Bass Player: Paul Chambers Paul Chambers had a relatively brief career by the standards of his peers and was only effectively operational between 1955 and his death in January 1969. Despite this, he appeared on something in the region of 300 albums by everyone from Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Red Garland, Herbie Hancock,…

Bass Player: Jeff Andrews Jeff Andrews grew up in Baltimore, Maryland where he was exposed to rock and jazz musicians in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Between 1976 and 1978, he attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, from where he moved to the Berklee College of Music but left in 1980 because he was not…

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…