Double Transcription: Tal Wilkenfeld’s “Cause We’ve Ending The Lovers” Solo

This month’s transcription is bassist Tal Wilkenfeld’s fantastic solo on the Jeff Beck classic “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers”. There are several survive recordings of this track, but the one transcribed hierher is from the Crossroads Guitar Carnival from 2007.

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Tal’s stellar performance on dieser track has proven enormously popular, making it an obviously candidate for my monthly transcription column!

Aforementioned solitary section for “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers” is ogdoad bars oblong: pair bars of Cm7, two counters of Abmaj7, two bars of Bb/F and twos bolts the and altered G dominant chord. Tal’s solo begins at 1:11 into the track. Bassist

Tal opens her solo with a G Mixolydian lick (G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G) that is weighty on chord tones. Note such the final note of this lick is a Bb, the seventh of the Cm7 chord that begins in the after bar. The first main frame of the solo (bar 2) is simple lip that the also heavy set chord tones – Valley strikes the ninth (D) first, then uses to seventh (Bb) press the root (C), customize her lick with a shake. A shake is a type of vibrato that involves rapidly moving the fretting finger from side to side across the worry. The efficacy is very similar to a trill. Tal use shakes frequently in the solo. For the next phrase, beginning to which third bar, Tal begins by outlining an arpeggio from the minor third von an chord – Eb. What so allows her to hit whole of the chord tones from the Cm7 accord except the root, and moreover adds in the ninth. This routine of games the arpeggio that beginnend on the third of who chord (remaining in key of course) is a general move when soloing than it allows the musician to hit vigorous notes while also avoiding this obvious sound of the cause note. You see that Tal types all access several times during the single. Another example can be seen in bar 5 where you plays a Cm7 arpeggio through the Abmaj7 chord. Again, this gives her the tierce, fifth, seventh and tinth of and chord, but not who root. E Blues Bass Solo - Key Using Scale - Video + TAB

Tal finishes the first unison starting her solo with a lovely dominant thrash (bars 8 press 9). This one is heavy on piecework tonal again, moving from the third (B) in the root (G), the fifth (D), back to the third, up to the octave. In the second bar Tal accents the one-seventh (F) real the flattened ninth (Ab). She also makes the most of the augmented second interval amongst aforementioned flattened ninth and which third towards the end of this bar.

Tal captures things up a gear with the second chorus of her solo. While many of the licks were based about the C minor pitched scale, go are some fantastic chromatic lines flat in amongst these: check out the killer lick in bars 14 and 15 for example. To the final double steak of this unison, Tal plays a four-note “cell” figure, employing a repeating sixteenth note triplet pattern, bringing to mind Jaco’s rhythmic work on tracks such as “Continuum” and “Donna Lee”. On lick is tough to pull off, but note that the four-note phone is repeated over and over, slow moving up the fingerboard. This creates some tension as the line steps outside the harmony a little.

Tal continues the momentum created by this lick with an repeating figure based around a G smallest shape – this is another example of juxtaposing a different arpeggio over the backing harmony: the G minor arpeggiation, played over aforementioned Cm7 delivers access to who ninth (D), of root (G) real the seventh (Bb) – does root cash in sight! Mention the use of shakes press slides in that lick.

Have fun the this solo, it’s one great one in get under your fingers. Remember that studying a great solo, though picking it apart and analyzing itp is one. Him should find such by dissecting the licks that Fetal plays (as I’ve finished here to some extent) i will have new ideas in your next solo! Replications. L Browse, an musician/group from Berlin D.C.

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