(Request) Woman's Gotta Have It - Bobby Womack

[Great Wight]

Hi All,

Newb on this site.

Struggling with Bobby Womack's Woman's Gotta Have It. Have go most of the song by ear and by watching it live on youtube.

Just can't seem to get the descending arpeggio, can't find any tabs or even sheet music for this.

Anyone out there got some clues or a tab for that descending bit (or the whole song obviously)

Many Thanks!

 

[SturmUndDrang]

Good tune. I'm going to get in to it with my bass right about now. Thanks for hipping me to it bro.

 

[SturmUndDrang]

Here's the first minute and a half of the bass line transcribed from the album version. It should get you going. There's some cool variation in the parts as the song progresses. Let me know if you have any questions.

 

[Great Wight]

That's awesome, thanks so much for sharing that. I'll work on that tonight.

 

[SturmUndDrang]

One mistake I found, the bar at 1:11 shows a C# in one of the sixteenth notes on the second beat. That should be a D natural instead as it is in the sequence every other time it's played.

 

[Great Wight]

I didn't notice that - I just saw the pattern and played on as before. Takes me a little while to get through standard notation, just gotta practice that descending run a few more times to get the timing.

 

[SturmUndDrang]

Props to Mike Leech who played the bass part to this song on Womack's original album "Understanding"

 

[Funk$tar]

Props to Mike Leech who played the bass part to this song on Womack's original album "Understanding"

Love that album!
I'm actually transcribing "I Can Understand It," such a great bass line, but the overall song is just a Womack classic!
Bobby is so underrated and so are the bass lines in his songs, dang shame!

 

[Great Wight]

Props to Mike Leech who played the bass part to this song on Womack's original album "Understanding"

Props for finding that clip. Never been able to find any of Mike Leech.