Ryan Martinie Style

[Im a sock]

I read an interview with Ryan a little while back... he said that in order to make the bass sound like it does he essentially hits the strings from the top with his fingers. It's kind of like a light slapping technique. That combined with the de tuned strings make the sound very bouncy and clicky. Plus, it sounds to me like he bosts the mids and the highs, while leaving the bass about flat.

 

[Tyler Hole]

I read an interview with Ryan a little while back... he said that in order to make the bass sound like it does he essentially hits the strings from the top with his fingers. It's kind of like a light slapping technique.

It's like finger slapping. he hits them with the top of his fingers and they hit the frets just barely so he gets that semi-slap sound.

 

[anomalybass]

It's the same as slapping w/ your thumb, he just does it w/ his first 2 fingers so he can do it much faster to follow the double bass.

Also he tunes to gcgcf, but you can play all their songs in standard tuning on a 5 string for some reason.

I've noticed on their 2nd dvd he sneaks some tapping into songs where I'm pretty sure there's no tapping on the cd.

 

[vene-nemesis]

Also he tunes to gcgcf, but you can play all their songs in standard tuning on a 5 string for some reason.

he tunes his thumbs 4 in CGCF i belive (at least the black one) , and he uses BEADG on the thumbs 5.

He pretty much strums (sp?) a note with the higher octave to get a rich tone over the guitar and drums. Then he slaps his own way the same we all do.

 

[bill_banwell]

Yeah the finger clicking technique is cool

http://mudvayne.com/mediaplayer/ open up the media player, and it streams a video of the making of there latest track in the studio, and it does some zooms on ryan, shows the technique well.

 

[bass element]

he tunes his thumbs 4 in CGCF i belive (at least the black one) , and he uses BEADG on the thumbs 4.

He pretty much strums (sp?) a note with the higher octave to get a rich tone over the guitar and drums. Then he slaps his own way the same we all do.

wrong... he tunes all his 4 strings the same, all his five strings the same. no BEADG tuning is ever involved.

i dunno wut yer talking about strumming for. he does do that time to time, and yea i guess it does give agood tone with, not over, the guitar. he doesnt just slap like we all do. the finger/tapping tech is critical.

 

[Aaron Saunders]

Yeah the finger clicking technique is cool

http://mudvayne.com/mediaplayer/ open up the media player, and it streams a video of the making of there latest track in the studio, and it does some zooms on ryan, shows the technique well.

Fantastic! Thanks a lot for the link, dude, that's awesome. Plus, it's an all and all cool video in and of itself .

 

[vene-nemesis]

wrong... he tunes all his 4 strings the same, all his five strings the same. no BEADG tuning is ever involved.

i dunno wut yer talking about strumming for. he does do that time to time, and yea i guess it does give agood tone with, not over, the guitar. he doesnt just slap like we all do. the finger/tapping tech is critical.

i seem to remember an open LowB note as the first note for Dig before the 1st(G) and 2nd(D) stings pluck so there must be a thumb 5 tuned BxADG

EDIT: i just edited my last post i wrote 4 instead of 5.

 

[bass element]

i seem to remember an open LowB note as the first note for Dig before the 1st(G) and 2nd(D) stings pluck so there must be a thumb 5 tuned BxADG

EDIT: i just edited my last post i wrote 4 instead of 5.

depending on how accurate the tabs you were looking at were, it might have been a low B note, or on the low B string,but i kno the tunings r never in standard.

theres a lotta inaccurate tabs out there on the internet so u just gotta be careful and play them to c how they sound with the song.

 

[Brickstool]

To all the people debating over Mudvayne tuning,

For L.D. 50

4 String - BF#BE
5 String - F#BF#BE

For The End Of All Things To Come and Lost And Found

4 String - CGCF
5 String - GCGCF

 

[HeadacheVillain]

I dont think Mudvayne's guitar player is "useless" I mean he's one guy and he does both rhythm and lead parts for the band so you have to give him credit. Plus, he sounded absolutely amazing and their most recent self titled album in my opinion. Ryan Martinie is a phenomenal bass player and he is probably my favorite bass player to this day. Thanks to him I also discovered Warwick Basses and I just love them and plan on having one some day.

 

[LSDWash]

Personally I think Greg (a.k.a. "The Guitar Player") is great. Yes, I listen to Mudvayne primarily because of Ryan but Greg's riffs are elegant, simple, and complimentary to Ryan's and Matt's rhythms. Hit straightforward parts sit perfectly in the mix of busy (in a good way!) drum and bass grooves. Kudos to him I say. When you have Ryan on bass, I say keep it simple, to-the-point, and let the man work his magic.