Translation from guitar into bass

[GugaBass]

Hello folks! I was tryin to rewrite a song a friend of mine wrote on the guitar for playin' it on the bass. But I had a problem.
There's the ligne

on the High E he plays 8-8-8--6-5-3--1-3h-5p-3

So, I transposed it to the G one, 6-6-6-4-3-1-???-1h-3p-1

How can I find this last one? I tried with the gigth frett on the D string but sounds strange...

Hope you could help me.. Thx !

 

[LowDown Hal]

The short answer is - learn the fretboard

Both the Low E and the High E strings on a normally tuned 6 string guitar are the same, (excepting of course the octave) in terms of what note = what fret, as the Low E on a normally tuned Bass.

so
8-8-8-- 6-5-3--1-3h-5p-3
C-C-C--Bb-A-G--F-G -A -G


Another way to think of it could be, how many semitones apart are E and G?

 

[GugaBass]

Mhh... Right... That was what I was tinking. I could use on the D String on the 5th frett... Or the A String without any frett. Does it mean It is on the G string the second frett? 'am not sure... Could you confirm it please?

Thanks for takin' time for helpin' me

 

[Hellbastard]

First of all you need to learn the notes on the fingerboard.
The 8 fret on the High E string on a guitar it's a C, but the 6th fret on the G string of a bass is a C#.

Use this chart to familiarize yourself with the fingerboard.
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A way to play that lick on bass would be to use the G and D strings like this:

G---5-5-5-3-2-0----0-2-0
D----------------3-------
A------------------------
E------------------------

 

[GugaBass]

OOookay! I understood my error! Thx a lot!