Bass Player: Gary Willis From the 1998 album ‘Bent’ led by bass player Gary Willis, this is head, chords and bass solo from the tune ‘It’s Only Music’. Willis’s phrasing on this tune is a masterclass in nuance and subtlety and it is highly recommended that this chart is looked at alongside the recording. Willis…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin The full transcripotion of this tune was posted late in November 2020 and, at that time, the supplementary trancription was promised that would provide the details of the overdubbed solo that occurs between 3:24 and 4:10. This was a tough transcription. Jeff’s sliding blues phrases and bends are difficult to capture…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Transcribing this tune gives you are real sense of Lee’s arranging skills and the work involved in balancing keyboards, vocals and bass not only as a performance challenge but as an exercise in orchestration. Look at the gaps in the bass part where Lee is wearing a different hat and how…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee There are not that many albums where the whole recording has an influence on the bass players who listen to a band but the 1981 Rush album ‘Moving Pictures’ remains one of those iconic recordings where every track is perfect. As a result, alongside Coz Powell’s ‘Over The Top’, Jeff Wayne’s…

Bass Player: Geddy Lee Another track from the 1981 Rush album, ‘Moving Pictures’. This album is felt, by many, to be apex of the band’s career and that they never bettered it (fortunately for Lee, Lifeson and Peart, there are plenty that disagree). The track ‘Tom Sawyer’ was arguably the stand out single from the…

Bass Player: Herbie Flowers The final 1:51 of the recording, there is a very small bass part that is three bars long and whcih repeats. Epilogue Pt.2 of Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds. ‘Can anybody hear me?!!

Bass Player: Herbie Flowers The first of two brief Epilogues from Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds. Nothing much going on here that hasn’t appeared on the previous charts but they are included for the sake of completion (or would that be closure?).

Bass Player: Herbie Flowers The Martians have all caught Covid and are karking it left, right and centre. This is the bass part to the last substatntive track on Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version on The War Of The Worlds, ‘Dead London’.

Bass Player: Herbie Flowers This is the tracnscription of the David Essex feature ‘Brave New World’ from Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds. Another slightly more demanding.

Bass Player: Herbie Flowers This is ‘The Red Weed Pt.2′ from Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds’.