![]() ![]() The way I see things, I can’t go against anybody or anything, so if I don’t like something I focus on favoring its opposite. I have a very clear life philosophy in relation to these matters. What would you say to all those ERB haters around?Īn ERB hater is just “a hater” the ERB part of the phrase is completely unimportant to me. So yes, there is a chance that there might be an 8-String Bass “progenitor” somewhere, but that wouldn’t change anything since for me, the 8-String ERB is exactly like a son that I’ve been raising for almost 20 years. I say, “First to dedicate…” because it’s statistically possible that there could have been an 8-String Bass before mine, but I believe, ‘the father’ is the one who goes along the path raising his child on an everyday basis. There were already 5, 6, 7 and 9 string ERBs around, but there were no 8-String ERB options, so there was also a natural push to be the first to dedicate a life as an instrumentalist to that specific Bass which I felt it was literally waiting for me. The third reason was that my right hand technique (VST) works much better when it has more vertical structures available and an ERB provides exactly that. Another reason that was pushing me into the ERB field was that I’ve always preferred the sound texture that a bass can offer between the 1st and the 12th fret, so in order to stay mostly in that area I definitely needed more strings. I had been considering building an 8-String Bass for many years, mostly due to my personal ergonomic needs I have very small hands and I was looking for a solution that would allow me to reach those notes I wasn’t able to. By 1990 I was already playing a 5-string Bass and in 1991 I got a 6-string, which I played until 1999 when I decided to go for “the big move”. Despite that, in 1989 I was playing professionally with most of the top artists in my country. Back then I didn’t even know what a Bass was, what Jazz was, etc., in fact music was as important in my life as playing with my Rubik cube. My story is very uncommon, in the sense that I started in music back in 1988 when I was 22 years old. Please tell us about your musical background and that crucial moment when you decided to move into the ERB field. Igor is a fine Fusion and Jazz player and an authentic ambassador of South American music and culture. He is considered the father of the 8-String Bass, the inventor of the MicRamp, gifted with an outstanding technique, which he calls VST, and is a bass soloist in his own right. Igor is what we can call a Renaissance Man he has been a driving force on the ERB field for almost two decades. ![]()
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