Turn It Out Bass
by Death From Above 197916,701 views, added to favorites 176 times
Difficulty: | intermediate |
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Capo: | no capo |
Author bassphantomkev [a] 51. Last edit on Feb 13, 2014
First off, I don't like the other tabs that have all of these songs in regular tuning.
changes the tone of your bass, and the tone of the song. Thusly, I've written out every
song on the You're a Woman, I'm a Machine album, and others in drop tuning. Don't play
in regular. They drop tuned it for a reason. Hard to follow at once, this is
in order of the way the song was composed.
In the beginning, the open G (A string) is very important in the accenting of the song.
avoid playing it.
Tuning: DGCF
Intro - The screaming noise is made with the pick scratching down then up the neck on
F string (G string other wise), and hitting open C twice before each swipe.
x4
F---------10-10-10--------9-9-9--------7-7-7--------7-7-7---||
C----------------------------------------------------------*||
G---0^55------------0^55---------0^55---------0^55---------*||
D-----------------------------------------------------------||
Verse:
x4
F--------10-12-10-----------9-10-9---------5-7-5----------5-7-5---||
C----------------------------------------------------------------*||
G---0^55-------------0^55-------------0^55----------0^55---------*||
D-----------------------------------------------------------------||
Pre-Chorus (I suppose you'd call it)
F-----9-10-12--9-10-12--9-10-12--9-10-12-||
C---------------------------------------*||
G---10-------10-------10-------10-------*||
D----------------------------------------||
The whole thing repeats without the beginning bass part with the pick scratching.
Intro x 2
Verse x4
Pre-Chorus x2
F----4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7||
C----------------------------------------------------------||
G---5------5------5------5------5------5------5------5-----||
D----------------------------------------------------------||
F-----9-10-12--9-10-12--9-10-12--9-10-12--9-10-12--9-10-12--15-15-15-15||
C----------------------------------------------------------------------||
G---10-------10-------10-------10-------10-------10--------------------||
D----------------------------------------------------------------------||
F----4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7--4-5-7||
C----------------------------------------------------------||
G---5------5------5------5------5------5------5------5-----||
D----------------------------------------------------------||
Bridge/Chorus
F----------------------------------------------------------------------||
C----------------------------------------------------------------------||
G-----8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3/13-13-13-13-13-13-||
D----------------------------------------------------------------------||
Then back to this again
F---------10-10-10--------9-9-9--------7-7-7--------7-7-7---||
C----------------------------------------------------------*||
G---0^55------------0^55---------0^55---------0^55---------*||
D-----------------------------------------------------------||
x4
F--------10-12-10-----------9-10-9---------5-7-5----------5-7-5---||
C----------------------------------------------------------------*||
G---0^55-------------0^55-------------0^55----------0^55---------*||
D-----------------------------------------------------------------||
Outro
F-------||
C-------||
G---5\0-||
D-------||
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5 comments

Wouldn't it be A LOT easier if you just played the pre-chorus all on F like, 0-9-10-12 over and over again, then play the second part all on the C string like 0-9-10-12. Seems easier to me. Good tab though!
+4

the tuning and all the notes are right, but the fretting is a little off from what I've seen him play live. I get what you're trying to do with the tone by trying to avoid playing certain open notes but that's actually how J.K. plays it
+1

It's not drop tuning. Drop tuning involves the lowest string being a step lower than the lowest string in standard.
This is in D standard tuning (as opposed to E standard)
Drop D tuning would be D A D G
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