Master Class With Gabriel Vivas On The Bass Chords by Yanni

Here we are with Gabriel Vivas.
He's from Venezuela _ and he is [B] together with Joel
Dossal from Cuba and Charlie Adams from Chicago.
They're my heartbeat.
[Eb] _ He's such a
tight bass player.
He's awesome.
He's melodic.
[Ab] He can be powerful. _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] He's also [B] fast. _ _ _ _ _
[F] He's amazing [Bb] actually.
He's a great instrument to go to.
He [E] plays anything.
He can play anything I want [Bb] him to.
Any time signatures.
5, 7, 9.
Which we do [Eb] a lot of.
There's no problem at all.
Jazz, anything.
So you want to kind of show us a little bit of [G] something? _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [A] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
That's pretty.
[Am] That's pretty bass.
[D] He [Eb] _ _ _
[D] plays like a machine.
I have to say this.
Only better.
[Bb] Because he's perfection.
He's dead on.
But what he's doing is actually moving a little
ahead of the beat, a little behind the beat.
It depends.
Sometimes _ the [Eb] percussion may be
just a little ahead.
He stays back and pulls the beat.
But he knows exactly when to push
forward when the time comes.
I'm talking time wise.
[F] And that gives it the human feel.
And
he has a great feel.
It's pretty amazing.
[E] And for those of you who have seen the concert.
And I don't know if you can hear all the birds around us.
[Bb] We're outside.
We're just about
to _ play outdoors.
Big big _ amphitheater here.
It's pretty awesome.
So [Ab] anyway.
Give us a
little bit of _
[N] speed.
What do we do?
Let's see.
Heaviness.
A little [D] more.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Em] _ _
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_ _ _ Yeah.
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_ [Bbm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
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_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ Something
like that?
That's what he does when I cut him loose.
So you got to see him live to do
this stuff.
That's pretty cool.
[Bb] It's fun.
Yeah.
[N] And the interesting thing is again,
he can play in 7, 8 and 9, 8 and 8.
It doesn't [Bb] phase him at all. _ _ _
He sings _ with [Dm] the bass.
[Bb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [B] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ He really sings with the bass.
It's [E] pretty amazing.
I try.
I try.
Thanks.
Yeah, you try.
_ He's not even warmed up.
I just got you're right about that one.
Exactly.
I [Gb] surprised
him today, [Bb] especially I told him, you know, we're going to do [F] this in a few days.
And
[Ab] after soundcheck, I said, you're staying right up there.
I'm coming up there.
Let's get him
asleep.
That's right.
Last night, they had a long bus drive.
_ _ _ It's pretty awesome.
What I can tell
you [Bb] is that they are my heartbeat.
And the fact that he's so [E] versatile in his ability to [C] play,
he fits in [D] with the orchestra.
_ [C] _ [F] Beautifully.
He's just like, _ just anything I want, whatever we need
[N] to keep the rhythm.
And these are my backline boys.
You can't see them right now, but right
[Bbm] here is Joel Pilsol [Bb] and right behind is Charlie [B] Adams.
And he's right in the [Bb] middle.
We're sitting
right [E] in the middle on the back of the stage.
Backline boys.
_ Here he is from Venezuela,
[Bb] Gabriel Vivas, Gabby.
Awesome.
Thanks, John.
Thanks.
You wait.
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