Alain Caron Bass workshop in HK

[spider5604]

let's just say Caron can do what Miller does but not vice versa.

[aesopslyre]

Marcus is much funkier... Perhaps Caron has more technique, but who cares?

[MrDerzu]

the solo is like exercises, not much emotion in to it,but he is a great player ........

[Gerdellos]

Alain Caron is much better than Miller for me.

[Aztahs]

his grooves are way better than his solos



[rianonbass]

he looked so relax in every his perform :)

[RonnyOnBass]

Nuttin' special here!

[def2008]

Alain is not a Master? Ha ha ha

[iceberg220]

Hey kids, stop fighting! if you read my post well, I stated that this is "just my personal opinion". It's the way I see it, the way I feel about it. It doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong according to your own opinions. Got it?

[whiteshirtable]

he's number 1

[Wetter02]

1. Wooten

2. Stanley Clarke

3. Alain Caron

[MoveOverCasanova]

i have never seen p-splitcoils on a 6-stringer

[Kester2paname]

TRES CREATIF !

[dumplod]

The bass player of all bass players.

[fauvert]

Right he is playing his slam clown solo in a varied form, not much varied from the original solo. That is surprising since I've seen other solos on different bass instruments that were pure improv within his style. He is still the man though!

[SRX505XRS]

Hmm. The solo he plays here sounds awfully similar to the one on 'slam the clown' from his live DVD.

There are several lines he plays which are exactly the same. Same key and everything.

[sesspleftocore]

that bass sisiiikxcckkkkkkk tone

[GemelliAlessio]

Jaco pastorius in formato slap...

[clewi1091]

he kind of looks like ray romano.

[jugglerjoe]

after marcus miller, alain is my favorite slap/funk/jazz bassist.

[iceberg220]

Marcus Miller is a master of the bass, but Alain Caron is much more creative. Just my personal opinion...

[bububuvard]

And you're so right!

[jPapa2008]

@iceberg220

1 minute ago I don't agree with iceberg220. Its like, any guitarist that switched to bass playing (all sounded the same) though Alain is special, one can't touch Marcus re creativity).

Alain is a great player but Marcus is way much more creative, just listen to their works regardless of one's musical preference.

I've been listening to Alain since in the 80s so I know what I am saying.

[hojima]

@iceberg220 theyre both kind of boring.

[yogsothoth2099]

what scale is he using? is a pentatonic scale?

[Eastsiderock]

he's often revolving aound a pentatonic but putting many more out-of-scale notes, that is very jazz-fusion like, after you master the pentatonic, try monkeying around with other notes, like the fifth, the third, the seventh, doing some chromatic notes and chromatic licks! have fun! :D

[73h1337kiwi]

the fifth, third and seventh are all in the pentatonic scale.

[Eastsiderock]

yeah, and that's those notes you wanna play around with, sharping and flatting them or playing em all chromatic

[Eastsiderock]

check out the dorian scale too, it is often used as ''homebase'' in fusion

[dinoantimental]

greek modes

[swanzenswanzen]

Mr Caron,

You are an icredible conossieur of music theory and harmony..as well as a bass virtuoso..thank you for making me believe that!! Once again..U have Class, taste, music knowledge...sense of ritihm...icredible technique..YOU are THE so called!! "PACKAGE"...thank you SIR!!

[Dvareckas]

bass virtuoso!!!

[persini]

damn

[sukkyatlife]

i love the color george from fbass called it electric blue

[lionathena]

Wow~is he in David's shop?

[Listendudeok]

Stupid question maybe... but does he use double-humping technique ?

Thanks for that nice vid

[Listendudeok]

...and I meant "Thumping", hahahaha sorry

[airraidsiren82]

yes he does

[tempotantrum]

He uses an alternate thumping style. He uses down-stroke thumb with upstroke index. He doesn't upstroke on the string with his thumb a la Wooten. He said he spent a lot of hours wood shedding the technique to get the thump slap and index pop to sound the same. Bill Dickens basically uses the same technique but adds a lot of hammer-ons. A lot!

[Listendudeok]

Thanks a lot for your response, very interesting.

Wish I could master this. Seems you need lots and lots of practice, control etc to get it. Like learning to walk again.

[bigwm]

That explains a lot, thanks for that.

[schmitt4112]

Well done, I wish I could play even remotely like that. 5*

[airraidsiren82]

sua maesta alain caron!!! è sempre un piacere vederlo suonare...ma come cazzo fa a fraseggiare in slap in quella maniera...con quella scioltezza... mostruoso!!!

[yansdgr]

yeahh can blow your ass up in a second :P

[monsterdonald]

very cool!!!