Flight Of The Bumblebee

[Tattered]

If any of you have heard this its an amazing classic song written on Piano, Rumski Korsakof or sumthing, and it just rules its very fast, i found a 6 string tab for it, but most of us here play 4 strings. And i was wondering if anyone would know a tab for the 4 string bass version that would be really cool, Thanks

Or try and tab it out yourselves good luck, Joe satriani also played it as a cover live, infront of a huge dream theatre audience, its a very impressive piece, and im thinking of performing it in front of my music class soon, once i get a tab or sheet music for it.....argh!!

Cheers! :beer:

[MetalPoldi]

It comes to my mind, that i know this song.
Please post the tab.


And for the six-string tab: Isn't it possible, that you can transpose it some notes up, so that you can play it on a four string? OK, it's much work. But i think it's worth it.

[artofnothing6]

yeah, post the 6 string version.

[Def]

I'm still working on mark king's dune tune, meh, taking too long but its an impressive song too :D

I don't know this song but it must be a bitch to play on a 4 string, maybe even impossible, depends on how much he uses the high string. on a 5 string you can get a long way but uhm, the higher notes will probably be a bitch. post the tab so we can see.

[Tattered]

yeah well its possible to play it on a four string but the notes would be much lower, but still quite impressive, Im working it out for a four string, ive got the main riff

Heres the six string version for it, its a dream theater website though

http://www.dreamtheater.net/tab/bumbbass.htm

Somebody work out a 4 string version i only have 3 weeks till my coursework performance thingy, hopefully i would be able to work it out by then.

[MetalPoldi]

Did you listen to the Original of Rachmaninoff?I just downloaded the song and listened to it. Damn, it's so fucking fast!!!!!!!!!!!!
This tab it's just the half truth. It doesn't look that hard, but listen to the original. There are some notes more. ;)

[Tattered]

What?! Rachiwahoo?!

[Def]

tune up to ADGC ;)

you can't reach that height in normal tuning, so its either tuning up or playing it a string higher in normal tuning.

[Tattered]

Ok im taking your advice def, but can u display a tab for this tuning?

Also this guy who tabbed and performed this is amazing, mp3 takes 20 secs to download

http://www.guitarwar.com/hall/bee.php

Cheers :beer::beer:

[Buganeer]

that thing beats me... :( i consider myself a fast player, n my lead guitarerro is even faster, but none of us can play this that friggin fast...at least not the whole thing :D

[Def]

the trick is using all 4 your fingers, I'm not playing it with a pick because the changing from string to string takes too long (yes this is goddamn fast!)

anyways, tuning up to ADGC makes your strings waaay to tight it plays like shit so I just played it in normal tuning.

[Pablo]

I think the Manowar bass player plays it...
search in the net

[Tattered]

Originally posted by Buganeer
that thing beats me... :( i consider myself a fast player, n my lead guitarerro is even faster, but none of us can play this that friggin fast...at least not the whole thing :D

I know thats cos its tapped, but its fucking fast.!

[Interfector]

I found this song in internet. Is not complete but is better than nothing
This tab is for a 4 string bass

http://www.manowar.ch/sting.txt

:beer:
:D

[Tattered]

Cheers mate, thats cool!, is the song by manowar?! what is manowar?!

[Def]

thats a poopy band

[Tattered]

The thing that counts is he got me the tab :)


Cheers interfector :beer:

[SoulSlayer]

Yeah I got that mp3 you mentioned on guitar war ages back whilst browsing around, its amazing. I may try and learn this, sounds challenging :) You can bet you ass john myung can play that with his eyes closed

[Tattered]

Originally posted by Def
thats a poopy band

no mate there fucking amazing, and the bassist can sure use that pick

download

Sting of the bumblebee - Manowar.

:eek: :eek: :eek: :D :beer:

[Def]

yeah, they are good musicians but hell, that band, bah!

its not my thing lol

[Rattlehead]

That song is damn amazing, Rachmaninoff has some great pieces. I didn't know this one was his though. I don't know what the real speed is though, because I've never heard the original, I only heard Glenn Gould play it (some crazy pianist) and he does it way faster. I like learning classical, I'm learning my first classical piece right now, it's called Rondo alla Turca (it means voyage in Turkey, it's a Mozart piece). He does this really fast triplet at one point, but the rest of what I've learned so far is pretty easy. Doing triplets that are three notes close apart is alot easier on piano it seems, since you just puch the keys. Unfortunately, I don't have a complete tab of it, what I did was asked my friend who plays keyboard to tell me the notes, and now I just play it from memory, but he didn't bother teach me the whole thing. If anyone wants me to send them the tab, or post it somewhere even though it's just part of the song, I can, but I'm thinking there's probably a complete one somewhere, it's a pretty popular piece.

There's one part I need help for. You have to hammer on and pull off with the pinky, which usually for me is no problem, except that here you have to pull off one fret down, which means your ring finger stays down. Most people can't move their pinky without moving the ring, and I have a bit of problem with this too. You see the thing is, to devellop power in my hands I often play without an amp, and you really have to pull off to make it sound (with a downward motion with the finger that bassically plucks the string), this way when I do use my amp, my pull-offs are clear sounding, rather than just sounding like a blur of two notes. But when I pull off to the ring finger, I have a tendency to move my ring finger down as well, and this makes a bend, which I don't want at all, plus it brings it where the next higher string almost gets in the way (almost a half note bend). I guess what I'm asking, is if anyone knows any exercises I can do to completely dissocociate the movement of my pinky and ring fingers.

I like what I've heard of Manowar despite them being one of the corniest bands around.

[scott_r]

Did you listen to the Original of Rachmaninoff?I just downloaded the song and listened to it. Damn, it's so fucking fast!!!!!!!!!!!!
This tab it's just the half truth. It doesn't look that hard, but listen to the original. There are some notes more. ;)

Rachmaninoff may have played it, but he didn't "originate" it; Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov wrote it.

[Slabbefusk]

Im gonna learn that on guitar!