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Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Bass Transcription)


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Enjoy!

All feedback welcomed!!!
Still quite new to scoring this sort of thing out!

Quick piece of advice:
To play along with the track, you'll have to tune down a semitone.
If you have a 5 string, just read it a semitone down.

:-D

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Great for a newbie scorer.
Although i would beam the 16th notes within the beat sub division, as opposed to going over the beat - easier to read.

I am in the middle of doing a 'Rick Astley' Medley for a Cabaret act doing the ships in the summer, so this post caught my eye.
The first tune up is 'Never gonna give you up'...Lol

I think we are both on the right track - although mine is in the written key.

[attachment=73997:Never_Go...p___Bass.pdf]






Garry

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[quote name='lowdown' post='1150825' date='Mar 5 2011, 06:42 PM']Great for a newbie scorer.
Although i would beam the 16th notes within the beat sub division, as opposed to going over the beat - easier to read.

I am in the middle of doing a 'Rick Astley' Medley for a Cabaret act doing the ships in the summer, so this post caught my eye.
The first tune up is 'Never gonna give you up'...Lol

I think we are both on the right track - although mine is in the written key.

[attachment=73997:Never_Go...p___Bass.pdf]






Garry[/quote]


Garry,

Thanks for the crit! The beams are set by my very old copy of Sibelius automatically.
Yours looks great!

Purely out of interest, how do you plan on performing the tune in the original key on the gig? Retune, ERB or octave up?

Cheers again!

Mr Pink

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[quote name='mrpink1991' post='1151095' date='Mar 6 2011, 02:02 AM']Garry,

Thanks for the crit! The beams are set by my very old copy of Sibelius automatically.
Yours looks great!

Purely out of interest, how do you plan on performing the tune in the original key on the gig? Retune, ERB or octave up?

Cheers again!

Mr Pink[/quote]


Hi Mr Pink.

I am not doing the gig, On board band/house band...so the bassist should have a 5 string.
But i will do an alt part for the Bass - but with just the Eb section up an octave. The whole thing up the octave will sound a bit week.
Because there are 3 tunes involved, i am just in the sketching stage at the moment, things will more than likely get changed [ doh...singers!]

I am using Finale 2011...things have moved on since Sibelius 4.[and are much easier]
The new Sibelius looks great, but i have been using Finale for years so will stick with it.
I think you can get demos of Sibelius, or at least cut down versions..
Sibelius do great educational discounts, so worth checking out.


Garry

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