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Looking for known accurate tab and/or notation for Stormy Monday

The one I have doesn't have any publication dates or publishing house info. Some of the songs have copyright info but a lot of them are blank. This one is about 1025 pages and it's a 36 meg pdf. There is a country fake book around as well but I don't have that one.

Glad the Stormy Monday thing worked out.
 
I just finished a transcription of this a few weeks ago using Transcribe and Sibelius. The double-time feel section during the organ solo is particularly tricky because Berry Oakley (who I revere as a bassist) misses a few notes in there.

The last part of the fifth measure of that section is where things get wacky, but in short, he misses the C on the one of the sixth measure. If you're listening for the C (he hits it two notes later), then the phrasing sounds all jacked up, and you end up wondering how he straightened it out by the next measure. I guess this is why he was in the ABB and I'm in my house. Anyway, I took the liberty of putting the C in the right place and slightly altering the subsequent line.

The section just before the organ solo has a cool change in the bass line to ride along with some Ray Charles style block chords by Gregg Allman. Notably, the band changes the chord structure in the third bar of this section to stay in G on beat 7 and not move up to Ab as in the rest of the song. This motif also repeats itself on the next-to last go 'round in the song.

Anyway, I'm not well trained at writing notation, but I have this down well enough to read through, so if anyone wants a copy, I've got it on Sibelius, or I can even scan a copy of the actual pages and e-mail it. Just send me a PM with your e-mail and choice of format. Sorry, no TAB.
Hi! I now your original post was years ago but wondering if you can email me a copy of the notation of Berry Oakley's bass parts for Stormy Monday. sorry forgot to ad my email : [email protected]. Thanks