Looking for bassline to "A night in Tunisia"

www.electricbass.ch has some jazz stuff, I didn't see a night in tunisia. I think i may have that around here somewhere i will get back with you if i find it.

 

I've got the sheet music for a night in tunisia.
Would you like to have the chord progression of the song?

 

I found an arrangement here by glenn osser. It's in C. Right now i'm havin a bit of trouble with my scanner so I will post it as soon as I can my scanner goin.

 

The original is in D Minor, isn't it?

 

Here is the chart you are seeking, enjoy:

http://guitar-primer.com/Charts/Chart-640.html

 

Yup, that's what I was thinking.

 

You mean you don't practice it in all keys?

 

I mean I haven't played that tune in about three years

And paintandsk8 claimed to have found an arrangement in C, which doesn't really make sense, unless he/she actually meant C Minor.

 

He probably means it doesn't have any sharps or flats at the beginning and has therefore assumed C - whereas the transcriber was just giving no key signature.

I think that now we have software for score writing, a lot of people don't include a key signature and just put in accidentals for things they have transcribed and/or arranged.

So - when actually writing things out with a pen - the key signature helps in a lot of ways - with a PC it doesn't matter - or you can leave this till the end?

 

Hmm, not sure. Either way, I think it's possibly easier to read with a key signature. Accidentals can clutter the place up somewhat.

 

I'm not saying it's a good idea - just that it happens a lot! So maybe we just have a lot more bad or lazy arrangers/transcribers now - as in : I've got the software package, how hard can it be?!

Get it all down somehow and then check with midi!!

 

...and the opening 2-bar vamp sounds nice in 5.

 

I assume you want the music for the repeating bass figure in the beginning, but I don't think it's a standardized thing. I have never heard two bass players play it the same way. My advice would be to find a recording in which you like the bassline and just transcibe it.

 

Can you clarify what you mean by "bassline"? If you mean the bass figure in the first part of the head of the tune, that's gotta be out there somewhere. But if you mean what to play throughout the whole tune, that's not gonna happen, because it's a jazz tune, which means that except for places where you're specifically directed to play was written, the bass line is improvised. No two bassists would play the tune exactly the same way, and no one bassist would play it exactly the same way twice.

 

That is indeed the melody, that Kled posted a link to. It looks to be written at concert pitch, so it's for any non-transposing instrument. And for any transposing instrument, as long as the player can transpose

 

I tend to agree - I've played this tune in workshops and had never heard it played before - I just made up a sort of repeating line that fitted with the chords and everybody said 'great, off we go!" - it's just really a sort of Latin feel with an improvised bass line going from Latin to swing.

Caravan is like this as well - starts off with a vamp and it's quite nice for the bass to find a repeating figure to play - but I've never seen one written down?