Bilbo's Transcription Archive

[Mickeyboro]

2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Hi Rob just listening to Camel Pointless album and there's a nice catchy wee riff on The Sleeper if looking for ideas.

Dave

Breathless, Dave - though that bloody Richard Osman gets everywhere, this features the superior Richard Sinclair.

 

Camel went downhill after this as Pete Bardens left!

 

Good choice 👏

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, Mickeyboro said:

Breathless, Dave - though that bloody Richard Osman gets everywhere, this features the superior Richard Sinclair.

 

Camel went downhill after this as Pete Bardens left!

 

Good choice 👏

I meant Breathless. Cheers Mickey, now updated on original post. No idea where i got Pointless from. ? Bit of a Doh !!! moment there. 😂

Richard Sinclair was an incredible bassist / vocalist with some amazing techniques.

I personally love "A Live Record" where you get to hear his playing.

My fav album by Camel is actually "I Can See Your House from Here" which is the only tour i've seen them.

Liked the "Nod and a Wink" album too but i think that was a bit of a tribute to Pete Bardens. 

Dave

Edited Saturday at 21:48 by dmccombe7

[Mickeyboro]

I’ll let you off with a warning this time…😂

 

Interviewed RS once and was staggered to find he doesn’t rate himself as a musician at all. In Hatfield and the North he had impostor syndrome! But what a wizard on the de-fretted Jazz.

[Bilbo]

Unmistakably Camel. I will put it on the list. I have been working on a guitar chart this week and it it exhausting. I did the Haden charts for a break and have a Marc Johnson chart that I should finish today. My next target is 646 transcriptions which would be 200 since I came back on line.

[Bilbo]

I have finally got to a Marc Johnson transcription. This is the tune 'Dingy Dong Day' from the 1997 Johnson led album 'The Sound Of Summer Running'. I love the tune and I love what they do with it (have a listen if you haven't hear it before, you'll see (hear) what I mean). Not a massively challenging tune to play but 'that' section will throw you if you are not ready for it.

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/dingy-dong-day-marc-johnson/

[dmccombe7]

7 hours ago, Mickeyboro said:

I’ll let you off with a warning this time…😂

 

Interviewed RS once and was staggered to find he doesn’t rate himself as a musician at all. In Hatfield and the North he had impostor syndrome! But what a wizard on the de-fretted Jazz.

Yep def one of my bass heroes along with Neil Murray, Jack Bruce and of course Jeff Berlin.

Also loved his tone on A Live Record.

Dave

[dmccombe7]

7 hours ago, Bilbo said:

Unmistakably Camel. I will put it on the list. I have been working on a guitar chart this week and it it exhausting. I did the Haden charts for a break and have a Marc Johnson chart that I should finish today. My next target is 646 transcriptions which would be 200 since I came back on line.

didn't know you were tackling guitar charts too Rob. Not that i play guitar but it impresses me even more how you can do all this work and i know you generally make light of it but if it was that easy why are we not all doing it, including me ?

Dave

[Bilbo]

Here you go, Dave - the Richard Sinclair part for 'The Sleeper'. The Breathless album (hereafter known as 'The Pointless Album' was from 1978 and I have to say it completely passed me by (as did a lot of Camel, it transpires).

 

The guitar charts are few and far between, Dave. I am working on my guitar reading and find the same problem that I always had with learning to read bass parts; there is a dearth of interesting material to draw upon (outside of classical guitar which can be a bit, well, naff). So I decided to try putting together charts of my own. It takes a lot longer and, whilst I can do most bass charts without a bass in my hands, but I cannot do the same with the guitar so the process is much more laborious. As for how, I have learned that patience and tenacity are my super powers and, if I start something, I generally keep going until it is finished, even if it is a long drawn out process. I can't complete with the young gunslingers and I don't live where there is a massive amount of Jazz happening but this I can do any time of the day or night with no pressure. Once it is done, it is there forever. 

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/the-sleeper-camel/

[Bilbo]

A lovely little tune from the 1993 Jimmy Haslip solo album, 'Arc'. This is the full performance (including the bit where he doubles the head) of the tune 'Niños' (Spanish for children). Some subtle challenges in getting the thing to sound right and it helps if you have a sense of Latin/Samba grooves.

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/ninos-jimmy-haslip/

Edited 4 hours ago by Bilbo