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05-22-2003, 02:49 PM
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Flight Of The Bumblebee
If any of you have heard this its an amazing classic song written on Piano/Violin, Rumski Korsakof or sumthing, and it just rules its very fast, i found a 6 string tab for it, but most of us here play 4 strings. And i was wondering if anyone would know a tab for the 4 string bass version that would be really cool, Thanks
Or try and tab it out yourselves good luck, Joe satriani also played it as a cover live, infront of a huge dream theatre audience, its a very impressive piece, and im thinking of performing it in front of my music class soon, once i get a tab or sheet music for it.....argh!!
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05-23-2003, 02:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK | | | What are the highest and lowest notes on the tab you've got? If you've anything below low E (open E string / fifth fret on the B string) you'll first have to transpose the song up (add X to each number on the chart, where X is enough to bring the lowest note in range... alternatively, tune down).
Next you'll have to move notes from the outer strings. Any note on the B string can be played on the E string five frets lower (subtract 5) and any note on the C string can be played on the G string five frets higher (add 5). You want to avoid unnecessary shifting so sometimes you might want to move a block of notes (eg. a section that's played from the fifth fret on the D, G and C strings to the starting on the 10th fret on the A, D and G strings).
Do that and, c'est voila, you have four string tab. Alternatively, transcribe into standard notation and then transpose as required and learn from there.
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05-23-2003, 07:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: England | | Cheers mate, ill give it a go, ive already worked out the main riff, at a mid speed, and ive tryed to work it out on a 4 string, ive also got a 5 string with a Low B, if that will help tell me
If i havent worked something reasonable out in 7 days, then i will Bump this post, and ask for someone else to do the challenge
If there patient enough...
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05-23-2003, 09:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK | | | Where's your tab? Post it here, or a link to it so we can see what you're working with.
Wulf |
05-23-2003, 09:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: st. marys, ga | | | scott hubble plays that, and i'm pretty sure, on a 4 string. there is some audio of him playing it on bassically.net, but that site seems to be down at the moment....i just tried going there so i could post you a link. the hub can jam it out, though. check it out. |
05-23-2003, 09:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: st. marys, ga | | | i just thought of something that might help you out, but i'm not sure...violins are tuned in 5ths, vice 4ths. try out tuning your bass, say to D-A-E-B, for instance...tuning in 5ths makes for some pretty interesting intervals, and may make some of those stretches go away. i'm just blowing wind here, but what the hay, right? |
06-05-2003, 06:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: South East Kent, England. | | I would tend to agree that tuning in 5ths might be your answer. There's a heck of a lot of notes in that and clever tuning might help you get the leaps quicker. On the other hand a lot of it is chromatic.
The Scott Hubbell link: (Roughly) http://www.bassically.net/lessons/online_lessons.htm
Lots of other REALLY good lessons on this page. Check it out! |
06-05-2003, 06:52 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | | Re: Flight Of The BumbleBee, 4 string bass tab
Quote: Originally posted by Redhotbassist
Flight Of The Bumblebee
If any of you have heard this its an amazing classic song written on Piano/Violin, Rumski Korsakof or sumthing, | Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov is the usual spelling! 
And it was a short tune in Tsar Sultan - since arranged for just about every instrumental combination possible!
You can get the sheet music free!!
Here : http://www.metronimo.com/fr/partitio...sky_flight.pdf
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06-05-2003, 07:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Hampshire, UK | | | LOL@"Rumski Korsakof"
IIRC, it's quoted in the trumpet solo on one of the tunes from Jaco's "Invitation". Is it Reza?
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06-05-2003, 08:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: South East Kent, England. | | Nice link Bruce. You could also try http://www.classicalarchives.com/main-r.html. Download the appropriate MIDI file and then read into your favourite MIDI to TAB / Score software (Guitar Tracks or somesuch). |
06-05-2003, 09:34 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote: Originally posted by neptoon
i just thought of something that might help you out, but i'm not sure...violins are tuned in 5ths, vice 4ths. try out tuning your bass, say to D-A-E-B, for instance...tuning in 5ths makes for some pretty interesting intervals, and may make some of those stretches go away. i'm just blowing wind here, but what the hay, right? | I think you could be right - I seem to remember hearing a brilliant cello version which this is probably based on and of course Cellos are tuned in 5ths....
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09-03-2003, 05:19 PM
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Check out Manowar's "Sting of The Bumblebee." I guess they call it "Sting..." because it's "metaler."  It's the bassist tearing it up with a little drums + guitar.
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09-14-2003, 02:31 PM
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Yeh eventually, i recorded the Manowar Sting of the bumblebee version, and handed it in, thanks for all ur help anyway, but i did the manowar one, its played on 4 string, i made it lesss metally and didnt use a pick, lol, tempo wusnt as fast either, heh, anyway
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09-14-2003, 02:58 PM
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Yeh eventually, i recorded the Manowar Sting of the bumblebee version, and handed it in, thanks for all ur help anyway, but i did the manowar one, its played on 4 string, i made it lesss metally and didnt use a pick, lol, tempo wusnt as fast either, heh, anyway
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