Trying to figure out this bassline I think I have most of it but I just want to have a few other opinions on what other people think this bassline is.
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How to play this bassline?
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Don't see a link or song name, help us help you...
ok, the link you provided worked. Key is A, changes are pretty straight ahead. The bass line sounds to be a combination of funky 16th note finger style with slap accents at the end of phrases. What advice/guidance were you looking for ?
I think one is "A".
If this works I have lots of baselines for you all to transcribe for me. 
I think a reasonable approximation will work just as well as an exact transcription.
Why not just run it through one of those apps where you can slow it down and still retain the pitch? I have Anytune on my phone, which works well for this. I'm sure there's a ton of other software that also does the trick. It's pretty easy to hear the basic idea at full speed, some kind of octave thing on the slap, but slowing it down to 40-50% or more will let you hear every note.
This is a lot of work for someone else to transcribe for you.
Part of the fun, and effort, in playing an instrument is to learn how to figure out what others are playing by listening.
I could tell how to play it, but transcribing it for someone else is much more work than just listening and copying it, at least for me.
it's a fun line... lots of octaves, 8 8 root, 8 8 root, then the flat7 flat7 root stuff. those are the primary parts.
Might be fretless, from the parts near the end...
Part of the fun, and effort, in playing an instrument is to learn how to figure out what others are playing by listening.
I could tell how to play it, but transcribing it for someone else is much more work than just listening and copying it, at least for me.
it's a fun line... lots of octaves, 8 8 root, 8 8 root, then the flat7 flat7 root stuff. those are the primary parts.
Might be fretless, from the parts near the end...
Start thumping As, roll one, and zone in until it falls out of your fingers! 
I agree and that's what I've done with most basslines. I hear it and I think "now thats a cool bassline!!" And I work on it till I get it.
Its good ear training and LOTS of fun!
It is, yea!
For someone learning, ya gotta try it, record yourself playing it with the track, listen to them played back together and find the problems one at a time, fix it, try again, rinse repeat.
Until you get so you can hear the notes played and feel your fingers moving correctly anticipating the likely next part, or at least copying it well after just one iteration, tricks like recording and listening, or half speed playback of the original track, really help.
There are also software tools to playback the original slower without losing the pitch (going flat) as you slow it down, although of course quality degrades.
OP - have fun, try it out!
And there's nothing wrong with playing it wrong, as long as you're in the right key/on the right chord and it sounds good.
yea I'd think audacity can do it.
or yea garageband certainly for recording yourself as another track with it.
Audacity can do the speed change without changing pitch like this:
Change Speed - Audacity Manual
ah, ok. I don't hang out on the Recordings section at TB much, I'm mostly a Amps & Cabs and Recording Gear denizen, and I was not sure what you were looking for in your OP.
I'm not going to do a transcription for you but from the replies it sounds as if you may go ahead and try using a riff learning tool to slow everything down so you can make out the parts.
I have no idea of your facility on bass but would think this would not be too hard for someone with solid fundamental skills.
slow it down, use a metronome (or a simple drum machine), use your ears and enjoy!
cool tune.
FWIW that's the great Doug Rauch on bass!
