So I feel confident with my sight reading skill now but can't find any sheet music for bass guitar. Anyone know any websites, books anything with sheet music that I can get? Thanks 
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Sheet music source?
- Thread starter JordyLegend
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Free stuff? Not a clue.
I'm currently sight-reading a lot of the Motown stuff right now. "Standing in the shadows" or something like that. Though I'm DEFINITELY not a fan of the playback tracks (I mean, who slaps on a Jamerson imitation, really?!) but the sheet music is pretty cool. What kind of software do you have? You could potentially use a free notation program and rewire a GuitarPro file, export that as a MIDI file and import it there? PM me for details to see if I could be of more assistance, Jordy.
I'm currently sight-reading a lot of the Motown stuff right now. "Standing in the shadows" or something like that. Though I'm DEFINITELY not a fan of the playback tracks (I mean, who slaps on a Jamerson imitation, really?!) but the sheet music is pretty cool. What kind of software do you have? You could potentially use a free notation program and rewire a GuitarPro file, export that as a MIDI file and import it there? PM me for details to see if I could be of more assistance, Jordy.
Try some of these:
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Honestly those are perfect I'm trying to get off tab it was a bit of an addiction. I don't care about genre or song I just want fun songs to practice to with standard notation.
You might want to check out the offerings on Lemur music, especially if you want a good challenge...
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Glad to be of help! Whenever I have to learn new cover material for a gig or band, I try a quick Google search to see if I can get a decent, free transcription before making my own chart. Those links were sites I found over the last few years. I had some more but those sites are no longer active.
Happy reading!
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So I feel confident with my sight reading skill now but can't find any sheet music for bass guitar. Anyone know any websites, books anything with sheet music that I can get? Thanks
Go to a local music store.
This is not a bad idea! I went today and had a look through all the old guitar music books that I have bought, and was pleasantly surprised to find that almost all of them have bass clef for the songs as well as treble clef
LordDog, if you're confident enough in your sight-reading why not see if you can sit in on an amateur orchestra or ensemble that requires a lot of reading to get some REAL experience, so to speak?
^ An excellent suggestion. Reading in a group is a great way of motivating yourself to learn. On that note, there are many classical scores to be found at www.imslp.org
Don't forget that you can read trombone, bassoon, upright bass, and cello parts. All are bass clef instruments and non-transposing (except by octave; all other transpositions read in treble clef, with the exception of 18th and 19th century French music for French horn).
Don't forget that you can read trombone, bassoon, upright bass, and cello parts. All are bass clef instruments and non-transposing (except by octave; all other transpositions read in treble clef, with the exception of 18th and 19th century French music for French horn).
Does anyone have a source of transcriptions of classic latin tunes? If anyone willing to transcribe some of these tunes for me? For a fee of course.
Lots of stuff to check out in this thread, including some all my own work. 
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f22/t...o-commercially-available-stuff-thanks-779126/
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f22/t...o-commercially-available-stuff-thanks-779126/
If you have the bucks you can get Sibelius software for importing MIDI files. It's really feature rich and scores very well.
Musescore can also import MIDI and it's free. The quality of the score that you get, though, will be dependent on the quality of the MIDI input (in terms of notation accuracy, quantisation of timing, general arranging protocol and so on). This also applies to other scoring programs like Sibelius, too (which I have and use a lot).
With a good MIDI file the results can be excellent, but a lot of MIDI files out there on the web are basically rubbish for this type of work (just like a lot of TAB stuff, only maybe even worse) and you're better off starting from scratch, in my experience.
