Bass Player: Dave Myles From the 1979 Max Webster album, ‘A Million Vacations’, this is a tanscription of the Dave Myles bass part to the single ‘Paradise Skies’. Some weird things happening in bar lengths and we arwe not sure whether the shart has the 2:4 bars in the right place every time but, as…

Bass Player: John Giblin A bit of nonsense really. This is John Giblin’s bass part for the Phil COllins classic ‘In The Air TOnight’ from the 1981 album ‘Face Value’. The part doesn’t come in until after THE drum break and is only four bars long, reapeating until the tune fades. A short transcription but…

Bass Player: John Giblin From the first Phil Collins solo album, ‘Face Value’ (1981), the track ‘Thunder and Lightning’ features some tasteful bass work from John Giblin, a session ace who had worked with Collins in Brand X and who woudl also work with Chris De Burgh, Simple Minds, Peter Gabriel, John MArtyn, Elkie Brooks,…

Bass Player: Chuck Rainey Steely Dan and it’s constituent composers have a reputation for engaging some of the greatest session bassists in history including Tom Barney, Marcus Miller, Anthony Jackson and WIll Lee. One of their most consistent employees is session legend Chuck Rainey whose lines are featured across many Dan albums throughtout their history.…

Bass Player: Roger Glover One from Bilbo’s early Rock years when he was still learning tunes off records on an old Amstrad stereo he bought as a teenager. From the LP ‘Deep Purple In Rock’, Roger Glover’s bass part for the tune ‘Bloodsucker’

Bass Player: Dick Nolan When It Bites hit in 1986, they caused something of a stir with their Prog/Rock/Pop hybrid and the album ‘The Big Lad In The Windmill’ features strong compositions and strong playing from all four band members including guitarist Francis Dunnery, with his Allan Holdsworthesque lines and expressive vocals, and keyboard monster,…

Bass Player: Dave Holland From the 1987 ECM album, ‘The Razor’s Edge’, the transcription is the eight bar sequence that underpins much of the tune. The piece is essentially in 3:4 but the last of weach 8 bar sequence is one bar of 4:4. The imprtant thing to executing this chart, from a reading perspective,…

Bass Player: Scott Sutherland This one came in as a request off Talkbass and features Scott Sutherland’s 12:8 shuffle groove on Tommy Castro’s ‘Backup Plan’ from his 2009 album ‘Hard Believer’.

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin Another tune from the 1979 Bruford album ‘One Of A Kind’. This is Bruford’s ‘Alice In Wonderland’ reference… Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said ‘What else had you to learn?” I posted this originally in 2020…

Bass Player: Jeff Berlin From his 1997 CD ‘Taking Notes’, this is a slightly more measured composition with the really interesting note choices we have come to expect from Jeff but at a tempo that allows us mere mortals to find a way in. There is a lot to sixteenth note reading in this piece…