Funky Fretless Thumb Fingerstyle Bass Grooves

Here are some funky fretless grooves with thumb fingerstyle plucking, slides, double stops, staccato ghost notes, vibrato and more fretless fun Recorded in one take on a prerecorded drum track, I first write the grooves and song structure just on bass, then record the drums in Cubase with Addictive Drums and jam with it for a while. From writing process to shooting the final take it usually takes around 3 weeks, the challenge of a single take performance is where its at for me, no edits. Im playing my custom fretless Cortex bass with a Nordstrand Dual Coil pickup and 2band Glockenklang preamp, strung up with Ernie Ball Cobalt Slinkys. The bass has a walnut body, spalted maple top, flamed maple fingerboard and a chocolate maple neck. I added a spalted maple finger ramp temporarily for some sessions. Tuners are Gotoh, single string bridges and a compound radius give great action across the epoxied fingerboard. The signal was recorded with my Eich T1000 amps DI, straight into a Focusrite S