Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra (Bass ONLY Cover with Tabs)

Bass ONLY cover of Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
E Standard Tuning
Brightness of the Sun: Casting a blue sky in my room

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Tone - Half
Strings - quite old

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Input - 2/3

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Year: 1978
Album: Out of the Blue
Bassist: Kelly Groucutt
Genre: Progressive Pop
Play Style: reference vids show pick, but sounds like fingers
Note: ELO part two, Kelly using fingers (shown in video I linked further down)

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Great song. I first was introduced to in in 6th grade. My English teacher used it as an example (don't remember what for), but after that, one of my friends couldn't get enough of the song. Fast forward a bit, and the song got big again when Guardians of the Galaxy came out.

It's real easy to hear the bass, and pretty simple. So, I'm just using live vids for general neck positioning (middle of the neck). Knowing myself though, I'm bound to miss something really obvious, even though the bass is easy to hear. The rhythm has some space in it, so that's why I have all the staccato notes. I'm also leaving out the awesome outro. I like it, but live they often don't have it, but there's also no bass. It's just the orchestra/choir part of ELO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vgQWg4I5c
1978 show
0;44 - Gibson grabber or ripper, with a pick - middle of the neck positioning, not open
0:57 - middle of the neck positioning
1:07 - middle of neck
2:02 - middle of neck
2:14 - same
no long outro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhEL6CCSDQA
not Kelly, but still with Jeff Lynne
0:43 - slide to middle of neck
1:17 - middle neck
has outro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flR_v0XOC_U
0:53 - in the pan on the right, blurry, but middle of neck
no outro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwieax61Fh0
middle of neck
outro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUlA8Hcv4s
official video - so it has Kelly Groucutt
0:31 - pick w/ Gibson bass, hand is middle of neck
1:49 - flash of hand in middle of neck
2:08 - middle of neck, using up-picks (I won't use them because often people don't like when I do)
2:17 - same, up picks and middle of neck
2:22
3:24 - around bar 1:36. here, you can hear it is a pick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px3S5hR5o5U
ELO part 2 with Kelly Groucutt and no Jeff Lynne

Here, Kelly is using his fingers. You see him a lot, so I won't time stamp it since I don't really use much else from this, but you can see a lot

Thanks for watching! Enjoy :)

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