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What is Electric Solo-Bass Live!!!?

Recently, I recognize there are few cool BASSIST when listening to the Japanese radio stations or TVs. Some are sequence BASS line played by keybordist, some are real BASS but looping 4 or 8 masures, or some are too simple. Of course I play such BASS lines with faith and responsibility when ordered.

That's NOT all the BASS, however. I've not been yearning just playing such a BASS.
Things that can be done on the BASS has much more depth and width. There must be much more combinations with 4 strings, wood body, 21 frets, and electric parts.
I wanted to know much more about BASS. That's why I started this project called "Electric Solo-Bass Live!!!".

"Electric Solo-Bass Live!!!" is the solo BASS performance using 4-string electric BASS. I'd like to play the music which makes young generations happy as well as when I was young.

This is a challenge that I can do because I usually play so-called normal style.

Now, Let's take a look at my electric bass.

21-fret on each string + open string = 22 notes/string
There are 4 strings: 22 x 4 = 88 ... (!)


"88" is the same number of piano keyboard!
This gives me a great hope on the style of solo BASS, because I'll have more notes than piano once I use HARMONICS.

So far I have played;

Masao HIRAKAWA
Photo by Tomoko Namba

Vol. 1
12/23/2008
at

Electric Solo-Bass Live!!! vol.1
- 1st set -
  • Dixie (traditional)
  • Don't Know Why (Jesse Harris/Norah Jones)
  • James (Pat Metheny)
  • Free #1 (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • My One And Only Love (Guy Wood)
  • All The Things You Are (Jerome Kern)
  • Subarashii Hibi (Tamio OKUDA/UNICORM)
- 2nd set -
  • If I Would I Could (Larry Carlton)
  • Love Mode [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Birdland (Joe Zawinul/Weather Report)
  • Christmas Medley:
    [Jingle Bells (James Pierpont)]
    [Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Felix Mendelssohn)]
    [Pearl-White Eve (Senri OHE/Seiko MATSUDA)]
  • Soramo Toberu Hazu (Masamune KUSANO/SPITS)
  • Liberty City (Jaco Pastorius)
- Encore -
  • Cello Suit No.1 in G (J.S. Bach)
  • A-RI-GA-TO (Masao HIRAKAWA)
Vol. 2
6/18/2009
at "King's Bar"
in Yokohama


- 1st set -
  • Walking In The Rain (Ami OZAKI)
  • Shape Of My Heart [w/loop] (Dominic Miller; Sting)
  • 52nd Street Theme (Thelonious Monk)
  • Walking With you (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Travels (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays; Pat Metheny Group)
  • Amandla (Marcus Miller; Miles Davis)
- 2nd set -
  • Letter From Home (Pat Metheny; Pat Metheny Group)
  • Allelujah (Fairground Attraction)
  • Rising [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Yasashii Ame (Shoko SUZUKI/Kyoko KOIZUMI)
  • Furusato (Teiichi OKANO; arr. Masao HIRAKAWA)
- Encore -
  • Liberty City (Jaco Pastorius) ~Birdland (Joe Zawinul)
Vol. 3
1/24/2010
at "King's Bar"
in Yokohama


Electric Solo-Bass Live!!! vol.3
- 1st set -
  • Straight No Chaser [w/loop] (Thelonious Monk)
  • Warm In The Cold [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • And Here You Are (Stuff)
  • Walkin' Down The Street [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Travessia (Milton Nascimento)
  • Afro Blue (Mongo Santamaria)
- 2nd set -
  • Nightmare, A.J (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Baby Plays Around (Elvis Costello)
  • Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Charles Mingus)
  • Tears In Heaven (Eric Clapton)
  • You And Your Gentleness [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Michael Jackson Medley: [w/loop] (Michael Jackson/ arr. Masao HIRAKAWA)
    [Bad/Thriller/Beat It/Black Or White/I Want You Back]
- Encore -
  • Hard Times, Come Again No More (Stephen Foster)
Vol. 4.0
8/18/2010
at "King's Bar"
in Yokohama


Electric Solo-Bass Live!!! vol.4.0
- 1st set -
  • A Night In Tunisia [w/loop] (Dizzy Gillespie)
  • Blame It On My Youth (Oscar Levant)
  • Let's Eat (Steve Swallow)
  • Time After Time (Rob Hyman/Cyndi Lauper)
  • Mikrokosmos Medley [#11/#54/#122] (Bela Bartok/ arr. Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • All Blues [w/loop] (Miles Davis)
- 2nd set -
  • Michael Jackson Medley: [w/loop] (Michael Jackson/ arr. Masao HIRAKAWA)
    [Bad/Thriller/Beat It/Black Or White/I Want You Back]
  • Subarashii Hibi (UNICORN)
  • James (Pat Metheny Group)
  • Love Mode [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Walking With you (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Cello Suite No.1 in G (J.S. Bach)
  • School Days [w/loop] (Stanley Clarke)
- Encore -
  • Dixie (trad./ arr. Jeff Berlin)
  • A-RI-GA-TO (Masao HIRAKAWA)
Vol. 5
2/19/2011
at "King's Bar"
in Yokohama


Electric Solo-Bass Live!!! vol.5
- 1st set -
  • Solar [w/loop] (Miles Davis)
  • The Nearness Of You (Horgy Carmichael/Ned Washington)
  • Shape Of My Heart [w/loop] (Sting)
  • Shuffle Boil (Thelonious Monk)
  • Kanon [w/loop] (Johann Pachelbel)
  • All The Things You Are (Jerome Kern)
- 2nd set -
  • My Love, Her Inspiration (Stanley Clarke)
  • Letter From Home (Pat Metheny)
  • Party [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Soramo Toberu Hazu (Masamune KUSANO/SPITS)
  • Allelujah (Fairground Attraction)
  • Erlkönig [w/loop] (Franz Schubert)
- Encore -
  • Don't Know Why (Jesse Harris/Norah Jones)
Vol. 6
9/23/2011
at "King's Bar"
in Yokohama


Electric Solo-Bass Live!!! vol.6
- 1st set -
  • Well You Needn't (Thelonious Monk)
  • Three Views Of A Secret (Jaco Pastorius)
  • Alfie (Burt Bacharach)
  • Solar [w/loop] (Miles Davis)
  • Improvisation for vol.7 (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Soul Intro ~ Mercy, Mercy, Mercy ~ The Chicken [w/loop]
    (Jaco Pastorius/Joe Zawinul/Pee Wee Ellis)
- 2nd set -
  • Symphony No.9, Mov. 2 Largo (a.k.a "Goin' Home") (Antonín Leopold Dvořák)
  • Tears In Heaven (Eric Clapton)
  • Hard Times, Come Again No More (Stephen Foster)
  • SUKIYAKI (Hachidai NAKAMURA)
  • Splatch ~ Slam [w/loop] (Marcus Miller)
- Encore -
  • Liberty City (Jaco Pastorius) [w/loop] ~ Birdland (Joe Zawinul)
Vol. 7
3/3/2012
at 'King's Bar'
in Yokohama


Electric Solo-Bass Live!!! vol.7
- 1st set -
  • So What [w/loop] (Miles Davis)
  • Love Mode [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Nagori-Yuki ~Remnant Snow~ (Shozo ISE)
  • Crisis And Bogus Calm (Improvisation for vol.7) [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Erlkönik [w/loop] (Franz Schubert)
- 2nd set -
  • Freedom Jazz Dance [w/loop] (Eddie Harris)
  • Symphony No.9, Mov. 2 Largo (a.k.a "Goin' Home") (Antonín Leopold Dvořák)
    ~ Travels (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays; Pat Metheny Group)
  • Improvisation for vol.8 (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • SUKIYAKI (Hachidai NAKAMURA)
  • Rising [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
- Encore -
  • Three Views Of A Secret (Jaco Pastorius)
Vol. 8
11/3/2012
at 'King's Bar'
in Yokohama
- 1st set -
  • St. Thomas [w/loop] (Sonny Rollins)
  • Momiji (Teiichi OKANO)
  • Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte (Maurice Ravel)
  • Portrait Of Tracy (Jaco Pastorius)
  • Growing (Improvisation for vol.7) [w/loop] (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Confirmation (Charlie Parker)
- 2nd set -
  • The Nearness Of You (Horgy Carmichael/Ned Washington)
  • Improvisation for vol.9 (Masao HIRAKAWA)
  • Dixie (traditional; arr. by Jeff Berlin)
  • Three Views Of A Secret (Jaco Pastorius)
  • School Days [w/loop] (Stanley Clarke)
- Encore -
  • All Blues [w/loop] (Miles Davis)
Vol. 9
5/11/2013
at 'King's Bar'
in Yokohama

Electric Solo-Bass Live!!! vol.9
- Vol.7 (3/3/12) -
Three Views Of A Secret (Jaco Pastorius)


Nagori Yuki ~Remnant Snow (Shozo ISE)


Symphony No.9 mov.2 Largo (Antonín Dvořák)




- Vol.8 (11/3/12) -
Momiji ~ Autumn Tints (Teiichi OKANO)


Portrait Of Tracy (Jaco Pastorius)


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