Bach Prelude Suite No. 1 electric bass (C Major)

This is the Bach Prelude to Suite 1 originally for cello. I put the tab and sheet music online at

http://www.swensongs.com/bachpreludeinc.pdf

The cello key is G major, and I have seen electric bass players play this in G at the written cello pitch, which can sound very low and muddy. You need a B string to get to all the notes in that key as well. I have also seen bass players play this in G but up an octave from the cello written pitch, which sounds the same pitch as the cello. You need a 24 fret bass to get to the high G at the end, though. I transposed this to C major so that I could play all the notes on a standard 4 string bass. I'm playing the Fender into a Korg PDX4 with the "STUHARM" preset then into the sound input on the iMac.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Bach
• Cello
• Suite
• No. 1
• Electric Bass
• Fender
• Korg
• PDX4
• C Major

[colosalblack]

Damn! the tone is DEAD ON. It sounds like cello! This is amazing, congrats.

[boonefiddler]

@colosalblack Thanks so much for your kind comments!

[CHURRITOMAGICO]

My respected teacher and had looked for this song and had not managed to find the staff really thank you very much

[boonefiddler]

@CHURRITOMAGICO I'm happy you're learning this great piece of music!

[boreddude73]

thanks for the link, been looking everywhere for a good tab

[boonefiddler]

@boreddude73 Hope it has worked out well for you!

[boonefiddler]

@MisterDutch Glad it helped you out!

[MisterDutch]

Hi, I love your performance and I would like to thank you for putting the tabblature online - I am a beginning bass player and it is helping me in more ways than you might think. I'm learning to play it as of today. Thanks so much!

[boonefiddler]

@spliffffstar It is a Highway One P-bass. I do believe the neck is just in-between the jbass and pbass widths. I like it alot. Thanks for your comments!

[spliffffstar]

What bass is that? Looks like a p-bass with a j-bass neck......sounds great by the way!!