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I have been a little focussed on electric bass for a while so I thought I would post a few double bass transcriptions. This is Dave Holland's bass solo on the Jack DeJohnette tune 'Blue' from the Holland trio album he did with the drummer and saxophonist Steve Coleman in 1988, 'Triplicate'.

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/blue-dave-holland-trio/ 

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This one came as a pleasant surprise. I learned it originally in the 1982 shortly after the album came out. I remember thinking it was a chorus effect on the bass but, coming back to it nearly 40 years later, I realised it was a three part bass harmony in which bassist Larry Klein had overdubbed three bass parts. I can't believe that I didn't notice it at the time! This is Larry K;ein's bass part for 'You Dream Flat Tires' from the 1982 Joni MItchell album, 'Wild Things Run Fast'

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/you-dream-flat-tires-joni-mitchell/

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3 hours ago, Bilbo said:

This one came as a pleasant surprise. I learned it originally in the 1982 shortly after the album came out. I remember thinking it was a chorus effect on the bass but, coming back to it nearly 40 years later, I realised it was a three part bass harmony in which bassist Larry Klein had overdubbed three bass parts. I can't believe that I didn't notice it at the time! This is Larry K;ein's bass part for 'You Dream Flat Tires' from the 1982 Joni MItchell album, 'Wild Things Run Fast'

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/you-dream-flat-tires-joni-mitchell/

Ooohhhh that's very nice indeed. Not listened to a lot of Joni.

Worth checking out on Amazon i reckon.

thanks

Dave

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From the same 1985 Dave Holland Quintet album, 'Seeds Of Time', this transcription features the bass/percussion duet 'Walk A Way'. The piece is essentially a one bar riff of rapidly executed sixteenth notes that ends with two eight notes. It is then repeated endlessly with subtle variations - impossible to read at speed but an interesting insight into what makes the composition sound the way it does!

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/walk-a-way-dave-holland-quintet/

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Something unusual today. This is a transcription of the Jerry Watts bass part for the tune 'Nostalgia' from the 1983 Eddie Jobson/Zinc album, 'The Green Album'. The transcription also contains Jobson's violin melody transcribed for bass so you can try both the bass part and the melody. Both are easy to play but it shows that you don't have to be Hadrien Feraud to play achingly beautiful music.

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/nostalgia-eddie-jobson-zinc/

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From the 2005 Dave Holland Quintet CD 'Critical Mass', this is a transcription of the bass part for the head and first (trombone) solo from the tune 'Easy Did It'. To my ears, the tune sounds like it moves between bars of 3:4 and 5:4 but, in spite of that, the tempo makes it a relatively easy read - I almost think that this would be easier to read than to play by ear, the structure is so convoluted.

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/easy-did-it-dave-holland-quintet/

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My transcription of Jeff Berlin's part to the YouTube video he did of the tune 'Two Thoughts' with the Argentinian pianist Mariano Augustoni. I am not entirely confident of all of it as there are a couple of passages where the details are hard to identify with absoute certainty but, as a means of getting closer to sweet tlittle this performance, it's a start.

 

Two Thoughts – Mariano Agustoni & Jeff Berlin – Bilbo's Bass Bites

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