There is a 15 second short on YT that is one the coolest 15 seconds of bass ever laid down.
I am really hoping someone would put it into tab form.
This piece must be mastered, please help out a bass bro…
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Well, transcribing has the most impact if you do it yourself. So, this could be a long-term project for you 
Download the audio, put it into a slower-downer app and have at it - and learn a ton as you do it! You need to learn a lot about technique, phrasing, timing etc along the way in any case.
(That said, there are transcribing services out there that will do it for you if you are willing to pay for it).
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You seem aware that the lessons we learn ourselves often have the greatest impact…
It may come to me doing it myself and if that’s what need be, so be it, but someone good at it can do it in minutes, and just maybe someone will.
Imagine doing this number when your asked to play something, case closed -mike drop…
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I think you’re underestimating the work that goes in to transcription. I would expect transcribing that piece to take hours, not minutes, even for somebody that was well versed in doing transcriptions.
She is doing some super technical stuff. It’s not just about figuring out which notes she’s playing, but how she’s playing them.
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If you slow it down in YouTube, you might even be able to transcribe part of it watching the hands.
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What about that part where she’s moving so fast you can’t see her hands?
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You know, with something like this - I would say don’t even bother trying to transcribe and learn it verbatim.
Instead, analyze and study the video to try and learn from what she did, not what she played, and try to get there with understanding how to freestyle your own line like that. I know I am not there yet (for bass anyway), this isn’t me talking down to anyone.
The magic sauce there isn’t in rote memorization/learning, it’s in fretboard knowledge, either intellectual or instinctive music theory (for the chording), style and technique.
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This^
She is technically super good, but that doesn’t make her a good bassist, or (potentially) a good musician. We don’t know from just this clip…
But you (@jimfhtmcc) are not her. You have to do you, cliché as this may sound. I am trying to come to terms with what my “style” of playing is (that includes my technique, my sound, my preferred licks and patterns, how I pluck, when I get fret buzz and all those idiosyncracies of my playing).
The coach I have has 5 or 6 other students in the same cohort and occasionally we are getting the same assignment (say, playing over a backing track), which we record and submit. Without looking at who sent in which file, the coach says he can easily hear who is playing what after getting to know us for almost a year now. We all have our own “style”, which is influenced by who we like and what we hear, but is still our own style (for better and worse).
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You may be right, however I have seen people who could do this in minutes, perhaps several minutes but not hours. Its clearly a challenging piece but in reality there aren’t all that many notes.
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You could write to Scott’s Bass Lessons if they have a lesson for the piece, or that you’d like one.
If you go for it yourself, try to figure out the key/scale and then define some parts of that piece. I watched it on YT at 0.25x speed and it is surely based on some kind of scale - but it might not be, who knows, perhaps she strung along visual patterns or mixed stuff up. It is a solo piece, after all.
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That’s some quick playin!
Very cool.
If the YouTube with slow down doesn’t help, and if no one here can spare the time to transcribe it… because it’s so short, you might have some pretty affordable luck on fiverr (fivrr??) or one of those strange freelance sites?
I know of them, without having any experience with them, so I can’t recommend it at all with any confidence.
But it’s an option!
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Slowing it down and getting a good look and so far so good. It’s challenging for someone who must a use a tuner to tune, my pitch isn’t perfect…
I’ve been with people who could do it by ear, the kind of people who tell you the note of the honking car.
Hopefully a bass buzz buddy will tab it up then everyone can play with it.
This must be mastered…
OMG it’s only 15 seconds.
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In a moment of weakness, I actually had the dude I linked do a transcription of a song that was just causing a total mental block with me. Took him 3 days and his transcription was flawless so I can at least recommend one guy on Fiverrrrrrrrr.
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It would be good to list that guy here, not only for this but also for the community if you think he’s worthy.
That seems to be the guy.
I haven’t hit the wall yet as I just started on this late last night and today’s a working day, we’ll see how the next while goes
It’s to cool and for me it must be part of the repertoire.
The culture of instant gratification is killing this. First of all like @eric.kiser sais this does not take minutes. Sure minutes to figure it out. Tabbing it is another story. It’d probably takes me 20 minutes to 1 hour to sheet it out but probably double that to tab it because I don’t read tab and you probably don’t read music.
Second, such a person who can “tab” this out in minutes don’t hang out in a learning forums unless they are poaching 
Third, there’s only one technical part on that clip, the descending 16th and it’s pretty textbook just fast and clean. The rest it seems to be just octave double stops, lots of them. Thanks to her being 13 and not developing the brutal taste just yet
The first time I listened it’s so impressive and sounds very technical but after the 4th time the shock value just went away. It’s just a collection of double stops and a 16th fill.
I’m probably a little more experienced than you and I can figure that out I’m sure you can breakdown this one in a day since it seems like you probably spent hours listening to this 15 seconds.
How about this one. This is more impressive that that and is only about a minute
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How much did it cost?
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About $60-80 per song with video less than half without. It’s charge by minute and complexity. I don’t go there on easy pieces
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What level of difficulty would you say the 15 second piece is?
Could and would you do it and post it here for everyone?
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