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Crazy middle aged beginner needs help tabbing "When I Grow Up" by Michelle Shocked

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EmpressNorton

Sep 18, 2012
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Hi, I'm Anne. After wanting for years to learn bass but being too intimidated to pick it up, I finally quit being a weenie and started learning. ::waves:: I figure it doesn't matter when you start as long as you do.

So I'm still a beginner, and I've been a huge fan of Michelle Shocked and this song from way back when this record was released. I'd LOVE to learn this. According to her website the chords to this song are dead simple - just E and D back and forth, over and over again - but I'd like to know whatever the actual bass part is on the recording. There's a lot going on and it's hard to pick things out. There's a cool walking part in there but I'm not savvy enough to know if it's the bass line or just somebody playing low on guitar. Whatever's being done, I'd like to try and approximate it as well as I can. And then find some other people and play the heck out of it. :)

Anyone out there willing to tab the part that got laid down? Help a noobie out? :help: Here's the official video at YouTube:

Thanks in advance!
 
#2
Verse:
E highE D highE
E highE D B

Chorus I can't recall the original but I've played it many times and do something like:
D B A B
D B A F#

It gets pretty samey and ploddy after a while and I tend to lose interest a bit so I noodle around some. Probably too much although none of the several Shocked fans who've heard me do it have complained.

Those may not be the exact notes from the original but they'll get you pretty close and certainly work ok.

"Tigers milk and green bananas" forsooth :)

Mike
 
#4
bigswifty1 - THANK YOU! :hyper: I SO appreciate it! I posted this to another forum and got thoroughly ignored, and yet you responded the same DAY, making you awesome. It's going to take me some practicing to get my clumsy fingers around these riffs but then everything does at this stage. ;)

BluesWalker: Yes, I thought it was a fretless, too. I'm going to have to approximate that cool plucking sound as best I can.

Thanks to you both for chiming in!
 
#5
You're welcome, you picked a nice song for starting out. I forgot to put the intro, very roughly:

E B Eb highE
E B Eb D

Again, I get bored easily and usually play something with chords.

If you don't have a fretless ( I don't ) flatwound strings will make the small glissandos sound less lame in the intro.

Once again, youre welcome. Have fun.
Mike
 

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