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The SBL Podcast

179 - Writing 365 Bass Lines in 1 Year?... INSANITY.

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Scott's Bass Lessons

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4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you commit to writing a brand-new two-bar bass line every single day for a year? In this episode, Scott sits down with Ian Trusheim to talk about his 365-day bass line challenge. From the creative process to the quality of tracks, they dive into what it takes to craft hundreds of unique grooves. Ian breaks down his approach to feel, pushes his creativity to the limit, and shares his fundamentals of bass playing after a year of nonstop experimentation. How did he keep the ide...

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0:00.0

People do like flashy stuff on Instagram to kind of grab your attention.

0:08.0

I just thought, I like groovy bass lines, repetitive, two bar, four bar phrases.

0:13.0

So it was an impulsive decision on January 1st where I just said, I'm going to do this for a whole year.

0:20.0

Hi guys, so we've got a super special guest on with us today. The beautiful and incredible

0:25.5

Ian Trussheim, who I actually think, I don't know about Ian if we've had this conversation

0:31.2

before. The first time that I saw you, I think it was on, I think it was on Instagram. It

0:36.2

might have been on YouTube actually thinking about it now.

0:39.3

Back in the day, can you were, there was no beard, there was like, maybe a little more hair, more hair than I've got.

0:47.5

And there was a P-base.

0:49.3

And it was like shot in this beautiful, like, warehouse.

0:52.5

Can you remember that video?

0:53.5

Yeah, of course. The song was called stair steps was that what it was yeah so guys you should definitely check this out after obviously watch this interview first um but go check it out because beautiful Ian's playing this amazing P-base and then he starts singing at the end like an angel I might add like an angel I can

1:13.2

remember watching that video I don't think we've ever talked to him this I can remember watching

1:16.3

this video and I was like oh man this guy's great he's great player great player and then suddenly

1:20.9

halfway through you just start beautifully singing and I was like oh my I was like he's off the

1:26.5

Christmas card lift I can he can sing

1:29.6

that great as well as I do do you sing still or not is it something you do uh yeah I like singing

1:35.1

I mean I'm not um I'd like to be better at it and have more opportunities to sing and play

1:40.1

I struggle singing and playing to be honest so it's something I need to work on.

1:45.9

It's a bass thing in it.

1:50.8

It's like the percussiveness or maybe the syncopation thing of the bass is like, it's wacky.

1:52.2

Well, at least it is for me.

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