Something completely different and really nice.

Homepage of this guy

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Just found on YouTube copy of Jaco Pastorius “Modern Electric Bass” instructional video. I recommend to everyone to save all parts of it using “Download Helper“, because legitimate of this video there is questionable.

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Bass solos are like a dancing bear. It’s not that the bear is a great dancer, it’s that the bear dances at all. Jaco Pastorius, Johnny B. Gayton, and a few others could be considered the Fred Astaires of dancing bears and the exceptions that prove the rule. All other mere mortals pay homage to the pocket and groove.

from A Jam Manifesto

LOL

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This and much more videos (including Bx3) are available on BassPlayer.TV

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What you’ll get if you mix surfing board with bass – Jerzy Drozd Legend X. Custom 10 strings beauty for Yves Carbonne. My 6-stringer looks now like something small and very easy-playable.

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This is repost from my old blog, but I think it will be useful here.

This week I asked on talkbass.com about sitting position. Today I’ve reviewed several videos and here is answer of bass pros.
All of them (except Gary Willis. He keeps bass on central position) use right leg.

To switch or not to switch…

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One of my big influences to become bassist was Anatoliy Krupnov and his thrash band “Black Obelisk“. There are plenty of articles written about Anatoliy and history of “Black Obelisk” you can read on their site. Here is just random set of videos with this great bassist. All of his bass lines, fast or slow, complex or simple always perfect from first note till last one. He had He died in 1997 from heart attack in the studio while recording his solo album. Black Obelisk died with him. Right now Black Obelisk up from the ash and their “Green Album” is more like progressive metal than thrash one. Very professional and musical album.

Here is some Black Obelisk videos from YouTube:

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Joe Satriani Live in San Francisco

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Two more videos with Bill “The Buddha” Dickens and his band. I’m shocked.

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