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Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)Marvin Gaye
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About this bass transcription
GrooveSheet separated Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) by Marvin Gaye and transcribed the bass part to notation you can read, hear played back against the recording, and export. It transcribed the drum, piano and guitar parts too, on pages of their own. It also has a chord chart of the whole song, read from the full mix, with the chord symbols over every bar.
The music
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) by Marvin Gaye is in E major, at about 97 BPM. It is in 4/4 time and runs 89 bars. Its main chords are B7sus4, Emaj7, F♯m7 and A♯m7, out of 16 different chords in all. The bass part has 375 notes, from F♯1 up to E3 (2 octaves), at about 2.2 notes per second. Estimated difficulty: intermediate. It plays more notes per second than 58% of the bass parts on GrooveSheet.
- Part
- Bass
- Key
- E major
- Tempo
- 97 BPM
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Main chords
- B7sus4, Emaj7, F♯m7, A♯m7
- Notes
- 375
- Range
- F♯1–E3
- Difficulty (estimate)
- Intermediate
- Album
- What's Going On
- Released
- 1971
- Length
- 3:15
- Separated parts
- Piano, Drums, Bass, Vocals, Guitar and Other
- Sheet music
- Piano, Drums, Bass and Guitar
What you can download
- MusicXMLthe bass part, for MuseScore, Sibelius, Dorico or Finale
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- Guitar Prothe bass part, for Guitar Pro, TuxGuitar or MuseScore
- MIDIthe bass notes, editable in any DAW
- Stemthe isolated bass audio on its own
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