Fretless Bass

Here is a fretless bass solo played over an original 13/8 Groove.
Taken from the album JUNK.

Mixed and mastered By Ian Freitor
Drums - Gal Gershovsky

13/8 Fretless Bass Solo - Underdog

Bob DiGiacomo - Fretless Bass - #heapsong1

This is the record of my first fretless bass Roscoe. I'v never played on fretless before and did this record just several days after has it. That's why it sounds not harmony :)

Roscoe fretless bass

These are 3 audio examples of Mick Karn's Style on fretless bass.
The examples are the bassline of the song "Dalis Car" (taken from the namesake album album and project - both chorus and verse), and the main riff of the song "Visions of China" from Japan's last album "Tin Drum").
All tracks are showed at their normal tempo and than slowed down for better understanding. 
I recorded these tracks using my Wal Mk1 fretless, basically the same instrument Mick Karn used to play for the majority of his recordings after 1980.
The signal was recorded using a Tech 21 RBI preamp and a Universal Audio LA-2A opto compressor. 

Enjoy!

Fabio Trentini

Mick Karn's style fretless bass lesson - by Fabio Trentini

Special thanks to Korg Music Software & Zizi.

Fretless Bass Solo On Shape Down

A bit of improvisation that turned out nicely...

Jake Wolf (fretless bass) & Chris Stack (Moog Guitar and electronics)

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