Fender American Zone Deluxe

Fender American Deluxe Zone

- Alder body

- Flame maple top and back, with mahogany veneer

- 1 piece maple neck

- Rosewood fingerboard w/ abalone dots

- gold hard wares

- dual humbucker pickups 

- 18 volt preamp, active only

- vol / pan / hi / mid / lo (boost and cut)

- 19mm string spacing

- String through body or through bridge 

 

My first attempt on learning a slap based song ...    

this is a live version of Les Claypool's famous bass solo piece  "The Awakening" .   I have had this mp3 file in the computer for at least 10 years ..  never thought about working on it until few month ago I heard a kid in a local music store playing this tune ..  

Another etude from John Pettitucci's 60 Melodic Etudes.  The progress is getting slightly faster now ..  

4rd etude on the book ...      exercise on a sunday morning 

Updated:
This is the first Coppolo bass from 2014, it was the terminal for the first chapter of my bass adventure, and about 3 years after, I traded it for a lg5 classic supreme thinking I'd be set with their most fancy offering.  The adventure moved on and the more fancy basses I played, the more I miss this one that started it all .   Not to the point that i'd call it a regret, but the more I tried and learn about basses, the more I realized how great this one sounded.  In Nov 2020, with great help from my friend Mike , I was able to aquire this bass back.  I should never let it go again.  

my first attempt on covering this song.  best bass line ever ..   

 

here's some guideline for electronic and pickup cavity shielding with copper tape.

 

A little update on this year's pedal ... 

Here's my play on doing Just the two of us with the looper on my TC Flashback delay pedal.

3rd etude on the book ...    playing up to speed is not as easy as i thought ..      there's certain amount of messyness and some misktakes ...   still a very challenging and fun book to work on ..