Some gentle help required.

[prekabreki]

edit: boy is this the wrong forum or what? General instruction maybe now that I think about it...

Hi there, I've been playing bass for a couple of years now and have always just used tabs or my ear. These days me and my brother are trying to play a few songs meant for piano, him with guitar and me bass.
I figured (perhaps naively) that I could just read the f-clef and he the g-clef and that would be that.

I figured I'd try to write the song up in Guitar Pro just for kicks and I hit upon a little problem.

This is the first part of the song:

Now how would YOU play this on your four string bass guitar?

When I punched it into Guitar Pro just identically I got this:

Now that's a tricky chord right there, fret 1 and 15...
and when I did this:

It sounds off, am I just making to basics mistakes here to count or what? Like is the piano f-clef way different from the bass guitar one or what?

Heeelp please!

 

[Skitch it!]

I'd play an Ab Major chord barring across from

Index 4th Fret E String
Ring 6th A
Pinky 6th D
Middle 5th G

Those finger fretting positions on the guitar pro tab are well out, very awkward.

Pick the first two notes of the chord with your thumb for the 8th's, play the double-stop with your Index and Middle or other if you use all 4 regularly/whatever.

 

[prekabreki]

I'd play an Ab Major chord barring across from

Index 4th Fret E String
Ring 6th A
Pinky 6th D
Middle 5th G
.

Fretting that all at once is really hard! It feels like my hand is going to fall off!

 

[Skitch it!]

Fretting that all at once is really hard! It feels like my hand is going to fall off!

It's just a chord shape, don't hold it down as a chord, no need to bar hold across with the index, as soon as you play the first note you can lift the index and 'rock' the shape toward the D and G strings (on which you hold those two notes as not chord but 'double stop' (2 notes played together), as you've picked the notes, release the fretting tension in sequence after duration and 'rock' the shape toward the D and G string frettings, don't hold it down like a guitar chord ; )

N.B. Don't 'grip', it shouldn't take a lot of finger pressure to play that, lighter than chording.

 

[Deathblade Eric]

Those finger fretting positions on the guitar pro tab are well out, very awkward.

It'll do this if you enter notes directly on the stave - it just seems to guess at the fingering & often comes up with something that needs 4' hands with twelvety fingers on each alternate thumb.

 

[Skitch it!]

It'll do this if you enter notes directly on the stave - it just seems to guess at the fingering & often comes up with something that needs 4' hands with twelvety fingers on each alternate thumb.

It does throw you off the scent a bit, maybe it thinks we use our toes for fretting as well, like digits

 

[prekabreki]

It's just a chord shape, don't hold it down as a chord, no need to bar hold across with the index, as soon as you play the first note you can lift the index and 'rock' the shape toward the D and G strings (on which you hold those two notes as not chord but 'double stop' (2 notes played together), as you've picked the notes, release the fretting tension in sequence after duration and 'rock' the shape toward the D and G string frettings, don't hold it down like a guitar chord ; )

N.B. Don't 'grip', it shouldn't take a lot of finger pressure to play that, lighter than chording.

umm...would you happen to know of a youtube video demonstrating this? I have no idea how to do this without it sounding horribly.