Bass Player: Jeff Berlin

Another in our series of Jeff Berlin transcriptions. Bilbo was a huge JB fan when I started getting into the more advanced fusion bass players like Jaco, Percy Jones etc. He tried to learn what I could off the Bruford records available at the time but this predates the existence of technology that allowed you to slow things down so it was not as easy as it is now to write this stuff out. Now we have the kit to do this properly and can slow things down to 25% without changing pitch and write it out on charts that are clear and readable not written in pencil on bog roll. This one is ‘Travels With Myself and Someone Else’ from the Bruford album ‘One Of A Kind’. There is a JB solo early on in the piece that is absolutely astonishing (2.19) and there is a half a bar of triplet 16ths that would never have been interpreted properly without Transcribe software. I would never have been able to pick this out in the old days