Wild Cherry

[Wayon]

Hi. I know I'm in the TAB section, but I'm wondering if anyone knows where I can find the actual bass score for Play That Funky Music White Boy. I'm having some difficulty.
Thanks.

 

[mward69]

Pretty straight forward tune. E most the song, G for the chorus, then follow this for the "lay down and boogie"

G|--9-7---7-----------------------------|
D|-----9----9-5-7-5-7-9-7-5-------------|
A|--------------------------7-5---------|
E|------------------------------0-------|

 

[msb3671]

There's a vid on Here: Invalid Link Removed

 

[JimK]

Pretty straight forward tune. E most the song, G for the chorus, then follow this for the "lay down and boogie"

G|--9-7---7-----------------------------|
D|-----9----9-5-7-5-7-9-7-5-------------|
A|--------------------------7-5---------|
E|------------------------------0-------|

Someone else heer @TB caught this-
Your first NOTE above (9th fret G-string) is an "E". That isn't "correct".
Everybody plays it like that...the OP that caught it sez it's 9th fret on the D-string...a "B". I did try this about year ago when I sat in with a local Oldies group. Works pretty well.

 

[JimK]

There's a vid on Here: Invalid Link Removed

He does a good job...& he also plays the "E" as the 1st note of that pentatonic riff.
Note: He is not slapping this tune...slapping this tune seems to be another thing that almost everyone does.

 

[Joe Nerve]

-----------------------------------------------------
-10--12--9--12--9------9-----9---------------------
--------------------12----12----12--10--------------
----------------------------------------12--10--0--

 

[JimK]

Joe-
...are you saying the 1st note of the pentatonic run is a "C".

In this Wild Cherry video, the bassit plays the pentatonic run in, what I would call, typical pentatonic fingering...
Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music - YouTube

 

[Joe Nerve]

Im going off of the first bkdwn off the studio version of the song. Cant check your link cuz im at work. Give a good listen to the studio version. Unless i have some obscure version it sounds pretty distinct.

 

[brothernewt]

Joe's right... and virtually everyone I've ever seen play that song does it wrong.

 

[spego]

I never noticed that C in there until Joe pointed it out....now its all I hear. I always started it on E. I even slowed it down to hear it clearly and it's without a doubt a C. Yep I've been one of those guys! lol Not tomorrow night though.

 

[winstonthecat]

Here's a good youtube instructional video, with tabs to help out the fingering.

Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music [bass cover] W/Tabs - YouTube

 

[electracoyote]

Joe's right. And though I finger it differently (I grab the D on string 1 and work down a minor pentatonic), all those notes are correct as well.

 

[mward69]

AH....your right...lol Thanks for posting that part...guess lot's of us were doing it wrong

 

[JakeBrownBass]

Dots attached

 

[ChrisDev]

Here's another transcription
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