Learning Happy by Seth Horan

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Well, everyone, I'm in the process of teaching myself Happy. I was just playing my bass messing with the tone, and I realized that I had the perfect tone to sound like Seth (buy all of his albums and his DVD, they're all amazing). So anyways... Happy is one of my favorite songs of his and I decided I wanted to learn it. The intro is easy enough, and the prechorus isn't bad.

Tuning (from low to high, it's an open tuning down a half step) Bb Db Ab Db Ab

the intro is the low Bb to a Bb5 chord at the 14th fret on the Ab string, then a Db to a Db5 chord at the 12th fret Ab string. The prechorus is a Db (5th fret, Ab string) with some harmonics at the 4th, 5th, and 7th frets.

Then comes the chorus, beautiful tapping and such.

This is what I have so far (I'll tab it because it's wayyy to hard to explain)

tapping (the 5 and 7s are tapped with the fretting hand and the 10 and 9 are with the plucking hand)

Ab|------------10p0----9p0------|
Db|---------7--------7------------|
Ab|------5-------------------------|
Db|------0-------------------------|
Bb|--------------------------------|

help me get the rest? pleaseeeee!

(this is a good oppertunity to get some of his stuff, all recorded with Warwicks (the more recent stuff is with his CS Vampyre))

Thanks!
 
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