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…

Bass Player: Steve Swallow Another transcription from Swallow’s ‘Real Book’ CD. This is the opening solo on the track ‘Let’s Eat’. Swallow is unusual in Jazz and his use of the pick makes his playing very guitaristic with lots of ghost notes. His mastery of melodic playing is well-established and his ability to weave beautiful…

Bass Player: Steve Swallow Steve Swallow is something of an enigma in Jazz; and electric bass player who uses a pick. Having started his career on double bass (he played and recorded with the Jimmy Guiffre Trio – worth looking up), he swapped to electric after hearing guitarist Joe Beck play the instrument in a…

Bass Player: Alain Caron Alain Caron (born May 5, 1955) is a French Canadian bassist. The youngest of 11 children, Caron started playing bass at age 11 and began pursuing jazz at age 15. His musical skills were formalised by correspondence lessons with the jazz improvisation teacher |Charlie Banaco and by attending a summer session…

Bass Player: Renaud Garcia Fons Garcia-Fons started his musical studies at an early age. At five years old he picked up playing the piano, switched to classical guitar at eight, then turned to rock in his teens, and finally settling for the upright bass when he was 16. He got formal musical training at the…