As the title says, i would like to learn how to play the “melody” part of the song Free by Ultra Nate. I found guitar tabs on songster, i tried to do it by myself but i was not really successful . I tried to feed the tabs to chat GPT but his version did not satisfy me neither . The picture is from the guitar tab, basically that part that interests me. Im pretty sure its possible, thats why im asking experts for help. Thank you in advance. Also, if i posted this in wrong subforum, im sorry
I think he wants to play the guitar part on bass.
Do you have a guitar?
That would be easiest. ie work out the notes and directly transfer them- these are about 2 octave higher than on your bass tho.
Yes exactly thats what i want, to play the guitar part on the bass… well, when i tried it didnt really work out, maybe i did something wrong and i dont have a guitar
It’ll be a little annoying to map out, but it’s easy enough. I recommend trying to keep the lines in the same sort of boxes which will mean moving everything down all together. Use the octaves. I.e. the first note is a C# on the G string which I’d move to the A string (4th fret of course). The thing to know to make this work is that the octaves on strings 1 (e) and 2 (B) of the guitar work similar to the bass, but instead of moving 2 frets back you move 3. So the next note which is fret 8 on the e is 5 on the G followed by moving the 6 on the B is 3 on the D.
Basically what @ScottDeeg said. The lower four strings are EADG, just like bass, so no changes needed. Then, for a basic start:
The next string up is B, which instead of being a fourth up from G is just a third. So, you have two good choices for that string - you can add four frets to them and play them on the G string, or add two frets to them and play them on the A string an octave low.
Same goes for the high E string - play it two octaves low as-is on the low E string, or one octave low by adding two frets and playing it on the D string.
In all cases the bass will be an additional octave lower than the guitar, of course.
The effect of all this is sometimes you will go down to a note instead of going up in pitch, but that usually will sound good even though it’s technically different than the original.
You also aren’t restricted to this method - it’s just the easiest general conversion strategy. You could also determine what notes are being played and play them anywhere else on the fretboard that you like; I just gave a general easy way to convert to get started. There will often be better choices and open string options.
I was thinking to play it higher on the neck because i have not much experience playing there and it could help me upgrade my skills and confidence. At the moment for my better understanding, if i play G on 12th fret on the G string, that would be actually higher than the G on the guitar right?
If you move everything to the bottom 4 strings using the octaves, down two strings and down 2 frets for EADG and 3 frets for Be, you will have an exact mapping of the song, just lower in pitch. (We’ll just go with the assumption the tab is correct ) If you want it to be higher you can then move the entire thing up 12 frets. You’ll still be down an octave from the 6 string guitar, but you are playing bass after all so that’s all good. Main thing is you can play it either way, lower or higher, along with the song and it’ll “sound right” because the notes are all the same and in the same relationship to each other.
You could just transpose the notes on the B and e strings and leave the others. This would be note correct, but the result will likely sound wrong. For example: the first 2 notes are C# moving to C which you could play as the 6th fret on the G string moving to the 5th fret. Musically correct, and also groovy in its own way, but likely not the feel you want. This is why I’d at least start with moving the entire thing and then maybe mixing and matching later.
Thank you very much, i will try to figure out something, might do some experimenting and if i will be happy with results i might post them later but i guess it will take me weeks if not months until i will get to it haha
. I tried to feed the tabs to chat GPT but his version did not satisfy me neither 
. The picture is from the guitar tab, basically that part that interests me. Im pretty sure its possible, thats why im asking experts for help. Thank you in advance. Also, if i posted this in wrong subforum, im sorry
) If you want it to be higher you can then move the entire thing up 12 frets. You’ll still be down an octave from the 6 string guitar, but you are playing bass after all so that’s all good. Main thing is you can play it either way, lower or higher, along with the song and it’ll “sound right” because the notes are all the same and in the same relationship to each other.