Thinking Of You - Sister Sledge

[Bass_In_Yer_Face]

Anyone know where you can get the tabs for this track?

I just can't seem to get it right even when it's slowed down to half speed so I can listen carefully.

Either 'Nard' had his strings detuned or something because I cannot seem to find the notes his playing!

[Hamster]

I expect you've done youtube?

This is a pretty good effort and you can see all those little octave slides and passing notes

[Thunderthumbs]

[quote name='Hamster' post='285483' date='Sep 16 2008, 11:47 PM']I expect you've done youtube?

This is a pretty good effort and you can see all those little octave slides and passing notes[/quote]
Nice tone he's got going on there too.

[bass_in_ya_face]

IS there anyway of slowing down youtube vids!

[Floyd Pepper]

There's also Stu Clayton's book on 'nard, I'm sure it's got the tab for it in there...plus others.
FP

[molan]

[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='285547' date='Sep 17 2008, 08:23 AM']IS there anyway of slowing down youtube vids![/quote]

You can download them to your hard drive & I think you could use some video editing software to slow them down. I've got something that slows video down but loses sound whilst doing so but I bet there's something out there that will do this.

Downloading is easy [url="http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/"]http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/[/url] will save any YouTube file &/or convert it to MP3 for you.

[Bass_In_Yer_Face]

[quote name='molan' post='286011' date='Sep 17 2008, 04:09 PM']You can download them to your hard drive & I think you could use some video editing software to slow them down. I've got something that slows video down but loses sound whilst doing so but I bet there's something out there that will do this.

Downloading is easy [url="http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/"]http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/[/url] will save any YouTube file &/or convert it to MP3 for you.[/quote]


Found this guy's version which is the easiest to try and slow down and study

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooF4JgxoACI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooF4JgxoACI[/url]

[CJPJ]

Anyone have any good updates to this - still nothing on YouTube that is particularly helpful or any bass tab? I can't see the link on the earlier posts so not sure what was out there.

[chris_b]

It's in Bb. The verse is D/G/ | Eb/Bb/ |


Edit....
Oooops.... it's actually | [b]G/D/ [/b]| Eb/Bb/ |

Edited June 9, 2012 by chris_b

[EssentialTension]

It's in Stuart Clayton's book:

[url="http://stuartclayton.com/books/nile-rodgers-bernard-edwards-funk-disco-grooves-for-bass-guitar/"]http://stuartclayton.com/books/nile-rodgers-bernard-edwards-funk-disco-grooves-for-bass-guitar/[/url]

[JTUK]

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1339229433' post='1685506']
It's in Bb. The verse is D/G/ | Eb/Bb/ |
[/quote]

and that is all you need to know... then all you need to do is get your head round the general style
and run with it.
Try singing along with the bass line to get the general groove and then play what you can sing/hum
Making it sit and making it work and move will help you far more than ripping every little nuance and note.
Play it with your own personality... and if that is any good, you'l leap-frog all the imitators.

[Chrismanbass]

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1339233286' post='1685575']
and that is all you need to know... then all you need to do is get your head round the general style
and run with it.
Try singing along with the bass line to get the general groove and then play what you can sing/hum
Making it sit and making it work and move will help you far more than ripping every little nuance and note.
Play it with your own personality... and if that is any good, you'l leap-frog all the imitators.
[/quote]

+1

its a pretty simple concept he's playing around with on this track imo and you just need to work that out and then a few variations of it and play around with it

[CJPJ]

Thanks...this is my June challenge !

[4 Strings]

Just been learning this one myself. Find it necessary not to panic more than anything.

It is a pretty simple thing when you listen but really hard to get sounding anything like right.

[4 Strings]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1339230015' post='1685512']
It's in Stuart Clayton's book:

[url="http://stuartclayton.com/books/nile-rodgers-bernard-edwards-funk-disco-grooves-for-bass-guitar/"]http://stuartclayton...or-bass-guitar/[/url]




[/quote]

I think there should be a small discount for such a terrible cover!

[chris_b]

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1339272352' post='1686303']
....It is a pretty simple thing....
[/quote]

The basis of Bernard Edwards bass lines is that they are always very simple. They are far more complicated play, though, because he fills them up with ghost notes, accents and pushes.

The problem is that it doesn't sound right if you try to leave any of that stuff out.

[TheGreek]

I found these:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U97c_9y1bY&feature=relmfu"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U97c_9y1bY&feature=relmfu[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKQV8h81bEM&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKQV8h81bEM&feature=related[/url]

[JTUK]

Have to say the last one is not the video you'd want to post.
It has no pop or groove......

take 2...and counting................

[4 Strings]

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1339332718' post='1686910'] Have to say the last one is not the video you'd want to post. It has no pop or groove...... take 2...and counting................ [/quote]

sounded closer to the original to me, the first has too many passing notes.

It think I'd be pretty pleased with either of them.