Chris Squire Bass Transcription: Safe

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A tour-de-force by Chris in collaboration with arranger and orchestrator Andrew Pryce Jackman who, very modestly, wouldn't take a writing credit, despite the enormous contribution he made not only to this song but the whole FOOW album.
There's an 8-string as well as the Rickenbacker (often present with a lot of fuzz), and from time to time two basses are playing simultaneously; see below.
There are a lot of pace changes but the overall slow crotchet feel meant it seemed right to indicate crotchet tempi despite the preponderance of 11/8 passages (which are basically 4/4+3/8 anyway). Key sigs are sometimes relevant to a root key, sometimes just convenience to prevent too many accidentals. Smaller notes are either ghost bass notes or orchestral elements.
Opening bass (00:27 onwards) - some of those harmonics are very high, and I can only guess that, for example, the G# is being played on the smaller E of the 8-string.
I know the piano part in bar 10 (00:36) is slightly inaccurate.
The 8-string solo is just the upper part - another 8-string continues the riff - but when it gets to bars 65-69 (03:35) both may be duetting. Here, the G string(s) remain open and sustain, and this is shown in the score by note-tails going the opposite way to the other part, which is played on 2nd and 3rd strings. You could do it on a regular 4-string but I found it unsatisfying.
I know that's not a cor anglais in bar 97 (05:12) it's some sort of brass instrument. Don't @ me.
Finale (12:09): as well as a full orchestra and church organ and all sorts of drums and percussion, there are two highly-fuzzed bass parts, and tbh it gets hard to hear anything clearly, so it's hope-for-the-best all the way.
Outro (13:49): famously played on a double-neck guitar/bass with only the guitar pickups on, so the extra harmonics heard derive from the guitar strings; otherwise, it's played pretty straight. And yes, maybe the fermatae could be better placed.

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  • @BrendaChristensen
    @BrendaChristensen28 күн бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @lbird2
    @lbird228 күн бұрын

    Astounding! Thanks for all the hard work you must have put into this. It's so enlightening to see it written out. This is a masterpiece by Squire & Jackman.

  • @sigil5772

    @sigil5772

    27 күн бұрын

    Appreciate it, thank you

  • @jymyben
    @jymyben15 күн бұрын

    thank you…

  • @pierre-emilebertona3331
    @pierre-emilebertona333126 күн бұрын

    Great job. Thank you. Love this record so much.My close friend Patrick Moraz played on this album and told me some stories about the making and the recording.

  • @sigil5772

    @sigil5772

    26 күн бұрын

    I'm trying to score his Hammond organ solo from Silently Falling right now and, oh boy, he plays FAST, I mean speed of light fast

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