This is Victor Wooten playing a solo medley while on tour with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. He starts with Norwegian Wood by the Beatles, before moving on to a series of Christmas songs that includes an excerpt from The Nutcracker, and The Christmas Song. Victor is, in my opinion, the best at forming chord-melody arrangements on the electric bass. He uses several techniques to achieve this sound on an instrument that has traditionally been confined to the rhythm section. By tapping on the fretboard, he is able to have chords in one hand while playing the melody with the other hand. He also uses a lot of harmonics, both natural and false, to expand the range of the instrument.
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