"THE FISH (SCHINDLERIA PRAEMATURIS)"

CHRIS SQUIRE IS one of the most innovative and distinctive bassists in rock history, revered for crafting tasteful, intricate melodic lines that perfectly complemented Yes’ ambitious arrangements, and also for aggressively attacking his roundwound strings with a heavy pick and cranking an early-Sixties four-string Rickenbacker through a Marshall Super Bass tube amp to achieve a bright yet deep and growly tone.

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On this bass extravaganza, Squire overdubbed a series of repeating figures, or loops, creating a dramatically escalating flow of musical intensity. The track begins with a melodic motif in meter, for which the bassist plays a sequence of ascending perfect 4th intervals as 12thand 7th-fret natural harmonics (N.H.) across all four strings, establishing an intriguing Em7add4 tonality. Notice his use of a wah pedal for the Bass 2 part and how he rhythmically rocks it forward on eac