Ryan Madora

[Passinwind]

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!

I ‘ve made a number of my own slides, type 642 silicon aluminum bronze ended up being my favorite: Invalid Link Removed

That vendor will happily cut to size, you don’t have to buy a whole bar. And yeah, muting is key!

 

[Michedelic]

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!

There’s a number of technique demonstration videos concerning “slide bass” on YT…




…although slide on a fretless seems sort of weird and pointless.

 

[Passinwind]

…although slide on a fretless seems sort of weird and pointless.

Or maybe not, if you use it in your right hand like a bow...

But to me 'weird" is more or less the whole point!

 

[Michedelic]

Or maybe not, if you use it in your right hand like a bow...

But to me 'weird" is more or less the whole point!

Well, I realize that lap steels have no frets, but the stylistic adaptation of that sort of thing seems to me to have its limitations, but that’s just me. I used to mess around with bluesy slide guitar, and that actually helped me when I finally jumped on fretless(not so much inspired by Jaco, but by Percy Jones, Mick Karn, and Fernando Saunders).

 

[Passinwind]

Well, I realize that lap steels have no frets, but the stylistic adaptation of that sort of thing seems to me to have its limitations, but that’s just me. I used to mess around with bluesy slide guitar, and that actually helped me when I finally jumped on fretless(not so much inspired by Jaco, but by Percy Jones, Mick Karn, and Fernando Saunders).

Fretless or not is kind of moot in my use case, since I’m mostly playing slide beyond the fingerboard anyway. Could be in either hand, exciting the strings or stopping the notes. There’s a whole lot more juice available than I’ve seen addressed in random vids, but I’m not big at all on solo bass vids, playalongs, and so on. Thanks for those links, I’ll try to check them out soner than later.

 

[Bob_Ross]

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

Thread Drift: Is that the same Rich Brown who plays bass on Larnell Lewis' 2020 album Relive The Moment ?

My band just threw this tune out as a possible cover, and cot day-um is the bass player killin' it!

 

[jonathanhughes]

Thread Drift: Is that the same Rich Brown who plays bass on Larnell Lewis' 2020 album Relive The Moment ?

My band just threw this tune out as a possible cover, and cot day-um is the bass player killin' it!

It is. Not to take away from the discussion about Ryan, but Rich is awesome. His soloing is incredible, and his tone is immediately recognizable. He's also a super nice guy. I took one online lesson with him during the pandemic, and it was the best bass-related money I've ever spent.