Grant Stinnett is an American bassist notable for compositions on the bass guitar played as a solo instrument which use tunings different from the standard bass guitar tuning.[1][2][3][4] For example, he performed using a D-Tuner bass tuned to C G C G for his tune Born of Fire and Light.[5] He played the jazz standard All the things you are using a LeFay Singer six-string bass, with a special tuning from the low E to the high F instead of the usual B to C tuning.[6] Reviewer Jake Kot in Bass Musician Magazine compared Stinnett to bass guitarists such as Michael Manring, Victor Wooten, and Steve Bailey, who play the bass guitar as a solo instrument, and Kot described Stinnett as presenting a "nice array of techno-adventures, ambient excursions, chord/melody playing", with good melodies.[3] Stinnett's album G Money was released in 2006 when he was 17 years old.
- ^ November 13, 2014, Damian Fanelli, Guitar World magazine, Grant Stinnett's Solo Bass Tapping Masterpiece, "Born of Fire and Light" — Video, Retrieved November 28, 2014
- ^ 07 AUGUST 2013, ARTIST INTERVIEWS, Bass Players United magazine, Grant Stinnett Archived 2014-11-10 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved November 28, 2014, "...Colorful, great chops, great concepts, ascending are all words that have been used to describe Grant Stinnett..."
- ^ a b FEBRUARY 21, 2011, JAKE KOT, Bass musician magazine, Aspiration by Grant Stinnett, Retrieved November 28, 2014
- ^ Guitar Radio Show, Episode 41- Grant Stinnett, Retrieved November 28, 2014, "...One of the most talented bass guitarists since Jaco ..."
- ^ November 13th, 2014, Guitar Aficionado magazine, Grant Stinnett's Solo Bass Tapping Masterpiece Born of Fire and Light, Retrieved November 28, 2014
- ^ Kevin Johnson, June 11, 2011, No Treble magazine, Grant Stinnett: All The Things You Are (Amazingly Fast), Retrieved March 14, 2020
