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Beside video game music boards (those people seem to have an absolute love for perfect notes) sites like 911 tabs have a lot of buggy notes and tone-deaf people.

I was trying to find the notes for the bass line from Bjork's Human Behavior as guitar tabs, and the closest thing I found was

e|---------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|--0-----0--------0----0-----4----0-----|
E|----------0--3-------------------------|


Laaaackiiiing. It kinda ticked me off because Bjork fans are supposed to be fanatics. I've never tabbed before, but this is what I've got and I think it's better

e|---------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|--0-----3--------0----4-----1----0----1----4----------0----|
E|----------0--3-----------------------------------0--3---------|

Listening to the song myself, I hear a straightforward minor pentatonic riff:

A|--0-----0--------0------3----0-------|
E|----------0--3-------------------3----|

That first TAB shows him hitting C# rather than C, and adds a superfluous A before the C#:

A|--0-----0--------0----0-----4----0-----|
E|----------0--3---------------------------|

Yours looks more off (sorry).

A|--0-----3--------0----4-----1----0----1----4---------0----|
E|----------0--3-----------------------------------0--3---------|

I made a short video showing the main riff.

Good job Zlad! Way to go the extra mile! smile

No! *lol* I was referring to whoever wrote the first tab you posted.



No, that's the TAB you gave me! You posted two TABs -- one you got off the net, and one you wrote yourself. This the one you got off the net. It has two wrong notes: the 6th note shouldn't even be there, and the 7th note is a C# when it should be a C.



Tonight I'll record an actual guitar (or bass) playing along, so you can hear it more clearly.

One thing you can do is crank the bass on playback (if your speakers or MP3 player supports that), so you can isolate the bass track a bit better.

When you start learning songs by ear, you have to be careful not to think you've got it right just because it sounds good. What do I mean by that? The line you have (going A C G, instead of A A G) actually sounds good. All the notes are in the right key. It fits the song. The bass player could have written that, and it would have worked -- but that's not what's actually on the recording. If you're playing along with the recording, it can be hard to hear if you have the wrong note if it fits. Listen again without playing over it. Try to sing the notes.

Another thing that really helps is to stop/pause the recording immediately after the note you're trying to figure out. Let's say you're trying to figure out what the third note in the riff is. You play until the third note plays then STOP the recording, so that note is the last thing you hear. Start it over, play until the third note then STOP. The keep doing that. It's easier to figure out notes one at a time like that (rather than listening to the whole riff then trying to remember each note). I've worked through long, fast solos, one note at a time, using that method.



Lots of extra notes in there. This is the recording I'm working from; that's the right song, isn't it?

Ohhhh. Oops, lol.



I'll sing the notes just for the sake of trying to show what I hear.
(there's a slight echo because the audio played while I was recording it, if that makes sense.)
vocal bass



I stop playing after I hit a note I think is wonky, and I start right over again from the top. And yeah, that's the song.

honestly the only tab website you need is ultimate-guitar.

But if I'm learning it why do I have to be trigger happy with the record button?

Antiquated? You find all your words in the lint filter or what?
xd
Oh well. Least it gives you that aura of otherworldly knowledge.
Back to human behavior, I've been listening to a sample of the bass line I pulled by running a sound cancellation filter on VDJ. So it's a looping mantra I'll eventually murder to.