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Tabbed By: avatar mrpostman

Added: Mar 16, 2009

Type: Bass

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Skill Level: Intermediate

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Description:

E-Bow the Letter

From: Dave Silverstone


Notes:

note: the bracketed notes marked with a "3" are played as triplets.


INTRO:
    G        __3__      Em
G-|---------|     |------------- __3__ ----
D-|-5----5---5-5-5---7----------|     |----
A-|---------5-----------7----7---7-7-7-7-5-
E-|-----------------------------7----------

    G        __3__      Em
G-|---------|     |------------- __3__ ----
D-|-5----5---5-5-5-7-9----------|     |----
A-|---------5-----------7----7---7-7-7-7-5-
E-|-----------------------------7----------

    G        __3__      Em
G-|---------|     |----------------------
D-|-5----5---5-5-5-7-9-------------------
A-|---------5-----------7----7---7-7-7-5-
E-|-----------------------------7--------

VERSE: ("look up, what do you see?")

    C      G     Em      Bm   C      G   Em
G-|------------------------------------------------4/-
D-|--------------------------------------------555----
A-|-3--3-5-------7-5----------3--3-5---2--------------
E-|--------3--3------7-5-7-7---------3---0------------


repeat as often as necessary...

CHORUS: actually, this starts when the guitar does that arpeggio thing
before Patti starts.  In the second chorus, this starts at "My loss, here I
go again" (e-mail me for the MTV closed-captioned version of the lyrics)

    D             Em
G-|-------------------------------
D-|-------------------------------
A-|-5--5----------7--7-----7-9----
E-|-----4-5----7----------7-------

notice that the "D" bit and the "Em" bit aren't exactly alike.  there's
a bit more of a rolling sound to the "D", while the "Em" is more
steady.

Repeat this alot, too.  Play around with it as you see fit.  Otherwise,
it can get a little boring when played during the outro.

VERSE: same as before, but after two repeats, at the same time the high
organ notes enter, you go into this metronomic version of the verse riff.

G-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
D-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
A-|-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-7-5-------------3-3-3-3-5-5---2-----------------
E-|---------------------7-5-7-7-7-7-------------3---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-

CHORUS: same as before

BREAK: Same as intro.

Guitar/Michael Solo: Don't play.

VERSE: Same as first verse

Chorus/Outro: Same as Chorus.  End on D.

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