Victor Wooten

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Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is a highly respected electric bass player and is regarded by many of his peers as one of the finest players to emerge in the 1990s.
His oldest brother Regi was the one who taught Victor to play bass at age three, and by age five Victor could hold simple bass lines and play gigs. The Wooten Brothers band (Regi, Rudy, Roy, Joseph and Victor) played for many years in the 1970s.

After moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1988 Victor was immediately recruited by blues and soul singer Jonell Mosser. A year later he was hired by banjo maestro Béla Fleck.

Wooten developed many new fingering techniques that were essentially undiscovered before his time. His most innovative are the double-thumbing technique, which utilizes the thumb and ultra light gauge strings in a manner similar to a guitar pick in conjunction with a funk slapping technique, and the open-hammer-pluck technique, which uses sometimes multiple hammer-ons from open strings to the desired fretted pitch.

Website: www.victorwooten.com

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