Glad you like the Oils…been a great Oz band for years. I learned a bit of this song…not easy to keep consistent is it?? I think its like 13x for that riff. I use it for a warm up quite often.
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It’s one of the toughest covers I’ve done, but I’m proud to have pulled it off.
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Bass and piano for “Water Me”. (154.5 KB PDF)
From the album, Cuz I Love You, by Lizzo. Ricky Reed is the bass player. I am mainly interested in the bass line. I just added the piano for context. You can “play” the transcription from the MuseScore web site, but there is a better rendering of it in my SoundCloud account. FWIW, I scored it in MuseScore, exported it as a MIDI file, loaded that into Ableton Live, exported it as a .wav file, then uploaded that to SoundCloud.
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Here’s a transcription for “Go” by The Chemical Brothers. Simple but a bit challenging due to the 120bpm tempo and 16th notes. The slide in the 8th measure is probably a synth and not bass guitar, but I included it because it sounds cool played as a double stop on the bass. Similarly, the bass in the “Chorus” after the percussion break sounds like a synth cello, and the “Break (synth)” is definitely a synth bass, but I included them anyway. It’s also available on MuseScore.
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Thanks, this should be a fun 16th note exercise.
Used to listen to a lot of Chemical Brothers back in the day… Block Rockin Beats is still one of my favourite songs.
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Here’s my first transcription attempt. My wife really likes Olympian by Gene so I thought I’d have a go at learning it for her. It’s obscure enough that I couldn’t find any transcriptions or tabs out there but rather than giving up I decided I should try to work it out. I think the tab might have a few odd choices (I keep changing my mind about bits of it) but the notation is hopefully not too far off.
I think the tempo might actually be half what I show on the transcription with all the notes halved too (and every two bars smooshed together) but I only realised this quite late in the day and couldn’t face rewriting the whole thing given it wouldn’t actually change what I play.
Olympian.pdf (148.2 KB)
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I transcribed 49 short, repetitive bass phrases from various artists to both standard notation and tablature as the score, Basso Ostinati.pdf. You can also access it on MuseScore.
It’s mostly rock but has some jazz and reggae. All electric bass except one double bass. You can play it within MuseScore, but the player has problems. For example, it doesn’t play slides or ghost notes, and portamento is played incorrectly. Also, you can’t represent hammer-ons and pull-offs in MuseScore, but they’re rare in this collection.
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Thanks for this. Very appreciated. 
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How about a shared Google Drive folder?
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I think you can just attach a file to a post. A pdf should work fine.
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Cool
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Solved a while ago
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This is my first transcription of 2023. The bass for Stray Cat Strut was originally played by Lee Rocker on an upright, but it can just as easily be played on bass guitar.
Stray Cat Strut.pdf (404.2 KB)
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Here’s my latest attempt - How Far I’ll Go from Moana but with added Scary Pockets funk.
How Far I’ll Go.pdf (124.9 KB)
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…apart from, obviously, the very last note should be A flat.
sigh.
Just pretend that’s what it says.
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Here is the theme from the original Inspector Gadget cartoon. I did this one a while back. Still making tweaks on it every now and then. Would love and welcome any suggestions.
Inspector Gadget-Bass_Guitar.pdf (62.4 KB)
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Does anyone have Dogstar bass tabs? I can’t find them anywhere…