I need help to figure out this song

[pietro_val]

Hey!
I'm really struggling to understand this bassline note per note, can anyone help me out?
There are no tabs on the internet for this version of the song and I can't tell the notes yet, especially this fast...

Thank you!

"Sleigh Ride" - Cover by First to Eleven - YouTube

 

[g-dude]

Hey!
I'm really struggling to understand this bassline note per note, can anyone help me out?
There are no tabs on the internet for this version of the song and I can't tell the notes yet, especially this fast...

Thank you!

"Sleigh Ride" - Cover by First to Eleven - YouTube

I mean…I listened on an iPhone and it just sounds like the roots of all the chords, with the occasional walk up within the scale from one chord to the next. I could be wrong.

Just find a chord chart and do that, and you’ll be 90% of the way there.

 

[Malcolm35]

There are a lot of roots and they come quickly. Get help from Google. This will be close. SLEIGH RIDE CHORDS by Johnny Mathis @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com

 

[pietro_val]

Yeah, earlier today i sat down and actually tried and it worked. Root notes were quite easy to pick up while I had to come up with something for the bass fills and I got quite close. For the second verse, where he put part of the scales between the root notes, I came up with a different line but built in the same way. I'm really happy with the final result, thank you for your advices @Malcolm35 and @g-dude!

 

[IamGroot]

I dont have a bass, but thats basically a 1 6m 2m 5 pattern. I heard a #5 resolving to a natural somewhere in there. Ear training is your BFF.

 

[IamGroot]

Just remembered, thats the "We want Cantor" cadence.

 

[Whousedtoplay]

Hey!
I'm really struggling to understand this bassline note per note, can anyone help me out?
There are no tabs on the internet for this version of the song and I can't tell the notes yet, especially this fast...

Thank you!

"Sleigh Ride" - Cover by First to Eleven - YouTube

Here is a separated bass track from that song, after it was EQ-ed and slowed down to 50% of the original tempo.

https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...1/?temp_hash=46f3a9473b0a178efb25909dc4de71b9

 

[pietro_val]

I dont have a bass, but thats basically a 1 6m 2m 5 pattern. I heard a #5 resolving to a natural somewhere in there. Ear training is your BFF.

Thank you, I really need to improve my ear training... at the moment I'm at the "I can get the note with an instrument so I can keep trying to get it" phase, definitely not perfect pitch just yet

 

[pietro_val]

Here is a separated bass track from that song, after it was EQ-ed and slowed down to 50% of the original tempo.

https://www.talkbass.com/attachment...1/?temp_hash=46f3a9473b0a178efb25909dc4de71b9

Thank you! Super useful, now I can compare it to the bass line I play much more easily

 

[IamGroot]

Thank you, I really need to improve my ear training... at the moment I'm at the "I can get the note with an instrument so I can keep trying to get it" phase, definitely not perfect pitch just yet

You are welcome.

I recommend playing along with easy youtube songs you are familiar with. Country and Blues are real good starts becasue of the 1 4 5 pattern in one form or another..70s rock is good.

The idea is to hear and then automatically play it back.


Learning melodies is real good ear training as well.

At some point, you will find rudimentary theory will become useful to decipher what seems like random patterns, but worry about that later.