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.

[Bilbo]

I have been working on a tough one for the last few days. Not so much tough to play as tough to write down because there are essentially three voices which need to be moving differently which, in turn, requires significantly more time transcribing. How piano engravers work is beyond me.

[dmccombe7]

3 hours ago, Bilbo said:

I have been working on a tough one for the last few days. Not so much tough to play as tough to write down because there are essentially three voices which need to be moving differently which, in turn, requires significantly more time transcribing. How piano engravers work is beyond me.

You'll get there Rob. 

Dave

[Bilbo]

This one was a bit of light relief for me but it's gorgeous! This is Dave Holland's complete performance of the tune 'The Color Of Iris' from the 2013 'Prism' album. Beautiful.

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/the-color-of-iris-dave-holland/

[Bagman]

2 hours ago, Bilbo said:

This one was a bit of light relief for me but it's gorgeous! This is Dave Holland's complete performance of the tune 'The Color Of Iris' from the 2013 'Prism' album. Beautiful.

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/the-color-of-iris-dave-holland/

Can’t use lugubrious twice in the same sentence sorry mate 

 

Otherwise fantastic 

[Bilbo]

2 hours ago, Bagman said:

Can’t use lugubrious twice in the same sentence sorry mate 

 

Otherwise fantastic 

I redrafted the sentence and then forgot to delete the word  I moved. 😆 I have just edited it again.

Edited Thursday at 13:09 by Bilbo

[Bilbo]

Weird thing is, I am half way through a novel. I picked it up lunchtime and, two pages in, there is the word 'lugubrious'. Three times in one day? Who'd have thought it?

[dmccombe7]

2 hours ago, Bilbo said:

Weird thing is, I am half way through a novel. I picked it up lunchtime and, two pages in, there is the word 'lugubrious'. Three times in one day? Who'd have thought it?

I had to google what it meant.

Dave

[Bilbo]

So did I, Dave, just to be sure!! 😁 

[Bilbo]

A partial transcription this time; Matt Penman's bass part for the YouTube version of Stevie Wonder's 'superstition'. I just wanted to see where the arrangement was going (there is more to it that I have captured here but I lost the will after I got what I came for.....).

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/superstition-sfjazz-collective/ 

[Bilbo]

I wanted to put some Reggae bass playing up here but I don't know anything about the genre so I just put 'Reggae' into YouTube and this is the track that came up first. It is incredibly easy to read and to play but it's all feel and tone so don't think you can just flounce in there and be all supercilious about it. I tried to find out who played the part and the closest I could get to a name was the suggestion that the track is based on a sample of a Sly and Robbie track from yesteryear. So this is (probably) Robbie Shakespeare's bass part to the tune 'Welcome To Jamrock' by Damian Marley.

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/welcome-to-jamrock-damian-marley/

Edited 2 hours ago by Bilbo