An amazing bassline, can't find the tab anywhere...

Evil Undead · #1 02-05-2010, 10:50 AM

I can't find the bass tab for One Of Us by Abba - it's one of my favourite basslines and it's so hard to work out by ear!

I've tried the Ultimate Guitar archives and Google...

Can anyone help me out?

Minotauros · #2 02-05-2010, 12:21 PM

Here are the chords. http://www.tabcrawler.com/3324957/Abba/One-Of-Us I don't know if you found the chords, but if not, you might be able to work out the bass line from the chords.

There's a for-pay sheet http://www.sheetmusicdirect.us/searc...mId=1000036785 If you can't see or hear it, install Scorch. It's free and harmless. It lets you sample these sheets.

Good luck.

Evil Undead · #3 02-05-2010, 12:35 PM

Yeah I got the chords but haven't been successful in working out the correct bassline from them

It seems to be a very complicated line!!

Minotauros · #4 02-05-2010, 12:41 PM

Well, take a look at the sheet, or even go to a music store to see if they have an ABBA music book. I know it's a pain to pay for a whole book for one song. Like buying a whole cd for one song. Sorry I couldn't help more. I know how you feel.

Evil Undead · #5 02-05-2010, 01:05 PM

That's ok, I appreciate your help

Main problem is that I can't read standard notation very well, would take a looooong time for me to figure it out
Frustrating, hey?!

Etienne38 · #6 02-09-2010, 11:15 PM

Hi Evil Undead,

I listened to this song and I immediately loved it, especially the bass line which made me tapping the foot and moving my fingers on a virtual bass neck

I decided to write down the tablature and add it on my blog (in french only for now, but english will come in a near future).

Here is the link to the article on the blog,
http://basse.over-blog.com/article-a...-44616844.html
just click on the link named "La Tablature" in the middle of the screen.
If you are interested to see the video I used to write the tab down, you can click the link "La vidéo" to play a nice cover on it.

I hope you will have so much fun as me playing it.

Thank you for making me discover that sweet song (and bass line)

algernon · #7 02-10-2010, 01:57 AM

Yessur, that IS a great bass line. Check this out, found it while looking for Hagstrom basses... is that guy good or what

and that tone... maan...
Worth seeing his other videos, too

Hope it helps,
Adrian

Evil Undead · #8 02-10-2010, 05:46 AM

He is seriously good... very impressed
Thanks Etienne38, I'll have a look at your blog and tab... my french is a little rusty but I think I'll be able to get around

Etienne38 · #9 02-10-2010, 05:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Evil Undead

He is seriously good... very impressed
Thanks Etienne38, I'll have a look at your blog and tab... my french is a little rusty but I think I'll be able to get around

You are welcome. The site structure is very easy, so you should cope with it.
Anyway, you can too use the google translate to translate the site "as you browse it", but perhaps it will be more nice for your eyes to have beautiful french words instead of jerky pidgin english

If you don't want to loose time in searching, when you go to the blog http://bass.over-blog.com, click in the left menu on the link named "Liste complète, classement par difficulté" which means "Complete list, ordered by difficulty", so you have direct access to the entire list :-)

Evil Undead · #10 02-10-2010, 12:42 PM

there's not much wrong with your english!

It's a good tab (although it will take me a long time to have it down) and a good site, thanks very much