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Bass Transcriptions
- Thread starter ChrisDev
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It was 'easier' than I thought it would be. Haslip plays a lot of notes, but mostly it's just root, fifth and chromatic notes
3rd from the Frostbite album. 12/8 this time
Albert Collins - Blue Monday hangover | Bass Transcription | Johnny Gayden
Albert Collins - Blue Monday hangover | Bass Transcription | Johnny Gayden
Simple and beautiful.
Includes Charlie Haden's bass solo
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - Our Spanish love song | Double Bass Transcription | Charlie Haden
Includes Charlie Haden's bass solo
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - Our Spanish love song | Double Bass Transcription | Charlie Haden
I love this tune. Charlie Haden might be my all time favorite bass player. RIP
Funky 80s soul from the multi-instrumentalist Keni Burke
Keni Burke - Risin' To The Top | Bass Transcription | Keni Burke
Keni Burke - Risin' To The Top | Bass Transcription | Keni Burke
8/12 from the 'Desitively Bonnaroo' album is now online
Dr. John - (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away | Bass Transcription | George Porter Jr.
Dr. John - (Everybody Wanna Get Rich) Rite Away | Bass Transcription | George Porter Jr.
This is a bit of an odd one. In the beginning it's very clear what the bass plays. After a while, however, it sounds like 3 instruments playing parts of the intro bass line. I have notated the part that's just to the right of center in the mix
The fatback band - Keep on steppin' | Bass Transcription | Johnny Flippen
The fatback band - Keep on steppin' | Bass Transcription | Johnny Flippen
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N°8 from the Sour Soul album
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Street knowledge | Bass Transcription | Chester Hansen
BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Street knowledge | Bass Transcription | Chester Hansen
Syncopated swing 16ths and one of the most relaxed songs I've heard in a while
Raveena - Honey | Bass Transcription | Aaron Liao
Raveena - Honey | Bass Transcription | Aaron Liao
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Yes, it's a beautiful song, but...
I've tried to follow your notation of that bass-riff and got confused.
Yes, we have syncopated swing 16ths, but I hear a different articulation.
Instead of...
I hear it (just 2-beats) as...
The third note is short, and I need to hear a rest in the bass line.
I don't hear the fourth note as a short note of two-swing notes.
The 4th note is, kind of bursting in on Beat 2 - that's how short that syncopation is.
It's only my interpretation of that simple bass riff.
A soundclip of that 2-beat part.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/r-cs2-mp3.3588837/?temp_hash=b252d7536d72765bae8e4b065d1e43c1
You're absolutely right, but this is part of the bass player's "feel". It's very laid back. If you would write down every interpretation/feel/mistake/badly fretted note/... it would make the transcription illegible.
Have a listen to Ryan Newman's playing. Imagine how a transcription would look if you write this bass line in every small detail as played. It's just very, very, very laid back playing
The only thing better than 10 minutes of Bootsy, is 11 minutes of Bootsy
Parliament - Funkentelechy | Bass Transcription | Bootsy Collins
Parliament - Funkentelechy | Bass Transcription | Bootsy Collins
It means that we need to have some new markings like "drunk swing".
My issue with Raveena's bass transcription was that I started playing "shuffled notes" and it was wrong.
Noticed that I forgot the Eb7 chord on the 2nd measures of the variations in the above transcription.
These repetitive bass lines are good technique and timing exercises. Here's one to practice your thumb technique
Billy Ocean - Love zone | Bass Transcription | Wayne Braitwaite
These repetitive bass lines are good technique and timing exercises. Here's one to practice your thumb technique
Billy Ocean - Love zone | Bass Transcription | Wayne Braitwaite
I had a really bad stroke in 2016 and lost the use of my fingers in my left hand and "Green Eyed Lady" was instrumental in my full recovery. My neurologist (a classically trained church organ player) advised mr to go back to the building blocks of music that I played over and over as a teenager. Among other therapy routines, I literally tried to play "Green Eyed Lady" at the slowest metronome settings for over an hour a day for 6 months until I got it up to speed. That and all the basslines from Zenyatta Mondatta.
Impressive and mind blowing. I hope never to be tested like that.
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