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Meet Yves Carbonne – ** Please click on the link at the bottom of this article before reading Dear Bass Players Friends, This month, I bring to you an exercise that can be played on a 4-string standard bass with a range of 3 octaves. It’s a variation on a A7 chord. The difficulty with [...]
Dear Bass Players Friends,This month, I bring to you my transcription of, “Sweet Passion”. This is another song from my first album, “Seven Waves” featuring Guillaume Eyango (Alternity Records). The major part of the orchestration was created with three, 8-string fretless sub-bass guitars: - 1 is playing the melodic line - Another one is playing [...]
Dear Bass Player Friends,This month, I bring to you my transcription of, “A Day In His Life”. This is a song from my first album, “Seven Waves” featuring Guillaume Eyango (Alternity Records).All of the orchestration was created with three, 8-string fretless sub-basses: - 1 is playing the melodic line - Another one is playing [...]
Since I started playing bass in the beginning of the eighties, I’ve played chords on all my basses, particularly on fretless. Playing chords is a good way to develop your ear and make your hands stronger at the same time. It’s also very important to increase your harmonic perception, which is necessary to be able [...]
This is my first column for Bass Musician Magazine, and it’s dedicated to my favorite instrument, fretless bass. I started to play fretless in 1982, influenced by Jaco Pastorius (Weather Report’s “Heavy Weather”) and Alain Caron (Uzeb’s “Fast Emotion”). My first fretless bass was a Leduc 5 string with a high C. Then, in 1984, [...]
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