"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.

"Queen of the Dark" from Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures

The 6th track of the 'Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures' album. This one has a great groove and feel throughout, nice and slow but still driving forward.

Zach seems to be using some kind of octave pedal on his bass guitar. I tried to reproduce it as close as I could with my Line6 BassPodxt, but I think I really need to buy a proper octave pedal, because I'm not too happy with the results, specially on the low F#. It seems like the Pod just can't get a note so low. Oh well, to the music store!!

As usual, Zach does not repeat his fills, so it was a lot of fun figuring them all out :)

You can find the tab/transcription here.

"Lucky Stars" from Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures

The last track on the Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures album. It's a slow, mostly acoustic song, not complicated or fancy.

I think Zach might be playing an upright bass here, so to get as close as I could to that sound on an electric, I used my new Fender Mustang which has flat-wound strings set up.

You can find the tab here

"The Gutter" from Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures

What a great track this is!

Listen carefully and pay attention to how many sections this song has... There's quite a few and a lot of them only come around once, which is pretty awesome.

As usual, Zach is solid, and hardly ever repeats himself. I love that you can tell there is no copying and pasting of Zach's bass parts in the studio.

Of course I had to do this video with the Creature mask... :)

Oh yeah, tab is here.

"The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

Track 10 of "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness". A simple song to play on bass, as the focus is all on the vocal melodies. However, the interplay between bass and drums is pretty awesome, as usual for Josh and Mic.

Check out the bass tab here.

Let me know what you'd like to hear next

"Mother May I" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

This is track 11 from the album "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness"
The song is actually in 4/4 throughout, even though it sounds like the time turns around a couple of times during the verses. It's a very neat trick that Josh Eppard pulls off with the drum beat.

You can find the bass tab here.

Thanks for checking this out, let me know if there's a Coheed song you'd like me to do next!

"The Final Cut" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

I'm sure you know the full title of this one is "The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. It is not a very complicated song, it just has 3 chords Em - C - D, but it is fun to play since it's a comfortable tempo in 6/8 time.

I couldn't help myself trying to sing along the harmonies while I was playing it, but if it bothers you you can pan the audio to the right and you won't hear my crappy singing anymore.

Check out the tab for this here.

Thanks for watching and please let me know what you would like to hear next.

"Apollo I: The Writing Writer" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

Track 6 of the album and a big favorite of mine. As usual Mic Todd does a fantastic job of making the parts slightly different and keeping it very interesting in the process. I'm not much of a slapper but I gave it my best :)

Check out the tab here.

Let me know what song you'd like to hear next!

"Crossing the Frame" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

I had a fun time learning this song, Mic Todd plays a very melodic and funky bass line throughout. There is a lot of movement in the bass during the verses and pre-choruses, and then it all goes down to basics for the choruses, allowing the vocal melody to stand out more at that point. Another really cool track. You can find a pdf of the bass tab here.

Please let me know what song should I do next!

"Eraser" from The Color Before The Sun

This is the second song from the album The Color Before The Sun.

As is typical of Coheed songs this one is trickier than it seems. There are a lot of time signature changes, which makes the choruses in particular quite fun to play. Zach Cooper does a great job of varying all the fills so that there is nothing being repeated here.

You can find the tab here

Let me know what song you want me to do next

- Al

"Justice In Murder" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow

This is probably my favourite song off this album. It's very catchy and melodic, and the bass line is interesting. As usual, Michael Todd kept changing the parts slightly so as to not be boring or robotic. It took quite a bit of listening carefully for me to get the transcription as close as possible to the original, and you can find that tab here.

Please let me know what you think and leave me a comment with your choice for my next cover.

Thanks!

"Pretelethal" from The Afterman: Descension

This is the first song off of Descension. It's not very long or complicated, but it has a cool ukelele part!

Enjoy and let me know what you would like me to do next!

"Once Upon Your Dead Body" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

This song exemplifies one of my favourite things about Coheed: their ability to layer catchy melodies on top of more catchy melodies to create an amazing overload of melodic goodness haha. The bass part is not too complicated, but as usual Mr Todd does a great job of varying the fills to keep it interesting throughout.

Let me know what you'd like to me to do next!

"World Of Lines" from Year Of The Black Rainbow

I love the bass tone in this song! it's distorted and growly, but not so much as to take your attention away from the rest of the tune.

What song should I do next?

"Ten Speed (of God's Blood & Burial)" from Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness

Fun song to play on bass! That's all I have to say about that haha.

Leave me a note and let me know what you'd like me to do next.