Dragonball Durag - Thundercat (Bass Cover with Tabs

Bass cover of Dragonball Durag by Thundercat
E Standard Tuning
Brightness of the Sun: double fake rays and a lil baby ray

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Year: 2020
Album: It Is What It Is
Bassist: Thundercat
Genre: Jazz fusion, R&B, jazztronica, lo-fi (Wikipedia)

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This is a fun song, even more so with the music video (you should check it out). I got requested to play it over on Twitch, and so I did, but then I got a request for it on YouTube as well, so here it is! It was fun to sight-read it on twitch, and get exposed to new music at the same time, but I found out that it was a pretty bad transcription, so I started from scratch (as usual) and made my own. I chose to go for a clean tone since my bass is on top of his. You can add the effects to your own bass when you play it though. It sounds like a mix of flanger and chorus, but I'm not 100% on that though. I hope you all like the props that I use in some of my videos. It adds a lot of fun into the video making process and I hope you all appreciate it as well.
as far as tabbing goes:
He adds embellishments live (to make it more interesting for a live audience for sure) in the beginning before he sings, but he keeps the heart of the song there. Once he starts singing, he makes it a bit simpler so that he can sing and play at the same time, but it still has the same groove to it

Also, the song is mostly two loops that he made. The first one where at the end of the phrase, it has the 4-4 leading into the next one, and then the one without. You can hear that they alternate and that they are identical to their iterations beforehand. Occasionally he'll change it up slightly, like the slowdown, or the break, but those are the same loops as before surrounding that section.

In the loops he does a hammer-on as well. you can see him do that in the videos linked below. The loop with the rest at the end, it's a hard hammer-on, and the loop with the 4s it's much softer. also, one more difference between them is the bar with the 5-r-4-r-2, the rests are less pronounced in one of the loops, but still there (probably 16th rests instead of 8th rests like i've tabbed, but for readability, I've kept the 8th rests).
Both loops have the 0-0-2-0-2-3, but that 2nd 0 is softer and hard to hear in one of the loops so it sounds like a dotted quarter instead of a quarter and then and 8th note

You can see most of everything.
The big thing is that for the positioning, like the last 8th note of bar 2 and then the first two notes of bar 3 are by the 0 and 2, not 5 and 7
0:52 - the hammer-on

His positioning is the same here
0:5 - the hammer on

On the main riff, end of bar 4, he goes 2-0 and then 5 on the down of the next bar.
On the trrack, he skips the 2 and just does open.
He then goes to 2
0:10 - he does 2-3-4
0:17 - the D right before the G that's 5 on the D string is also played as a 5 and not open.
Thanks for watching! Enjoy :)

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[S.I.ß]

Dude, your bass tabs got me through a tough year AND taught me bass, I hella appreciate your hard and honest work. Especially with how time consuming and tedious transcription is!

[AndreyBassNotes]

Fell in love with this song immediately, searched up how to play the bassline and rocked it thanks to you!

[thunderryo]

dude this is the song that got me into bass, and after playing for 2 years your vid helped me to finally play it, youre the best mate, cheers

[ceejay]

came for the bass tab. stayed for the dragonball durag

[mindquad]

Hell yeah dude. I've been playing guitar for most of my life but i just picked up bass and its a great challenge. So much finesse required from that right hand.

[andyp]

Just beginning on bass and thought I would not be playing Thundercat for some time, but this isn't too bad. Sounds great and is fun to play. Thanks!

[xyz]

You look like a young, good looking Axl rose.
The man of 1, 000 faces and songs. Great

[killianbarrans]

Bro tryna get intimate In that Durag ! But fr thanks for a wicked cover and solid tabs 💪🏻

[jjhassyGAMING]

you look like you're having so much fun I love this vid

[hanheerockon]

Your channel makes my eyes 👀happy, not to mention my ears👂💙

[TheDucksuslu]

GOSH... love it's like the extra BASS version of the song which just NAASty ❤❤
❤

[LukeLaczynski]

you make me the happiest man on the f*cking planet

[rob]

Great cover and durag! Thanks for the tabs bro

[owlogger]

May i recommend another fingering on measures 3-4? Use the open D instead of fretting the 5th fret of the A string for that third note in measure 3. Even though you play it flawlessly the ‘hard’ way lol, this made a huge difference for me!

[ThunderBassistJay]

Brightness of the sun: ? haven't seen the sun for days. Instead we have about 6 inches of snow and a freezing cold wind.

[DrBASSics]

Yeah Thundercat is one of the best modern bassist today. Btw can u do tabs of Old Town Road? Really cant find proper tabs for that song😂😂

[LukeLaczynski]

list of your next tabs that you will make:
tokyo
a fan's mail
tron song
them changes
funny thing
bus in these streets

thank you

[laurabellotti]

😆😆😆 but seriously you did a great job 😆😆😆

[doe_julio]

im trying to learn this but i just cant seem to get the beginning part of it

[Bass-Ru]

Duraq по-русски это дурак) (Произносится как doo-ruk)
В английском это слово имеет такое же значение?)) Выглядишь прикольно, но не как Duraq ))