Bilbo

I saw Sarzo with Ozzy and Randy Rhodes at Port Vale in 1981, if I recall the date correctly. Was there for Mahogany Rush, tho, so wasn't really watching.

Jakes right - tHat is the most unreadable way of presenting the part. That aside, I don't think there is a right or a wrong way, just a preference for the individual player. I can't offer my own preference because I don't know the track but, looking at it out of context, there are several ways of doing that that are all legitimate, depending on tempo. My own simple rule (which is not an absolute by any means) is downstrokes on the beat, upstriokes on the off beat. But, then again, I never play bass with a pick, only guitar

[quote name='Marvin' post='1295883' date='Jul 7 2011, 12:52 PM']Bilbo's only got tab for Jazz numbers.[/quote]

I liked some of it for a while but some of those 80s/90s synth sounds have dated badly!! And the EWI. Interesting in its day but it hasn't travelled well.

Bit lightweight for me. Some high points but a lot of chaff. There is a great track on Haslip's Arc cd called 'Niños'. Tried transcribing it but can't find the chords at all

Its a good question! I have a few of his cds/downlaods and there are elements of his playing that I like but some of his composing is quite immature and his soloing can get a bit repetitive. There is an immediacy about his playing; a WoW factor, but, like a lot of the players that have this, once the veneer wears off, there is not much underneath. Maybe as he matures he will make better choices.

The pinky rools up there!! God Bless the pinky!!!

He must know? He must.

Can I have your intonation, please. Mine appears to be broken.

I use my computers 5.1 surround sound speakers. I use Transcribe software so I can isolate, loop and slow down parts that need closer attention. Works for me.

Not read the whole thread so sorry if its a repeat but I don't like 99% of Alembic basses. There! I said it! I liked the series 2 shape that Flim Johnson uses (and love his playing) but, having trawled the net recently looking for examples of Alembics, I found that most of them were plug ugly and, more to the point, most of them I heard sounded really icky to my cloth ears. Wouldn't say no to trying some out but, from what I have seen/heard to date, there are very few Alembics that I would cross the street for. I am willing to be proven wrong, though.

Did a paino/sax/bs trio gig with a first year music student. Ok player but short on a few of the basic conventions of playing jazz live and so starts and endings were a bit ropey (read: train wreck) and his pacing of the sets was poor (too many tunes at teh same tempo etc). Did 2 sets on double bass and one on electric. Mostly the usual suspects but some new tunes I had not heard before . Noone died.

Scroll through the Theory and Technique section here and you will find a load of pdfs of transcriptions of all sorts of stuff done by BC members. I have put a load of jazz on here, from straight walking lines (good for note recognition) to complex solos and simple funk lines and rock tunes. There is even some Bach on here. Others have put similar stuff on here so you shoudl be abel to find loads of useful material to work with. It sounds to me that you need to practice reading, the doing of the thing. Knowing what all the marks mean is step one. You then need to link them up and the only real way to address that is to do it. Again and again and again and again. Good luck.

[quote name='KevB' post='1291871' date='Jul 4 2011, 10:24 AM']Looking at Briley's wiki entry he's not even really known as a bass player, more guitar and keys. Obviouisly a talented guy too.[/quote] Yeah, but if you can play guitar and keyboards, bass can't be that hard.....

Not [i]the[/i] Skeffington Lutwidge of the Boston Lutwidge's? Small world!! Welcome, by the way.

I have all of their LPs (yes, vinyl) and love them all. Reeves was great (have transcribed some of his stuff in the past as well) but I just liked the noise Briley (Sorry, Martin. Should have checked the spelling - I last read the sleeve in about 1986) made and, in many ways, the T&T LP is the least dated of the catalogue. Because noone ever mentions him, I thought I'd give Martin his 5 minutes of fame. Then I found this on Wikipedia!! [i] Briley has received orchestral commissions, and has written songs for such artists as Céline Dion, *NSYNC, Dream, Michael Bolton, Mietta, Kenny Loggins, Pat Benatar, Jessica Andrews, 5-Star, Jeff Healey, Rebecca St. James, Nana Mouskouri, Willie Nile, Gregg Allman, Nightranger, David Hasselhoff, Patrick Swayze, Michael Monroe, Chastity Bono, Peter Tork, Nikki Webster, Hope Partlow, Natascha Sohl, Ballas Hough, Phil Stacey, Orianthi, The Maine and Barry Manilow.[/i] BUt, yes, Tony Reeves is great. I also think Dave Lawson was one of the most underated singers of that era (and he played keyboards alongside Dave Greenslade). Great band, lots of talent.

This was another early favourite of mine..... Follow the links to the other tracks on that LP. Some great sounding bass (not flash, just gutsy). The drummer, Andy McCulloch was a monster too but he left the music biz and now charters yachts and teaches sailing somewhere hot.....

One of my earliest bass influences was Jack Bruce's performances on Cozy Powell's Over The Top LP (yes, it was that long ago). I just looked it up on Spotify. The LP isn't on there but most of the tracks are there. An early transcription was 'Sweet Poison' which I just played for the first time on probably 30 years and I remembered every note! Great sound, great ideas. The tracks are: 1."Theme One" - 3:36 (George Martin) 2."Killer" - 7:16 (Don Airey/Gary Moore) 3."Heidi Goes to Town" - 2:57 (Cozy Powell/Don Airey) not on Spotify 4."El Sid" - 5:09 (Bernie Marsden) not on Spotify 5."Sweet Poison" - 8:24 (Max Middleton) - a real favourite!! 6."The Loner" - 4:50 (Max Middleton) (Dedicated to Jeff Beck) 7."Over The Top" - 8:39 (Don Airey/Cozy Powell) - Rock largess personified!! Every one a winner (there are some 'odd' moments but I loved it when I was 17 or so). I also heard a live session they did on Radio One which included Bruce's Tickets To Waterfalls which I had a cassette of which is long gone. Shame. It was a great gig.

Enjoy! I've got a proper gig

I just got an email from my publisher 'The book is well written....' and here are 50 pages of amendments... Its still moving forward (and his observations are entirely credible).

Some guy called Walter Smith on tenor, I discovered . Not heard of him. I thought it was an alto at first (I went straight to the middle of the track to hear the blowing). Nice player and worth looking out for.