Artist - The Jones Girls
Electric Bass - Steve Green/James Williams
Difficulty - Intermediate
Hey everyone,
This weeks transcription comes from the American RnB trio The Jones Girls, a group I was pointed towards by a former bandmate from the same area and as it turns out a group I wish i’d come into contact with earlier as they released some wonderful music.
Show Love Today was released as part of their debut album The Jones Girls, and is (for me) the standout bass part from the record. The chorus groove in particular really stood out, partly because it uses the kind of open voiced triad ideas i’m working on a lot at the moment but once I transcribed it how fiddly the line is to mute effectively! Keeping the lower strings quiet is really crucial to the clarity of the line when you move across onto the upper strings, along with paying attention to which of the 8th notes are played staccato vs legato.
I chose my Yamaha BB for this playthrough, with the passive tone rolled on quite a bit more than I usually do as the bass sound on the record is classic ‘flats with the tone open’.
Hope you all enjoy this! One thing to note is that the song is in that no-mans land between G and Ab, so i de-tuned the song .48 to bring it in tune with my bass (standard tuned in 440) so you’ll need to either de-tune the track as i’ve done or tune your bass up a little!
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