Victor Wooten - Classical Thump / Amazing Grace - Impro HQ

[WiiGamerof1995]

pfffff I could do that

*00:36*

Oh nevermind

[skullkid208]

Waffles.

[Ohmythatspainful]

Was this performed at amt in PA? It looks like what we called our "star curtain" hanging in the back there and I know we did Bela Fleck a few times..

Great vid!

[XRETRYHD]

What is he playing from 1:38 to 2:23 ??

[ColbyJMeyer]

@XRETRYHD amazing grace with harmonics.

[alex190287]

muy buena combinacion de canciones todas magicas

[Bungordi]

fantastic. and the end... the best melody what I heard

[truthhurts4u]

Wow man.. I played this again after having not seen it for a while..

and I'm still amazed by it, amazing performance!

[Frikkn]

7 people can't play bass.

[XtremeDudez]

him and Tommy Emmanuel would kill together, just sayin

[GrantLaReins]

I think it really ruins it that the morons in the crowd started clapping. Have you ever been up on stage and had people do that? It's extremely annoying and distracting.

But yeah... Victor should have my children.

I'm male.

[RonnieRambin]

sweep thumpin'!

[kellynkarr]

High note at 3:16 is my favorite part. What a monster

[666TheBassKing666]

@kellynkarr my favorite part is the replay button

[MrTruckdriver2011]

It oughta be against the law to be that good!

[alembicfunkbass]

Who needs a band when you play like Victor.

[JhPope1]

loved that he threw in a bit of zadok the priest at the start

[VivaldiPaganini]

Great, Nice version!

[LIGHTRONIX]

It's like Hendrix playing the anthem, except 10x more awesome.

[smsoroky]

dude is just amazing!!

[chrisman545]

Come jam my friend you are much needed

[chrisman545]

NNNNNNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC­CCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EE

[Squa7ch]

This is still the best version imo...just love it...

[OperatingKingJ]

Victor Wooten is one of my most favorite bass players

[ShimoOwnzU]

i wonder if he could turn water into funk too

[Iernon]

tuning in the middle of a song is pure badass

[ForsakenCrusnik]

That....is true talent.

This man inspires me to become a better musician

[hanger1800]

VICTOR WUTANG

[DarthKazi]

One of the amazing things about the bass is that you can pop (artificial) harmonics out of almost any string because of the sheer girth of them. Victor is amazing. Met him once... a truly spiritual man with a gift!

[gargan1977tua]

All I can say is "Damn!" That guy is amazing.

[salm37]

Number 1 in my book!

[Rkanox]

to the 5 ppl who don't like the vid...rid the world of your presence.

[Pumposz]

This is fantastic :) 

[kareemie]

This man, yes hes a good player.. But he does not understand the game.. Why the fuck is he playing the guitar. On a bass

[mrmadman86]

@kareemie It's called soloing...

[splatterbabble]

@kareemie Because the bass is the right instrument for Victor.

[DarthKazi]

@kareemie The bass is a guitar, you moron.

[beezyboi]

@kareemie the sound from the bass from alot of the stuff he played could not be repeated on the electric guitar easily or at all. Especially the slapping on the strings to give a rhythm. In other words YOU dont understand the game. Narrow minded twat.

[ColonelPrimus]

@kareemie Do your ears have no brain?!?!

There's no guitar player who could touch what vic just did with Amazing Grace

[13A55player]

victor wooten is the most over rated bass player

[BedroomBassist]

Spine tingling stuff at the end. Damn.

[runnerboy181]

love 3:17-3:40 !!!! much more beautiful sound all the way through than most lead guitars

[cyrsnxw]

@ 4:09 --I think the kid just shat a big load of brix.

[mcski022]

can he be a lead guitarist too???LOL...he's really good...

[TheOtherDayBand]

F*ckin awesome! 5*

[chillraph]

this is fuckin crazy

[yeedoh]

can anyone please tell me what classical song that is that he is doing arpegios in the beginning? i wanna try and learn it on guitar

[Pyrofries]

My mother once told me:

"What's with the bass, anyway? It's like a guitar, only less important."

Then I showed her some Victor Wooten. Case closed!

[gregbboy619]

@Pyrofries Ha ha ha that's funny ! :D

[Leotheleprachaun]

@Pyrofries my mom said the exact same thing but i showed her some primus (american life, tommy the cat, jerry was a racecar driver, is it luck ect.) and she just shut up and appologized to me cuz i play the bass

[badassmusician]

Sweeping on a bass. TAPPING and Harmonics. FUCKEN GREAT!!!

[James57433]

No offense but you are to good to play the bass why don't you try playing classical guitar or somesort soz....

[Bratchus]

the most amazing thing i've ever heard...this is groove !

[hello2900]

is it strange not to like him? lol

[slapm0nkey]

nah. it's strange to not be able to appreciate him.

[hello2900]

yea i appreciate that hes a good bass player but just don't like what he plays : /

[SirGigalot941]

Victor appears to have his bass tuned E-A-D-F# (vs. the standard E-A-D-G). He uses mostly 2nd, 3rd, and 4th order harmonics to play the melody on Amazing Grace (over the 5th fret or just behind the 4th fret).

In the jazz groove and end tag, he alters the bass line for an alternate chord feel. At the end, he slides the bass note down to the root (G) while he picks the A harmonic at the 5th fret - and "bends" the note up to a B with his tuner.

So creative, Victor... love to see it.

[thtmusicloser]

accuttly his bass is tuned to "tenor bass" tuning which is a fith higher, its not tuning really its just the strings, you put a A D G C string setting on your bass (same as the 6 string basses first 4 strings) so yea

[godlikemeverymuch]

waw...

[FLAVIOTRAVINCAS]

very gooddd

[MastaOfTheBass]

at 2:50 is that a technique or a foot pedal

[tiagonarciso]

its a technique

[MastaOfTheBass]

do u know what its called?

[tiagonarciso]

i think it's called harmonics.

im not sure

[BCarey2293]

Those my friend are the harmonics of a tenor tuned bass.

[techno22322]

He seems to be in trance, he sure does master his art!

[Cblake92]

what kind of basses does he play?

[adambarrios]

I Think that is an accoustic bass

[timalowa]

lols at you

[adambarrios]

Yeahh, was stupid xD.. thats the why i said "no no forget it"... lol

[adambarrios]

No no.. forget it.

[HUMMIKE]

Fedora makes his basses custom. Check out their website, but unless you have rich relatives, you probably won't be able to afford one.

[eddieluvzcathy]

lmao! 3:21 random white guy starts dancing.

[VENOMandSKISGAAR]

dude i bet harmonics are hard as hell to do on a bass!!!!!!!!

[timalowa]

@VENOMandSKISGAAR its plenty hard ='(

[Elessar135]

If you have active pickups they aren't as hard as it might seem but to pull off what Vic is doing isn't exactly easy by any means either.

[SpartacusFrye]

Greatest alive.

[Laststand777]

i could literally watch this all day Victor is a god

[Blood790]

5/5

[warrenpoohole]

fake!! only jokin id hurt myself doing that

[dijohn17]

this sounds like amazing grace...

[poopynonsense]

it is amazing grace...

[Childinfaith]

lol it is.

[JAMiie03]

hey did he improv all of this?

[Childinfaith]

Not all of it is improv. He has done this solo in many other preformances.

[fenderman4]

the section from 1:16 to 1:29 is from Classical Thump

[bensving]

hero for life think he¨s the best ever

[blamsamblam87]

this man is my hero

[n2motocross]

Beautiful! and amazing

[zecalm22]

Just great!

[AWESOMEaustin99]

If you dont have this DVD...go buy it....now, it's amazing

[Twolinecrew]

this rocks

[malik324]

so damn nice

[Ghefly]

it looks like hes just randomly dragging his thumb over the strings!

he makes it look so easy

[AWESOMEaustin99]

i know, it's like he isn't even touching the strings and just waving his hand over them!!!

[Flinstones95]

@AWESOMEaustin99 that's the point in harmonics ;]

[samnaps1]

THAT WAS SO GOOD!!!

[robzombie545]

The Music he channels always allows me to forgive his interesting choices of clothing.

[SomeKrazyDude]

LOL thats funny!!!

These videos of Victor are actually videos the where filmed in the 90's, so thats why he is always wearing that type of clothing.

[greeborhys]

he looks like a priest on acid but plays bass like a... 10 fingered mutant on speed

[incangold]

We're all ten fingered mutants...

[DarkTunnel4]

His shirt give +20 to bass playing skill

[videoer2112]

fuck you man! voctor wooten dresses awsome!

[JeffIsJello]

i love the harmonics being played this.

[AlwaysNextGen]

Does Victor Wooten have an album with just instrumental songs on it? If he has one I'm buying it immediately!

[hereticprophecy]

"A Show of Hands" has a studio recording of this solo, and some really great tracks in addition.

[Garrett7789]

His newest (i think) album, Palmystery, is very good...I'd definitely check it out.

[AmadoChalhoub123]

i love that bit where he smiles at the audience at 2:39 like he hadnt realised them... that made me feel real good! :p

[faultlinefreebird]

for me, theres victor wooten, and then theres everyone else. dudes in a different world

[corey84douglass]

like an old batch of collard greens this guy is 2 funky

[jareds1007]

How can anybody (bassist/musician/instrumental­ist) not CRY when they watch him?

[Lucifall]

Simple. By being inspired by his playing.

[GynoGrinda]

speechless

[ArkAngelHFB]

another true testament to his skill is well... how many bassist stand on statge alone for five minutes... and everyone still wants more

[rafahyven]

simples o melhor!!!

[wenchiang12]

This was the man who brought me to play the bass. No matter how I see it he's still amazing!

[wenchiang12]

Look at the audiences' expression. I am sure that's the reason why he's one of the best!

[wenchiang12]

Seen this in a few years back and I could still groove to it. Really nice!

[Drummerdude1639]

I watched this video 4 times before I realized he was playing Amazing Grace

[ciao333]

Very nice

[astralrock]

Amazing solo. Especially the part with harmonics. :)

[nscott88]

2:46-2:49 is Vic's "Yeah, I know I'm the shit" look.

[PRSpl4yer]

This guy's the reason i started to play bass... i think he speaks for himself in his playing

[AnonymousDJW]

This man ceases to amaze me, i have tried to learn the amazing grace bit, but i think i really need about 10 more years experience, ive been playing bass for a year and a half, only on rock school equivilent grade 6, i aim for grade 8 this year, but still no where as good as vic

[kintajohnson]

great solo.