I would play this shit in another world where people walk upside down and everything was floating and there was blue unicorns.This guy would be there for sure.

it blows me away how precice he can be with a fretless bass... not a single flat note in all that insanity. incredible!

This may be the first time i've ever sincerely used the word virtuoso. Or at least if I had, this guy just reset the bar.

It seems some people haven't heard of Free Time in music, or of free form music. It's not that lofty of a concept. The funny thing is, this is by no means the most extreme example of it. This is rather cohesive, and doesn't sound ridiculously, stereotypically experimental.

The FUNK that comes from his heart and soul...........AMAZING

Everything Michael plays just makes me smile inside and glad to be a bass player

This is exquisite and funky at the same time... genius!

Love the "aw shucks," at the end.

MAN!!! That harmonic chord struck at 0:09 is so FREAKING AWESOME!!

Super Funkay! :D If I could be one-tenth as good a bass player as Michael Manring, that would make my millennium. Thanks for posting this.

When I finish writing my movie I want Manring to do all the music for it.

13 years gone. This song is freakin amazing!

man, it's like a gift seeing that there is a new manring video on youtube... what an incredible inspiration he is. i loved when he went up the neck scratching with his thumb nail...

Perhaps this is what Jaco would sound like is he was still alive..Rip Him. And thanks to Mr. Manring for REALLY keeping his (Jaco's) essence alive..yeah. Love those 3rd fret harmonics.

What I love about this video in particular is it almost looks like the bass is trying to funk out of his hands, and he's trying to hold it back, till the end, at least. What a groove!

Love it, love it.....

Likewise, Zander-Your videos are a tremendous inspiration to me- you're the reason I have a new set of piccolo strings on my bass! ~Brian Wilson~

I love how he's so excited to play that he can barely sit!

so funky i can't take it!

Bobb'd my head the whole time and didn't notice till 3 min's in.

That was beyond unbelievable

I LOVE those last two minutes!

Beast yes one of the greats

The Bassist From Another Planet

it made my day to read these comments. thanks so much, guys!

Excuse me, Mr. Manring, I like what you do. I have enjoyed your music since 1983.

Wow !!!, thanks for sharing this video with us, if you have more, please keep uploading them, seeing Mr. Manring is a true pleasure.

The world will not be able to survive such sheer genius and skill and will explode spontaneously.

He`s amazing!

amazing

i will definitely check him out. thanks!

This is what it sounds like to hear someones soul. The truest representation of the matter of someones being.

awesome,what a feel for his bass

This guy is amazing

very cool.great solo playing.

Michael Manring..what's Not to Love ?!

You can tell by his face that he enjoy playing!

@Seboss38 It is true - any huge selling artist has to spread themselves very thinly not only amongst their fans ...but also their loved ones. On reflection, I am happy that Michael has maintained his integrity and is accessible & close to his admirers. I am sure that he is happy this way. Their are many other currencies in life apart from the financial ones.

Brains will melt at the sheer sight!

Symply Amazing

The ending is just genius...

amazing use of the detuner.. Manring is a big master...

Excuse me,mr.manring what the hell are you playing? i like it!

Although, watching how the heck he's making those amazing sounds come out of the bass with his hands is rather intriguing.

I wish I had one iota of this man's brilliance on the bass guitar..

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One iota? Easy. It's that second iota that's the real doozy...

respect!

''The Enormous Room'' is probably the best example

that's so sick. he really gets into it at the end there; i like seeing that.

@thtmusicloser love the groove he's putting down starting around 3:00 then, of course, he's just goes bye bye soon afterwards LOL!!

3:40 - 3:48 holy sh** awesome man! i like the way you play bass

respect

True, Zander - he is a talented musician and true inspiration. I just want to say here that scratching strings with finger nail to get that rattling sound should be credited to a bass player that is as innovative as he is unfairly too often forgotten: Mr. Percy Jones of Brand X and Tunnel. Check him out, if you don't already know him. He's great. cheers ;)

i wil whatch it

yes.

yeah I second wizmans comment zander, haha i've definitely gotten into more experimental bass, even piccolo strings because of your videos, thanks man.

I love that he seems to be embarrassed at the end for having gotten carried away. I just want to tell him, "It's okay, man! It was awesome!"

Intense

As far as I know, he uses two basses in the performance at wizman440's house, and I think they are both either custom-made or his signature models. One (this one) can change tuning from the head only. It is fretless, with an extended fretboard and extra deep cutaway to reach the extra-high notes. If you watch some of the other vids, you will see a tan one with a super-deep cutaway and extended fretboard, but any single or combination of strings can be retuned from the bridge as well as the head.

Is he from earth or a galaxy far away? Unbeliveable music !

I like his improv on his songs :)

Sem comentários, esse baixista é a excelência tocando fretless!

@DarkThoot Thanks for the reply, you make a very god point!

@LifeforArt he's from earth, just a very dedicated man to a specific instrument. even prodigies have to work their ass off.

As brilliant as creative..........and in regards to Mr. Manring's motions while playing I leave you with a quote from Buddy Holly......... "How can I ever expect my audience to be moved by my music if I cannot be moved by it myself?"

I said that same thing when I first saw Manring. In a lot of his other tunes he does a lot more then just the E to B on the low string. This can be played on a 5 string. I can play it myself on the 6 string that I have. The detuning makes more sense on his other tunes.

This guy is tight.

i tryed one yesterday. there really nice to play. depending if it has dots they arnt to hard to play.

It is tuned EADG, however the detuner lowers the E string down to a low B. All 4 of the strings have the same detuners at the headstock. This is my favorite of Manrings basses. I even prefer this one over the hyperbass.

All his basses are Zon basses and al of the fretless ones are Hyperbasses except the one without a headstock.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Wizman, You are the best thing to happen to KZread ever!!! Thank you for these vids of Manring, including the one of him talking about the hyperbass and of course Trip Wamsley. I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. Does Manring have long nails on his right hand that help him make some of those noises? Thanks, P6

i agree. i think it's more challenging and creative to use the detuner as well

the Teacher!!

Manring's compounded meters make this somewhat challenging to dance to |-D

@gebass6 yeahh most of them were guitarists studyin music at uni or we're tutors.. soo id say so :P

Manrig is officially tied with Claypool for best bassist in my book.

No. The hyperbasses have the special (up/detuning) bridge as well as the tuning peg d-tuners. This one only has the tuning peg d-tuners.

Was for the guys who wonders why he doesn't just play a fivestring, the point of the "detuning" etc ;) Amazing bass player.

Imagine if him and Victor Wooten did a collab...Wow

A fivestringer will sometime cause more harm than good; with all the chords and dissonant sounds in Manring's playing, it may well be a disturbing element. Not to mention the feel, playing a five is not the same as a four. And love the video, fun to see guys who look like they really get a kick out of performing!

Piccolo bass strings are just the same EADG up an octave. So it's like the lower 4 strings of your guitar on a bass. But on his Hyperbass the tuning can be changed to whatever he wants.

@gebass6 I'll raise a glass to that my friend!

@saumonnn thats what wiki says. it said he also went to berkley Boston which damn that must have been tough.

un fing real....

I wanna see the sheet music for this!

Love this stuff. Gotta ask - why did you hold on to the last two for so long? Also, any chance of this being released on CD/DVD!? :D :D :D

It seems to me he does more ensemble than solo work- look up his projects with Demania, Attention Deficit, McGill Manring Stevens, the Feinsmith Quartet, and Cullen/Manring.

ya but don't forget how hard it is to play 4 note chords on an unlined fretless. to do it as effortlessly as manring could take decades of practice, and that's before you even think about learning a song like this!

Cheers! doing a fretless conversion myself =] any tips would be very helpful

Actually, I learned this song, and the way I did it, anyway, it's more a form than a piece of music. there's the Pre-chorus and chorus, which is the part from 1:07 to 1:52, and other than that, there's just the verses, which are completely improvisation. Then there's the bridge after the second pre-chorus, and then a 3rd verse, pre-chorus/chorus -> outro. The "Written" parts aren't terribly complicated, so this song can basically be fit to all different skill levels, within reason.

It's actually made by Zon Guitars in NY.

This is his Zon Sonus The other one is the Zon Hyperbass

If you add &fmt=18 to the end of this video. The quality. OH :D

@alembicbassguy Would you want Manring to be heard by millions or would you want him to rake up millions? He may be perfectly happy this way.

the best in my opinion. And even if that was a fivestring bass he would still have to tune it constantly in his songs.

No, they're way different. Look at the shapes, for one thing. The Manring Hyperbass has a less traditional shape; the red one he uses in this vid is shaped like a typical bass, just with a super-deep cutaway to match the extended fretboard. The tan one is wider and has different curves. His sig also has a custom bridge that can retune one, two, three or all four strings at the same time. Between the two retuning systems, he can retune like a third of an octave in either direction, up or down.

This is not the hyperbass. The hyperbass is the one that has the light wood color. He uses is on Helios and the Enormous Room.

true...it is easyer playing this very cool song on a 5 sting, but it's alot more fun with the Xtender. :D

@neutronbastard 12 year old tony royster jr... now thats impressive... for his age

@alembicbassguy I think if I was ever a musician such as Mr. Manring here I would still enjoy playing in an environment like this. Do you think he is struggling for venues/gigs?