| Author | Message | ||
| tbrannon
Senior Member Username: tbrannon Post Number: 1365 Registered: 11-2004 |
Just wandered across this while stumbling around YouTube. Perhaps you've already heard it... if not, pretty amazing playing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEI_vzI_CWQ | ||
| terryc
Senior Member Username: terryc Post Number: 1582 Registered: 11-2004 |
Sorry but that just doesn't sound like a bass..is using a bass/guitar hybrid string set?? Sounds far too guitarry if you see what I mean. great playing though | ||
| pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 616 Registered: 6-2006 |
Sounds like HB3's sound to me. Maybe he can chime in on his strings/ setup. | ||
| tmoney61092
Senior Member Username: tmoney61092 Post Number: 703 Registered: 9-2008 |
i've watched a couple of that guy's videos and he's very talented, he's definitely using piccolo strings and his specific tuning depends on what piece he's playing as i read in a reply to one of his videos ~Taylor | ||
| pace
Senior Member Username: pace Post Number: 724 Registered: 4-2004 |
It's a cool tuning ~ C#-G#-B-E ~ C#-7 or if you listen to things upside down its an E6 chord. | ||
| hb3
Senior Member Username: hb3 Post Number: 593 Registered: 2-2005 |
I watched it...it's pretty good, though it made me wonder why this guy's got, like, a quarter million hits on his videos, and I've got, like, seventy...maybe I need to buy a cheap video cam and film myself...is that really what makes the difference? I still think the best guy doing the solo piccolo stuff is Jeff Schmidt...I watched one of his videos recently and it was more comprehensible to me...I concluded one of the reasons he has an interesting sound is because he's playing a left-handed bass -- with the strings "upside-down" he's able to let chords ring in a while playing melodies that would be hard to duplicate on a right-handed instrument. Curiously enough, I'm left-handed, but play right-handed -- left-handed guitars always seemed impossibly weird to me. It definitely raises the question of what a "bass" and "guitar" is at a certain point, especially when you get into multi-stringed instruments. I just finished recorded an album where I use the piccolo bass to sub for what would usually be regular six-string guitar, and I was asking myself this question repeatedly...piccolo bass is sort of a mid-ranged instrument, so it's both and neither instruments, which introduces a whole new set of problems to the recording process...but it's also its strength in solo performance -- it resonates like a bass, but it's got some guitar-ish high end... Ultimately I don't think it matters much as long as it sounds good. | ||
| hb3
Senior Member Username: hb3 Post Number: 595 Registered: 2-2005 |
Terry: sounds like a typical piccolo set to me, with some reverb -- and a nice sounding bass to begin with. | ||
| mario_farufyno
Senior Member Username: mario_farufyno Post Number: 691 Registered: 9-2008 |
A good way to be found on youtube is the keywords you choose to associate to your video HB3, check out how extended is his list and how many videos he uploaded. I didn't checked how you did on yours, but this details probably contributed to make him more visible |
