|-------------------------------------------------------------| | Artist: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Bass: Victor Wooten) | | Title: Flight of the Cosmic Hippo | | Album: Flight of the Cosmic Hippo | | | | Tabbed by Andrew Ker (adk@comlab.ox.ac.uk) | | A Member of the BTA Army - http://www.basstabarchive.com | | | | You may distribute this as long as you include this header. | |-------------------------------------------------------------|
Notes:
This is a great piece to play, as long as you have a fretless to play it on (it doesn`t work on a fretted bass...) The bad news is that it really needs a 5-string. For people like me who can`t afford one, this is arranged for 4-string but with *Drop C Tuning* (i.e. CADG from bottom up). You have to be able to slide up to the bottom D, but this isn`t a great tuning to play in so you might prefer CGCF - in which case you`ll just have to work out the differences yourself.
Please send me any corrections! Enjoy.
Key: . = short note (all others are long, listen to the song for exact lengths) or / = slide down or up (see below) h = hammer on x = ghost note or some note too short to work out
This piece is all about slides! You`ll need to listen to the song to see what sort of slides go where. /8 means slide up to the 8th fret (quite quickly) and back down, generally starting and finishing one fret (i.e. one semitone) lower. Sometimes the slide off goes further down. /8// means you slide up to the 8th fret and then up and down between 7th and 8th frets. Sometimes you have to play a note, let it ring for a long time, and then slide up or down as it is fading away.
Introduction:
G |---------------|----------------|--------------|-------------| D |---------------|----------------|--------------|-------------| A |---------------|----------------|--------------|-------------| C|/1----/8----/|1----/8//---|1----/8----/|1----/8----/|
First verse:
G |--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------| D |--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------| A |--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------| C|1----/8----/|1----/8//---|1----/8----/|1----/8---8--|
G |--------------|--------------|----------------|------------------| D |--------------|--------------|----------------|------------------| A |--------------|--------------|----.-------.---|-----.------------| C|1----/8----/|1----/9-----/|8---8--/9---9--/|10---10--/11---12|
G |--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------| D |--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------| A |--------------|----------------|--------------|------.-.-.-.-| C|1----/8----/|1----/8//---|1----/8----/|1----8-6-4-3-|
G |--------------|--------------|----------------|------------------| D |--------------|--------------|----------------|------------------| A |--------------|--------------|----.-------.---|-----.------------| C|1----/8----/|1----/9-----/|8---8--/9---9--/|10---10--/11---12|
Interlude:
G |----------|----------|----------|----------| D |----------|----------|----------|----------| A |-----5----|4----3----|2----1----|----------| C|6---------|----------|---------/|7---/6---|
G |----------|-----------|---------------|------| D |----------|-----------|---------------|------| A |----------|-----------|---------------|------| C|4----8----|9----7----/|6---5-4----3--2|------|
G |-----------|-----------| |-----------|-----------| D |-----------|-----------| (3 times) then |-----------|-----------| A |-----------|-----------| |-----------|-----------| C|1---/3----/|4----/3---| |1---/3----/|4----8---8-|
(slowly slide up towards the 5th fret) G |----------|-----------|---------------|------------| D |----------|8----6-----|---------------|------------| A |5----6----|----------/|5---4-3----2--1|--------/---| C|----------|-----------|---------------|------------| (quietly slide off at the end of the bar) G |----------|-----------|----------------|-----------| D |----------|8----6-----|----------------|-----------| A |5----6----|-----------|----------------|-----------| C|----------|----------/|6---5-4----3--/2|----------|
Second verse:
This is the really fun bit. Lots of slide and vibrato, and enjoy the low notes. Make that fretless sing!
G |------------------|------------|------------------|----------| D |--7-3---5--------|------------|--7-3---5-------|----------| A |-------------7-/8-|----5-/7----|-------------7-/8-|----------| C|------------------|------------|------------------|----------|
G |------------------|------------------|--------------|--------------| D |--7-3---5--------|------------------|--------------|--------------| A |-------------7-/8-|----12---/15---13|12--1211--11|10--108--7--5| C|------------------|------------------|--------------|--------------|
G |------------------|------------|----------------|----------| D |------------------|------------|----------------|----------| A |------------------|------------|------.---.-----|----------| C|--8-4---6----3-/4-|----1-/3---|/8----6-x-4-3---|----------| . G |------7-----------|-------------------------|--------------|--------------| D |---7----75-------|-------------------------|--------------|--------------| A |------------------|-------15----13(h15)(h13)|12--1211--11|10--108--7---| C|----------------3/|4-----------------------|--------------|--------------|
Then repeat the interlude as above.
End:
G |---------------|---------| |---------------|---- D |---------------|---------| (3 times) then |---------------|---- A |---------------|---------| |---------------|---- C|/1----/8----/|1-------| |/1-----/8---8|----
