Rig Rundown: Blu DeTiger
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Swarms of musicians and guitarists have found social media’s current 60-second attention span inspirational and fruitful. But what happens after that first minute? Well, for TikTok bass tycoon Blu DeTiger, you become a shooting star. However, her story isn’t that sudden or serendipitous. She’s been working towards the spotlight since she first picked up the bass to jam with her drummer brother, Rex, at age 7.
“He was playing drums and I wanted to play an instrument,” recalls DeTiger. “As a girl, I thought guitar was ‘mainstream’ because I saw that everywhere and thought bass was rare and it would be more unique to play. I fell in love with it and my passion took over.”
Further fanning her musical flame, she joined School of Rock and performed semester-ending concerts covering Zeppelin, Bowie, Prince, the Stones, and others. She collaborated and performed with Chromeo and Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers. Inspired by horn-playing DJs, she even toted her bass to DJ gigs, where she laid down the funkiest lines she could muscle out over the top of her playlists.
“I saw people playing saxophone or trumpet over songs they were DJ-ing and I had really never seen bass used in that context. Bass is fire and it should feel good in a club because of the low frequencies hitting you.” An added benefit of the symbiotic sets was elevating her improvisational skills.
Then, the pandemic hit and DeTiger took to social media, finding a creative outlet on TikTok by adding dance-y flourishes and bouncy thunder to classic tracks. She earned a spot helping announce Fender’s Player Plus P and scored a deal with ALT:VISION Records, releasing the How Did We Get Here? EP in early 2021. She’s since graduated to being an UMG Recordings/Capitol Records artist and continues to embrace the snippet culture by churning out singles: “Blondes,” “Blutooth,” “enough 4 u,” “Crash Course,” and “Hot Crush Lover.” Yeah, you might only see 60 seconds of her talent before the algorithm pushes you by, but she’s put in years of sweat to get this far. What’s the plan going forward? To throw one helluva party, of course!
Ahead of her headlining set at Nashville’s Basement East, the booming bass star jumped at the chance to give her eager fans what they’ve been asking for—a Rig Rundown. In the chat with PG’s Chris Kies, she covers why she saw the bass as an underdog, how a Jazz tops a P bass, and explains the reason behind not going through her “crazy pedal phase” yet.
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00:00 – D’Addario’s XS Strings
00:15 – Blu DeTiger Intro
00:50 – Blu DeTiger’s TikTok and School of Rock Background
04:14 – Fender Custom Shop Jazz Bass
08:38 – Fender American Elite Jazz Bass
11:03 – Aguilar DB751 Amp & DB410 Cabinets
13:01 – Fender American Ultra Stratocaster HSS
14:11 – Blu DeTiger’s Pedalboard
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Originally posted by UC5J-hZ4wNf7OlkzIn49LHoQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVLSMnVID4Q
Full Rig Details: https://bit.ly/BluDeTigerRR
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Don't Miss a Rundown: http://bit.ly/RIgRundownENL
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Totally!
Welp, now I need a Jazz Bass. That tone is killer.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤????????????
She moves as if I’m watching the video on 1.25 speed .. but ..I’m not it’s tripping me out . Anyone else experience this?
She is a musician people not an English literature professor.
Sometimes being quiet is good but this is snobby quiet.
Great Tchat ! Lovely girl ! ????
Did you guys discuss the Van kitten in their collaboration with Chloe or did I miss it?
Almost every interview in english…
– yeah*** yeah
– yeah yah
– but yeah
– yeah)
damn she tall af
Respect
The tens do just fine for getting that feeling, as compared to the 15s. There's a lot more to cabinet design and results than just driver size. Guitar players, geez. ???? (joke!)
This is like a really good like video of like listening to someone say like, like so many times like, you know what I am saying. Like it is really like a great video of like a rig rundown. It's just like about good bass playing like a review.
Siiiiick
Please DO THE BAND CAMINO
Quite the ego..Not real bright.
That was cool I am a hard bass player but I like your riffs don't tell my buds
I like compression. On guitar AND bass. But, much respect to you. Also, Josh Smith can't stand compression on guitar.
Great! thanks for doing this Blu!
What a beautiful bass
sick