Profile Victor Wooten

Bassist Victor Wooten is known as the influence for many bass players. He is known for his solo albums as well as the personnel of "Bela Fleck & The Flecktones" which is from the Grammy-winning supergroup.
Victor is also a bass innovator, vocalist, composer, arranger and a producer.Playing bass at age 3 years with his brother Regie Wooten as the person who first taught him to play bass. And at age 5 he was playing the band along with his brothers in "The Wooten Brothers Band."People who are influential in Victor in playing bass is Stanley Clarke, Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins.
Victor began more known to people when he joined the "Bela Fleck & The Flecktones" led by Bela who was a banjo player who formed a jazz band group.Wooten has won the "Bass Player of the Year" award from Bass Player magazine three times in a row, and is the first person to win the award more than once. In addition to his solo career and collaborations with various artists, Wooten has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the formation of the group in 1988.In 2008, Wooten joined with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller to record a trio album bassists, under the name of the SMV, Thunder was released in August 2008 and began to tour the same month.Early lifeBorn to Dorothy and Pete Wooten, Victor Wooten is the youngest of five brothers, four others Regi, Roy, Rudy Wooten and Joseph Wooten, all of which are highly regarded musicians. At the age of two, brother Regi taught Victor to play bass, and at the age of five years, Victor has been playing in front of a crowd with his brothers in their family band, The Wooten Brothers Band.
InstrumentVictor Wooten is most often seen playing Fodera basses, which he has a signature model. The most famous Fodera Monarch Deluxe 1983 which he called "number 1", sports a Kahler Tremolo System model 2400 bridge. Fodera's "Yin Yang" basses (designed / created for Wooten). Yin Yang symbol - the symbol is often used in some of his bass Wooten, as the main focal point for the design and construction. This often happened mistake fahaman that the Yin Yang symbol is painted onto the bass, but in reality, the symbol is created from two pieces of natural wood (Ebony and Holly), fitted together to create patterns of Yin-Yang.
Though Wooten's a renowned bassist, he was responding when asked by fans about the equipment (or equipment in general) is that "the instrument does not make the music ........ you are doing", the most important to get on a bass is a convenience and can be played. During the question and answer session at the concert in 1998, Wooten stated that "If you take a newborn baby and put them on the instrument, they will get a sound out of it, I can not get it, so again all the best. This philosophy seems to be related closely with the fundamental truth, others about Wooten's stated approach and experience of bass and music in general, namely that music is language. According to Wooten, when speaking or listening, one not focused on a mouth formed the words, as when a musician plays, the focus should not be on the instrument.In addition to playing bass electrik (either fretted or fretless), and double basses, Victor also played cello in high school. Sometimes he still plays with the group Flecktones.