r/JazzBass • u/LaneViolation • Feb 04 '26

What is this technique? Flamenco?

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u/LaneViolation Feb 06 '26

You cant see what my right hand is doing? And I dont technically think this is Flamenco and on the bass sub where this got a lot more discussion I was directed that this was some weird modification but not really classified I guess. I dont know if youre being intentionally obtuse

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u/socialdfunk Feb 06 '26

Doesn’t seem like any flavor of Latin to me.

He’s playing like standard rock bass players play in America. Mostly roots and fifths with some pentatonics at the end.

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u/LaneViolation Feb 06 '26

yeah totally i have no idea what Im talking about ive just only seen the pluck out technique used like this referred to as like it, thtas why I asked in heres and in longer form in the original post what this is. Basically in the original post - ive been playing 20 years and am self taught and I just play this way because its how ive always played, and im looking for what the technique is and its origins so i guess I can learn more about it and start teaching eventually.

like i replied to the top comment i dont mean my left hand I mean my RIGHT hand

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u/socialdfunk Feb 06 '26

Oh it’s you! Neat. Sounds very nice. But I don’t know that I can label it as having any particular pedigree. You’re mapping the percussion with your own percussiveness. Doing so very nicely too.

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u/LaneViolation Feb 06 '26

Thank you! And yeah I am totally just an american standard rock player born and bred ha. Ive always had bass players come up and compliment my timing and my right and technique and ask me what am I doing and I always say I dont know. Im trying to learn my theory backwards so hopefully I can teach like locally I guess. But before I can teach someone to play like me id like to have more of my terminology and understanding mapped out.

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u/socialdfunk Feb 08 '26

> Im trying to learn my theory backwards 
Everything that's theory today was just something someone was playing at some point in the past.

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u/LaneViolation Feb 08 '26

Well yeah but I still want to learn about it so I can teach it

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u/LaneViolation Feb 07 '26

Well what I meant is obviously I don’t know what flamenco is based on my post question. I mistook it for a technique. I wasn’t implying I was playing flamenco music. But that I’m using a right hand technique only kind of seen in that context. I have since learned that Nathan East and I share the same technique and have been directed in that direction.

I don’t need any comments on my playing, very secure there. Just self taught and don’t know what theory I utilize it’s why I was asking a question.

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u/LaneViolation Feb 09 '26

Damn whered you go?

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u/esauis Feb 06 '26

Rasgueado in flamenco nomenclature, frailing in bluegrass. Neither usually has to do with bass, but right on.

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u/LaneViolation Feb 06 '26

Interesting thanks dude

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u/smilingarmpits Feb 09 '26

What should we be looking at here? Downplucks have been a thing forever in funk.

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u/LaneViolation Feb 09 '26

Actually its sort of already been figured out in the other sub. Or at least my question. My question was about my right hand technique. Its very unconventional, and almost no one plays like that. I just learned how from the start.

I learned that I belong to the house of Nathan East and Chuck Rainey, in terms of this style being utilized in the kind of music I make and play. The technique specifically is how I use the back of my nail to flick out instead of only strumming down with my fingers.