Nathan East - Fourplay at Blue Note NY

[nothwind]

i was front row.

[RUBENPEREZmusic]

bravo

[toofpick151]

Shoot, singin and playing piano is ALOT easier for me than on bass, and Ive been playing both for atleast 6 yrs.

[okicu]

Let me add to my last comment ... Guitars/Basses are more "logically" laid out. The bass is more logically and symetrically laid out versus the guitar. I don't know squat of the guitar. B string throws me off if I try to apply scales that I know on the bass. fun instrument but the bass is my calling

[emmarlowe]

drop the arguments dudes....nathan is one of the geniuses.....actually the most favorite bass player....so let him be...

[geoman0000]

by the way, Nathan also played with many many rock/pop artists including Eric Clapton, Jon Bon Jovi, Celine Dion and many others..he is a versatile hell of a player

[Besshome]

Nate is the best under rated bass player on earth. Fourplay is so tight that whenever they come on stage you can hear a pin drop. People are holding their breath waitig for the first note.

[lorenzino1]

Hi! I'm looking-at & listening the Fourplay's songs; if there's a thing I wanna say, it's that it's more difficult to sing while you're playing Bass than Guitar (it engages only myself), so each time I see Nathan East playing & singing, I always think that it's the band that I prefer, perhaps the band that I listen the more in a year!5*****! It's already in my favorites!

[okicu]

I've been playing piano for just over 20 years and I been playing bass for 4 years. and in MY opinion its not "hard" to sing and play its just timing the coordiniation just like holding the note with your left and struming it with your right hand. Singing would just be your third. Frankly I think in a general overal view its harder to sing and play piano. because singing would be your 11th finger. but again everything is easy with enough practice.

[lorenzino1]

Hi! You're lucky if singing while you're playing Bass ain't a problem for you, cause I've never meet the smallest Bassist that was saying that it was easy! But I agree with you when you say that it's a working problem, like for all instrument, in music you work, you're good, you don't you ain't good, that's what I think that it's a good thing, it's just logical!BYE!

[pabliyin29]

Singing and playing bass:you would use at least 4 fingers,so your voice`d be the 5th fingers.

[Sitruc9999z]

That would be true if the piano wasn't so easily laid out. With guitars and basses you have to know the tuning inside and out and also be able to play notes in different areas of the guitar (even saying it this way is an oversimplification). Takes a lot more mind power to do so. Especially when you're playing note for note as opposed to chords. With the piano all of your notes are spelled out for you even the octaves.

[okicu]

Just for conversation because music is a very deep subject that is worth talkng about, the only aspect of the piano that is in your words "easily laid out" is the key of C. How is C flat easily laid out? As far as being laid out guitars/basses are laid out more easily Once you know your instrument, again in MY opinion, adding vocals is another finger or hand that coordinates with the music being played. Have you tried to sing and play at the same time? Try it! I believe you can do it.

[Sitruc9999z]

I've done it before on both instruments. Some songs are a lot easier to play and sing at the same time than others. And I do agree that once you learn your instrument adding vocals is similar to adding another hand. Sometimes its a bit trickier to add that third hand when the other two are all over the place. But if we're talking lead sheet style playing life is easy regardless of the instrument. And with regards to the c flat comment, if you know the scale its ever black key plus b(n) and e(n)

[tom93wood]

i tend to agree with you, i find it much harder to play piano, which i have been playing for nearly 9 years, and sing, than i do to play bass, which i have been playing for nearly 4 years, although i think it's beacause many of my bass lines are quite melodic in terms of following the vocals .. just my opinion :)

[ProMarkChris]

Does anybody know who he was playing with?

[nopnamrebo]

he's a member of Fourplay

Lee Ritenour/Larry Carlton

Harvey Mason and Bob James

[2diamond2]

wrong....The best bass player around

[dpunero]

No..one of the best !!

[Gorgalisin]

yes, he's one of the best, you cannot compare he with (for example) Abraham Laboriel, theyre both a session musicians but they got a different styles. But yeah, N8 is mines favourite bass player so in my opinion, he really is the greatest =D

[daisey69]

one of the best bass guitarists around!!

[hsloveis]

101eastbound good

[BassistBoy331]

jerk

shut up

[jorkerman]

So good!

Nice bass guitar playing and a nice voice.