Industry Standard Bass Transcription Nomenclature?

[Jay Terrien]

Is there such a thing as an "industry standard transcription nomenclature" for the electric bass?

I am writing some new compositions using SIBELIUS and I want to make sure that my notation takes in account the preferred way that most readers/bassists want to view their music and fingerings.

Please feel free to post examples/links to the musical transcriptions of Primus, Victor Wooten, or any other music that features "advanced" bass playing techniques that are 100% accurate as well as representing what most players can read and easily understand. I am curious to see if there is a consensus amongst publishers/players in the ways that they notate advanced techniques and fingerings (T, P, X, S, Harmonics, Tunings, etc.).

Thanks!

Jay Terrien

[thelibster]

Have a look at some of the bass charts on my site. (Go to the basslines section). They are fairly stock standard. You don't generally include fingerings unless you specifically want something played somewhere - for example if you definitely want an open string.

I think that most of the newer techniques are really too recent to have resulted in standard nomenclature - so if you have to notate something out of the ordinary like a double or triple pop, then you have to describe it in the chart. No-one would be able to read it otherwise as even if there is an existing symbol for it, it's unlikely that the player would recognise it or be able to read it.

Things like T, P, S and H are pretty standard though, along with X for ghost notes on the appropriate strings.


Cheers,

The Libster

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[Jay Terrien]

Awesome, that's what I'm talking about!!

It's the double, triple, and quad pops and other types of 32nd note ghost fills that need to be notated accurately.

Originally Posted by thelibster

Have a look at some of the bass charts on my site. (Go to the basslines section). They are fairly stock standard. You don't generally include fingerings unless you specifically want something played somewhere - for example if you definitely want an open string.

I think that most of the newer techniques are really too recent to have resulted in standard nomenclature - so if you have to notate something out of the ordinary like a double or triple pop, then you have to describe it in the chart. No-one would be able to read it otherwise as even if there is an existing symbol for it, it's unlikely that the player would recognise it or be able to read it.

Things like T, P, S and H are pretty standard though, along with X for ghost notes on the appropriate strings.


Cheers,

The Libster

bass.thelibster.com
Reading Lessons, Chord Theory Lessons, Bass Lines, Transcriptions, mp3s