Free Bass Transcriptions

[TKenrick]

A couple of charts that were requested by students:

 

Big Mountain - 'Baby, I Love Your Way'

 

Roy Orbison - 'Oh, Pretty Woman'

[G-Lo]

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[TKenrick]

Here are some of my favourite exercises that I suggest to students who want to maintain their technique while practising things that actually get used in the music they play:

 

 

[TKenrick]

My 2010 ears, it seems, had some very strange ideas about what was happening in this tune. The chart has now been overhauled, phantom odd-time bars removed and now contains chord symbols, along with much more detailed articulation instructions:

 

Abba - 'Money, Money, Money' bass transcription

 

I'm sorry for the Fb, it was unavoidable.

[stewblack]

16 minutes ago, TKenrick said:

My 2010 ears, it seems, had some very strange ideas about what was happening in this tune. The chart has now been overhauled, phantom odd-time bars removed and now contains chord symbols, along with much more detailed articulation instructions:

 

Abba - 'Money, Money, Money' bass transcription

 

I'm sorry for the Fb, it was unavoidable.

Thank you

[TKenrick]

Some concepts that I use and teach for learning/practising grooves, framed in the context of Bernard Edwards' wonderful part from 'Le Freak':

 

 

 

Full transcription of the aforementioned disco classic:

 

Chic - 'Le Freak' bass transcription pdf

[TKenrick]

What's that old phrase, beware of internet tutors bearing warmup exercises? How to tell if what you're practising is doing you any good, and how to turn a bad exercise into a good one: