My wife thinks I talk too much on TB and dont practice enough. She said that!

While the song listed was playing on my PC, she challenged me to learn the bassline. By ear.

"Since I need to brush up on it anyway".

I've got a chord sheet that seems accurate enough I think...and she only agreed to that through me begging :)

Any more suggestions I'm a bit overwhelmed and need a rest :bassist:

My wife thinks I talk too much on TB and dont practice enough. She said that!

While the song listed was playing on my PC, she challenged me to learn the bassline. By ear.

"Since I need to brush up on it anyway".

I've got a chord sheet that seems accurate enough I think...and she only agreed to that through me begging :)

Any more suggestions I'm a bit overwhelmed and need a rest :bassist:

Sounds like you need to listen to your wife and Meatloaf. Over in the Lynn Seaton Pro section of the Double Bass forum there's a good thread on transcibing tunes. It's in a thread called Brain Question.
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Not to rain on anyone's parade but here's my two cents on a method for learning tunes that won't take you ten years to master:

Don't use sheet music or a fake book to begin with. Find a tune where the melody is already familiar to you or that moves slow enough for you to be able to learn it by ear. All The Things You Are is an excellent choice for this.

1) Learn the melody by playing along with a recording ONLY for as long as necessary for you to remember it. Sing it, play it, whistle it in the shower, really internalize it. (It helps to pick a tune you LIKE)

2) Go back to the recording and learn the roots of the chords, again by playing along as long as necessary for you to get it. I suggest doing this in 8 bar chunks.

3) SING the melody and play the roots of the chords simultaneously. This is internalizing the relationship between the top line (melody) and the root motion that it is connected to.

4) If your ears are good enough to be able to transcribe the harmonies, do it. The melody notes will point you in the right direction a lot of the time but you do need to go back to the recording to listen to what is going on between the melody and the roots. If you can't hear the chord types now's the time to break out an accurate fake book (Chuck Sher's books are excellent).

5) Now you can play through the changes as Ed suggests, using the harmonic rhythm of the tune and arpeggiating through each chord change.

6) SING the melody to yourself whenever you play the tune, either in roots, arpeggios, bass lines or soloing.

The idea is to keep your ears involved in the whole process. You will never forget a tune you learn in this manner.

Yes I do :)
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And cool! I know the song pretty well having listened to it lots over the years, so I'll check that article out, put the cheat sheet aside and get to work.

Thanks.