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Head and three choruses by Charlie Haden from the tune 'The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines' that featured on the 1979 Mingus Dynasty album 'Chair In The Sky'. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/the-dry-cleaner-from-des-moines-mingus-dynasty/

Anthony Jackson's bass part for the tune 'Not Yet' from the live album 'Caribe'. Hold onto your hats, guys. This is intense. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/not-yet-michel-camilo/

I had a couple of gigs this weekend, one Jazz, one commercial Pop. Double bass the first gig and electric the second. Both sounded great, the band and me personally. Sometimes I have a faint glimpse that I might know what I am doing.

Not every note on a piece of paper is loyal to the key signature as tunes move temporarily to different keys as a tune modulates. If the key signature changed every time, the chart would be confusing. Think of a Blues in F. For a start, it is not in F because F is the dominant 7 chord. That aside, on the 5th bar, it goes to Bb which has a flat of Ab which is not in F. A piece being 'in C' broadly means 'mostly'. 😄

Cozy Powell Over The Top - full set of transcriptions of the Jack Bruce bass parts for the entire album. Over The Top (Complete) – Cozy Powell (bilbosbassbites.co.uk)

Complete set of Herbie Flowers transcriptions of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/the-war-of-the-worlds-jeff-wayne/

Having just discovered a PDF tool (that I appear to have had for a decade) that allows me to 'append' pdfs to other pdfs, as an exercise, I have managed to 'append' the transcriptions of Geddy Lees bass parts for the whole of the Rush - Moving Pictures album into one document. You can now play along with the whole album without interruption. How cool is that? https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/moving-pictures-rush-full-album/

Another Percy Jones transcription; the opening sections of the tune 'Vimana' from the 1976 album of the same name from Italian Prog/Jazz Rock band, Nova. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/vimana-nova/

More nonsense, this is Chris Squire's bass and Steve Howe's guitar part for the tune (?) 'Five Per Cent For Nothing' from the 1971 Yes album, 'Fragile'. Impossible. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/five-per-cent-for-nothing-yes/

Having done that 'Wasp' transcription by John Mole, I thought I would knock out the other one of that same Gary Moore album. This is the bass part John Mole plays on the tune 'Flight Of The Snow Moose'. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/flight-of-the-snow-moose-gary-moore/

Wow. Spooky.

John Mole's bass part for 'What Would You Rather Bee Or A Wasp' from the 1978 Gary Moore album, 'Back On The Streets'. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/what-would-you-rather-be-or-a-wasp-gary-moore/

Another Latin bass transcription, this one is Jairo Moreno's bass part to the Steve Slagle tune 'Triangle' from the 1991 Ray Barretto album 'Handprints'. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/triangle-ray-barretto/

Kyle Brock's Country bass solo from a live video he did with Eric Johnson way back in 1988. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/country-bass-solo-kyle-brock/

I have a lot of time for Jeff Berlin but his US style hyperbole is something I find to be a real turn off. That aside, I remember a student of mine from Cardiff has a Palaedium and it was a brilliant little bass. I am gassing got the Rithimic V. I need a 5-string and this one really floats my boat. I have heard it on loads of recordings and it sounds consistently great. Jeff's go to sound has always been that of Jack Bruce and so has mine so it's no surprise that I would be tempted.

Another bit of nonsense for building your chops. This is the tune 'Odissea Veneziana' by the Pop/Rock Baroque orchestra, 'Rondo Veneziano'. My brother had this record way back and I learned the melody on bass - it's essentially Bach but not by Bach https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/odissea-veneziana-rondo-veneziano/

Beautiful words, guys. I did not know Martin (I rarely buy or sell gear 😊) but he sounds like a diamond. It is always sad when we lose one of our own. Condolences to his family and to those amongst you who did know and love him.

Was she the guitarist at one time?

Another Jeff Berlin chart although this one is actually playable The tune is called 'Foxy Morons' and comes from the 2005 album 'Boston T Party by Dennis Chambers, Jeff Berlin, David Fiuczynski and T. Lavitz. There is a distorted bass solo on the tune but that is not included in the transcription which focusses on the underpinning bass part. Foxy Morons – Dennis Chambers, Jeff Berlin, David Fiuczynski, T. Lavitz – Bilbo's Bass Bites (bilbosbassbites.co.uk)

I specifically don't think about footfall when I decide what to transcribe, just 'this is interesting/challenging or even frivolous'. I would love to do more full transcriptions of double bass Jazz but so much of the detail is lost in the mix. Electric bass is so much easier to identify and capture. I leave the Pop and Funk stuff alone mostly because I don't ever really listen to it.

I hadn't looked on your site for that one, Chris. The lack of duplication between my contents and yours is entirely accidental. I guess we have different interests. No complaints, though. The more the merrier!!

I discovered, after I had completed this transcription, that there are other versions available on that there interweb. Nevertheless, here is my transcription of the Jeff Andrews bass part to the tune 'Chromazone' from the 1988 Mike Stern album, 'Time In Place'. Chromozone – Mike Stern – Bilbo's Bass Bites (bilbosbassbites.co.uk)

When I was young and gigging around South Wales, the parallel was 'I used to be the guitar player in Racing Cars' (one hit wonders who played 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?). Every gig you did, you would have someone telling you that you were the best band they had ever seen and that they used to be the guitarist in Racing Cars. Research later confirmed that most of them were at some point.

Neils Henning Orsted Pedersen's performance of the head of the tune 'I've Got Another Rhythm' from the NHOP/Allan Botschinky 'Duologue' album (1987/1992). I’ve Got Another Rhythm – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen/Allan Botschinky – Bilbo's Bass Bites (bilbosbassbites.co.uk)

The Fellowship - they were on the same bill as us (further up, obviously). Zak is a strong player and I book him often. Lovely guy, also.