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This is one of my favorite Beethoven pieces.

Here's one the author refers to as "straight forward",
which will work with standard tuning,
but he's not catching nearly all the chordal possibilities.

[url="http://www.accentonmusic.com/tabs/FurElise.pdf"]http://www.accentonmusic.com/tabs/FurElise.pdf[/url]

You'll get further by using the standard notation
and eliminating some of the octaves.

Here's a few sources for that:
[url="http://www.mfiles.co.uk/scores/Fur-Elise.pdf"]http://www.mfiles.co.uk/scores/Fur-Elise.pdf[/url]
[url="http://www.harmonytalk.com/download/FurElise.pdf"]http://www.harmonytalk.com/download/FurElise.pdf[/url]
[url="http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/beethoven/FurElise-WoO59.pdf"]http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/bee...Elise-WoO59.pdf[/url]


Can you catch the 4th octave of the A minor arpeggio movement on your 7?
It can't be done on a 4...
(I've been faking it for years)
:)


If you look around on the web,
you can find tabs for Stu Hamm's version of "Moonlight Sonata".

Edited by GonzoBass
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Another thought on this one:

You might want to do a search at [url="http://www.activebass.com"]ActiveBass.com[/url] by clicking on "lessons" and entering "Fur Elise".
There are a few versions posted there with the cool option of hearing the midi track played back with various speeds and tones.
(You can search for your other classical pieces there too!)

Keep in mind that these are user posts.
So the level of accuracy miiiiight vary.
:)


I hope this helps!

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  • 4 weeks later...

I've been doing this on 4 string recently.

I picked up a book called 'The Classical Fake Book'. It's out there as a pdf file..... I haven't done a lot with it, but I have transposed Bach's 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' into bass clef and played with the arrangement a little. Not much tapping, just playing it straight. Great sight-reading practice. I may take other pieces and re-arrange them/transpose.

There's book of Bach bass transciptions which I bought also - I'm playing the Prelude in G major, again very straight, no tapping. Can't remember who it's written by at the moment...type 'j.s. bach for bass' into googl;e and you'll get it. Essentially I think the author took the cello suites and changed a couple of notes here and there.

Hope that helps.

Pete

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