Re-post–sorta. Trying to learn this as it is stuck in my head.
This song is played like a french who-er. I can play the basic chorus and versus close to speed most of the time, but I am wholly screwed on the transitions. This may be a long-term project.
And no this isn’t me. --just what I am working from. D-drop C tuning.
Just finished playing along to my favorite jazz singer Thisbe Vos. I love that I can play along to all of her songs (except one I’ll get to later) without using sheet music. She swings and on her ballads is so sensual that how can one not make their bass ooze romance?!?!? I just love her!! If you are wanting to get into jazz, but are having a hard time hearing the changes, then pull up Thisbe on Spotify or whatever and start playing along. The progressions in her songs are straight forward with the occasional out of key chords thrown in that are easy to hear like bVII or biii, stuff like that. It is easy to hear when in some of her songs she changes keys. When you get her progressions in your head, ear, and in your fingers then it becomes easier hearing the progressions in other jazz standards.
It’s just my recommendation because getting my jazz ear together has been always been difficult for me, but when I found out about Thisbe Vos I fell in love with her voice and her music and it makes me very happy learning and playing along to her. Her mentor is Henry Franklin which explains where Thisbe gets her swing and groove! Try her music and have fun!
About that one song of hers that I have a hard time playing without music is “Sophistication”….great jazzy bass line that I could never play, so I emailed her and asked her for the lead sheet………guess what??? She personally emailed me a nice note AND a pdf of the lead sheet with the request that I send her audio of me playing it………(I haven’t done that yet……I want it to be perfect, and I’m not there yet!)
Anyway, I just wanted to share this with everyone.
Angst-y teenage years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYV--YuzPU
You’re younger than I thought, then.
These were my teenage years. Not particularly angst-y, but troubled? I guess so.
Also, look at Chris Squire holding a … Jazz Bass?
Sounds like it was just for the video, though. And Steve Howe (whom we see on video here) wasn’t even in Yes when this song was recorded – that’s Peter Banks on guitar we’re hearing.
EDIT: wait, no, it gets worse. In the vid, Tony Kaye and Chris Squire swapped places!
Yep, Echo - that would be high school right there. Junior year in fact.
We always think of Yes as Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe, and Squire, but there’s a ton of lineup changes. Until he passed Squire was the only constant. Not to mention multiple versions of the band at the same time.
This is from my teenage years.
Not me – I was enamored by Yes from their second album onwards up to and including Close To The Edge. Up to today, I’d still have Peter Banks over Steve Howe (I can’t stand Steve’s tone, it gives me a rash), and I was sorry to see Peter Banks removed from the lineup.
You’re probably a few years older than me. The Yes Album is the first one I was aware of growing up, and still favorite, with Starship Trooper leading it
I was heavily into Heart Of The Sunrise. And yes, I tried to play that on bass too when I was young.
I may be around your age – when Time And A Word was released, I was twelve. But as I was immersed in complex music shit since before I could walk (and as my mother told me, I did not object to that!), my musical tastes… let’s just say “developed along a different pattern”.
Which would cause me to be viewed as a weirdo by my peers in school, but that’s a different story altogether.
It probably also explains why I really really liked Yes’ first two albums – they were a lot jazzier. Their debut record has “I see you”, which is as jazzy as they ever got.
https://youtu.be/LPKp4lLLMu4
And yes, Peter Banks shines on this one!
We listened to a lot of Heart, too - but also the stuff from the 70s, not the MTV hits.
Dog & Butterfly in particular and:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NONIPG07as4
Crazy On You dates back to 1975.
Reason I (vaguely) remembered that is because I knew a guy who listened to it when I was in the army, which is 44 godforsaken years ago. I admit I had to look the exact year up, though.
Yes… I was seventeen when that came out.
Yup - I was clarifying that we listened to the 70s era Heart because I was a teenager in the 80s. Perhaps I’ll add an “also” in there…
And as soon as you did that, the clip stopped playing. Took me a moment to figure that out…
Best. Heart. Song. Ever.
Latest from Voice of Baceprot. Should probably post them when they drop
Definitely some RAGTM vibes in parts
This has got to be when they were starting out. VoB doing Psychosocial
bass solo at 3:30
They are such asskickers.
Someone covered New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle” using Hatsune Miku in Vocaloid 5 
I might need to do another cover using a vocaloid. I think my first one turned out pretty well: