Whoa... mind truly blown!

equalsql

In all my years playing bass I've never seen anything as impressive as this.
Mind blown!

EricTheWeary

Mohini is super talented. There’s a Rick Beato interview with her where she explains about her upbringing and learning bass,etc. 

viz

She’s sooooo brilliant it makes me cry and shout with joy. AMAZING. 

Stuckfast

I have no idea how that is even possible.

PeteC

Gulp..!

Kurtis

Why?


  

fretmeister

She’s ace. Been following her socials for a while.

Phenomenal player. 

LionAquaLooper

Those lightning quick legatos on a full sized bass. She must have Hulk hand strength. 

Funkfingers

Stuckfast said:

I have no idea how that is even possible.

Hard study and determination.

I would hazard a guess that - like the young Steve Vai - Mohini is a transcribing by ear MOFO.

BintyTwanger77

That is astonishing.

monquixote

She's amazing 

I first heard her when she was playing with Marco from the Aristocrats:

monquixote

Also if you are wondering where she's come from she's been successful in India for a number of years:



Here she is playing with A R Rahman at Berklee. (Depending on how you feel about Indian prog rock) 

octatonic

Stuckfast said:

I have no idea how that is even possible.

She has been playing since she was 3 and is a prodigy/genius.

joeW

The time feel is amazing given the speed. And there me moaning about sax solos being impossible on guitar - let alone on bass with fingers.  What an incredible talent 

DartmoorHedgehog

Wow, she's a bit good at that isn't she. That type of modern jazz really isn't my taste but very well played indeed.

equalsql

joeW said:

The time feel is amazing given the speed. And there me moaning about sax solos being impossible on guitar - let alone on bass with fingers.  What an incredible talent 

I know, she's absolutely locked in timing wise, just incredible stuff. She really is phenomenal.

oh_pollo

DartmoorHedgehog said:

Wow, she's a bit good at that isn't she. That type of modern jazz really isn't my taste but very well played indeed.

That composition is from 1960, so not really 'modern' even by jazz standards.

DartmoorHedgehog

oh_pollo said:

DartmoorHedgehog said:

Wow, she's a bit good at that isn't she. That type of modern jazz really isn't my taste but very well played indeed.

That composition is from 1960, so not really 'modern' even by jazz standards.

Anything after about 1930s is "modern" by my tastes in jazz (apart from the trad jazz revival stuff of course)

Funkfingers

Some of what Mohini plays during her recent Beato interview is very close to the stylings of Les Claypool. He plays drums well enough to compose parts. I wouldn't know how well Les sight reads nowadays.

As a student of Indian music, Mohini will have been formally taught how to vocalise drum or percussion parts before being allowed to actually play the instruments. It is drilled in deeply. 

mrkb

Technique is amazing, but musically it’s worse than aimless widdling.

EricTheWeary

mrkb said:

Technique is amazing, but musically it’s worse than aimless widdling.

It’s (probably too obviously) transcribing a famous jazz sax solo so it is more of a technical exercise than creating music. Unless you mean the John Coltrane solo in which case you’ve just annoyed sixty years of jazz fans.