Attention Primus, Sausage, Les Claypool fans please read!

[Spirit of Ox]

Way back in 1997, I used to jam out to this song and owe it a lot to developing my chops; especially pinky strength.
The song is title Caution Should Be Used While Driving A Motor Vehicle Or Operating Machinery. It's on the Sausage, Riddle are abound tonight album. It's a cool instrumental with one repeating bassline, albeit a very fun and tiring one at that.
I was playing it yesterday and with today's power of the internet, I wanted to check the Tablature and see if I'm playing properly or at least get some idea since it's been a while.
Ever bass tab for this song online seems wrong to me or maybe it's me. Please chime in. There are no covers on Youtube either.

My interpretation is as follows a couple fills towards the end with some rhythmic changes, digging in, etc. sounds best on a 70's Jazz bass with a little overdrive and compression.

----7------------------7-------------------
------0--6-7-8-9-0------0-6-7-8-9-------
-5------------------5----------------------
--------------------------------------------

 

[Spirit of Ox]

Descending fill at 2:34

 

[Spirit of Ox]

Ttt

 

[Spirit of Ox]

Anyone???

 

[RedJag]

There's definitely a fair amount of variation in the riff. The pattern is repetitive but the chords he's basing his melody around are shifting. So it's not always the same notes. Sometimes sounds minor, sometimes major, with octaved notes shifting down a semi tone to a tone

 

[Spirit of Ox]

There's definitely a fair amount of variation in the riff. The pattern is repetitive but the chords he's basing his melody around are shifting. So it's not always the same notes. Sometimes sounds minor, sometimes major, with octaved notes shifting down a semi tone to a tone

Yes he goes down a half step

 

[Spirit of Ox]

If you google the tab to the song they seem really weird

 

[RedJag]

My interpretation is as follows a couple fills towards the end with some rhythmic changes, digging in, etc. sounds best on a 70's Jazz bass with a little overdrive and compression.

----7------------------7-------------------
------0--6-7-8-9-0------0-6-7-8-9-------
-5------------------5----------------------
--------------------------------------------

Try this instead


----7-----------4---4--7----------4-----
------0--4-5-7---5------0-4-5-7--------
-5----------------------------------------
------------------------------------------

 

[Whousedtoplay]

This morning, I took a look at that one spot/one bar that starts at 2:33:36.
I've listened to it at a slow/very slow tempo, and here is what I've heard.
It's only my ears(!) - my mistakes(!).
I've taken that one spot as a separate exercise, which means I don't know what was played on the bass before it and where; therefore, my TAB notation is just for that specific bass-line part.
Here are a few details I've heard with my(!) ears.

1. Les slides from C# to E. I tabbed it as played on the G string - 1st LH finger, but it could be played on the D string - 11th fret to 14th fret with 4th LH finger.
Also, Les slides from C# to D.

2. Les gets to B by sliding from A - A#.

At a slow tempo, I can hear that extra note, G before Les settles on F#.

3. Instead of articulating the last note, F# as the 8th, Les plays it as one 16th followed by the second 16th note while his left hand is still fretting.

Once again, it's only(!) my hearing. Proceed with caution!

Here is a sound clip of that spot at 98BPM from Guitar Pro, with some "effects" to match Les' tone.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...1/?temp_hash=991489f70a582520aaeb545031fb0f33


The same only at a slower tempo - 40BPM.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...9/?temp_hash=991489f70a582520aaeb545031fb0f33

 

[Spirit of Ox]

This morning, I took a look at that one spot/one bar that starts at 2:33:36.
I've listened to it at a slow/very slow tempo, and here is what I've heard.
It's only my ears(!) - my mistakes(!).
I've taken that one spot as a separate exercise, which means I don't know what was played on the bass before it and where; therefore, my TAB notation is just for that specific bass-line part.
Here are a few details I've heard with my(!) ears.

1. Les slides from C# to E. I tabbed it as played on the G string - 1st LH finger, but it could be played on the D string - 11th fret to 14th fret with 4th LH finger.
Also, Les slides from C# to D.

2. Les gets to B by sliding from A - A#.

At a slow tempo, I can hear that extra note, G before Les settles on F#.

3. Instead of articulating the last note, F# as the 8th, Les plays it as one 16th followed by the second 16th note while his left hand is still fretting.

Once again, it's only(!) my hearing. Proceed with caution!

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Here is a sound clip of that spot at 98BPM from Guitar Pro, with some "effects" to match Les' tone.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...1/?temp_hash=991489f70a582520aaeb545031fb0f33


The same only at a slower tempo - 40BPM.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...9/?temp_hash=991489f70a582520aaeb545031fb0f33

Nice! thanks for the files. I'm going to try this when I get home.