Ryan Madora

[Jim Kernan]

Ever watch YouTube bass lesson videos and wonder how well they play live?
I saw Ryan Madora play with Joanne Shaw Taylor, she's great. Of course the whole band was too.

 

[Passinwind]

I saw her playing with Jenny Lewis on Austin City Limits recently, quite a cool band all the way around.

 

[Kyle_S]

Great player, teacher, and writer. I'm a fan.

 

[el jeffe bass]

Anyone who has recorded and performed with Robben Ford is definitely an upper tier musician. She also has good teaching style

 

[P Coburn]

I like her playing and teaching approach.

 

[srosenthal13]

I really like Ryan and also Rich Brown. I like their presentation style.

It's not shouty or memey. Just good playing, gettable theory, practical application.

 

[jerry]

She did the Purple album with Robbed Ford, she's a badass!

 

[Michedelic]

She’s new to me, and as there’s no videos yet, here you go, where she examines the classic bread and butter bass move…


No ego, no hype, no childish video gimmicks, just enthusiasm explaining the lowliest of licks.

 

[Passinwind]

She’s new to me, and as there’s no videos yet, here you go, where she examines the classic bread and butter bass move…


No ego, no hype, no childish video gimmicks, just enthusiasm explaining the lowliest of licks.

No videos? She’s been a No Treble instructional columnist for years: Keep It Groovy

 

[Michedelic]

No videos? She’s been a No Treble instructional columnist for years: Keep It Groovy

There had been no videos in this particular thread at the point I wrote that.

 

[wagdog]

One of my favorites.

 

[DrBnz]

I've watched a few of her instructional videos. She's very good at teaching. Did you notice how quick she is in explaining things. I like that a lot. Whereas some instructors like to talk and/or like to show off their playing vice teaching the class. Then I listened to some of her performing. She's very impressive.

 

[el jeffe bass]

One of my favorites.

Awesome. Thank you for sharing this. I play slide guitar and slide banjo. I’ve never considered slid bass. I will be trying this soon

 

[el jeffe bass]

I've watched a few of her instructional videos. She's very good at teaching. Did you notice how quick she is in explaining things. I like that a lot. Whereas some instructors like to talk and/or like to show off their playing vice teaching the class. Then I listened to some of her performing. She's very impressive.

Absolutely this. Most instructional videos videos could be at least 50% shorter. Hers are pretty much straight to the point

 

[Michedelic]

Awesome. Thank you for sharing this. I play slide guitar and slide banjo. I’ve never considered slid bass. I will be trying this soon

JPJ has been dabbling with lap steel with strings in the bass range for some time…


Then there’s this…

 

[Passinwind]

Awesome. Thank you for sharing this. I play slide guitar and slide banjo. I’ve never considered slide bass. I will be trying this soon

I’ve been playing slide bass since the early ‘70s as part of my regular shtick. My old Travis Bean fretless was especially well suited for it, but eventually I had a luthier friend build me something more specifically meant for that, which is much lighter, has no neck dive or temperature sensitivity issues, and so on. A lap steel bar is a good place to start, IME. I make own bass slides though, which are better yet.

 

[Jim Kernan]

One of my favorites.

Awsome!

 

[Road Hat]

I’ve been playing slide bass since the early ‘70s as part of my regular shtick. My old Travis Bean fretless was especially well suited for it, but eventually I had a luthier friend build me something more specifically meant for that, which is much lighter, has no neck dive or temperature sensitivity issues, and so on. A lap steel bar is a good place to start, IME. I make own bass slides though, which are better yet.

I'm working on this as well! What tuning(s) are you using? I'm approaching it with a four string in Standard tuning. Since I already know the positions by heart, I figured this would be an easier place to start vs. open tunings.

 

[Passinwind]

I'm working on this as well! What tuning(s) are you using? I'm approaching it with a four string in Standard tuning. Since I already know the positions by heart, I figured this would be an easier place to start vs. open tunings.

I just use standard tuning as well. With my Travis Bean I used to set up the A and D strings slightly higher than usual, but it had a very flat fingerboard. My current basses have a little more curve, so a more or less regular setup works fine for me.

 

[Road Hat]

I just use standard tuning as well. With my Travis Bean I used to set up the A and D strings slightly higher than usual, but it had a very flat fingerboard. My current basses have a little more curve, so a more or less regular setup works fine for me.

Thanks for the info! I'm using my short-scale G&L Fallout bass with Pyramid Gold flatwounds. I've raised the action a bit and am using my Effectrode PC-2A optical compressor with just a touch of reverb from my Boss RV-6. I'm mostly using a ceramic slide but have also been experimenting with brass and glass. The trickiest part so far is the muting of the open strings to avoid the dreaded ghost slide notes. So far, a combination of left-hand behind-the-slide and right-hand palm muting seems to do the trick. Other than Mark Sandman of Morphine there's not a lot of info I can find about slide bass, but it's actually fairly intuitive, and my intonation is good which is helpful! Thanks again!