Absolutely Beautiful! This is In Mahur Dastgah or Mode which is the music of the western Iranic People namely Luerstan and Kurdistan region. The Saks who migrated from this region to Western Europe and Ukrain in particular took this tradition with them. This Mode also exists in Indian Ragga with a different name! it sounds also like Irish Music if you listen carefully! Beautiful Music Thank You Sir!

Saw this on a tv at 3.00am in a hotel in Paris in Feb 07 . . amazing . . got a lot of his stuff now . .

man, you are truely a gift to the world! you combine betwin two worlds, east and west in the most bright and magnificant way. you have a soul of an artist, if not that of an angel.

Excellent! This proves that the bass can be a great solo instrument.

That is amazing. I play the viola and I always thought the basses had boring and monotonous music. Apparently not. This is a beautiful piece that raises the expectations of ever bass player as well as the admiration.

Breathtaking. My two brothers and niece are professional classical double bass players. I never heard this kind of music on a bass. No words. Wonderful. Thank God for Koussevitsky, Bottesini and all the rest, but thank God for you too!

This guy, I have no words. I don't think there is a bass player anywhere in the US where I live as good as him. Not even Edgar Meyer is a match for him. I have to go to Europe where the true bass masters are.

The Everest !!!!! Nobody play better than this guy even the greatest (stanley clarke, nhop or edgar meyer) every note is right ! and the sond ! Music is the best

*dies with happiness* Thats why I play Bass!

Extraordinaire, et magnifiquement filmé !

Best bassist EVER! This man is just a genius. It sounds so gorgeousss.

seen his concert about half a year ago.. still impressed, amazing music & musician

es lo mas precioso , perfecto y preciso que he escuchado en toda mi vida, me relaje completamente ni me di cuenta cuanto duraba hasta que termino, felicidades al contrabajista eres en mi opinion por esa interpretacion, el mejor bajista de todos los tiempos, yo estoy estudiando musica , soy contrabajista y anhelo ser como tu con esa interpretacion.felicidades eres el mejor

This is the future of bass playing

is the most beautiful, perfect and precise that I heard in my life, I relax completely and I realized how much lasted until the end, congratulations to the bass are in my opinion for that interpretation, the best bassist of all time, I'm studying music, bass player and I'm longing to be like you with that interpretacion.felicidades are the best

wow!!!! Absolutely beautiful! :)

Sans exagérer c'est un chef d'œuvre. Bravo!

A masterpiece by a great master.

It' alwais a celebration for my ears. Every time. I believe that music is made of sensations, first than other things. Neither thecnique tips or genre classifications, beyond the number of strings and the speed of fingers. I'm very afraid for who can't get any sensations from this music, because i felt a lot of sensations and emotions and they are wonderful, wish they could feel the same. Like every time i listened to it in the last years.

¡¡IMPRESIONANTE!! Buenísimo. ¡Me encanta!

Your playing is amazing. Remedy to my ears. Thank you !

Wow! beautiful and astounding! I've never heard anything like it!

R. Garcia Fons' bass teacher is a VERY famous bassist that has his own method of learning bass, his name is Francois Rebbath

@stfrutiger6 I'm a bassist myself man. I mainly gig on electric and upright playing jazz, but do some orchestral work too. I'm not trying to restrict anything but there are two big things about the bass: a) It is physically difficult to play. With only a single tone range without shifting, and requiring 8 times as much pressure as a cello to press down a string, there's no arguement that it's hard. That's why i'm so happy when I see people like Edgar Meyer doing what he does.

very nice music!...thanks!

It actually is the normal tuning for the lower 4 strings but the first string is the high C string.

Beautiful & Amazing!

incredible, this is in Mahur, an oriental mode close to major scale. never imagined this is possible with a dbass.

I believe that when one plays double bass good, I mean good on THAT level, it means their tehnique is absolutely 100 % perfect. So, as a cellist. I learn from him.

this is amazing and that wwould be incredibly hard to do what he does and he makes it look easy too easy the staccato bowing was amazing and that sounded low viola high cello range

This is beautiful!

lo adoro..

It is a marvelous.

Amazing. How does he achieve such a tone, its almost like a koto or something oriental!

Simply bravo, Renaud!

in the beginning, it sounds like an oud :) AMAZING

Amazing!

Fantastic!!!

It's great experience for me)))

very nice ! ですね.

breathtaking you think he will play my birthday party? :)

Stunning! Rabbath his teacher played the Paris opera so it is possible to master both orchestral style and this style. But to get to the ultimate level in either most people would need to specialize. Also, one needs several basses. The instrument here with a high 'c' string is set up for this type of playing and would probably not do well with orchestra. Bow is different also! Light, quick and facile. IMHO Symphony bow needs to be heavier in most cases.

Stunning.

Un autre hommage de Renaud Garcia Fons a Ostad Elahi...

Beauty itself!

Believe me, he can play what he wants on the bass, because he is really talented. In music, money isn't important if you live your life as you wanted to live it. Poorly, there's people like you who wants only money and recognition to feel happy. He just play his music freely. Can you create some awesome music and trust in it, your creation, or do you want to play just what a director require to you?

As a musician you seem to have a very closed mind to new concepts, but you are entitled to your own opinion.

like john mclaughlin playing bass

If i could be half the bassplayer he is, i'd be pro by now XD

WOW!!!

My comment was in response to bassozgur if anyone was wondering not garcia fons. Love him!

Hey where can I get sheet music for this. I play bass and I think this would be a fun challenge

beautiful

what is that technique in the beginning called? for the life of me i can't get it down.

Rabbath compendium.... un montón de Poucha dass

What are the differences between this Mahur mode and a major scale? I've never heard of it.

wow

Francois R"a"bbath...! "Nouvelle technique de La Contrabasse" or "New Technique for the Double Bass" excelent books but worthless without a good teacher. Look for the DVD the art of the bow... Really great

1:36 - 1:40 "fuck with me brah?"

Pls, can you explain what Rabbath method means? Thanks

@pizzicato16 My thoughts exactly, even though Edgar is a giant himself! Edgar may match or better him compositionally though... I can't imagine clicking "dislike", but to each his own?

nice

actually its a high b string

The action on his instrument is incredibly low!! Just goes to show, it's all about touch, and knowing your instrument........'

high C, three octaves playable

Hey, mo problem, I'm db player . Zoki

7 people don't know beauty

Great playing, but I abhor the camera work because I want to see his technique as clearly as possible - especially his left hand!

Ugh I need to practice more haha.

High C

Fantastic playing but I hate it how the cameraman can't stay still. He completely ruins it by never letting us see how Renaud is playing.

I've already known all kinds of harmonics that you cannot even dream about since the time you were vitamine in an apple on a tree! I don't even think that you've ever heard any real doublebass sound. If you are planning to be capable of playing this instrument even in farest future, I'd just suggest you to think again and again and again an.........

@1MRBASSMAN That's incredibly ignorant. I don't know why playing in the upper register is considered sissy-boy stuff.

just a baloon! not even sound like d.bass. He can just play at a circus with his teacher. About his bowing technique: My german bow makes it much more better.

It's for frustrated people who wished they played the cello, viola or violin. Furthermore it takes a lot of strength to play tough orchestra parts in the lower register. Pieces by Rabbath never show up on audition lists. Anybody can meander in the high register playing patterns that lie well under the fingers. Try the Shostakovich 11th Symphony. None of these Rabbath clones can come close to handling it.

Playing for money is merely a sign that a large portion of the population wants to hear what you are doing. The only people listening to Aquajan are some fellow bassists. People want to hear Mahler, Shostakovich, Beethoven etc. not the self-indulgent meanderings of a Rabbath or a Rabbath clone.

Playing Malher and Shostakovich is playing for art. Playing the self-indulgent meanderings of a Rabbath, or improvising on patterns that lie easily under the fingers is not art, it's narcissistic.

Amazing!

High C