Nelly Furtado - Bass tabs!

Who made all the tabs?
How were they written?
How do you read a bass tab?
But they're huge!
Can I print them?

1. Who made all the tabs?
The webmaster, Blaz Kavcic. Note that the tabs are unofficial..

2. How were they written?
..and written only after listening to each song for many times. I used a program CoolEdit Pro by Syntrilium Software corp. to help myelf - I could listen to a smal part of a song as many times as I wanted, I could slow down some faster parts, I used equalizers to pump the bass up and cut off some higher notes etc.. Even for the easiest songs I needed at least 15 minutes to write something. It was a hard work, because I wanted to tab each song as precisely as possible - the harder-to-tab songs took me up to three hours to tab. So before complaining about mistakes, please take some time and listen to the strange part again. If you think something is wrong or have a better suggestion, e-mail me!

3. How do you read a bass tab?
This is not a bass-tab school, nevertheless I will try to explain it in a few words. But still try to find a better place, there are a lot of websites out there that will help you!

- All of the tabs here are arranged for four-string bass (some notes are originally played an octave lower on a few ocasions), which means they consist of four lines (---) - each of them representing a string.

- You play them like reading a book, from left to right. The frist note (A|--5--|), for example, would be played on the second (A) string by pressing on the 5th space on the fret board - tone D.

- Timing is not very precise in tabs, but basicaly it goes by the rule "the longer the space, the longer the note lasts".

G|---------------------------|
D|------------2--------2-2-3-|
A|--5-----3-3----------------|
E|---------------------------|

- The tab above would be played like this then: First the D-tone (5th fret on A-string), then the C,C and E tones played together and pretty fast, and after a while (second or two) E,E and F tones together again.

- You have to listen to the song before playing it, otherwise you WILL get lost. It's not easy to make it easy to understand in just a few lines, so you need some patience before you can learn to play some of the tabs.

4. But they're huge!
They are, but it's not that much of a problem. Why?
I tried to tab everything. Maybe there's a line that is repeated through the most of the song, but each time it is played, a note at the end is different - I tabbed it all. So after trying to play by the tab, you will see that, in most of cases, what you need to learn is some basic bass line. If you want to play exactly as in the song, you can use the tab for details.

5. Can I print them?
Some of the lines may be too long to fit to your screen, especially if you use lower screen resolutions. No problem! Copy the whole text into Word, select Courier font (in this font all of the characters have the same length, if you look at the tab, you will see why this is necesarry) and set the desired text size. Click the print button and there you go!