Wooten is most often seen playing
Fodera basses, of which he has a signature model.
His most famous Fodera, a
1983 Monarch Deluxe he refers to as "number 1," sports a Kahler
Tremolo System model 2400 bridge. Fodera's "Yin Yang" basses
(co-designed by and created for Wooten) incorporates the Yin Yang symbol—which
Wooten uses in various media—as a focal point of the top's design and
construction. The symbol is created from two pieces of naturally finished wood
(Ebony and Holly, for example), fitted together to create the Yin-Yang pattern. As well as playing electric bass (both
fretted and fretless) and the double bass, Victor also played the cello in high
school. He still plays cello occasionally with the Flecktones as well as in the
2012 Sword and Stone/Words and Tones tour.
This is the instrument to which he attributes
his musical training.
Wooten has also experimented with
backward vocals, chanting, and Asian percussion.
WORKSHOP
In 2000 Wooten created a
Bass/Nature camp that has since expanded into Victor Wooten's Center for Music
and Nature, located in Only, Tennessee, outside of Nashville. He holds the
classes in spring and summer. Wooten
also leads the "Victor Wooten/Berklee Summer Bass Workshop" for
summer programs at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. At Berklee, Wooten
incorporates his educational concepts from the Victor Wooten Center for Music
into his collaborations with Berklee Bass Department chair, Steve Bailey. In
2013 and 2014 he appeared - among others like John Patitucci, Lee Sklar, Stuart
Hamm and Alphonso Johnson - on an annual Bass Camp of the German bass
manufacturer Warwick.
He was featured on the May/June
2014 cover of Making Music Magazine to discuss the music nature camps.
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