Guitar strings on FRETLESS bass sound weirdly beautiful

I tried putting guitar strings on my fretless bass... It sounds very unique but beautiful, what do you think?! Let me know in the comments and remember to TAP like and subscribe if you enjoyed this!

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Most people here appreciate the song and how beautiful the strings sounds like, i mean they're not wrong but I'm blown away by the fact that you played the whole song without frets (and without markings too?). The ability to know where exactly put your fingers to play the desired note is unbelieavable. You're tapping/playing with multiple fingers at the same time at different positions without it sounding disharmonic. This is like black magic fuckery for me.

[madhujitsinha]

Charles, it's not the bass guitar or the guitar strings. It's you. You can make anything sound weirdly beautiful.

[SpecterSprite]

I love that descending bit at 0:45
This melody is so pretty

[akirahoagland]

If there was an entire album like this I would immediately buy it and never stop listening to it

[maj-lenaskagerlund]

As a musician myself I'm rather picky.
This guy has won my heart - and ears - for ever!
He's incredibly gifted and talanted 🏆🏆🏆🎸🎶🎸🎶🎸

[vladivanovic]

The lower tones had this twang that made it sound like a bassy banjo, so strange but amazing. Incredible performance and composition.

[RCSmiths]

Dang, the possibilities are endless with the strings you can put on a Bass. At the end of the day, the music is so creative and well done!

[bassc]

"Guitar strings on FRETLESS bass sound weirdly beautiful" Charles can play literally anything on bass and it will sound beautiful, nothing weird about it!

[swingonthespiral]

Just absolutely mindblowing. This guy impresses me every single time. Probably the most talented bassist in terms of raw skill alive. His composing is pretty damn good too. He's capable of anything with this instrument.

[callanbrain]

Easily one of the nicest bass solos I’ve ever heard! The fretless bass gives a uniqueness that you used really well here. Please make this into a full song or something, I need this on Spotify

[deswheeler]

This is the kind of content YouTube was created for: excellent musicians that are showcasing their skills for a ginormous global audience

[luisdanielpicopaez]

This is just too beautiful: the melody, armony, the precision.. The high skill required to do this lovable piece of music. This is just genius. Thank God I'm alive in YouTube and Charles era.

[ethanlocke]

Man, no extra string noise even with all that reverb and no fret wrap. Super clean as always

[JohnBradydoesstuff]

If I weren’t watching this, I’d swear up and down that this ain’t a bass. It’s truly amazing all the different sounds he can make come out of a bass guitar. Truly amazing.

[thewesternstates]

Literally just watched this 5 times in a row because it’s one of the most tonally pleasing performances I’ve ever heard.

[jwatters]

My mom taught me piano in 1985. I started on violin in 87, quickly moved on to viola, then cello, ultimately settling on bass, until I heard Jimmy Hendrix doing his Woodstock performance of the Star Spangled Banner on one of my mom’s LPs. At that moment I knew my life must be guitar. I feel I achieved a good mastery of the instrument (and music in general) by 97, finding really nothing I couldn’t play technically nor any limit to my music writing. Malmsteen and Vai were the benchmarks for technical wizardry, of course. 1997-2004 I used to record tracks on or sit in for bands on anything with strings, primarily guitar, but often bass. From time to time 2004-2014 I would pick up my three remaining six strings and play over the years, but my career was so consuming that it felt like my hand in music was little more than a dream. When Animals as Leaders came out, I breathed a breathe of something new, immediately bought an 8 string guitar, and insisted on gaining fluency with two handed techniques. It inspired me to go back to my favorite Victor Wooten tracks and obtain some understanding of what he’d been doing on Classical Thump.

I say all that to say this: you are doing something that will be the fire for future musicians. Though Joey Ramone mashing out two chords might tap a toe or light a spark for some, people who really work at and study music require something more, something blindingly brilliant, to push them to wonder what they might dig out of themselves, to remind them there’s always extra levels, to reinspire why they’re even pecking away at endless theory and scales and technical skills and jamming their hearts out. This and most of what you’re doing is at a level that the layperson can access but also makes the seasoned veteran blink wide-eyed. That’s Hendrix level. That’s Wooten level. And maybe… just beyond.

[alexanderlyon]

Charles has got the mojo! This was absolutely beautiful. Excellent song and the playing is so good it's baffling.

[mgrocki]

Sounds like some haunting county rockabilly amazingness.

[larryjones]

I just turned 60, and always try to keep learning so I've been learning the cello. i love all kinds of music and when i came across you videos i thoroughly enjoyed them you are a humorous as well as an incredibly talented young man. those two dont always go together. you have kept me interested and subscribed so i can be sure to catch each new video.

[Tammygranstaff]

I absolutely love the melody of this, it’s insane how much control you have on the bass!