Bass Player: Geddy Lee Geddy Lee is the singer, bass and keyboard player for Canadian rock band Rush. For over 40 years, this trio have written and recorded some of the most exciting Rock music ever captured and, alongside guitarist Alex Lifeson and the late drummer lyricist Neil Peart, Lee has been on of the…

Bass Player: Jon Poole Another Jon Poole bass part from the Lifesigns ‘Live In London’ CD/DVD. This one is the Progtastic ‘At The End Of The World’. 8 minutes long, the transcription is the full bass part from Jon Poole. The attached video is not the same version as the one on the official live…

Bass Player: Jon Poole Another one from the Lifesigns ‘Live In London’ CD/DVD. Bilbo heard the band at the Winter’s End Festival in Chepstow in 2019 and again when recording with Chepstow based Prog band Multi Story (he appears on one track on their forthcoming ‘CBF10’ CD. This is Jon Poole’s bass part for ‘Open…

Bass Player: Jon Poole Another one from the UK Prog scene and another from Jon Poole and the band Lifesigns. The track is ‘Impossible’ whereas the bass line isn’t. Is Prog Pop a thing? At time of posting, the tune is doing the rounds as a single and is featuring regularly on a number of…

Bass Player: Alain Caron Alain Caron’s bass part for Cross Checking from his Sep7entrion CD (notes only; no chords). Full transcription. A tough read initially but, if you get two bars under your fingers, you are pretty much there.

Guitar Player: Ralph Towner An interesting little thing by Ralph Towner, only 1.26 long. I transcribed the guitar part and then re-transcribed it for double bass. A solo piece that most of us on here can play, a spacy ECM vibe – all tone and no technique. We cannot post a link to the tune…

Bass Player: Chris Squire A reading exercise, this it the synth bass line that underpins the song ‘Onward’ from the Yes LP ‘Tormato’. The bass part is minimal in this tune and this part is essentially a quarter note ‘walking’ bass line (not in the Jazz sense but still a bass note pulse on which…

Bass Player: Chris Squire Is this the easiest bass line ever? One note repeated in exactly the same rhythm for the whole piece. Ravel’s Bolero even had two notes! There are actually two charts here: Easy and Stupid Easy…. (it all get’s a bit mad when Your Move goes into the next section on ‘All…

Bass Player: Billy Sheehan Originally the bass player for a lesser known band called Talas, Sheehan came to the public eye through his involvement in the band that singer David Lee Roth formed after leaving Van Halen. Alongside guitarist Steve Vai, Sheehan’s two handed tapping on the band’s 1986 album ‘Eat ‘Em And Smile’ was…

Trumpet solo: Miles Davis Another legendary horn solo transcribed for bass. This is the iconic trumpet solo from the tune ‘All Blues’ from the 1959 Miles Davis LP ‘Kind Of Blue’. This is one of the most celebrated and best selling Jazz albums of all time and features the bass playing of Paul Chambers but…