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help!

Hi there

Iv got a bit of problem at the moment. Iv never really had too much trouble creating basslines to my guitar players parts, however this time i'm really in a pickle and would love a bit of input or advice.

These are the chords my guitarist is playing:
--9---7---7---4
--9---9---7---5
-10--10---9---7
--0---0---0---0
The notes of each chord are picked in quite a straight forward rhythm although the only consistancy in the note order is that each chord starts with a low E. Obviously you can't get the exact feel of what is being played from 4 tabbed chords but can anyone make any interesting suggestions? The difficulties I am faced with seem to, for the most part, be derived from the fact that there is know real progression - all the chords have an E as the root. Anyone else had trouble constructing basslines to songs with chords of this nature?

Cheers!
 
so he is playing 4 bars with 4 quarter notes in each bar?

looks like He's playing in B minor... so you have B C# D E F# G A to work with

one idea... everytime he starts on the open E you can treat that as a rest, then you can follow this chord progression

G major, G Major, F# minor, E minor