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A little solo arrangement (still rough around the edges) that I've been working on over the last few days. Wishing you all a happy Christmas!

Finally pulled the trigger on a BB last weekend (BB 5000)!

Revisited one of my favourite Dream Theater records recently (Awake), which produced this! To this day Awake still contains some of my favourite progressive bass lines (Voices, Scarred, Innocence Faded, 6:00, Lifting Shadows)

The Taylor Eigsti group (Jonathan Maron on bass) at Cadogan Hall Jonathan is one of my favourite people and an incredible bass player to boot! Can't find any good footage of the new group so here's a video from their last tour!

Here's cover I recorded of Chaka Khan's Move Me No Mountain, poignant for me as this was a week or so before AJ (a huge influence for me) passed away (may you rest in peace Maestro). For anyone interested, I've also posted a complete transcription here - https://www.benwalkerbass.com/p/move-me-no-mountain

Found it! Just an FYI that, reading through it now there are some mistakes in there...I might get around to re-doing it sometime soon (I'm starting to put an online transcription vault together) Hiromi Uehara XYZ.pdf

Oh wow, not looked at this one in a long time....I'll have to dig through my hard drives but I'll try and find it! Very much so Not looked at this one in a very long time but I remember it being a real challenge to keep that groove going (and here's Tony Grey making it look easy...)

I don't blame you, I've become a real fan of Jonathan's playing over the last couple of years and think he's a real hidden gem of the bass world! Jonathan's BBs are indeed passive he has a pair of BB3000S (V-V-T control layout instead of the V-T-Pickup selector) and he strings one with flats, the other with rounds. I've been looking for one for a while but people that have them are keeping hold of them, and the one example I did find was both the wrong side of the Atlantic and out of my price range. One option I'm exploring as an alternative is the BBX, these were apparently Japan only basses but they have the same overall spec and control layout, the big difference being that they are bolt on rather than thru-neck.

This was great fun to both transcribe and play, so many little details in the line!

A couple of things that came out of a recent studio session

It's not this one is it? https://bassbros.co.uk/sold-basses/ibanez-sr1405e-gwh-premium-series/

Apologies for the late reply, not logged in for a while I do have a copy still yes! I've discovered some inaccuracies since then, but here it is Can't Hide Love (D'Angelo).pdf

Thanks for the warm words! The build itself was just over 15 months from order to completion, a lot of the waiting prior to that was all about squirrelling away the money! It was well worth the wait though, it's been my main bass for around 18 months now and has been everything I hoped it would be and more!

I'm getting a little bit of that when I listen on my phone but nothing on my laptop, through monitors or through headphones....interesting, thanks for the heads up there! something to look at for when the whole project gets mixed!!