{"id":359652,"date":"2019-04-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/?p=359652"},"modified":"2019-04-04T10:57:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T08:57:35","slug":"hit-the-tone-thundercat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/gear\/hit-the-tone-thundercat\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit The Tone! Thundercat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are we talking about the latest DC Comics superhero?<\/h3>\n

Almost, but no. We’re talking about a man who, when asked about his music, replied: “Of course you can’t reinvent the wheel, but you can put 20-inch rims on it.” Sounds good, doesn’t it? Thundercat (Stephen Lee Bruner,<\/strong> Los Angeles, 1984) has music in his blood. His father (Ronald Bruner Sr.) played the drums for Diana Ross<\/strong>, The Temptations<\/strong>,\u00a0Randy Crawford,<\/strong>\u00a0Gladys Knight<\/strong> and many others. And along with his brother, drummer Ronald Bruner Jr.<\/strong>, he was part of that crossover thrash band called Suicidal Tendencies.<\/strong> That alone was the first chapter of a trajectory that has led him, when he is not yet 40 years old, to play and produce the music of people like KendrickLamar, Snoop Dogg, Kamasi Washington, Flying Lotus, Childish Gamino, Mac Miller or Kali Uchis<\/strong>. As if that weren’t enough, Thundercat has released 3 sensational solo albums. He mixes soul, hip-hop, funk, R&B, jazz<\/strong> and electronica.<\/strong> He has been compared to the icons Jaco Pastorius, Matt Garrison<\/strong> or Stanley Clarke.<\/strong> No messin’ around.<\/p>\n

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Fill me in on your tricks, please!<\/h3>\n
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That’s just what we’re about to do. To understand why Thundercat<\/strong> sounds like it does, you need to get into his workshop, so let’s talk bass.<\/strong> Although the American usually plays with a signature model that he partly developed with Ibanez,<\/strong> he has admitted on several occasions that he cares more about the instrument being in a certain format<\/strong> than the model itself: “the sixth string<\/strong> gives me a lot to work with; I always thought I’d never play a bass with more than five strings, but the reality is that the sixth has grown on me,” he said.<\/p>\n

Within that category, the market offers us many options. One of the most in demand is the Harley Benton BZ-6000 NT<\/strong><\/a>, which is said to be unrivalled in the market in terms of price\/quality. It’s no coincidence that this is the first bass to appear in this article about Thundercat: one of the virtues of the BZ-6000<\/strong> is its versatility,<\/strong> which allows it to be adaptable to genres as contrasting as acid jazz<\/strong> and pop.<\/strong> For a similar price, \u20ac389<\/strong>, we find the Ibanez SR306EB-WK<\/strong><\/a>, belonging to the Soundgear Series<\/strong> and equipped with PowerSpan double coil pickups<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t