(electric guitar plays)
- What's up everyone.
It's Tyler Bryant from the Shakedown here
to do my Fender artists check-in.
Every day during this quarantine,
I've come down to my studio and tried to make something.
Sometimes it turns into absolutely nothing,
but sometimes you get something kinda cool.
The process has become my favorite part of making music.
Just showing up, doing the work,
not really doing the work, just having fun,
jamming, experimenting, playing with sounds,
playing with instruments, guitars, basses, drum beats,
and I never know how it's gonna happen,
but I just liked to tinker.
So I'm gonna let you into my process a little bit.
This is what I've been up to.
(upbeat music)
All right that'll do.
So sometimes I'll start with a drum group.
Sometimes I'll start with a bass riff.
Sometimes I'll start with a guitar riff, a title.
There's no rhyme or reason.
It's just throwing paint on a wall
and hoping something's pretty.
Right now I'm gonna pick up the bass.
I just picked up this 60 style jazz bass.
This is the Flea signature model bass.
I love it because it was shell pink.
That's my favorite color for the guitar.
(bass thumping)
All right so the bass is complete on that.
Not really complete, but the idea is there.
This is one of my favorite guitars.
This is my main guitar actually.
It's a custom shop, 1960 Stratocaster.
It's been around the world with me.
It's been through a lot.
I love the way a Humbucker sounds in the (bass sound)
bridge pickup
with these guitars.
(electric guitar shrieking)
So now I have just a rough sketch.
The ball is rolling.
So let's mess with some sounds
to see if we can find something else.
(electric guitar plays)
That's pretty rad.
Alright lets see what we can do with this.
(electric guitar plays)
(knocking)
So there's like a little riff in there
that's starting to poke its head out.
Let's see if we can make something out of it.
So on that pass,
I did something that sounded like it could maybe be a theme
or a hook riff or something.
So I'm gonna listen to it and try to learn it
and then try to accentuate it.
(electric guitar plays)
I'm just gonna catch some of those notes.
(electric guitar plays)
And one more because sometimes less is more
but more feels better.
(electric guitar plays)
lets go
(electric guitar plays)
All right 'y'all so we got a little jam happening.
This could turn into a song it might not.
I might bounce it off and send it to the guys
in the Shakedown and see what they think.
Or I might just upload it to my Patreon page.
So you know some kids like me can jam over it.
'Cause I just like playing over tracks rather than dead air.
It feels more inspiring to me,
which is why I come down here
and try to make them every day.
Thank you guys for checking in with me.
Thank you to Fender for all the support
for making these inspiring tools.
And you guys check out our new record "Pressure".
We made it in isolation.
I'm so proud of it.
It was kind of our way of taking a negative situation
with all the shows being canceled
and trying to turn it into something positive
and make something beautiful out of it.
So yeah check out the record.
You guys take care and I hope to see you on the road soon.
(electric guitar plays)
(footsteps)