On Green Dolphin Street

"On Green Dolphin Street" is one of my favorite standard jazz tunes. This arrangement has been in the works on and off for a couple of years now. Rate and comment, if you please. I'd appreciate it. Cheers to the bass players of the world... when the rest of the band's not hanging around, see how much you can draw out of your instrument.

Peace: Lyman

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Music

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• Green
• Dolphin
• Street
• Solo
• Bass
• guitar
• Tapping
• Bushkovski
• Jazz
• amazing
• greatest
• scary

[TJInfinat]

I've been working on 2 handed bass for a short while, and I wanted to know if you have any tips for getting a better sound out of my right hand playing?

Like are you pressing into the strings or striking them?

[lbushkovski]

@TJInfinat The right hand is simply "hammering" on the string hard enough to generate a tone. Time and experience are what cleaned up my right hand. There are also books of exercises designed to develop the two-handed tapping technique.

[aaa8181]

Amazing, this is one of the coolest versions of this song that I've heard.

[madtiger111]

Thank you, Lyman.

[foowah7]

Very nicely done!

[lbushkovski]

Actually, I am really happy with it. Sure, it's not as "in-depth" as a guy can get with Logic or Protools or some other huge computer based software, but if you have a quality sound to capture in the first place, it really doesn't matter how many bells and whistles are on the thing. I'm sure you could find one used for a grand or less. I did score the extra effects card for mine so that I can run 4 effects at a time. I did feel just a bit limited with 2.

[emmanma]

It sure woth it in the end. Thanks for all that information. I'm thinking over buying one of those all-in-one consoles, like tascam 2488neo or the Roland VS1880 for acoustic recordings. but a little bit confused. The Tascam is closer to my budget but I read so many negative reviews about it I don't think it's a good idea. Are you happy with your Roland?

[lbushkovski]

When I mastered the recording down to 2 track, I inserted another "eq" program into the signal path to help smooth out the levels and get maximum gain without distortion.

I imported that audio over the video so that it'd sound better than a dang video cam condenser mic.

That's pretty much it. It's how I've done the sound capture for all my videos. It's kinda a pain in the butt to line the video and audio up, but it's worth it in the end.

[lbushkovski]

The bass is a Carvin LB70 PW (Piezo pickups, tho I never use them, Alnico Humbucker at the bridge, (personally, not my favorite pickup, I like the matched H50 humbuckers on the bass I use in some of the other videos) and H50 humbucker at the neck. The bass ran direct into a Roland VS1880 recording unit. I inserted a stock "compressor/Limiter" into the sound, dialed in a bit of reverb and chorus (both stock in the machine... I'm not much of an effect tweaker. )

[emmanma]

Great playing,

and great sound.

Can you please tell what equipment do you use for recording ?