Victor Wooten

Born to Dorothy and Pete Wooten, Victor is the youngest of the five Wooten Brothers, the other four being Regi, Roy, Rudy and Joseph Wooten, all of whom are musicians. Regi began to teach Victor to play bass when he was two, and by the age of six, Victor was performing with his brothers in their family band, The Wooten Brothers Band. Instruments Wooten playing his Steinberger headless bass guitar at the Belly Up in 2006. 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. This is the instrument to which he attributes his musical training. Wooten has also experimented with backward vocals, chanting, and Asian percussion. Workshops 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. In September 2013 he appeared for the first time - among others like John Patitucci, Lee Sklar, Stuart Hamm and Alphonso Johnson - on a Bass Camp of the German bass manufacturer Warwick. Philanthropy Victor Wooten dedicated his time and efforts while visiting a Little Kids Rock classroom, not only teaching students how to string a chord, but also performing on his guitar for the students to watch.