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Originally Posted by ArticulatedFeel  Any genre is fine. Most of the music I normally listen to is far to hard. I know it may be best to just dive into it but I kinda want something that I could practice on. Any suggestions?
I've only been playing for roughly 4 or so months |
If you have only been playing bass for 4 months -- define transcribe. Are you wanting to transcribe the melody line or the bass line? If you want to end up with a bass line.
1) See if Google can find you some lead sheet or fake chord sheet music for the song.
2) Once you have the chords used in the song - then decide how you want to play them, i.e.......
Root nothing changing with the chord changes.
Root - 5 changing with the chord changes.
Chord tones changing with the chord changes.
C chord R-3-5-3
C7 chord R-3-5-b7
Cm chord R-b3-5-b3
Cm7 chord R-3-5-7
Write out your bass line riff you decide will work best with each chord.
That's hard enough, hunt for a chord progression and then build your bass line from there.
This will help with the what the chord tones are.
http://www.looknohands.com/chordhous.../index_rb.html For example:
Ask it to give you the chord tone spelling for Cdim7 and you get the following.
intervals: 1,b3,b5,bb7
notes: C,Eb,Gb,Bbb
Then decide if you need all of that for the song or if a C nothing will work. Up to you.
Good luck.
