Friday, August 21, 2020

"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



Monday, August 17, 2020

"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


Monday, August 10, 2020

"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!



Monday, August 3, 2020

"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:
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.