Free Bass Transcriptions

[TKenrick]

A couple of charts that were requested by students:

 

Big Mountain - 'Baby, I Love Your Way'

 

Roy Orbison - 'Oh, Pretty Woman'

[G-Lo]

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[TKenrick]

Here are some of my favourite exercises that I suggest to students who want to maintain their technique while practising things that actually get used in the music they play:

 

 

[TKenrick]

My 2010 ears, it seems, had some very strange ideas about what was happening in this tune. The chart has now been overhauled, phantom odd-time bars removed and now contains chord symbols, along with much more detailed articulation instructions:

 

Abba - 'Money, Money, Money' bass transcription

 

I'm sorry for the Fb, it was unavoidable.

[stewblack]

16 minutes ago, TKenrick said:

My 2010 ears, it seems, had some very strange ideas about what was happening in this tune. The chart has now been overhauled, phantom odd-time bars removed and now contains chord symbols, along with much more detailed articulation instructions:

 

Abba - 'Money, Money, Money' bass transcription

 

I'm sorry for the Fb, it was unavoidable.

Thank you

[TKenrick]

Some concepts that I use and teach for learning/practising grooves, framed in the context of Bernard Edwards' wonderful part from 'Le Freak':

 

 

 

Full transcription of the aforementioned disco classic:

 

Chic - 'Le Freak' bass transcription pdf

[TKenrick]

What's that old phrase, beware of internet tutors bearing warmup exercises? How to tell if what you're practising is doing you any good, and how to turn a bad exercise into a good one:

 

 

[TKenrick]

It's been a minute, sorry.

 

I dug up a transcription I did years ago of John Patitucci demonstrating walking bass on Stella by Starlight and synced it with the clip. Some very useful vocabulary in there that can be stolen for your own purposes: 

 

 

You can download the transcription PDF here: John Patitucci - Stella by Starlight

[TKenrick]

Not a transcription (sorry!), but a lot of my students seem to get easily overwhelmed by set lists for dep gigs, so I made this: 

 

 

Yes, it's common sense, but it's amazing how much time I've wasted running through songs that I've already gigged 100+ times.