Solo Bass Archives - Page 37

Here’s French bassist Sébastien Husson, aka The BassistiK, performing a clip from one of his recent compositions. Husson has a ton of great bass clips out there. Check out his Youtube page for more.

LEDs? Headless bass? Must be Mark King doing his thing.

Here’s bassist Christopher Thomas performing one of his original compositions, “Wishing Well”, for solo bass. (Tuning: EADGC)

Stu Hamm’s take on the Led Zeppelin classic, “Going to California.” [Editor’s note: check out our transcription of this performance.]

Stuart Clayton has released his latest bass method book, Solo Arrangements for Electric Bass. The book includes a selection of solo arrangements for a variety of popular songs, including the theme from The Simpsons, made famous by Clayton in one of the most popular videos ever featured on No Treble. Each arrangement includes a full breakdown of the various techniques...

In today’s featured video, Richard Bona performs his tune “Dina Lam”, from the 2003 album Munia: The Tale.

While this isn’t the highest quality video out there, we couldn’t pass up the chance to feature it. Bassist Viaceslav Svedov took Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” and Marcus Miller’s “Power” and mashed it up into a great solo bass performance.

Here’s bassist Miles Hancock, performing an original solo bass composition for the BOSS Loop Station contest.

Here’s another video gem featuring Jaco Pastorius. This solo was performed during a Weather Report concert in 1978 in Washington, DC and includes a cool version of Jaco’s famous “Slang” solo and Hendrix’s Band of Gypsy references.

Vincenzo “Viz” Maurogiovanni does some pretty cool chordal bass adaptations of classic American songs, such as Burt Bacharach’s “Magic Moments”:

Animosity bassist Evan Brewer recently uploaded this slap bass video as a preview of a solo bass CD he’s working on.

Here’s bassist Adam Nitti performing the solo from “Fritter Boy” in studio. The tune is from his album, Balance.