IIBtv - Trip Wamsley
Although bass-centric solo projects are often revered only by dedicated bass enthusiasts, Trip Wamsley's music contains a remarkable balance of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic variety which extends to an audience beyond that of strictly bass aficionados. After distributing his first independent endeavor, Dancing About Architecture, in 1996, subsequent solo efforts included The Difference Engine (1998) and It's Better This Way (2003). In December 2006, Wamsley released, Curve, his fourth solo session, but unlike his previous productions which featured a collection of both mixed instrumental tracks and solo bass pieces, Curve is the first of his recordings as a leader to present the electric bass guitar in solo and orchestrated bass configurations exclusively.
Wamsley's inventive arrangements combine the utilization of non-traditional altered tunings, harmonics, chords, and looping devices with contemporary performance techniques such as conventional fingerstyle playing, slapping, plucking, tapping, strumming, and picking on 4, 5, and 8-string fretted and fretless bass guitars.
While providing instruction to students during clinics and bass events across the United States, Europe, Brazil, and Australia, Wamsley has demonstrated his techniques and methods at the NAMM Bass Bash, BassQuake, Bass Day U.K., BassUp!, and the Lodo Bass Bash.
Following many years of touring in pop, rock, R&B, funk, punk, and zydeco bands, Wamsley now lives in Louisiana and devotes most of his schedule to performing internationally as a solo bassist, expanding the repertoire of music for unaccompanied bass guitar, teaching, and contributing to select side projects.
For more information on Trip Wamsley, visit: TWBass.com.
Wamsley's inventive arrangements combine the utilization of non-traditional altered tunings, harmonics, chords, and looping devices with contemporary performance techniques such as conventional fingerstyle playing, slapping, plucking, tapping, strumming, and picking on 4, 5, and 8-string fretted and fretless bass guitars.
While providing instruction to students during clinics and bass events across the United States, Europe, Brazil, and Australia, Wamsley has demonstrated his techniques and methods at the NAMM Bass Bash, BassQuake, Bass Day U.K., BassUp!, and the Lodo Bass Bash.
Following many years of touring in pop, rock, R&B, funk, punk, and zydeco bands, Wamsley now lives in Louisiana and devotes most of his schedule to performing internationally as a solo bassist, expanding the repertoire of music for unaccompanied bass guitar, teaching, and contributing to select side projects.
For more information on Trip Wamsley, visit: TWBass.com.
Bass Clinic Performance
In this bass clinic video that was recorded in Waupaca, Wisconsin on March 5, 2005, Wamsley performs two of his solo bass compositions.
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Bass Clinic - "The Rut Buster"
In this bass clinic video that was recorded in Waupaca, Wisconsin on March 5, 2005, Wamsley explains his "rut buster" technique which he has developed as a catalyst to help generate new ideas. Wamsley states, "it's a logical way to deal with ruts and plateaus. Basically, it was developed around the permutation concepts that Michael Manring showed me when I was studying with him, but instead of the fingerings that he assigns to numbers, I assign different techniques to numbers. Using the numbers one through four, I'll do the following:
1 = Slap
2 = Fingerstyle
3 = Tap
4 = Strum
I can then rearrange the numbers in many different combinations such as: 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, or 2-1, 2-3, 2-4, or 1-2-3, 3-1-4, or 1-3-2-4, 4-3-1-2, and so forth. You can assign any technique such as slapping, fingerstyle, tapping, strumming, and so on to any of those four numbers which will continually lead you to a new idea. Once you assign the various techniques to numbers and then combine all of those possible permutations with all of the notes and rhythms that are available on your bass, you should never run out of ideas. Whether or not the end result is a success is another story, but at least you'll be on your way."
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1 = Slap
2 = Fingerstyle
3 = Tap
4 = Strum
I can then rearrange the numbers in many different combinations such as: 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, or 2-1, 2-3, 2-4, or 1-2-3, 3-1-4, or 1-3-2-4, 4-3-1-2, and so forth. You can assign any technique such as slapping, fingerstyle, tapping, strumming, and so on to any of those four numbers which will continually lead you to a new idea. Once you assign the various techniques to numbers and then combine all of those possible permutations with all of the notes and rhythms that are available on your bass, you should never run out of ideas. Whether or not the end result is a success is another story, but at least you'll be on your way."
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