Victor Wooten on Bass Tapping, Slapping, and Harmonics | Reverb Interview

Victor Wooten reminisces about the first time he taught himself a bass solo, and the massive effect of Jaco Pastorius's work on his personal bass style.

[ianc.voegtlin]

"practice is a long form of convincing yourself that you can do it." - Victor Wooten, Genius

[dorianblunote]

"I learned that in a night. It was a long night, but a night"

Mr. Wooten seems to be an AMAZING teacher, he put things so understandable.

Love and Respect Mr Wooten

[talesfromthetoiletseat]

He is so good and I don’t even think he knows how good he is.

A solid bassist especially one who plays like this and is so humble about it all is something I can not find words for.

[iain]

Holy fuck the note for note Jaco like it's nothing. Bless you Victor

[alanredversangel]

Victor's got the outlook just as much as the technique.

[analogaudiorules]

I want to hear victor do a cover of that jaco tune.

[telesish]

yes, its so nice to hear A Portrait Of Tracy played by any great bassist.

[dannymcinnes]

I just love this guy. First time I’ve seen an interview with him and he is just so impressive.

[clownshoes]

Him and Buckethead need to do a bass duet album for real! Victor needs to do a bass duet period. He does with himself and barely needs overdubbing or loop but the volley between the masterminds would be beyond amazing.

[quinnmitchel]

I love to incorapte funky blues types of stuff like that along with harmonics and tapping into my progressive, grungey, hard rock style riffs and do that on bass even though I’m a guitar player.

[freerangephilosopher]

This man is a national treasure! Thanks Victor for empowering people to be better.

[morebouncebassppe]

Thank you for all your game in music. It has changed my life

[renatotadeu]

i love victor so much if i meet him someday ill cry a lot

[NickHchaos]

Well said. People have a misunderstanding of what it is to have intentional/concentrated practice towards a skill. Classical Indian musicians and flamenco guitar players do it as a matter of normal expectation, but somehow it's this giant insurmountable thing to most people in the modern Western repertory; strange.

[beck_tybg]

Every time I see Victor playing I always think "Damn he's good"

[criticaltheist]

This dude is like my guru lmao. I saw Victor play bass once and bought a bass very shortly afterward, pretty magical

[reviewforthetube]

He is one of the best ever top 5 bassists ever

[ArthurSieg]

Inspiring stuff! Every musician no matter the instrument can learn from his attitude.

[-kh]

it took him years to learn Jaco stuff ( among others) ... imagine how much time we have to

[scottfaudree]

Good words. I'm on that Abasi. Now I see. Its a lot of work. But man does it pay off.