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Daniel Brown

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These transcriptions come from my own curiosity/pursuit of more stuff to play (what is that player doing?), student requests, and specific basslines for gigs.  I am compiling them here for easy access for anyone.  I've always appreciated others that have done this since it gives me a good resource to compare my own, cheat if I do not have time to do it myself, and contributes to the lexicon of popular music.  Enjoy!

Some of these are handwritten and some are just pieces to figure out a particular lick or get an idea of a player's approach... I will try to update them.

At a later time, I'll post a note about some things I've noticed about transcribing (bass in particular).

Alice Merton - No Roots 238 KB
Anita Baker - Sweet Love 177 KB
Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison 228 KB
The Beatles - Something 50.7 KB
Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem 44.7 KB
Ben E. King - Stand by Me 224 KB
Billie Eilish - Bad Guy 236 KB
Black Sabbath - Paranoid This one has a lot of similar sections with small variations 336 KB
Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do For Love Serious pocket 210 KB
Bruno Mars - 24k Magic 256 KB
Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven The mix gets thick during the choruses so there's room for interpretation but I definitely hear some syncopation during the first couple choruses. Also, there are multiple bass tracks (such as the synthy whammy pedal-like slides up in the chorus). 42.5 KB
Bruno Mars - That's What I Like Synth Bass 254 KB
Bruno Mars - Treasure I love the bass tone on this! It's a pretty (very) repetitive bassline. 32.4 KB
Busty and the Bass - Up Top 246 KB
Cake - Short Skirt/Long Jacket 51.9 KB
Calvin Harris - Disco Heat 90.7 KB
Calvin Harris - Feels 85.5 KB
Chaka Khan - Like Sugar A (mostly) sampled bassline from Fatback Band's "Do The Bus Stop" 95 KB
The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats It's 3 different sampled bass grooves at different parts of the tune. The 3rd uses a BUNCH of effects. 91.6 KB
Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On 49.8 KB
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time Key bass on the original recording 114 KB
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart 118 KB
Donnell Pitman - Burning Up 196 KB
Earth, Wind, and Fire - Can't Hide Love 50.7 KB
Earth, Wind, and Fire - Dance, Dance, Dance From a pretty obscure 80s movie... Verdine is great as usual 145 KB
Earth, Wind, and Fire - Fantasy 256 KB
Earth, Wind, and Fire - Got to Get You Into My Life The recording sounds close to A-flat but live videos show them playing it in G. 61.8 KB
Earth, Wind, and Fire - Kalimba Story 180 KB
Ed Sheeran - Blow Written as it sounds 175 KB
Ed Sheeran - I Don't Care 152 KB
Elton John - Rocket Man 299 KB
The Four Tops - Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got 272 KB
Free - All Right Now This is played at the interlude and guitar solo... QUICK LEFT HAND 165 KB
Genesis - No Reply at All I had no idea until I saw the credits, but this song features the horn section from Earth, Wind, and Fire! 244 KB
Gladys Knight - Midnight Train to Georgia Some of Bob Babbitt's finest work 207 KB
Grace Potter - Paris 42.7 KB
Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey 113 KB
Hall and Oates - Baby Come Back 53.5 KB
Hall and Oates - Sarah Smile 44.6 KB
James Brown - Bass Grooves 1 "Cold Sweat", "Body Heat", "Get It Together" 46.8 KB
James Brown - Bass Grooves 2 "Licking Stick", "Superbad", "I've Got a Feeling", "Mother Popcorn" 35.9 KB
Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff 231 KB
John Scofield - Over Big Top 56.1 KB
Khalid - Talk 224 KB
Khruangbin - August 10 124 KB
Kool and the Gang - Summer Madness 132 KB
Labi Siffre - I Got The... This was made more famous by Eminem sampling the 2nd main groove in "My Name Is" 188 KB
Macklemore - Can't Hold Us 134 KB
Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby 37 KB
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need to Get By Jamerson, Jamerson, JAMERSON 160 KB
Miles Davis - Time After Time This is a funky version of the Cyndi Lauper tune 173 KB
Nirvana - In Bloom w/ TAB... the slides make this one a lot of fun 227 KB
Otis Redding - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay 137 KB
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots This is one of the best slap basslines ever recorded. It was made even more popular when Will Smith sampled it for "Men in Black." 398 KB
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer This one is sort of an arrangement of how Tony Levin plays it live. There's even a video out there somewhere with the camera on his bridge so it's possible to see where he's playing it. Note that this is written in standard tuning... the recording is in flats. 27.7 KB
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2 114 KB
The Police - Can't Stand Losing You 122 KB
The Police - Roxanne 120 KB
The Police - Walking on the Moon 110 KB
Post Malone - Circles 88.2 KB
Rage Against the Machine - Basslines "Testify", "Calm Like a Bomb", "Bulls on Parade", "Bombtrack", "Freedom" 51.8 KB
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Love Rollercoaster (The Lick) This blew my mind when I first heard the bass part a little after 3 minutes in (close to the end). It is a lot of fun to work up to speed. 30.6 KB
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines 160 KB
Rush - The Spirit of Radio (Intro) 137 KB
Sam Smith - Stay With Me 93.7 KB
Sia - Cheap Thrills The whole bassline is down an octave. 229 KB
Sia - Titanium 232 KB
Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means to Me 137 KB
Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song 182 KB
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush 242 KB
Surfaces - Sunday Best 98.5 KB
Sweetback - You Will Rise This one is short and sweet(back). 77.7 KB
Tito Puente - Guayaba 35 KB
Tommy Tutone - 867-5309 (Jenny) 51.1 KB
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl This gets played to death but the original bassline has some really nice stuff 165 KB
The Weeknd - Blinding Lights Repetitive synth line... a good tracking octave pedal with only effect signal gets close 233 KB
The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face This is a great bassline for picking and ghosting. 90.2 KB
Carson Smith - I Fall in Love Too Easily From Chet Baker's My Funny Valentine 44.7 KB
Chuck Israels - How My Heart Sings (head) From Bill Evans' How My Heart Sings 83.4 KB
Dave Peeples - Ange (bass intro) From Tenors and Satin by The Knoxville Jazz Session 150 KB
Dave Holland - Processional Solo From Bill Stewart's recording Think Before You Think 42 KB
Dave Holland - Pass It On Solo From Dave Holland's recording of the same name 48.6 KB
Doug Watkins - Doodlin' From Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers 218 KB
John Clayton - East of the Sun Bass solo from Diana Krall's Live in Paris 48.7 KB
Martin Wind - Tale of the Fingers From Live at Jazz Baltica 166 KB
Oscar Pettiford - Blues in the Closet Solo From 1953 recording with Harry Babasin 51.1 KB
Oscar Pettiford - Translation Solo 225 KB
Oscar Pettiford - Tricotism Some recordings list this as "Tricrotism" which is a word, but the original recording left out the "r" for whatever reason 67.6 KB
Paul Chambers - Dig Dis From Hank Mobley's Soul Station 205 KB
Paul Chambers - Stars Fell on Alabama From Cannonball and Coltrane 319 KB
Paul Chambers - The Theme Walking lines under solos from Bass on Top 258 KB
Percy Heath - Oleo From Bag's Groove 67 KB
Ray Brown - Like Someone in Love From Ray Brown's Moore Makes 4 267 KB
Ray Brown - Take the A Train Solo From This is Ray Brown 57.9 KB
Ray Brown - Things Ain't What They Used to Be From Seven Steps to Heaven 81.3 KB
Red Mitchell - Embraceable You Solo From Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes 227 KB
Ron Carter - Tinderbox (melody) From Parade 150 KB
Rusty Holloway - Topsy Solo From Don Stiernberg's Swing 220 42.1 KB
Sam Jones - Just Friends Solo Cello solo from The Soul Society 39.7 KB
Taylor Coker - Such Sweet Thunder Solo From Five Plus Six's Such Sweet Thunder 41 KB
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