Hey all. I play a mm30th at home with a 300w GK 15, (2)10's. Just practicing now, but maybe eventually migrate towards a band, (although the 3 kids take up alot of time). I have a very diverse musical taste. 15 years ago I played in a metallica cover band. never amounted to much though. As I've gotten older (an wiser) I'm really into the 60's and 70's soul/R&B. some mustang sally, superstition,jamesbrown, commodores, etc... anyway, I'm looking to get some tabs for some other stuff. Kiss, eltonjohn,hueylewis,clapton,grandfunkrailroad, etc. I've heard I can find this through hal leonard, but I haven't been able too. How do all of you get some "quality" music for you songs. thanks,,Jim
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99 percent of the tabs you will ever find are wrong.
Most of the songs you listed are best gotten by ear.
I don't know of a source of notation for it all and I read when I can.
Welcome back to bass playing.
Hopefully someone here can get you what you need to get going good again.
tk
Most of the songs you listed are best gotten by ear.
I don't know of a source of notation for it all and I read when I can.
Welcome back to bass playing.
Hopefully someone here can get you what you need to get going good again.
tk
silverburst
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I have found alot of tabs on the web. tk is right, alot of them are not correct. But they can get you pretty close, and you can figure the rest of it out.
ultimate-guitar.com has some stuff that can get you going.
ultimate-guitar.com has some stuff that can get you going.
Aussie Mark
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This site has some good (free) transcriptions (not tab) in .pdf. Lots of great funk and Motown/Stax tunes, plus some classic rock.
Scott F Bass Place -Acceuil-
Scott F Bass Place -Acceuil-
asianjeff
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I like to use Bass Tabs - Over 56,000 Tabs - Remember, most of them are wrong, when I use them, I just use them as guidelines, and the rest comes from listening to the song carefully.
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jamesattard
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although i'm young compared to you (so i hope i won't sound arrogant!) i really advise you to learn them by ear. i just got the whole Tower of Power discography and i want to learn a couple of albums by mid-summer just by ear. i'm sure it will be a fun learning experience. i might even post some vids on youtube in fact. my scope is to get used to my new hand technique - resting the thumb between the neck and the pickup (i.e. on the body) to hit the E string, and moving the whole hand downwards to hit the other strings (floating hand technique). Rocco's 16th note technique will be a good exercise to get used to this thumb rest technique.
Good luck!
Good luck!
tadawson
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powertabs.net - your friendly guitar, bass, and other instrument tablature and music community . . . not only do you get a pretty decent set of tabs, the tool lets you do your own, and unlike a lot of the crappy text based stuff, Powertabs also gives you the complete score . . . .
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Actually most bass lesson books will contain a few songs or get you to understanding the chords to the point of being able to hear what to play.
Ed Friedland's bass grooves book had plenty of notation in it.
Also his Blues book has all that good stuff in it to read.
That said almost every new song I have to learn to cover is done by ear.
I would rather take a guitar chord chart and create the line than play those lousy tabbed out parts.
the just me
tk
Ed Friedland's bass grooves book had plenty of notation in it.
Also his Blues book has all that good stuff in it to read.
That said almost every new song I have to learn to cover is done by ear.
I would rather take a guitar chord chart and create the line than play those lousy tabbed out parts.
the just me
tk
nashman
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Another option for consideration is to buy TABs that are more likely correct relative to the free stuff on the Internet. I bought several tab books with CD's that also came with PC software called "The Amazing Slow Downer" .... the book contains the tab for each song, plus 2 music files on CD - with and without the bass line. The software lets you slow down and speed up the song to aid in learning.
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Music Dispatch
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thanks. i know that alot of the web stuff isn't correct, ive used them before. but your right about getting you in the right direction. i"ve corrected alot of them alreaady. sometimes its hard to here everything though. try playing son of a preacher man by ear, and then look at how it really is played. I would never have figured it out. My bassplayer magazine helps also. the bassist for my wedding band once told me that 9 times out of 10 a bassists will play the same song differently everytime they play it, so don't worry about copying exactly how it sounds. It probably would have sounded different if they recorded another day. Hopefully thats true
thanks. i know that alot of the web stuff isn't correct, ive used them before. but your right about getting you in the right direction. i"ve corrected alot of them alreaady. sometimes its hard to here everything though. try playing son of a preacher man by ear, and then look at how it really is played. I would never have figured it out. My bassplayer magazine helps also. the bassist for my wedding band once told me that 9 times out of 10 a bassists will play the same song differently everytime they play it, so don't worry about copying exactly how it sounds. It probably would have sounded different if they recorded another day. Hopefully thats true
Aussie Mark
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I'm not sure if anyone bothered to click the link I posted, but it has NOTATION, not tabs, in .pdf format, with tons of funk, soul and "real" R&B tunes.
It never came up for me Mark. Probably something that is blocked on my network. I am the guy that does that 
My son is home after being away. I the old man reads and can play what I read.
He says to me dad music is all what you feel.
He is as right as I ever was. Those notes on paper are only good if you can read and feel them.
Music is timing and finding the groove is more important than always palying the right ntote.
That is what has lead to those horrible tabs acutually.
Music that rocks can't be dumbed down. It rocks.
Tab is the dumbing down of learning to hear or read and play in my opinion.
My son is me when I was young.
He and I do disagree on anything and music is one of them. Yet we both get there.
imho
tk
My son is home after being away. I the old man reads and can play what I read.
He says to me dad music is all what you feel.
He is as right as I ever was. Those notes on paper are only good if you can read and feel them.
Music is timing and finding the groove is more important than always palying the right ntote.
That is what has lead to those horrible tabs acutually.
Music that rocks can't be dumbed down. It rocks.
Tab is the dumbing down of learning to hear or read and play in my opinion.
My son is me when I was young.
He and I do disagree on anything and music is one of them. Yet we both get there.
imho
tk
1Echo
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Tabs on the net tend to be hit or miss. Still, I've found that if you can't get it off of Fresh Tabs : Guitar, Bass, Guitar pro and Power tabs then there's a good chance you can't get it.
However, if you're looking for books of transcriptions then try BassBooks.com. The more books you buy at once, the bigger the discount!
However, if you're looking for books of transcriptions then try BassBooks.com. The more books you buy at once, the bigger the discount!
