Classic Rock

Something to play besides Margaritaville.  RIP Jimmy

Most of my favorite Bowie Songs already have bass transcriptions available.  I was pleasantly surprised when I didn't find one for this Blue Eyed Soul Classic.

Until the SESAC issue is resolved with youtube, No Dylan videos are available.    In the meantime here are couple of my favorite versions Dylan with the Band and Sue Foley.   The Dylan and the band version will take some time to get right.  I've already transcribed the Sue Foley version and will share shortly.  I like to transcribe different versions of a song to see how different bass players handle the chord changes.

There aren't many Bob Dylan bass transcriptions available, so its time to fix that.  This is an interesting blues bass line played by Henry Strzelecki.  Dylan plays the intro solo and doesn't seem to follow the standard 12 bar blues form.  After the intro Robbie Robinson plays the rest of the solos.  On the bass it appears that there are a lot of hammer-ons played.  I notated that in the first verse.  For those interested here's a link to every version of the song recorded in the studio. Its interesting how the song and bass line evolved over the recording process.  https://youtu.be/CeH91pDW4yw?si=AJSYpxweqIwV8ZHX

Had to learn this for a band I play in.  It was harder than I expected.  The Rhythmic pulse falls on the 1, 2+  and 4. Additionally there is a measure of 2/4 in the verse .  Definitely was worth the effort to transcribe and really learn the song.   I do like the bass line over the G chord in the chorus.  Also room for some improve at the end.

Sometimes you forget how great an album is.  I hadn't listen to this one all the way thru in a while.  John Klingberg does a  fantastic job crafting great melodic bass lines.  Moondance, Crazy Love and Into the Mystic have bass transcription available, so I'm working my way through the other classic songs on this album. First up is Come Running.  Nothing really difficult here, but the bass definitely makes the song groove with lots of subtle variations to explore.   On the A chord hs plays the 8th and 5th and on the D chord plays the R 2nd and 3rd working back towards the A chord.

A straight forward song I needed to learn.  I found the chorus to be interesting.  First measure he plays an A note on the and of 4 as a Pickup into the 2nd measure of Bm.  When going from Bm to C#m (measure 3) he starts the pick-up on 4 (not the and of 4 which is what I would have expected. 

I've always been a big Keith Richards fan.  I keep a guitar tuned to open G because of him.  I'm also a big Daryl Jones fan.  He definitely  plays for the song.  If you remove the fills this could be played on one string.  It's not going to knock any of the all time classics out of the top 20 Rolling Stone songs but its a solid rocker.  

If I had to pick one Stones album as my favorite, this is tied for 1st with Sticky Fingers.  I love this song, classic open G riffing by Keith and a  masterful lead by Mick Taylor,  So I had transcribing all the bass lines from this album on my list of projects but it looks like someone beat me to it. I guess I'll have to spring for a copy.   In the Chorus the F is notated as the 3rd fret of the D  string.  It should probably be an F on the A string (due to the slide  from Bb to F).  Give it a listen let me know what you think.  At the  beginning of the video I added the guitar riff so you can hear the bass  line in context, rest of the song it's just the Chords 

One of my all time favorite albums.  Most of the songs have been transcribed already.  I think this song, Love ain't for keeping and My Wife are the only ones left.  I've pretty much completed Love Ain't for keeping.  My Wife is in the queue.

There are some spots where I couldn't tell the difference between the drums and bass. Since it's John Entwistle I assumed he was playing some cool bass fill and attempted to transcribe it.

Another great song off of a great album.  I tried an experiment with this one.  I used bends in musescore to approximate the sound off the record.  However for the pdf of the transcription  I show the slides John is playing

What can say I'm a big Crazy Horse fan.  I'm surprised at the number of artists that have covered this song. Even if your not a fan the bass lines ares always worth checking out.  The bass line is not complicated but there are some interesting notes choices

Update:  12/9/23 - An eagle eye (ear) blog subscriber found an issue there was an extra bar of D after measure 29.  It has been removed and the files updated. 

My favorite Warren Zevon song. 

Another great Warren Zevon song. Other Artists have cleaned up the lyrics and had more success with the song. Bob Glaub played bass on this track. if your not familiar with him you should check out his discography