Bass Player: Geddy Lee The band’s most successful album in it’s 40 year history, featuring seven of the most iconic Rush tunes including Tom Sawyer, YYZ, Limelight and Red Barchetta. These transcriptions are all available as individual charts but we thought it may be helpful to include a pdf of the whole album. The charts…

Bass Player: Percy Jones Percy Jones is most widely known for his work with UK Jazz Rock pioneers Brand X but he has also played on numerous other recordings with artists such as Brian Eno, Steve Vai (The Epidemics), Kate Bush, David Sylvian, Steve Hackett and Suzanne Vega. The transcription is Percy’s bass part to…

Bass Player: Chris Squire The fourth Yes album, Fragile, was released in 1971 and, amongst the five classic Yes tunes, the album featured short ‘solo’ pieces from each of the band members including Jon Andersons ‘We Have Heaven’, Rick Wakeman’s ‘Cans and Brahms’, Steve Howe’s ‘Mood For A Day’ and Chris Squire’s ‘The Fish (Schindleria…

Bass Player: John Mole Another tune from the 1978 Gary Moore album, ‘Back On The Streets’. Prior to his untimely death, Moore was generally best known for his solo work in the Rock and Blues fields and for his stint with Irish Rockers Thin Lizzy. Moore did, however, have a brief career as a Jazz-Rock…

Bass Player: John Mole Mole was born in Stratford, London. A member of Jon Hiseman’s Colosseum II, he went on to work with fellow band members Gary Moore and Don Airey. He also played with the UK jazz-funk band Morrissey-Mullen during the late 1970s, and as a session musician with artists such as Barbara Streisand…

Bass Player: Jairo Moreno From Moreno’s own website: Jairo Moreno is an Associate Professor of Music, Faculty Associate in the Latin American and Latinx Studies Programme and member of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania, having previously taught at Duke and N.Y.U. Awards include the Society for American Music 2005 Irving…

Bass Player: Kyle Brock  Kyle Brock came from Abilene, TX to attend Southwest Texas State University and then St. Edwards University. He toured and wrote music for Eric Johnson Group from 1987 until 1995 and the attached video comes from a Johnson gig. It is a very brief (less than one minute) Country bass solo. Not…

Bass Player: Not applicable This is a transcription of the theme from the tune ‘Odissea Veneziana’ from the weird Pop/Classical hybrid act ‘Rondo Veneziano. Rondò Veneziano is an Italian chamber orchestra, specializing in Baroque music, playing original instruments, but incorporating a rock-style rhythm section. The ensemble was led by Gian Piero Reverberi, who is also the principal…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin A lesser known Jeff Berlin performance, this is the bass part to the tune ‘Foxy Morons’ from the 2005 album by an all-star group including Dennis Chambers, Jeff Berlin, David Fiuczynski and T. Lavitz. The transcription is the ‘bass’ part and does not include Jeff’s distorted bass solo that precedes the…

Bass Player : Jeff Andrews Another great Mike Stern tune and another great Jeff Andrews performance, this is the bass part for the tune ‘Chromazone’ from the 1988 Stern album, ‘Time In Place’. A monster bass part, heavily syncopated but mostly written (there are a couple of fills). Jeff Andrews was a major player in…