My Whitesnake transcriptions

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1: Fool For Your Loving

This is what I played on Fool For Your Loving on Whitesnake's Ready An' Willing album from 1980, as accurate as I can manage.

Fool For Your Loving NM tab.pdf

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2: Is This Love

My transcription of my bass line from Whitesnake's Is This Love from the 1987 Whitesnake album.

Is This Love.pdf

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3: Ready An’ Willing

The live version of Ready An' Willing from Whitesnake's Live In The Heart Of The City album (1980). Some of the playing is a bit messy, but I've tried as best as possible to transcribe it.

Ready An' Willing (live).pdf

Edited January 13 by neilmurraybass

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4: Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues

My transcription of what I played on the Live In The Heart Of The City album by Whitesnake from 1980.

Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues (live).pdf

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5: Don't Break My Heart Again

My transcription of Don't Break My Heart Again from Whitesnake's 1981 album Come An' Get It.

Don't Break My Heart Again.pdf

[JapanAxe 469]

That’s great, there will be a lot of people here who appreciate that.

[PaulThePlug 652]

Wowza... Who's been a busy boy... best thing to comeout of lockdown...

[ezbass 3,227]

This is exceedingly cool. Thanks, @neilmurraybass.

[thebigyin 218]

Thankyou Neil 

[verb 77]

 Thank you Neil, I'm looking forward to giving these a bash.

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6. Transcription of Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City from Live In The Heart Of The City (1980). Some bits are hard to notate, with my ability anyway!

 

Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City (live).pdf

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Still Of The Night from 1987 Whitesnake album. No matter how anyone might have played the main riff since, this is what I played, following what John Sykes wrote & played when we did the backing tracks in autumn 1985. There was overdubbed fretless playing chords during the middle section, which wasn't used on the final mix. The fast bass runs at the end of the track are completely buried in the original mix - a bit easier to make out on the 2017 remix version but still very hard to hear what I play during the end fade-out - if I'd still been in the band in 1987, I would have played it from memory then and would still remember it now (or would have had a tape with what I played much more audible) but I've only played Still Of The Night once or twice in 35 years. 

Still Of The Night.pdf

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The Time Is Right For Love from the 1978 album Trouble. Don't think I can play that fast these days! (150 bpm).

The Time Is Right For love.pdf

[Bilbo 1,545]

This is absolute gold dust. I hope you guys appreciate the work Neil has put into this on your behalf. 😉

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Lonely Days, Lonely Nights from the 1981 album Come An' Get It.

Lonely Days Lonely Nights.pdf

[NoirBass 229]

This is brilliant, thanks so much 🙏🏿

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Thanks!

[PJ Phillips 0]

Thank you for the time you spent on these Neil, what a great thing to do and share.  Kudos 👍

[Stub Mandrel 10,160]

Wow 🙂

Are there any easy ones?

😬

[Yardicus 2]

Excellent thank you very much Neil 👍

[ptglidden 0]

Thank you so much, Neil! I’ve been working on some of these songs, so transcriptions from the source couldn’t be any more timely! 

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12 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Wow 🙂

Are there any easy ones?

😬

Don't Break My Heart Again?, Is This Love? 😉

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2 hours ago, neilmurraybass said:

Don't Break My Heart Again?, Is This Love? 😉

My technique is pretty much up to it, it's memorising all those damn frilly bits! I've been working on The Real Me since early December and I'm only about 3/4 of the way through!

Oh well, man cannot live by ZZ Top alone!

 

<edit> I'll probably have a shot at Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City - that's my favourite Whitesnake song. Plus it's good just to be able to jam along to songs like Fool for your Loving.

 

🙂

 

Edited January 24 by Stub Mandrel

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In my experience, 'learning' the frilly bits less important than nailing the core stuff.

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Ain't Gonna Cry No More from Whitesnake's Live In The Heart Of The City (1980). My playing is a bit messy on this - sorry, too much adrenalin!

Ain't Gonna Cry No More (live).pdf