I've moved!

I have set up a new site! Any new posts will be there, but you can still find all the content from here on the new site at thecoheedbassproject.com

I will not be posting any new content on here any more, but I will not shut this down for now.

Here's a screenshot of the new homepage: 

See you all there!

"Jessie's Girl 2" featuring Rick Springfield

 New Coheed today!

The band surprised everyone with a "sequel" to Rick Springfield's famous 80s song "Jessie's Girl". In Coheed's second part of the story things go awry for the protagonist of the story when he discovers that Jessie is cute but psycho haha. 

Claudio mentioned that it is possible that the band might do a full album of sequels to famous songs from other bands... That is super exciting!

Anyway, here's the bass for this new song, not too fancy but some cool licks, and a great nod to Blood Red Summer right near the very end of the song :)

You can find the tab on this page

"The Pavilion (A Long Way Back)" from Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures

Fantastic song with a super catchy chorus and a great 6/8 groove from Josh Eppard. The bass line is amazing, lots of little fills that are mostly all different, showcasing Zach Cooper's creativity and skills. It was a ton of fun learning this one.

Also featured in this video for the first time is my new Fender Precision bass. I am quite happy with this new toy of mine ;)

You can get the transcription and tab for this on this page

"Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)" from In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3

 I did this one with my friends Nathan and Julien a few months ago but totally forgot to post it here haha.

Please check my friends out:

Nathan Da Silva (vocals, guitar)

http://nathandasilva.ca

IG/YT/FB/Tw: @nathandasilvamusic

Julien Bigras (drums)

http://youtube.com/julienbigrasdrums

IG/FB: @julien.bigras

It was fun to do the bass AND backup vocals for this, hope you like it!

"The Crowing" from IKSSE:3

This week I'm doing something a bit different! My pal Julien Bigras recorded an awesome version of the drums for The Crowing and we decided to put some bass to it and release this as a "bass and drums only" cover. I hope you enjoy it!

You can find Julien here:

http://youtube.com/julienbigrasdrums

IG/FB: @julien.bigras

This is my favorite song from In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. It has a lot of very cool parts, lots of sections that are catchy, and of course some great creative playing by Mic Todd who does a great job of following the guitars at times and doing his own thing as well. 

We played the entire song to the same tempo so it does sound a bit different at parts where in the original it seems to slow down a little, and I admit that I had to really focus on keeping the timing because I'm so used to hearing and playing along with the original. 

I also had a few issues with Julien's and my video going out of synch because they were recorded with different devices and different frame rates, so I had to do a little bit of editing to line up my video again about half way through.

I might try to do more bass & drums videos since it works great for hearing how the two parts interact with each other. What do you think?

You can find the bass transcription on this page.

"Iron Fist" from The Afterman: Descension

Track 7 of The Afterman: Descension
Nice soft tune, but it gets really funky towards the end. It surprised me to hear how intricate the bass line is and how many little ghost notes are in there.
Sounds to me that Zach played this on an upright bass (at least the first half of the song) so I used my "homemade" fretless with a little flanger effect to try to get a similar sound.
The bass is a Toby Deluxe IV that I pulled the frets from in 2019. Considering it was my first time trying something like that I think it turned out pretty ok haha.

You can find the transcription on this page.

"Love Protocol" from Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures

Well I've been neglecting this project for too long. It's been a crazy 2020 so far and 2019 was pretty wild for me also, but I have some more time now and will dedicate it to some Coheed covers. I also have some new ideas for what to do with this page so I might be changing things a little...

Anyway, Love Protocol is the 8th track of the 'Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures' album. I love how catchy this tune is, it always gets stuck in my head :)

Zach has a very cool distorted sound for this one, and he does a lot of little variations to the bass line and fills. Check out the video below, it's my first attempt at putting the tab in the video directly, but you can also find the PDF of the tab right here.