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/ Primus / The Brown Album (1997) / Over the Falls bass tab

Song: Over The Falls
Artist: Primus
Album: The Brown Album
Bassist: Les Claypool
Tabber: Daniel Gilbert

There was stuff missing from Neal Conway's (damnsaxon@aol.com) so here
is my version. The song is played on an acoustic stand up bass (check the
video) so to get a better sound slide to all notes on the same string
(I'll mark this with a / when needed). There are loads of variations,
some of which I tabbed but in order to sound a pro just use the E minor
pentatonic scale (a crude version of which is at the bottom of this tab) to
improvise. These timings are only rough, listen to the song to get it right.

Played in a steady 3/4 time

Intro

G-------------I     I-0-------7---I     I/9---9---9---I
D--------0-2--I     I-----7-------I     I-------------I
A-------------I     I-------------I     I-------------I
E--0---3------I  x7 I-------------I x1  I-------------I x3
   1 + 2 + 3 +        1 + 2 + 3 +         1 + 2 + 3 +

G-9---7---7--I9---9---9--I9-7-----7--I-----------I-----------I
D-------9----I-----------I----9------I9-7-5---7--I9---7---5--I
A------------I-----------I-----------I-----------I-----------I
E------------I-----------I-----------I-----------I-----------I x1
  1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 +

Verse main part

G------------I occasionally G---------0--I
D-----2------I              D-----2------I
A------------I              A------------I
E-0-----0-3--I              E-0----------I
  1 + 2 + 3 +                 1 + 2 + 3 +

Other Verse parts

G------------I-----------I Although not played on
D------------I-----------I the cd, it sounds better
A------------I-----------I if you octave these notes
E3/5------5--/8-------8\-I
  1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 +
As he stood by and waited to be called...

G------------I-----------I-----------I-----------I-----------I-----------I
D------------I-----------I-----------I-----------I-----------I-----------I
A------------I-----------I-----------I-----------I-----------I-----------I
E3/5------5--/8-------8--\7-------7--/6-------6--\5----------I3---2------I
  1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 3 +
As he stood by and waited like the others before....

E minor pentatonic scale (E G A B D E)
those notes on each string up to the 12th fret are
G-0-2-4-7-9-12

D-0-2-5-7-9-12-

A-0-2-5-7-10-12-

E-0-3-5-7-10-12-

Comments suggestions requests corrections to Danigilbert@rocked.co.uk


Primus albums
2003 Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People
1999 Antipop
1998 Rhinoplasty
1997 The Brown Album
1995 Tales From the Punchbowl
1993 Pork Soda
1992 Miscellaneous Debris
1991 Sailing the Seas of Cheese
1990 Frizzle Fry
1990 Suck on This
The Brown Album tabs
01The Return of Sathington Willoughby tabbass tab
02Fisticuffs tabbass tab
03Golden Boy tabbass tab
04Over the Falls tabbass tab
05Shake Hands With Beef tabbass tab
06Camelback Cinema tabbass tab
07Hats Off tabbass tab
08Puddin' Taine tabbass tab
09Bob's Party Time Lounge tabbass tab
10Duchess and the Proverbial Mind Spread tabbass tab
11Restin' Bones tabbass tab
12Coddingtown tabbass tab
13Kalamazoo tabbass tab
14The Chastising of Renegade tabbass tab
15Arnie tabbass tab

 

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