Natural, Hadrien Feraud's Solo

[1macruc1an]

Dude, your technique is insane.

[MrNoak2]

Great tone! And nice playing overall!

[DrPylons]

Anyone have the chords for the solo sections? My ears aren't good enough to figure them out...

[squiresuzuki]

Is that a zebra wood top?

[jamilaracaille]

GREAT JOB !



[trioled]

good!!! congratulations!

[timseisser]

@steenbass

It is actually a CB custom Bass. Check his stuff out!

[jasononbass124]

your a beast!! will you please be my teacher!! lol

[timseisser]

@jasononbass124

Sure. I am in chicago. Trying to get some web lessons up in the near future

[markthode]

Wicked dude....don't mind the gizas who say 'lack of emotion'. You know how it feels to you....bet you they can't rip shit up like that either :p Gpt me laughing it was that quick so that's emotion right there.

[adurgaram]

Your a beast as well awesome job !

[hhfatboy]

what scales are you using

[timseisser]

@hhfatboy all of them :)

[MrFou72]

emotionless......good technic..but what a lack of emotion...

[timseisser]

@MrFou72 I didn't play it originally... Hadrien did... so the lack of emotion you mention came from him, not me. I just transcribed it and attempted to play it.

[DrPylons]

Two questions:

1. Are you using your thumb other than at the end of the solo?

2. Do you have a transcription of this possibly? I can't figure it out, much less the actual changes he's playing over.

[timseisser]

@DrPylons yes I am using my thumb for the last run. No I  don't have a sheet on it. sorry

[cantobass]

great playing man thanks...

[riddickbass989]

i have seen your videos and your playing is amazing!!

[timseisser]

@riddickbass989 thanks

[jxl5]

Yessir The best of this generation man by far! Only second to Justyn Lawrence lol that guy rips so hard on bass, he comes to the gigs with a set of drums lol jk

[aguythatisasa]

Bravo! Great!

[nunoa007]

Great playing Tim...!! I think is good for everybody to know that this wood ramp containg the pickups was invented by a bass player from my country (Chile) about ten years ago. His name is Igor Saavedra and he's one of the Bass Musician Magazine staff writers and one of the main endorsees of Nordstrand pickups which is the pickups brand you use.... Cheers..!!

[timseisser]

@nunoa007

Hey there. Yes i know of Igor. I am on staff at BMM as well. It is a great online resource. The use of this particular ramp was inspired by Gary Willis and Matthew Garrison, however, it is flat... not radiused. The design is similar to Igor's. This one was inspired by a Nordstrand Bass. And yes, i also use nordstrand pickups. best pickups out there.

[nunoa007]

@timseisser

Sure Tim, in fact Igor on his sites says that he took the idea from the willis ramp and that when he met gary he told him about his idea of placing the mics inside the ramp and make it height adjustable. The first prototypes were done by Igor on 1995. He uses a flat fingerboard so his ramp has been always flat. Then he showed this ramp to nordstrand guitars. Stew Mckinsey is a great friend of him and he saw the ramp for the first time on 2001 at a NAMM show were Igor was performing.

[afeschyn]

Nice playing. That looks really difficult. Is that a Cliff Bordwell bass?  The lower bout makes me think it might be.

[timseisser]

@afeschyn

Correct. I call it the CB Zebra Bass. Cliff is the man!

[cantobass]

@afeschyn 

[Whathuhwhowhere]

is that one fucking massive pickup in the middle there?

[timseisser]

@Whathuhwhowhere

Actually two nordstrand dual coil pickups under one big wood cover.

[ChildofDust6969]

i really like your technique. you seem to get a lot of notes with very little motion in your left hand.

[Astrokratov]

@ChildofDust6969 raking technique i suppose. And in the end it might be double-thumb?

[okicu]

very matt garrison towards the end but matt uses thumb-index-middle-ring in that order repeatedly to get that busy-bee sound

[timseisser]

@okicu

Actually at the end i just use thumb, index, middle. I never could get the third finger in there comfortably.

[sbyrd1978]

wow! that's great!

[cornflakesnwater]

awesome.!!..Happy New year... *\o/*

[bassmanberg]

GREAT !!!

[nrwhite6325]

Great work there!

[Freakguitarman]

Ehm, did you get that part by ear ? or some sheets, cause i'm interested to play this.

[timseisser]

By Ear.

[nathanbossoh]

noooo way. by ear all of dat.

u r crazy on bass, i wuldnt even dare to attempt  dat at my level now on bass lol.

[bassmanberg]

I 've tried to write it down check on:

bassmanberg blogspot.

[Freakguitarman]

thanks very helpful.

[marc777danielle]

great job! technique and cleanness will eventually come with time but when it does, watch out! you're gonna be a complete monster.

[hahabass]

You're a good player, but if those flies come anywhere near your mouth you'll get a gobfull. But, like I said, good job.

[timseisser]

I know... hahaha. Good call.

[01Biggs]

is this a fodera. im guessing cuz of the body style.

[timseisser]

It is actually a CB bass. Made my Cliff Bordwell. Check him out.

[polishpirate123]

damn dude

freakin crazy

[HammondB200]

is that the Windmill Ramp PU?

[timseisser]

Nope. Just a nice block of zebrawood over 2 nordstrand dual coils pickups.

[HammondB200]

How is it that the wood won't interfere with the electronics

[timseisser]

The wood isn't thick enough to cause any interference with the magnetic relationship between the strings and pickups

[HammondB200]

magnetic relationship; nicely said

[Dynaverse]

jezee

[chillraph]

holy freakin shit, this is FAST.

[jcsgroove]

WOW TIM!!!!

[ErnestO1161]

Beautiful BaaaaaaaaaaSs!!!!!

[wxb200]

Damn man!

[Skelbassist]

I'm sure you have been asked this quite a bit but do you have a tab for that solo? I would love to learn it but my ears/transcribing is pretty awful.

[timseisser]

no sorry i don't have tab. best thing to do is just develop the ear and transcribe

[bigwm]

Superb playing man! I use that playing posture too. Love the look and tone of your bass, the final section , you used your thumb aswell as 2fingers? What make is your bass? More videos please!

[timseisser]

yup. two fingers and thumb on the last descending line. the bass is a custom CB bass by Cliff Bordwell. Check him out.  He makes some killer basses. I got a fretless coming from him soon. more vids to come.

[bigwm]

Just checked out the CB webpage, awesome looking basses! Definitely get a fretless! Are you using quite a low action?

[udawggy]

Nice man. I know what goes into this!

[theblackhalo]

Yeah man that was awesome,you've got some skill, I'm keen to hear a Rumeurs cover!

Love the vid! keep it up!

[shama2]

dude, you are amazing jaja yeaah

do you have myspace or something ?

[timseisser]

sure do. just google my name

[meadowbrett]

dude you are amazing man.  great playing!! trying to get my finger speed to be like that.

[ivandruping]

with the right hand are you using tree finger or two? Anyway, thanks and you are great!

[timseisser]

I am using two fingers until the passage at the very end. Thanks.

[wanquarta]

hey man i get u! there's nothing wrong with studying other people's stuff, you learn many styles of play to create your own...and besides, i heard Hadrien learned everything Jaco VERBATIM when he was starting!!! look where it got him. We evolve off of each other! Great job man sounds great

[grayswandirr]

Man can you make a tab from what you picked?? It's a really great job

[NreeKelBastardos]

You fucking monster!

[timseisser]

Thanks

[forisbundo]

play like your self man ; hadrien is my friend , just take time for your music because iff you rets in this kind of shit plagio , the world dont ned'nt you!!just play your style and make respect with outhers player's

[timseisser]

I completely understand and I do play like my self... usually 3-4 nights a week. I made respect with Hadrien's playing by taking the time to learn to play his stuff. Part of finding your own voice is learning thru transcribing others. All the great musicians do it... do you?

[bigwm]

I understand what you're asaying but you're missing the true essense of jazz! The whole UK Jazz movement started with our players copying the the bebop tunes of the likes of Charlie Parker and Dizzy, Hadrien himself copied Jaco note for note in the early days. We learn to speak by listening to others.

[timseisser]

exactly

[Knurtumus]

it's possible to find hadrien's sheet music? please help me!

[timseisser]

As far as I know there are no transcriptions of Hadrien's stuff in sheet music. Just dig into the records and learn it by ear. I am pretty sure I heard even he doesn't read music.

[Thatguy301]

really?! That would be amazing to be honest, lol. Anytime I see people of that skill I kind of automatically assume that they know music XD. Fantastic playing by the way.

[funkbeastbasslover]

great attempt man, his playing is just so damn precise and complex lol great bass to man !

[resonantdoghouse]

Wow great playing, and beautiful bass!

[brunocoelhobass]

Damn Tim, that is some hot stuff! :)

[speedfist]

ive been playing for around 13-14 years now too, from ontario. no youtube stuff yet tho

[speedfist]

nice, i should pick up one of those, what did it run you $ ?

i am a big fan of hadrien, i just wish i knew where to start with learning his stuff.

i do a lot more slap style stuff myself. how long have you played/where you from?

[timseisser]

I think you can find them at musiciansfriend. Great little tool for transcribing.  I just started learning some of his easier solos and progressed to the lightning fast stuff. It is a great test of your chops.

I have been playing for around 12 years and am from Chicago

[speedfist]

holy crap dude, how long and what process did you go through to learn that?

[timseisser]

I just learned it on my tascam bass trainer by slowing it down to learn all the licks correctly note for note. Then I just worked it up to speed until i could (almost) play it. It took a couple weeks. I had to come up with the perfect fingerings to play at this speed.

[scopaz]

Nice work Tim. I see you got your new bass. Hit me with an email and tell me about it.