Pearl Jam - Even Flow - bass cover

My attempt to mimic the fretless bass action of Jeff Ament in this cool bassline. I play in drop-D and used AmazingSlowDowner to slightly shift the song down in pitch (some say the studio version is played back slightly faster).

Played on an Ibanez SoundGear bass, using a custom Zoom 506 effect, plugged directly into my PC.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• pearl
• jam
• even
• flow
• jeff
• ament
• ibanez
• soundgear
• zoom
• 506

[ManOfOZ2011]

Yayyy Finally someone else Who "Slides" during the Verse...as I DO! ;)...

[huibintema]

@ManOfOZ2011 Yeah, that's something few people notice or even like, but is there in the original bass track. It looks like this video got some negative votes because of this.

[ginjaninja782]

if you have a fretless bass, then is the only difference that you have to remember where the frets are? or should be? x

[huibintema]

@ginjaninja782 On a fretless bass you need to hit the neck at exactly the position where a fret normally is to avoid getting a false note, while on a normal (fretted) bass you need to hit the neck just next to the fret with some room for error. So playing a fretless is generally harder, but does allow you to smoothly change the pitch of a note by sliding across the neck, while on a normal bass the pitch changes in steps. Often, the fret positions are still marked on a fretless.

[86108610]

frets?

lmao

[huibintema]

@86108610 I'm interpreting this as: does your bass guitar have frets? Answer is yes, it does. The original by Jeff Ament was played on a fretless, though.

[sweetprism00]

The bass is the best part of this song, imo. Since I can't adjust the bass on YouTube, I am thankful you uploaded this. :-)

[atun0o]

you got distracted @3:18, also.. are you jeff ament???!

[dude33ism]

Awesome cover and a beautiful guitar.