Fretless bass
Summary
- Introduction
- Improvisation Ibanez #1
- Improvisation Ibanez #2
- Improvisation Ibanez #3
- Improvisation Fender
- Slide
- Vibrato
- Pat Metheny - Last train home
- Composition - Canon chromatique
- Composition - « Horror and mysterious bass groove»
- Style Gary Willis - #1
- Style Gary Willis - #2
- Style Gary Willis - #3
- Style Steve Bailey
- Jaco Pastorius - « Kuru »
- Traditionnal - Greensleeves
- Alain Caron - Solitude (News)
Introduction
The fretless bass is a bass guitar without fret. It's more expressiv, like a violon or cello, but, you should have a good intonation.
There is fretless with or without fret marks.
Cort B4
Ibanez GWB35
Improvisation Ibanez GWB1005 #1
Improvisation Ibanez GWB1005 #2
The slide is a very important technique on fretless bass. Play a note normally, and slide your finger to the next note. It can be ascending or descending.
Other important technique on fretless bass, the vibrato. It makes the charm of fretless instruments. The violinists or cellists use this technique.
For that, you should play a note and quickly rotate the finger in one direction then the other, by rotating the wrist.
Pat Metheny - Last train home (cover)
Composition - « Canon chromatique »
Here my second composition with my new jazz bass. It's a canon with some chromatismes.
Improvisation Fender Jazz Bass 62 Japan
A wonderful song from the first album.
Composition - «Horror and mysterious bass groove»
A beautiful theme from his two Cds « Conversations » and « 5 ».