John Patitucci Solo Mexico

[cursedlemon]

Know how I found this video again? By Googling "its a fuckin contrabass".

[PaulAndThePattuccis]

Paul and the Pattuccis love John Patitucci...

[jazzflea]

I love Johns playing on upright! I never buy any of his CD's if the majority of the songs played on bass guitar. He has such a nice sound! Sorry dudes just not a great fan of his pussy bass guitar wank. But his upright playing and sound inspires me!

[HellaSwanky]

love that tone.

makes me proud to be an upright bass player.

what kind of bass is that? is that an upton?

[bijouxmusic]

that is a Pollman Busetto style.

[Spudbass]

It doesn't matter what the instrument is - use your ears instead of your eyes!!

[marcoplebs]

whooo!

[evilmick66]

Sounds kinda blues. I like that.

[Frankly747]

This is as interesting as lettuce and carrot juice after a long days work. Bon appetit.

[aperisimo]

its a fuckin contrabass and its beatiful in person

[moniquec84]

its not an acoustic bass, its a double bass or a uprigth bass for slang.

Acoustic bass is pretty much and elcetric bass guitar just acoustic. The reason peolpe call it a double bass is cause you can get electric double bass it stops confusion lol.

[KarlheinzSchelker]

You can call it contrabass too.

[doug604]

actually it is an acoustic bass too.

just cause an acoustic bass guitar was made doesn't mean an upright isn't an acoustic bass.

i hate calling it a bass "guitar" but it's named that to avoid confusion. they don't call uprights double basses to avoid confusion

[draftsmann]

If it's not an acoustic bass, what in the hell is it? Double bass (also called doghouse, contrabass, bull fiddle, bass viol, etc etc) predates the modern bass guitar by several centuries. Aside from such instruments as the guitarron, the modern "acoustic bass guitar" is a very recent development.

[zovek1143]

in mexico, we call it "contrabajo" or "tololoche"

everyone who wants to play an electric bass, first needs to play this instrument, just like acoustic guitar and electric guitar

[Oswaldoaapp]

mmm the name Tololoche its used on low quality accoustic basses. And you dont need to learn accoustic bass first to play electric, both have a total different technique.

[robertcuthbert]

No they don't. There are many incredibly successful bassists who don't play upright.

Even in jazz.

It's all a matter of taste.

For example, JACO.

[Souperbass]

You can call it whatever you want: acoustic bass, double bass, contrabass, upright bass, bass, bass violin, contrabajo. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that John Patitucci is a TOTAL badass.

[acoronab]

Juan Patitucci, hijo de succi (es bravo!)

[jwizzle611]

i play the upright "acoustic" and am pretty much self taught. When I'm the only bass in an esemble I'm constantly told to play louder and it ALWAYS hits the board. Maybe it doesn't matter to the audiance but it is super embarassing to me. And if its not supposed to happen then i don't know how to do it at all

[jwizzle611]

okk so when you need to pluck a string super loud how do you get it so it doesn't like hit the bridge and make that annoying loud noise?

[bplay1]

In the case of an acoustic bass, this almost never happens cuz the action is Super high so the string rarely "hits the fretboard" plus in case of happening, doesnt sound that noisy... and in the case of the electric bass... if avoiding hitting the end of the fretboard is what you want... The TRB series bass has a very high action, John plays his TRBJP I and II at a very high action so this almost never happens... PLus you gotta know how to pluck hard to get a loud sound the right way...

[jude4312]

@jwizzle611 that only happens on E string or G string if you're using thumb outwards. this song uses E string only for low G. so if you want to avoid board hitting effect, just play E string with thumb going out and G index or whatever you use coming in really hard.

[kurt11110]

i went to high school with john. he was a nice guy, very intelligent, and had a gentle spirit. years later saw him playing in chick corea akoustic band at yoshi's in oakland. one of the most inspired performances i have ever seen. he and charlie haden are the two greatest bass players imo.

[yamaho5]

John is not only a great player, he is a great person with a great helpful personality. He played the bass on one of my successful CDs. He was only 22 and was living in LA then. Thanks John.

[beybybass]

John Patitucci play the bass like an angel!!!

[watusi1971]

I hear cottonfields, some black women gossip and a ungreased windmill in the wind... He understood it well.

[moester101]

u can clearly hear a soda can being opened at 1:06, nevertheless, this is a pretty good solo

[thurintheelf]

true man!

[lightspeed79]

sodas? mexicans only drink beer.

[moester101]

lol. and taquilla, lol again

[acoronab]

Mexicans are second soda drinkers in the world, just after the americans. They are the second overweighted people in the world too (after the US, course). And quite a few of them do have the bad taste of opening soda cans in a concert. I can tell, I live in Mex-city.

[bassdude78]

hahahahhahahahahhahahhaa...

[acoronab]

rather :(

[funkbeastbasslover]

so bluesy, i fuckin love patitucci

and he teaches at my fuckin school!

city college baby

[lightspeed79]

damn if he would of been teaching there when i started, i wouldnt of studied electrical engineering.

[funkbeastbasslover]

haha yea im taking that too, he only teavhes one real class, but he runs a few ensembles and plays on the faculty ensemble

[hairlesshamster]

"WOULD HAVE"

[raesco]

*yawn*, nice posing as always though.

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen <-- for those of you who haven't heard of this god (RIP), i thinks it's time you cut and paste his name into the search bar.

Fin

[tbcass]

NHOP, yes a great Bassist. The best bassist nobody's heard of (which is a real shame).

[Corbsterj11]

NHOP is pretty good, but Patitucci's solos have more feeling and emotion

[doug604]

warwick44 means he's playing it like a cello/more in the cello range.

i disagree with this though, because bassists have all the right in the world to explore the upper range, and it's a very beautiful sound.

[thekev506]

warwick44 isnt on about the actual instrument, he's on about the range of it you fucktards

[reelgangstazskip]

THANK YOU. jesus h ass christ.

[hiimausername]

hey, calling it a cellos pretty funny. but i had a guy at a gig i was on ask me if it was called a bass fiddle. hahahaha.

[BassMau]

check Javier Malosetti from Argentina guys, he is great too

[BassMau]

hahaha, he said cello..Contrabass, double bass y don't know how the north americans call it but cello haha (i'm from argentina)

[funkbeastbasslover]

ur retarded, read what he said

[prsguitarsr4me]

patitucci is untouchable

[fabasso78]

I don't think Marco Panascia is a better player than Patitucci... he's only more tecnical.

[heelarzo]

cello??? hahahahahaha!!!! muhahahahaha!!!!

[A2KID420]

what the fuck is your probem. huh? He needs to actually play bass- what do you mean by that. I dont think you know. I bet ur a punk little bitch wana be gangster. Ill mess you up good ba-ro

[teddeyweeey]

cello.. -.- idiot

[funkbeastbasslover]

ur retarded, read what he said

[warwick44]

i love when he actually plays BASS, and not when he gets on his 6 string electric and starts playing fucking cello

[GuruzGT]

that blew me off the chair

[qwertyty]

he's not an old doublebass player but he would...

see : Marco Panascia solo jazz bass I Got Rhythm = i think you will understand...

[franksinbeans]

hahaa yea thats some fukin bass playin, i love how he gets soo into it.

[glockenklang]

Beautiful sounding double bass, even through the camera's mic!

[blujafunk]

was that upright bass or slide guitar

so good

[jvflute87]

Annointed musician!

[iccutitapnhoj]

Go Cuz!!!

[toonstegen]

wow

[prsguitarsr4me]

fantastic!

[beybybass]

AMAZIN!