Author Topic: "Your bassist trys to show off too much"  (Read 520 times)

sonicus

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"Your bassist trys to show off too much"
« Reply #30 on: August 28, 2011, 10:20:29 AM »
Yes!  Rocco Prestia !   I have spend hours and hours listening and watching his technique and have definitely learned something from my efforts. His articulation ,timing ,muting , so many aspects of his playing. Phil Lesh . Jack Casady, Rocco Prestia,  Jaco Pastorius ,John Entwistle , Stanley Clarke , Michael Manring, Mark Egan  have all been known to play : Lots of Notes ,but they don't step on any toes doing it !   Some folks thought Mozart wrote 'Too many notes in his compositions ! Take a listen to the Composer  Johann Sebastian Bach and tell him too many notes ! Perhaps he would have looked at you  and thought 'Yes my friend , lots of notes , for your benefit and mine ,  for humanity  hand in hand and the love of creation and a higher power   It was his job and it took the amount of notes that he used to express his LOVE and compassion !  ( my editorial comment , just thinking my friends )
 
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« Reply #31 on: August 28, 2011, 01:59:01 PM »
Rocco is about as funky as they come.  Love his playing.  I get to play what is hip? with a horn band in Kentucky in a few weeks, and it will totally kick my butt.  How he can do that for two tunes in a row is beyond me, and of course he makes it look so easy..
 
John

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"Your bassist trys to show off too much"
« Reply #32 on: August 29, 2011, 08:01:29 AM »
I feel like my hands fall off when I try to emulate the Rocco style. I was never any good at disciplined technique (sheepish).
Mike
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terryc

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"Your bassist trys to show off too much"
« Reply #33 on: August 30, 2011, 04:15:54 AM »
Rocco...well that is just another level..fingerstyle at it's most funky