...and here's "Portrait Of Tracy" on my fretted Bongo

Since many friends have asked me for a video of "PoT" played on my fretted Bongo, here it is. The bass has a six-month old set of La Bella Hard Rockin' Steels .045 (rounds, of course). Since both of my Bongos have the same pickup configuration, I made sure that my fretted had exactly the same EQ as my fretless when I recorded the first version. Regardless of the mistakes (yeah, the same old final chord plus others) I hope this recording will be useful for a comparison between a fretless bass with flats and a fretted with rounds under identical conditions.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bass
• MusicMan
• EBMM
• Bongo
• Jaco
• Pastorius
• Alvabass
• Portrait
• Tracy
• Harmonics

[RaginRog]

Que Bueno tocas!  Como te gusta el Bongo? Qual es tu favorito baso?

Mi madre es de Baranquilla...pero yo naci aqui en los Estados Unidos.

[Alvabass]

¡Muchas gracias por tu amable comentario! Tengo instrumentos de diferentes marcas, pero definitivamente el EBMM Bongo es el que más se ajusta a mi gusto en términos de versatilidad y fuerza en el sonido.

De nuevo mil gracias. Un abrazo desde Bucaramanga, Colombia.

[ultimabass]

What a beautiful sound, senor. Great job, keep up the bass playing.

[Alvabass]

Thank you so much for your kind comments! :)

[TEgnoto89]

killer bass, killer tone

[VulgarMongoose]

why would he speed up a song this slow dumbass

[damon1811]

sweet bass

[PhuckHue2]

holy crap that Bongo has some hot pickups. some of harmonics sounded like a vibraphone

[Masto12321]

b e a utiful bass and nice playing man, keep it up!

[toast3rap3r69]

by a long shot i have never heard anyone play this song as well as you have (other than jaco himself)

i wish i could be half as good as you at the bass :(

[icecondor]

I think both videos are very good, with fretted and fretless. You play very well all musics that I see here. But one thing that i would say is that is almost impossible to get the same sound as Jaco because of the many effects he used to put, like chorus, which makes harmonics much more clearer and easy to get.

Although it's perfect and thanks for the great videos your post.

[tacoman4rmsj94]

i think this one is better than the other one.

but there both good.!!