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I am learning to play bass and so I started looking at the bass tab in BIAB to play along with. However the tab seems to jump all over the place--the fret position will go from 3rd fret to 10th fret and back for no apparent reason, Some of the lines as written in the tab seem impossible to play.
Last edited by mdHitchcock; 02/11/14 08:20 PM.
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Just below the guitar (or bass) fretboard view there is a little highlighting block centered over one of the fret numbers.
Clicking on another fret number moves that block to that position.
Once the right position is found for the playing at hand, the fingering and string choices should make more sense.
--Mac
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Another way to learn to play bass is to learn each note on the bass fret board and read directly from the bass cleft, right above your tabs in BB. You can start from using 1st position, first 5 frets on bass fret board including open position and when you are comfortable with all those notes, move up to 2nd position and so on. The tabs are there to show you how it was originally played but gives you no note learning ability. Consult MelBay Bass Teaching literature for a better explanation. However, having said all that, Mac is correct for the majority of PG music songs. If you do what he says and they are still wrong, the software allows you to move the numbers around to where they will be correct. I think a BKM (best know Method) has already been posted on this subject. Hope this helps.
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Thanks Mac. I can always depend on you to help me with my spelling errors. I'll try to do better next time.
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Ah, the joys of predictive texting!!
First time I txted my wife on my new phone we nearly got divorced. I sent "Val, -----". The phone sent "Oval ----".
The reply was "who ya calling oval. Seen yourself lately!"
Bless
Cheers
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I hear you. I remember the last time I had a spelling issue with Mac, was when I mispelled "Chord" with cord. Originally, I wasn't even talking to him. Boy that took 3 days to resolve, John chimed in, and tempers flaired and so on... ha. Oh well, if that's the wurst thang that ev'r hap'ens to me, then, I'm doing purtty good for a 71 year old 60's rock and roll hillbilly.
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Wouldn't you rather find out how to do it in the correct fashion, or would you rather that someone else just stays silent and you continue to not know what you may be looking like to others, only on account of a spelling error?
I am guilty of the same thing, and would WANT someone to help me out about such, before I get somewhere and make the same faux pas where it could actually be the basis of getting the gig, or not.
I think that the person who knows better and fails to tell you is not really your friend.
That, and often there is another word that means another thing when the mispell is one like using "cleft" for "clef".
Mispell a programming command and the whole thing just crashes...
--Mac
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Mac,
As always, you are correct, and yes I would always want you to be my friend. I have learned so much from you over the years. Nuff said.
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