Hello!

I've been playing music since 1999. I play Bass, Guitar and hybrid 8 string guitar as well, (3 bass and 5 guitar strings on it). I currently specialize in 6 string fretless bass.

I began as a metal guitarist then branched into many genres.I am experienced in a variety of sub genres but prefer the experimental, dissonant, odd timings with a solid groove foundation. I tend to prefer m...
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Hello!

I've been playing music since 1999. I play Bass, Guitar and hybrid 8 string guitar as well, (3 bass and 5 guitar strings on it). I currently specialize in 6 string fretless bass.

I began as a metal guitarist then branched into many genres.I am experienced in a variety of sub genres but prefer the experimental, dissonant, odd timings with a solid groove foundation. I tend to prefer music that is not completely very straight forward and thus has experimental or "thinking" elements to it.

I Left metal for years to purely jazz , prog and funk guitar (about 12 years) then came back to metal a few years ago. In this experimental period i learned a good amount of jazz guitar theory , chordal structures, modal theory and more. Explored many sub genres of jazz: Bossa nova, bepop, free, post bop, swing, and more which I bring that all back into metal to create a new palette of tones and colours, which I find works well.

I play bass using a unique 5 finger technique i developed that blends: Pami classical fingerpicking, wes montgomery thumb technique and Charlie hunter style hybrid compound finger picking style.I can read sheet music (slowly) , and can easily figure out stuff by ear, so I never use tabs.

I'm super malleable, and enjoy playing in projects that are different to what I listen to! Expect me to mash together my experience in all these genres to bring life to your project.

Im best suited for: all types of metal (especially experimental) , prog , jazz, funk, blues , rock .

Main metal bands i enjoy: meshuggah (older stuff) , dillinger escape plan, gorguts, martyr, Ad Nauseum, demilich, pyrrhon, sarmat, imperial triumphant, cynic, mr bungle (kinda metal), fantomas, cryptopsy (old stuff), Negativa, tony danza tapdance extravaganza, into the moat, Akercocke, Porcupine tree, Cannibal Corpse, Blotted science, cephalic carnage, Dysrythmia, Psyopus, ion dissonance, tons more im forgetting..

other sounds: james brown, miles davis, john coltrane, eric dolphy, Allan holdsworth, King crimson, herb ellis, barney kessel, Kamasi washington, herbie hancock, chick corea, charlie hunter, dave holland, michael manring, alex skolnick, primus, Jaco pastorius, weather report, wayne shorter, ben monder and lots more ..


https://www.youtube.com/@thederangedherbalist/videos - my youtube channel with some videos. All these videos are unedited takes figured out by ear.


Thank you for your time!

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