can't help but look them up and you know it.

I'm getting the Big Creepies that something critically important is getting lost when music is no longer precious, expensive, mysterious, "worth waiting for", and requiring some effort to find - and I strongly suspect that tomorrow's real virtuosos will be the kids blessed with the slowest download speeds, not the fastest. This meat-based cognition of mine, how sad & dinosauric, huh?

*(Um.)

John Ed Kelly · From: Victoria, Australia

To be fair, I guess we are looking at videos of bass guitar players here.

Then again, you can have a bass version of most things............however.......

I took a peek at these showings because I thought they were of double bass performances. Now if a double bass player was able to play in this fashion I'd be rightfully impressed.

I think that the BG is probably a far easier thing to get around on than a double bass and, we are really just looking at players of guitars with big fat strings? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Of course I don't disrespect the BG, check out Victor Wooten at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ByItpr2XY&feature=related

Justin Jacobson · From: Rochester, MN

I've always been convinced that Mark Sandman was one of the most talented and underrated bass players. I can't think of another player who has a sound even close to as unique and plain awesome as him and his band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1iTZItBzGY

Gary Walker · From: Morro Bay, CA

They're all so great but Jeff Berlin has kept me amazed for quite a while. I don't mind his string buzz as I like the crisp stringy tone he gets, thanks Pete.

b0b · From: Cloverdale, CA, USA

I didn't like it much. I prefer the versions by Yo-Yo Ma (on cello) or Edgar Meyer (on double bass).

I think it's mostly the tone of his instrument that I don't like. It doesn't have a lot of dimension to it. Lots of fundamental notes but not many overtones. Nature of the beast, I guess.

Also, I felt that his timing was too strict. Maybe that's the modern style but I like looser phrasing.
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