Allison

I've been working on this for days now and it's driving me a little bit nuts.

Start with THIS bass tab and THESE guitar chords. Now play along with the recording. It isn't quite right in a few spots. But what IS right?

How about THESE chords?

Now...watch this:


At 0:44 there's a key bit. In the bass tab and in the first of the guitar chords the bass would play E up to F. RS said that the piano sheet music HE had said I should play Ab to F. I assumed that he meant Ab up to F, but this seemed really wrong and akward.

But watching the video it is clear to me that there's no way she's playing E to F. Reason? She seems to like playing at the 7th and 8th fret. Most of the song (contrary to the bass tab online) she plays here. If the progression were E to F she could stay at the 7th and 8th frets. But she doesn't. She shifts down. Why would she shift down? To hit a lower note on the E String. So this supports the idea of playing Ab DOWN to F (rather than up). And if you listen carefully to the video, the bass DOES step down here even though the overall feeling of the music is tension and building UPWARD. It's counter-intuitive.

Got to sit down and rehash. But I think it's coming into focus.

Other videos...less helpful:






And nearly super helpful (Allison starts at 1:50...progression in question at 2:34), played on the Ernie Ball. Gots to get me one o them some day: