Bass Tab White Pages ‘Brass in Pocket’

[GreeneKing]

I’ve been learning to play on old favourite ‘Brass in Pocket’ by The Pretenders. I’ve got an aged copy of Bass Tab White Pages and I’m using that.

I use the tab for fretting and the notes are good for rhythm feel.

The first four bars sound great but bars 5&6 are tabbed G# and sound plain wrong. The notes and chord notation are F# and that is sounding good. Bar 7 is tabbed open E but the chord is D/F# so I reckon I should be playing F# (the notes are dropped D).

The tab online mirrors the tab in the book. Looking at the musical notation and using chords the tab seems way out in places. It also sounds right when I ignore the tab and use the notes/chords and slash chords.

My question is, is it me or is the tab rubbish?

Peter

[TKenrick]

2 hours ago, GreeneKing said:

 Looking at the musical notation and using chords the tab seems way out in places. It also sounds right when I ignore the tab and use the notes/chords and slash chords.

 

There's your answer!

[ezbass]

The verse notes are: A, F#, D & E. The ‘chorus’ is A, G , D, E (this is obviously over simplified). Yep, that tab is all kinds of wrong.

[GreeneKing]

Thank you guys. It's reassuring to know that I'm getting it right. It's also a bit sad that some folk copy the same crap onto tab sites just for the glory (?) of it....

[pineweasel]

The tab is for Drop D tuning (as stated at the top) and is correct. 

[GreeneKing]

2 hours ago, pineweasel said:

The tab is for Drop D tuning (as stated at the top) and is correct. 

Aha, thank you. That learning curve continues. 

Edited March 29, 2019 by GreeneKing