I like them too, unfortunately they only include tab and not notation. I have expressed my displeasure with the owner(s) and have been told they are working on it. Meanwhile, I have to manually convert the tab of the song I want to notation so I can play it.
Even some of their tabs are not 100%.
Good starting point but then as @Lanny has pointed out try and trust your ears
Constantine Isslamow has a great Youtube channel that has downloadable bass transcriptions in both tab and notation (for those that want to read music).
Hereâs the problem I am having⌠I have purchased music and look for stuff online. I am seeing the same song or bass riff noted several different ways. Is this common? Itâs a little frustrating.
Very common:
Welcome aboard @pywacketfrog,
Enjoy the ride,
Con has great transcriptions on his website, I have recently used his
Transcript of âSeasons in the sunâ & âAngel of Harlemâ https://bilgerats.billlanahan.com/2020/12/13/angel-of-harlem/https://bilgerats.billlanahan.com/2020/12/02/seasons-in-the-sun/
Cheers Brian
You can check them out here
OK, so I guess these are the two separate links that got combined in @TNKA36â post:
https://bilgerats.billlanahan.com/2020/12/13/angel-of-harlem/
https://bilgerats.billlanahan.com/2020/12/02/seasons-in-the-sun/
Constantineâs YouTube is AMAZING, and I just love that guy.
He is so passionate about doing what he does, and he is a machine and has zillions of tabs of all tastes.
I have found some pretty good stuff on Florainbass and Greg Fairweather on YouTube as well.
Everyone else seems to have diminishing accuracy or smaller catalogs, etc.
Harry - Music & Stuff and Cover Solutions are my favorite youtube channels for bass tutorials with tabs. Itâs nice because you can verify that their tab sounds accurate by listening to them play it along with the original track.
Each of them also has a cheap Patreon where you can download their tab archives as PDF or Guitar Pro.
Second Cover Solutions, generally people on youtube do a better job then the tab sites in my experience because they get direct feedback if they get something wrong. That being said I like songsterr solely because it has rhythm with the tab which is nice, but the tabs themselves can be hit or miss, usually the more popular a song the safer it is to use.
I like this channel, because he does tabs, notation, AND fretboard as well. Also like his choice of songs to cover. Harryâs looks good too. I donât like that Cover Solutions doesnât have notation.
Thought it was time to resurrect this threadâŚ
Although I use a couple different transcription applications to create my bass lines, there have been a few Intermediate to Advanced songs that I needed a bit of help withâŚâŚ For those songs, I have been double checking my transcriptions with Greg Fairweather.
Greg was a cruise bassist (kinda like our b2b teacher @JoshFossgreen), and is from Canada. Heâs not a âteacherâ, but his passion is in âtranscriptionsâ.
I have shared information with Greg (who also has a website) and we both use the same transcription tools.
Whatâs even cooler is the fact that he actually plays his transcriptions on his YouTube channel so you can hear and see what he doesâŚ. Not only that, he will actually reply to you personally with any questions, comments, or whateverâŚ. A true cool dude⌠AND has a really good bass ear - especially useful to someone like myself who is still developing theirsâŚ
He takes requests for transcriptions, but only does 3-4 per week, and if he doesnât wanna do a request transcription, he will reply back and say that he wonât do it - mostly because it might not be something that heâs not comfortable doingâŚ. (He draws the line)âŚ
He does charge for his transcriptions, bit his transcriptions are in either âMusic Noteâ or âMusic Note and Tabâ form so that anyone who reads either note or tab can download his transcriptionsâŚ
Price is either $3 or $4 per song depending on the difficultyâŚ. A small price to pay for more accurate tabs and sheet musicâŚ.
Oh, Iâm not advertising for Greg or anything, itâs just that sometimes some of us wanna move further into our bass playing journey and need other avenues to use in order to expand our talentsâŚ.
Keep On Thumpinâ!
Lanny
That is crazy cheap for a full transcription, wow!
Very cool guy!
I came across Aidan Hampsonâs website. He has been doing transcriptions for several years, and got great reviews at TalkBass, back when he started offering them for free (at the time; he now charges for his songbooks in .pdf format). The TalkBass responses give high reviews for accuracy.
The âAboutâ page at his online store says:
âPlayBassLines where you can find bass transcriptions of classic rock, RnB, Jazz, blues bass lines and solos in standard notation and bass tabs.â
Examples (prices as of today):
- James Jamerson - 14 classic basslines from the Funk Brother, $15
- Leland Sklar - 9 songs, $15
- Bundles, such as âJazz Bundleâ - comprised of 4 separate collections (singly, $15 each): Best of The Jazz Masters, Vol. 1 (5 songs), Miles Davis âKind of Blueâ (5 songs), Herbie Hancock (11 songs), Frank Sinatra (11 songs), $45
- Kate Bush - 10 songs, $15
And many more (Queen, Abba, Prince, Frank Zappa, Earth Wind & Fire, Aretha, New Wave, Bowie, Incubus, Green Day, 70âs Funk, âBlues, Rock & Country,â Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beatles, Garth Brooks, Guns & Roses, etc.).
What a great collection he has. Problem I have is that so many of his âbooksâ have 1 or 2 songs Iâm interested in, and 10-12 that Iâm not. I really wish there was a way to pick and choose - like a âCreate your own collectionâ. I may buy a couple of them though⌠Thanks for the link.
I had written to him about the âCreate your ownâ collection and he said he was willing to do something like that - he sells the songs individually for about $4 each and figured he could do a bulk price⌠I donât know what that âbulk priceâ is yet, but I assume it will be more than the $15/book that he charges for his âofficialâ collections. Just FYI for anyone who may have been interestedâŚ
Hal Leonard website have many songbooks as a digital version.
Mainly I use their books and sheetmusicdirect.com
define âgoodâ? most of the free user submitted sites will have tabs that work with a song⌠they may or may not be album accurate. Good example is one of my first covers-Coheed and Cambria: A Favour House Atlantic. Songster has a tab that sounds good at first listenâŚtracks the rythem guitar and chugs 8th notes like any good pop punk song should⌠but if you run the song through any track separator, the bass part is Waaaay more complicated. many sonsgter tabs will also have open strings noted when the song actually uses 5th fret; several tabs are notated in 1st position rather than 7th fret area. They can be a good starting point, but i would not trust in them.