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  1. Pauline Moran comes to mind. She played bass in The She Trinity, a Sixties all girl rock band that had a hit with a version of the Sonny Curtis penned 'He Fought The Law' which The Clash later covered. Moran is much better know as Miss Lemon, the secretary to Hercule Poirot in the David Suchet series 'Agatha Christie's Poirot'. I just looked the band up and apparently they also included the late Barbara Thompson of 'Colosseum' and 'Paraphernalia' fame. I had never made the connection before.

     

     

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  2. It's all perfectly logical, Dad. You just need to pay attention. As my Dad always said 'I like it when they all stop at the same time'.

     

    'Emeril Kicks It Up' is a shuffle with some great melodies. What's not to like?

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  3. I used to always say that my Big Four were Jaco, Jeff Berlin, Jimmy Johnson and Percy Jones - each for different reasons. I have also grown to love Anthony Jackson whose work with Michel Camilo and Hiromi Uehara and others can be absolutely thrilling (the whole Camilo album 'Caribe' is a rollercoaster of absolute delight). If I have to say which one of these was the one who had the greatest impact on me personally as a player, it would have to be Jeff Berlin. Our shared love of Jack Bruce, his work with Bruford, Allan Holdsworth's 'Road Games', his solo albums. I have since found flaws in his concept that often make me doubt myself (I have found the same with Jaco and Percy Jones, if I am honest, although I still love both) - his chorus sound I find irritating and his obsession with featuring the bass when it doesn't actually work very well (his Low Standards and High Standards cds are a it icky - I don't think he understands the Art of it as much as he does the Craft), his obsessions over bass pedagogy (just let it go, JB) but I keep going back to his back catalogue of recordings and many of them are just absolutely fantastic.

     

    It is appalling how little performance footage there is of JB where the sound is decent (a lot of it is mobile phone footage that sounds terrible). Here is a something I just found that gives a sense of where he comes from - the tune is 'Solar' by Miles Davis. I add a second track (recorded) just to show JB when he is smokin'. The tune is 'Emeril Kicks It UP' from the 2009 CD 'In Harmony's Way' - I also attach a link to a complete transcription I did of the tune.

     

     

     

    Transcription link - https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/emeril-kicks-it-up-jeff-berlin/

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  4. Tough little nut to crack, this one, and I am not convinced I have got it right. There is something going on with the bar lengths that is throwing me and I cannot find where it is and the lines are all over the bass so I am not even certain that I have it in the right octave at time! If you can see the odd bar length or disagree on the specific note choices, let me know so I can revisit the chart. In the meantime, this is the complete Dave LaRue bass part for the tune 'Slice Of Time' from the 1995 Steve Morse Band album, 'Structural Damage'.

     

    https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/slice-of-time-steve-morse-band/

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  5. 10 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

    Well done Rob. Its a fantastic library and very much appreciated. I've been learning some amazing bass parts from your site. Things i would never have dreamed of learning in the past.

    Many thanks

    Dave

    That's what it is there for, Dave. 

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  6. In my experience, the 'rules' have been created within the context of Classical music forms and don't always travel that well into 'secular' music. I always try to keep all flats or all sharps in the same bar but, even then, there are passages where this is compromised. Chromatic lines are one area where the ideals are often difficult to maintain. I have to admit that, as someone whose is essentially self taught as a reader, I may be getting things wrong sometimes.

  7. On 27/06/2022 at 10:30, Reggaebass said:

    I’ve tried a few times to play this  but I’m struggling a bit as I can quite work out the notes, I think there’s lots of ghost notes in there, I’ve been through some YT videos but none sound quite right to me and lots of tabs are saying different things, if anyone can point me to a decent video or tab It would be muchos appreciated 

     

    I have knocked this one up if you want to have a look at it. Much more interesting than I thought it would be. If anyone wants to redo this as a tab chart, be my guest.

     

    https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/I-Wanna-Know-What-Love-Is-Rick-Will-Bass.pdf

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