Bilbo's Transcription Archive

[Bilbo]

Someone asked for some Tony Levin so I looked up his discography and came up with this. I didn't know he did this. the whole transcription took 10 minutes. Levin's complete bass part from '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover' from the 1975 Paul Simon album, 'Still Crazy After All These Years'. 

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/50-ways-to-leave-your-lover-paul-simon/

 

 

[Bilbo]

2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

My first was Little Ole Wine Drinker Me and then Mississippi.  

Still got all my music books from 70's tho including Genesis Seconds Out (fully autographed), Pink Floyd DSOTM and Animals, Alice Cooper, Eagles, Camel and Supertramp are the highlights.

Happy days

Dave

 I had several books but they were almost all written for piano and the bass parts rarely bore any relationship to what we heard on the records. Those box guitar chords were also useless and were all first position chords so the voicings were useless.

[Bilbo]

A beautiful tune, this is the Nick Beggs bass part to the tune 'The Raven That Refused To Sing' from the 2013 Steven Wilson album 'The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)'. It is not hard to play but there are some challenges with shifting bar lengths and a couple of fills. Otherwise, a stunning tune.

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/the-raven-that-refused-to-sing-steve-wilson/

[Bilbo]

Another lovely tune, this is the complete Geddy Lee bass part for 'Lakeside Park' from the 17975 Rush album, 'Caress Of Steel'. Not too difficult to play but some of the reading gets lairy due to the tempo.

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/lakeside-park-rush/ 

[Bilbo]

Just to tidy things up, Geddy's part to 'I Think I'm Going Bald' from the same 'Caress Of Steel album. A bit of fun lyrically but, reading-wise, a bloody roast!

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/i-think-im-going-bald-rush/

[Bilbo]

A 'complete album' version of 'Caress Of Steel' is up there now. 

[Bilbo]

I heard this much later than I should have, thinking Billy Joel was a boring balladeer but I have since come to appreciate how strong a songwriter he is. This was the song that woke me up to his talent. From the 1976 album, 'Turnstiles' this is the complete Doug Stegmeyer bass part to the tune(s) 'Prelude/Anger Young Man'. It's almost Prog.

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/prelude-angry-young-man-billy-joel/

[Bilbo]

Something less well known from Jeff Berlin. This is the first and final heads and two choruses of walking bass lines from a session Jeff Berlin did with Italian pianist Massimo Columbo with Billy Cobham on drums in 2005. The album is called 'Caravaggio'. The reason it is not complete is because JB's part is impossible to translate into dots, even with Moises and Transcribe! software. It is just too dense (not fast, just all over the place with octaves and pedal notes and sliding etc). The tune is called 'Blues For 3'.

 

https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/blues-for-3-massimo-columbo-trio/