Bass Player: Anthony Jackson King of the Big Six, Anthony Jackson was Al Di Meola’s first call bass player for a long time in the 1970s and 80s and it was during this era that Jackson played on several of the guitarist’s classic albums. One of the strongest of these was the 1978 album, ‘Casino’…

Bass Player: Anthony Jackson Way back in 1978, six string basses were rarely seen and it was Anthony Jackson who was pioneering this extended range instrument. Referring to it as a Contrabass Guitar, Jackson worked with luthier’s carl Thompson and Vinny Fodera on developing these instruments. He is still playing a Fodera bass today and…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin This is the complete bass performance, including the solo, from the tune ‘Johnny Joker’ from the 1997 Jeff Berlin CD ‘Taking Notes’. The interesting thing about this transcription is that the harmony slips back and forth between keys a semi tone apart so the tune is impossible to bust but, when…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin From the 2009 Jeff Berlin CD, this is the bass part for the tune ‘Reggae Ricardo’. Not quite sure where the Reggae reference comes in but that’s Art for you. The chart is not entirely complete as there are a couple of long solo sections including the Mike Stern solo where…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin A massively influential album for guitarists and bass players alike, Allan Holdsworth’s 1983 EP (we never got why a six track album was called an EP but there you are) ‘Road Games’ featured Jeff Berlin alongside his mentor Jack Bruce (appearing on this album as a vocalist (on the tracks ‘Was…

Bass Player: Mike Oldfield Another ‘complete’ PDF that will allow you to play along with the whole album uninterrupted.

Bass Player: Herbie Flowers The complete album of PDFs prepared to be played without interruption. ‘No-one would have believed’….

Bass Player: Robin Phillips ‘This one was a labour of love. I was a fan of this band when the first album appeared in 1984 and remember seeing them at The Granary in Bristol. I remember it because the singer who was with the band when they recorded their first album was not at the…

Bass Player: Robin Phillips Just wrapping up the ‘complete’ set for the 2021 album ‘Sia’ by UK Prog band ‘Solstice’. This is Robin Phillips’s bass part to the tune that closes the CD, ‘Cheyenne 2020’. The tune was originally recorded for their 1984 debut album, ‘Silent Dance’, this version is a reimagining of the song…

Bass Player: Robin Phillips Another tune from the 2021 album, ‘Sia’, from UK Prog band, Solstice. Nothing overly challenging about Robin Phillips’s bass part but the wonderful thing about these kinds of charts is that the learning reader can find themselves executing a competent performance of a professionally recorded song really early on in their…