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The complete pdf for '2112' https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/2112-full-album-rush/

And, finally, 'Something For Nothing' from the same album. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/something-for-nothing-rush/

'A Passage To Bangkok' from the 2112 album. Some great playing on this one and watch the rhythms behind the guitar solo..... https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/a-passage-to-bangkok-rush/

Not so far, Simon. I don't think it would be difficult as it repeats a lot. Can have a look, if you want.

A request from the Talkbass website, this is Alphonso Johnson's bass part for the tune 'Cucumber Slumber' from the 1974 Weather Report album, 'Mysterious Traveller'. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/cucumber-slumber-weather-report/

The website now has over 400 transcriptions on it.

And another. The bass part to 'The Twlight Zone'. For the record, I did all three last night. Took me about two hours in total. I can read all of these cold (relatively slow tempos and repetitive lines helps). I remember when I first started listening to Rush and thought that Geddy Lee was the man! I love the fact that I can now play pretty much all of his lines from the dots without having to 'learn' them (I didn't really learn these properly at the time I was listening to them in earnest as doing so was that much more difficult in those days before computers and Transcribe software). It is easy to think you aren't improving when you are looking at your playing on a day to day basis but, looking back on these tunes, I am playing things cold that the 17 year old me thought were absolutely exceptional at the time. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/the-twilight-zone-rush/

From the same album, the bass part for 'Lessons'. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/lessons-rush/

From the 1976 Rush album, '2112', this is the Geddy Lee bass part for the ballad 'Tears'. A simple part that requires minimal reading experience and expertise. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/tears-rush/

Another quick Dave Holland part, the bass line that underpins the head of the tune 'Four Winds' which appears on both the 1973 Holland album, 'Conference of the Birds' and the later trio record 'Triplicate'. Tricky little sucker that takes liberties with the bar lines throughout! https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/four-winds-bass-for-head-dave-holland/

Dave Holland's arco bass part for the Steve Nelson tune 'Candlelight Vigil' from the 1999 Dave Holland Quintet album, 'Prime DIrective'. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/candlelight-vigil-dave-holland-quintet/

I always believed that that visceral sense of frustration when you are practicing was an indicator that you are working on something you need to work on. If you don't feel it, you are probably coasting and not making much progress. As for it being hard, trying anything you can't already do is challenging but it's not shovelling coal into a blast furnace 🤣

Love gigging. Without that, to my mind, there is not much point. I know lots of musicians who don't gig and I can't fathom it at all. To me, it is a vibrant social life that actually brings in money instead of costing it. I meet lovely people, share a love for the music and have a laugh. Sometimes it is exceptional for some reason but mostly it is just plain old brilliant.

The Vine - Mike Stern

Kermit Driscoll with Bill Frissel

I blow hot and cold with Jeff Berlin stuff, Dad. I think his Low and High Standards albums are icky and there are certain tracks on his recordings that do nothing for me but every now and then he does something that I can get excited by. Whatever else you can say about it, you can always hear the bass parts!

A head chart for the tune 'Chasin' Jason', from the 1997 Jeff Berlin album, 'Taking Notes'. It stops three or four bars into the solos but the bass part gets too knotty from that point and would take to long to put together what would, ultimately, be an unreadable chart. It's a really challenging chart but great fun to play once you get a handle on the detail. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/chasin-jason-jeff-berlin/

Just reviewed to stats and the website has had 16000 hits since it passed the 100,000 mark. That's an average of 2,000 hits a week. How cool is that? People want to read!

Complete set of pdfs for 'Signals'. Enjoy. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/signals-full-album-rush/

Last one. Geddy's bass part for 'New World Man'. Complete album set to follow. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/new-world-man-rush/

Have finished New World Man. Will post tomorrow. That's the whole album done.

Nearly there. Geddy Lee's bass part for the tune 'Digital Man' from the 1982 'Signals' album. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/digital-man-rush/

You absolutely won that argument, tauzero 😊

Of course it does. The caveat is that humour in any form tends to only work once, unlike beauty which works every time. Probably an over simplification, but a beautifully crafted lyric bears endless repetition whereas a funny lyric tends to wear thin quite quickly. All IMO, of course.