Bass Player: Geddy Lee First track on Side 2 of the original vinyl LP, this is Geddy Lee’s bass part to the tune ‘A Passage To Bangkok’. Some really interesting composing here. A monster riff but that rhythm section performance behind Alex Lifeson’s guitar solo is genius. Three bars of 4:4 plus one of 7:8.

Bass Player: Alphonso Johnson Known primarily for his work with Weather Report, bassist Alphonso Johnson also performed and recorded extensively with a range of other artists including Santana. Phil Collins, Billy Cobham, Chet Baker and Bob Weir (Grateful Dead). His fretless playing predated the innovations of Jaco Pastorius and his work on the Weather Report…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Having had a really weak response to their previous album, ‘Caress Of Steel’, Canadian Rock band Rush’s career was on a knife edge when the band went into the studios to record the follow up album, ‘2112’. Fortunately for Messrs. Zivojinivic, Weinrib and Peart, the epic tune ‘2112’ captured the imagination…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Having had a really weak response to their previous album, ‘Caress Of Steel’, Canadian Rock band Rush’s career was on a knife edge when the band went into the studios to record the follow up album, ‘2112’. Fortunately for Messrs. Zivojinivic, Weinrib and Peart, the epic tune ‘2112’ captured the imagination…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Having had a really weak response to their previous album, ‘Caress Of Steel’, Canadian Rock band Rush’s career was on a knife edge when the band went into the studios to record the follow up album, ‘2112’. Fortunately for Messrs. Zivojinivic, Weinrib and Peart, the epic tune ‘2112’ captured the imagination…

Bass Player: Dave Holland A curious little bass part that underpins the Dave Holland composition ‘Four Winds’ which appears on both the bassists ‘Conference Of The Birds’ album in 1973 and trio recording he did with Steve Coleman and Jack DeJohnette in 1988 called ‘Triplicate’. It does weird things with bar lengths and is presented…

Bass Player: Candleliight Vigil A simple arco part from the legendary Dave Holland. Holland has had a stellar career playing with everyone from Miles Davis to Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton, Chris Potter, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Gary Burton…the list really is endless. A master improvisor, this is a through written part which Holland plays arco…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin This one is a partial transcription and features the first 44 bars of the tune which is essentially the head. The chart stops a couple of bars into the first solo. In short, the line from this point on has a myriad of ghost notes and very subtle inflections that make…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee The full set of pdfs for the bass parts to ‘Signals’. Now you can play it all the way through without opening different files.

Bass Player Geddy Lee “New World Man” is a hit single from the 1982 album, ‘Signals’ by Canadian Rock band, Rush. The song was the last and most quickly composed song on the album, stemming from a suggestion by then-Rush producer Terry Brown to even out the lengths of the two sides of the cassette version.…