Chords for Bass Camp 2015 - Ryan Martinie

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_ _ _ [G] _ Well, I've been here before, [N] but not as an instructor, obviously, and I've been able
to observe other bass players do what they do best.
And seeing the students here, they want to be here, too.
It's not just fanboy stuff.
Maybe that sounds ugly.
When Ove asked me to do it, I was a little apprehensive.
You know, I'm not the world's greatest bass player like some of the people here are.
But what I do have is my own personal story, a weird tuning that I play in.
I hope that I have some things to give to the people who [D] come here for this. _ _ _ _
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Funny little story.
That came from a session.
I'd have an idea in the studio, and I'm always looking for a different way to play the line
or a different way to express it, messing with it.
So I'd say, I want to try this.
He'd be like, this, which [G] meant, at the end of the day, it meant, sounds good up here.
Doesn't mean it's going to work in real life.
Throughout the session, that kind of became the joke, is we'd go like this, which means
sounds good up here.
So you find that happens a lot with ideas.
Man, this instrument is a great instrument.
The truss rod had become spun out.
This is an 01.
In the meantime, I got a newer version that had a different radius on the neck.
I sent an email saying, well, is there any way, while we're at it, fixing the truss rod,
and since we've got to take the neck up and do a whole bunch of stuff anyway, why don't
we just take the coating off?
Why don't we go back to basics, no pun intended?
So I have a brand new instrument that I have a lot of history with.
I've played, I don't know, a thousand plus shows with this thing.
Easy.
You can get a whole lot of sounds out of [D] this one.
So listen to how much bass this thing has.
Okay, bottom end. _
[A] _ _ _ Now listen to how [D] not bass it has.
[G] That sounds alien almost.
You know, it's got a _ lot of mid [D]-range, but no bottom.
So you can really run such a wide variety of sounds.
It's fun to play.
It feels great, especially with the new radius on this one. _
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The [N] industry has changed a whole bunch.
You know that records are being downloaded, and you know that there's a lot of time and
energy put into that, and there's a lot of money, so there needs to be some return on
that, and the labels were no longer getting that return due to downloads.
We certainly felt it on a touring level.
If we were to sell more records, well, you go up in the lineup.
For us, we were still able to continue and make a living and travel, but I think for
the younger bands, it was a really, really tough period for them.
The thing that came to my head was maybe because you can have any song from anywhere in the
world right now, maybe that means we'll become more discerning, and the internet will be
utilized like the tool that was meant to be in the first place, which is, well, do you
want to spend your money on this or not?
[D] You know, have a listen.
Is this something that you're really interested in?
If it is, well, cool, buy it.
Instead, everybody just went, well, I'll see if I like it and download it.
Well, that actually really did hurt the industry. _
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[Gb] Let's see.
I have a trio that I've been playing with and writing with for the last couple, two,
three years, or two years now.
I've been doing more production.
The trio's getting ready to play out, start playing out in October, actually.
No vocals, yet the music can speak for itself without trying to be too proud of itself.
You don't have to play a million notes.
It doesn't have to be overcomposed.
The songs can just be nice to [E] hear, something you want to hear in the background or in the
studio or something you really want to pay attention [N] to.
Just produced a song for Bon Lazaga's record that Kai Eckhart played bass on.
So I was able to record all the guitars and all the overdubs, the cymbals and shakers
and all that stuff in my home.
That was a really cool experience and I hope to do more of that.
Having a great time exploring microphones and preamps and compressors.
That's a really exciting thing for me in my life, that transition from just a player who's
been recorded to a player that can record.
Being unafraid to just try things, you know?
Well take the knob and sweep it.
Start at zero and go to ten and see what happens.
Use your ears, [Eb] use your heart and pay attention to the musicians around you and see what they
have [Ab] to say about it. _
Perfect.
[G] That's a good stop.
_ I hope I didn't take too much time.
No, no, that's good.
That's good.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
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