Yes Chris Squire while singing Jon Anderson

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Long Distance Runaround vocals/YES bass & vocals by Cara on Rickenbacker w/ pick and Rotosound Roundwounds!
(original bass and lead vocals removed)

Difficult song to master, so many licks and diverse parts it's easy to lose focus and hit a clam, and although I learned this months ago, adding vocals adds a whole new level of difficulty! But, I'm beginning to really get Chris Squire's fills now and it feels like a real move up from the Beatles/Queen stuff I was doing!

Written by lead singer Jon Anderson, (about his uncomfortable ambivalent attitude towards organized religion) the song was released as a B-side to "Roundabout", but became a surprise hit in its own right as a staple of album-oriented rock radio. On Fragile it segues into "The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)".

More and more fun all the time! Next are Yours is no Disgrace (already have the bass down), Onward, hard to figure out with all the overtones but I think I got it, without the "Rickenbacker Kiss", and Tempus Fugit, probably the hardest Squire bassline I've attempted.
 
Heart of the Sunrise vocals/Yes bass & vocals by Cara
Here's another one of the 3 Yessongs I'm working on. This is probably the easiest, I edited out some instrumental parts because it was 11:41 long but these are all the most difficult to play and they are COMPLETELY ridiculously counterpoint and countermelodies to the main melody I'm trying to sing, so a new level for me!!

More Yes: http://tinyurl.com/cararickyes1
#jonanderson #chrissquire #stevehowe #rickwakeman #billbruford #fragile #heartofthesunrise #rickenbacker
 
Onward vocals1/Yes bass & vocals by Cara.
This song is deceptively hard, you'd think just playing all half notes for nearly the entire song would be a breeze but its tough not to squelch in to a note and it took me 2 nights of takes to get it.

This is a beautiful song, Chris Squire said he considered it the best song he every wrote. Thank God for AI, it takes out the lead vocal and leaves the backing vocal, which is actually Chris and it's wonderfully fun to sing with.

Another interview I was reading (I always research the songs I do) Steve Howe said he came up on Squire in the rehearsal room and he was devising the exact arrangement on PIANO and Steve said 'Shouldn't you write it down?" and Chris said "No, I'll remember it."

Steve does an amaazing accompaniment of arpeggiated chords behind the bass movement that reallly ads 'texture' and the keys take over the part in places. Great band.

Deeply missed man. Great bassist, great composer, great singer, just all 'round great guy, I wish I could have known him. And so handsome! We miss you Chris!!!

#yes #tormato #onward #chrissquire #jonanderson #stevehowe #rickwakeman #alanwhite
 
The late great Chris Squire, certainly in my top five rock bass guitarists along with Entwhistle, Geddy Lee, Kilminster and Jack Bruce.
 
Circus of Heaven vocals/Yes bass & vocals by Cara
original vocals & bass removed
This was the bear of all bears and at the risk of sounding redundant, the hardest song I ever did. With the bass and vocals removed there is very little context on which to base where my vocals came in, I had to make sure I came in right with the bass at the beginning and play that part very exact and base my vocals off that and pray at the "Great Animals, Tame as the Trees" 4 minutes later I would come in on time.

On top of that I was trying to concentrate on a very difficult bassline that spans 19 frets top to bottom and sing very complex lyrics sweetly, on key and with feeling, with very particular phrasing and multi-syllabic (?) words!!

Follow the interplay with my vocals and bass throughout and you will quickly see what I mean, this is not 100% without muffs, but I think it's devoid of out and out clams.

Really love this song, from the much-derided Tormato, which I enjoy! And check out the genius lyrics by Anderson and the twist at the end where he asks his son what he thought of all these supernatural, otherworldly, historical, mythical and miraculous spectacles and the difference between your mind as a child and as an adult and what's important to you.

This phrasing of all these multi-syllable words was brutal!!!
While playing a very difficult bass line. I hope everyone appreciates it :D

Heart of the Sunrise vocals/Yes bass & vocals by Cara
Here's another one of the 3 Yessongs I'm working on. This is probably the easiest, I edited out some instrumental parts because it was 11:41 long but these are all the most difficult to play and they are COMPLETELY ridiculously counterpoint and countermelodies to the main melody I'm trying to sing, so a new level for me!!
 
Still the One vocals/Orleans bass & vocals by Cara
Ok a break from the purely technical songs to a fun one: This song makes me wish I had a band to play this live, great melody and backing vocals, bassline & chords, double guitar lead singer can really get his teeth into this
#orleans #cararickbass #rickenbacker #bass #johnhall
This song makes me wish I had a band to play this live, it has everything, great melody and backing vocals, acapella chorus, great bassline & chords, double guitar lead and it's a song the lead singer can really get his teeth into, lots of hero moments (where you're just on top of everything and you put it OUT there!) If you do have a band and you are still playing out consider adding this your playlist, I guarantee all the little girlies will be out there dancing!

The drummer is Jerry Marotta, brother of Rick Marotta who also played many artists, including the drums on Steely Dan's "Peg"

#orleans #dancewithme #cararickbass #rickenbacker #girlbassist #bass #johnhall #larryhoppen #landehoppen #jerrymarotta
 
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