Bass & vocals: Will Lee
Brecker brothers - Dig a little deeper | Bass Transcription | Will Lee
Brecker brothers - Dig a little deeper | Bass Transcription | Will Lee
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Bass Transcriptions
- Thread starter ChrisDev
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Time for some French Canadian music.
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This grooves!!
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The Ester Phillips version. It's always interesting to see how different bass players interpret the same song.
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Chris,
I've used your previous version of "Home..." as an example in the General forum's thread about modes, and it caused a little bit confusion about the key signature - Cminor, Bmajor, Dmin.
By the way, there is another version of Gill Scott Heron's Home where....
An active bass player - Danny Bowen.
Here is another version of the same song.
It starts and ends on the Dm, so that's why I chose Dm as the song key.
It's Phrygian to be more precise: Dm Eb F Gm Am Bb Cm (IIIm IV V VIm VIIm I IIm)
The minor 2nd interval between the 1st 2 chords creates the tension in the harmony
If you look at it from the I chord, then it should have 2 flats, but I chose to write it as most musicians do with blues where the key written is derived from the V
Both version you posted have excellent bass lines. Will transcribe those as well at some time
Two flats?
There’s some confusion about the upper chord structure that has lots of C major variations - with Dmin, even with Eb major. Also, the melody never mentions Eb.
There was no confusion, just folks having diffferent preferences leading to different choices.
I should have another listen, but I stopped notating all the tension notes in improvised music. If you would write all the variations you wold completely loose the harmonics structure as a reader.
Just one small spot.
The bass note - C - sounds "strange". Is it a "mistake"?
The guitar plays a la the Pink Floyd's "...Crazy Diamond's" dominant ninth chord while the keyboard plays the C major/ Dmin harmonic motive.
Here is that EQ-ed and very slowed down soundclip.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...3/?temp_hash=1ca77160ca669cb8d677d78f3cf96fe7
Here is that spot with the bass.
(kind of harmonic chaos)
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...2/?temp_hash=0b596ff7404f01b981add76bca7d087b
P.S. Chris, please don't get mad at me for that kind of annoyance.
It's very difficult to find any interesting thread to talk about Music.
It's all about "the best teacher", the best on-line courses, is ... good, how to memorize mode names, etc....
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Yes, it's a Db. I'll change it.
I have absolutely no reason to be mad at you. I like the fact that you check the transcriptions. It's just that after transcribing, I don't want to hear the song again for a few weeks
About the chords: I agree with the C chord on the first 16th, but immediately after that he plays Gmin, which is the 1st inversion of Ebmaj7. The C is a bit of an odd choice, but the movement/hand position is understandable. The keyboard plays a major 3rd interval which he moves down a whole step to resolve in the chord (c + e => Bb + d === tension => release). The important things is that it works in this context.
The Db (bass) is just a wrong note
Yes, it's a Db. I'll change it.
I have absolutely no reason to be mad at you. I like the fact that you check the transcriptions. It's just that after transcribing, I don't want to hear the song again for a few weeks
About the chords: I agree with the C chord on the first 16th, but immediately after that he plays Gmin, which is the 1st inversion of Ebmaj7. The C is a bit of an odd choice, but the movement/hand position is understandable. The keyboard plays a major 3rd interval which he moves down a whole step to resolve in the chord (c + e => Bb + d === tension => release). The important things is that it works in this context.
The Db (bass) is just a wrong note
I think it's more about your song choices.
You tend to find some songs that provokes necessary questions.
About the same Db bass note.
From a different Gill Scott Heron version (posted previously) with Danny Bowen on the bass.
The very first Eb chord in Verse One, the bass twice plays that Db note as the Eb7 chord (not Ebmaj7) note.
Here is that soundclip.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...6/?temp_hash=f9264fcd05b6f35a1e77a15b9ce43ee3
Here is that video.
