Robin Phillips – Bass This one is incredibly easy to play although the reading is complicated slightly by the 5:4 time signature. The notes are all roots, no fills and no frills, and I believe there are only five of them on there whole chart, maybe six. It’s a pretty song nevertheless and a worthy…

Robin Phillips – Bass Another piece from the 2023 Solstice album, ‘Light Up’. This tune has some great lines in it and the whole composition hangs together beautifully with riffs crossing bars, odd bar lengths etc. Classic British Neo-Prog. The inscrutably entitled ‘Wongle No.9’.

Robin Phillips – Bass Robin is the son of Margaret Phillips, who played piano on Solstice’s first album, Silent Dance (1984) and occasionally joined the band onstage at the Marquee. He grew up surrounded by music and so it was destiny that he should join Clive Bunker to form the Solstice rhythm section that gigged…

Geddy Lee – Bass The 1984 album, ‘Grace Under Pressure’ was probably the popiest of the band’s recordings and it was great to see them recover some of the edge later in their collective career but, despite the commercial tinges surrounding ‘Signals’ and ‘Grace Under Pressure’ and ‘Power Windows’, there are some moments. ‘The Enemy…

Geddy Lee – Bass Another from the ‘Grace Under Pressure’ album, this is the complete bass part for the tune ‘Red Sector A’. A really easy read as it is all 8th note roots.

Jeff Berlin – Bass Not everything that everybody does always finds its way into the mainstream public arena and I found this recording on a relatively obscure website which contains a lot of stuff you wouldn’t hear about in the major U.K. and U.S. publications if you weren’t looking for it. Massimo Columbo is an…

Doug Stegmeyer – Bass Douglas Alan Stegmeyer (December 23, 1951 – August 25, 1995) was an American musician who was best known as a bassist and back-up vocalist for Billy Joel. Stegmeyer also performed as bassist for Debbie Gibson and Hall & Oates. Life and career Stegmeyer was born on December 23, 1951, in Flushing, Queens, New York…

Geddy Lee – Bass By mid-1975, Rush had stabilised with a line-up of guitarist Alex Lifeson, bassist and vocalist Geddy Lee, and drummer and primary lyricist Neil Peart, who had joined the group in 1974. They released Fly By Night (1975), which marked Rush’s first foray into multi-part conceptual songs with “By-Tor and the Snow…

Geddy Lee – Bass I went to do this one just to appease by autistic tendency and so I would have another ‘complete album’ option. It’s actually a bloody roast. It’s all playable once you get it under your fingers but this is pure James Jamerson sixteenth note grooving. Great fun once you have got…

Geddy Lee – Bass My first Rush album. This is a great little song and a tasty little bass line. Not massively difficult to play but the tempo makes some of the reading feel like it is edging into panic. What comes over when you are transcribing this stuff is the interesting approach that Lee…