Abba - Dancing Queen HELP!

[nick]

Hi All,

I have an audition in a few days and one of the songs I need to learn is 'Dancing Queen'!

Think I nailed other 7 songs on my list to (to what I think to be) a fairly competant level, but for some reason I'm having difficulty picking out everything the bass player's doing on this last song - might be due to the production, Hi-Fi speakers or even my cloth ears!

Was wondering if anyone may have a tab, chart or even Midi file for this song, they'd be willing to share...

Thanks for any help.

[terryblyth]

Hope this helps

[nick]

[quote name='terryblyth' post='330332' date='Nov 16 2008, 10:52 PM']Hope this helps [/quote]

Many thanks Terry - it does, though I cant sight read :blush:
Will work through it tonight & try to knock a tab together.
Of all the Abba songs there doesn't seem to a tab on the net for Dancing Queen.
There's quite a lot going on as well, isn't there.

For some reason, the stereo in my car picks up the bassline on this track quite well.
So I will have playalong to it on the backseat!

Thanks again

[stevie]

[quote name='nick' post='330876' date='Nov 17 2008, 06:25 PM']Of all the Abba songs there doesn't seem to a tab on the net for Dancing Queen.
There's quite a lot going on as well, isn't there.[/quote]

Put this into Google and you'll get loads of them: "dancing queen" "bass tab"

[stevie]

If you want to hear what a sh*t hot covers band sounds like, follow the link in Terry's sig to 'beneath the covers'.
Simply stunning!

[nick]

[quote name='stevie' post='330951' date='Nov 17 2008, 07:41 PM']If you want to hear what a sh*t hot covers band sounds like, follow the link in Terry's sig to 'beneath the covers'.
Simply stunning![/quote]

That is very good. I agree - quality, but these aren't your typical run-of-the-mill pub covers band.

[quote name='stevie' post='330949' date='Nov 17 2008, 07:39 PM']Put this into Google and you'll get loads of them: "dancing queen" "bass tab"[/quote]

There are loads of tabs/chords for guitar, but this is the only bass tab I could find, which is also duplicated on couple of other sites. I don't think it's correct.
[url="http://www.911tabs.com/link/?328335"]Abba - Dancing Queen[/url]

No worries though, from a combination of Terry's excellent notation & endlessly listening to it on my car stereo I think I've (hopefully) now got it to to a near reasonable level of playing. Sounds nice played on P-Bass with flats.
Very muddy & unclear production on the original though isn't it?

Cheers

Edited November 17, 2008 by nick

[Sean]

Some more help if anyone needs it is [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLu0V8FDUw"]here...[/url]

Not perfect but it's a good help as you can hear him over the mix.

[stevie]

[quote name='nick' post='331062' date='Nov 17 2008, 09:48 PM']There are loads of tabs/chords for guitar, but this is the only bass tab I could find, which is also duplicated on couple of other sites. I don't think it's correct.
[url="http://www.911tabs.com/link/?328335"]Abba - Dancing Queen[/url]

Very muddy & unclear production on the original though isn't it?[/quote]
Sorry 'bout that. I just saw the number of hits - I didn't actually look closely at them.

The bass is indistinct on the original album but it's a lot louder on the Abba Gold compilation and relatively easy to make out. That probably doesn't help you much though.

Edited November 17, 2008 by stevie

[Sean]

If you download this pdf to music software which is free, it'll play the pdf bass line solo. You can slow it down too.

[url="http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/pdftomusic.htm"]http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/pdftomusic.htm[/url]

[nick]

[quote name='Sean' post='331103' date='Nov 17 2008, 10:33 PM']Some more help if anyone needs it is [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLu0V8FDUw"]here...[/url]

Not perfect but it's a good help as you can hear him over the mix.[/quote]

Thanks for that. He does some nice little run on the E-String at one point that I just couldn't make it out on the original.

[quote name='Sean' post='331161' date='Nov 17 2008, 11:24 PM']If you download this pdf to music software which is free, it'll play the pdf bass line solo. You can slow it down too.

[url="http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/pdftomusic.htm"]http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/pdftomusic.htm[/url][/quote]

That's quite a handy tool, thanks again for your help Sean. Think I've nailed the song now - just got to keep it in my head!
Still got to get round to learning to sight read. Promised myself, I'd finally get round to doing it over next year.

Cheers

Edited November 17, 2008 by nick

[terryblyth]

Thanks for the kind words about the band - funnily enough, from this week I'm stopping running it (although I'll still be playing bass)

A quick word about the transcription - it's very "note-y", and in reality it doesn't need to be that detailed. I was only originally intending to do a lead-sheet (it was a first dance request for a gay wedding) but the playing on it was so tasty I thought I'd try to get all the little nuances in.

If anybody is looking at this thinking "I'll never be able to read this" then don't panic - 90% of written music isn't that involved - particularly that little 32nd note run on the first page! I just started something and thought I may as well carry on the rest of the piece like that.

If anybody has the first ever issue of Bassist magazine, I remember there being a transcription in that which drew a fair amount of criticism at the time for being an ABBA piece. It was the first in a series of A-Z bass lines. If anybody still has that, it's likely that would have had TAB underneath it.