Nick80 Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 (edited) Please help! I'm trying to learn the bassline to this song, does anyone have a transcription? The latest issue of Bass Player has a transcription of the chorus but I'm struggling to work out the rest. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Nick. Edited September 23, 2007 by Nick80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hit&Run Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 I can't help you out, but would like to know (about a transcription) as it's a sweet line in a killer song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeward2004 Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 I can help you out with this as we cover this with Project13 - I didnt use a transcription, just did it by ear but can tell you what I do. Im crap at writing tab so listen to the record to get the rythm and sound out the notes I write out here, it will all become clearer: The song starts with that funky slide, followed by 3 notes leading into the verse parts - A, Ab, A#,B Verse: B, A, B, C#,D, G, G Octave, G, E, A, B And so on so forth - the whole song is fairly easy once you have the notes down, the challenge I found was getting the feel and note lengths spot on - obviously you will never get the song to sound like it does on record because you will never sound like Marcus Miller, but you can get close to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 When I transcribe tracks, I usually put the whole track up an octave and slow it down - I find the bass comes through clearer that way. Just a note to some of the guys having trouble with transcriptions and you a need a quick fix, see if there are any quality versions of the track you are looking at in .mid format (midi files) - get a decent player, mute all tracks apart from the bass and that should give you at least a starting point. Of course, I wouldn't recommend this as the be all and end all as the quality of midi files can vary alot. Anybody else care to share any transcribing tips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey D Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 [quote name='EBS_freak' post='84911' date='Nov 7 2007, 01:55 PM']Anybody else care to share any transcribing tips?[/quote] Be able to sing it first, even if it is just a bit at a time. Get transcribe or some that can slow the track down and personally i write the rhythm out first as I can do that no problem once i can sing it. The notes are the hard part! I just take i in phrases and try and play it. Once it is right I will write the notes into the rhythm. Of course sometimes, I don't write things down, then I just work on a phrase at a time playing it along with the recording. TOP TIP: Get ear training into your practice routine and transcibing (which is obviously part of it aswell...isn't it!?) will be much easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chardbass Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 I have a bass part I did for this- I'll try and dig it out and post it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chardbass Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 (edited) [quote name='chardbass' post='85755' date='Nov 9 2007, 12:54 AM']I have a bass part I did for this- I'll try and dig it out and post it here.[/quote] I hope this isn't breaching any copyright. I asked the man himself about how he counted the bars after the chorus. Apparently Marcus counted the opening bar as a 5/4 bar with the slide being beat 1. The round and round repeat at the end is edited for the version we did- the original is a fade. Edited November 12, 2007 by chardbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chardbass Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 (edited) If you need TAB I've done a quick job on this- it's a guide (as is all TAB) Edited November 12, 2007 by chardbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick80 Posted November 10, 2007 Author Share Posted November 10, 2007 Wow forgot to check this topic, thanks everyone for your input and thanks chardbass for the tab! Great stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chardbass Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 [quote name='Nick80' post='86578' date='Nov 10 2007, 06:37 PM']Wow forgot to check this topic, thanks everyone for your input and thanks chardbass for the tab! Great stuff![/quote] You're welcome. Attachments now removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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