Bass Player: Chris Squire

The fourth Yes album, Fragile, was released in 1971 and, amongst the five classic Yes tunes, the album featured short ‘solo’ pieces from each of the band members including Jon Andersons ‘We Have Heaven’, Rick Wakeman’s ‘Cans and Brahms’, Steve Howe’s ‘Mood For A Day’ and Chris Squire’s ‘The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)’. Tagging along at the end of this list is the Bill Bruford contribution that said a lot about where the drummer’s career would go and features a manic cross rhythm in which Squires bass and Steve Howe’s guitar are playing a relatively simply figure in a variation of a unison line that requires the parts to be played but one eight note apart.

The transcription of ‘Five Per Cent For Nothing’ features both the guitar part and the bass part so that you can ‘see’ what is happening. It is understood to be Bruford’s first attempt at composing.