Dirty Funk Rock Bass Grooves (Lobster Claw Style)

Funky good times on my Cortex bass with some fun grooves and melodies with lobster claw plucking, heavy fingerstyle, chords, staccato popping and time & tempo changes, the whole shebang! This video is all about happy accidents, when the plucking hand is locked in & grooving hard, the freestyle slides and soloing will mostly fall in place, when you stop fearing mistakes they become opportunities! Love digging in for that growl with a fresh set of Ernie Balls, with the Nordstrand Dual Coils and a Glockenklang preamp this bass has a nice fierce attack for that oldschool rock sound. Surely was a lot of fun writing and recording this, I’ll release my recent work soon on the digital and streaming platforms, thanks for listening!
In these times of shorts and overly edited music and videos, realtime raw performance is often overlooked. It takes weeks to write, practice and record these videos in one take, there is no post processing on the audio, just volume leveling and pedal compression, this bass sounds amazing so I leave it untouched. I love setting the bar high and work hard to nail these compositions on cam, been grinding for 3 weeks on this one :) First I write the grooves on bass, then I write and record the drums, then I keep jamming on it while forming the final version, to finally shoot the video, think this was the 12th take after many halfway flaws haha, but I made it!
I’m playing my Cortex bass, Napoleon Deluxe model, made by excellent luthier Paul Lairat and Pierre Camilleri. it’s got a flamed maple fingerboard, roasted chocolate maple neck, mahogany body and walnut top. I used a Rodenberg 707 booster and a Darkglass Hyper Luminal compressor, the signal was recorded straight into my Focusrite pro 24 audio interface into Cubase, drums were made with Korg midi pads and Addictive Drums, mastering was done in Ozone 4. Working on lots more, thanks for watching!

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