Am I the only one looking for country?

PolgaraXI · #1 09-24-2010, 08:28 PM

Not having much luck finding tabs or sheet music for country songs. I need People Are Crazy by Billy Currington, Gunpowder and Lead by Miranda Lambert, Cowboy Casanova by Carrie Underwood, etc etc. I have found tabs for the very simple songs out there, but these are much more complicated. I have tried to transcribe by ear, but it is VERY slow going. If anyone out there can help, please let me know. I would even be willing to buy sheet music for bass guitar, I just can't find it anywhere.

Folmeister · #2 09-27-2010, 11:15 AM

Nope, you are not alone. I mostly stick to those vocal/piano/guitar song books to give me the chord roots and then work from there or just use my ear. "Gunpowder and Lead" is very simple, just G - F - C. "Cowboy Casanova" is slightly more complicated in Dm. If you want tabs try:

http://www.countrytabs.com/

http://www.allcountrytabs.com/

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/

http://country-tabs.net/

guitardefector · #3 09-27-2010, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by PolgaraXI

Not having much luck finding tabs or sheet music for country songs. I need People Are Crazy by Billy Currington, Gunpowder and Lead by Miranda Lambert, Cowboy Casanova by Carrie Underwood, etc etc. I have found tabs for the very simple songs out there, but these are much more complicated. I have tried to transcribe by ear, but it is VERY slow going. If anyone out there can help, please let me know. I would even be willing to buy sheet music for bass guitar, I just can't find it anywhere.

I hear you! That's about as rare as seeing a photo of a bassplayer in Rolling Stone magazine. Thanks for the links to the previous member!!! I love country but tend to favor old-school like George Jones, Willie & Waylon, Hank, etc...But if anyone has sheet music to Montgomery Gentry bass stuff, I'd gladly buy it from you???

**Staccato** · #4 09-27-2010, 11:49 AM

For Country basics, get a copy of Keith Rosier's, The Lost Art of Country Bass w/ CD.

For tabs or practice, get a CD version of Guitar Pro, and visit 911 Tabs for many, many, all-free Guitar Pro downloads, or other sites like Ultimate Guitar for Guitar Pro downloads.

(Of course, regular tabs are available on those sites, too!)

wshines1892 · #5 09-27-2010, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by PolgaraXI

Not having much luck finding tabs or sheet music for country songs. I need People Are Crazy by Billy Currington, Gunpowder and Lead by Miranda Lambert, Cowboy Casanova by Carrie Underwood, etc etc. I have found tabs for the very simple songs out there, but these are much more complicated. I have tried to transcribe by ear, but it is VERY slow going. If anyone out there can help, please let me know. I would even be willing to buy sheet music for bass guitar, I just can't find it anywhere.

It's just the root and the fifth

guitardefector · #6 09-27-2010, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by wshines1892

It's just the root and the fifth

Yeaahhh...........right??? Are you from the Chris Squire/Geddy Lee/Jaco worship group?

Sho-Bud · #7 09-28-2010, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by PolgaraXI

Not having much luck finding tabs or sheet music for country songs. I need People Are Crazy by Billy Currington...
...I have tried to transcribe by ear, but it is VERY slow going. If anyone out there can help, please let me know. I would even be willing to buy sheet music for bass guitar, I just can't find it anywhere.

Ok People Are Crazy, in F. It has a 6m in it. That's all you need to know to play that song on bass.

Assuming you know the Number System and know that a 6m in a six minor. In F that would be a Dm.

jp58 · #8 09-30-2010, 12:49 AM

Often enough, if I'm playing country, I make up a bassline based off of the rhythm guitarist.

PolgaraXI · #9 12-11-2010, 09:11 PM

Ok, I have just spent 3 hours going over all of those sites and none of them had the songs I am looking for...

Seven6 · #10 12-13-2010, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by guitardefector

Yeaahhh...........right??? Are you from the Chris Squire/Geddy Lee/Jaco worship group?

+1

There is a pattern to a lot of it but that can be said of a many types of musical genre. Online tab is scarce it seems IME.

Check out the latest Bass Player's latest mag 'Play Bass!'...in stores now. Sorry, I can't find a month or issue number.

It contains a great article for country cord cues etc. by Ed Friedland. This may help with walkups that are outside of the I V.

jeepin_jer1 · #11 12-19-2010, 04:22 PM

To anyone looking for country bass tabs, I joined a country band earlier this year and have been tabing the songs as I go to share with other bass players. I too have been searching for good country bass tab and never find any. I may post up a list of what I have done later.
Let me know what your lookin for!

jeepin_jer1 · #12 02-18-2011, 07:50 PM

jeepin_jer1's Country Tab Collection

PolgaraXI · #13 03-05-2011, 07:07 PM

Thanks for the help, Jeep, I actually needed 2 of your songs.

I need to modify for your tabs though, I only play 4 string bass.

Sounds like we play alot of the same tunes. My band plays both country and rock. The only songs I still need are:

Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me by Keith Urban
Kerosene and White Liar by Miranda Lambert
What Was I Thinking by Dierks Bentley
My Baby Loves Me by Martina McBride
My Give a Damn's Busted by Jo Dee Messina

Any help is greatly appreciated