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Transcriptions

Whether you're a student looking to master a tricky bass line, a fellow musician
 needing a song transcribed for your band, or a producer needing accurate charts for a studio session, getting a great bass transcription can make all the difference.

As a Bass Coach and experienced transcriptionist, I can accurately and efficiently transcribe bass parts across a variety of styles and complexity.

My goal is to deliver a clear, professional, and easy-to-use document that helps you achieve your musical goals, all without the hassle of doing it yourself.

The Process is Simple

Pricing & Turnaround Times

My pricing is based on three main factors: Complexity, Length, and Urgency.

This ensures you get a fair price for a high-quality transcription. All transcriptions are delivered as a clean, interactive professionally formatted PDFs.

Complexity Tiers

Simple: Straightforward, repetitive bass lines, typically with whole, half, and quarter notes. Examples might include a basic blues pattern or a simple rock song.

Intermediate: More intricate rhythms, syncopation, and some melodic variation. This tier includes most funk, pop, and classic rock bass lines.

Advanced: Highly complex and technical parts with fast rhythms, ghost notes, slap/pop techniques, and frequent melodic changes. Examples include solo bass work or intricate jazz and funk fusion.

Pricing

Base Rate (per minute of music, rounded up):

  • Simple: $20 / minute per minute of music, rounded up
  • Intermediate: $30 / minute per minute of music, rounded up
  • Advanced: $45 / minute per minute of music, rounded up

Urgency Surcharge:

  • No Rush (7-14 days): No additional charge.
  • Standard (5-7 days): No additional charge.
  • Urgent (48 hours): +50% of the total price.
  • Rush (24 hours): +100% of the total price.

Let's look at some examples

All minutes rounded up.

A Simple 2-minute and 15-second song (charged as 3 minutes):

  • Standard Turnaround: $20 x 3 = $60 
  • Urgent Turnaround: $60 + 50% = $90
  • Rush Turnaround: $60 + 100% = $120

An Intermediate 3-minute and 45-second song (charged as 4 minutes):

  • Standard Turnaround: $30 x 4 = $120
  • Urgent Turnaround: $120 + 50% = $180
  • Rush Turnaround: $120 + 100% = $240

An Advanced 4-minute and 33-second song (charged as 5 minutes):

  • Standard Turnaround: $45 x 5 = $225
  • Urgent Turnaround: $225 + 50% = $337.50
  • Rush Turnaround: $225 + 100% = $450

Final price may vary based on a detailed assessment of the song's complexity. A quote will be provided before any work begins.

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*** Disclaimer ***

All Study Guides/Transcriptions are provided for personal, educational use only.

You may not share, redistribute, or sell them beyond your personal use.

In most cases, neither the Transcriber (me) nor the client (you) owns the rights to the underlying music; in the situation where you are the copyright owner of a piece you've commissioned me to transcribe for you, you will retain all rights in the copyright.

The fee you pay is for the time and effort spent creating the Guide/Transcription, not for the Guide/Transcription itself.

Any Study Guides (Transcriptions) delivered to you exclusively will include a watermark featuring the words "Just The Bass Teaching Materials" with your name/email for identification. This helps to ensure that should the Guide/Transcription show up on another site or platform where it's being shared or passed off as someone else's work, it's clearly got the the Just The Bass name on it and YOURS.

After a period of one month after delivery, the Study Guide/Transcription may be released into the collection over at Just The Riffs, depending on perceived popularity, with your personally identifying information removed and only the site watermark in place.

Caveat: I don't guarantee that I'll be able to produce the Guide/Transcription (and I won't ask for payment until I'm sure I can) and I can't guarantee a super quick turnaround time if I can do it because it may be a really complicated piece, require some super deep-diving research and stem hunting/creating and there's all of the life/work things that may get in the way.

I will do my best to deliver on time and I'll keep you in the loop should any potential obstacles arise. 

Full disclosure: even though I've been Playing, Studying and Transcribing for nearly 40 years, there are some styles of music I don't know well and there are also some techniques I don't know at all and for which I'm not even sure there's any form of theory markup (Ryan Martnie, I'm looking at you...)!

But anything that uses regular plucking, picking, some slapping and some tapping I'm good with and, let's face it, that covers about 95-98% of all recorded music, ever!