Electronica Groove Bass Jam

[marfguy1987]

do you have piccolo bass strings on that bas if so sweet

[ballpointmusic]

it definitely sounds very tony grey-ish. And I mean it in a (very) good way.

[moronslave]

amazing! what's your new audio interface? and are you a senior student or already a graduate at Berklee?

[GeoAl09]

weather channel music

[noreeda]

I should hit you in the face.

[realcoolking95]

I can see why he related it to dubstep, because of the scale he used, either phrygian or harmonic minor.

[JonasAaes]

Sigh, gg no re

[HighOffChiliMagik]

haha yea dubstep is koo but dam this takes about 10 times the talent

[EnorusLoL]

What the fuck?

[rudessdfdf]

amazing man , how long hve u been playing?

[shit311]

jazzstep? i hear some steppy elements on the drums so the jam is sorta related to dubstep yet its still different. post-post-dubstep or something. its new

[quatre03]

smooth jazz yes! dubstep not so much

[trevjay]

dude, this is great stuff, but not dubstep. However, its would be a perfect background track for dubstep. I see where you are going with this; and if the right dubstep got a hold of this, it would be the sickest thing.

[OdinsDeathsquad]

sounds awesome , really sick , groovy and kinda ambient .

u could make jazzy or funky shit unkow .

or try Fruity loops for dubstep , if that+s what ur after.

but still . nice =) man

[ElectRickMan1]

Dubstep is freakin' dirty, but this sutff ain't!

It's too beautiful to be any sort of Dubstep!

But dubstap rockz =)

[yawhatevr]

Awesome, but LOL how is this related at all to dubstep...

[HoraceGoodspeed]

Two qestions: What kind of interface do you use, and what kind of bass is that?

Sounds great!

[wqsa8]

not dubstep...

[squiresuzuki]

@wqsa8 He didn't say it was dubstep...he said electronica...two different things. Reminds me of Squarepusher.

[RLJB25]

yea Havic.!!! Diggin it! that fill at :58ish was rediculous. Check out some of my jazz vids i need some critics.

[unoriginalson]

Awesome playing man! ....but dubstep isn't what came to mind.  at all.

[psychonauttracks]

this is amazing! i wouldn't be able to write jazz of this calibre if i spent an hour on it, let alone improvised. congrats brother.

[Pukis18]

Okay, so I`m a bass player too, but, obviously, not this good. I just wanted to ask, what scales ar you using? And maybe can you suggest some books for noobs? I would like to learn music theory, but ya know, I`m still a teenager and I don`t have time to go to private classes. BTW, wicked skills. Loving your compositions, specially "Was it a Car or a Cat I Saw?"

[standubz]

love what you're doing!! it's certainly not dubstep tho!

[Azaan1016]

Excellent !

what effects or stomp box are you using if any?

[havic5]

@Azaan1016 Just garage band, man. A little garage band reverb and compression, that's it.

[Prelooter]

Love it! How much of a difference did you notice when you put on your ramp? I've been thinking about getting one...

[havic5]

Well, it depends on how high you set your ramp. If you set it high, its a huge adjustment from what you're normally used to, but worth it if you're into playing like this. It took me about a year taking the ramp on and off to finally decide I liked it.

[emixolydian]

What does a ramp do?

[havic5]

It gives you +600 experience points, haha.

Basically what it does is prevent your fingers from going a certain distance beyond the strings. This doesn't seem like much, but it forces you to play with a much lighter touch and (theoretically anyway) lets you play faster. That's obviously debatable, but some techniques like matt garrison 4-finger plucking almost require a ramp. It's a feel thing more than anything else. I'd suggest trying a bass with a ramp and see what you think.

[happyslappysoong]

Whats your made of Havic? Some kind of wood? It almost looks plastic?

[havic5]

It's a laminated slab of wood I sawed off a desk my roommate was throwing away. Probably not the most precise way to do it, but definitely the cheapest, haha.

[happyslappysoong]

Cool. Also, is it radiused? and is the height equal to that of your two pickups? People are always saying radiused ramps are the best way to go...do you find it ok?

[havic5]

Haha, no, its just flat. A radiused pickup would be awesome, but that would be costly to have made versus just a flat piece of wood. I use double sided tape to stick it to the bass, and i have enough wedged in there to equal the height of my pickups. It's a very ad hoc job. I find the flat ramp perfectly fine.

[happyslappysoong]

Good stuff. Time to find me a piece of wood...

[Zombbg4]

Cool that you're using a ramp. When I bought my last bass one came with it, also put it on and took it off a hundred times untill I realized I liked it. For me it affects tone too, not so much "bump" on the front of the note.

[happyslappysoong]

Great stuff!

[OriMeissa]

genius!!! :)