Scott Colley bass intro; "Vertigo"

Put in three hours on this yesterday and finished it. It is quite rubato, tempo fluctuating during performance. Other than a few speed ups, it can be fairly consistent. I chose to notate it by phrase and inserting fermattas where appropriate. The only way to truly get it is to listen to the recording, which I highly recommend, Vertigo by Chris Potter. I may repost this later with the analysis for practical use. I can say upon a quick overview he likes to color alternate tonalities on the same root note. Meaning he pulls many tensions out of this B minorish kind of world. Depending on your interpretation that could be polymodality or other fancy words. Another big feature I enjoy is its a half step above the bass line vamp for the song (written at in on the last bar [7/4 time]). So its like one big tritone sub-dominant of the Bb minor figure.

I'm glad this one is over, now I can get on to do other things with my life. Like another transcription.....


Vertigo Scott

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Raging Media

My anger with blogspot currently knows no end. None of the 1,000,000 widgets for mp3s work. It's simplicity baffles my basic HTML knowledge. I am stopping now before I dropkick the monitor out of existence (perhaps the printer as well).

Here is something from a little over a year ago with my friend Hassaan and an awesome drummer, Will Mason. Audio quality is not the best, but its a neat little clip of us playing "Four on Six" at Bowdoin College.



There is an audio snippet to the right which probably does nothing. I'm leaving it there for now until I, or divine intervention, get it to work.

Drew Gress Transcriptions; "Bright Idea" Bass Solo

The bass solo that follows the chorus. Get 7 Black Butterflies, its an amazing album.

Bright Idea by Drew Gress - Bass Solo

Drew Gress Transcriptions; "Bright Idea" chorus

The lead chorus of the song. O boy is it a doosy.

Bright Idea by Drew Gress - Lead Chart