Got My Mojo Working by Muddy Waters… I learned a version of “Got My Mojo Working” from a Muddy Waters recording that I can’t for the life of me find anywhere! I decided it would be a fun piece to do solo with a slap solo in the middle that I used to do in […]
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Bass Transcription – Wake Me Up Before you Go Go by Wham with Bassist Deon Estus! Guilty pleasure time… Don’t be afraid to admit it, we’ve all found ourselves singing along to this classic by Wham! It’s incredibly catchy and moves along at a relentless pace helped no end by Deon Estus, bass player born […]
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Well here is another guitar solo bass transcription for all you bass players out there. CLICK TO DOWNLOAD – Bass Transcription of Flat Out by Guitarist John Scofield As an electric bass player I like to transcribe guitar solos because of similarity in the fingerings on the bass. I play both a 4 string and a […]
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Spanish Castle Magic by Jimi Hendrix, a Bass Transcription… My version of the bass line worked very well when I was singing lead and playing bass in a power trio called Scribe. I particularly like the use of the open E & A string while playing in 7th position as it keeps a wide and […]
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Bass Transcription for “One of Those Things” by Buck Ford... When I first heard this song, the intro immediately reminded me of “How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You”, but once the tune gets underway, it is unmistakably real country music. I decided to write my own bass parts for some of Buck’s tunes, “One of Those […]
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Bass Lines: Famous Bass Intros – Part VI – “Low Rider”… Hello BMM Followers! This is the last article of the 2014. It has been a great year full of bass playing. Are you ready with your resolutions for 2015? Well! Ready or not, Grab your bass and let’s groove with this cool and famous […]
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The ability to transcribe, or write down on paper what you hear on a recording, is one of the most valuable tools a musician can possess. Why? For starters it enables you to learn directly from the masters via their recorded works. Harmony books are great, and books of scales are useful, but if you […]
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Please click on the link below, Jaco-Used to be a Cha Cha, to download the transcription. Jaco-Used_To_Be_a_Cha_Cha About Lucas PickfordMy dad dropped me off in Boston in 1988 at age 17 to attend Berklee College of Music on a scholarship and graduated in three years with honors in 1991. After Berklee I spent time in […]
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Drummer Billy Cobham of Mahavishnu Orchestra fame, made his most enduring contribution too the genre of jazz – fusion with his classic recording “Spectrum”. The 1973 album featured: Joe Farrell, flute, saxophones; John Tropea, guitar, and Ray Barretto, congas. Studio legend Lee Sklar, played bass on the original version of ‘Red Baron’ and did a […]
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“Song To John” by Stanley Clark Arrangement by Rite of Strings This month I’d like to focus on one of the great masters of the bass and one of only a few who is equally adept at both the electric and acoustic bass and that’s Mr. Stanley Clarke. And it’s Stanley’s acoustic playing and more […]
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Hi everyone, For the one year anniversary of Bass Musician Magazine, I have chosen to put up a very special and challenging transcription. It is a live solo by French bass phenom Hadrien Feraud, on the John McLaughlin tune “Senor C.S.” The solo is both technically and harmonically brilliant to say the least. I got […]
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** Note: At the end of this page is a transcription accompaniment. Please scroll to the bottom, click to open, and then continue reading. When I asked Jake for suggestions about which DVD he wanted me to review for this issue, he suggested that I check out “Rite of Strings” featuring Stanley Clarke, Al […]
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4 Chords in One: The Symmetric Diminished Scale Featuring a Transcription of a John McLaughlin Guitar Solo on a G Blues Click below to download this article and transcription in either doc or pdf format. Download Symmetric_Diminished_Scales_.doc Download Symmetric_Diminished_Scales_.pdf About Lucas PickfordMy dad dropped me off in Boston in 1988 at age 17 to […]
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” ‘Jazz Jungle’ is from John McLaughlin’s CD from a few years back called ‘The Promise’. It’s a good old fashioned fusion barn burner. It has an all star cast that includes the late great Michael Brecker on sax, Dennis Chambers on drums, James Genus on bass and Jim Beard on keys. It’s a fast […]
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Meet Lucas Pickford – Please click below to download this transcription. Jaco-Used_To_Be_a_Cha_Cha-Feb09 About Lucas PickfordMy dad dropped me off in Boston in 1988 at age 17 to attend Berklee College of Music on a scholarship and graduated in three years with honors in 1991. After Berklee I spent time in New Orleans and New York […]
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Meet Lucas Pickford – In 1977 in between his classic Return to Forever albums and his late-80’s Elektric band albums, Chick Corea released a number of classic small-ensemble jazz albums full of original compositions. On this CD appropriately titled ‘Friends” Chick teams up with Joe Farrell on flute and reeds, Eddie Gomez on bass and […]
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Meet Lucas Pickford John Coltrane’s seminal modal jazz composition ‘Impressions’ is as challenging as anything he composed even though it only has two chords in it. The form is 16 bars of D-7 followed by a bridge section of Ebmin7 for 8 bars, and finally 8 more bars of D-7 again at which point the […]
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Meet Ray Riendeau – Hi everyone! In this article I’d like to discuss the importance of learning and transcribing things that you want to learn. It is very easy in this computer age to find the music, tab, video, explanation, etc of most all songs. This can be a useful tool for sure, but does […]
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Meet Lucas Pickford – This album of Pat’s is probably my all time favorite Pat Metheny recording. He has an all star cast with him that includes the late Michael Brecker on tenor sax, Charlie Haden on acoustic bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums, and the great Dewey Redman on sax as well. This composition is […]
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Meet Lucas Pickford – For this installment of PTW I’ve chosen the beautiful Marcus Miller homage to the late, great, Jaco Pastorius. I’ve heard that when Jaco left Weather Report that Joe Zawinul offered the bass spot to a young Marcus Miller. By that time though Marcus’ abilities had already be noticed by none other […]
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