Here Come The Mummies

[Nightsblood]

This is not my strong suit and Ive tried a few times but cant seem to get the bass line in Funky Little Baby. Can anyone help a brother out?

 

[Whousedtoplay]

This is not my strong suit and Ive tried a few times but cant seem to get the bass line in Funky Little Baby. Can anyone help a brother out?

I've decided to try it.
Overall (in my opinion), it's not a difficult bass pattern but when played by an excellent and very energetic bass player , it gets "complicated" because of those slides/glisses, extra ghost notes, etc...

Also, I've heard some notes that could be played on the 5-stringer, like sliding from D or D# to low (my open string) E, or using B on the B string.
My transcription is for the 4-string bass.

About those numerous grace(!) notes that I(!) heard.

I would say, leave them out until (or maybe, never) you feel comfortable with that bass-line. They don't change the bass groove. The bass player had enough technique, knowledge, and happy energy to be very "playfull" with all those slides.

I've used my TAB - you can change them.
Let's say, in order to "rationalize" those slides, in Bar 17 I adapted my TAB to fit them.
Anyway, I've transcribed the way I(!) heard it. There were some slides that I could not figure out the exact notes.

Also, I could not properly interpret with Guitar Pro a lot of slides/glisses from E (the open string) up, like in Bar 3 and in many more instances; therefore, I've left them out.

P.S. I did not incorporated those bass-free bars in order to save sheet area.

In addition, after a few bars, I've stopped marking all those slides - the sheet looks "cleaner".

Please remember, it's only My Ears that heard those notes. The REAL bass-line could be very different!
Proceed with caution.

Here is that bass line with the sound of Guitar Pro. Tempo - 130BPM.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...2/?temp_hash=e8038d05f4ce8e20872777579c1f74e8

 

[Nightsblood]

Oh man, thanks so much for this. Im gonna give this a run through in awhile. I really appreciate the work you put into this.

 

[Whousedtoplay]

Im gonna give this a run through in awhile.

I would try to properly articulate the main "template" of the bass groove.
Here is my fingering for it.
The first note (open E) lasts one 8th note, than I mute the sound with my left hand (four fingers) on the second 8th note.
Next, I mute/tap the strings (along with the snare drum) with my right hand - on the third 8th note and start the bass passage with my first right hand finger.
In Bar 3, instead of muting strings, I slide with my 4th finger from F# to B on the E string. Ending the slide on B (the 7th fret), gives me an excellent position to start the next bass run/passage with my 1st finger.

Here is that sound clip at 50BPM.
https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...7/?temp_hash=290b2653fd9386203e51feb73e864b13