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What's Going OnMarvin Gaye
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About this bass transcription
GrooveSheet separated What's Going On 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 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
What's Going On by Marvin Gaye is in E major, at about 103 BPM. It is in 4/4 time and runs 99 bars. Its main chords are Emaj7, C♯m7, B7 and Am7, out of 10 different chords in all. The bass part has 545 notes, from E1 up to C♯3 (2 octaves), at about 2.5 notes per second. Estimated difficulty: advanced. It plays more notes per second than 69% of the bass parts on GrooveSheet.
- Part
- Bass
- Key
- E major
- Tempo
- 103 BPM
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Main chords
- Emaj7, C♯m7, B7, Am7
- Notes
- 545
- Range
- E1–C♯3
- Difficulty (estimate)
- Advanced
- Album
- What's Going On
- Released
- 1971
- Length
- 3:51
- Separated parts
- Drums, Bass, Vocals, Guitar, Piano and Other
- Sheet music
- Drums, Bass and Guitar
What you can download
- MusicXMLthe bass part, for MuseScore, Sibelius, Dorico or Finale
- PDFthe bass score, engraved and ready to print
- Guitar Prothe bass part, for Guitar Pro, TuxGuitar or MuseScore
- MIDIthe bass notes, editable in any DAW
- Stemthe isolated bass audio on its own
Other parts of this song
Transcribed automatically from the recording, so treat it as a strong first draft rather than an official edition. Every export is editable, and you can run your own audio through the same models with a free ten-second preview.
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