Gary Willis – Bass Transcribing is something that everyone who can read can do and it doesn’t have to be the 10 page transcriptions I do here. Sometimes, you just need to write something down to capture an idea that appeals to you. In this case, I heard an ending to an otherwise conventional Blues…

Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett – Bass I have played this 100 times on gigs over the years but never looked at the track closely until now. There is often a lot more going on with Reggae bass than you think. The emphasis on triplet feels is something I had picked up on but there are…

Carlos Henriquez – Bass This one is an excerpt and it is only a steer as there is detail that I have chosen not to examine as closely as I have other performances as I am doing this on my lap in an unconducive environment. I just wanted to get something down on this tune…

Hans Glawischnig – Bass I keep coming back to these Miguel Zenon charts because I love what I am hearing but these compositions are so intense that it is impossible for me to get a handle on what is happening for more than a few moments at a time. I guess that is part of…

Mo Foster – Bass I just did this because I am struggling with the heavy transcriptions at the moment so wanted something relatively easy to keep things moving. My kid brother was a massive Gary Moore fan (as was I, come to think of it) and we saw him live several times between us. I…

Hans Glawischnig – Bass The trouble with Miguel Zenon material is it is can get incredibly dense at times and the bass parts are sometimes completely impossible to get into focus, even with the MOISES and Transcribe! software I am using. The rhythms Zenon uses in his compositions are incredible. I have a couple of…

Jeff Berlin – Bass This is something that Jeff Berlin recorded around the time that he hooked up with Bill Bruford for the ‘Feels Good To Me’ sessions (I don’t have the exact dates for these sessions so cannot say whether they were before or after the Bruford work. There are a lot of things…

Mike Rutherford – Bass I came to Genesis a long time after this recording was released so I didn’t hear it ‘fresh out of the box’ but, as much as I liked the band, I never really thought of Rutherford as a chopsy bass player like my then main squeeze, Chris Squire. As I matured…

Dave Holland – Bass Something from the 2001 Quintet album, ‘Not For Nothin”, another one of those Holland charts that alternates between two time signatures throughout the whole composition (in this case 4:4 and 5:4). There is one bar (bar 38) that I am hearing as 7 beats over 5 but I cannot make Sibelius…

Gary Willis – Bass The least photographed bass player in the business! But one of the cleanest players around. I always think of Gary Willis whenever I hear the latest crop of new player like Hadrien Feraud etc; that tight controlled funk that Willis was doing with Tribal Tech in the 1980s. Sturding his technique…