Showing posts with label Abraham Laboriel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abraham Laboriel. Show all posts

27.11.13

Bass Player Live 2013 Artist Sessions now Online

Bass Player magazine has posted many of the artist sessions from this year to YouTube. Glad to see them up there. 

They have posted previous years videos to their own site in the past, but their site has always been a bit awkward and ad-laden. 

Here are the ones from this year on YouTube. Sheehan, Janek, Nathan East, John Taylor (huh?), Alphonso Johnson, Rhonda Smith and a lot more. 

25.1.11

That "modern" right hand technique


Abraham Laboriel Right Hand Technique


Yea, um. About that. It's "modern" all right. If 1986 is "modern".
When you look at what guys like Matt Garrison, Hadrien Feraud, Janek, Damian Erskine can do, it appears to be this cutting edge break through new fangled technique thing. Now, all those guys are monsters and have more than their fair share of unique ridiculoso happening, but the idea of how they do that right hand technique has been around for a long long loooong time.

This video is from the 80's and Abraham Laboriel shows how he used the same three and four finger technique way back then. In the olden days, you know, before the internet. He says it comes from classical and flamenco guitar technique, so it may very well be hundreds of years old then.

Every thing old is new again as the saying goes.