Bass Videos - Page 499

For you classical music fans out there we found this remarkable video of Boguslaw Furtok and Johannes Stähle performing Giovanni Bottesini’s “Gran Duetto No 2 Finale.” A little history lesson, Bottesini was an Italian Romantic composer (1821-1889), conductor, and a double bass virtuoso. Bottesini is credited as being one of the main virtuoso composers to bring the versatility and beauty...

Here’s a little 4-loop pedal magic by bassist TIMBASSIX, who said “I had a day off… go music.”

Holy smokes, this hardly seems fair. Check out Fabio Valdemarin playing ALL the parts to Chick Corea’s “Got a Match?”

Here’s a rare video gem of Marcus Miller performing a solo at the GRP All Stars Live in Japan. The performance took place in 1980.

Alessio Tori, aka ato71, has quite a few bass playalong videos on his channel, and they’re all killer. Here’s Alessio taking on one of the biggies… Jaco’s killer line from Joni Mitchell’s live Shadows & Light performance of “In France They Kiss on Main Street”. Alessio shares, “Maybe I dared too much but this is such a fantastic line… I...

Today’s video showcases the playing of Marco Rodi, a solo bassist from Montreal. The video shows various segments of a 35-minute live performance. You can get more information on Rodi from his web site or friend him on Facebook and Twitter.

Here we’ve got a great solo by Linley Marthe, during a performance with The Zawinul Syndicate at New Morning in Paris. You can also catch Marthe playing on Hadrien Feraud’s solo album.

In this video, bassist Ric Fierabracci performs a solo in “The Rain Must Fall”, with Yanni in a 1993 performance in Greece. Fierabracci’s extensive musical resume includes having performed, recorded and run the gamut for artists like Chick Corea, Billy Cobham, Dave Weckl, Steve Smith, Mitchel Forman, Bill Evans, Brett Garsed, Phil Turcio, Scott Henderson, George Whitty, Tom Coster, Dave...

As always, we are dedicated to bringing you the latest bass news and introducing you to bass players you may or may not know. Paul Ranieri should be put on your watch list. Ranieri was born in New York City. From his bio with the Eric Stuart Band: “Influenced early on by the music from cartoons, science fiction and monster...

Check out Bill Dickens, the “Buddha of Bass”, showing off his chops and his cool Peavey Cirrus bass!

Here is a video of bassist Tetsuo Sakurai performing a solo piece that sounds like it just landed from outer-space. His Moog-like effects and high chord progressions give a very ambient alien feel, especially since all of that is coming from his bass! Sakurai has 37 albums from working with Casiopea, Jimsaku and as a solo artist.

Since our own Dr. D mentioned slapping the upright in his column, it is only appropriate that we break out some Rock-a-billy videos and introduce you to a killer player at the same time. This is Djordje Stijepovic performing an intense upright slap-bass piece “Atomic Boogie” (wait until get to 1:05). You can check out more on Stijepovic on his...