Bilbo's Transcription Archive

[Bilbo]

Just redoing 'The Abingdon Chasp' from Bruford's 'One Of A Kind'. Having to completely rewrite. At least it shows I have learned a lot in the few years since I did it last time! 🥴

[dmccombe7]

36 minutes ago, Bilbo said:

Just redoing 'The Abingdon Chasp' from Bruford's 'One Of A Kind'. Having to completely rewrite. At least it shows I have learned a lot in the few years since I did it last time! 🥴

Never too old to learn Rob. 

Dave

[Bilbo]

I posted a corrected version of The Abingdon Chasp. It was a lot tougher than I thought as there are so many tempo changes, weird time changes and a lot of sections where Berlin is playing long chains of the same note but on and off the beat/pushing and pulling across changing bar lengths and changing octaves. In some ways, it only matters if you are trying to write it down. If you were performing it, it would be a matter of personal choice - it matters only that you keep it moving and changing.

[TorturedSaints]

On 07/06/2025 at 10:34, Bilbo said:

Ask and ye shall receive - Tim Esau's bass part for '1312 Overture' from the 'The Road Of Bones' album. Top drawer stuff. Heavy read due to the tempo, the density of the part of the part and the changing time signatures but not as difficult as it first appears (I looked at The Road Of Bones track, Dave, but there a few parts where the mix is too dense to catch the detail - I will try again with the Moises software another time - it's a great album). I just remembered, I saw these guys at The Granary in Bristol in the 1980s

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/1312-overture-iq/

Thanks so much, Rob.  Tim was on here occasionally but not for a few years as far as I can see.  He plays some nice fretless lines as well.  I do like “The Road of Bones”, one of their strongest albums.  

[Bilbo]

You are very welcome, TS. And thank you.