Can someone help with these notes? :(

[PaulWarning]

[quote name='tommorichards' timestamp='1361097133' post='1980891']
Get the pacemaker plugin for winamp. Ive used it to transcribe a few songs. You can slow speed without altering pitch. Its also great for turning slow rock into speed metal

[url="http://www.surina.net/pacemaker/"]http://www.surina.net/pacemaker/[/url]
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I use audacity, free and really useful for all sorts of things as well as slowing down and transposing

[Samashton12]

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1361202401' post='1982662']
I'm absolutely terrible at working out notes anyway, especially when they are all bunched together like that. The best i could do is find the key, and kind of make it up as i go along.
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I'd like to know what scale this actually uses.. Be much easier then aha

[MiltyG565]

Seems to be in the key of B Major with a flattened 7th. Maybe not, i'm not too great with theory either. But that's assuming your tabs are correct

Edited February 18, 2013 by MiltyG565

[Samashton12]

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1361206209' post='1982763']
Seems to be in the key of B Major with a flattened 7th. Maybe not, i'm not too great with theory either. But that's assuming your tabs are correct
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Thanks man

[MiltyG565]

Just remember to really dig into the seventh fret to flatten it

[Guest bassman7755]

The secret to working things out is to 1) slow it down (as I did for you) and 2) loop the recording on a just a few notes until you can hum/sing/whistle them and only then try and play that bit.

[Roland Rock]

My ears tell me that the main riff is in Em7 and the ascending part you've asked about is in Bm7

[MiltyG565]

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1361230516' post='1983348']
My ears tell me that the main riff is in Em7 and the ascending part you've asked about is in Bm7
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I WAS RIGHT!

Who would've guessed?

[uncle psychosis]

When working out things like this I use audacity and do the following:

1. Slow it down significantly
2. Use the pitch shift and put the whole thing up an octave. This makes the bass line really `jump out' of the mix at you.

[Guest bassman7755]

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1361261417' post='1983454']

2. Use the pitch shift and put the whole thing up an octave. This makes the bass line really `jump out' of the mix at you.
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Yeah thats a good tip as well. the ear is better at pitch determination in a higher register.

[AussieBassman]

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1361207463' post='1982793']
Just remember to really dig into the seventh fret to flatten it
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how can that ever happen? you can only raise the pitch of a note by stretching a string.

[MiltyG565]

[quote name='AussieBassman' timestamp='1361285483' post='1983899']
how can that ever happen? you can only raise the pitch of a note by stretching a string.
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Obviously missing the difference between flattening some within a concept, and flattening something in reality.

IT. WAS. A. JOKE!

Can't believe how many times i have had to say that the last few days.

[Myke]

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1361259304' post='1983438']
I WAS RIGHT!

Who would've guessed?
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Are you sure?

[MiltyG565]

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1361658992' post='1989084']
Are you sure?
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I know now that i was wrong, i forgot to change it. Still, the difference was really only one note, so i'm happy i was even close! I'm not much of a theory man, so yeah.

[Myke]

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1361659251' post='1989088']
I know now that i was wrong, i forgot to change it. Still, the difference was really only one note, so i'm happy i was even close! I'm not much of a theory man, so yeah.
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That's fair enough, I can't really work out a key signature myself..

Sorry if it sounded like I was having a dig.

[MiltyG565]

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1361659903' post='1989093']
That's fair enough, I can't really work out a key signature myself..

Sorry if it sounded like I was having a dig.
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You didn't Don't worry.

The way i work it out is by looking at the notes, then working out what the possible key signature is.

The thing is, when you look at the notes, It starts on a B (which is normally a good indicator) and then there is a lot of D# E hammer ons and pull offs which just back up that it's in the key of B in some form. The only thing that would throw me off is that at the end of a scale, the last interval is normally a semi-tone, but here it is a whole tone, which lead me to B major with a flattened seventh. I don't know how they worked out it was actually a B minor flattened seventh. Maybe they just heard the minor key in the song, but i never listened to the song after the tabs.