You're very welcome!

@@RonCarterBassist it’s an honor to have you even see and take the time to reply to me. You’re a legend and such an inspiration, thank you for the years of work and art.

You're very welcome, Mr. Powell :)

Yes. Him and a ray brown. Love mr PC too but ray and Ron are the ones who make me WANT to practice.

Nylon strings and about 60 years of practice

his signature LaBellas and time

Sounds like fairly low action, his tone has always had a lot of that string noise and twang. At least not old school macho man string height lol. I know he uses Realist pickup but this tone here sounds like they used just a condenser/ribbon mic. LaBella strings is correct, their “EQ” is a lot different than normal steel strings so that’s a factor. It is also undoubtedly a masterwork instrument, but that mostly only accounts for the lovely resonance, volume, and evenness you hear. If he played my plywood Shen bass you’d know it was him just the same. Those two right hand fingers are so monstrous yet dexterous. Watch videos of him, try to imitate him. Record videos of yourself to get a true sniff test of what’s going right and what isn’t. And don’t be afraid to break new things down to like 60bpm to make sure the conception and execution is there. If we don’t embarrass ourselves on the front end it will happen later at more critical times! Like I was too lazy and proud to do this kind of stuff for years, but it became undeniable on shows and recordings that my time-feel was not as good as I thought it was. Ego death and eternal improvement from then on out! Best of luck everybody!

It’s all about balancing tension between your hands, and using equal weight on both ends of the instrument, if that makes sense

@@shibadoge5349 Unparalleled answer and advice. Good on you mate

Such a Great Teacher! I have a couple of his books and listening to a lesson is so great! Thank You Mr Carter!!!

@@patrickpeterson2174 I’ve never thought to purchase any of his books. Will look into it. I’ve just gone by the wealth of his interviews on KZfaq. I will take a look. All the best, good sir.

I would describe the “bass belch” as a hybrid of open-string pull off technique fusing with blue note inflections. It’s indicative of how blues vocal inflections were done at the heart of both jazz/blues. In a sense, it’s the intended “vocal phrasing” aesthetic applied idiomatically to the bass to help give a jazz bassist their own “voice”. Hope this makes sense and resonates!

Stacked 4th voicings😮‍💨👌

It's a change in the pulsation of a rythm, meant to contrast with the main beat by going temporarily against or over it. That's a way to make that "bouncing" effect with a walking bass, and create some kind of climax.

Is fuckin outstanding!!! And we are forever indebted to this American treasure.

@@thedamndiz2343 we are in fact forever indebted for everything Ron Carter did for music. However pretending he has outstanding intonation is not nice.

The world of youtube and FB comments just brings out the BEST in folks doesn’t it? I’m not a bassist but to my ear his intonation sounds GREAT. And it’s jazz-not classical or digital music. ALL great bassists have a little funk and personal signature on the intonation. I love a little wideness/flex in the pitch.

Funny how it was nearly perfect in his improvisation, but the C major scale had some issues. Seemed like he was split on which fingering to use, he did different ones each time. When you’re walking you don’t really have time to second-guess yourself like that, the ear and hand are just in constant dialogue to make what you want come out!

​@@shibadoge5349 Yeah it was during that scale when he looked at his fingers once, very briefly, almost in disbelief😅 That was humorous. Keeps you on your toes too.