Jayen Varma
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Jayen Varma (born February 3, 1961) is an Indian electric bass player. His background in Indian classical percusion instrument mridangam, facilitated him to apply tabla/mridangam style finger slap on the bass guitar. According to the Registry of Official World Records (Record Holders Republic) USA and UK, he is the fastest bassist, slap bass playing 36 percussive notes per second.Record Holders Republic. Instead of using the usual slap bass technique, Jayen plays his 5-string bass like Indian percussion instrument tabla and the technique he developed is widely known as Indian slap bass. He is performing concerts with his band lead by Indian classical vocalist Aparna Panshikar
Music Genre
He is in to RagaZZ music. Ragazz is a new genre of Music with a mix of Rāga and Jazz.
Inspiration
His music style and life have been influenced by Maharishi (sage) Patañjali (compiler of the Yoga Sutras), traslated by Dr.Wayne Dyer in his book The Power of Intention
When you are inspired by some great purpose or some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world, dormant forces, faculties and talents come alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person, by far, than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
