#Five string rhythm bass tablatures download

I used a bit of white-out (or twink) and some glow in the dark nail polish. So get out your pencil and your tuner and mark that thing. Ain’t nobody got time to guess where their fingers oughtta be, and if you’re standing next to a frikkin’ banjo player you probably can’t reliably hear if you’re hitting the right note. Here’s a nice chart of what the notes on the bass strings are at each “fret.” Jenine’s first rule of playing the upright bass: put cheat marks on the fret board. (I have found the odd error in there, too, so just keep an eye out.)

#Five string rhythm bass tablatures download

It’s called the Bluegrass Bass Favourites and it’s available for immediate download as an ebook from Mel Bay. If you chart up any songs that aren’t there using the same notation, please request access so you can add them to the sheet for others to enjoy! I’m going to continue adding songs as well, and hopefully eventually they’ll ALL be there.įred Neumann has put a book together that uses a very similar notation to mine. If you find a mistake you can e-mail it to me, or you can request access to edit the sheet. I’m not 100% sure on all my counts there. If there are any specific Pipi songs you’d like my cheats for, just ask. This is not a complete list of the songs that the Pipis play, just the ones that I have charted and that you are most likely to encounter in a jam session. JENINE’S BLUEGRASS BASS PLAYER CHEAT SHEET. My bass cheat sheet has over 100 songs on it right now. For this you need to know your circle of fifths: What my notation doesn’t take into account very well is transcribing to other keys. Might be written for guitar as: / G G / G C / D G / This reads “Play three G chords, then one C chord, one D chord, and one G chord.” 12 beats total: G, D, G, D, G, D, C, G, D, A, G, D. So if you are playing a G chord, you play the G note and then a D.

The first note you play is the root of the chord on the first beat of the bar, and the second note is the fifth of the chord on the third beat. The notation is based on playing “bass chords.” A bass chord consists of two notes, two beats.

When I started playing the bass I invented my own shorthand to quickly sketch out songs I was learning so I could print out a whole lot of them on a single piece of paper and blue tack them to the bass. Jenine’s Guide to being a passable bluegrass bass player