I'm in need of assistance; I've been playing bass for almost a year now, but I am now moving into a Jazz that requires the basic ability to read music. I have the ability to read music, as I play Trombone in my local town band, but I need to know what location the low E String on a Bass Guitar is on sheet music. After that, I can figure everything out myself.

i.e. One bar below the staff above the line, two below the staff on the line, etc...

Please and thank you!

asked 01 Jan '10, 06:07

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Hopefully this will help:

The standard design for the electric bass guitar has four strings, tuned E, A, D and G, in fourths such that the open highest string, G, is an eleventh (an octave and a fourth) below middle C.

-- Wikipedia

Given this starting point, if you know where middle C is on the staff, you should be able to do the math to figure out where the low E string falls.

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answered 03 Jan '10, 05:29

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Asaph, you jerk, making people do work to answer their own questions! I feel the same way about questions whose answers show up on the first Google attempt.

(15 Apr '10, 17:18) Mark C

Check this link: http://www.lucaspickford.com/transpinogrooves.html

The first note on the topmost transcript/tab combo is the low E.

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answered 11 Mar '10, 08:43

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